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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Fall series rants [part 1]

Lets see...starting alphabetically:

Akane Iro-ni Somaru Saka
MAL/official
Kugimiya is the main cast as the main lead character, Katagiri Yuuhi. So an automatic watch for me :3 Animation by TNK studio for this series was wonderful, though I'm not quite fond with the stereotype harem character art (well it's obviously adapted from a harem eroge, so no complaints on my side). Though, I find the camera angles used in certain scenes to be weird. It looks like the studio love to play with the angles :3 Anyway I'm pretty much satisfied with the first two episodes, seeing how they introduce the main characters in episode 1, then followed by the "surprise" action by Jun. by the end of episode 1. Also I love seeing how Yuuhi and Jun acted tsun tsun toward each other, a fine way for their relationship to progress XP
p/s: lots of well-known seiyuus too: Rie Tanaka, Marina Inoue, Akira Ishida, Yu Kobayashi, to name a few :3


Chaos;Head
MAL/official
Another series with typical harem character design. Most of the females in this series kinda remind me of Myself; Yourself (Rimi looks similar to Hinako, Aoi with Nanaka and Yua with Yuzuki sensei), although both series actually do not relate in any way. But what really attract me is the genre of this series - psychological, supernatural, horor - everything we can expect from the likes of Higurashi :3 The main hero, Takumi is sorta similar species with Satou in NHK ni Youkoso - a hikikomori with lots of "incredible" hallucination. And he's a typical otaku too, hates 3D and love 2D. I can only lol seeing how Takumi trying hard to resist the "onee-san moe treatment" from Yua. A lot of things related to the main psychotic story still remains unclear, especially the stuff about the New Gene, as well as how those killing incidents are related to the girls.
Well overall episode 1 is pretty much give me a good impression toward the series, I'd certainly love to see how the plot is developed in relation to each girls.



Clannad~After Story~
MAL/official
Nice, the final arc of Clannad is now animated. 25 episodes, I wonder what portion will conprise the schooltime and afterschool. The first 2 episodes are pretty much entertaining, where the first kinda serves to refresh our memories with each Clannad characters (but no Fuko D:). While the 2nd episodes started to indulge more into character development, namely Sunohara. Well yeah, he seems to be the main focus in this first few episodes, but I'm fine with that. The humor they put in CAF for these 2 episode never failed to amuse me :D Tomoyo's girly bat hit. Kotomi's Hiruma-style calculation, and her "improved" violin tune. Kyou's brutal dictionary smash. Yuusuke-san's cool "victory" phrase. Sanae's winning fake girlfriend :3
Nevertheless as this series will likely entirely based on the same arc in the visual novel, so expect the story to become more serious with lots of drama included as each episode passes. I still hope KyoAni would maintain the humor though :3


Ef: A Tale of Melodies (Ef Melo)
MAL/official
The epicness from SHAFT that I always waited for since the end of the prequel, EF: A Tale of Memories (Ef Memo) which was aired last Fall. This time, the series focuses on another main characters, namely Yuu, Yuuko, , Nagi, Kuze and Mizuki while some of the main lead from Ef Memo also made their appearance (noticably Renji and Chihiro). Anyway. From what episode 1 suggest, it seems like this series will also follows Ef Memo, splitting the story into two arc, one for Kuze and another for Yuu. Yuu's arc resembled with Hiro arc in Ef Memo, a three-way love while Kuze resembles Renji, a love story filled with dramatic hindrance :3
I always love the animation style that SHAFT used for this series. Unique on their own. And to add to their awesomeness, the OP song which they cleverly put in the middle for episode 1 to split both arc, use similar concept as that epic OP song in Ef Memo, Euphoric Field by Tenmon feat. Elisa. Though, her engrish never seems to improve XP

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will continue some time later this weekend. I can't wait to play Infinite Undiscovery XD

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