I really hate HTML tables. 75% of the time spent on this post was messing with table code. I’m thinking I should format this differently next time around.
This fall seems to be the season for uninspired sequels. A good third of the season consists of sequels – of mostly crappy shows. It boggles my mind how many crappy sequels there are this season. In case anime studios are having difficulty figuring out what to make sequels for, here’s a list of sequels I’d rather see (that haven’t been announced yet):
- A Death Note L-centric spinoff
- An L, Battler and Maria vs. Beatrice, Yagami Light and the Witches Umineko/Death Note crossover (this would be epic)
- An L, Battler, Maria, Lelouch and CC vs. Beatrice, Yagami Light, the Witches, Schneizel, Charles vi Brittannia and Spinzaku Umineko/Death Note/Code Geass super-mega-spin-kicking crossover (potentially World Record level of lulz here)
- Baccano 2: The Miria and Isaa-ku variety show hour
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 3: The Disappearance Arc, The Buried Treasure Arc, and a How Haruhi Would Deal With Bullies and Trolls OVA
- FMP: Fumoffu 2: Tessa’s Naked Revenge
Anyway, much thanks to MAL, ANN and Chartfag for the descriptions below. All picture credits are due to MAL, except Sangoku Engi, which is due to ANN.
The Umineko Award for definitely will watch, definitely will write about
Nothing here. Whoops.
Shockingly, no shows fit this category. I guess I’ll be continuing Umineko from the summer, and I’d like to pick up 2-3 fall shows to write about, but it’s hard to say which shows they’ll be. It’ll have to be an on-the-fly pickup like Sora no Manimani, unless something changes my mind over the next month.
The Canaan Award for all I really care about is the hot yuri action
A Certain Scientific RailgunSummary Thoughts: |
Sora no Manimani Award for I’m probably underestimating this show
Kimi ni TodokeSummary: Thoughts: |
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Kobato.Summary: Thoughts: |
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Letter BeeSummary: Thoughts: |
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Seiken no Blacksmith (The Sacred Blacksmith)Summary: Thoughts: |
The Bakemonogatari Award for I don’t think I’m interested, but there’s a chance I may get hooked
11eyesSummary: Thoughts: |
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KampferSummary: Thoughts: |
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Kuchu BurankoSummary: Thoughts: |
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Nyan Koi!Summary: Thoughts: |
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Sora no OtoshimonoSummary: Thoughts: |
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Seitokai no IchizonSummary: Thoughts: |
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Tatakau Shisho – The Book of BantorraSummary: Thoughts: |
Sequels, Sequels, Sequels! (that I won’t watch)
Darker Than Black: Comet of GeminiSummary: Thoughts: |
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Asura Cryin’ 2Summary: Thoughts: |
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Stitch! 2Summary: Thoughts: |
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Natsu no Arashi 2Summary: Thoughts: |
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Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu: PurezzaSummary: Thoughts: |
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White Album 2Summary: Thoughts: |
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Queen’s Blade: Heir to the ThroneSummary: Thoughts: |
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InuYasha Final ActSummary: Thoughts: |
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Shin Koihime†MusouSummary: Thoughts: |
The Needless Award for only on a lonely, desert island
Battle Spirits: Shounen Gekiha DanSummary: Thoughts: |
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Fairy TailSummary: Thoughts: |
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Sangoku EngiSummary: Thoughts: |
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Sasameki KotoSummary: Thoughts: |
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Winter SonataSummary: Thoughts: |
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Yumeiro PatissiereSummary: Thoughts: |

















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I can already feel myself picking up a bunch of these, and dropping half of them two episodes in.
This season doesn’t seem very promising…
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At least there’ll be plenty of time to catchup on old shows. I’d like to prune down my “planning to watch” list.
Not really too thrilled with the Fall selections since you’d think there’d be heavy hitters, but I’m seeing only a handful of promising titles like Trapeze and Kimi no Todoke. The rest are mostly sequels… sequels to shows that I really didn’t care for, so knowing how I run, I’ll probably only watch Natsu no Arashi 2 and Railgun. And maybe Asura Cryin’ 2. Maybe.
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It certainly is disappointing. Even if there’s a couple nice surprises, it still seems like it’s going to be a pretty bare season. I’ve started wondering what’s on tap for the winter. Nodame 3?
Will be watching Railgun for sure. From the looks of the manga it has (the good parts of) the action from Index but without Touma’s long winded speeches. Will probably check out Tatakau Shisho since the art looks like nice lol.
And finally I’ll be watching Queen’s Blade… just so I have something to make fun of.
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I can remember at least three episodes Touma killed with his speeches. Hopefully, they limit him to cameos in Railgun. :p
It’s like you’re giving everything a shot… HE’S GOT A GUN!!! *cricket cricket* okay, so yea. A Certain Scientific Railgun did pretty good on the Sea Slugs poll, but it’s too bad none of us are gonna blog it =(. *sniff* We need to real in the Mikoto-Market! =O
Damn! You almost had me there! I’d definitely watch Winter Sonata if all the above happens!
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That *cricket* sound is coming from my hard drive isn’t it? Wow, I didn’t realize so many people were interested in Fairy Tail too.
One thing I’ve noticed is that everyone seems to want to watch Kobato. I honestly don’t see it being that good.
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It’s gotta be cuz it’s CLAMP. I don’t know anything about Kobato, but CLAMP’s the reason why I’d give it a shot.
Hello everyone. I just wanted to say that Asura Cryin’ was actually a pretty decent anime. I would recommend it to anyone.
Baccano sequel? L centric spin-off? Naked Tessa? Man this season is going to be awesome!!!
…oh wait…
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Did you see the live action Death Note movie about L(Forgot the name)? It was pretty damn good, and I’m not the biggest death note fan ever. It’d be awesome for something like that to be put into anime form!
And I support Fumoffu 2. Or a new FMP season all together!
Pretty dull looking season though.
About Sangoku Engi though, are you familiar with the Three Kingdoms novels at all?
I’m one obsessed maniac, so I’ll be watching it. I’d die if it was anything like Sangoku Basara though. Too much awesome diplomacy and debates happened during that era to be passed over.
It’s gonna bug me that Liu Bei and Shu are probably gonna be cast the always-on-screen-heroes while my favored Cao Cao and Wei gets set up as the villain, though.
I’m picking up Kobato ’cause of Clamp aswell, haha. They got the midas touch, in a sense.
Crazy Psychologist interests me too.
One last thing to this overly long comment..
Watch Darker than Black!
I saw maybe half of the first season and very much enjoyed it. I’m planning to catch up before the second season gets too far in. But the show carries itself very well, in my opinion.
Yeah, I did see the DN movie about L, even did a post… whoa, way back in the day. :p I thought the story was weak, but the actor for L is fantastic. Looks and plays the part perfectly.
I’m not familiar with the Three Kingdoms novels. Actually, historical dramas aren’t really my thing. Sengoku Basara was one of the rare few that I got into.
Ok, I’ll check out DTB, I promise.
I may even have even downloaded it in the past (I get DTB and Dennou Coil mixed up for some strange reason)
No DtB? F’ing blasphemy. Your standing has fallen in my eyes.
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I plead the noob-th amendment.
Might check out Kuchu Buranko, find out more about Asura Cryin’ and maybe give Kobato a chance.
@Campbell – i think they should leave Death Note as it is. L was by far the best character and the anime went on for far too long after his death, i wouldn’t want to see it dragged out to death (pun not intended)
don’t go underestimating Letter Bee-desu!
this one has been reading the manga for awhile now and as long as the anime sticks to that story and does not go off on some filler filled half baked ending it’ll be good-desu!
but it also contains a loli that typically goes without panties and gives off yandere tendencies from time to time-desu.
http://hiyono.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/letter-bee-ova/
also comparing it to Shigofumi is a bad choice to make just because they both deal with delivering a person’s sentiments in letter form; Letter Bee is more light hearted (for the most part)-desu.
Pantsu-less yandere loli!? That’s an interesting combination.
I certainly hope it turns out well.
What I personally find with a lot of these is either…
1) The character designs/artwork looks great, but the story looks boring or too weird to enjoy (I totally agree with you here on the Sacred Blacksmith), or…
2) The story sounds promising, but the character designs/artwork don’t appeal to me.
So nothing here looks completely crappy, but nothing here feels like a surefire success either (except for some sequels that I haven’t gotten around to seeing the originals for either, just like yourself).
So… could be a lot of tryouts, and a fair number of drops for me as well.
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This is very true – Nogizaka Mika no Himitsu would be epic.
only anime worth watching for me would be Fairy Tail
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“The Miria and Isaa-ku variety show hour”
Would be so win! Closest thing I think we’re going to get is the DRRR!! anime coming hopefully in 2010 (source from same light novelist as Baccano!).
Also, yea these previews take loads of time. I like using dynamic data to make things quicker and linked to a live-db, just in case of changes/new links/new pics/etc (like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/melative-link/ ).
Hmm, I’ll take a closer look at melative next time around. Do you have any examples for how you’ve used a live-db to feed info on a post or page?