Wagaya no Oinarisama
The best thing about this series? The soundtrack. It surprises me as well, but Wagaya no Oinarisama has been the first series this season where the background music has stood out for me. All other series up till now featured either some cheesy J-Pop (not really my taste to say the least) or obligatory dark tunes that do their job. In this series, however, the music is subtle, yet very varied. One moment you hear a violin, then comes a flute, and then it’s the turn for the piano. Also, any soundtrack that has a choir is automatically win in my opinion. About the rest of the series: it’s solid so far. The characters are likable, and there’s some good chemistry between them. The story is nothing special, but this series seems to go for the slice-of-life route anyway. For now, it’s looking interesting enough.
Neo Angelique Abyss
Okay, let me correct that statement a bit: nearly every soundtrack that has a choir is automatically win in my opinion. You can of course always take it too far. I’ve found that obscure series are always either incredibly good or incredibly bad, and this one’s obviously of the bad kind. Really, it’s hilarious to see all the clichés present: a huge cast of bishies, all great fighters, a pretty female lead who has huge powers that enable her to stand in the centre of all these bishies, lots of angelic themes, and as a bonus, the evil power of the bad guy’s monsters turns out to give everyone it touches (except for the bishies for some strange reason) wrinkles. Of course, the worst fear for any young girl! I’ve ranted a lot about bad shounen-series, but that doesn’t mean that the shoujo-series don’t have their disasters as well. 😛
Da Capo II Second Season
Err… don’t ask me why I found it a good idea to check out the fourth instalment of Da Capo. It was worth a good laugh at the predictable plot here (and of course the waking-up scene couldn’t be missing), but I admit that there have been far worse series this season than this one. This is really another one of those “rainy-day anime”, which you can watch on a rainy day if you need to spend time other than taking for example your dog out to walk. However, that takes me to the huge size of this franchise. Including this series, there’ll be 78 freaking episodes. I acknowledge that this is a nice series to relax and all, but I really can’t imagine myself sitting through 10 episodes of virtually the same over and over again, let alone eighty-seven.
You know, I was really surprised I enjoyed Wagaya…because I generally do not like such shows. There is little plot and it feels like the kind of slice-of-life series that just goes along with episodic monsters. However, the seiyuu is good, Tenko interesting as a main female lead and it’s voiced by Yukana. All in all, it’s probably one of the shows that you watch but do not know why you watch it ^^
I agree that the voice-acting was very good as well. It really is a simple series, but well executed, and that’s enough for me to enjoy it.
I really don’t mind the silly cliche shoujo shows personally. Angelique never comes across as any type of innovative classic, but I think it’s nice enough. Hopefully someone will fansub it.