| Three Weeks Into the Fall 2016 Anime Season [message #330831] |
Sun, 23 October 2016 20:07 |
Dave Baranyi
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I'm now several weeks into the Fall 2016 anime season and my very short viewing
list has gotten shorter. There are a lot of new series that I didn't try this
season, and from what I've read on various anime blogs, I haven't missed much at
all with those that I skipped. This means that the total number of new anime
that I tried this year is a third lower than usual, but at least I'm not tearing
out what's left of the hair on my head while trying to sit through shows that
don't appeal to me at all.
So I'm only following two new series this season:
“Natsume Yuujinchou Go” - episodes watched: 3, current rating: A. This series
about a teen who can interact with traditional Japanese youkai continues to be
as charming and comfortable as its four previous seasons. If you liked it
before, you will like it now.
“Drifters” - episodes watched: 3, current rating: B+. This is a totally bat-shit
show. The writers know very well that they are creating First Class Trash, and
they are obviously enjoying every moment of it. Each episode has so much energy
that the whole concept of suspension-of-disbelief is invalid here. Violence,
gore, action and laughs – what more can you want?
I dropped the following three series after the third episode:
“Soul Buster” - final rating: C-. This death-game fantasy felt and looked too
much like bad fanfic. Art, dialogue, voice acting - everything about this show
was amateurish.
“Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki” - final rating: C. This ultra-short kid's
anime about a kid who lives with traditional Japanese youkai is going over the
same ground that many other kid's series have already gone over. The big
difference is that it has added the ancient “joke” about the protagonist always
falling and seeing the girl youkai's panties. There is nothing here to keep me
coming back, even at only four minutes per episode.
“Occultic;Nine” - final rating: C. Like the rest of the “semicolon” anime
series, this sciences-fantasy left me uninvolved, mainly because I disliked all
of the characters. Instead of focussing on the intrigue I found myself irritated
by the dialogue. By the end of the third episode I just didn't care about the
situation or the characters.
I dropped the following series after the first episode:
“Time Bokan 24” - final rating: C-
“Shuumatsu no Izetta” - final rating: C
“Nanbaka” - final rating: C-
And I just watched one last show that I thought was going to be a new series,
but it turned out to be a one-shot ONA:
“Luger Code 1951” - final rating: C. This is an alternate world fantasy in which
Humans and Werewolves are warring against each other. A shouta professor and his
bishii best friend army officer search for a group of solders who have just
caught a werewolf. The shouta and bishii catch up with and stop the solders just
as the solders are about to shoot the moe werewolf girl. Then the group gets
caught by wolves that the werewolf girl calls, one of the solders turns out to
be a real werewolf, and it turns out that the werewolf girl was just bait for a
trap for the shouta and bishii. The werewolf girl isn't an ordinary werewolf –
she has “bad werewolf blood” - and she is hated by both sides. But she sides
with the shouta, turns him into a wereshouta (now also with bad werewolf blood)
and the two escape.
Apparently, this was sort of a “pilot” show based upon a “pilot” manga. It was
okay at best and fairly paint-by-numbers. If it were an actual series I would
have dropped it after the first episode. Now I don't have to.
And I'm still watching Conan, One Piece, Folktales, and Saiki, although there
are only five micro-episodes of Saiki left. I'll miss it when it is done.
Dave Baranyi
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