Yes, it hasn't been that long since I posted the three-episode thoughts on the summer season. But the fall season is already around the corner. orz
As usual, the pre-air impressions are based on the introduction video on Niconico. Beware of the very long post.
ギルティクラウン
- Production I.G
- OP and character design by supercell, music by Sawano!
- story doesn't seem special, but the animation looks great
- pretty good seiyuu cast (although I'm tired of Kaji being the lead again)
= Watching
UN-GO
(Mizushima showed a short (15sec?) video clip at his panel at AX this year and refused to even tell us the name of the series as it was before the official website went live. He also specifically asked for no filming nor photos as it was the first time a clip about the series was ever shown. There's no spoken lines and only showed four characters (main character, mysterious child, young girl, serious looking lady) in what looked like a party scene. My impression, as I related to Neko-tan, was that it gave a 黒執事(dark; master & akuma partner) x 逆転裁判(detective/lawyer-like debates) feel, and it felt like BONES.)
- and it is BONES
- and it does appear to be about a detective and his partner who had fallen from grace
- the seiyuu playing the 4 main characters are unfamiliar to me, but they don't sound too bad
= Watching
ペルソナ4
- never played the series nor even finished Trinity Soul, but I assume the Persona theme is similar
- the story for P4 is supposedly pretty good
- battle visuals look nice, and the seiyuu cast is on the heavy side
= Watching
ラストエグザイル -銀翼のファム-
(The 1st episode was shown at AX this year. I even watched the whole Last Exile series at Neko-tan's so I could go to the showing. But I was trapped in the line for Morikawa's autograph that day and couldn't get out in time. The rest of the gang all went and thought it was good... T__T)
- GONZO's attempt to rise again from the ash...ｗｗｗ
- OP by Sakamoto Maaya!
- seiyuu on the heavy side
= Watching
境界線上のホライゾン
- Kawakami's works seem to have detailed settings and good reviews, so the story should be fine
- ED1 by Ceui!
- average visuals; not too pleased that Chihara is the heroine, but otherwise heavy seiyuu cast
= Watching
Fate/Zero
- 本命 of the fall season!
- original novel by Urobuchi of Nitro+, music by Kajiura, animation by ufotable
- very heavy seiyuu cast
= Watching
僕は友達が少ない
- story looks average, another harem light novel adaptation
- visuals and animation are average
- seiyuu cast not bad
= Probably watching
ベン・トー
- I can't really tell what the story is about...
- visuals look all right
- kinda meh on the female seiyuu cast but like the two male seiyuu
= Probably watching
未来日記
- can't tell what the story is about, but it looks dark
- the visuals are from the OAD so I can't tell how it'll look for the anime series
- meh female seiyuu cast but nice male seiyuu cast
= Probably watching
C3 -シーキューブ-
- story looks like plain moe loli type, though there's comment saying it's battle type
- visuals are average
- don't care too much for the seiyuu cast
= Might trial watch
真剣で私に恋しなさい！！
- adaptation of the original エロゲー from the company that did きみある
- same world setting as きみある, female characters are all strong fighters
- meh female seiyuu cast but pretty heavy male seiyuu cast
= Watching
マケン姫っ！
- I think story is out of the picture when they started showing panty shots in the PV...
- bad visuals and mundane character design
- don't care too much for the seiyuu cast
= Not watching
ましろ色シンフォニー
- another エロゲー anime, this time in a regular school setting
- visuals are not bad, and there seems to be a somewhat cute feline mascot
- don't care too much for the seiyuu cast
= Not watching
侵略！？イカ娘
- 2nd season of a great comedy squid show
- the PV tries to fool ppl into thinking it's about alien invasion with the BGM... でゲソ! XD
= Watching
WORKING'!!
- 2nd season of a great comedy work (pun intended)
- judging from the cast list, there seems to be new characters
= Watching
灼眼のシャナ III Final
- 3rd and final season of a good fantasy battle series
- I need to finish the 2nd season first... orz
= Watching
たまゆら 〜hitotose〜
- story appears to be about daily lives of girls
- all right visuals, don't care too much for the seiyuu cast
- will be watching out for the OP by Sakamoto Maaya
= Not watching
世界一初恋2
= BL却下
機動戦士ガンダムAGE
- there's no new info in the PV except the ED by Kuribayashi
- are they keeping mum because of the raving negative reviews they received after the press release?
- ...I don't want to elaborate on the silliness of the designs
= Can't believe I am only going to trial watch a Gundam series...
ファイ・ブレイン 神のパズル
- story looks a bit formulaic but still somewhat interesting
- ugly character design but the animation itself is not bad
- pretty heavy seiyuu cast, should be hot-blooded
= Watching
バトルスピリッツ 覇王
- treat it as any card game anime
= Not watching
島んちゅMiRiKa
- 企画：沖縄県観光商工部産業政策課(?!)
- 2nd season(!) of the 5-min shorts aired only in Okinawa
- revolves around a group of young kids in Okinawa
= Watching, if it's even available outside Okinawa
＜--no PV available for the rest, just one image & staff/cast info--＞
君と僕
- comedy about a group of 5 high school guys
- not BL
- seiyuu cast not bad
= Watching
ちはやふる
- based on the shoujo manga about traditional Japanese playing cards karuta
- don't know who the main girl is, but the two guys are pretty good
- might just treat it somewhat like Skip Beat
= Probably watching
戦国☆パラダイス ー極ー
- judging from the comments, nobody knows what this is
- Google only told me it's a mobile game, that's it
- only know a few of the seiyuu in the cast list
= Might trial watch
バクマン。2
- 2nd season of a great manga marketing work
= Watching
HUNTER×HUNTER
- complete remake of the anime with a new cast (I'll so miss Takeuchi's Gon)
- likely a full-year series
= Watching
デジモンクロスウォーズ 時を駆ける少年ハンターたち
- I didn't know they're still making Digimon...
= Not watching
クロスファイト ビーダマン
- looks similar to Digimon
= Not watching
Summary (total 29)
- Watching: 19
- Undecided: 3
- Not watching: 7
Hmm, that's actually a lot fewer shows than I expected. Maybe the person wasn't able to acquire information for all of them? 18 full-episode series + one 5-min shorts is manageable for one season, I guess. But it'll be a tough choice deciding the top shows.
Now, let me go finish more summer season series...
Omake:
Gundam UC 4 blu-ray comes out on Dec 2. I hope Gundam The Origin project comes out before AGE explodes...
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