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Razon · #99 Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 3:01 am

Well needless to say I procrastinated and got behind on making my anime posts again, I'm taking the time to write about it now since I at least wanted to get some of it done before the new year arrives.

It's been awhile since I watched the prior anime season again, so my descriptions for the anime series will be mostly quick, brief and lacking specific details again like for the prior season in my last big anime post.

Will list them starting from my most to least favorite as usual, not including continuations from the prior season I nabbed 15 in total this time, a lot were kind of bland though.

So without further ado, here's my Summer (2011) anime season list.

Yuru Yuri
Natsume Yuujinchou San (sequel)
Nichijou (continue)
The Idolmaster
Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni! (sequel)
Mawaru Penguin Drum
Sacred Seven
Usagi Drop
Morita-San wa Mukuchi
Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi
Rou Kyuu Bu!
Hanasaku Iroha (continue)
Kamisama Dolls
Nekogami Yaoyorozu
Ao no Exorcist (continue)
Dantalian no Shoka
Kamisama no Memo-Chou
Ikoku Meiro no Croisée

Yuru Yuri
This anime is the show that I looked forward to watching each week for this season. What we have set up here is a bunch of lively characters, and great humor to go along with them. The Kyoko character helped make the anime, always stealing the show.

Natsume Yuujinchou San
This season of Natsume didn't seem like it had those touching moments at the end of each episode like the prior 2 seasons had to offer that I liked, but it was still quite an enjoyable continuation of the story.

Nichijou
I originally ranked this anime low in my last anime post, but that turned out to be a mistake, it was the only anime in my list that I had only watched a couple episodes for. Once I watched a few more I got used to the style of humor that it had to offer, and there was the introduction of new characters as well. By that point I really started to enjoy this anime, so I'm ranking it quite high now. It's certainly a great comedy show, but as Regulus had stated before the type of humor may not be for everyone. I of course didn't find many things funny either, it had it's better and worse episodes.

The Idolmaster
When I first started the show I didn't expect too much from it, but it did get better and turned out pretty decent. Many seem to want a second season for it, but I'm fine either way since they finished it well.

Mawaru Penguin Drum
Well this show was a bit different, the first half can tend to be awkward or annoying at times. I mainly enjoyed the second half, since they got serious and explained most of the stuff.

Morita-San wa Mukuchi
I would of liked for the show to be longer than a few minutes, the OVA for it offered a view of what it would be like if it was a normal length show. Many of the jokes in the TV Series are re-used or similar to the ones in the OVA, the final TV Series was more polished and better executed than the OVA was. The show was only alright entertainment wise, kind of wish the character would just talk at times instead of remaining silent, but that would go against the theme of the show.

Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi
My first thought about this was simple and it mostly stayed at that, you couldn't have anymore of a lame main character than this, he's extremely weak and thanks to the one element in the story it allows him to keep dying over and over again pathetically.

Kamisama Dolls
It had a few good episodes at points, but otherwise it wasn't too good.

Ao no Exorcist
The show started to stray from the manga at the mid-way point, and it went to complete crap as soon as it did. Even the main story in general probably had less potential than I had originally thought, in any case this show was a disappointment.

Dantalian no Shoka
The fact that the show lacked any real story progress, and that it was completely random episodic stories pretty much ruined a show that otherwise looked like it could be interesting at first.

I'm always up to date with on-going animes, such as Detective Conan, Gintama and Fairy Tail which continue to be entertaining. One Piece renewed my interests in it after it finally stopped dragging and did the long awaited timeskip in the story.

I have yet to start the Fall 2011 anime season or even properly make my list yet, but since it's over and the Winter 2012 anime season is starting now, I'll be watching through each series and writing a more detailed opinion for each of them then I'd normally do. Since I'll be watching each series straight through in a short period of time, compared to watching all of them spread out over the span of 3 months as they air like I'd usually do.

I hadn't started the Fall season yet since I was busy with older animes instead, I'll just mention 2 of the ones that I had watched real quick.

Slayers
This one right here is a nice old classic, I enjoyed each of what the seasons had to offer. The show is about the comedy more than the story, it's has a nice little gathering of characters. There's lots of novel and manga material that they have yet to use and there isn't much in the area of character progression because of that, but it doesn't need it to be entertaining.

Mahoujin Guruguru
I had mentioned an RPG based show before called Master of Epic, which only consisted of random jokes and had no story to go along with it. This show is basically the opposite of that, it follows a story and prioritizes that over the humor, though most of the story is meant to be humorous and not so serious. I liked the first season more than the second, since they were quite different than each other. I believe in the first season there was a lot of filler and they strayed a bit from the original story, so they had to do a partial reset at the start of the second season unfortunately. They lost the voice actor for one of the main characters too, and some of the quite humorous elements like the Sappari Fairy's were near completely gone from the second season. Along with a drop in the quality of the show even though it was made years after the original, it just had an overall different feel to it. I'd like to read the manga at some point, and see how it was originally supposed to play out and end, since the anime didn't cover the entire story.

I eventually need to go through the full list of old animes, so I can find other hidden gems. Because if you randomly go about finding animes to watch, then just when you think you've seen all the good ones there always something entertaining right around the corner that you missed. Though it could be a bit disappointing once I've tackled the list, knowing that there aren't anymore pre-existing interesting animes to come across or watch.

So I was just thinking that I often don't mention anything on what the anime is actually about when I give my opinions on them, and I just say that they either did well or didn't do well, I've thought about mentioning the story at times. We normally just make 1 or 2 anime posts each per season around here, so we rarely talk about the specifics of any series in general anyway. We at least avoid spoilers this way, but opinions can sometime be half-baked without proper mention of certain elements. We also miss out on discussing about stuff that happened in an anime that may have been worth discussing, thought invoking or leaving you guessing at what could happen next.

Also it's nice having a topic for talking about this kind of stuff, I originally started this topic about an anime that I enjoyed at the time but wouldn't go back and mention again. Giving a review or opinion while being caught in the moment often isn't a good idea, since it may not be an accurate representation of what you really think of the show overall and compared to others. I do think the experience of watching a show all at once is better though which I'm doing for the season, but I relax for awhile before writing an opinion now.

Well that wraps-up this overdue anime post, I'll be making another post pretty soon to cover the Fall anime season.