Still watching, just not blogging

So I haven’t posted anything in ages as I’m just plain lazy and had way too many shows in my backlog to catch up with. Anyways, I’ve had a lot of free time on my hands recently thanks to unemployment, and have been clear up a lot of stuff in the backlog while waiting for the phone to ring with the news that someone recognizes my work skills and wants me to work for them for less than what I was getting at my previous job. Until that day eventually comes, I intend to get through as many shows as I can, and I’ve even found time to watch stuff coming out from the current season for the first time in a while. SO, here’s a few quick notes on what I think of the season so far.

Chu Bra! – It’s cute, but I wish there was more comedy and less seriousness.

Baka to Test to Shokanjuu – 2 episodes in, and so far so good. Interesting how they went straight to the main event in the second episode, but came up short as expected.

Ladies vs. Butlers – I liked the first episode with the wild chase around school to introduce us to all the characters, but the follow up episodes so far weren’t as fun.

Weiss Survive R – I watched the first few episodes of this before going back to check out the 1st season. At two and a half minutes per episode, they do a good job of getting the point across and bringing some good laughs as well.

Now your probably wondering why I’m not checking out any of the heavy hitters of the season that most other bloggers fawn over like Durara, Dance in the Vampire Bund, So-Ra-No-Wo-To, etc. I’ll just say what excites others doesn’t necessarily excite me. If I read something on other blogs, I might consider checking them out.

If I find anything that interests me enough, I might even blog about it.

On a final note, my MAL account for anyone who’s interested:

http://myanimelist.net/animelist/6six6

It ENDS!

The Finale…

K-ON! Ep.11-Ep.12

Took ‘em long enough.

K-ON! Ep.9 – Ep.10

The general reaction I’m sure many of us got when the direction of the show concentrated less on the music…

K-ON! Ep.7 & Ep.8

Christmas time.

K-ON! Ep. 4 – Ep. 6

This could be said for a lot of other shows out there.

It Begins…

K-ON! Ep.1 – 3

Code-E ep.10-12 (End)

After the shock of hearing Kotaro’s denial, Chinami is surprised to find that she has lost her Type-E ability! She spends the following weeks living the life of a normal girl, even buying herself a handphone and getting along well with her friends, but she continues to avoid Kannagi.

That is until she goes on the school summer trip to some experimental electronic resort. Here it her abilities suddenly come back, but much more powerful, and even Saihashi suddenly loses the ability to control her abilities! Turns out the whole thing is a setup, and there are multiple Type-E users in attendance. They are never really pointed out, but it seems like the animals living in the area are also affected.

Anyway, on the last night of the trip Kannangi finally confesses his feeling to Chinami, and we get our happy ending. It almost looked like they were going to pull a swerve and have Kannagi killed off when the whole facility collapses, but they didn’t go through it.

Unfortunately it looks like they killed off Mils, the female foreign sibling. Might not be for sure until watching the 2nd season, but I’m not watching that since the fansub group stopped abruptly, kinda like the final episode here where they crammed everything into the last few minutes and end with some loose ends.

Good series, but I don’t think I would watch it again.

Code-E ep.5-ep.9

In this batch of episodes the foreign siblings finally get green cards and infiltrate the school Chinami is studying at, Chinami finds out her classmate Saihashi is also a “Type-E” like her, but not as powerful, and she helps Chinami to try and learn to control her powers by doing shrine maiden work.

Chinami actually gets the hang of controlling her powers and is going all lovery dovey over Kannangi, but that all goes to Hell when she walks in on him and Sonomiya, denying he has any feelings for her and only views her as a science experiment. This of course puts Chinami in super gloom mode and she unknowingly shuts down an entire shopping district while on her way home.

A third party has also shown up with interest in Chinami’s abilities, and the siblings have taken notice of this.

A cruel joke?

Anybody else thinks that the viewers of AniMax played a cruel joke on the winner of their Shakugan no Shana II lookalike contest? I mean seriously, just my opinion, but the ugliest girl won! Heck, I voted on the first day of the polls, and she was already leading by a wide margin!

It was either national pride and she was showered with votes by her fellow countrymen, or like I’m saying, a cruel joke was instigated. A lot of the girls look a hell lot better than she did, and way more sexier in Shana’s outfit, and I know the otaku society has a sharp eye for beauty.

Or maybe it’s true that otaku really shun the “real” world and picked the ugliest girl in an act of spite?