Some quick first Impressions: Hanasakeru Seishonen, Guin Saga and Kigurumikku

Hanasakeru Seishonen

Short Synopsis: Our lead character can choose between three bishies to marry.
Chance of me Blogging: 5% (Something really weird has to happen in order for me to blog this thing)
Ah, this season’s obligatory shoujo series. I was already wondering when it was going to pop up. Still, this one unfortunately promises to be even worse than average. The thing with most of the shoujo-romances I’ve watched so far is that while they start out promising, they usually fall apart somewhere after around eight episodes (with some very notable exceptions, of course). This show already seems to be falling apart with the first episode, which… really isn’t promising a lot. The creators tried to insert way too much nonsensical drama, resulting from one cheesy scene to the other, with nearly all of them bordering on the ridiculous. It’s a shame, this show really seems to be trying, but so far it has really no idea on how to tell a good story. Having said that though; the music was pretty nice. Especially that ED was really well sung and perfect for such a series. Ah, if only the rest wasn’t so hopeless.

Guin Saga

Short Synopsis: Our lead characters are the prince and princess of a country that gets attacked by some sort of evil empire.
Chance of me Blogging: 60% (If the second episode is as impressive as this one)
With a title as “Guin Saga”, I expected yet another one of those fantasy series that are already so prevalent this season, but oh my god, this episode really left me impressed. While not a lot of things happened and the pacing was really slow, this episode also was really solid, both in terms of storytelling and production values. Seriously, the animation in this episode looked really sweet, and you can see that Satelight is in its elements this season. While the whole thing of a destroyed country that needs to be rescued by the prince and princess because they miraculously escape is nothing new, I see lots of potential in the character development, with this solid of a first episode. Let’s hope it can keep this up.

Kigurumikku

Short Synopsis: Our lead characters are a bunch of magical girls who save the world from evil.
Chance of me Blogging: 20% (Not sure what could be blogged about a series like this, but what the heck)
Okay, I think that with this series, I’ve found the most hilarious first episode of the season. I’m a huge fan of parodies, but I hate it when a show just sticks in random references to other shows without making fun of them. Kigurumikku completely slaughters the credibility of mahou shoujo–series in the shounen-genre and has lots of fun in the process. I really laughed a lot during this episode, and there were many hilarious points. What I liked most was the huge wit of the scriptwriters. Now, my message to the creators is simple: please keep this up, and don’t start milking out your own jokes or get boring!

8 thoughts on “Some quick first Impressions: Hanasakeru Seishonen, Guin Saga and Kigurumikku

  1. I know Kigurumikku is going to be very short(3 epsiodes, I think I read), so while they can almost definitely stay funny for that long, you might reconsider any chance of blogging it.
    And yay, Guin Saga looks cool now. I wasn’t going to check it out(fantasy series aren’t normally my thing anyway), but the subs are something to look out for. But damn, I was hoping Hanasakeru Seishounen would be good. And there’re only three guys? It’s just I could have sworn the promo had four.
    Wait, it does. Count on that for some extra drama. 😛
    And jeez, now I’m really starting to get worried that Rainbow Nisha really isn’t airing. D8 I wanted to see that really bad. . .

  2. i’ve already eyed Guin Saga on my ‘to watch’ list for this season..
    the trailer left a pretty deep impression on me, and i read that it’s based on a best selling fantasy novel series that’s already amounted to 124 volume’s.
    it certainly makes me anticipating an epic story to unfold

  3. As someone who has actually read the first couple Guin Saga light-novels psgels, I’d say its definitely worth blogging. 🙂

  4. The number of Guin Saga novels scares me more than not (as does the muscle-y beastman), but the trailer looked really good and I’ve been hearing positive things, so I’ll have to check it out.

    Even if Hanasakeru starts out cheesy, I have some hope since it’s by the same manga-ka of Jyu-Oh-Sei (which I liked despite its bad end).

  5. Kigurumikku is the second coming of Puni Puni Poemi. And that’s a good thing. Completely nuts and drop-dead hilarious. Tomatsu Haruka scores again. I loved it when the elder sister got upset that the stuffed duck was a “manager” and in the process of repairing it, started angrily sewing through its eye. And I thought the bicycle run was brilliantly staged. The pet project of the director of Bamboo Blade.

  6. Hanasakeru Seishonen has a beautiful soundtrack with a wonderul opening and ending but I was hoping for another Saiunkoku Monogatari but whatever I can give it a chance.

  7. Thot Hanasakeru Seishonen wasn’t all that bad. At least a heroin/erm protag that isn’t crying and chasing the guy (considering this is shojo I mean). I liked the ED, I agree with some other comments somewhere else that the visuals for the opening was kinda strange so that kinda ruined the song for me cos didn’t pay much attention to it. The ending was much better, tho sounds very sad

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