A digital War

For all Fate fans you are given a nice treat. THe Holy War is now managed by a big satellite on the Moon. The Holy War is now a state of a game with a lethal twist. Lose in this game and you will die in the real world. Potential masters are selected and brought to the virtual school ground of Tsukumihara Academy as students. Here they have 4 days to acknowledge that something is wrong, that everyday is the same and that they repeat the same stuff day after day.

If they succeed in wanting to know who they really are they are given a examination. Succeed at this test and glory to you, you are now a chosen Master with your own Servant, if you did not succeed well you´re dead.

A long long intro

Thought Wild Arms with it´s three different character intro was long? Well this is a bit longer and only because of the sheer amount of things you do. Having read that you could choose your gender I was dumbstruck when I started a new game. I did not get a choice in the matter and my gender was chosen for me. As a guy I got accustomed to Tsukumihara Academy with some cameos from the series Fate/Stay Night like Sakura and Shinji Matou, Rin Tohsaka and Toiga.

It was a nice welcome for me. Even though I wondered why I hadn´t been allowed to choose my gender or servant. I spent time doing research on “mysterious happenings” on school grounds for the school newspaper. Sometimes I would get a big headache and wonder why the screen suddenly got all weird. Like watching a old TV with bad reception the screen got somewhat blurry.

Four days I spent running around school grounds getting to know the place. Then I “awakened” to my situation and wanted to get free from the chains of destiny. So I followed a mysterious transfer student into a different realm. Here I found a weird body that was assigned to protect me. We ventured forth and found a dead body. The same kind of weird body lay still on the floor only to suddenly spring to life and attack me.

A battle!! Finally some action I thought. But I couldn´t do shit and my temporary servant was defeated as easy as pie. I collapse at the floor wondering if this is the end? Where did I make a wrong choice since I didn´t want to restart and try again.

Oh boy this must be the first game that trolls me this hard. This time spent running around school ground and talking with everyone and getting accustomed to this place was about 2 hours. And it was just the introduction to the game. NOW the real game starts.

A grindfest

This game demands you to grind. Or at least it does for me since I choose Caster as my servant. With a good status overall of E in all aspects she is the weakest servant. But I have my love for animal girls so the choice wasn´t hard to make :p

This game consists of two stages. During your school day you react and answer questions from teachers, fellow students and rival magi. You can also go to your own special room to talk with your servant. You might even want to go to the library. The reason for this is as any Fate-fan should know. To get information about your opponent and his/her servant. This gives you an edge in battles and makes them a lot easier.

The other type of stage is in the “arena”. The place where you will spend most of your time. In this arena there are enemies that you will defeat, items in chests to gain money or special gear. There are several stages and all of them are fixed in size, types of enemies and items that appears. If you want to exit you have to go to the beginning or the end of the arena you are on. You can save when you are in school but not in the arena. If your servant is defeated at anytime in any battle it is game over.

You also only have 6 days of school and grinding in the arena before the boss appears. There is also a recommended lvl for you to be at when the 7th day comes around in the week. So you better get your fighting gear on fast and good.

Rock, scissors, paper

The battles are easy. Each round consists of 6 actions. You have a choice of “attack”, “guard” and “break”. And they work like the classic game rock, scissors and paper. Where each choice wins over one, get´s defeated by one and is a draw if the same symbol is used.

Here attack wins over break, break wins over guard and guard wins over attack. if both should choose attack or break there will either be a simultaneous attack where both servants are hurt or you get 0 damage. If both choose guard nothing happens.

Should you succeed to choose the right action 3 times in a row you will get a “Extra” attack that is a one hit where your opponent can´t do a thing.

The more you fight the same enemy type the more knowledge you get of the enemy. This gives you an edge in battles as you see what they will do and can counter it pretty easy.

Interesting and irritating

This game is a mouthful. It has excellent typings, some comedy and a easy battle system to learn. But the amount of time I will have to spend on grinding is not fun at all. Especially since I haven´t found a way to save while in the arena. So one false move and I will have to replay who knows how much time thanks to one false move since Caster is so weak. I´m currently trying to get her physical attack and def up to speed to stand a chance. It has gone so-so.

And since you can´t run from a battle when you have started it you can guess how many times I´m going to rage…

With good dialogue, nice characters and a fresh take on the Holy Grail War from the Fate universe this game is golden. Now as long as I just gain more knowledge about when I can save and not… it would make things so much easier.

I think the main reason is I just don’t have the time anymore. Work takes up 12.5 hours of my weekdays, if you include getting ready and commuting, and then I do need to go to sleep at times. Obviously I need to take time to eat (lol), and I’m finding that I’m gaming again on a more regular basis, as I’ve returned to WoW and Dark Souls has clocked up a considerable amount of hours over the last week or 2.

So normally each Season I pick up 6-7 animes a season, and this month was no exception, except one thing, I watched the 1st episode of them all, and haven’t had a chance to watch episode 2 of any, except the above and Shana no Shakugan III [Final]. This leaves me with 3 shows to talk about this season, which in my opinion isn’t great, so either I need to get some time to watch the rest, or really stretch you penny out. I haven’t decided which yet

C³ – Cube×Cursed×Curious

I’m quite enjoying this anime. It’s pretty and has cute girls in it, which is almost always a most for any show I watch. The plot is somewhat odd though, if I’m honest. The main character, Fear, is a cube (yes, a cube, like a Rubic Cube) who is able to take the form of a human. What you learn is that Fear has a dark past and that she, as an object, became cursed due to the sins that were committed with/by her. As a result this curse causes her to have the power to become human, but her owner will also suffer a curse for possessing her, in her case making them insane and using her for her intended purpose.

The anime starts off looking nothing like a show that’s going to become bloody, with the artwork looking very bright and cheery. Light hearted jokes and panty shots. a served arm later and a couple of character deaths and I’m starting to think this is not the show I was expecting, but I don’t have a problem with that. I’m enjoying it, and i wouldn’t be making the effort to make sure I watch it as soon as I can after it’s aired unless I wanted to, especially with what little time I do have at the moment for anime.

As well as Fear you have Konoha, a similar cursed object, however she is a sword. I’ll leave your imagination to work out how she would be useful in combat but I’#m pretty sure it’#s not hard to work out. There’s also the male protagonist of the show, Haruaki, who’s immune to curses wouldn’t you know (damn you plot conveniences).

I’m not entirely sure where this anime is headed, and I haven’t looked far into it, but if you look cute girls, panty/eechish shots, love triangles, and tsundere characters, give this one a go.

Boku Ha Tomodachi Ga Sukunai

Translated to “I don’t have many friends”, and a suitable title for the anime, well for the fist couple of episodes. Enter Kodaka Hasegawa, a normal high school male who happens to have no friends. Mainly due to the colour of his hair, which he gets from his English mother, people have the impression that he’s some kind of thuggish character to be scared of. I’d hope people have noticed that in anime, if a male has blonde hair their often seen as a either a bully or delinquent and that’s exactly what happens here. Add this with people always misunderstanding what he’s saying, for example wanting to trade items in a game turns into theft of their item and his reputation as a reputable member of society are lost.

Anyway, one day Kodaka is going back to his classroom, when he see Yozora Mikazuki chatting away to some unseen person. He can’t get a good view, so can’t see who, but after braving it walks in, to find… She’s alone. Like Kodaka, Yozara has no friends and so instead is confiding in her imaginary one. All kinds of Social awkwardness no. This, somehow, leads to Yozara to create a club, the Neighbours Club, where her idea is so that they can make friends. Obviously Kodaka has no choice but to join and the story unfolds.

This anime actually reminds me of Haruhi in this way, although Yozora doesn’t have the power of God, it is veruy similar to a Kyon and Haruhi relationship, and with characters being added (all female mind), the rest of the team may just pop up. I’m pretty sure an Asahina character joined in episode 04, but I haven’t watched 05 yet.

This shows art is very similar to Denpa, and I’m sure for those that have watched it will see the resemblance in the above image and I quite like the art style.  The show itself it’s fun to watch, just like Haruhi to be honest. I actually picked up the anime because it was advertised in Dengeki G’s October Magazine as the girls looked cute again, (should I really be admitting that?), but this isn’t the reason I’m watching it anymore. This is definitely something I’d recommend and I expect more would prefer this over C³. The club activities are fun to watch, with them playing Monster Hunter, an eroge, and of course the swimming pool, a gamer and guys dream no less.

One of the most wanted games of the year for me. Finally Catherine arrived and now that I´ve played it for about 2½ hours I wanted to share my thoughts on the gameplay so far.

Story
Vincent is a 32 year old male that is content with his life as it is. He has a job, a beautiful girlfriend since 5 years ago and he´s just happy with how things are. Katherine, his girlfriend on the other hand wants to tie the knot and get married. Mainly because of two reasons: Her parents are wondering how she fares in the marriage department and most of her old friends are already married and most of them even have kids.

To mix things up there is a new thing going on with the media. Healthy men are found dead in their beds and noone knows why they have died. There is also a rumour going on that if you cheat on your girlfriend you will start to have nightmares. In this nightmare if you fall and don´t wake up before you hit the ground you´re dead.

One night Vincent stays behind in the Stray Sheep, a bar and have to many drinks when all of a sudden a mysterious girl approaches him. She seduces him and the next morning he wakes up in the nude with the said girl lying next to him…

So storywise there is a lot going on and boy it is a good story. Mix horror/romance and relationships and you might have a good thought of the story.

Gameplay
Catherine is divided into two types of gameplay. During the day you watch as scenes unfold for Vincent trought cinematics and cutscenes. In some scenes you get to make a choice. What you pick to answer gives you a certain route in the game. But most of the time is spent in the Stray Sheep bar where you can talk to the customers, your friends and the people that work there. You can also sit down and drink some liquor. And this is also where you usually check your phone and answer mails and such.

The texts are easy to create, press one button to make one line of text appear. If you´re satisfied with the line, accept it and make another line appear. If you´re not satisfied you can cancel the sentance and get another one.

This can make for some really humerous texts. With leet talk and such :p

The other type of gameplay is during Vincent´s Nightmares. You have a number of blocks to climb as the lower parts of the tower crumbles and falls. Wait to long and you´ll fall to your death. Make a false move with the blocks and you´ll get stuck. So you really have to think ahead. Which is a good thing but at the same time very hard.

If you succeed at climbing to the top of the stage you go to the “landing” a place where you can talk to the others that also climb the tower. This is also a place for buying items that hep you with the climb.

Hard game is hard
It starts of easy enough. But it gets hard really fast. I only played like 2 hours and I´m already on the normal difficulty setting. Should give you a hint of how hard the game is. It´s all good and fun times though. The controlls are responsive, a bit to responsive at times.

A unique game
It´s the only game of it´s kind so far and it is great. If you like horror/puzzel games then this game is for you.

The first final game of the Ar Tonelico series is here and after having played some of this full HD game I have something that I want to share with all of our visitors.

I love the details that they have done with the 2d images. Ar Tonelico style in full HD is great. I don´t like the 3d images used that much though. Don´t know why really. Not just my thing. It´s also a great laught that the game is a bit buggy when jumping. Have Aoto jump and when he lands the animation will freeze for a very short amount of time so he´s hovering over the ground.

To beging with I wasn´t to found of this choice of graphics. Having to run around in 3d worlds is something I´ve done so much. But I got used to it and I wouldn´t want it any other way when I play now.

Changes
Except for the graphic design there are one more big change to previous Ar Tonelico games. Once again we have 3 fighters and 1 reyvateil in battles. But this time around the game is having action oriented real time battles. With the reyvateil having a special circle around her and you want to protect the reyvateil as she will lose HP if a enemy goes into this said circle. The system from Ar Tonelico 2 is long gone which is a pity if you ask me. Sure I played on normal but I thought that the game would give me a more challenging battle system. I can just mash square to make attacks and that´s that. I want some more challange. I guess I should try hard mode to see if it is any harder.

To protect the reyvateil if a enemy is inside her circle you press the “circle” button and you will knock the opponent away. Then you have a set amount of time before you can use this knock away attack again. So if there are multiple enemies that go inside the circle then you have no choice but to let them hurt the reyvateil and hope she doesn´t die and that the opponent goes away on it´s own.

Instead of having loads and loads of differents clothes for the reyvateils here the two main heroines Saki and Finnel have multiple personalities. So when you progress deep enough into their cosmospheres they will unite with these personalities so you can choose which one you want.

Stripping in battle?
One of the reasons I guess for Ar Tonelico Qoga receiving a mature rating is that the reyvateils when gotten to a certain point and you shake the PS3 controller will strip. They want to make it sound less perverted by calling it that they “Purge” the clothes to gain more power. I wonder how they came up with that idea.

It fits straight into the usual gameplay of Ar Tonelico sure. But in battles? Not really what I expected. And that you have to shake the controller for the purge to be initiated is also to much gimmick for my taste. Sometimes my controller doesn´t realize I´ve shaken it so nothing happends. Instead I just take damage and that is irritating as hell.

First Impressions: Good
I´ve enjoyed the time I´ve spent with Ar Tonelico Qoga. What started out as a simple request from a dying man soon become something more intimate. Aoto is a good hero for this game. Saki and Finnel give the game variety and the mysterious entity named Tilia is spoken about a few times.

A Godly game or just a nice front with little content? After lusting for this title since it´s release I´ve finally gotten my hands on it and am now able to write about it.

The historic tale of Muramasa is really interesting. A specially made blade that when drawn needed to drink blood, the owner of the sword or enemies a like before being taken back into the sheath.

But this game has been noticed for one thing among any others: It´s graphical design, Vanillaware handdrawn everything and it shows. The quality of each screen is awesome and all animations and structure is superb.

It is divided into two parts, Momohime and Kisuke. Momohime has been posessed by a warrior called Jinkuro and he sets out to find a special blade so that he can move his soul into another body. Kisuke on the other hand has lost his memory and is trying to regain it.

Battles are fast and fun, you have three blades equiped at the same time and can change between them with the click of a button. Different blades gives you different bonuses, anything from draining the opponents life to being a certain element.

If I had to claim one bad thing for the battles it´s the enemy flora. Ninjas and imps are fun with the occasional samurai, but there are way to few types of enemies. Bosses come in a wide variety of forms and shapes though so I guess it evens out.

When you slay enemies you aquire souls. These souls can be used together with spirit, which is aquired by eating to forge new blades. It´s quick and easy and you get to choose what blade you want to forge. You can even decide on three play styles: Going all small fast swords, all long slow swords or a mix of the two.

Each blade comes with a special move, from making a protective shield to shooting our homing balls of lightning. It´s all fun and games, but since the enemies grow stronger you need to aquire new blades as you level up to have a chance. It is quite hard to let a certain blade that you are fond of go but it must be done unless you want to spend loads of time hacking away at enemies.

From an artistic point of view this game only has few competition, and all of them are from Vanillaware: Odin Sphere and Grim Grimoire. These titles could easily be thrown into the old discussion if video games are art or not. The visual aspect of these games are that good.

Overall I like this game. It was a bit short, I ran trough Momohime´s story in like 10 hours. Now I need to finish Kisuke´s story to be able to alter the ending of Momohime´s story.

By Mizuryu Kei(http://www.mizuryu.jp)

After running trough Arc the Lad and liking what I saw and played the news that the second game would be released on PSN was one of joy. Now after I´ve bought it and played it for a couple of hours I´m ready to write my first impressions about it.

Story
The first game ended with a big cliffhanger with Arc and his loved one got separated. What stroke me at the very beginning was that I wasn´t playing as Arc. I would have loved to play as him to continue the struggle against Romalia. Instead I´m playing as Elc, a kid with a very tragic past and supressed memories. For a good reason, his entire village was slaughtered and burned to the ground while he himself as a kid was brought to a research building and experimented on.

Fleeing from it and then growing up as a Hunter, basically a mercenary doing odd jobs for money by a change encounter Elc encounters Lieza, a girl that has the power to command monsters to do her bidding.

When a scene triggers a memory in Elc he decided to protect Lieza. Together they start on an adventure that will forever change their view on the world and it´s history.

Battle
As the previous game Arc the Lad 2 is a Strategy RPG, which means you and your team of friends face of against enemies on stages. These stages are depending on a square net in which you move. The news for me is that this game uses a system that feels a tiny bit like FF2 for NES. In the regard that you buy a weapon, then as you use it the weapon increases in lvl, which means more damage output and such and changing names and abilities. The same can be said for armour. Upon receiving attacks, magic, healing, debuff or buff spells after a certain amount of time the item will lvl up giving you a better defence than before.

This stops the need to relentesly having to buy new weapons. Found a weapon you like? Stick with it. It grows stronger the more you use it. Elc can handle a spear, which hits two squares ahead of him. Making him deadly in crowd controll. He can also use a sword, which is good for damage against one opponent. Having the opportunity to change your equipment in battle makes things a lot easier.

Everything runs depending on what AGI your character has, the more AGI the fast you get to act. And with the amount of enemies present sometimes it is worth trying to gain a high AGI stat to be able to act multiple times.

It´s a great system. The one big letdown is that you now have to traverse the stages and exit them on your own. Instead of just going out or progressing after the battle you have to manually move forward or exit the stage. But all in all it´s fun to play. Elc is like Arc, a power-house when given a item that increases his counter abilities.

Characters
So far all the characters I´ve meet have some kind of bad memories from being guinea pigs for Romalia and it´s these memories that we are going trough. As the story progress we get to know more and more about the characters. A nice touch and there are some loveable characters even though they look like shit :p It´s a old game and I don´t complain about the art choice or anything but wow, I can finally start seeing why people want games to be remade. Having to see basically nothing of how sexy Shante can be is a bother :p

All in all
It costs your 5.99US to download this title and if you liked the first game then by all means get this as everything has been improved. Almost. If you haven´t played the first game then tough luck on understanding some parts of it. But it´s still worth getting if you like SRPGs.

I´m satisfied with this game.

A game I knew nothing about but when I read the title of “Majin” on the PSN I just had to try the demo. Now when I have indeed played trough the demo I am writing my thoughts down.

Story
Darkness is on the rise in the world. To battle this a thief snuck into a ancient temple to try and find a means to defeat the darkness. To his surprise he found a majin sealed away. After freeing the majin they start their journey to defeat the darkness.

Sneaky bastards
As given with a thief, some parts of the demo is all about being sneaky and hiding behind pillars and what not in the temple to sneak up on your enemies to deliver a fatal blow from behind. Cheap I might add but hey, it works and even though I hate sneaking around going at it like this was well worth it. Using the weapon that sealed the majin to crush your opponents with one swift strike was kinda fun.

Battle?
Defeating the darkness comes in two forms. The normal clashes between you, the majin and the enemy. Fighting together with the majin is easy. Just use a command to have him go straight over to your opponents and then he will attack. You on the other hand as a thief is weak, so weak. You have your basic combo and a rush in but the main fighting is done by the majin. If he knocks a enemy down you can be a cheap bastard and go over to the knocked down enemy, strike it a few times and then by pressing a button you will deliver a finishing blow together with the majin. He throws you up in the air so that you can create a nice high-blow.

Continue doing this for a while and your “friendship combo” meter will increase, after it is full you can unleash a truly devastating attack that basically clears the room.

With boss battles it´s basically the same, let the majin knock the smaller enemies over, finish them, build friendship combo meter and then use that to strike at the boss.

If you don´t like being up close and personal with your enemies you can always sneak around the battle stage and find barrels or what not to throw at the enemies. But be carefull, if the explosion hit the majin he will be hurt from it also.

In conclussion
I´m pretty amazed over this title. You can command the majin to do a lot of things, heal you, trash walls, open doors or even light the fuse to a bomb which you can then throw at your opponents. The gameplay is part puzzle solving and part battles. And part sneaking around.

It didn´t make it onto my “must buy” list but man, this is an interesting title. I might get it in the future.

Just a quick post about the first hours of gameplay that I´ve gotten trough. Most stuff is good but there are some things that bother me.

The Good
The gameplay is pretty fluent. Not a lot of loading time thanks to a install of about 300MB. The graphics actually look pretty decent and above all it´s fun to play.

Basically so far I can say that they have taken everything that made Valkyria Chronicles to the PS3 great and done a portable version of it. They have added more classes and even made a melee class that is used for defence. The classes can also be upgraded and move out to other classes, a scout can become a sniper or a veteran scout for example. Which is pretty nice. I just need to understand how I can change class. Seems I need to aquire a certain amount of credit by fighting in battles with the characters that I want to develop.

The strategy you can use all depends on you, loads of scouts to scout ahead and try for a quick round or going slow with shocktroopers to finish of any opponent you find is all fun and games.

The Bad
Why isn´t this title on the PS3? I can´t figure it out yet.

I have no real problem with it, but since I get to be a jerk at this point I have to complain about how the storyline is progressed. By still images and with the same movement you could find in the early visual novels. No 3d figures here oh no. Just still images that change depending on the characters attitude at the moment.

No choice of having Japanese voices. Not that I could find anyway. Only English. Which is a damn shame since I dislike English voices. They don´t sound that bad. But it just gets to me.

Co-op missions. if I understood it right there are now special missions where you can use the PSP and connect online to play together with other people. It´s a great idea if you have loads of friends nearby. But otherwise I don´t see me playing this online.

Instead of having one big battlefield(which would be impossible on the PSP) they have instead split the battlefields up. And to go from one part to the other you have to grab a special enemy base and then move your characters. But if you simply remove your characters from the current base and do not make them appear at another captured base the enemy will move right in and take it back, forcing you to once again travel to the previous base and capture it again. Not a smart system. But it still works pretty well.

Anime influence anyone?
It´s been said before. But this is basically a anime turned game. Evan, the main hero gets the letter of his older brothers dead. Certain that his brother isn´t dead he goes as far as to enlist in the army to find out more. During the exams to get enlisted he meets up with Zeri, a darcsen and Colesste a clumsy loveable girl. Though not wanting to bond they are thrown together as a team and get trough the exams and are finally enlisted.

The class you get assigned to is class G, the worst of the whole school where the people are basically just there and do not want to do anything. But if I´m guessing right this class will become the very best. The only thing they have to do to succeed is try.

So there are a lot of anime influences in the storyline. But oh well. I can live with it.

Go easy on me
Instead of placing you in “real” battles from the get go as you are only a cadet you instead have to play trough a series of tutorials. They are all very easy if you have some strategic thoughts. Then after these tutorials the real fighting begins. At first it´s pretty simple to understand what you should do and how you can do it.

So far I haven´t gotten into any real challanges. It´s rather my mindset that has made me lose characters and not the difficulty of the game. It´s no good idea to run forward with only one scout and have him try to conquer the whole map by himself :p

Should I buy or should I not?
If you liked the first game then by all means by this game. The storyline is worse sure and it is heavily influenced by the worst type of school anime you can encounter. But if you take a look behind all that and see the gameplay you will find a great system that is fun to play and gives great rewards for scoring good grades in the battles.

So if you like strategy games and loved the first game there is nothing wrong with buying this title. Just buy it and love the gameplay. It´s well worth the money.

What a disappointment the game has turned out to be. Play Maker Studios has also made some of the big mistakes with no apologizes towards it’s customers which makes it the first and last time for me.

It’s been two months since the pre-order for the game has become available for Bemanystyle.com only to delivered not even half of what was advertised to the public. $110USD is a regrettable waste for me after some stupid mistakes plus without any press or apologizes by the company. What mistakes? First my package along with many others have received it wrongly packaged and incomplete(No Developers Signature, CD Cyrstal Case replaced by Plastic).

Let me stop with all the ranting at how horrible the publisher has been. Time to discuss about how the game has been so far for me.

What I like,
I love the new Remix System! It definitely is much harder than 8button mode in the previous games. So far unlocked 28 Songs out of 41(I think), which is kinda small again the previous have always been over 50 tracks. Some new artist have arrived which made their impressive tracks for their first time. The missions are pretty good except it’s nothing that has not been done before – not much to complain when it comes to music games, but at least you could experiment on some new modes? After

What I dislike,
No more 2-Player Versus mode. No more Link Disc(Play previous games songs with the new features). What the hell? What were they thinking? Every other DJMax Portable game had this and now they decided to remove it or suspiciously the game has been rushed? Freaking fail. The new BGA during the menu is an improvement but it is still no match in comparison to DJMax Portable Clazziquai Edition‘s epic interface & sound. This time’s Limited Edition is a too small in comparison to all the previous LE with much more goodies inside.

Note: I’m definitely doing a lot of comparison to it’s previous versions. But it’s ridiculous how short it’s become. It feels too much like a rushed product for me. Stay tuned in a few weeks for the full review.

Fortune Arterial

The show I actually wanted to see this season. Made from the same company as Crescent Love I had to see what they were able to pull of this time.

Hasekura Kohei, like a migratory bird has moved from place to place all his life. Never staying at the same place long enough to even remember his classmates names or faces. This time he is going to attend the Shuchikan Academy.

While climbing the stairs to the school he is greeted by the vice president Sendo Erika and she wants to welcome him. As they are about to hold eachothers hands Erika does a 180 and becomes flustered, falls down and is blushing. With no apparent reason this is giving the viewer a shock.

After this we get some oridinary stuff when starting at a new school. A same year student, Hachimandaira Tsukasa is roped into showing Kohei around the school and introducing him to the various people that he will be living with for the next years of school.

Let´s just say that I enjoy the animation, this is quality and everything is good looking. If I had to snar at one thing it would be the way the other girls are introduced. And the form after which they are molded as to say. But still. This is a show I´m going to watch and follow.

Shinryaku! Ika Musume

A squid from the bottom of the ocean has decided that enough is enough. The humans of the above world will have to pay for destroying the seas. So she sets out to conquer the above world.

Problem is, she is like a little kid and the only squid like about her is her hair. Which works and looks like tentacles. Which she can use for speed, power and such.

Her first mission, to astablish a base. The choice? A bar at a beach. End result? She starts working there…

I don´t know. Just something about this show just made me want to skip watching it. I´d like people to tell me I´m wrong and give me reasons for why I should watch this.

A Certain Magical Index 2

I enjoyed watching a Certain Magical Railgun. Biribiri lights my fire one could say. But Index? If there is a more egoistic spoiled brat then be sure to point my in her direction so I can watch her act. I dislike Index. The first season was meh, it was good sure when stuff happend. But when Index herself was on screen it was just boring.

And from the looks on things this season will be much of the same. Touma is not handling school well so he has to study, Index being the little bitch she is wants Touma to play with her and Sphinx… end result is that Touma´s hard work gets ruined.

I don´t know about this show either. I might get into watching it when the full series is released and I can sit trough it in one sitting. Otherwise I don´t know.

Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru

Oohh, a show about a cafe right? I love this kind of shows where food and enviroment are well done and gives a good feeling so I can relax while watching!!

What I get on the other hand is a show where the cafe only has one maid and she doesn´t know how to welcome people. And the cafe shows nothing of fun or anything.

Just boring to watch. I don´t know why either. Usually I can give these shows a better try before discarding them. Might come back to it later if someone on the blogsphere gets my attention up for this show. You can also say that when I first saw the opening screen and what followed afterwards I was dissapointed. If I do not get my hopes up the next time I watch this show I might get a better impression.

The World God Only Knows

The “God” of visual novels, Katsuragi Keima is so confident that he can claim any girl he wants with little effort. This gets him attention from people all over the world. So when he is asked if he can get any girl he responds with a vivid yes.

You can imagine his reaction when he is greeted by a mysterious girl calling herself Elucia de Lut Ima, or in short Elci that demands that he woes certain girls that are possessed by loose souls so she can capture them.

Quite good laught, Keima is so fixated on the 2d world that he has no interest in the 3d world. So when he has to apply his trixs to the real 3d girls he doesn´t always get the result he wants. And yes, I find it rare that the trixs used in visual novels to get a girl works in real life. But hey, this is the real world in anime so it has to work. It´s fiction and thus you know :p

I will definately follow this show. I need to.

Yosuga no Sora

There is a lot going on in this show. Siblings move to their old town after their parents have died. The sister seems to be afraid of meeting new people. But the brother doesn´t have that problem. It also seems as if they are in love with eachother or deeply attracted to the other.

I did say earlier that I wanted someone to point me in the direction of a more egoistic girl that Index. And sure, Sora might have what it takes. But still, she allows her brother Haruka to leave her side.

But how she reacts when or if he falls for another girl is unknown.

I like the animation and the characters are interesting. Sure they are from the usual mold for characters but they still are interesting.

There is as said loads of stuff going on. Will be interesting to see how everything turns out later on.

Summary
We have both good and interesting shows and some real dull ones. But after watching trough most of this new season I have to say that I find this season being one of the best in a long time. Espacially if you look at how many of the shows I want to follow.