Skyline's Anime Blog Thread - Fall '11

[Skyline]

Sup. No one besides Misery probably remembers me so let's start fresh! Well, that probably isn't true but hey, we'll see.

So, this thread is about me and my highly active addiction to watching anime. ITT (Holy crap I can't believe I just used that) you will find a bunch of anime, 99% of which you've never heard of, and me writing very informal reviews on the things I finish watching.

I'll try to stick around for more than one season. Misery will probably tell me to stick around anyways so, let's begin.

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First off, header image:



<This is me in the morning, in figurative terms.>

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So, generally speaking, this is where I have my weekly airing cycles for the current season. However, since we're on the tail end of the Summer Season:

Summer Anime Picked Up:

• Ao no Exorcist
• Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni! (This is Season 2.)
• Beelzebub
• Double-J
• Hanasaku Iroha
• Ikoku Meiro no Croisée
• Kamisama Dolls
• Kamisama no Memochou
• Mayo Chiki
• Natsume Yuujinchou San (This is Season 3.)
• Nichijou
• No. 6
• Ro-Kyu-Bu!
• Steins;Gate
• THE iDOLM@STER
• Usagi Drop (Best. Show. This. Season.)
• Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000% (Infamous / Obligatory "THAT ONE ANIME THAT GETS DELAYED EVERY SEASON!")
• Yuru Yuri

I kid you not. I watch all of those every week.

<Note: Crossed out = Completed.>

Summer Anime Reviews:

• Ro-Kyu-Bu!, Ikoku Meiro no Croisée, and Kamisama no Memochou - Here
• Nichijou - Here
• Ao no Exocrist, Hanasaku Iroha, Yuru Yuri - Here
• No.6, Kamisama Dolls, Baka to Test S2 - Here

Note: Any missing reviews are either due to finishing before the start of this thread or I have not finished them.

So, Fall Season. Here comes the weekly chart:

• Sunday - Beelzebub (Continuing from last season), Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon, Mirai Nikki
• Monday - Kimi to Boku, Shinryaku!? Ika Musume
• Tuesday - Mashiro-Iro Symphony, Tamayura ~Hitotose~
• Wednesday - N/A
• Thursday - Boku ha Tomodachi ga Sukunai, Guilty Crown, THE iDOLM@STER (Continuing from last season), UN-GO
• Friday - Shakugan no Shana III
• Saturday - Bakuman 2, Ben-To, C³, Fate/Zero, Working'!!

Notable specials to air / release during the fall:

• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira
• Hidamari Sketch x SP - Completed

Fall Anime Preview Posts:

• C³, Fate/Zero, Ika Musume - Here
• Bakuman 2, Boku ha Tomodachi ga Sukunai, Tamayura ~Hitotose~, Working'!! - Here
• Shakugan no Shana III - Here (If you want me to briefly expand on this: 3rd season ---> Stuff is going down; less focus on relationships, more on plot but still evident; expecting great things)
• Ben-To, Kimi to Boku, Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon, Mashiro-Iro Symphony - Here
• Guilty Crown, Mirai Nikki, and UN-GO - Here

Not Included: Beelzebub and THE iDOLM@STER due to being carried over from the previous season.

Anime that got ridiculously delayed and are in stasis mode (a.k.a. may never finish depending on what happens):

• Deadman Wonderland (Yay for last episode being delayed for like 3 months and counting.)
• Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! (If you remember this from the winter thread way back then, this was on hold. It's STILL on hold.)
• Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000% (KAGACODE!!!!)

Non-Summer / Fall Anime Reviews:

<MAL links are in the review posts.>

• Yuno Character Review (This is representative of Hidamari Sketch) (This sums up all 3 seasons along with the Specials mentioned above) - Here
• Aoi Hana and Kashimasi ~Girls Meets Girl~ - Here
• Fuujin Monogatari - Here
• Kamichu! - Here
• <The Anime that shall not be named> - Here
• Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu (This includes Purezza / S2) and MM! - Here
• Hoshi o Ou Komodo and Seirei no Moribito - Here

Now for everything else, I'm going to refer to you to:

MAL List of Crazy Stuff

Last Update: Friday November 25th, 2011 @ 12:23 PM MST (GMT -7)
Changelog:

• Updated episode counts for Fall Anime / Next Review Anime.

Previous Update:

• Changed Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu / Pureeza to Completed along with adding MM! and completing that (Review for both)
• Added an anime onto the watching list
• Removed most OVAs / Specials from Plan to Watch (There's a good chance I wouldn't watch them, unlike my series backlog which is somewhat inevitable)
• Updated episode counts for Fall Anime

I'm too lazy to type everything else up and that I will try to keep it updated. This is updated to before I started writing this thread, so what you see right there is what I've watched. There's still a boat load of stuff on my backlog and I really have no idea if I'll ever get to some animes. Ah well, here's hoping someday.

Other people's MAL lists

(Because a: I'm not the only person with one, b: I'm pretty sure they have animes on their lists that I don't, and c: Better coverage of what people watched.)

• Co2 Elite - Here
• MiSeRy - Here

I'm gonna start this thread off by asking if there's anything you want reviewed from the summer season. I don't really want to write up 15~ reviews at once so I'll review what people want. But seriously, Usagi Drop is the best show of the summer. Even better than Steins;Gate IMO.

[MiSeRy]

Ha! I knew you'd come back eventually.

[deathwings51]

I joined the forum after you went on a hiatus but your Craw kill videos have been an inspiration for me It was only after watching them I was able to do solo-kill. So, thanks for that. I don't watch anime anymore, sometimes read manga but not much. Though Ghost in the shell is one of my fav tv series. Also love its sound-track. Paprika is also one of the most amazing movies I've seen.

[Skyline]

Originally Posted by MiSeRy

Ha! I knew you'd come back eventually.

You are the only person to not have the right to say that.

Originally Posted by deathwings51

I joined the forum after you went on a hiatus but your Craw kill videos have been an inspiration for me It was only after watching them I was able to do solo-kill. So, thanks for that. I don't watch anime anymore, sometimes read manga but not much. Though Ghost in the shell is one of my fav tv series. Also love its sound-track. Paprika is also one of the most amazing movies I've seen.

Glad to see that even today those videos still work their charm. Congratz on solo-killing as well.

[MiSeRy]

Originally Posted by Skyline

You are the only person to not have the right to say that.

Yeah, that's actually quite true... But still.. I said it.

[Ice Car]

What the? Skyline's back?



So, are you going to stay this time?

Edit: Read the page for Mayo Chiki since I keep hearing about that anime. Read the first review. ******* laughed at the first two words.

[Skyline]

Originally Posted by Ice Car

So, are you going to stay this time?

Edit: Read the page for Mayo Chiki since I keep hearing about that anime. Read the first review. ******* laughed at the first two words.

Stay for a while? Probably. Stay super long-term? Who knows.

And Mayo Chiki is... a mixed bag... in more ways than one.

[Astrobleme]

Stay for B-lands 2?

[MiSeRy]

Ha, Ice Car's reaction to Sky's return has been the best so far.

[Skyline]

Originally Posted by Astrobleme

Stay for B-lands 2?

Good chance of that.

Originally Posted by MiSeRy

Ha, Ice Car's reaction to Sky's return has been the best so far.

Honestly, if that neck had a snail crawling up on it, that would of been perfect.