late arrival

Oh look, I got a late birthday present today.



Haha, M. Zenigame. Makes it almost sound French.



Aaaaand it's MOTHERFUCKING BLAZBLUE. Nice.

Kind of sad that a random interwebs buddy did more for my birthday than anyone in my family did... but eh.

Dog Days completed

Just finished Dog Days.

This show was waaaaaaaaaaay better than expected. The first half was pretty much just silly fluff with nice production values, but the second half got serious and yeah. Really nice ending, and I am hoping for a sequel.

Dunno how likely that is, though... but the flow of merchandise is still coming, so there's hope maybe?

I really wasn't especting to get as invesed in the characters as I ended up being... now I need to get a Milhiore figure or plushie or something. MY INNER FANTHING HAS BEEN AWAKENED AND MUST BE SATED.

Spring anime catchup

Due to me being lazy, I missed out on last season's anime entirely. So for the past two weeks, I've been playing catchup.

Been watching about nine episodes a day, and at this point I only have one show left to start on. With any luck, I'll be done entirely by next Wednesday or so.

What I've been watching...

Nichijou-
Funny as HELL. I haven't laughed so hard at a show since Ikamusume and Milky Holmes were on air. Also, Hakase is fucking adorable. Painfully so.

Steins;Gate-
THIS SHOW IS AWESOME. Started out strong, and then with the plottwist in episode twelve it gets super awesome. This is the only time I can think of where my favorite character in a galge adaptation was actually the protagonist.

Sengoku Otome Momoiro Paradox-
Started out as stupid fluff, and then got legitimately good when they finally got to the Akechi and Ieyasu subplots later on. Most of the yuri teasing was just teasing and the very end got on my nerves, but it was still enjoyable for the most part.

A Channel-
Cute girls doing cute things. It was a cute show and didn't try to be anything more, and I am perfectly fine with this. My only complaint was how they forced an insert song into every episode... while they eventually figured out how to not make it seem unnaturally placed, they really broke the flow of the episodes before that point.

Astarotte no Omocha!-
Yay the kind of show that is made just for a Zenigame. Cute as hell, despite alll the dirty jokes... in the end, it was just a story about a lonely girl who missed her mother. I will say that their family situation is all kinds of fucked up, though.

Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko-
SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFT.
Nice show, though nothing was really resolved... but the style was nice and the charadesigns were great and Meme is YES PLEASE.

Hidan no Aria-
KUGYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, part the second.
She got her usual typecast role this time around, the violent tsundere loli character. But that happens to be what I like, so no complaints there. The characters were likeable, the action scenes were pretty nice, and yeah. I hope it gets a sequel.

Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai-
Dammit this show. It's REALLY FUCKING GOOD, but also incredibly depressing. Like, the last episode had me feeling like someone had punched me in the throat, and a friend of mine was crying outright. Aagh.
Still fucking great, though.

Yondemasu yo, Azazel-san-
Stupid and vulgar and mean-spirited. There's only like one likeable character in the entire thing, but I'm pretty sure that was the point. Still really funny when it wanted to be, though.

Tiger & Bunny-
HEROISM AND PRODUCT PLACEMENT.
Despite the CG which still bothers me, the show itself is pretty damned good. Still bugs me how Tiger gets treated like shit by pretty much everyone, but eh.

Dog Days-
I was expecting a standard "boy gets summoned to another world to become its saviour" show, but... yeah. Everything is just a game, and the show thus far is just silly fluff. Episode six's cliffhanger has me expecting a shift in tone, but who knows about that.
Still has the best action scenes and voice cast of any show of its season, though.

Ao no Exorcist-
Read the manga, and the anime actually does the dramatic bits more effectively. I'm pretty surprised by this, considering that that doesn't usually happen... ever.

Shukufuku no Campanella clear.

Finished Shukufuku no Campanella... back in June. Wow, I've really been slacking on updating this blog.

It was pretty fun, and I wish I'd have finished it earlier. My only real complaint is that Nina's story was a total copout. Just... ugh. He forgot everything that happened because he was drunk, and she didn't bother telling him because she didn't want things to change between them... AAGH.

In the end, my personal route ranking...

Agnes > Minette = Chelsea > Tortillas > Carina >>>>> Nina.

Shame too, I liked everyone in the cast.

And I'm going to have to get the fandisc at some point, as it gives the Tortillas a proper path and I really want to play through that.

Also, Agnes with her hair down is LOVELY.