Time for a bump!
My favorite this season was without contest Aoi Bungaku. Or I should say my favorites, each classic book they adapted was handled so differently they all felt like different mini-series. I did not find that the latter ones were as good as the first, No Longer Human, but that's only because the first one set the bar really high.
Still, if I hadn't been told what they animated are considered Great Japanese Novels, I would never had guessed.
So that made me curious: did they handpick books that would make fine anime, or did they totally gut the books to make them work as anime?
Since I'll never read these books, I'll take the safe guess, and preventively condemn them immoral otaku for desecrating monuments of literature in the name of capitalism.
I'd also enjoy watching another season of that.
Trapeze was really pretentious, filled with gratuitous "so random XD" trippy visuals, and every episode followed the exact same formula.
Seriously, every episode was the same.
Local male exhibits symptoms of the crazies, go see plushie shrink, gratuitous 3d injection fetish scene, gratuitous animal head, character development and brutal therapy, signs or remission, see you next week, repeat 8 times before they start tweaking the formula for the last episodes, the end.
So yeah, I really loved Trapeze. If you wanna argue with that I will proceed to tell you why Utena is one of my favorite shows.
The 2nd season of Darker than Black made no sense to me and had a terrible cliché ending.
Like the first, actually, so in a sense it didn't tarnish its legacy!
It was entertaining, but I prefer shows that do not expect you to take notes or buy reference materials. I already find myself hitting gamefaqs too often, I'd rather not need a strategy guide to figure out the basic plot of my cartoons.
Regarding the usual sex-free pornos I really should know better than to watch: I don't understand what Sora no Otoshimono is trying to do - besides selling heaps of character songs.
You feel like the team behind it really believe in their project, they've got some pretty good cash to burn, but they just can't hide how weak their standard "harem of sex slaves the main character won't fuck" original manga material is. Their horrible way of blending the comedy bits and the serious parts really makes it a really painful watch, but a special kind of painful I had never experienced this acutely.
I mean in the first episode, the dumb robot girl kills all humans and the main character drives her to attempt suicide except lol j/k the robot girl also has the reset button power. Or how the main character is at the very real risk of being beheaded by yakuza or being shot with a gun by his childhood friend, and in both case it's entirely supposed to be a comedy situation. I can't even begin to understand that. Kinda neat that Glorious Nippon can still cause me new culture shocks.
So, for the winter.
I'll have to watch Dance in the Vampire Bund, because vampires, and Shaft. Yeah.
I eagerly await a bitter disappointment from Katanagatari, Ookamikakushi, and Durara!!.
Ok, VIPPERs, report on anime you've endured or plan to!