Fall 2011 Anime Season: First Impressions.

Fall 2011 Anime Season First Impressions

New anime!! Woohoo!! Alright everybody, its that time for all the new stuff to be talked about. This is my first impressions of all the new first episodes this season. I admit though, I have seen the second episode of a few because one particular show took forever to come out. But I might be getting a bit ahead of myself. Lets look at the new stuff!

Hunter X Hunter: I love the manga to Hunter X Hunter. It is funny, tragic, dark and light, and just creates a world that seems to real, yet so fictional at the same time. It might be one of my favorite manga of all time. The anime, so far, seems to be sticking incredibly close to the manga, and that looks like it will be a good thing. I have high hopes for Hunter X Hunter, and I think that it will be at least as good as Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood was. Though it will most likely never end.

Chihayafuru: This looks like it will be interesting. It is actually using a traditional game for its card game, instead of making a whole new game to profit on. The characters look interesting, and the story itself looks promising. My only complaint is that the first episode was mostly flashback. It makes me worry that half this story is going to be told in flashback, and even then, if it is done right, then there is no problem. I look forward to more episodes of this show.

Kyoukai Senjou  no Horizon: Dear lord, this series. I have no clue what happened in the first episode. This show is a combination of everything otaku and nerds love. It has mecha, random bits of religious randomness, huge ass weapons wielded by people who shouldn’t be able to wield them, a system of magic and fighting completely non-explained in the first episode, and fan service. Dear lord the fan service. At least half the women look like they have bowling balls taped to their chests, and would eventually have severe back problems later on in life. This looked like what someone’s idea of a table top RPG would be, if they haven’t balanced one yet. Everything thrown in to some random fantasy world. This show is insane. I plan on watching at least the first few episodes, but god is this show crazy, I might just have to drop it.

Kimi to Boku: Every anime season it seems I find a show that I shouldn’t like at all, and end up adoring. It is usually a moe-moe fest type of show, but this season, it is Kimi to Boku. This show looks like it is the male version of shows like Yuru Yuri and K-ON!. It is just four dudes, soon to be five, hanging out and doing nothing. And I just know I will watch every one of these episodes. If it gets too boring, I will drop it, but as of right now, I will be sticking to this show.

Maken-Ki!: This show is a combination of Mai-Hime and Ikki Tousen. And I hate it. Ok, that is unfair. I don’t completely hate it, but I am not going to be a fan of this show. It is a fan service fest, with disproportioned women fighting each other, most likely for the affection of one male character. I will not be watching this show. I think this show has had more panty shots in it then the entirety of this season combined. Just so much gratuitous fan service. It has been dropped.

Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle: Of all things, I actually got a weird Yugioh GX vibe from this show. But not in a bad way, oddly enough. This show looks like it will be, at the very least, interesting. But the episode itself had no staying power in my mind. It became part of the background of my mind. I can’t tell if this show will the insane genius puzzle solving show I hope it will be, or a show that replaces card games with puzzles. I will keep watching it for a bit, I have no plans on dropping it yet.

C3: Oh C3. This is one of the shows that I saw the second episode to, and I admit, it changed my opinion of the show. From the first episode, I thought it was going to be a generic harem show with a mystical subtext about inanimate objects becoming sentient because of various reasons. Comedy would ensue. The second episode changed that initial idea. Now I think that it is a rip off of Toaru Majutsu no Index. Now, I love index, I think it is a cool story with an awesome religious versus science subtext. C3 seems to be all the action of Index, but none of the heart or story. I just doesn’t look good. I think I will stick to this show for a few more episodes, but I might ultimately drop it.

Ben-To: Ben-To  looks like it will be my anime of the season. It sounds like my anime of the season. It is about people beating the crap out of each other for cheap, half price food. And I pray that it doesn’t get any deeper then that. I don’t want them to start talking about some spiritual powers, or having to save the world, or anything like that. I want this show to be only about people beating the crap out of each other for half price bento boxes. I think I love this show. It is so over the top, and so cool, that it will be just a fun ride from start to finish.

Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!: I couldn’t even make it past the first episode. It bored me. About half way through I just couldn’t watch it. This might be a good series for some, but for me, it was just nothing.

Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai: A show about people who do not have friends. This show is a quintessential harem anime. This show literally has one of every type of harem fetish you could ask for. It has the maid, the loli, the nun, the tsundere, possibly the older sister type, the teacher/scientist type, and possibly more. I shouldn’t like this show. But I honestly think that this show is honest about what it is trying to portray. It is a show about a group of people who have trouble making friends in some shape or form. It is the classic rag tag group and how they will over come their problems and find friends. And I like it. I will be keeping with this show for a while, I don’t plan on dropping it in the very least.

So those are my thought about the new season. It looks like it is going to be a good season, with a good list of very different shows. I hope you enjoy. Until next time, have fun watching