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.

Fall Anime 2015: Picks Part 1

So I haven't been able to start this season from day 1 as I had to finish up Snow White with Red Hair and Sore ga Seiyuu!. They're both enjoyable but I just haven't gotten around to finishing them!

Anyway I eventually got around to watching the first episode of the ones I had initially picked out for this season. There wasn't much to be excited about for me this season, other than a few things that I picked just from their summary, any sequels or anything like that, that I know has hype, I just never got around to watching the first season so they won't be appearing either, but let's see what my reactions were for the following:

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Diabolik Lovers More, Blood - I already knew I wanted to watch this when I heard this was getting a sequel, as I had binge watched the first season one late night! At only 12 mins per episode, how can you not? It's such an awful anime with awful messages but I can't help but keep watching, it's my guilty pleasure anime for sure.
If you're not aware, this anime is a reverse harem, where all the pretty boys (bishounens) the main girl is stuck with are bloodthirsty vampires, always after her blood. I really don't care what happens to anyone in this show, I think I just watch it for how pretty and dark the atmosphere/setting is.
     As you can see I  haven't really mentioned anything about this season yet, as nothing happened other than 4 new characters being introduced that will chase and set fear into the protagonist as every other character in this anime series does!

Garo: Guren no Tsuki - Considering how much I liked the last Garo anime, I had to pick this one up! All new characters and setting, so there's no need to have watched the previous season, although if you want to understand some of the concepts in the Garo universe you might want to, but it's not necessary to have watched any Garo stuff prior to this.
     If you're not familiar with Garo, it's dark, there's blood and gore and it's got a wonderful soundtrack, at least the one before did anyway. This season is set in what seems to be feudal Japan, the animation is nice, though the only bit I find really pretty is the way they have drawn Seimei, one of the main characters (pictured above). The drawing style is less distinctive than last season's I think. It may be a more lighthearted series though? Hard to say really, I'm not even sure if much happened in that first episode other than introduction of 1 Makai Alchemist, Seimei and the Golden Knight (an inherited power), Raikou. But yea, not much happened, I suppose the battle was a bit interesting :/ maybe.....

Kagewani - If you're looking for something that's not animated traditionally, check Kagewani out! It's like a paper cutout style, it's a mere 7 mins per episode. A suspense filled, mystery solving anime. We follow a detective who is investigating in deaths caused by monster attacks. I think the anime could be better with it's horror aspect if they didn't show the monsters in full. The style they went for definitely adds to the suspense, though everytime I hear a monster, I imagine it to look like Godzilla. Either way it seems to be a monster of the week type series.

Kowabon - Another interesting horror/thriller type anime, just for how it's made, this was created using rotoscoping, so I hear! I think it works very well for this anime =D
     The first episode did freak me out a bit, honestly I love horror manga but I can't take it in any video format! Gore and such are fine but horror is a no-no for me. But the show is a mere 3 minutes long so I might as well stick with it. Have no idea what the show is about as of yet, if anything, other than to give you the creeps. I think it's just an experimental series, which I'm happy enough to keep up with. Again it is very very short, so no harm in checking out an episode or 2.
The funny thing though is the ending theme is such a total opposite of the actual tone/atmosphere of the anime.

One Punch Man - This show is ridiculous and so over the top, it's amazing. Just simply amazing.
Having gone into this without knowing anything other than alot of people love it immensely, I decided I would pick this one up for sure. It's funny, weird and a bit gruesome all at once. I mean I don't know how it will play out, if a character can just beat everything in One Punch, but it'll just be entertaining AF to watch! Just 5 minutes in and I was already loving the voice actors' performances, just a brilliant start! Also can I just mention that I am also really loving the crazy animation and perspectives, it's just really entertaining to watch!

Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru - Some beautiful animation in this one! The premise of this show caught my interest straight away when I heard about it! The idea of a woman being obsessed with bones really intrigued me, I have no idea what the story would be about or anything but just that single aspect of her just seemed so strange that it became a great incentive for me to pick up this one!
     The animation is quite beautiful to note again, though some of the characters look too cute or moe if you will. I guess it helps that the characters are a bit funny, it's a tad bit hilarious how attached to bones Sakurako-san is. I am enjoying the orchestral soundtrack as well, fits well and really brings a scene together. You've got to hand it to Sakurako when she gets in her zone, her element, that scene with all those bones and that networking going on in her mind was quite a sight for the eyes! I'm a sucker for sequences in general!
     I love that this is a mystery-solving anime, so if you had even the slightest interest in Ranpo Kitan in summer, you might want to give this a try!

Part 2 will be up in a few days hopefully....that will include Comet Lucifer, Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou and Dance With Devils