THAT Animblog's season previews have been the definitive ones for me, in terms of completeness. Here's the latest one.

UPDATE: Little seems to have changed since the last one. This season still looks to be a waste of time.

But there will be fan service. At least we'll have that. Queen's Blade is going to be a mess, but lots of fan service. Tayutama is going to be a mess, but it's an eroge adaptation. Saki is described as "moe fanservice with every fetish under the sun". Shangri-la is the latest series from Gonzo. When has any Gonzo series not had fan service? Not recently, if at all.

Fight Ippatsu! is based on a manga from the mangaka that gave us Mahoromatic, so the smart money bets on fan service from this one, too.

I don't see anything in there that I'd be tempted to watch, let alone to buy if it were released here. But there's enough to make it worth visiting the blogs that do frame grabs. So the spring season shouldn't be quite as bad as winter was.

Besides which, Clannad will be over. (Relief!)

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1 Juuden-chan's work outfit is designed to display camel-toe at all times, so, yeah, expect a bit of fan-service in that one.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at March 08, 2009 01:30 PM (2XtN5)

2 Ditama Bow has drawn another manga that is being adapted to anime.  But it's not exactly "Mahoromatic II."  It's called kissXsis, and view with great caution, as the title gives a clear indication of the contents.  Cute art, though.

Posted by: Toren at March 08, 2009 04:07 PM (RH0jB)

3 Just based on what little I've heard about it, plus the title, that one definitely rates high on the icky scale.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 08, 2009 06:08 PM (+rSRq)

4 Trust me, it's VERY high on the icky scale.  

Posted by: Wonderduck at March 08, 2009 07:42 PM (tMdKd)

5  Trust Wonderduck, it's VERY high on the icky scale.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 08, 2009 09:01 PM (PiXy!)

6 And all of you have seen it. My education is lacking.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 08, 2009 09:05 PM (+rSRq)

7 His comic art is so light and bouncy and cute, it's downright bizarre to read that kind of story while looking at that kind of art.  The anime is a little more to-the-point.  Alarmingly to-the-point.

Posted by: Toren at March 08, 2009 11:28 PM (HUk7J)

8 Hey, there's a new season of Chi's Sweet Home!  Woot!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 09, 2009 05:40 AM (PiXy!)

9 I luck out this season too, guess I'll have to find something else to waste my evenings with.

Posted by: Andy Janes at March 09, 2009 11:20 AM (8sv/y)

10 KissxSis:  Disturbingly high on the icky scale. Because in the back of your mind, you can't help going, "Hell yeah, at his age, I'd have hit on sisters like that!"

Posted by: ubu at March 09, 2009 11:51 AM (i7ZAU)

11 I just skimmed the plot of the first volume of Fight Ippatsu!, and I'd describe it as "Minawa's slightly less clumsy twin sister working as an invisible anti-depression agent".

I haven't spotted the official name of the Juuden-chan ("charge girls") agency, but Our Heroine is Plug Cryostat, and her senpai/rival is Arrester Blanket. They can fly around in both their short-skirted office uniforms (pantsu!) as well as their skin-tight plug-suits. Plug's the only one who wears bunny-ears, though.

Oh, and there was a bookmark of some random character nobody would care about.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at March 09, 2009 01:53 PM (2XtN5)

12 Umm, it says "Ikki-tou-sen" right on top of the image.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at March 09, 2009 02:30 PM (/ppBw)

13 ...and I named the file mou-chan.jpg for a reason...

Posted by: J Greely at March 09, 2009 02:42 PM (2XtN5)

14 I am quite fond of Mou-chan...

Posted by: Wonderduck at March 09, 2009 07:02 PM (tMdKd)

15 Plug Cryostat?  Arrester Blanket?

Do want.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 09, 2009 08:05 PM (PiXy!)

16 The tails in their insulated costumes are for grounding them when they jam those huge plugs into the people they're helping. I'm sure it's a coincidence that the aasu cable is attached to their rear ends...

Oh, and the site linked from the preview has some amusing costume-design comments. They specifically call out the visibility of a "white triangle" in the office uniforms, and mention a very small change in the plug-suits, most likely cutting back on the camel-toe.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at March 09, 2009 09:00 PM (2XtN5)

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