First Impressions: Girls und Panzer

And in a sudden turn of events, I am releasing the first ever audio podcast review from Infinity And One, a First Impressions podcast of Girls und Panzer! Any and all constructive feedback would be highly appreciated! I might continue or revert back to just posts depending on replies and time constraints. Thanks for listening!



DOWNLOAD HERE - 320kbps

What, no pictures?!?!?!?!

First Impressions: Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!

How many Derpa Onna-like series are going on this season @________@

I mean I really liked that series but still...I don't know how much derp I can handle per season...

A further note: due to time constraints, unless the review is sincerely requested, I will not be doing First Impressions posts of Zetsuen no Tempest, BTOOOM!, and Busou Shinki (nor will I be watching them; I might collect Zetsuen for later viewing pleasure though). For this season, I will mainly stick to my niches and the mainstream series. I will probably be reviewing K, though.

Many apologies, but it's hard to do all these series nearly alone (although OboeOtaku helps sometimes). I have also dropped Shin Sekai Yori, not because it also eats into my time but more because I already know what's gonna go on and that sort of crap is boring. But no worries, the rest of the Conclusion posts and some damn good First Impressions posts are coming up the bat. Anyways, here's to Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!

First Impression: Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun

You know, I actually fucken read the original manga series of most of the adaptations I review (except for maybe stuff like Hagure Yuusha, in which case it doesn't really matter since I'm not going to give it a good grade anyways). That's right, I'm not like those motherfuckers out there who just grade this junk based on whatever plot they see in the anime. I go hardcore on this review shit.

...This also meant that I had to blast through 132 chapters of Magi...

shudders

First Impressions: Shin Sekai Yori

Yes. Your series is named From the New World. We get it.

Please don't blast Dvorak Symphony No. 9.

First Impressions: Haiyore! Nyaruko-san

Because last season I made myself depressed by reviewing shit I didn't like beforehand, I'll review shit I do like before I go into a slump. Here's a cute little story centered* around the Cthulhu Mythos monster, Nyarlathotep.




*Has nothing to do with

First Impressions: Black Rock Shooter

You all are probably thinking, “What is this blasphemy? A first impressions post done by someone other than ExtraCareful!?”

Well, don’t worry. The post is split half-and-half, since I need his opinions to supplant my half-baked ones. But for now, bear with BtB’s spiel on Burakku Rocku Shootuh.
Also, this post is rather image-heavy. Sorry, I couldn't resist...

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
Puff huff
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)

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.