Anime Fall/Autumn: Gai-Rei-Zero, Chaos;Head, Yozakura Quartet, Kemeko Deluxe

The fourth install­ment of my pre­views. I’m only going to do one more after this, so hope­fully that Clamp/Madhouse mys­tery one will be subbed by then. But enough of that, onto the previews!

Autumn/Fall Anime pre­view and first impressions

My Rat­ing Sys­tem Explained!

A = If you watch any­thing this sea­son, watch this

B = Very good, some­times sur­pris­ingly so.

C = If you have the time, you should check this out

D = Not my kind of thing, I won’t be watch­ing this

E = Bad. Very bad, ignore this show

F = Frus­trat­ingly awful

Gai-Rei-Zero

Gai-Rei-Zero was 20 minutes of mind­less action. Action that had a catchy soundtrack, bizarre fight­ing tech­niques (she killed them using her motor­bike!) and ter­rible CGI. Yeah, for a good 20 minutes this was pretty mind­less. Lots of shoot­ing and tech people yelling cryptic stuff in rooms full of com­puters along with another room of exec­ut­ives dis­cuss­ing some­thing cryptic.

And then it ended with the biggest cliff­hanger of the sea­son. Sud­denly I was trans­fixed to my screen as I watched those last 2 or so minutes unfold. Chances are the rest of the show will go back to mind­less viol­ence, but I have to at least see how they will resolve that. Actu­ally I prob­ably won’t watch the next epis­ode unless it gets good reviews.

Rat­ing: Pretty mind­less stuff. A D, even with that ending

Chaos;Head

Chaos;Head is weird. It acts like a rub­bish eroge adapt­a­tion, with it’s ‘watch cute girls file by’ open­ing and clos­ing songs. Each girl has their own hair col­our, and are all com­pact neat and tidy in their uniforms. But nope, this is far creepier than that. This is a very odd show.

What freaks me out isn’t so much the murder and blood, but the how they act so crappy-eroge-like, yet there is all this freaky stuff going on, I guess it’s like Higur­ashi. Heck, I’m not even sure at this stage which of these char­ac­ters are illu­sions or not!

Chaos;Head is like the bas­tard child of Shuffle and Para­noia Agent.

Rat­ing: We’ll have to see how much sub­stance it has later on, but a C+ for now

Yoza­k­ura Quartet

The two pic­tures here are shown before and after the halfway point adverts. I’m using the one of the girl as my wall­pa­per. What these pic­tures should show you is this: Yoza­k­ura Quar­tet has style.Yup, cer­tainly the most styl­ish show this sea­son, at least until Michiko no Hatchin comes out. When a show has this much stlye you just feel your­self sink into the world it has created.

Plot­wise, the jury is still out. I wasn’t exactly blown away by the story. Heck, I’d even haz­ard to say that it was…bor­ing! I do like the char­ac­ters, but they need to come up with a bit more chem­istry between them or else the whole idea of the quar­tet (even though there is 6 of them) becomes use­less. But I will this a fair chance, based off the style alone.

Rat­ing: Bring in the chem­istry and some­thing higher than a C will appear

Kemeko Deluxe

A girl with super powers sud­denly hops through the prot­ag­on­ists win­dow and pro­claims that she is his bride, com­plete with wed­ding gown and all. So what’s the catch? It’s a fat, chibi, green-haired robot named Kemeko. The dir­ector also did Hare+Guu, and you can tell. This has one of the most off the wall mad humour I have ever seen. Luck­ily for me, I hap­pen to like that.

I should stress here and now that this anime is not for every­one. The humour is about as wacky as you can get and also quite per­ver­ted at times, such as Kemeko panty flashes (may I remind you that Kemeko is that fat, green haired robot). If you want some­thing ser­i­ous or even some­thing that makes sense, then don’t bother.

It’s job is to make you laugh, and I laughed a lot! I laughed so hard and so much that I col­lapsed in a heap on the floor in genu­ine pain. The open­ing and clos­ing are the exact same. The open­ing has Jesus him­self star­ring in it, and the clos­ing includes the line (if I am to believe the fan­sub­bers) ‘Sig­mund Frued is an erotic twerp’.

Par­od­ies every­where, giant evil robot appli­ances, this show has it all. I loved Hare+Guu, it’s one of my all time favor­ites. Kemeko is the new Guu.

Rat­ing: While it may not be quite to your taste, if I gave it any­thing other than an A I’d be lying to myself