Shameful Otaku Secret!

Year of the Robot begins

I’ve been a busy boy. In the name of research, I watched a lot of first episodes. And in the name of science, I’ve visualized some of the data based on those episodes. Here’s what I’ve found:

Wow! As you can see, skirt hems are way up, as is Jun Fukuyama, while visual novel adaptations and of course camera angles are at an all-time low.

The sidebar tells its story, and I have a lineup of 6 count ‘em 6 piles of animation ranging from pure shit to pure Macross.

The Swingin’ Six

• Macross Frontier
  Alto is pretty, sure, by no means a match for the ladylike Gundam Meisters of last season’s Son of Double-Ought Robot Suit 137, record-setting even for their ridiculously effeminate franchise. View preview post »
• Code Geass R2 Pizza Count Project
  I personally find Pizza Hut to be a disgusting greasy mess, but even I can’t help but desire it just a little after watching C.C. order pie after pie of cheesy thick-crust product placement. View preview post »
• Soul Eater
  Were you one of those kids that thought it’d be fun to snort Pixie Stix? Even better, do you still do it? This is for you. View preview post »
• Allison & Lillia
  Sometimes after watching a lot of anime you really need to feel something wholesome. Probably need to eat something wholesome too. Pocky is not food, nor is Pizza Hut. View preview post »
• Itazura Na Kiss
  After a long run of Kyoto Eunuch High School Platonic Harem and its school populated entirely by nearly-identical Big-Eyed Moe Goddesses, an anime for girls — complete with downright homely-ass sidekicks and the guy who voiced Makoto playing a dickhead — seemed like just the thing. Aaaah. View preview post »
• ECCHI DEATHMATCH ‘08!
  Now this I’m excited about. Two absolutely awful shows enter. One absolutely awful show emerges victorious. We all lose. Every week, I will pit Fox Girl Panty Shot High (or Kanokon as you might call it) against Tenchi Rides Again! (more accurate name for To Love-Ru) and we’ll see whose breasts bounce the highest. The ’snapshot’ guy from the Random Curiosity blog actually quit over the flaming he got for (among other things) ripping on TLR, so in my own little way I am expressing some solidarity. Because if I may judge from one episode, it is horrible. View Kanokon preview post »

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Or so you think!

• Special A
  It screamed lame, pointless, and unlikely at me, though its gaggle of sparkly voice actors (including holy shit, Jun Fukuyama) seemed appealing and I liked the thin wobbly legs.
• Vampire Knight
  Like certain other shows trying to be a new angle on vampires, I bet this would be really good on Adult Swim featuring Crispin Freeman, where I’d find myself watching just because it’s on after Death Note. Nice use of Jun Fukuyama though.
• The Tower of Druaga
  I think it’s great what Gonzo is doing. Really. And thanks to their cool plan, this show is already at episode 2 in the non-Japan world. But the jury’s out still. It might be funny, though, and I’ll probably at least give it a try.
• Blassreiter
  I think it’s great what Gonzo is doing. Really. But this thing looks just awful. Gag me with a fucking computer-animated motorcycle that looks like it came out of a bad video game.

And there’s my season. Six shows, can I keep up? We’ll see. But it should be fun either way.

- otou-san out!

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