Skyline's Anime Blog - Summer '10

[Skyline]

I think that there should be a thread to discuss anime specifically, so I'll just make it right here.

I set myself a very hefty goal for this summer, considering I didn't need to go to summer school nor did I feel like going to one, for how much anime I watch over the summer. I told this on the Gun Vault forums during a previous meeting for the BLWF thread and one person should remember it if he reads this thread.

I'm planning to watch 2 weeks, or 14 days, of anime before the summer ends. And no, that's not 14 days of anime without gaming, I mean 14 full days. If you want me to put that into perspective, every 5 episodes, on average, is 2 hours so 60 episodes is a full day times that by 2 weeks and you get about 840 episodes of anime I want to watch.

If you want to follow me, you can use this or just read this thread as I'll post about the anime I watch on a day to day basis. *I don't update the link as often as I should.*

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My habit for every new season is that I usually pick up 5 or 6 shows per season, some that I get interested by or others because they sound familiar to previous anime I've watch.

*Edit* If the anime is a sequel, the title itself will be the first season followed by the specific season in its additional naming.

So my new anime weekly schedule is looking like this at the moment:

• Sunday - Seitokai Yakuindomo
• Monday - High School of the Dead
• Tuesday - <Nothing>
• Wednesday - K-On!! *Okay, I'm sure you guys know I <3 this by now.* *The 2nd "!" = 2nd season*
• Thursday - Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi, Strike Witches - 2nd Season
• Friday - Amagami SS
• Saturday - <nothing>

Non-Weekly:

• Undefined *It has no day / haven't seen any subs for it yet* - Kaichou wa Maid-Sama, Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin, Winter Sonata
• Animes that don't air weekly - Katanagatari, Shakugan no Shana S
• Anime I need to find decent subs on due to dropping / impatience on my part: Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitte Iru, Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou

Anime Completed During This Season:

• Darker than Black: The Black Contractor
• Working!!

Completed Anime Left to Watch on my HD:

• Arakawa Under the Bridge - Completed
• Asu no Yoichi - Completed
• Cowboy Bebop
• Detroit Metal City - Completed
• Full Metal Alchemist - Brotherhood - Completed via Marathon
• Hellsing
• Kobato - Completed
• Minami-ke - Okaeri / Okawari - Completed
• Natsume Yuujinchou - 2nd Season - Completed
• Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ - Completed
• Simoun - Completed
• Spice and Wolf II - Completed

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So I decided that this goal was to start instantly after my summer break began to the moment it ended, which gives me about 2 months and a week, possibly a few days more.

I'm just going to blah on some stuff that I watched before this last weekend and all:

*First Episode Watched*

• Angel Beats! - Episode 13 - Overall, I did enjoy this anime a lot, granted because I'm a bit of a sucker to Key. Maybe because its the fantasy element, or the insert songs I enjoyed a lot, there's only one or two overall that I didn't enjoy listening to, but it just seemed to work. Obviously, since being a sucker, I did give it a 10 but the main problem was that it could of definitely gone on longer. Most "Drama" animes shouldn't be restricted to such a short time-frame, much how like I disliked Air, another drama anime, due to the random jumping towards the end, which pretty much made me confused as heck though it did a much better job of episode management than Air.

*Series that were completed / Wrapped up*

• Seto no Hanayome - Wow.. I waited so long for the last two episodes from a certain sub group before I gave up and watched sub-par subs. Based off of my memory though, this anime officially is rated highest on my "Laughs per Minute" Ratio, which is about 7:1 if you average out all of the episodes. I almost came close to falling out of my chair a few times, and probably did so a few other times.
• Trigun - I think this is actually the first anime I watched that was before the year 2000, "Hatin' on the old stuff I see Skyline.." "Yea yea..". Badass overall due to its action sequences, which there were plenty throughout the series. The final episode did seem a bit anti-climatic at the end but I somewhat expected it considering how the main chunk of the episode was all one battle.
• Nodame Cantabile *Season 1* - ....Why didn't I watch this sooner is what I'm asking myself. I pretty much loved it from start to finish. I wish I had more to say but I'm still watching Paris Chapter, followed by Finale, which will basically sum up the experience then I have to talk about it. Oh, and I finished it in just under 24 hours, I slept too much.

There's probably other anime I'm missing, which I'll talk about when I remember it.

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So now, I ask, you guys have any anime I should be watching? I'll gladly look into each anime and its background followed by putting it on the "To Watch" list before summer ends. I don't have an exact type of anime I stick towards to, such as I don't mind English Music all that much despite listening to J-Pop all the time, so feel free to post whatever.

So that's it. I hope I can reach my goal and you guys can watch me attempt to.

[MiSeRy]

Nice that you started the thread. I will follow (as much as I can anyway) but will have no idea what's going on. Like I've told you before, I've never watched a single anime. So even right now, after reading the OP, I'm completely lost.

[L3VIATH4N]

Tuesday: Cromartie High School. Do it.

[Bobtm]

I've honestly seen ............ pretty much none of them ones Trigun, Brotherhood, and a few episodes of Darker than Black.

Didn't they have FMA - Brotherhood subed on it's own website at first? I recall watching the first episode online well before it was on TV and such. Haven't check'd there in forever.

[Skyline]

Well I prefer having anime on my HD in case I feel like ever re-watching or I can send anime to people who ask for them.

http://eclipse.speedsubs.org/projects/alchemist

[Bobtm]

I get ya yo

(Imma avoid clicking that link right now cuz my failputer's being finicky(started bitchin' just cuz I had an extra tab for PM'ing))

Have ya ever heard of Gurren Lagann? MANLYest anime EVAR.

[Skyline]

Oh hell yeah. Watched the series, movies, and have the best sound album as well. One of my favs, for sure.

[Apocalyptic Hobo]

Anime =D

I recommend Witch Blade and Dead Leaves.

[Ollympian]

are you fluent in Japanese?

[Skar]

still ignoring me Sky? I honestly can't tell if your mad at me or if you just want me out of the BLWF thread


anyways, I'm still obsessed with SnS and loving every second of it.