Animu minute 2010: Winter of our dissed-content
So it's time for another useless, brief rundown of Japanese cartoons and my thoughts on them. After all, I don't have any more classes today, politics is still incredibly depressing, laundry's getting done, comedy's on hold and my XBOX 360 is still sitting at the house back in my hometown. So let's get to it!
In no particular order...
Durarara!!: Basically, it's Baccano! transplanted to modern-day Ikebukuro instead of America in the '30s. Baccano! was an awesome show, so it figures for the sequel they have to put on TWO EXCLAMATION POINTS!! Having said that, it does seem to be good so far.
Dance in the Vampire Bund: Vampires that transform into spiders and giant bats and shit happen to be led by a 10 year old girl (okay, fine, she's actually much older in the story, but good luck making that distinction to the police), and a werewolf boy is sorta in love with her. The first episode was an interesting twist on the story, but the second episode...actually, I think viewing the second episode could literally be against the law in some countries. Not just because it is bad, but...okay, it is that bad. And there's a scene where wolf-boy rubs sci-fi suntan lotion over the loli vampire's naked body.
I blame myself for thinking this show would be any good.
Ladies vs. Butlers: What's freakier--the loli who claims to be 19 years old (oh suuurrrre), the clumsy maid who nearly suffocates the male lead with her crotch (twice!), or this hairstyle? Goddamn, you could hide a fucking bomb or two in that thing.
Omammori Himari: Rosario + Vampire with more fanservice and a male lead who's allergic to cats. In other words, if you've watched any shonen animu in the past, you've probably seen this show already. Don't bother.
So-Ra-No-Wo-To: It's just K-ON with a dash of Strike Witches, and instead of cake they talk about playing music. If they had tried ripping off Kelly's Heroes or the plot to the first Battlefield: Bad Company, I would enjoy this show a lot more. The only redeeming quality of this show is that they at least give the underage girls some clothes and the background artwork is pretty well done. Still, you have to excuse the fact that the army has a garrison entirely staffed by a dumbass, a hot-head, a narcoleptic, a naif and an unlucky CO who probably aren't old enough to buy a beer by themselves, let alone be accepted into the army.
tl;dr, fuck this show.
The Idiot, The Test, and the Summon [or whatever the fuck they're calling it]: The only sorta watchable show this season after Durarara!!, because while the premise sounds real stupid (Pokemon with educational test-score monsters instead of Pikachu) at least they don't take themselves that seriously. At times, I think I actually laughed at some of the jokes. Then I felt ashamed.
Seikon No Qwaser: Bad generic-shonen animu so heavily censored you can barely tell what's going on? Or animu that wants so badly to be a hentai yet fails in appealing to a larger audience? As I might've said before, think Full Metal Alchemist set in an Eastern Orthodox church, but instead of drawing a circle on the ground the alchemists get their powers from sucking someone's breasts. The only silver lining being that at least the male lead isn't a giant wuss unlike practically every other shonen-esque show I've seen the past year.
Cobra The Animation: Not good, but not bad either compared to the rest of the crap this season. Just imagine if James Bond was set IN SPACE! and had a Mega Man-like cannon built into his arm, it's kinda like that.
The Legend of Koizumi: Koizumi and Aso join forces to battle Kim Jong-Il and his son in the MOST EPIC BATTLE OF MAHJONG EVER! Guest-starring both members of the Bush dynasty. Fucking hilarious.