Uchouten Kazoku
Ingredients: Shapeshifting tanuki, human, and flying tengu.
Cooking style: Nabe.
In this anime’s world, there are humans, there are tengu flying in the sky, and there are tanuki who can shapeshift into basically anything. Our hero is a young tanuki who simply loves to have fun, including making himself look like a teenage boy or a schoolgirl. Nothing stand out from the firs episode, but it has potential.
Watching: will try two more episodes
Blogging: no
Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui
Ingredients: An anti-social girl and her extraordinary confidence.
Cooking style: Put the girl in a room, and give her computer with Internet access.
Our heroine is a girl with zero social skill. If you remember Nakata Sae from Amagami SS, this one is worse, a lot worse. Plus her face (and that eye) is one of a kind. Despite all that, she’s confident that she doesn’t belong to the category of “unpopular girl” because boys has talked to her six times during her three years in middle school. Yes, those six “conversations” are about asking the next class, dropping eraser and borrowing textbook.
Watching: yes, this is strangely funny
Blogging: less likely
Kiniro Mosaic
Ingredients: A Japanese girl, London.
Cooking style: Put a Japanese girl in London, make her live with a local family.
During the first few minutes, I can’t help but realizing how similar this anime to Ikoku Meiro no Croisee. Luckily the characters of Kiniro Mosaic have their own charm. Depend on the execution, this anime might turn up interesting.
Watching: most probably
Blogging: less likely
Genshiken Nidaime
Ingredients: A “normal” fujoshi (female otaku), a crossdresser boy, a pervert, a yuri girl, a so-far-still-looks-normal girl, a girl who loves BL and a chubby girl who likes to draw manga.
Cooking style: Draw a handsome guy in a whiteboard during club recruitment and you will attract new members, weird ones.
This is a story about an otaku circle and their new recruitment. Nothing flashy in the first episode, but it’s a fun watch.
Watching: yes
Blogging: no
Gin no Saji
Ingredients: A normal boy, farm animals, farming school.
Cooking style: Put the boy into a farming school, add lots of cows, chickens and ask him to collect eggs. Soon he will finally learn where chicken eggs came from.
A normal boy choose a farming school because it’s a boarding school so he doesn’t need to go home. So I guess he has his own problems at home. But little does he know about farming, or even about animal. And all his friends are all have clear goal for attending such school, making him the different one.
Watching: maybe
Blogging: no
Gatchaman Crowds
Ingredients: A bunch of weirdos, power to transform.
Cooking style: give power of transform to a bunch of weirdos, and have them fight weird enemies that can take any shape. Add a mysterious tall man and a talking panda for seasoning.
This is our dosage of kamen heroes this season. Watch it if it’s your taste.
Watching: maybe
Blogging: no
Kimi no Iru Machi
Ingredients: Sweet past memories, new city, new friends.
Cooking style: Move to a new city, make new friends while stalking (err, chasing) an old crush.
I always love Kimi no Iru Machi manga and was excited when reading about a TV series. First episode shocked me a bit, they choose not to start from the beginning of the manga story. Rather, this anime takes the hero’s move to Tokyo as starting point, and treats everything before that as flashback memories. Perhaps some relevant back story will be revealed later when necessary. Considering that the actual manga story is long and has some complications, I doubt they can cover everything in one season.
Watching: yes
Blogging: maybe
Fate ⁄ Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya
Ingredients: Characters from the usual Fate series, plus a talking stick.
Cooking style: Put the characters into an alternate universe so we can use them in different storyline.
It’s the Fate story we know and love. This time taking the concept of magical girl. The usual magical wand in almost every anime about magical girl now can talk, can scold its master, can escape on its own, and can trick someone else to become its new master.
Watching: yes
Blogging: maybe
Hyperdimension Neptunia The Animation
Ingredients: Four Goddesses, four countries, moe moe factor.
Cooking style: Use four Goddesses who can transform into moe/cuter version. Add four nations competing for energy.
Our main heroine is a lazy Goddess from Neptune, and she will find her excuses to avoid working.
Watching: most likely
Blogging: no
Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Megami-Hen
Ingredients: A game addict, a cute demon, a bunch of girls.
Cooking style: Earn gaming skill to conquer real girls.
The third season ! This is Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai we know and love. This time, we are introduced to another being: Goddess.
Watching: yes
Blogging: less likely
Plus we still have Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince and To Aru Kagaku no Railgun S continuing from Spring. And KyoAni’s “Free” is intentionally ignored (I drop it before even watching an episode).
