Autumn ‘08 Quick Looks

Blurbs on a few shows I’ve watched the first episode of, but do not intend to blog… and, no, the picture doesn’t relate.

So, not related, but I’m listening to a song called The Last Sasketchewan Pirate. Laugh riot.

ef~a tale of melodies~

I never watch ef~a tale of memories~ because that season I opted to follow Myself; Yourself and Clannad instead… and I figured watching three visual novel adaptations would be too much. Since then, even though the visuals looked impressive, I’ve avoided the first ef because it has a crazy girl, and I find those to be terribly, terribly annoying. Anyway, I decided to give melodies a try because of the artistry of the first season and because I saw no signs of crazy girl.

I don’t know what to make of this yet – my main reason for not doing a full post is that the first half of the episode was too confusing to really do so cohesively. I don’t know if maybe I would’ve been less confused had I seen the first season… although I suspect it wouldn’t've helped at all. Anyway, the art is top-notch, and the animation was pretty damn impressive – this looked more like something on a movie budget than a TV budget to me, although it remains to be seen if they can sustain that level of quality.

Kurogane no Linebarrel

Admission: the only reason I watched this was because it has ‘linebarrel’ in the title, and I like that word.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure my brain rotted and dripped out of my ear during this. The best part was when I saw a woman who looked a lot like onna-Maze from Maze~The Megaburst of Space~.

I’d like to know why all the legally available free anime to watch have been crappy shows. I was kind of excited to be legally consuming this, and then it just was awful like Blassreiter and Druaga-whatnot were. Too bad.

Akane-iro ni Somaru Sake

Ok, not going to lie, I heard there was sibcon in this, so… yeah… Also, the character designs made me think of Myself; Yourself, which was awesome for all the wrong reasons, so, yeah, there’re my reasons.

Unfortunately, it was a total snore-fest. I’m not a harem fan; when I watch harems, it is because it is from the Tenchi-verse, brought to us by the (un?)holy union of KyoAni and Key, or it looks like an awesome, awesome trainwreck (note: does not apply to H2O~Footprints in the Sand~…). This obviously is neither of the two former, and sadly looks like it’ll avoid the latter. Oh well.