Persona 4 - Too awesome for words, seriously. I haven't played the game but I've heard nothing but good things, the anime certainly holds up its end. Right off the bat the intro is amazingly stylish, animation is cool and well I don't need to tell you about the story. In case you're having trouble differentiating between the heroines and the regular girls at school, the heroines wear bright coloured tops rather than the regular ones
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE - Well as you can see the art looks rather old school, reminds me a fair bit of the original Gundam series. It's rather cutesy, which doesn't really match the dark subject matter of war and death that is Gundam. This Gundam might actually separate itself from the rest of them with the premise that it's not a war between two human factions but between humans and an unknown (possibly alien) enemy. Other exception would be the Gundam 00 Movie, which is against weird ass aliens.
Like most Gundam series this one is set in a made up calendar, not After Colony
Basic plot is these UE (Unknown Enemies) are wrecking havoc on Earth and killing people, our young protagonist witnesses his mother's death because of an attack (pretty standard for Gundam) and she gives him this AGE device. This device has the blue prints for the first mobile suit, Gundam (and perhaps the only one). Due to some ironic foreshadowing the city that would apparently never gets attacked, gets attacked and our young hero is forced to pilot the Gundam, kicks some ass and end episode more or less.
Not overly impressed ATM but heck if you like Gundam series or even mecha anime then you might as well give it a shot.
P.S. Haro haro!
Tamayura ~Hitotose~ - This is a touching story about a school girl who moves to her old town and takes up photography after seeing and being moved by her deceased father's photos. The art and animation is nice enough but I really want to emphasise the story, it's like Usagi Drop in that you won't come across an anime with a genuinely moving story. Highly recommend picking this up if you're looking for something different or just love these kind of stories.
Mashiro Iro Sympathy - Comedy based on an adult visual novel, which is quite clear from the art style really
Story is about a boy named Shinho Uryuu who's school basically goes under due to poor management, thus another school (all girls school) for some reason decides to pick it up and merge to keep it afloat. As a trial period a few students (including boys) are allowed into the school, gee where have I seen that before? *cough*Seitokai Yakuindomo*cough* Anyways it's pretty much what you'd expect, still very funny so if you like a good (somewhat perverted) comedy then you'll probably like this.
Mirai Nikki - What the f*ck? What the f*ck? What the f*ck?!
If I had to describe this I'd probably say it's a mix between Eden of the East and... Deadman Wonderland perhaps. Our protagonist, Amano, is a bit of a loner and is always writing down stuff in his cell phone diary. He also has imaginary friends, a god called "Deus Ex Machina" (I know, I laughed) and some other annoying little girl, I'd like to point out the god is CG and looks really weird. One day he finds out his imaginary god friend has given him the power to see the future with his journal phone, it's all fun and games until his journal foretells his own death by a serial killer. Turns out the serial killer also has a future journal, as does this pink haired girl in his class who helps save him and turn the tables on the serial killer. Turns out his imaginary god friend has given a future journal to a lot of people and sets up a game for everyone to kill each other until only one is left and thus they shall receive the ultimate prize or something, he also manages to turn everyone against Amano by saying he has the best chance of winning, some friend. How does an imaginary friend give future journals to several people?
Gotta say the story is really interesting, probably be something Shirai would like
Shakugan no Shana III - 3rd series, thought I'd try to watch it and see if I could understand what was going on and enjoy it. Short answer is, no
All I got out of it was some dude has disappeared and only two girls remember him. I'm guessing if you've seen everything else of this you'll want to watch this but otherwise you can't just jump into it.
Ben-to - This one isn't on the poster-thing. This anime is so absurd it's hilarious, to sum up it's about people fighting to get half price bento, that's basically all the anime is about
To talk a little more about the plot, this main character wakes up from being knocked unconscious and still starving. He can't remember what happened, ends up fainting and seems to bleed a lot. The next day he's walking to school from the hospital. Skip to the end of the day where he's still hungry, goes to the shop only and sees half price bento, on making a mad dash for it a fight suddenly breaks out and he finds himself in the middle of it and quickly gets knocked out before he knows it. He finds out more about what's going on, tries again for the half price bento and fails only is invited to a school club by the strongest female fighter.
So it's a hilariously absurd anime with fighting, a very fun watch and what's more is that unlike other anime it'll only tease but never show panty-shots
So it's quite tactful in that aspect. Seriously funny, don't miss if you love comedies.
C^3 Part 2 - Need to follow up on this one, episode two turns into a battle anime in the second half. Out of nowhere a fight breaks out and weird stuff happens and you're left with your mouth open thinking "WTF?!" So it's now a very funy, slightly perverted, battle anime
Let's talk about continued anime series this season. Surprisingly The Idolm@ster is going on past 13 episodes (13th seemed kinda final) so looked to be ~26 episode half year season. SKET Dance has gone past 26 episodes and looks to be an ongoing series, which is just awesome news for me as I absolutely love the series, the only time that I've really been glad to find out an anime is ongoing.
