Summer already? I'm barely done with spring!
9 July 2008
Backlog is a blogger’s worst enemy. Week after week, I download episodes of Soul Eater and Macross and every other show I’m following and they all just end up being chucked into the ‘Anime Have Not Seen’ folder, and they sit there and gather electronic dust as I promise, almost daily, to get around to watching them, soon. And before I knew it, summer series were airing already. I feel old, almost, unable to keep up with the vicious pace of anime releases.
So, well, it’ll all just probably end up being backlog, but there are a few noteworthy series airing this summer, surprisingly, Strike Witches is on my list of shows I want to check out. Some really quick thoughts on the stuff airing.
Ultraviolet
I saw the movie. I didn’t really like the movie, but I like Milla Jovovich. It’s action. I like action. Good enough for me, I’m watching it, or I’m going to try really hard to watch it.
Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora (Someday’s Dreamers)
Long, long name. The director is pretty famous, though I’ve seen neither BECK nor Paradise Kiss, I’m looking forward to the show. I’m digging the promo art’s soft, simple, almost sun bleached colors. I’m not really sure what the plot is, but promo art is good enough sometimes.
Strike Witches
If you know me, that’s a surprise appearance on my list, yet at the same time, it’s not. There are three things I like, hot guys, guns and mecha. I don’t like little girls at all, one shouldn’t be surprise, so this whole mecha musume thing isn’t really right up my alley, but Shermans? Messerschmidts? Panzers? Count me in! Count me in! Then again, just from watching the promo trailers, the wriggling behinds of prepubescent girls that sprout cat ears and tails and transform into my favorite tanks and aircraft isn’t really right up my alley either. I’m committing some sort of an anime blogging suicide by picking up this show. I’m stepping out of the box, though I’m going to cringe and cry and gripe the entire way.
Tetsuwan Birdy DECODE (Birdy the Mighty DECODE)
Gender confused, Big Bird anime, sounds good. Ridiculous, but every once in a while, life needs a good helping of ridiculousness (see: Strike Witches).
Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo
Another crime-supernatural series, which reminds me a bit of Mnemosyne (which I’m not really keeping up with either, it’s all backlog! Backlog!). The character designs are very tempting and the animation, from the trailers, feel solid. I’ll give it a shot.
Natsume Yuujin-Chou
I can honestly say that I’m slightly excited about this show. Someone mentioned somewhere that the protagonist looks just like Edward Elric and has Yagami Raito’s abilities but backwards. Seeing how I’m head over heels for Fullmetal Alchemist and Raito, and just by virtue of the lead being cute, I’m going to watch this show. Also, he’s voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya (Nozumi Itoshiki from Zetsubou Sensei and Tieria from G00 and more recently, Mikhail from Frontier) who I’m quite fond of, another reason to invest a bit of my time to check this out. Unlike Strike Witches, this hits closer to home in terms of what I usually watch. And his cat, his cat is adorable and when it speaks, it’ll speak like Kakashi. You can’t get better than that.
World Destruction ~Sekai Bokumetsu no Rokunin~
The series is titled World Destruction. I’m watching it. It’s another one of those RPG game adaptation anime. I take a lot better to RPG game adapations than I do to eroge adapations and not to mention, the male lead, with his springy, blond hair is played by Mamoru Miyano, who I’ve grown quite fond of. And, I also caught a glimpse of cute, tiny critters in pirate garb, I’m a sucker for cute mascots (see: Nyankon-san from Natsume Yuujin-Chou). But, still, it’s about a girl with ability to destroy the world, I just want to watch this for the hell of it. I watch all summer blockbusters for the hell of it.
Blade of the Immortal
I’ve always, always wanted to read the manga but it’s been going on for a little more than a decade and that’s a lot of reading I have to catch up on. I was pretty hyped about the anime adaption, now I’ll get a chance to see what this incredible piece of art actually is. The trailer looked stellar and it’s the last show to air this season, so I’ll hold my breath and wait.
I’m only looking forward to Blade of the Immortal
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