I know that’s not the actual name of the show, but the real name seems to change every time I checked it. Besides, everyone knows what show I’m talking about. The one where the famous beast of Lovecraft mythology into a moeblob.
Future Diary episode 25
SPOILER! Bet you wish you hadn’t visited the website before watching the episode now, eh?
Space Bros episode 2
The readers have spoken. According to the poll on the sidebar, you lot want me to blog Space Bros. Admittedly I planned to take that poll more as a suggestion than gospel, so while I won’t be covering Tsuritama, Jormungand, Lupin III or AKB0048 (thank fuck), I can still cover Appolon, Eureka Seven or Mysterious Girlfriend X. Blogging Space Bros will be tough though. The rumour going round that this will be 13 episodes isn’t true. It was a mistranslation, there’s just going to be an announcement after 13 episodes. It’s still set to air 50+ episodes. I’ve covered anime that long before with Hetalia, but Hetalia had the whole of history to fall back on for stuff to talk about. Space Bros? Well, we’ll see how long this lasts.
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia episode 1
This will be a very short post, because I don’t want to spoil the events of the first episode. It uses a neat narrative gimmick that works much better if you know absolutely nothing going into it. It’s clever and funny, but it’s also just a gimmick, so it has to rely more on the strength of the actual content for later episodes. I can’t say I have a huge amount of faith in that occuring, particularly when the main character is yet another Yuji Everylead. But for what it was, that first episode was fun.
Kuroko’s Basketball episode 1
Note: I won’t be writing a post about Fate/Zero. I don’t write about episode 14 of an anime just because there happened to be a bit of a wait for it to air. It’s the same as it always was. Fantastic production values and great ideas with too much bloody talking.
Instead I’m going to write about homoerotic basketball.
Mysterious Girlfriend X episode 1
For all the strange things that happened in this episode, the one my mind zoned in on were the references to Big O of all things. I happen to be watching it at the moment, so seeing both the Big O Robot and a Dorothy figurine rather threw me for a loop. I’m not even sure what their significance is. I don’t think the two shows share any staff. There doesn’t seem to be any thematic similarities between the two. Maybe this director just really likes Big O or something. Well, he’s confirmed for good taste at the very least.
Upotte!! episode 1
After a few minutes of the anime starting, I was already mocking its total shittiness. “Oh look” I joked, “It’s like Hetalia except with cute girls and not funny”. But then the anime stopped trying and failing to make jokes out of racial stereotypes and moved on to its central premise, and something amazing happened. I started to enjoy it.
Acchi Kocchi episode 1
A 4-koma adaptation about a bunch of high schoolers doing absolutely nothing. So would you believe me when I said this was way better than expected and flipped my world view, bringing on what could potentially be the second coming of Azuman-pfft no, Acchi Kocchi is hideously boring.
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