[W] End of 2011 Quick Anime Review
Wow… time went by quickly. For the record I’m still working on my summer week 6 to 13 post (facepalm).
Anyway, here’s a quick and dirty run down of shows I’ve watched, liked, disliked, and left in backlog hell. And no, I’m not going to do charts this time.
Updated: 07/25/2012
Favorite show of the season:
Winter : Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
Spring : Tiger & Bunny
Summer : Kamisama Dolls
Fall : Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon
Good:
Infinite Stratos – Jelly wars! France-tan is god tier
Kore wa Zombie desu ka – Mmm… Plate armor
Dog Days – May I take them home with me?
The World God Only Knows 2 – I want a season 3!
Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko – Meme stole the show.
Usagi Drop – My parental instincts connected with this show
Fate/Zero* – Broskander ftw! if only…
Shakugan no Shana 3* – Slow start but now we’ve got 3 battle going on at the same time.
Alright:
- Ro-Kyu-Bu – My summer guilty pleasure
- Mayo Chiki – I wasn’t expecting much out of this but it turned out hilariously good
- Kamisama no Memo-chou – Alice!!!
- Mawaru PenguinDrum – My brain broke from too much symbolism
- Dantalian no Shoka – yesu
- Ben-to – I initially dismissed this as a show about poorfags for poorfags but I ended up enjoying it
- Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai – Mmm… Meat x Kobato. Enjoyed this one from start to finish
- Persona 4* – It meets my expectations, haven’t finished the game so everything after Kanji’s arc is all new to me
- Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam* – Cute girls stealing battle airships and there’s Alvis too :3
- Working 2 – They stuck to the same formula that worked well in season 1.
So-so:
- C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control – It started off as Persona with economics but then just fizzled out
- Hidan no Aria – JC Staff QUALITY!
- C3: CubexCursedxCurious – It wasn’t quite the harem show I was expecting. On the bright side, I do like some of the characters
- Mobile Suit Gundam Age* – It’s sad that I’m only watching this show for Yurin and Emily. The mecha designs are blah.
- Guilty Crown* – I’m gonna go ahead and say Shuu has earned the Worst Protagonist of the Year award from me. Ayase, Tsugumi, and Hare are the ones that keep me from dropping this show.
- Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai – The first 6 episodes were hilarious but then it got too serious at 7 and just couldn’t pick itself back up.
- No. 6 – I gave it another chance and it turned out to be acceptable enough. Sucks to be Safu though.
Why did I even bother?
- Fractale – Yamakan, you were supposed to save the anime industry with this…
- Yumekui Merry – Seriously, why did I even bother finishing this?
Backlog hell:
- Gosick
- Softenni
- Astarotte no Omocha – Not sure if I really want to finish this or just drop it.
- Ao no Exorcist
No. 6- The iDOLM@STER – I plan to finish this by the end of next week
Working 2Boku wa Tomodachi ga SukunaiMaji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai
Dropped:
- Hanasaku Iroha
- Steins;Gate
Stats:
37 shows
6 currently still airing
2 dropped
5 in backlog hell
* = Still airing
After what happened back in spring, I decided to be even more cautious and avoid shows that I had a feeling I would drop. I think I did well. Here’s to hoping I have 0 dropped shows and a smaller backlog list next year.