Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji
The first episodes of the series I’ve seen thus far in this season haven’t been exactly intelligent, the closest would probably be Suteki Tantei Labyrinth, but both series don’t really have a plot that requires you to think. Because of this, I was pleasantly surprised by this series, when the young adult Kaiji gets mixed up in a huge plot of the Yakuza. Even though I didn’t understand the rules perfectly, this series does have some definite potential, and even though we’ve yet to see the characters actually gamble, this episode felt very tense. I also really like the character-designs: they may look unorthodox, but they fit the series perfectly, along with a pretty nice soundtrack. I’m going to hope that this series gets subbed soon, as following this series raw with my skills of Japanese is probably going to be impossible.
Dragonaut The Resonance
Oh boy, this series sure has its work cut out. There were so many annoyances in this episode, it’s going to take a lot of effort to make everything believable again. Our main character is in a spacecraft which just took off from the surface, it gets hit by a blazing fireball, explodes but it doesn’t even burn one bit. The main character just flies out of the blast without any scratches whatsoever. Also, where did the fireballs come from? The guy also has a best friend at that point, who actually witnessed the crime but we never see the guy again for the rest of the episode. Furthermore, every single female with a huge bosom (and believe me, there are quite a few of them) has the need to show it off to everyone in a quite revealing outfit. The creators also seemed to have introduced monsters and people who can survive an exploding truck, thrown on top of them without even getting one scratch. I dislike these kinds of things. Sure, they can be explained and all, but if an exploding truck can’t hurt them, the only thing that probably will is overblown and overpowered energy-waves. It’s hard to really come up with a good strategy for these. The plot has potential, but if this series wants to succeed, it needs to put a LOT of work into its setting to fill up the plot-holes.
Goshushou-sama Ninomiya-kun
Ooh… the pain… the horrible, horrible pain! If you thought Myself; Yourself was bad: it’s NOTHING when compared to this… “thing”. Not only is the entire plot basically one huge excuse for fanservice, the main character is loved by all females AND males in his school, he ends up in all kinds of fanservicy-situations with a girl who despite being awfully shy and afraid of men dresses like a girl from the red-light district. I think we’ve found our worst series of the season with this one. At least, I hope so, because I don’t want to watch anything that’s even worse than this piece of garbage…]]>
Some quick first impressions: Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji, Dragonaut the Resonance and Goshushou-sama Ninomiya-kun
Um…the best friend in Dragonaut has a scene of his own mid way through the episode and is seen again in the preview for episode two.
He did? Oh, that’s my mistake then. It’s one less thing for this show to fix. ^^;
Sorry if there are multiple comments but is there a reason why my comments are showing up?
Chris: sorry, I have no idea how that happened, but sometimes Blogsome decides on random comments that it wants to hold them for approval. I’ve approved it now, so your comment should have showed up.
Sorry if I flooded your inbox with a bunch of comments! Anyway to make this comment relevant is it me or are fewer and fewer good titles coming out each season? Seems like most anime is reverting back to the 1990s where “all action, no plot” was everywhere but atleast the 90s had a few reviolutionary titles like Key the Metal Idol, Hana Yori Dango and alot more. It just seems like anime these days is more about the otaku crowd than anything else. It’s shows like Goshushou-sama Ninomiya-kun that make me prefer watching Japanese dramas than checking out anime.
Chris: I disagree with that, actually. In my opinion, this is just a bad season. The past spring and summer-season had quite an amount of unique and original titles, though it seems that right now, all the generic stuff comes out. The next season could be something completely different as well.
if you like the first anime you might also enjoy Akagi,don’t know if you have heard of it but it has exactly the same animation,the episode i saw was very tense and even if i did not know the rules of mahjong it was still good
about the three animes i am still not sure what to think but i am sure that at least 3-4 animes of this season will be great
I feel like the whole Japanese animation industry have used up all of their talents and ideas and are now just trying to find excuses (aka. fan-service series) to sell their products… this season’s concepts, if looked over as an overview, is just a repetition of what has been produced before. Da Capo, Dragonaut (Gonzo: just give up), and Clannad being the top examples.
So far I’ve only had the chance to watch Dragonaut and it seems quite promissing. But they could cut the boob shots, I mena, every girl in the show has humoungus boobs, what’s with that? Aren’t there regular sizes available anymore? And at least they could NOT gives us that many shots of it.
Aside from that (quite annoying) part, I really enjoyed the first episode. Shows promisse.
As for Kaiji, and the despite the character design that usually wouldn’t appeal to me, I’ll give it a shot. I’ve thought, since I first saw the resume, that it could be pretty good. I hope you’re right about this opne as well.