I have been silent for the past 2 months, I realize that this is quite unprofessional and I appologize for my absence to all who awaited more content. This summer has been "busy" for me, which I will detail below. I have watched quite a few anime and rewatched others which warrants a review as they are fairly fresh in my mind. The most recent series which I have watched is Akame ga Kill! which absolutely exceeded my expectations so this is what I will be covering as my next review, from there I will reroute back to a review which I started writing but never finished: Black Lagoon Roberta's Bloodtrail.
What have I been doing with my time? Well that is a question which is a little difficult to answer as I can't even remember some stuff as this whole summer has melded together with sleep schedules being thrown out the window and excessive amounts of time spent doing random things. I began the summer by playing some xbox games but I quickly tired of this and moved to the computer. I then began playing through tons of steam games and keeping up with other games, what really became a defining factor was my choice to buy Counterstrike Global Offensive as it allowed me to meet possibly the greatest friend I have ever met online. We have essentially been no lifing different games since we found eachother in a Counterstrike casual match which I was playing because I was on competitive cooldown. Over time our friendship flourished and we are where we are now.
After we played a lot of counterstrike I moved to no lifing World of Warcraft which lasted on month and had me hitting level cap and being close to it on a few others. After about 40 days of constant World of Warcraft play I moved to EVE online which happened a few days ago or more accurately 5 or 6 days ago, its really hard to tell as I keep staying up close to 30 hours at a time playing while doing other things as I am part of a mining corporation and have been appointed as the broker because I accel at investing our money and making a hefty profit.
I have in this time watched quite a few anime and bolstered my collection a fair amount, including many anime and finishing collecting every single book that has ever been released in the Dance in the Vampire Bund series. Though I haven't even started reading the 5th omnibus yet, too busy doing other things and want something to do in study hall at school. The reason for this is that unfortunately my phone broke and I lost every single contact to friends I had made in the last year at a completely different school which I won't be attending this year. It took about 5 hours to get over it so I am not infallible, though it took me that long because I was scared shitless about what my mother would do when she found out (She can be quite scary when it comes to money). So now that updates are out of the way it is time to list the reviews I will be releasing in order of release. (Dates are unknown as it really comes down to inspiration and not wanting to overload the passing traveler that stumble by this blog on the internet highway)
Akame ga Kill
Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail OVA
Joshiraku
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Dragon Ball Z Battle of Gods
Strike Witches 2
Spice and Wolf (I rewatched it because I bought the complete series boxset)
That is series which I can guarantee will be done in that order as I have finished them. Here is a list of series I am watching and don't know when I will be done, some I have been trying to watch for years.
Ranma 1/2: I watched most of the series when I was in middle school and am revisiting it to truly appreciate it
One Piece: This will probably end when I turn 40 but I started watching it and have been enjoying it
Naruto: I have watched the whole first part of the series 3 times in my life but would like to watch from start to finish now that the series actually has an end. It will just be milked but hey it won't be called naruto or they are lying. Currently I am most of the way through the first part of the series before Shipuden so I will review it when I am done
Gintama: this is a series which I watched the 2 episode special because I heard it was funny and went "this is that Aqua Teen Hunger Force type of humor but just plain hard to understand at points" so I may or may not finish this series, haven't watched more than the special yet so we will see
Lucky Star: I have heard so much about this series and enjoy the opening so I decided to start lucky star and have enjoyed it but pretty much ration it out because it is a type of show that should be enjoyed over time
Blazblue Alter Memory: I decided to watch this after seeing some stuff about it and liking the opening so I am a few episodes in, little depressed that it only got dubbed for 2 episodes because the voices were good for those episodes, high quality compared to most quick cash-ins which I have seen lately.
Trigun: This is a series which has been dear to my heart my whole time in the anime fandom and I am re-watching it on the box-set I bought so I can give it a proper review, I also bought some of the omnibuses for the series.
Asa Made Jugyou Chu! : I heard this was a bad cross dressing anime but it is short and I thought "might as well knock this one off my list sooner than later"
Bakuretsu Tenshi: I highly enjoy the character designs in this show and the music/atmosphere of the show but the character interaction feels barren, very bleak, which is why I am only 6 episodes in so far
Black Rock Shooter: (I can't make a star Icon so don't judge the name not being accurate) I have been trying to watch this show for something like 2 years now and haven't made a ton of progress, usually I end up starting over. I enjoy the shows cgi parts but the show feels just unpleasant at points which makes it hard to watch.
Free!: I have heard a lot of praise from some people as they laughed a lot watching this show. I have seen some hilarious vines involving this show and it seems to have some really nice character interactions.
Girls Und Panzer: The concept of tank warfare on aircraft carriers that hold nations just sounds insane so I feel like I need to check this out. also Girls Und Panzer Tokyo Drift needs to be a thing with that one scene
Monogatari Second Season, Hannamonogatari, Tsukimonogatari, Nekomonogatari: I lump all these into one because they are ostensibly the same series, they have the same characters etc. I enjoyed the first to seasons to I have high expectations for the rest of it.
Hataraku Maou-sama! (Devil is a Part-Timer): I had no desire to watch this show until I saw it with an anime club I hung out with. The show is quite humorous and even made my mom laugh quite a lot when she watched it.
K-On!: I have heard relentless praise of the show where nothing happens: Seinfeld, oh wait that's the show about nothing. K-On! has received relentless praise and has inspired the whole moe slice of life genre along with lucky star. I also watch Joshiraku which constantly compares itself to K-On! and makes jokes about it.
Katanagatari: 12 hours of my life I will spend watching this dialogue heavy show written by the same writer as the monogatari franchise, why don't I just buy the damned book?
Kiss x Sis: This show...oh this show... the dad needs a medal and it surprisingly doesn't appeal to me that much. It is funny, but the fanservice is over the top and fetishy, if I want an imouto show I will watch Oreimo as it is much better. However I feel like I have to finish this because I knew a girl freshman year of highschool that had this is her absolute favorite series.
Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead: I highly enjoyed the first season of Is This a Zombie? and have been saving the second season as a palette cleanser.
Log Horizon: I began this show while it was airing but it simply slipped by as I watched other shows.
Seikoku no Dragonar: I bought the first volume of this manga and cringed at how bad it was, at least there were occasional tits but even then it was tasteless fanservice. I found out at the back that there was an anime and had to see just how bad it was considering it took the only redeeming factor of the manga and got rid of it making it complete garbage
Seitokai Yakuindomo: I stumbled on a collection of funny scenes from this anime and laughed my ass off, so I have this in here because I will watch it when I blow through everything else on this list
Shakugan no Shana: Oh Tabitha Saint Germain please do more anime dubs, I have been most of the way through this series for a while and enjoyed it a lot. It has many flaws but overall is a good watch.
Space Dandy: (again can't do stars) I have heard praise for this show all around and loved the episode I watched when it premiered, I just don't watch toonami but a few times a year.
Sword Art Online II: this... this show is so bad that I have a whole series where Digibro tried to pick out parts he found to be the worst. I am only a few episodes in and it is just so much talking with nothing going on. Stale air and anvil sized drops of exposition on top of blue haired gamer bait camel toe and a useless villian with more plot holes than tits made of swiss.
Tsukuyomi Moon Phase: This is a series which is fun to watch and was recommended to me for a month before I started watching it.
There you have it, a list of anime which you can expect to see in the future, as a side note always assume there will be surprises. See you in the next post!
