Looking back on this season:

The last episode of Absolute Duo just ran, and I've found two different blog posts that say the show ultimately stunk: Metanorn Aroduc

It's what I expected. As soon as the Lilith character was introduced I knew the show was going into the toilet. So this isn't remotely a surprise, but it's sure a shame. The basic concept had potential, but every time it had the opportunity to develop that potential it didn't do it.

Speaking of other shows, Wonderduck still holds out hope for Kancolle but my money is on that one being a trainwreck too. (I would leave comments about it on his blog, but I still can't.)

Dog Days S3 has been everything we expected it to be: not a masterpiece, but definitely good. It's kind of half way between the first series and the second one in feel, with multi-episode plot arcs and new characters which are interesting and fun. Flognard is a big planet, and it's nice that we're expanding our horizons and seeing more and more of it.

Nanatsu no Taizai has been outstanding. I know most of how it's going to end from the manga and it will be thoroughly satisfying, so I'm sure the anime won't disappoint.

Fairy Tail isn't coming to an end any time soon, but it's a bit disappointing that they've been doing so many anime-original (read "filler") episodes. We're fifty episodes into this round, and they stuck with the manga for the first 25 eps. ep 27 was in the manga, and ep 28 was partially based on a manga chapter, and ep 44 was from the manga. Aside from that, it's all been filler.

The manga is up to chapter 425, and as best I can tell, the last manga chapter which has been used in the anime as part of a continuous story is 340. So there's plenty of material to work with (two entire story arcs) and they seem to be keeping them for a rainy day.

I stopped watching Shinmai Maou no Testament with the second episode, and the only blog I follow which has been posting about it is Fapservice, which just posted the fact that a second season has been approved. Good lord. In essence they're appealing to the same audience as High School DxD, which show I also gave up on. And HSDxD is getting a third season, starting in April. Good lord again.

The Mouretsu PIrates sub hasn't shown up yet. Big surprise. The circle stopped updating status on it a couple of months ago, so at this point I think we can assume it's dead. We probably won't be able to tell what's going on in this movie until a North American BD release, which is a problem because no one here has licensed it.

So overall it hasn't been too bad, compared to some seasons where I had nothing at all I wanted to watch. Some disappointments, but there are always disappointments, and there was good stuff too.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 08:58 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
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