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Jul. 15th, 2010 09:44 amA few more new anime:
High School of the Dead: Zombie Apocalypse Japan! Notable for jumping directly to full-on zombie apocalypse with minimal buildup (it actually starts with a zombie mob and backtracks only slightly to show the zombies first arriving at the main characters' high school and their initial reactions) and for having a main character who's very on the ball regarding the fact that he's in the middle of a zombie apocalypse (the moment he sees the first attack and resulting victim zombification - which happens within a few seconds; the zombies in this one Do Not Mess Around - he barges straight into his not-girlfriend's classroom, grabs her, and announces that they're running for it. Then they make a quick pitstop at a storage closet for weapons). A good bit of gore, and a lot of fanservice (and fan disservice, considering the number of shots of people being eaten). Might be too dark for me, but I'm kind of interested.
Occult Academy: Teenaged girl with a chip on her shoulder returns to the academy her occult-obsessed father founded to attend his funeral, just in time to deal with the evil spirit that possesses his corpse and runs amok on campus. All the while insisting it's staged, because she hates the occult (since her father neglected her in favor of studying it). Also, a naked guy descends from the sky in a pillar of light. No clue where this is going.
Black Butler II: Same premise, new kid, new butler. This one tap-dances on balcony railings. And the kid is batshit insane. And the butler from the first one is still around and toting the original main character with him in a trunk. Um, okay.
Kimi ni Todoke: The most adorable thing since Chii's Sweet Home. Slice-of-life high school drama in which a socially awkward girl gradually makes friends, opens up to others, and falls in love with the nicest "most popular boy in school" you ever saw. It's like an inversion of that romance plot I talked about back in my "guilty fandom secrets" post, where instead of one of the characters being inscrutable because he's socially retarded and actually in love with the other party, he's actually behaving more or less reasonably, she's just too naive and socially inexperienced to catch on. The really neat thing about this one, though, is that there's no makeover or dramatic change to who Sawako is and how she behaves, just her being encouraged to make the effort to talk to people and gradually learning to better navigate social interactions without having to fake anything.
It's a little reminiscent of Fruits Basket, minus the supernatural aspects.
High School of the Dead: Zombie Apocalypse Japan! Notable for jumping directly to full-on zombie apocalypse with minimal buildup (it actually starts with a zombie mob and backtracks only slightly to show the zombies first arriving at the main characters' high school and their initial reactions) and for having a main character who's very on the ball regarding the fact that he's in the middle of a zombie apocalypse (the moment he sees the first attack and resulting victim zombification - which happens within a few seconds; the zombies in this one Do Not Mess Around - he barges straight into his not-girlfriend's classroom, grabs her, and announces that they're running for it. Then they make a quick pitstop at a storage closet for weapons). A good bit of gore, and a lot of fanservice (and fan disservice, considering the number of shots of people being eaten). Might be too dark for me, but I'm kind of interested.
Occult Academy: Teenaged girl with a chip on her shoulder returns to the academy her occult-obsessed father founded to attend his funeral, just in time to deal with the evil spirit that possesses his corpse and runs amok on campus. All the while insisting it's staged, because she hates the occult (since her father neglected her in favor of studying it). Also, a naked guy descends from the sky in a pillar of light. No clue where this is going.
Black Butler II: Same premise, new kid, new butler. This one tap-dances on balcony railings. And the kid is batshit insane. And the butler from the first one is still around and toting the original main character with him in a trunk. Um, okay.
Kimi ni Todoke: The most adorable thing since Chii's Sweet Home. Slice-of-life high school drama in which a socially awkward girl gradually makes friends, opens up to others, and falls in love with the nicest "most popular boy in school" you ever saw. It's like an inversion of that romance plot I talked about back in my "guilty fandom secrets" post, where instead of one of the characters being inscrutable because he's socially retarded and actually in love with the other party, he's actually behaving more or less reasonably, she's just too naive and socially inexperienced to catch on. The really neat thing about this one, though, is that there's no makeover or dramatic change to who Sawako is and how she behaves, just her being encouraged to make the effort to talk to people and gradually learning to better navigate social interactions without having to fake anything.
It's a little reminiscent of Fruits Basket, minus the supernatural aspects.
