Category: Future

The CM Appeal: Autumn

Posted by Ryan A - September 24, 08

Based on the commercials I’ve seen, my current AMPINGS (with bias, duh):

  • Gundam 00 Second Season

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    Previews were a little abstract, but we know where this is going. Play point, the new Celestial Being.

  • Nodame Cantabile: Paris Chapter

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    Only wondering if the “recent” drama special will be mixing substance. Nodame’s VA does really good anyhow.

  • Toradora!

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    This wasn’t going to be in here, but I managed to come across a real preview, with voices and art. Yes, I want it NAO~! The light novel does a very nice job, and I hope this series comes off a little different than other tsundere-trademarked shows (Zero, Shana, etc); there is no magic and fantasy!

  • A Certain Magical Index

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    The designs and production appear solid. In terms of assurance, I think I can rely on it *saran wraps his words for a later date*

  • Michiko to Hatchin

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    Very stylish, hot, fun. Is this really my second Autumn gear-up post? Do I even have time for all these series?

  • ef - a tale of melodies

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    Okay, biggest question. While a tale of memories centered around Chihiro, who had memory issues, is this one centered around a deaf girl? Are we aiming for new moe modes, or what?

  • Kannagi

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    This was the series that bumped me to write this post. I cannot ascertain what genre this may dominate, but it surely looks like 1) slice-of-life 2) mahou 3) shoujo 4) not mahou-shoujo.

  • Corpse Princess

    Oh My God, what studio is this?

Notice: Yozakura Quartet were not included, because I didn’t see any decent CM on them. So what’s that 9 series? Also, previous Autumn dabbling was here.

Autumn in the North :: 2008

Posted by Ryan A - August 19, 08

Impz and co, did their Autumn seasonal preview already. A few weeks ago, I wishlisted some of these on melative. While the season is still weeks away, I’m pretty set in my choices.

Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka
Game conversion, sweet art, just for giggles.
ef - a tale of melodies
It’s ef
Gundam 00 Second Season
It’s G00, and yes Extrange got it right!
Kuro Shitsuji
Black Butler, could be mesmerizing, worth a taste.
Kyo no Go ni
Looks Awesome, still haven’t watched the OVA dammit
Nodame Cantabile - Paris Chapter
It’s Nodame
Shikabane Hime
It’s GAINAX
Skip Beat
It’s shoujo
To Aru Majutsu no Index
Reading some of the manga, extensive light novel source.Cute charas
TodaDora!
Reading the light novel, and Extrange gets it right here as well. TAIGA RABU 4EVA!
Yozakura Shijuusou
I like large casts, and the premise is stimulating.

There’s a lot of promise in the pool, and with so many shows airing, my Autumn 08 season could be growing. As usual, episodic reflections will be on melative.

Note to self: Need a nice javascript/WP integration to the melative API so that these titles aren’t so bland (this is really easy, but I’m working on other things)

Winter Service

Posted by Ryan A - December 29, 06

Wandering snowland...

There’s really no need for me to go into the details of my January selection as hashihime has already put together some useful info on a good portion of the January premiers. It really seems I just grabbed the moe ones and hardly any shounen-style, but I expect to probably lose interest in a couple of these (just facing reality). Here’s some found in hashihime’s descripts:

  • Nodame Cantabile (watched the live-action, it’s fun)
  • Manabi Straight (cute characters, but the trailer didn’t “set-me-off”)
  • Venus Versus Virus (more anticipated)
  • Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora (more anticipated; wishing to see how if it will relate to Kannazuki no Miko, ie)

Edit: Definitely some confusion on my part, I guess I should have looked at the end dates on the anidb.info calendar, because it is totally off. My bad! ^_^, Thanks Danny n Demien for pointing this out :). Anyway, Polyphonica, Ketai Shoujo, Lucky Star, Seto no Hanayome look like Spring. Nanatsurio Drops looks like it may be further off.

I took a glance at the calendar on anidb a month ago and jotted it in because the start date was 01.01.2007. Note to self: be skeptical of dates airing from 01.01.2007 to 12.31.2007. A dead giveaway of how incorrect that calendar is could probably be seen with the Zero 2 and Higurashi 2 being listed for January, which is error all the way (though they weren’t listed a month ago). Funny thing is that going through February and March on the calendar, I really didn’t take to anything else. So I’ll change the title and remove most of those series, and blah, this post sucked. Oh well, [note kawaii snow miko instead].

Ara~~ ^_^
I was only a bit confused ^^

I guess if my Winter outlook is sparse, it is for the better. More time to keep up with Fall shows and eat up the backlog. Yaay!

Ryan A