Sket Dance, Time of Eve, stuff I'm waaatching

Feb. 26th, 2012 09:11 pm
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Sket Dance

I started watching Sket Dance and bawled my eyes at during episode 25. Sket Dance, I thought you were supposed to be a comedy series. =/ (It normally is. The main three characters are part of a school club that helps people. So far the series has mostly been episodic).

Surprisingly, I enjoy the humor in this series quite a lot even though a lot of it is just them talking in their clubroom, and they're often so over-the-top. All the episodes feel so high-strung, haha. I thought it might fall flat for me. I'm surprised at who became recurrent characters too (am enjoying Roman and Shinzou's scenes. They never fail to amuse me). Watching Sket Dance makes me want an Oresama Teacher anime. That series has some pretty random, over-the-top humor too, and the main character is part of a club that goes against the student council. (also, Tsubaki Sasuke from Sket Dance reminds me so much of Ayabe Reito from Oresama Teacher, and both are student council members).

( comparison pic and other pics )

*turns this into a summary of recent anime I watched / am watching* I guess this is a random check-in halfway through the winter season. :3

( marathoned: Time of Eve )

( continued from previous season: Chihayafuru, Bakuman s2, Hunter x Hunter )

( newly following: Area no Kishi, New Prince of Tennis, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou, Natsume Yuujinchou Shi, Poyopoyo, Recorder to Randoseru )

( stuff I need to finish: UN-GO, Kaiji, Working season 2, Hanasaku Iroha )
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LSK, Shin Tenipuri, Hikaru no Go, Recorder to Randoseru

Jan. 5th, 2012 10:49 pm
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LSK!!
Whoot, Kingstone is doing pre-orders for the LSK merchandise I linked to in this post. *preorders everything* Too bad they only ship within Taiwan for this, and darn, the first two items (posters) are already sold out, or else I would have gotten those instead since that'd cover all the different designs (there are six designs). Orders ship out on February 1. Looks like I'm going to have more merchandise lying about in my relatives' house, haha...

Shin Tenipuri episode 1
Oh gosh, I was grinning so hard through this. I've really missed watching Tenipuri weekly. This makes me all sorts of nostalgic (the bgmmmm!), and damn, the animation looks pretty and the characters look pretty too when the first anime was not even close to this quality. I so hope the quality continues with future episodes! The opening is weird and the ending is quite weird too. XD; I don't know if they'll grow on me. Haha, the characters were so posing all over the place. This scene <- I'm reminded of Eyeshield. XD;

I bought Kanzenban season 2 volume 10 (features Sanada on the cover) but damn, my bookstore still doesn't have volume 9! (the one with Niou and Yagyuu on the cover). I've gone three times already, so I doubt they'll ever have it since they already have volume 10... *orders volume 9*

I also picked up Houkago v2! Yay, volume 2! I didn't know it was already out! (It is sooo much fun). I've only flipped through it, but one of the comics has Shiraishi visiting Seigaku and trying to solve a murder mystery (he claims Tezuka is dead after drinking Inui Juice). Yagyuu pops out of nowhere to join in as a detective. XDDD

Hikaru no Go
I like to play anime/dramas/drama CDs in the background while I make decks for [livejournal.com profile] colors_tcg. (Something I've watched before is usually best, or else I end up not understanding everything). This time, after catching up with Rajipuri (oh gosh, they're going to be labeled as Shin Tennis no Oujisama on the Radio now! Shin Rajipuri?), my choice was Hikaru no Go! This series. Oh, this series. I'm reminded all over again why I like this series so much. (And now I cannot. stop. rewatching.). Sai has always been likable to me, but other characters have always interested me more. This time, I've paid Sai more attention. He is very endearing. (his flailing over modern things is so cute) ♥ Mitani is still my favorite though. That episode where Sai hears Mitani resign (but no one else does) still hits me hard. If I'm not careful, I'll probably end up watching the whole thing all over again... (I found it really funny when my family started going, "huh? phone!??" because my ringtone is from Hikaru no Go, so watching the series kept making all of us think my cell phone was going off. A lot.).

Recorder to Randoseru
LOL. I did not know this was only a 3 minute per episode show. I wonder if future episodes will all be so short. The episode did make me LOL though, and hearing Okiayu Ryoutarou play this role is even funnier.
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Winter 2012 anime

Jan. 3rd, 2012 05:55 pm
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Only Natsume s4 has started so far, but I plan on checking these out this season~

-Natsume Yuujinchou season 4 - 4 seasons! That's amazing. (I keep hoping some of these other series I followed will magically receive further anime adaptions, though it's so rare that it happens...). I've followed Natsume for 3 seasons already and loved it. No reason I wouldn't watch this. ;)

-New Prince of Tennis - Prince of Tennis is starting again! :DDDDD Aiba Hiroki is voicing Irie Kanata. The Shin Tenipuri manga is even more ridiculous than its predecessor... so I'm looking forward to how that'll get adapted, haha... I'm hoping that the matches will be more developed (and slowed down a bit) as they were kind of glossed over in the manga. And yay for more Tenipuri music~, because there is so going to be tons of new songs released because of this. I'm also going to be stalking the seiyuu because I see they're already talking about Tenipuri again. :)

-Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou / The Daily Lives of High School Boys - I watched the PV released before the season started and thought it was pretty hilarious. I think this will be good for lifting my mood. XD;

-Recorder to Randoseru - Another comedy/gag show. I don't know much about this, but apparently the brother is 11 and the sister is 17, but they do not look like their ages at all (the brother looks much older and the sister looks super young). Probably a lot of age-related mishaps and misunderstandings will result from this, which could turn out pretty amusing!

-Area no Kishi - OMG OMG Area no Kishi, I did not see an adaptation coming (I'm so many volumes behind on the manga... maybe I should start collecting it again), but oh gosh, this will be good if the anime follows the manga in any way! It's a very dramatic soccer series, with a punch to the gut in the very beginning of the series, though I don't know if the twist will be included in the first episode or not. If I remember correctly, it happens near the end of volume 1 (or was it volume 2...). But it completely knocked the wind out of me. This is no ordinary soccer series! (When I was reading it, I was enjoying the cute bond between brothers "let's play soccer together! :D" and then BAM. OMG.)

Zero no Tsukaima is getting a fourth (and final) season, but I'm so behind with it (I don't think I finished watching season 1). I did like Louise and Saito and the premise of a normal guy getting pulled into a fantasy world as a familiar, so I think I'll be catching up one day~

From last season, I only finished watching Kimi to Boku. Bakuman s2, Hunter x Hunter, and Chihayafuru are all still ongoing. I fell behind with Working s2 and only watched the beginning of UN-GO as well. Gotta catch up with both! Sad that they're both short.

If anyone has any recs, let me know. :D
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