I should apologize to walking corpses, whom I insulted in my last entry by associating with the main character of Dragon Crisis. Walking corpses, as seen in Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka, are awesome. We finally have a main character this season, Ayumu, who isn’t a complete wuss and doesn’t spend half the show whining. Even when he is turned into a zombie he just invites the necromancer who resurrected him to live in his house and begins to search for his murderer.  The two female characters are quite entertaining as well – Eu because of Ayumu’s delusions, and Haruna because, well, she is a magical girl with a chainsaw. All of the zombie jokes so far have been hilarious as well, although I could see how if they keep repeating them it might get old. The jokes in this show were great, coming fast and unpredictable. The transformation sequence at the end was especially great. Let’s hope that the creators can keep up this pace.

Based on the description, I was fully expecting this show to be a complete disaster. It goes to show that you can never really tell how something will turn out before watching it. This season I thought that this show and Onii-chan no Koto would be completely unwatchable, but it turns out they’ve been two of the best shows so far. Still, you can’t really judge by the first episode, comedies always seem to taper out by the end, where non-comedies build momentum towards the end. We still have the two noitanimA shows to look forward to, hopefully they won’t disappoint!

This episode was downright painful to watch. A useless douchebag’s cousin returns from studying abroad (like all Americans, she has a disturbingly large chest, wears a tanktop and has brownhair with twintails). She brings him along to rob the mafia equivalent, and a little girl comes out of the suitcase and can only say the main character’s name.

We’ve only seen a sudden girlfriend appearance before. And every person in the show is a walking caricature (well, aside from the main character, who has the personality of a walking corpse).  Rose (the dragon) is not going to do anything but look cute, the cousin is never going to have the camera centered on her face, and glasses girl is going to be a glasses girl. Looking on the bright side, the music was somewhat decent.

In Level E, a baseball player moves from Tokyo to the countryside, to find an alien squatting in his apartment. This wasn’t particularly bad or anything, but I just found it boring. The story seemed to move really slowly and there was hardly any development in the characters to justify this. The alien shows that he really is an alien – great. And he and the main character seem to have some homosexual tendencies. Unfortunately, said main character is apparently not into tentacles. How will they overcome this wedge in their relationship?

For the first episode, we had an entire episode of Gachi rangers instead of the usual antics. Power rangers parodies have been done to death but this one was still pretty funny, mainly because it’s willing to go to levels of brutality and ridiculousness that other shows aren’t (Gachi morning star, deaths of children, the incinerator). Still, the Galaxy Angels transformation sequence into the giant robot is my favorite parody of this genre. 🙂

Anyways, it’s basically where we left off last year, still going strong with the crude childish humor and the crazy Hitoha eyes. If you liked the first season you’ll probably enjoy this one, and the same vice-versa. Personally, I think that the show isn’t really that much cruder than many other shows – it’s just more obvious since it’s an elementary school girl doing the fondling instead of a high school boy.

This show wasn’t the greatest, but it was surprisingly watchable. It’s another siscon show where they aren’t actually related, but at least they cleared that up in the first episode instead of making us sit through twelve episodes of angst like the rest of the shows in this genre seem to do. I laughed out loud during this scene when the sister said she didn’t have any memories from ten years ago completely out of the blue with absolutely no foreshadowing. The characters so far seem interesting enough, at least the little sister actually has a personality, quite similar to Yamada from B Gata H Kei but less talk and more walk.  She also gets bonus points for at one point realizing how disgusting she is.

I liked the animation for this show as well. Technically it isn’t too impressive, and the bodies aren’t too realistic, but, well, it is a drawing after all, and that’s what it looks like, which is nice once in a while.

But why in the world did the creators think replaying the entire several minute opening sequence was a good idea? Sure, the opening should catch your attention… But that doesn’t mean you should just copy and paste the best part of the episode and play it twice (besides, the part they picked wasn’t even particularly good…).

Overall the first episode was decent enough, but there’s always a high chance with this type of show that they’ll fall into using the same jokes over and over again and it will get stale. But right now I’m more worried that they’ll go with the “character of the week” format where each episode features one side character who we barely ever see again. It looks like next week is blonde twin tails girl.

In other news, the blog has a banner, and it is now officially FABULOUS!