C3

Cube x cursed x curious is one of the new series of the Fall 2011 season.  Does it ever disappoint.  The show's plot can be summed up with a list of genre tropes: a mysterious girl with mysterious powers, a young man living by himself, a doting childhood friend, uninspired character designs, an annoying catch phrase ("Noroizo!"  [I'll curse you]), and so on and so forth.

Said mysterious girl (named Fear) is left all alone to her own devices and manages to destroy a good portion of the house before the boy returns from school.  But somehow the boy ends up apologizing to her for all of the destruction SHE wrought. 

All in all the show is nonsensical when it isn't boring, and it is boring about 95% of the time since everything in it is derived from other equally trite series.

The only redeeming quality is has is Fear's hair.  It is a beautiful opalescent blue that seems to have its own inner luminescence.  It is sad to see such gorgeous hair on a character in a show that I will never watch again.  The production values were wasted on C3.

Blood-C

I just finished watching the latter 6 episodes of Blood-C all in a row.  The first part of the series was standard monster-of-the-week fare, and I almost gave up on watching the rest because of that.  But after reading somewhere that the series had a complete shift in tone with episode 5, I decided to give it one last shot.  I really can't say much about the series without giving things away, but it had so many "OH!" moments throughout that I am in an emotional turmoil.  I swear I spent most of the last two episodes with my mouth hanging open.  Whether that was from awe or sheer terror I cannot really say.  If only the movie were coming out this month instead of in June.


Let me warn my extremely small audience (if I even have one) that it is an extremely gory series.  Nico Nico Douga censored out the worst of it (which I found distracting) but thanks to Gestalt, my brain was able to fill in the blanks with ease.  While I abhor censorship, I am hesitant to watch the uncensored version, as Blood-C has to be one of the most brutal anime series I have ever seen, and I have seen plenty of 1980s OAVs so I am no stranger to anime gore.

I hesitate to say more as I do not wish to ruin the experience for anyone.  Literally every detail is significant.

Fall Anime Season 2011

So tomorrow the new anime season starts!  I am most looking forward to the revamp of Hunter X Hunter (which airs tomorrow and is streaming on Crunchyroll) but there are some other interesting series in the works.  Fate/Zero also starts tomorrow, as does Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!.  I am eagerly anticipating a new Fate Series, not so sure about MWKS though.  I try to watch at least one episode of every new series, but sometimes that means I force myself to watch shows I know will be awful such as Manyuu Hikenchou.  But in the spirit of not judging a book by its cover, I felt I had to watch it before I formed an opinion on it.  This has led me to be pleasantly surprised by some series, such as Asobi ni Ikyo (renamed Cat Planet Cuties), which I had written off as another harem series when I took a look at the official website.  But I was wrong and it ended up being a favorite of mine.