First Impressions: Nisemonogatari

And we come to my favorite series of the season. Hoo yea.

Monogatari series fanboy mode engaged.

First Impressions: Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou

Almost done! Alllllllllmooostttttttttttttttttttttt done....

And then there were two.

First Impressions: Papa no Iu Koto o Kikinasai!

Sorry for the mega-delay on these series, but I mean...all these series...

So many series...shudder

And this series...so much loli...why...

First Impressions: Amagami SS+ plus

Remember that I'm doing all these roughly from most shitty to least shitty.

Unfortunately, Amagami SS+ plus is on the worse end of the "mildly decent" spectrum. I am disappoint, AIC. I am disappoint indeed.

First Impressions: Inu x Boku SS

Another relatively decent series.

I mean c'mon, it's the only shoujo series of the season, give it a break. It looks good and has funny back-and-forth conversations. Better than Zero no Tsukaima.

First Impressions: Ano Natsu de Matteru

A slice-of-life series. Character design by the same person who also contributed to Toradora!. Graphics by J.C. Staff. I had pretty high expectations for this series.

Did it live up to them? Let's see.

First Impressions: Another

Now we're slowly getting into the good series.

This one is good for watching at night.

Helps you fall asleep.

First Impressions: Zero no Tsukaima F

Oh God. Here it is - Shakugan no Louise The Final F Season Season Season IV. Just what everybody needed in their lives.

More rage-filled tsundere provided by yours truly, Rie Kugimiya.

First Impressions: Rinne no Lagrange

And here's the actual mecha series of the season.

It's still kinda iffy.

First Impressions: Senki Zesshou Symphogear

All right, time to move onto the mecha section of this season's animus...

...is what I would like to say, but unfortunately, there's yet another bad series to cover.

As Rick Perry likes to say, "Oops."

First Impressions: High School DxD

Huff puff
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More reviews gogogo

First Impressions: Mouretsu Pirates

Yay, a series based on a picture at a doujinshi convention that was rather aptly named "Miniskirt Space Pirates".

I'm gonna have some fun reviewing this, aren't I.

sigh...(I'm being terribly inconsistent, but spoiler alert I guess)

ExtraCareful's Soundtrack Pick of the Week

All right, yet another Soundtrack Pick of the Week. Here it is!

Ready!! (THE iDOLM@STER OP1)
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First Impressions: Recorder to Randoseru

Again, these posts wouldn't be so painful to write if these series just weren't so damn bad.

Unfortunately, they are.

Fuck me.

First Impressions: Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki

This is a 3-min series. About a cat. He is round. And just as unidentifiable with modern biological taxonomy as Pannya from Mashiro-iro Symphony was. Do Japanese studios have a fetish for something that looks vaguely cat-dog-mushroom-from-Maplestory-ish-like but isn't? Because I don't get this. At all.

Oh and it's being turned into the newest Nintendogs game a game on the 3DS where you raise the blob.

Er, thing. I think it's a cat.

...I hope it's a cat.

First Impressions: Kill Me Baby!

Sorry for the mega-delay on these series, but I mean...all these series...

So many series...shudder

ExtraCareful's (Late) Soundtrack Pick of the Week

Have you ever felt like you're watching/hearing/doing something really really stupid...but enjoying every moment of it?

Pretty much how Yuruyuri works.

Even the opening.

Yuriyurarararayuruyuri Daijiken (Yuruyuri OP)
Minami Tsuda, Rumi Ookubo, Shiori Mikami, Yuka Ootsubo

Conclusion: THE iDOLM@STER

Aaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnndddddddddd, saving the best for last, I have...THE iDOLM@STER!!!!1!!1!1!

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Conclusion: Mashiro-iro Symphony: The Color of Lovers

And we come to the lulzy series of the season...and by that, I don't mean Kyoukai Senjou. That one is just bad, period.

At least this series' protagonist has a cute little sister. Your arguments are invalid.

Conclusion: Tamayura ~Hitotose~

All right! I promised myself that I wouldn't watch any of the new season until all the conclusions were done, so I'm marathoning this shit! Gogogogogogo glhf

Conclusion: Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!!

Moar reviews!

At least I'm doing it for a series that's still better than anything in Guilty Crown.

Conclusion: UN-GO

On slightly better news, the dual anime coupling of Guilty Crown and UN-GO came out later in the Winter season.

I'm here to review the better of the two.

Conclusion: Ben-To

What the hell was that?

Oh...it was Ben-To.

Conclusion: Working'!!

Speaking of good sequels, here's the other, highly anticipated, afterword of the Working!! adaptation - let me introduce to you Working'!!

(No, that's not a typo.)

Conclusion: Shinryaku!? Ika Musume

I'm not gonna be doing this in the order of how the series ended, but I don't think anybody would really care. So the first Conclusions post of the Fall 2011 season will be on our favorite squidmeister, Ika Musume!

(To be honest, these sequels are really unfair...if you have a good series that doesn't really have a predictable conclusion, you can continue using the same old shtick ad infinitum and it'll have that "oomph" behind it, no matter what. Ika Musume is one such example. ALSO, if you have NOT watched Season 1, you will be confused by this post. Be careful.)

ExtraCareful's Soundtrack Pick of the Week

All right, conclusions will be coming up shortly. But before that...

Authentic Symphony (Mashiro-iro Symphony: The Color of Lovers OP)
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Happy New Year!

Ahoy there! It's the New Year and BartreTheBeast and I (ExtraCareful) thought it might be nice to have a New Years' post for you all. It's been a pretty hilarious year, and I hope the next year is better. There are a lot of big names coming out in 2012, so get ready for an explosion of awesome if the sky doesn't fall on our head and the U.S.S. Kennedy doesn't come crashing through the White House.

So here are five wishes for the upcoming year and some anime series awards for the year of 2011!