Winter Anime Season 2008 Early Thoughts

The Winter Anime season is upon us my friends and with it brings more anime that will either bring cheer or tears. Personally, i think the winter season is shaping up to be quite a good one with many interesting supernatural and comedy themed animes but is rather lacking in the mecha department though with only Gundam 00 to see us through the new year.(its getting even more crappy now) And now this is my watch list for the winter anime season.

1. Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

My last review said it all.

2. Hatenkou Yugi

Razel for Saimoe 2008(possibly)

I collected the manga which was published under the name Dazzle by Tokyopop and was quite pleased to know that it will be adapted into an anime. If all goes according to plan, this should be one of the top animes of the winter with Razel as the unortodox female lead who could more than look after herself. And oh did i mention that this anime contains bishounens as well?

3.Rosario+Vampire

Fanservice 20 seconds into the show

Fanservice anime of the season. Where else on earth could you get fanservice in the first 30 seconds of an anime? Supernatural monsters such as Succubus and Vampires will be officially included in the moe list from here onwards.

4.H20- footprints in the sand

Hayami-chan= Moe

Obligatory eroge adaptatation of the season. The setting of the village kinds of reminds me of Higurashi where a particular family is picked on by others such as Satoko(Higurashi) and Hayami(H2o).

5.Kimiaru (They are my noble masters)

Shinra-sama !!!!!

Another butler show but this one is pretty different from Hayate no Gotoku in that the butler and his master actually have family! As they say, the more the merrier.

And here are a few anime that i havent watched yet but plan to add to my list soon.

1. Shigofumi.
Dont know much about it yet but early observations look good to me.

2. Minami-ke Okawari
Still looking for subs. will do a review soon if i could get my hands on one.


With all the new anime added my watch list has been extended to 10 animes. Quite alot dont you think?

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 01

BEGINNING WITH A BANG!!!!

The King of Despair is back!!!
After a few months of pure despair, Zetsubou Sensei and his dysfunctional harem are back!!!

The new season begins with our despairing sensei trying his hand at multi-level marketing, being chased around as a heretic by a cult that he has never heard of and being mutated into a freakish being.I swear that there are some things on earth that only SHAFT can get away with..

So am i for writing this review.

Roughly ten minutes into the show, just when i thought that SHAFT was going to ditch the OP for the first episode, they kicked into OP mode. The new OP is about rumba but it actually has a rock tune to it which makes me want to hit the wall with all my pent up despair!! Its really a good OP, rivalling Bure Bure .^^

The first episode was all about Nami, the normal girl who refuses to be labelled as one. Poor girl, she tried her best to be abnormal which included trying to out suicide attempt Zetsubou Sensei and out Hikikomori Kiri. The episode ends with Nami giving up trying to be abnormal in a normal way.(Nami: dont say normal!!!)

Holy $#!T babies on the ceiling!!!

The Prophet of Despair has spoken!!

Bet you cant Nosebleed and vomit at once!

Did i tell you guys that Kafuka is the scariest person ever?

THOUGHTS:
I have nothing but praise for this episode. The action was nonstop and i was ROFLing from the start to the end till my stomach started to hurt really badly. SHAFT was at the top of its game again with its artistic animation that was really smooth and fitted the show like a _______on a ________.(fill in the blanks yourself)

wait, i think i hear something. Other anime:"Im in despair!!!! The awesomeness of Zetsubou sensei has left me in despair!!!!!"
ahhh what a delightful cry.^^

End of Mad Rambling.