天下制覇

 

Streeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch…

Well, everything that’s going to air has aired except for JCStaff’s show about boys wrapped in ivy on crosses on Sunday, and the two noitaminA shows on successive Thursdays, both of which look like they’ll take a rather oppressive amount of marijuana to even understand. I did check out at least a few minutes of the two baseball shows (they were incomprehensible and one involved soccer) and SD Gundam, but that made even Ikkitousen look nuanced and deep. I suppose that’s laudable in and of itself.

There’s a limited amount of time in the day, and since I’m one of the few, the proud, the willing and arguably capable of watching this stuff without waiting for someone to subtitle things, my schedule for watching stuff syncs up more or less with the actual broadcast schedule. Therefore, there’s only so much that I can deal with in a day. Here’s the quick list of all the shows over the past week (plus the ongoing ones I’m already following) along with a short blurb designed to reduce a 24 minute episode to a quarter second bullet point. Comprehensive… it is not, but if you want more information, each one is linked to either my post on it.

Anything that I am 100% certain I’m going to cover gets a little crown, but that doesn’t mean I’ll stick with it past the next episode or two. Likewise, just because I’m not psyched about something doesn’t mean that I won’t pick it up. If you’ve got any input, flames, or desperate begging, go wild.

MONDAY

kiss x sis

 

 Because apparently you can never have enough badly made incest and panties.

Night Raid

 

 Heroes: China, now with even more explanation about how important things are.

TUESDAY

Overrun!

 

 The leads are okay, the rest of the cast and the production needs a lot of work, but Tuesdays suck, so… *shrug*

K-ON!!

 HSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

WEDNESDAY

Shin Koihime Musou: OT

 

 Save the catgirl, save the world.

THURSDAY

B Cup Sex Maniac

 

 Surprisingly fun, comedic, and even a little touching. In the no-no region.

HEROMAN

 

 How does Stan Lee keep getting work?

Ikkitousen XX

 

 I’m pretty sure that Ikkitousen and I have have some kind of battered wife relationship going at this point.

The School President’s a Maid

 

 "I’m a strong independent woman! Wait, no, I’m just a wilting flower like all females." Uh huh.

FRIDAY

Angel Beats!

 

 Massive problems in every department except technical production. I think Jun took the money and ran.

The Demon King in the Back Row

 

 I’d be a lot happier about this one if the three leads introduced so far weren’t as dense as singularities.

SATURDAY

Doctor Who

 

 Great start to the new series… except for the giant pulsing dildo in the TARDIS. That… terrifies me.

Giant Killing

   

Contains no giants and no killing. Just a lot of elevator music.

Hakuouki

 

Oops. Forgot all about my precious… precious…bishies. It’s lucky they’re pretty, because there’s nothing on the inside.

Rainbow

 

 You can tell it’s deep because it’s poorly lit and is about a bunch of tormented misunderstood teens.

SUNDAY

Arakawa Under the Bridge

 

Yet Another Shinbo Shaft Show^TM

WORKING!!

 

 With the intros out of the way, hopefully they can make this a little more than just a slew of archetypes.

Wrapup:

For the time being, my schedule is tentatively looking like:

Monday: Meh
Tuesday: Overrun
Wednesday: Perhaps Koihime if I get drunk first
Thursday: B Cup and Ikki, maybe Heroman if the next episode(s) suck a lot less
Friday: Demon King, maybe Angel Beats if it can pull itself together
Saturday: Thank you, Britain
Sunday: Probably whichever of Working/Arakawa that annoys me less with its second episode

It’s still so strage to me to have the weekends relatively free. I do like to have at least six or seven shows to keep up with a season, so I’m definitely going to be giving a number of shows a second look, particularly on the off-days, but we’ll see. Four shows so far that I’m at least partially arguably maybe a little enthusiastic about isn’t too bad, especially coming off a season where I watched at least two shows from the start out of pure spite.