I'm back after watching some new shows and boy some are hit and miss. Here's the scoop.
Cobra the Animation
Goddamnit, I got about 2 minutes into this when I realized what I was watching. 007 James Bond the anime. Sure, the main character's name isn't James Bond, but dear Christ, the Opening song to this anime is so Bond-esque it's not even funny. It's pathetic. And to top it all off the main characters name is Cobra. Why would you name your kid Cobra for God's sake. Main this show really pissed me off. I'll give you the details. Basically we start off with the bad guys chasing some chick who has a key that they want. What does the key do? Fuck it, who cares. So then after about 2 or 3 minutes we find our main character driving what I assume is supposed to be a cool car, but I digress. Shit happens and no one knows what brakes are in this show so the two cars collide in a tunnel. Bad guys come and kill the driver of the tank-like car. The girls lives somehow. Cobra takes off his left arm, I shit you not, and shoots a light, which I presume to be a laser bullet or something, killing one of the flying death machines. Note that the bullets that flying machines were shooting him, completely missed. yeah, he's so good at dodging he doesn't even need to move. So the cops come and they're taken to the hospital.
Cobra has several damaged body parts but has the body of Superman because he can recover at the speed of...a Gecko? The nurse calls him a gecko... Whatever. The bad guys come back again, but Cobra uses his gun arm to make 'em go away. In typical Bond style, the bad guy retreats laughing. It's like, "I LOST! MUWAHAHAH! I WILL GET MY REVENGE! KUKUKUKU!" I never got that. They're running away, but laughing maniacally. It makes no sense. Then we see a short cutscene of Cobra getting drunk and Secret, the girl, get undressed out of a dress. I swear, animators need to stop fapping off to their own work. There are so many goddamn shows that feature at least one titty scene in every episode. The episode ends after they get to their destination and some hooded fellows start appearing around them. I guess this is supposed to be a dramatic scene, but it's somewhat undermined by the preview showing that they're the good guys just coming to retrieve the Key of Shiva. Thanks for the tip animators, I would've never wanted to wait a WHOLE WEEK before knowing that the hooded guys were good. I'm a decent type of guy and if the first episode doesn't impress me, I'll give it an extra 2 episodes to make up my mind. If it doesn't shock and amaze me by then, it'll be in long list of dropped anime.
Durarara
I have no idea why they named it this, but seriously when I saw the name I almost face-desked so hard that it almost broke in half. As per my motto, I give every anime a shot even if it has the worst names in the world. I was pleasantly surprised with this one. It was fairly boring for the first 5 minutes as we meet the main character, I think, and his best friend. All they do is walk around the city talking retardedness. Eventually we sort of switch to a crime in progress when we see a girl get kidnapped. That's when the show starts to pick up for me because in my head I said, Lady, NEVER GO WITH STRANGERS! I mean seriously. It's nighttime and you're an underage girl. Why would you go with some dude you've never met. Anyhow, she gets kidnapped and transported to some parking lot. The bad guys are waiting for the pickup when suddenly some....thing (?) appears out of nowhere on a motorcycle.
Possibly the most awesome thing I've seen in the last month happens next in that one of the bad guys decides to attack the being to which he is greeted with the front tire of the bike. He got faceplanted with the tire of the bike. How much more awesome could that be. Oh, I know. Throw the guy into a stone column with the wheel still in his face. I have no idea how the bike stayed in that position for a while because I'd expect it to fall forward and snap the guy in half. Whatever. So the cohorts shit their pants and start panicking to which the 2nd guy goes down. The third drives away with the Masked person in hot pursuit. The 3rd guy tries to take him down by stopping suddenly making the bike go out of control and the helmet to fall off our hero. Presuming it's dead, the guy gets out of the car with a knife. The thing GETS UP WITH NO HEAD! FUCKING AWESOME! AND THEN IT PULLS OUT A SCYTHE FROM WITHIN ITSELF AND KILLS THE GUY. EVEN MOAR AWESOME! I'm looking forward to the next couple of episodes to cement my interest in this show.
Chu-bra
I'm not really sure what to say about this one. It's one of those lolita shows that takes place with a female cast set in the first year of junior high school...I think... Half the time I can't tell if they're 16 or 6. Especially when you have one chick who's flat as a board and the other as busty as a 21 year old. All I know is, it made me laugh at certain points. There were some weird parts like, a junior high girl being an "underwear monitor" or the fact that she's deeply in love with them. I have no idea why, nor is it explained further. Only that she loves bras and panties. It's one of those shows you hate to love because it's about girls... Doing nothing but talking. It's sort of like Naisho no Tsubomi except a lot longer.
The funnier thing about this anime is that the people around the main characters all think the main character is a prostitute. Lolz ensue. By the end of the episode they see her groping the busty girl's breasts and start spreading rumors that she's a lesbian. More lolz ensue. I will definitely keep my eye on this one. The only thing that saddens me is that the subs for this show are pathetically bad.
Omamori Himari
NEKOMIMI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Look, I like cats, ok? When I see catgirls in anime, that's already a plus. When I see swords that's a mega plus. When I see perverted catgirls who can swing swords and beat the living crap out of monsters, I'm already almost at my limit before going crazy. So yeah, the story starts off with our main character. He's some regular dude, but is of Monster slayer blood, so all the mosters want him dead. Except for our catgirl friend who swore an oath to never betray the family. The ironic thing about all this is that our main character is allergic to cats. Hilarity ensues. What I don't understand though is that he only gets the allergic reaction when she pokes out her cat ears and tail. Other times he's completely fine.
We also have his childhood friend character who only pisses me off because it's blatantly obvious she's in love with him and he doesn't know. Yes, it pisses me off when I see that 90% of anime have a girl who's infatuated with the guy, but doesn't say anything but blush all the time. So yeah, definitely worth a watch. Can't wait for the next episodes.
Kaitou Reinya
This one gets a short mention because the episodes are only 3 minutes long, but I did have a couple of laughs at this one. Basically we have some catgirl thing...I think? She's a thief who steals anything gold related. The cops are too stupid to protect anything even when she gives forewarning. This reminds me of Lupin. Anyhow, she has this mouse which gets tortured anytime he says something stupid. She goes so far as to stick him into a microwave and then blend him into fine powder. I didn't think mice could turn into powder. I was expecting something more like a smoothie of blood and meat, but I guess logic doesn't work in anime. The animation is also what drew my attention. It's not your typical japanese type of animation. It reminds me more of the shit America makes. Sort of like comic animation instead of manga like. Feels weird comparing western animation with eastern, but whatever.
More first impressions yet to come since not all of the shows have either aired yet or been subbed. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Akira out.
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