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.
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).
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.
I finished this blog posting and was just about to click on “Publish” when I decided to change my whole entry. It just has to be said: The next season is going to be crap and I have a beautiful set of 4 series I might watch. What the heck is wrong with this world? If I look back at my preview postings and the fact that I am watching a bunch of series in the current season, I can’t help but wonder how it happened.
So it’s preview time again… I guess this is going to turn out rather short, especially since I don’t see myself watching many anime anytime soon. However, it’s nearly impossible to ignore the masses of anime that are going to come out and there is no way I will skip the only regular feature on Heterochromia, right? *hrr*
In a nutshell, I have 8 out of 45 series I am interested in - not even 1/5! I am so proud of myself…
Finally, I have finished researching the series I want to watch next, and as you might have noticed, I am looking much more forward to this season than the last. Especially since I ended up watching nothing but Kaiji regularily - which didn’t even appear on my list. I hope and expect my predictions to be a little bit better this time.
Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
I’m sure this series appears on lots of people’s list. Obviously this is my most anticipated series, even though I kind of dropped Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei after episode 9. I even fell asleep while watching it (but that was due to tiredness, not the series).
All in all, I’m glad to see more desperate craziness coming along.
It seems like there aren’t that many people doing season previews anymore… but whatever, it’s become such a tradition for me, heh. Unfortunately I still don’t have anything like Photoshop on my laptop, so no pictures this time, sorry ^^;;; (I will do my best and add them later.)
Even though there really are a lot of series I want to see, I’m not really enthusiastic about them. Maybe it’s because I am aware that there are lots of series that are somehow (which makes my season previews so long each time), but I only end up watching 3-4 series of them, with at least one subbed very slowly. Sorry for whining so much, but I just expect that there won’t be a series that makes me so excited as Lucky Star and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei did.
Hrm~, I’d prefer to be insulted as 12 year old girl…
I’ve been planning to write a post about 4koma for days but can’t get myself to do it. It’s quite difficult to say, but I always have the impression that the way I’m planning to structure the post is unsatisfying. Especially since I’ve been reading 4koma for quite a long time, but never really paid attention to them, or even analyzed them.
A propos analysis: A certain Pete Zaitcev thinks that my (good?) anime taste doesn’t match with my writing style, which in his opinion sounds like a 16 year old girl coming from MySpace. Reason: I like to use emoticons. Well… you know, I could also say that el jay whorage is even more stupid, but zaitcev surely doesn’t want to be judged by something superficial as that, right? *hrr*
But seriously… do you think the reason why Heterochromia is not quite popular is my girlish writing style?
