Not a Simpsons fan, I take it?
Sounds like something for old people.
Yep, back when
The Simpsons was good.
Almost. I'll just say that Panda-kun = Lisa in this situation.
It was weird how it rained even though it was sunny outside!
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BokuTomo 6
I honestly don't know if I just dislike the text entirely now. It's not that the anime does it any favors, but I have to assume that a lot of this is coming from the light novels and it's just interminable.
You almost think that the Sena and Yozora stuff would come to a head FINALLY and then it just gets handwaved away. Why even bother with drama if you aren't going to use it either for comedic effect or, well, dramatic effect. Having someone just cry for the sake of crying doesn't actually mean anything.
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Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 07
Dat harem.
I suppose it isn't fair because I'm only half watching this show, but I really have no idea what is going on with the time jumps and whatnot.
When was there a Dragon Princess and what's going on with the Black Knight stuff that he just shows up in that outfit without a second thought now?
The anime feels more like a plot summary of the novels - and it's already so plot heavy in terms of just dumping plot to move things forward - so I almost feel like I'd be better off reading a wikipedia summary of the novels/manga if such a thing existed.
Hell, whatever happened to that mage that he was supposed to save like 3 episodes ago? Did I just miss that entirely?
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Chihayafuru 6
I guess you make up for nothing happening by just having lovely looking art and quite possibly the best score ever released for an anime (even if you just reuse the same four songs over and over again).
I'm still in a love hate relationship with the show inasmuch as I feel that all the parts are there for an amazing series but the mangaka, and in turn, the people adapting the manga, are just so up their own ass about this karuta stuff that it just becomes so boring to watch.
So, forget the fact that I saw the ending coming a mile away once they announced the special stipulation for the tournament - that's just something that's obvious because the author wanted the team to make the nationals but not repeat the exact same story arc - a lot of the angst coming from the other team just didn't matter. Who cares about Hokou, really? At least in Saki, when the MJ matches take FOREVER, it's an excuse to actually go into a flashback of all the opponents at the table. Here it's just perfunctory and meant to just break things up.
The same thing happened the first season with the old champion struggling to come back and the mom that Chihaya played and all the other mostly forgettable opponents that appeared back in season one.
Hell, there's a whole back story with Taichi and Retro that they keep teasing but never actually show. That would be much more interesting than slow pans of cards and people's anguished faces over a match that has a predetermined outcome.
It's funny, I suppose that this is the antithesis of my
SAO #hatewatch in that I actually want to love this show in spite of itself. It's not even that mode of watching where "I've seen 20 seasons of How I Met Your Mother so I might as well finish the series even though I hate it and everything that it stands for and because Barney etc etc", because I still feel passionate about the show. Hell, that's basically CSI for me, which is basically just boring background fodder at this point.
The worst part is that I know this show will never rise to the occasion and be stuck in the doldrums that it finds itself in, so intellectually I know that it will never become the show that I think it could be and reach its full potential... yet I still "love" the show and will watch every episode.
Hell, maybe it really is just as simple as the soundtrack being so seductive that I'll watch just to hear the theme over and over again. lol
