Get ready for my new light novel, The Main Girl is Always Terrible, so My Love Interest Will Be the Side Girl But I'll Pretend to Go After the Main Girl as a Ruse!!'.
brb buying 12 copies
Isn't this basically Nisekoi?
Except for, you know, the main girl being awesome and the side girl being a wet sack of potatoes
Somebody arrest this man for gross waifu heresy.
My dislike of Ougi comes completely from the fact that she creeps me the Hell out.
But her creepiness is what's great about her! She's so wonderfully unnatural and
wrong. It's vaguely entrancing. And as we find out more about her, she has slowly become one of those characters it's a lot of fun to hate.
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Aaaaaaanyway. Here are all the shows Im planning to check out in this coming season, helpfully sorted into tiers. No particular order within the tiers.
Im counting a total of 21 new shows plus 8 continuing shows, which comes to a total of Way Too Many Shows. Gonna have to try to be brutal about dropping stuff again. And fail miserably.
BACKLOG TIER (this tier has not shrunk at all since the start of last season. In fact, it has
grown. brb praying that I actually find time to watch non-current shows this season.)
Yes! Precure 5 GoGo! ←watching now (for certain values of now)
Fresh Precure! (the Precure journey continues)
Heartcatch Precure! (some glorious day I will get this far
I hope?)
Suite Precure♪ (someday I will get this far, and nobody will care)
Smile Precure! (someday I will get this far, and I will become addicted to the OP)
DokiDoki! Precure (by the time I get this far, it will
almost certainly MOST DEFINITELY be over)
Happiness Charge Precure! (a show that doesnt start until February in backlog tier? yes, because it will sure as hell be backlog by the time I get to it)
Hidamari Sketch ←If I cant find time for Precure, I cant find time for yuno
Hidamari Sketch x 365 (yunoyunoyunoyuno)
Hidamari Sketch x Hoshimittsu (yunooooo)
Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb (yuno)
K-ON!! (I should probably actually break up the Precure with some of this stuff
if I was even WATCHING any Precure)
End of Evangelion (I might as well just take this off the goddamn list at this point)
CONTINUING FROM LAST SEASON TIER
Yowamushi Pedal (I expect to see Imaizumi become a full-fledged mahou shoujo otaku before this season is out. No, Im not serious, but wouldnt it be
amazing?)
Tokyo Ravens (KON IS SAVIOUR OF ANIME)
Hunter x Hunter (real does not even begin to describe what shit is about to get)
Nagi no Asu Kara (wait what is that key image? Timeskip? No Manaka? I am terrified and confused)
Samurai Flamenco (bring on the mindfucks)
Kill la Kill (gotta find out who killed my
wait that already happened)
Golden Time (or, The Go Away Ghost Banri Show)
CONTINUING FROM SUMMER TIER
Silver Spoon S2 (farming is cool)
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THIS SHIT GON BE GOOD TIER
Sekai Seifuku ZZZ (hawt loli takes over the world? where do I sign my contract of subservience?)
Chuuni Ren (After the massive disappointment that was
Kyoukai no Kanata, its good to see KyoAni going back to a tried-and-tested property I know Im going to enjoy. And potentially fixing the weaker points of the first season, too! Cant complain.)
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei (In Doga Kobo we trust.)
Sakura Trick (I dont care if people say the source material is weak, I want me some sweet yuri goodness and I want it bad. This looks like it will deliver.)
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha (There seems to be a lot of positive feeling towards this show, and its making me feel pretty hyped. It looks like a show with a similar feel to
Gingitsune, but with more cute girls, no Satoru, and the added bonus of the main character having the ability to shapeshift. I love the sound of this.)
OPTIMISTIC TIER
Wizard Barristers (Im willing to give Umetsu the benefit of the doubt and accept that
Galileidonna ending up mediocre was the result of executive meddling. This is clearly his real baby and Im interested to see what he can do with it. Magic and courtrooms just sounds like a winning combination in general. My only real reservation is the dearth of lolis in the character list, but at least the one girl who does look somewhat attractive is the MC.)
Space Dandy (Honestly this doesnt look much like my kind of thing, but the pedigree is undeniable and the hype surrounding it has drawn me in. Hoping it wont disappoint me.)
Nobunagun (Nobunaga is a gun. The main character is female. The most prominent male character is called Jack the Ripper and voiced by Suzuki Tatsuhisa. This cant possibly be as awesome as it sounds, but I have a fair amount of hype regardless.)
Noragami (Ordinarily an adaptation of a generic-looking shounen manga like this would be pretty low on my anticipation list, but its elevated by the presence of Bones doing the animation, Iwasaki Taku doing the music, and Kamiya Hiroshi in the lead role.)
Nobunaga the Fool (In a word, this just looks cool. Hopefully it actually is.)
D-Frag! (I have a certain amount of faith in Brains Base, and I cant argue with a loli-looking main heroine(?) voiced by HanaKana. Looking through the character list, one Mizukami Sakura also looks suspiciously best girl.)
Nisekoi (I enjoy the manga. I enjoy SHAFT. And because the source material is so very episodic and status quo-oriented, I cant really see any way that the adaptation could be screwed up. They could do a completely straight adaptation and that would be fun, or they could throw out the entire chronology and just pick and choose their favourite chapters to adapt, throwing in copious quantities of original material on top, and I wouldnt be able to fault that either. I cant forsee any scenario where I dont end up at least enjoying this show, unless it turns out Im completely incapable of adjusting to hearing Onodera with HanaKanas voice.)
COULD BE GOOD TIER
Wake Up, Girls! (Though I feel familiar with idol culture through osmosis
, I dont think Ive ever actually honest-to-god watched an idol culture show. The closest thing that comes to mind is
Full Moon wo Sagashite from my very early anime-watching days. Oh, and individual characters like Cure Lemonade I guess. But yeah, its probably time I watched an Idol Show. Lets give this one a shot.)
Nourin (Oh look, another idol. And farming. What.)
Hamatora (Wow, look at all those hot guys with some amazing VAs. Is DTL hyped for this? The handful of girls that exist look pretty cute too. For some reason Im getting a vaguely similar vibe to
K from this, but I sincerely hope it will be much better than that show was.)
ImoCho (The one thing that really surprises me about this show is that the source material
isnt an LN. The girls look cute, the show looks deliciously fanservice-tastic, and imoutos are totally relevant to my interests. Hopeful expectation: something vaguely similar to, but more engaging than,
OniAi.)
Buddy Complex (Well hello,
Valvrave successor. Not actually expecting this to deliver a similar experience to VVV, but it could still fill a similar niche. I hope the characters manage to grab my interest.)
Hoozuki no Reitetsu (To make an odd comparison, this looks like the yin to
Gingitsunes yang. Both take a look at the everyday lives of spirits from traditional Japanese mythology, but where
Gingitsune looked at benevolent Shinto spirits on Earth coexisting with humans, this show is about less benevolent Buddhist spirits in hell. Honestly though, Im not sure what to expect from it.)
Tonari no Seki-kun (I have a sort-of policy of not watching super-short anime, but Ive heard such good things about this series I might check it out anyway.)
Pupa (And Ive got to check this one out even though its just five minutes per episodes, just because
that premise. How can I possibly look away. Besides, theyve left us hanging for so long that I already feel invested in this series now.)
UNSURE TIER
Mahou Sensou (This looks
veeeeeery generic, but not necessarily in a bad way. Ill give it a shot and see if its fun.)
Witch Craft Works (JC Staff are usually fairly reliable, but the character designs all look kind of generic and unappealing,
especially the main girl)