Gifuu Doudou!! Kanetsugu to Keiji
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a famous hero from the Sengoku Era.
Okay. Hands down, bar none. This was the biggest WTF of the season, and I don’t think that any other series will be able to top this. And I already KNEW that this series would be weird. For those of you who don’t know the bizarre background for this series: it’s based on a manga written by the guy who wrote Fist of the North Star (the incredibly muscly over the top action story that basically created the Shounen Genre). The story was adapted by Yasuhiro Imagawa, the guy who directed the New Mazinger, the first Giant Robo, and some more really epic mecha series. It’s direted by the director of Hetalia. Yeah. In my mind I was already imagining these incredibly muscly guys yelling and fighting non-stop in an incredibly over the top way while at the same time having gay romantic antics. Um yeah, about that fighting. Let me tell you exactly how much fighting there is in this series: two people slash a sword, and a guy fires an arrow. Beyond that, this show is all about TALKING about fighting. And that with the gay romantic undertones. I know this is hard to believe, but this show is even camper than Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Everything is so incredibly sentimental that this episode became completely hilarious. And don’t get me wrong, the animation is crap, and it hardly ever tries to make actual jokes. It’s all about the atmosphere in this show. The camp, camp, camp atmosphere.
OP: Samurai baby, yeah baby
ED: The art is nice and all, but those facial expressions are unsettling…
Potential: 80% (hey it made me laugh, okay?)
Kamisami no Inai Nichiyoubi
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a gravekeeper
So yeah, lots of series tend to follow a tried and true format in one way or the other. For this, it’s the one about the guy who ends up together with a young girl who has special powers, only where most of these series make the girl really talented or smart in one way or the other, the girl here is weak; much like your average young girl, except that it this show doesn’t treat her like that and throws all sorts of horrible things at her. For a moment I was afraid that this series just went with a young girl for the cuteness factor, but I have to say: I’m impressed. It actually uses the girl’s age really well. She’s meant to be young and naive. The setting has a lot of potential as well: a world in which people ust become zombies when they die. It’s up to the rest of the series to explore exactly what that means: what are the pros and cons? How much of their humanity do these zombies regain? This first episode had some great ideas. The big danger is that it used all of its ideas right at the start. If it didn’t, then this can become quite the interesting series.
Potential: 80%
Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a deranged bibliophile who reincarnates into a dachshund.
It’s not like Gonzo’s animation during their prime days was always good. In fact, they were infamous for having really rushed production schedules, but they had the directors to make up for it. They had the ambition and the writers to make sure that that didn’t matter for their best series. I say this because of one reason: Dog and Scissors was their big chance at a comeback, but it has one major flaw: the comedy sucks! Most of the jokes depend on the banter between the male and female lead, and the delivery is just almost always off: characters just ramble their lines in one-dimensional ways, rather than thinking about things like tonation or delivery. That’s bad for a show that’s supposed to be a comedy. But you know what? I actually liked this episode when it didn’t try to be funny. I’m baffled a bit myself, but seriously this show has some creativity, and I knidof felt sorry for the male lead and the whole set-up of the story is much bigger than what you would usually suspect in a series like this. So please, GONZO: focus on the story. Just drop the comedy!
OP: Creative, but again the attempts to be funny failed horribly.
ED: Okay I have to admit the dancing security guards were pretty funny.
Potential: 70%
Apparently everyone in Japan lives in the same house, together with Electric Batman and the devil.
ah… where to start… aside from the low tier humor and crappy quality, it’s definitely not the crapfest I expected, but, man, you’re right, would do best as a more serious series… something like this needs to be well executed.
I will say one thing, had that woman not shown any hints of remorse I would have dropped this series in an instant. His bookphillia aside I’ve been bothered/pissed by the plot summary since I first heard about the show.
Not expecting much, but I suppose another episode couldn’t hurt. Maybe.
This just goes to show just how subjective comedy is. I found this pretty funny actually and IMHO the worst thing this show could do would be to try and take itself seriously. It should stay a slapstick comedy.
Won’t judge the anime by just one episode but I have to say the comedy is forced.
Ugh, no… The comedy was hit and miss for me (mostly miss), but I don’t see this series working if it’s played straight. I mean the premise is ridiculous, I don’t see how it would work with a serious execution.
The only interesting thing is the focus on books. Everything else (turning into a dog, the scissors writer freak) I can take it or leave it (even if it was executed better than it is).
It couldnt possibly be camper than Toriko could it? Toriko is essentially DBZ meets gay-harem.
Depending on whether it goes the manga route or the light novel route, and how fast it progresses
the guy in Kamisama may or may not be improtant
I don’t know bro the comedy was good enough for me, because even if I was not laughing out loud I went on chuckling through the episode. I’m sticking with this one, as simple entertainment I think the ride will be fun enough.
Hetalia’s director had nothing to do with the gay antics- the series itself has those by itself if you read the source material.
All for the sake of comedy, though, and i personally think it’s funny.
Muscly guys aren’t my thing so i think i’ll skip that, but Kamisami looks interesting.
“the incredibly muscly over the top action story that basically created the Shounen Genre”
I’ll have to correct you on that. The shounen genre (not the demographic) started having shounen tropes we see today with Kurumada’s Ring ni Kakero, not FOTNS.
Kamisami no Inai Nichiyoubi is one show I really look forward to for this season. I think you’ll like it
As to Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou , its not exactly funny, but I still found it entertaining to watch(not entirely sure why xD, might be my low inital expectations). I’ll see how the next episodes turn out.