Some quick first Impressions: Hayate no Gotoku 2nd Season, Examurai Sengoku and Slap Up Party ~Arad Senki~

Hayate no Gotoku – 2nd Season

Short Synopsis: Our lead character still is the butler of a rich but athletically hopeless girl.
Chance of me Blogging: 0% (Haven’t seen the first season…)
I remember how when the first season aired, I wrote a rather *ahem*biased first impression of it. Because of this, I figured that it would be a good opportunity to give this show a second chance with the airing of a second season, and I have to say that this episode was pretty enjoyable. It wasn’t anythings special, but it got a bunch of good snickers out of me, and didn’t feel boring at all. It really makes me wonder why the heck I hated the first season with a fiery passion…

Examurai Sengoku

Short Synopsis: Our lead character still is your average tough samurai with a thirst for sake
Chance of me Blogging: 0% (Obviously not)
Here’s one I missed during the past winter-Season (or rather: couldn’t find anywhere), but it finally has received some subs. Right from the bat, it’s obvious why this series hasn’t received any attention whatsoever: all it does is look pretty. The utter amounts of cheese in this first episode were almost unbelievable, the voice-acting is terrible and the editing is way too sloppy. I did get a good laugh out of it, though. The dialogue is so utterly ridiculous and cheesy that it becomes funny. Especially that lead character is hilarious: he tries so hard to look like your average cool and bad-ass protagonist-samurai, but he fails in this completely.

Slap Up Party ~Arad Senki~

Short Synopsis: Our lead character has demon powers and travels across the land
Chance of me Blogging: 10% (If he rest of the season is really bad…)
Um… yeah. The start of this episode really was too painful to watch, and really typical of Bad Gonzo. The biggest thing was all of the hopelessly overacting characters and uninspired scripts of these people. Oh, this was even beyond cheese, this was utterly terrible. Having said that, though: the comedy does work, surprisingly enough. This show is so incredibly stupid, but it is hilarious in the process. And it’s true that Gonzo has always had a knack for combining fantasy with comedy, and this is just a case where they take this to the extreme: the fantasy is incredibly bad, though the comedy is surprisingly good.

5 thoughts on “Some quick first Impressions: Hayate no Gotoku 2nd Season, Examurai Sengoku and Slap Up Party ~Arad Senki~

  1. You realize that carrying flaming torches in the rain is fully possible, right? Water puts out flame when dumped on it because it smothers the fire and blocks it from fuel-oxygen in the air. Water doesn’t actually have any magical properties other than not reacting when you dump it on something rapidly oxidizing, and rain would have to be seriously fucking heavy to put out a moving flame. Even moreso considering the burning cloth is probaly soaked in some kind of oil.

  2. “It really makes me wonder why the heck I hated the first season with a fiery passion…”

    One day you wonder the same thing for many of the shows that you killed off because of whatever you were on during that time. I am surprised you didn’t kill off Gintama. -_-

  3. Actually, I did drop Gintama when it first aired. If it wasn’t for the slow subs, I probably wouldn’t have picked it up again. There have indeed been many series where my first impression turned out to be completely wrong, but after all, that’s why they’re called ‘first impressions’.

  4. That reminds me: YOU DROPPED REC AFTER THE FIRST EPISODE. I haven’t seen it yet myself, but it’s something I’m really looking forward to. I’ve heard great things about it-mainly that it’s sweet and anything but generic as far as romance goes. Plus, it’s incredibly short, so put it on your watch list already. 😛

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