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Here's some first episode reviews:
Letter Bee - In a world where the sun never shines, people called Letter Bees deliver messages and packages between the world's semi-isolated cities. Also, there's these giant insect-things that are massively huge and lurk in the areas between cities. The main characters, named Gauche, comes across his latest package, a young boy named Lag. Together they set out for the destination Gauche was given. Not much in the way of story has come through just yet, but the world is a really interesting one.
The Good: Art style is fairly unique with lots of dark purples and blues, world is interesting, no fanservice in sight.
The Bad: The story really hasn't gotten going yet and the first episode is a bit slow.
Overall: I'm intrigued by the world, so even though there really isn't a story to draw me in just yet, I'll stick with it.
A Certain Scientific Railgun - Kids with psychokinetic powers live in a futuristic city and help keep the peace. The first episode does a good job of setting this up and manages to avoid one of the biggest problems plaguing new anime: info dump. It gives you the information you need in a way that comes across as a lot more natural than in a lot of series. There's nothing about some shadowy conspiracy or shadowy organizations or shadowy figures. There's Judgement [the city's police force], ESP powers, and varying levels of ESP powers. That's pretty much what the first episode gives you, aside from introducing the four main characters. The highlights of the show are the animation during the action sequences, which is fluid and well-done, and the backgrounds, which are vibrant and detailed. The characters themselves probably won't win any awards for originality, but they do seem to have some depth beyond that.
The Good: Animation during action sequences, backgrounds, good basis for some cool stuff later on, and the characters are slightly above the norm for anime.
The Bad: Cheesecake [Shock!] is present from episode one and it sets the basis for more to come [one of the girls is in love with another of the girls, so expected LOTS of jokes stemming from this].
Hard to tell where it's going to go from here, but the first episode was pretty good.
Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra - In a world that's sort of like Victorian England, people that die turn into stone books that contain their memories and such. It sounds interesting, but the execution is...not so good. It's a total info dump show with tons of characters that get a minute or two, lots of overwrought dialogue, mind-numbing philosophical ponderings, and little to nothing is explained in any satisfactory way.
The Good - Some of the actions scenes look okay, premise is interesting, and some of the European-esque architecture looks really cool.
The Bad - CG is TERRIBLE [like, I've seen mid-90's videogames with better CG], animation overall is pretty weak, no interesting characters have emerged yet, and too much philoso-babble.
Overall - Could be good down the line, but I'm not wasting any more time on this one.
The Sacred Blacksmith - Straight-up medieval fantasy. A female knight gets her sword shattered in her first real fight and is saved by a guy that's blacksmith of some kind. She wants him to make her a new sword, but he doesn't really want to. There's also demons and some shadowy entity that controls them.
The Good - Nothing really offensive here, animation is okay, and that's about it.
The Bad - There's nothing here that really grabs from the onset and it just feels kind of bland.
Overall - I might try episode two when that comes outs, but if that doesn't do any more for me I'll drop this one as well.
Also watched the first episode of Seitako no Ichizon. It was very not good. Lots of pointless references and parodies and pounding the same jokes into the ground. I can't imagine this is one that''ll somehow be better than it's first episode. Likely will not watch anymore of this.
A Certain Scientific Railgun is easily the best show I've seen this season so far.
Letter Bee - In a world where the sun never shines, people called Letter Bees deliver messages and packages between the world's semi-isolated cities. Also, there's these giant insect-things that are massively huge and lurk in the areas between cities. The main characters, named Gauche, comes across his latest package, a young boy named Lag. Together they set out for the destination Gauche was given. Not much in the way of story has come through just yet, but the world is a really interesting one.
The Good: Art style is fairly unique with lots of dark purples and blues, world is interesting, no fanservice in sight.
The Bad: The story really hasn't gotten going yet and the first episode is a bit slow.
Overall: I'm intrigued by the world, so even though there really isn't a story to draw me in just yet, I'll stick with it.
A Certain Scientific Railgun - Kids with psychokinetic powers live in a futuristic city and help keep the peace. The first episode does a good job of setting this up and manages to avoid one of the biggest problems plaguing new anime: info dump. It gives you the information you need in a way that comes across as a lot more natural than in a lot of series. There's nothing about some shadowy conspiracy or shadowy organizations or shadowy figures. There's Judgement [the city's police force], ESP powers, and varying levels of ESP powers. That's pretty much what the first episode gives you, aside from introducing the four main characters. The highlights of the show are the animation during the action sequences, which is fluid and well-done, and the backgrounds, which are vibrant and detailed. The characters themselves probably won't win any awards for originality, but they do seem to have some depth beyond that.
The Good: Animation during action sequences, backgrounds, good basis for some cool stuff later on, and the characters are slightly above the norm for anime.
The Bad: Cheesecake [Shock!] is present from episode one and it sets the basis for more to come [one of the girls is in love with another of the girls, so expected LOTS of jokes stemming from this].
Hard to tell where it's going to go from here, but the first episode was pretty good.
Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra - In a world that's sort of like Victorian England, people that die turn into stone books that contain their memories and such. It sounds interesting, but the execution is...not so good. It's a total info dump show with tons of characters that get a minute or two, lots of overwrought dialogue, mind-numbing philosophical ponderings, and little to nothing is explained in any satisfactory way.
The Good - Some of the actions scenes look okay, premise is interesting, and some of the European-esque architecture looks really cool.
The Bad - CG is TERRIBLE [like, I've seen mid-90's videogames with better CG], animation overall is pretty weak, no interesting characters have emerged yet, and too much philoso-babble.
Overall - Could be good down the line, but I'm not wasting any more time on this one.
The Sacred Blacksmith - Straight-up medieval fantasy. A female knight gets her sword shattered in her first real fight and is saved by a guy that's blacksmith of some kind. She wants him to make her a new sword, but he doesn't really want to. There's also demons and some shadowy entity that controls them.
The Good - Nothing really offensive here, animation is okay, and that's about it.
The Bad - There's nothing here that really grabs from the onset and it just feels kind of bland.
Overall - I might try episode two when that comes outs, but if that doesn't do any more for me I'll drop this one as well.
Also watched the first episode of Seitako no Ichizon. It was very not good. Lots of pointless references and parodies and pounding the same jokes into the ground. I can't imagine this is one that''ll somehow be better than it's first episode. Likely will not watch anymore of this.
A Certain Scientific Railgun is easily the best show I've seen this season so far.
Welcome to the NHK is the only Gonzo series that I can safely say I enjoyed.