And we have a winner..and a couple more losers

[seichan]

Level E 1! I was ignoring this title because I thought it was a hardcore yaoi title from some of the promo images of the main character, but when Crunchyroll listed it, I knew I must have been wrong.

+/- So-so production
+ Weird, weird main character
+ Cute puppets!

Quick impression~ A young man starts high school, and meets a bishonen who claims to be an alien. The comedy was plain weird and unexpectedly timed. Definitely watching this. Especially since the original manga was written by Yoshihiro Yogashi (Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter) This looks like the Japanese version of MIB, but starring the main character of a BL novel or something like that. Anyway, from reviews of the manga, people are quite fond this sci-fi comedy.

Wolverine 1! Another Marvel x Madhouse marriage

+ Animation not as bad as Ironman's production

Quick impression~ Logan's girlfriend is the head yakuza's daughter, and is engaged to a slimeball. Though the overall episode was much better than Ironman's episode 1, still zzzz...

Kore wa Zombie desu ka 1! Zombies, vampires, magical girls, etc.

+ Decent production
+ Perverted humor that works sometimes
- Too many panty scenes

Quick impression~ A necromancer brings a young murder victim back to life. He lives with the necromancer, and looks for his killer in his spare time. He meets a chain-saw wielding masou (mahou) shoujo. He somehow absorbs her powers and becomes a masou shoujo, too. This show is another fanservice-filled harem anime that is aware of its genre and makes fun of itself. The jokes actually work sometimes, but judging by the amount of fanservice and the other characters in the opening, there will just be too many naked scenes, panties and bouncy boobs for me to tolerate.

Comments

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, plus Level E makes me think Level C, which is a yaoi. That those images look really old school Bronze/Zetsuai isn't helping either. (Also, one of these days I'm going to get back into the habit of watching anime regularly...)

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

ah ha! That's the title I must've been thinking of. :)

Yes, the original manga is from that old school time period; before he worked on yu yu hakusho and hxh. Thinking of it, it's pretty unusual for anime to be based on an old manga that finished up ages ago.

[crofe-sima.livejournal.com]

> I thought it was a hardcore yaoi title from some of the promo images of the main character
indeed. and then it turned out to be one of the best titles this season (not that it's that big of an accomplishment). Truly surprising.

(I might have asked this before, but... do you have a twitter account?)

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

twitter? nope. I just moderate the clamp_now community feed that goes to the @clampnews account. :)

[crofe-sima.livejournal.com]

ahh, too bad, I really like your witty one-liners.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

thx.

np. there are quite a few random lj users who friend me. :) thx for reading my babbling.