March 21, 2012

Spring 2012 preview

THAT Sea Slugs (oops!) comes through for us.

UPDATE: Mouretsu Pirates is 2 cours, so it'll continue through the spring. The second season of Zombie is here. (The second season of Dog Days is no where to be seen. I wonder what  happened?)

Upotte is at least worth a one-ep watch. Anthropomorphized guns wearing absurdly short skirts?

Spring Season "Top Heavy" award goes to Medaka Box. (Ye gods. Maybe that should be the "Back Problems" award.)

The "Wasted resources" award goes to AKB0048. The singing group is doing the main voices, but the backup characters are pretty much an all-star cast: Yukari Tamura, Yui Horie, Mai Nakahara, Ayako Kawasumi, and a lot of other recognizable names are all playing in the background.

The "I donwanna but I havta" award goes to the Saki spinoff. I'll give it one ep, but I expect it to be a complete waste of time.

UPDATE: Medaka (the top heavy one) is voiced by Aki Toyosaki, which wasn't a name I recognized.

It should have been, though. She was Uiharu in Railgun, Melwin in AsoIku, and Keena in Daimaou. Very versatile. I wonder what her voice will be like in this series?

Meanwhile... "Medaka Box" is a rather unfortunate translation, in as much as it approaches double-entendre. (See "box" in the Urban Dictionary.)

And it appears to be official. The Japanese name is めだかボックス Medaka bokkusu.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 10:20 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
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1 I think I'll have to watch one episode of Nyarlathotep-chan.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at March 22, 2012 12:14 AM (2XtN5)

2 I guess it's just me, the one show that jump right at me is Sakamichi no Apollon, with  Shinichiro Watanabe directing and Yoko Kanno doing music.  Another one is Uchuu Kyoudai, which hopefully, they're doing as much research on physics as Planets.

Posted by: BigFire at March 22, 2012 04:13 AM (jSRcl)

3 Medaka Box is an accurate translation per the manga.  The fanservice is mainly cleavage and skimpy clothing, except for a few scenes. No topless shots, unless they introduce them for the anime.  It's basically lots of fighting, with a little less clothes shredding. The macguffin is that multiple secret experiments are underway, along with some of the students just having (often silly) powers on their own, melodramatically classified as "minus" or "plus zero" or other silly names.   I got bored with it after about thirty issues and then just started skipping.   Medaka herself was the only reason to read it, and she just got too one-dimensional after a while.  I suspect the voice will be a hyper-energetic version of Keena..

Posted by: ubu at March 22, 2012 05:31 AM (i7ZAU)

4 I just watched one of the trailers, and Medaka's voice doesn't sound like any of Uiharu, Keena, or Melwin. Closer to Melwin than either of the other two, though.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 22, 2012 06:20 AM (+rSRq)

5 We should not give ANN too much credence. As I understand, all the AKB48 members are long dead by the time of the setting, and undoubtedly all the big-name seiyuu do the main voices. It could be that the cast transforms for performances, taking identities of their forebears, or channels their spirits, and AKB48 talent takes up the singing. Best of both worlds, actually. Or, it may be a massive flashback cameo, that was credited to attract fans, and ANN just cannot tell who's the main character and who's not.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at March 22, 2012 06:20 AM (5OBKC)

6 I might have to watch Nyarlathotep-Chan, myself.  It reminds me too much of the anime premise I envisioned, of a magical girl gaining powers over time after she accidentally wanders into Yog-Sothoth's office, and he gets distracted by the schoolgirl ( yes, of course tentacles are pervy, albeit in a all-ages sense ).  She wanders out with an artifact, and starts doing crazy stuff across time, staying ahead of two "collection agent" tentacle monsters in nice suits. . .

Posted by: metaphysician at March 22, 2012 12:16 PM (3GCAl)

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