I originally had an idea to do MS Paint based impressions but I realized I have a lot more to say.

Well JP & I are back from Disneyworld and we had a great time. Such a great time that I completely forgot about anime while watching shows about wholesome shotas and teenage bitches. I’m also tired as all hell because we had to get up at 4AM to catch our flight. So yes a bootleg jetlag is influencing all that I watch today however I’ve ben seeing tweets all week about every show that’s aired forcing me to make some “pre-judgemental thoughts” that I later confirmed after watching said show. (The image above should confirm your suspicions.)

K-ON:
So as I had expected this show is a piece of crap. Yes it’s a piece of crap because at multiple times of the show did the girl’s hands and legs look like those of a drunken scarecrow. The main character, whatever her name is, Yui or something, is an annoying moe blob there to obviously attract all the pedo/moe otaku and sell figures/hentai/doujinshi and (maybe) DVDs. Fetishes are everywhere, the character style/design annoys me to no end (reminds me of that horrible Yukine arc from Clannad AS) and well frankly I couldn’t give 2 shits about 4 girls in a band. Now you can all get your panties in a bunch.

JP: The whole time while we watched the show, we just kept eyerolling. Every single frame and every single one of the characters’ actions felt like it was there specifically to make you think that it was moe. If there was an opportunity for Yui to say, trip, not only would she trip, she’d fall in a way so that she’d land on her oh-so-moe fanny. I could have sworn that one of the concepts of moe was that something that’s moe isn’t supposed to know that it’s moe, yet every aspect of K-ON felt so calculated in its attempt to be moe.

Asura Cryin’:
The main character has this strand of hair that looks like you could hang bath towels or perhaps coats off it. All he needs is a little hairspray to get it stiff enough. In addition no matter how I look at it, the ghost chick looks like Nanoha. I haven’t even watched Nanoha and I think that. Overall the show was hard to pay attention to (mainly because I’m dead tired) but it has some potential so I’ll check out a few more episodes to see how it goes. If it goes anything like Kurokami it will join it in my dropped bin.

JP: I actually thought that this show looked pretty cool. I liked the fact that it seemed like it could go off in any number of directions at any time. Magical girlfriend show? Mecha adventure? School life hijinks mixed with action secret identities? Sweet!

Gokujou! Mechamote Iinchou:
At first I thought Di Gi Charat drew this anime but then I realized it’s just a really girly shoujo manga style. The opening theme was really catchy and probably the catchiest one yet. It’s like they made 3D models only to then use the cell shade filter on them so the animation is really rocky and looks odd at various points….ok all the fucking time. In addition, the first 9 minutes were in this weird 3D cell shade then all of a sudden at 9:03 it went back to normal 2D animation style. Unfortunately then at like 9:30 it went back to the weird ass 3D cell shade. Overall this made it really difficult to follow the show and I really wanted to because I really like shoujo manga based anime. It even has romance! But yea I can’t stand the animation, it makes Akikan look like a pot of gold in comparison.

JP: The animation was so off that it was total uncanny valley land. Let’s say a character is turning her head. Her head would move slooooooooowly maybe halfway there and then suddenly jerk to the other side. At the same time, her hair would move at a slower speed and stop moving at the wrong time. It was so incredibly jarring that I honestly can’t see anyone trying to get through this show without it hurting your head or eyes.

Requiem for Phantom:
I’m getting so tired of the moe shit these days I think it’s time for me to take a completely different approach and watch a BEE TRAIN show! That’s right I’m going to watch this show until my eyes bleed (or until I realize there is never going to be any kind of romance between 2 assassins). I mean I think I’ve always avoided Beetrain shows mainly cause they always had an older girl and a younger girl team rather than a girl and a guy…so this is a bit refreshing. Ah we’ll see how far I go with this. Maybe my patience will be rewarded. Too bad they had to use Ali Project to do the ending credits =_=;.

JP: I’m honestly surprised that this show is getting watched. I missed almost all of it while getting dinner, but I mean, this is a freaking Bee Train show! Every single Bee Train show is about a pair of assassins who are very hard-boiled and shit. They are most certainly not about implied hand-holding and implied kissing in the last episode.

Valkyria Chronicles:
The most noticeable oddity of this show was that the characters all had weird pencil strokes in their shadows. As if someone drew the pencil lines and forgot to erase them underneath the artwork. I think they were going for the game style design but I don’t think it worked just as keikaku. The ending theme was really catchy and overall I really liked the feel of the series. Before I continue watching this series though, someone PLEASE tell me there is romance/a pairing. I don’t want to sit through another Abyss of Disappointment.

Full Metal Alchemist 2009:
I’m not really sure what to call this. It’s not a sequel since it’s a remake so we’ll roll with the whole 2009 thing since that’s what Kyoani did with Kanon. Overall it’s a nice start – even though I hardly recall that guy from the manga. Maybe it was so early on that I just don’t remember it. Or maybe the only prominent scene in my head is where Winry goes to strip in her room and Ed is sitting there eating a sandwich In any case I look forward to this series the most, even if we have to see some “repeated” scenes. At least they are (or appear to be) completely re-animated rather than a replay of season 1.

JP: I only watched the old anime and never actually read the manga, so I’m basically coming in with a clean slate as to expectations for what this is “supposed” to be like. It’s also been so long since I saw the first series that I don’t really remember who any of the voices were other than Ed and Al, so the new changes don’t feel “weird” to me other than going like “Tee hee, Lockon plays Roy!” or “‘Roy Mustang’ is still a better porn actor name than ‘Lockon Stratos’”.

Tayutama -Kiss on my Deity-
I had the urge to listen to ave;new after watching this episode Ok I know this is a harem/fanservicy show but it’s SO CUTE. I mean those EYES and EARS and lack of shota rape make it such a better alternative to Kanokon. Also the cute bouncy animals make it a lot more fun to watch than cool and spicy wolf. Anyway they have plenty of opportunity to get obnoxious and annoying with this series but hopefully it won’t be too awful and I’ll continue to watch it.

JP: Unfortunately, as this is not Nursery Rhyme, they did not play the Kishimen song.

P.S. I didn’t watch Queens Blade. I knew it was going to be porn, and if you thought otherwise you are a complete naive idiot. I saw a ton of shared posts about it on google reader though. Gives a whole new thought to the term “milk jugs” doesn’t it? More previews coming later this week or something. *drops dead* (*-μ-`*).ﾟ｡.

JP: I, however am going to attempt to watch an episode of Queen’s Blade. I doubt that I’ll be able to get any further than that, but this could even outdo Dragonaut as a monument to gigantic boob-filled QUALITY.