Fall Anime 2015 Completion Thoughts

Kowabon - So an interesting short anime series using rotoscoping, each episode pretty much follows the same format of tension and a bit of a jumpscare,
It's very short, each episode approximately 3 minutes long and if you're interested at all in the animation style, go watch it. One more thing, after each episode played alongside the ending theme, they give you a snippet of the behind the scenes production of the current episode.

Kagewani - A short-form anime that I really enjoyed, mostly due to how they animated this one. It was just interesting to see how they went about it, almost like paper cutouts. The story held a bit of mystery and it held a monster-of-the-week format. I really just enjoyed the experimental approach with this one.

Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru - Also known as Beautiful Bones, I'm sure this was on many watchlists during the Fall season. Like Kagewani, it also had the format of 'bones of dead person per week'. In the beginning, the characters were promising and I thought they would be developed more, I mean they did but not hugely, just subtlely and not really in a big impact, the stories were great though, in my opinion. I really enjoy backstories in general and watching Sakurako figure out how each person died or what led to their death was an interesting process. I think like a small bit of drama scene happened in the end but honestly I don't remember, there wasn't a running story throughout the series, not that I can recall anyway.

Diabolik Lovers More, Blood - Yay! More Diabolik Lovers and you know what, more vampires! Who doesn't want more vampires constantly sucking your blood without your permission?! The dream right?! Ah, honestly I did enjoy season 1 despite the lack of action that is ever taken by Yui and I did like binge watch season 1 which led me to continue watching onto this season. Which just includes more bishie vampires hunting for Yui's blood and all these misconstrue-able scenes, when I reached episode 12 I thought I could finally leave this series to rest. In that last episode however, I got a glimpse of werewolf boys and I am frightened that I may be watching a season 3 of this anime...

One Punch Man - onepunchmanonepunchmanonepunchmanonepunchmanONEPUNCHMAN, omg this show, the feels and I don't mean it's heartbreaking, making me teary-eyed feels, the feels of the fighting spirit and over-powered awesomeness and GENOS -insert heart eyes-, you beautiful blonde cyborg. Aside from that reaction, if you like action in any way and a bit of comedy, drop whatever you are watching and go start watching One Punch Man, for Genos, for Saitama and for Mugen Rider. As I had mentioned in my previous post, I had not read anything of One Punch Man before other than hearing from other people that it was great, all I ever heard was praise for the webcomic/manga but nothing else, so I did go in expecting it to be great and it did meet my expectations and that my friend is amazing.

Dance with Devils - One that I wasn't able to cover in my part 1 of the Fall anime post, so I'm just going to include it here with my concluding thoughts on the series.

" A kind hearted girl who has a bit of an attitude, some pretty artwork, some singing and.....fighting? devil worshippers? say whaaaaat?! " - Serkunet

That's pretty much what I got from the first episode of the show. It did take me by surprise though, the first 5 minutes with the scene showing Ritsuka (the MC) and her mother gave us a nice understanding of their close relationship, it was touching and just good feels all round and then you get the silliness of the guys just singing (that's how we are introduced to the harem) and then just some story with the devils and this grimoire people seem to be going after our main girl for. I wanted to give the reverse harem musicals another go, since I didn't really enjoy Uta no Prince-sama, so never delved into any further seasons of that series.
     I did end up enjoying this series, I'm surprised another girl had some sort of an important role besides our lead girl. The music was good, some nice songs in there that I quite enjoyed, Lindo's singing voice I'm just in love with! The story was fine, not exciting really, I mean it is based on an otome game, so I don't know if it followed any particular route, these adaptations generally don't, if ever. I was surprised that Ritsuka did end up choosing someone at the end though! Instead of leaving it undecided and just letting you ship whoever to your heart's content!
If you like reverse harems and musical anime, might as well try the series out, otherwise I think you can safely skip this anime.

One final thought on the series, what is up with Ritsuka's hat in this outfit?! Is it attached to a hidden headband? is it tied to her head?! How is it staying put?!

Ending note: I never did get around to watching Comet Lucifer and Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou, it's on my plan-to-watch list though, so one day I'll get around to it, I'm still watching Dragonball Super and Garo: Crimson Moon, but sure you can keep up with what I'm currently watching and might be posting about on my MyAnimeList and Twitter will mostly likely just have me either ranting or gushing about something.