Butterfly Dreams

Am I on a GONZO fix or what right now. I wasn’t as immediately hooked onto BLASSREITER as I was The Tower of Druaga, but by the end I was left feeling willing enough to try out the second episode. Like Dragonaut, CG was used for all the fast-moving scenes and fights, which was okay and all, but it left me disappointed with the regular animation, since I didn’t like it at all. If I could just have a lesbian moment for one second: the naked woman at the beginning of the episode wasn’t even hot, IMO. Nor the blonde + green haired woman. I mean seriously, what is with that hair colour combination? Maybe it’s because I’m a girl, I dunno, but it wasn’t working for me. None of the guys were hot, either– well, no, the mysterious guy with the odd design coming down his right eye was nice. So he and Amanda were the only nice looking people. Okay, now to move on from the increasingly shallow talk of animation and character design.

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I haven’t laughed that hard since the first episode of Hayate no Gotoku!…which could be a bad thing, since Hayate’s jokes got old real fast for me. I still can’t believe that show is still going. Anyway, I dropped Hayate around thirteen episodes in, which is how long this series is supposed to last, so maybe I can tough it out. I mean, that whole ’I want to get married after this’ joke got old around the third time they said it, but putting ‘I want to get remarried’ the very last time sorta mixed things up a little (that and the Star Wars thing right before it was awesome). I might not have to bear with it since the majority of it all was a dream and the real, and hopefully more serious stuff, comes next episode.

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This is the first time I’ve ever complied a pre-season list. I never have before because others usually do it before me, or it takes me too long that the season has already started by the time I’m done xDD But I managed to do it for the big anime season coming up, with about 31 titles under the cut, not including some of the really childish series (though I can add it if it’s really wanted) and any OVAs I might’ve missed or something. They appear  in the order as listed on MOON PHASE, and links to trailers are provided where available. The list of who’s subbing what could be found on the 2008 Spring Fansub Wiki.

Compared to the lackluster Winter Season, I’m looking forward to this one, especially with the return of CODE GEASS. Speaking of which, I dub this the season of Fukuyama Jun (who voices Lelouch), since he’s cast in almost every other series this season. What’re your thoughts of the upcoming season and what do you plan to watch?

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