We continue the posting with our thoughts about the new season of anime that is upon us. Rather slow paced sure and we´re late as hell but what can we do when we don´t have set time for these things. A new season has started so we´ll try to either start writing about that one or finish this one.

Katanagatari

Avisch: I was expecting this show to be a mediocre hit or miss. But the first episode really impressed me. The characters were presented well, Togame (voiced by the ever adorable Yukari Tamura) and Shichika (voiced by relative newcomer Yoshimasa Hosoya) make a nice couple. The show has an interesting mix of comedy, action, and seriousness. Which is to be expected because it is an adaption of a Nisio Isin work. The artstyle for the show is interesting, I can’t comprehend some of it (Togame has traditional anime eyes unlike Shichika), but it doesn’t really bother me, it’s very cool. Most complaints against the show are it having “too much talking” and being “too shonen”, so I’ll just use this opportunity to defend it. Anyone who can’t stand talking has ADD levels that surpassed mine in 7th grade, and so what if it’s “too shonen”, it’s better than almost all shonen stuff out there.

manga: The opening animation was pretty nice. Showed of a interesting story with the most powerful fighting style in a land ruled by swords is to use no sword.

Then we change views and artstyle for some odd reason and I just go ?_? what just happend? Then I remember, oh it was this show that had such unique artwork.

Watching the episode made me wonder when it would end. Since I´ve watched so many show where all they do is talk I understand the reason behind it and I didn´t dislike this. But I was amazed at how long the episode was. I thought it was going to be the usuall 20ish mins but this was much more.

All in all I have to say I´m interested in this show and I´ll continue to watch it.

Ookami Kakushi

Avisch: Hearing that there was a visual novel project that had PEACH-PIT as the art designer and Ryukishi07 as the writer, I was quite intrigued. The anime adaptation is hard to interpret, it’s not too bad, but almost nothing has happened in the five episodes I’ve watched. Other than the “THIS TOWN HAS A DARK SECRET” implications, and the ultra-genki semi-main heroine, and the cold-cool heroine, there’s nothing majot that has happened in this show. I do like the opening. I think I will try it for a few more episodes.

manga: A show that has wolves in the title? I´m interested

Given the first episode I wonder why the hassaku are so important. Is it some kind of content in the fruit that keeps them as humans while their instincts is at hold? Or do they have the festival to continue to be humans? Cause everything that I saw in the first episode screamed a wolf pack. Not that good at taking in new faces and more curious about it than anything else.

After getting accepted though it is as a family. When thinking about how everyone seems to focus on the main lead and his little sister I just hope my premonition turns out to be false.

And yaoi influences? Oh my I do not want to see that. But I guess I have to if I want to see the following episodes.

Hanamaru Youchien

Avisch: An cute-anime for the sake of cuteness. I tried the first episode, which definitely wasn’t bad. It was kind of funny, though I felt the humor was kind of forced. The funniest bit I found was the fact that Tsuchida (the male lead) is voiced by Hino Satoshi (who’s voiced many straight-man roles). I may keep watching for Yamamoto.

manga: Kinder garden girl: “He hit on me”. Talk about getting to know your sensei the wrong way. And what a thing to missunderstand as well. But it was also funny to see that both the mother and child act and behave the same way. But I don´t have a specific age on the little kid but talking about marriage at that age is a bit to much. At least wait untill you´re in High School for that kind of talk.

Was it just me or is the main lead voiced by the same guy who did Keitaro Urashima from Love Hina? Makes you wonder why he ends up in these kind of roles, surrounded by beautiful girls and having to take care of children this time around instead of a house.

But I liked what I saw, comedy, suspense! And nice colors/design. I must keep watching this. Unless it goes boring as hell on me in the second episode. But I don´t think so and see no reason for it to happen.