Fairy Tail Disappointment

So I just thought I would voice my disappointment with the new Fairy Tail anime since I have yet to do so. I imagine there is a horde of others like myself that have already done so.

I was very excited for this one. Turns out I probably shouldn’t have. The animation is very bleh. The voice acting, AMAZING seiyu cast. Unfortunately, I think they were casted for the wrong rolls. (Kugimiya isn’t playing a tsundere!? Is that legal?) Maybe a part of the problem is that Fairy Tail feels so much like a One Piece clone that I feel some of the roles should be voiced to their one piece counter parts. (like Natsu-Luffy). I digress though.

Anyways, I still plan to hang with this for a bit to see if there is improvement. But I am not going to set myself up for further disappointment by getting my hopes up.

BOOBS!

Well I still mean to do more of an episode to episode basis of some shows, but with fall season, there is too much to check out and report on I suppose. Like I was really gonna follow through on what I say here anyways. lol. But I think most other amateur bloggers can relate. But anyways, 3 series for this post, because well, there is kind of a theme going on with these 3. I bet you can’t figure it out !!

So first on the list is Kampfer.

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Not too bad a show so far (on episode 2). Well I dunno, it could be pretty mediocre actually, but there is a pretty good seiyu cast in this series. The show also goes so far as to basically brag about it in the script. Example –

/fanboy

Anyways, plot is boy wakes up as girl. Boy finds out he turns into a girl for some battle thing from a stuffed doll. Boy… err girl, battles other girls for some unknown reason. Boy has girl he likes. Liked girl is yuri for his secret female alter ego. Kinda basic, basically. But since Nana and Mamiko are in this one, I will add my stamp of approval.

Now we warm up with the theme a little bit with season 2 of Koihime !!!

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There are better cleavage shots than this one. But Bachou is what I would consider a rarity. Anyways I wont bother with saying to much on this show. It’s just more koihime. Oh, but we now have the real Ryubi Gentoku here. She is pretty, umm… dense. Very moe, but still not at a competitive saimoe loevel.

And finally, the anime that is the best example for this theme we got going here. Season 2 of Queens Blade.

boobs

Episode 1 had a field day with the bare breastedness. Episodes 2 and 3 not as much. But they are there. anyways, I didn’t really pay much attention to anything in this show aside from boobs. I think there is some kind of fighting competition going on or something. I’m not sure. Too many distractions.

Nogizaka Haruka2, Bantora, Otoshimono

As usual I have the obligation to review the new anime season. I plan to try and do my reviews a bit differently than I have before. I find that my system of watching a number of series and than writing about a number of them into one post to be a bit, well, less interesting than say if I were to focus on 1 series/episode and have more of a discussion about it. However I am not going to do this in this post. Hopefully this will be the last of it’s kind !

Nogizaka Haruka s2 – <3 Haruka. but anyways, it's the same thing as the first season really. We have been introduced to a new maid though, Alice. She's the loli type. The loli type who is shy. The loli type who is shy and is very violent and packs a powerful punch !!!

Book of Bantorra – Semi promising series. I am not expecting it to be great or anything like that. But I think this will be one worth watching. It's a very unique series too. Unique in the fact that it's quite random. People turn into books when they die ! wtf is that about !? Whatever though, I can dig it. It's crazy enough to get me interested. If not for this though, I am sure I probably wouldn't see the show as promising.

Sora no Otoshimono – Same old unoriginal crap. It's shows like this one that make me wonder when I will stop liking anime. I will give it a few more eps, but I find the series to be rather unappealing. This show is about as exciting and creative as a really bad naruto hentai doujin ( or other popular series) without the sex. AHHHH ! Sasuke x Naruto x Neji x Gara !!!! *gag*

Oh and I apologize about the lack of visual aid. I watched these series at Crunchyroll and have yet to devise an idea as to how to take screencaps of shows. You should watch these shows here too, if you don’t already. Help support the anime industry !

On the crunchyroll note, things are going hyperspeed there !!! They are picking up so many simulcasts! They have already announced about a dozen NEW fall season simulcast, and still announcing more. This only adds to what they already have!.

Winging it

Just wing it

So this post isn’t about Gundam Wing. Although I did enjoy this one back in high school so many years ago. But here’s my story….

So last week I was a no show for my speech class ( I had my reasons!). Anyways, being a good student though, I sent an email to my teacher saying I would be absent about 2 hours before class at 6am. (Class is 8am-Noon on saturdays btw). Well some time passes, and I do not hear back from my teacher, but I find my syllabus the other day, so I knew what chapters I was expected to read this week, so I read them. However I find out we are supposed to have this storytelling assignment speech. So not knowing the details of this assignment, I am unable to do it.

Well I go into class this morning, have a word with my teacher. Turns out there is a problem with his receiving email, so he never got my email ! Anyways I let him know I don’t have this storytelling assignment, and don’t know the details as I wasn’t here the week before. Well he lets me know the speech is to read a published story to the class in a 6 minute time frame. He grants me the time in which others are doing theirs to find one for myself to do. The school library is closed. So I had a couple options, 1) the internet or 2) My Literature book which I was lucky to not have taken out of my backpack despite not having lit today. WIN!

So I picked out the least “offensive” story I could, which was James Joyce “Araby”. I fumbled pretty badly trying to read it as I stood in front of the class. I am one of those people that have problems with moving from line to line. A common problem I am sure.

Anyways I expected to get a 0 this morning, but since I was able to go in and “wing it”, I am quite sure I got a higher score than that. GO TEAM VENTURE !! (well not really a team effort here, but still felt appropriate to shout)

Geek Socialization

Well now the UCD is back in session, their anime club, which is open to the general non UCD public, is as well. It’s nice to get out and socialize with people with similar interest and geek out, OUT! During the club we just kick back for a couple hours in a class room and watch anime on the projector. Usually after the meeting, we meet up somewhere. For example after Wednesdays meetings, we have the habit of going to a local crepe shop and set up laptops and LAN while eating delicious food =D

Think I might have to take my less than awesome canon powershot a590 and take some pictures to post here sometime within the next few meetings. It would be nice if I could get a higher quality camera though. It would be nicer if I could even photograph things better too, lol.

So anyways, being that this was the first meeting of the school year, a few of us were extremely surprised to see the amount of new faces there. Someone was obviously doing a great job of spreading the word to the new freshmen on campus. I do have to admit though, it’s a little weird being around so many people about 10 years my “kouhai”. The majority of the weirdness though I think stems from the fact that 10 years ago, I wasn’t young enough to get so swept up into that pokemon craze as they were, if you catch my drift. Regardless of some taste in anime, it’s great to get out and socialize over otaku hobbies rather than talk about them over the internet. Not that I have anything against you people…. =p

So any of you do anything similar for a IRL geek out socializing ?