First impressions of the Winter 2009/2010 season were not good. I saw the lineup and thought to myself, oh fuck this season is gonna suck so badly. Except for a few shows I was looking forward to, I believe this season will suck pretty bad. Although I'm not one to be prejudiced before I actually see the show. Even if the shows do suck, it'll give me material to rant about. I'm all for being surprised and finding some new gems in the ruts.
Sora no Woto
If you don't think this is similar to K-ON, you must be blind from being too retarded. Now, lemme back up a bit. Earlier on in the year a show named K-ON came out. Up until about the halfway point it was about 4 girls eating cakes, drinking tea, and playing rock music. Then, for the next half it was about 5 girls eating cakes, drinking tea, and playing rock music. I am not shitting you. I'm definitely gonna do a review on that show sometime in the future because it's a fairly controversial one. It was you either loved it or hated it. Back to Sora no Woto... Yeah, its basically the same thing as stated above without the eating cakes, drinking tea, and playing rock music. Don't get what I mean? Well, after the first episode I can only say that the art is exactly the same, the characters can be compared to each other very closely, and it's about music. Only in this show, the music is in the military. When the hell did the army make a division solely devoted to playing the trumpet.
Yeah, we all join the ARMY to learn to play music. I never knew they devoted a platoon to trumpet playing.
Ookami Kakushi
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!? While watching this episode I was extremely confused for a number of reasons. The main one being, WHY THE HELL IS EVERYONE SO NICE TO THE MAIN MALE PROTAGONIST?! The main character being Keiichi- I mean, Hiroshi. They're too similar to tell the difference. Seriously though, transfer students are not welcomed by every single person in the class and become GREAT friends after only a couple of days. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!? Another WTF moment I had was even earlier than that when the main female protagonist, Isuzu, came out of nowhere and started hugging Hiroshi. Seriously, she just saw him once and started grabbing him as if they were childhood friends or something. This does not happen in real life. Im sorry. Sure it's an anime, but fuck, I don't want to see random crap like this happen. Now another problem I had right off the bat with this show in general is that it's a rehash of one of mt favorites, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. This might be because it's from the same writer, but the characters are too similar.
Hiroshi is practically a clone of Keiichi minus the perverted nature. Isuzu is too closely related to Mion in that they're both extremely tomboyish. Although Isuzu is much more open about her love for Hiroshi, while Mion is extremely secretive of her love for Keiichi. Kaname is a re-tread of Rena. Both of them being outsiders that moved to the city some time before the main character, Hiroshi or Keiichi, move there at the beginning of the anime. Now, Nemuru is a wildcard at the moment because she didn't have many scenes in episode 1, but I believe she will turn out to be a Rika copy. Rika had her inner self that was mature way past her body, Frederika. I'm gonna assume right from the beginning that those 2 are closely linked.
Hanamaru Youchien
I was fairly surprised by this right from the beginning when watching it. I didn't really give it a chance when I was looking at the local listing of shows to be aired. I'm one of those judge a book by its cover but at least give it one episode to impress and that episode did it for me. It gave me a lot of nostalgic factor like when I was watching Kodomo no Jikan. Just without the perverted girls that are constantly harassing the teacher. Although there is a part where the main little girl says, "I want to be your bride." and the mother who's standing there says as well, "I'll do whatever in my power to get him to marry you." To be honest, I'd shit my pants if a 4 year old girl came up to me and said she wanted to marry me. Especially since earlier in the episode he came up to her and she said, "Are you coming onto me?" in an excited tone of voice. At that point in time, I was putting an oreo into my mouth after dunking it in my exquisite glass of milk and proceeded to almost choke on it, since it was totally unexpected and completely random.
Quickly going back to Kodomo no Jikan, they both had a scene in which the main girl fell from a tree only into the arms of said male teacher, in which they suddenly fall in love with the teacher. What the fuck? If I knew it was that easy to impress girls, Id always be looking up to see if I saw any falling girls. I hope this show lives up to my expectations in the future.
Dance in the Vampire Bund
Well, this wasn't what I was really expecting in episode 1 mainly for one reason. The manga didn't start off this way. Especially in this retarded manner. The whole interview thing was a waste of an episode. It only established the fact that vampires exist which the manga did simply. They just came out on the news and said WE EXIST and paid off the entire Japanese debt in order to build their own country and stuff. Who the hell knows why they would come out in the open after such a long time in the shadows. It's later explained in the manga that the Princess decided that they'd build a city where vampires could come out in the open, but that's "to be found out" in the anime since it only started airing now. Getting back onto the episode, it's basically a true/false show on the existence of vampires. The first half of it is pretty boring as they only talk and crack some really lame jokes. Like this one chick thinks that vampires aren't real because she's anemic. OH HAR HAR HAR, I GET IT! VAMPIRES WOULDN'T LIKE HER BECAUSE SHE HAS LITTLE BLOOD! OH HAHAHA... Yeah, it doesn't get any better than that last one.
What I will say that was awesome was the vampire self-destructing in obedience to the Princess. He stabbed himself with his own arm while screaming like a lil bitch. SO AWESOME! We're also /sort of/ introduced to one of the main characters, but he's only shown for like 30 seconds and by the episode's standard, deemed extremely unimportant. The only reason I know who he is, is because I read the manga before this show aired. This is definitely a must watch for 2 reasons. Naked lolis, which I'm not really expecting since its anime and most anime is so censored up the ass that you cant see any skin behind walls of sunshine or fog or whatever else they can think up. The other reason being this is one of the few action shows that will come on. Especially considering the current trend of new anime to show a bunch of girls doing nothing.
Ladies vs Butlers
Dear Christ almighty this is a weird one. In the first 30 seconds you have some random dude breathing heavily as if he just ran 30 miles on top of a girl with the longest hair possible. It's also in the most awkward shape of a drill. HOW THE FUCK!? How in the hell could she get her hair into that position. It makes no sense. I mean, I've seen hair drills before, but this one takes the cake. Continuing on though, there are a LOT of BBW in this show. Actually, this entire show is either BBW or DFC, for the nubs BBW = Big Breasted Woman and DFC = Delicious Flat Chest. So, from what I gather about the school in the first episode is that it's a school for maids/butlers to learn to serve their masters, who also go to the school. Makes no sense to me, but we'll roll with it. So basically our main male protag is a transfer student. He comes to school for the first day and makes a big mess of anyone he comes into contact with. I mean seriously, the girls were fainting just by looking at him. He'd run past them and they'd faint... *facepalm*
So eventually after running throughout practcally the entire school, he finally ends up with the girl that is assigned to show him the ropes. Apparently they knew each other in grammar school and what I'm going to say next sounds weird in my head, but was about as weird when I actually read it on screen. She tells the entire group of girls chasing our protag that in grammar school he wanted to group up and become a cute bride. I shit you not. I'll even provide pics to prove it. When I saw that I was unsure if I should cry or laugh because it was just so weird...What I can say though is, this show is pretty uncensored, which is surprising. Near the end of the episode you have literally 20-30 seconds of naked girls taking showers. They're screenshots, but still nipples are shown. A rarity in anime. I'll definitely continue on this show hoping that it wont fail my expectations in being funny as hell.
That's all the time I have for now. Next week I'll have more Winter season impressions. Enjoy...whatever holidays are coming up sooner or later... I need to think up a catch phrase to end reviews with... *Leaves thinking pensively*
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