Following this list, I conclude that I have found 4 of those series very good (Honey & Clover I and II, Hataraki Man and Nodame II), I found 3 of them good (ParaKiss, Moyashimon and Eden of the East), I dropped 4 of them (Nodame I, Ayakashi, Hakaba Kitarou, Toshokan Sensou and Genji) and the rest were never touched due to lack of interest beforehand. I foresee Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 will end up being one of the good series, making it 4 series in each of my ‚categories‘. Thus, following my statistics, noitaminA series are now rather a hit or miss for me, unlike 2 years ago when I was eagerly awaiting the newest series in the time slot.
In comparison to that, Noise has more to offer for me: I have started reading the manga of Aoi Hana which has a lot of nice yuri subtexts between the main characters and even some real yuri pairings including kissing action and a dose of realism.
Instead of studying, I have just spent the last 4 minutes of my life watching this little special. It makes me wonder if I should watch Inukami, hehe. But of course it was mostly the appearance of Kino no Tabi in SD version that makes this little video so incredibly precious - it’s been such a long time!
The main reason is probably that I have nearly every single Winter show this year on hold, although there are some nice to extremely good ones (Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Maria+Holic, Rideback).
Spring, however, is the season of many series to chose from and so here we are:
Ristorante Paradiso
It’s the only show I have never heard of before and only put it onto my preview list on a whim, because (unlike Josh) I think that it looked very interesting and unusual. Perhaps as a girl, I can see the difference between Ristorante Paradiso’s look and, say, Hana-somethingsomething (which looks like utter crap)? I mean, Nicoletta looks cute and those chefs around her are a little too old to be your average bishounen, no?
In fact, I actually have the manga on my I-wish-somebody-would-scanlate-these-list (but with 200 series on it, I barely remember any of them). When I looked at this picture again, I immediately went “Oh my god, this looks like it’s a goddamn BASSO adaptation!” Actually basso is a certain Natsume Ono’s pseudonym for his/her yaoi manga, but since the only title ever scanlated is a yaoi, I can’t help but remember him/her under basso. I could kiss his/her feet for these manga, and of course this sole fact shot “Ristorante Paradiso” into the no.1 spot of my preview list.
I have never heard of a manga running in Manga Erotics F get an anime adaptation! GASP It makes me want to write in all caps and drown myself in enthusiasm. Somebody should go and scanlate this manga…
Since my other website is dead (what the heck?) I decided to follow my inner desire to do my winter preview. There are so many things I am looking forward to after all:
This definitely is the most beautiful scene of the whole series.
Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou
Zoku! Ahaha, what a surprise to see that name. Natsume Yuujinchou would have been the best summer season if Hidamari didn’t exist - and they both got a 9 from me on MAL. As some of you might know, I absolutely can’t wait for the next season to come out, especially since it takes the scanlators ages to move on with the manga.
Lucky Star OVA: Finished
It’s always the OVAs that I watch that I like the most. Perhaps it’s because OVAs are mostly released after series that become rather popular and that I have thoroughly liked. Oh, with this pattern, perhaps there is hope for a Hidamari OVA? That would just be too brilliant.
Goku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei: Watching
Another OVA, yay yay! I will never get over the fact that SZS is over (same for Natsume Yuujinchou, by the way).
It took me ages to finally continue watching Code Geass. Through episodes 18 and 19, I shook my head with disinterest, boredom and absolute facepalm, and believed the whole show would never come to a decent closure. While I was reading blog postings on the following episodes, I lost interest in continuing altogether because I felt the story completely sunk into nonsense. (Marianne and Charuru plot some silly, evil plan and abandoning their children? Lelouch and Suzaku rule Britannia? Hello?)
What the title says. I have already accumulated a bunch of ideas of what I could potentially blog about, but aside from one I can be pretty sure that I never will end up doing them.
Without further ado:
I think that the seifuku of 20 Mensou no Musume is one of the best - not because of the design, but because of the fact that the uniform is beige, not white.
It’s sad that nobody seems to watch Gunslinger Girl - il teatrino anymore, except for Hanners and me. The manga is still brilliant though. (Rossana! <3)
First of all, I revamped Heterochromia’s blogroll after I discovered that Heterochromia is linked by Nigorimasen. *_* This kind of makes me think back of those times when I have dreamed of Heterochromia to be linked by all those people whose blogs I enjoy and who I have linked on my blogroll, and then one day, I realized that I was on all of them, haha. How happy.
Anyways, back to topic. While everyone and their sister (*hint hint*) is at Otakon, I realized that there are way, way too many series I am looking forward to again. It’s been ages since I have felt like that, looking back at my archive, the last really exciting season for me was Spring 2007. That’s why I decided to bring another season post - the kind of postings I actually have enjoyed the most during my whole blogging time.
In fact, I find this season to be suprisingly interesting. Perhaps I should start checking back at Antenna or Animenano for new blogs when the season starts - I expected quite a few of them to come up.
Edit: A little “schedule change”: Pip is out until Saturday, because he needs to catch up with sleep on Friday. You know, other people actually have lives and things to do, itsubitch. Get a life.
This is for Milkmaster and Pip: So, I have spoken to itsubun telling her that there is nothing I want her to do or would ask of her, except for not doing anything anymore. Unfortunately, something happened. I’m just here to announce that the said Pip is going to be busy until Friday, and God save me from showing him these ridiculous attacks before he is free again. If ever he feels like saying something about the outrageous, immature and inappropriate way this bitchfest has ported to personal attacks (what do my relationships have to do with the whole story?), it’s going to be after Friday.
I have decided to to stop anime blogging. Whenever I feel like writing on anime, I might do so on my original blog, About Chocolate Parfaits (that has mainly turned into a movie blog today). Whoever is interested in the reasons can ask me personally through e-mail, commenting or IRC.
It is possible that I might start aniblogging regularily again, but only if there suddenly comes a new concept I find interesting, such as shifting to blogging on manga, or going back to blogging episodically. Until then, blog postings are only written on specific demand.
Lots of “thank you”s and embarassing remarks after the cut, if you allow me
