Summer Season 2010 Pt. 1

Nothing gets me quite as excited as awaiting the onslaught of anime in the beginning of a new season. Every season surprises me in one way or another. I look at the previews and make snap judgments just to be taken by surprise by half the shows released. The show that looked awesome is lame and the show that looked stupid is the best show of the season. Is this season the exception? Let's find out. I've watched the first episode of each of these shows and set up a little rating system that I like to use in my head to figure out how I'm going to tackle that particular series for the season. Hopefully this helps you folks in choosing your poison this season.





High School of the Dead:
Zombie Apocalypse kicks off in japan. By the time the characters in this school find out it's too late. How will they survive! Dunn dunn DUUUNNN!!

What I expected: Zombies, Tits, And Guns
What I Got: Zombies, Tits, Guns, and forced Drama
The Good: Zombies, Tits, And Guns. Nuff Said
The Bad: Don't expect a SO DEEP anime out of this one
The Ugly: Rei's character design reminds me of a coach roach.
Will I Keep Watching: Hell yes.



Seikimatsu Occult Academy :
Maya is a girl whose father created a school based on the study of the occult resulting in him ignoring her for childhood and giving her "daddy issues". After his death, she enters the school with plans to bring it down as revenge. At the end of the episode a naked guy floats down from the sky in front of her.

What I expected: A somewhat serious horror/mystery series
What I Got: A funny, surprisingly engaging Hogwarts based show
The Good: zombie decapitation in the first episode. Good stuff.
The Bad: Nothing much to complain about yet.
The Ugly: Look for the penis shadow at the end of the first episode. Also the fat goth guy is unsettling.
Will I Keep Watching: Yes, has tons of potential





Shi Ki:
Megumi, a school girl wanders around her backwoods town for the whole first episode bitching and moaning about how she hates living there. She decides to check out the new neighbors who erected a castle on the outskirts of the town in hopes they will have a hot son who'll fall in love with her a take her far away from the town. She disappears for a couple days then is found in the woods weak and pale. She dies at the end of the episode.

What I expected: A Higurashi-esque, creepy mystery
What I Got: A somewhat boring show with an annoying main character
The Good: Not much so far. Still has a chance to come around though.
The Bad: Annoying characters, Predictable (Huur Durr the new neighbors are vampires. I get it!)
The Ugly: Character design ranges from unattractive to stupid. Look at some of the hair styles the male characters are sporting.
Will I Keep Watching: Begrudgingly yes.


Shukufuku No Campanella:
In a fantasy world, Leinchester (AKA: Hef) Spends the whole first episode corralling his harem together including his mom (sad but true). They have a picnic during a harvest festival and a shooting star hits the tower of a a castle. He follows it and finds a loli laying in a bed who awakens and calls him "daddy".

What I expected: A crappy, sugary harem
What I Got: A crappier, sugary harem
The Good: If you're brain dead and moe starved you'll love it.
The Bad: Boring. boring. boring.
The Ugly: This reminds me of the days when the industry pumped out the same damned moe clone after another.
Will I Keep Watching: I don't think I physically can. I can't stay awake.