Anime

While browsing the early list of fall shows, nothing pops out at me besides Clannad: After Story, Toradora!, and maybe ef - a tale of melodies. Anticipation for Clannad is very high. Toradora is yet another light novel with the tired ‘guy meets girl/s’ premise (Haruhi, Shana, Zero no Tsukaima, Haruka Nogizaka) but hey, I’m a sucker for these. I may check out the next iteration of ef if Miyako Miyamura either gets no screen time or drops dead. Ugh. Damn Miyako.

I see a bunch of sequels to shows I didn’t watch or dropped, so those are automatically off my list. Let’s cross off Jigoku Shoujo, Gundam 00, Rosario to Vampire, Junjou Romantica, Nodame Cantabile, and Vampire Knight. I may pick up and finish the first season of Nodame Cantabile in time to see the sequel, so that omission isn’t set in stone. The rest still get a very apathetic shrug. So what else does that leave us with? Not much. Aside from all the sequels that loyal fans will watch no matter what, the new shows aren’t exactly awe inspiring. Fall season is supposed to be, you know, more exciting than this.

Haruka invites Yuuto to accompany her to Akihabara on Sunday. After thinking it over and remembering a prior bad experience with Nobunaga, Yuuto obliges since it’s Haruka after all. Yuuto and Haruka follow a route she planned to take them around the entire district with the objective of buying a Portable Dream Station console at the end of the day.

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Kara no Kyoukai’s third chapter takes the story to July 1998. As is the norm in this series, more bizarre murders are happening in the city. On his way home one rainy evening Mikiya happens upon a girl named Fujino Asagami, and being the naive guy he is, he brings her home for the night. Meanwhile, Tohko and Shiki undertake a job to find the murderer and bring her back dead or alive.

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A very wealthy woman and her pet poodle, Sebastian, seem to be going for an early morning stroll by a lake only for the dog to become very irritated at something in the lake. He dives into the lake only to disappear while the owner screams for her pet as an eerie island hovers in the distance.

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We’ve all seen the claims. “Code Geass is not a mecha anime.” I would tend to agree, at least for the first season. The Sutherlands were nothing special, same with the modified Glasgows, the Burai. Then there was the Lancelot. It was pretty much used to offset Lelouch’s tactical and strategic mastery. Fine. That works, can’t just have Lelouch steamroll everything. The Guren Nishiki appears as a rival for the Lancelot and it works out well in that role, despite the Lance still smashing things. The Gawain even makes sense. Its armaments are a pair of Hadron Cannons and ten Slash Harkens. The former is obviously a ranged bombardment gun while the latter doesn’t even see much use until near the end. The Lancelot’s flight upgrade is expected and it doesn’t turn it into hax. So, season one isn’t mecha heavy.

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Sora undertakes her first magic request, but Hara warns her that this client is very peculiar. The client, Motohashi, is an older woman with a request to open her safe. This woman does not have the key but always locks the safe again after checking the contents, so she is continually calling upon the mages to unlock the safe when she wants to look inside. Likewise, all the other students in the mage class undertake their own requests except for Gouta who is still a novice.

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Wolf Hurricane’s summer impressions are a bit late, but here are my opinions on the shows I’ve seen so far. Yeah, the summer lineup isn’t as strong as the spring and fall seasons. I think there are still a couple gems that shouldn’t be overlooked though.

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Sony and Funimation are bringing downloadable anime to a PS3 near you in a big way. As part of yesterday’s press conference at E3, Sony unveiled their new video service that will allow you to purchase/rent movies and other videos on your PS3. The big surprise was the fact that Funimation was casually mentioned alongside several big movie studios during the announcement.

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Lina’s still upset that someone stole her spotlight and is taking it out on her companions as they quake in terror. Gourry tries his best to calm her down but to no avail. She’s wanted by the police, she doesn’t know what’s going on, and worst of all, she didn’t get to blow anything up real good. She decides to go through her troubles one by one to see just where she stands in all that’s happened.

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Yuuto Ayase is a normal high-schooler that has sworn off girls due to the influence of living with two crude women, his older sister and his schoolteacher. He is constantly teased by his friends for not being interested in girls, but even Yuuto himself can’t deny the alluring charm of the school idol, Haruka Nogizaka, a beautiful girl skilled in all areas and revered by the entire student body.

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