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The current COUP season is 2/3 over. Here's what we've seen so far.
Bakemonogatari: I can't say I remember this at all. Was it the one with the weightless girl who could produce office supplies and use them as weapons? Sounds interesting, isn't.
Soul Eater: Yawn. Standard shonen fare.
Kuroshitsuji: Demon butler! Also, Jack the Ripper.
Project A-ko: Hard to believe I never watched this until this year. I know, right? It's the 80s, condensed. Very weird, and I almost fell out of my chair at the Fist of the North Star gag.
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0: This is a love it or hate it show. The premise is that a gigantic earthquake hits Tokyo and strands a girl and her (adorable) kid brother at Odaiba. The story is as much about them getting home as it is a well-researched piece of disaster preparedness. The protagonist is a 14-year-old girl, in the middle of her angst years. Some people hate her; I think she's accurately portrayed, and her fear-disguised-as-anger makes a lot of sense, though some people I know read it as her just being a bitch. I still want to kick her, though.
Michiko to Hatchin: Convict escapes from jail and busts a girl who may or may not be her daughter out of a shitty foster home. Hijinks ensue. Michiko is sexy and under-dressed, but they're in a fictional Brazil, so it makes sense. It's also not gratuitous boobage, like with, say, Basquatch. Give it a shot if you liked Cowboy Bebop and/or Samurai Champloo. Many of the same people worked on it.
Dogs: Bullets and Carnage: Apparently a prequel anime to a manga series? 4 15-minute shorts introducing 4 characters. As advertised, there are bullets and carnage.
Needless: KILL IT WITH FIRE. Aside from being incredibly stupid, the fansub we watched was written by people who don't speak Japanese, and I'm not sure if they speak English, either.
Guin Saga: The best part was when the guy with the leopard head set a tree on fire by punching a dude into it. Pity that was about 10 seconds out of 25 minutes.
Lupin vs Conan movie: Had some funny parts, but could have had far less Conan boring exposition and more Lupin Gang action.
Regular features:
Toradora: High school rom-com. Ryuuji lives next door to Taiga, and they befriend each other because he likes her friend and she likes his, and they want to help each other make the respective friends like them. This sort of backfires, because everybody thinks they're dating. It's cute and fun and sweet, though I'm certainly expecting Ryuuji and Taiga to end up together.
Canaan: William said it best: Noir by the Darker than Black crew. It started off slow and very confusingly, no doubt related to its basis in a series of light novels, but it eventually picked up. The ending song makes me want to stab somebody, though.
Eden of the East: I've seen 9 of the 11 episodes, and all I can say is there are more questions than answers. There are 2 movies (?) planned for 2010, where I hope things are cleared up dammit. Summarizing the plot would take far too long.
Bakemonogatari: I can't say I remember this at all. Was it the one with the weightless girl who could produce office supplies and use them as weapons? Sounds interesting, isn't.
Soul Eater: Yawn. Standard shonen fare.
Kuroshitsuji: Demon butler! Also, Jack the Ripper.
Project A-ko: Hard to believe I never watched this until this year. I know, right? It's the 80s, condensed. Very weird, and I almost fell out of my chair at the Fist of the North Star gag.
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0: This is a love it or hate it show. The premise is that a gigantic earthquake hits Tokyo and strands a girl and her (adorable) kid brother at Odaiba. The story is as much about them getting home as it is a well-researched piece of disaster preparedness. The protagonist is a 14-year-old girl, in the middle of her angst years. Some people hate her; I think she's accurately portrayed, and her fear-disguised-as-anger makes a lot of sense, though some people I know read it as her just being a bitch. I still want to kick her, though.
Michiko to Hatchin: Convict escapes from jail and busts a girl who may or may not be her daughter out of a shitty foster home. Hijinks ensue. Michiko is sexy and under-dressed, but they're in a fictional Brazil, so it makes sense. It's also not gratuitous boobage, like with, say, Basquatch. Give it a shot if you liked Cowboy Bebop and/or Samurai Champloo. Many of the same people worked on it.
Dogs: Bullets and Carnage: Apparently a prequel anime to a manga series? 4 15-minute shorts introducing 4 characters. As advertised, there are bullets and carnage.
Needless: KILL IT WITH FIRE. Aside from being incredibly stupid, the fansub we watched was written by people who don't speak Japanese, and I'm not sure if they speak English, either.
Guin Saga: The best part was when the guy with the leopard head set a tree on fire by punching a dude into it. Pity that was about 10 seconds out of 25 minutes.
Lupin vs Conan movie: Had some funny parts, but could have had far less Conan boring exposition and more Lupin Gang action.
Regular features:
Toradora: High school rom-com. Ryuuji lives next door to Taiga, and they befriend each other because he likes her friend and she likes his, and they want to help each other make the respective friends like them. This sort of backfires, because everybody thinks they're dating. It's cute and fun and sweet, though I'm certainly expecting Ryuuji and Taiga to end up together.
Canaan: William said it best: Noir by the Darker than Black crew. It started off slow and very confusingly, no doubt related to its basis in a series of light novels, but it eventually picked up. The ending song makes me want to stab somebody, though.
Eden of the East: I've seen 9 of the 11 episodes, and all I can say is there are more questions than answers. There are 2 movies (?) planned for 2010, where I hope things are cleared up dammit. Summarizing the plot would take far too long.
Thanks
Date: 2009-11-19 08:53 pm (UTC)From:Re: Thanks
Date: 2009-11-19 10:21 pm (UTC)From:I LOVE Last Exile. I like the soundtrack of Texhnolyze, but I've only seen the first couple episodes. It's very weird.
At a guess, if you like political mecha shows, Patlabor is pretty awesome. I'm also keen on Gundam 00 and the Macross franchise.
*goes back through lj archive*
Moyashimon is a cute college tale about a dude who can see microbes with the naked eye.
Daughter of 20 Faces is a historical tale set in post-war Japan, about a thief and the girl who runs away with him.
LIBRARY WARS! Premise: In Japan, libraries formed their own militias to fight censorship. How cool is that? TOTALLY! There's a romance story, too, and political maneuverings, and it's great.
Natsume Yuujinchou is about a boy in high school who inherited his grandmother's ability to see yurei and other spirits. His grandmother stole their names, and he wants to give them back.
Which is sort of like Mushishi, except somewhat less episodic and set in modern-day Japan.
I like mecha shows and space opera, and periodically josei (young women's) shows, with a hearty dose of BL, though the shine is wearing off as I get older and pickier.
Re: Thanks
Date: 2009-11-19 11:36 pm (UTC)From:Re: Thanks
Date: 2009-11-20 12:52 am (UTC)From: