Hay, Nova here. It’s been a long time and I hope you’ve enjoyed your summer whether it was all laying back and taking it easy or working your butt off. In my case it was definitely the latter – first a month of forest work in a pouring rain and next washing gas stations all around the country. Right now I’m still busy with the latter mentioned and am writing this from a hotel somewhere around southern Finland. I haven’t been even close to home for five weeks straight (and I still have one more to go) and because my workdays are 10 to 14 hours,. I obviously haven’t had much time to bother with blog entries or even anime aside from rewatching DVDs I took with me.
My summer 08 summarized.
And for this reason Jinx! Has been all silent for quite a while now and it might remain so for some time to the future as well because I’m going to be busy with starting my 4th and probably last year at the university. Worry not though because I’m sure I will have more than enough spare time once the first hassle has been dealt with.
I was preparing a season end post for summer 08 season but I couldn’t finish it up in time and now it’s too late, so this time just short impressions expressed in written format should do. Over all the season was OK, despite Code Geass taking a turn towards more action/drama-oriented while abandoning the gritty guerrilla-spirit of the first season that I liked so very much. Meanwhile the true eye candy was served by Macross Frontier which, despite being nowhere near the graphical splendour of Macross Zero, easily bested any other series in the season in the terms of pure graphical firepower. Combined with excellent music score this made Macross F one of the series that I will gladly archive for future rewatches.
Outside the mecha-business the shounen spirit was strong. After a painfully slow start Soul Eater has finally started to pick up the pace and is rolling forward with good momentum, and as the series is going to be >50 episodes, I find the crawling start excusable. Meanwhile another contestant in the field, Nabari no Ou, didn’t manage to impress all that much. NnO has a great identity problem – the show is being too ambiguous about whether it’s supposed to be shounen or seinen and ends up in the miserable gray zone somewhere in between. Nabari no Ou has potential indeed, but it doesn’t manage to bring it fully out in anything and ends up being just simply insignificant and forgettable experience.
I don’t think I need to say much about Toshokan Sensou since my past posts have made pretty clear how much I liked the series so let’s leave it at that. Another nice surprise was Kurenai which was clearly the most difficult one to categorize until the very end. I expected some sort of action/loliservice mess but instead got a slice-of-life anime with a big heart. As for the fanservice series To-LOVE-Ru was quite alright. Now on to the dropped ones. Wagaya no Oinari-sama was sort of okay but just as Nabari no Ou it just wasn’t anything notable in any field. The difference to NnO is that the animation was rather crappy and the story was even more uninteresting. Allison to Lillia wasn’t bad and I really don’t think it’s fair to bash it since the show is clearly intended for a younger audience – and works well as an alternative to the big-mouthed-kid-out-to-become-to-the-strongest-there-is-series. However as I’ve exceeded this target audience in age long since I didn’t really find the show all that thrilling although I do agree with many fellow bloggers that indeed, Allison is freaking win.
Damn Wil.
Guess that’s all I have to say for now. This summer has been pretty much working hell as the first paragraph says. I miss home, I miss my main computer Mai and above all I miss the carefree student life. Only a few more weeks to go. Godspeed to whoever’s reading this, I’ll try my best too.