天下制覇

Accursed firey ball in the sky.

Not so much the first week wrapup this year because I got distracted by OVAs at a critical moment, but eh… second week and 100% of the shows isn’t so bad either. 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 my initial post on it.

Anything that I am 100% certain I’m going to cover for at least another week 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

Nurarihyon’s Grandson

Exceptionally poorly made Jump PSA about friendship.

Occult Academy

 Some clear writing and direction issues, but still A-1’s strongest premiere in quite awhile.

TUESDAY

Nada

WEDNESDAY

Ookami-san and Her Seven Companions

 The final 25% of both episodes contained about 95% of the entertainment. Also, kill the narrator. Please.

Strike Witches 2

 This show is butts.

THURSDAY

Amagami SS

 Pure soulless wish fulfilfullment of spineless guy wins girl because he whines a lot… x5

Black Butler II

 Psyche! We’re bringing characters back from the dead! Shame, I might have liked watching the kid get cut down.

The Legend of the Legendary Heroes

There’s potential as a comic fantasy adventure, but it’s certainly not taking advantage of it.

Shiki

 After one episode, I hate a dead corpse and most of the still-living characters. That cannot be a good sign.

FRIDAY

The Blessing of La Campanella

 Bleeds sugar if you cut it, but still a very cute, cheerful fantasy that knows exactly what it is and wants to do.

Mitsudomoe

 Treads that fine line of enjoying low-brow humor and succumbing to being lazy with it. Sometimes it doesn’t work so well.

SATURDAY

Student Council Officers

Really needs to shake off its 4-panel comic origins and keep the first episode’s energy to stay fun.

Let’s Go Play

The genre equivilent of "Will It Blend?" along with the exact same budget.

SUNDAY

High School of the Dead

All flash boobs and no substance, which is already beginning to wear thin, but at least it’s amusing to make fun of the writing.

Sekirei

 First episode was a tad dull and all recap, but we’re back to the fighting and catching them all now.

Sengoku Basara 2

 Doesn’t quite capture the first season’s insanity, and the Incredible Hulk-Jesus is no Oda Nobunaga.

Wrapup:

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

Monday: Occult Academy
Tuesday: Nil
Wednesday: Ookami-san
Thursday: Probably Legend², maybe Shiki
Friday: Campanella, Mitsudomoe
Saturday: Student Council
Sunday: HSotD, Sekirei, Basara

Back to clustering on the weekends again, although Sunday’s schedule of one show about every 8 hours beginning at 1am is a tad draining. I’ll end up covering something on Thursday, but I can’t say that I’m particularly thrilled with either of those at the moment. Overall though, a really good season for action, and while the comedies had a great first showing, almost all of them stumbled pretty badly in their second episodes. Hopefully they’ll be able to pick it back up in the coming weeks. It’s looking like a very promising season at the moment, although it’s going to take quite a bit of mental gymnastics to come to terms with Sekirei being the most intelligent thing airing on Sundays.