This season...
If it wasn't for Kimi ni Todoke...
WOULD BE ABSOLUTE FLOCKING FAIL!
The Sacred Blacksmith 1-2: What...utter...crap. Fails at medievialness, fails at art, fails at any form of a plot, fails to provide even one interesting character. It's just going to be a service fest pretending to be a medievial adventure series. Dropping it. Not that I was expecting much, but I didn't expect studio manglobe to be the latest perptrator of the moe-fest/DVD-Bluray scam.
Book of Bantorra 1 - Dropped it. For a series trying to be full of action, it's very mind-numbing, not to mention poorly animated, somewhat sleazy and drowning in dialogue.Dropping.
Sora no Otoshimo 1 - The abusrdity and ecchiness is too extreme for me, so dropping. But it was a bit amusing. Not the worst thing I've watched from the October crop.
Kobato 1 - .........I think I'm about to die from diabetes, liver failure and a bunch of other organ failures. This is pretty weak from Clamp, I expect much better from them. Annoying, not funny, disgustingly cute and clearly playing at otaku heartstrings and wallets by overloading the moe factor. Dropping it....
11eyes 1 - I get the feeling that if they ditched the pointless service, focused a bit more on the story and had some proper action, there would actually be a decent series in this. Because I was actually kind of interested at times, but after how much it's watered down by ero-origin genericness, it's not delivering. Sadly, yet another drop....
Trapeze 1 - What...a...joke...At least Bakemonogatari actually tried...This is just intentionally random and stupid. Then I remind myself Toei is directing this...why bother to have expectations...their cost cutting is so evident too when they start using static shots of real people in a lot of scenes...Dropping. My mentor deeply regrets having high hopes for this.
Fairy Tale 1 - *vomit* Tries to be magic, shounen and comedy, but instead ends up being pure nausea. Looks like it as well. Dropping...
Sasameki Koto 1 - It's shows like this which have made shoujo-ai so despised, because they descend into stereotypes and immature behaviour to make any female who likes females stupid. And I get the feeling this title is somehow reipping off Aoi Hana...I see two characters within the first episode of SK that are similar in looks and personality to the two leads from AH...Aoi Hana had style, grace, beauty, a great atmosphere...This has nothing...Dropping.
Seitokai no Ichizon 1 - Geez...for a show that only takes place in one room, which even it admits is a problem, it doesn't try to do much....Heck, it even admits it rips off Haruhi Suzumiya and other series shamelessly....How the hell was this approved to be animated? But I bet people will watch it just for the moe redhead lead. Actually, it's fact. Dropping.
Shin Koihime Muso 1 - Oh dear...being silly sometimes works, but completely paying out the feudal lord era...that's just going too far...Dropping....
Kampfer 1 - Chuck Norris...just when I thought things couldn't possibly get any worse...fails at genderbending and corny fighting...animation is so butt-numbingly bad...voices are ridiculous...and if I actually had dreams/nightmares. I'd have nightmares for years about that ghastly talking tiger plushie. Dropping...
Kiddy Girl And 1 - !!!!!!!!!!!!! MY EYES! They took what was a great series and turned it into this god-forsaken monstrosity of a sequel?! There is no God....Dropping....
And I'm not going to be stupid enough to try Railgun, the index spinoff, as it's simply a premise for Kuroko to attempt yuri assault on Makoto. Or Asura Cryin 2, which was so bad in its original season. Heck, I almost feel like watching DBT season 2, until I remember how much I depsised season 1.
Man, I'm so glad Kimi ni Todoke is able to counter all the crap relased alongside it this season. Otherwise I'd be so angry right now. I'm still ticked off though. -_- This season is beyong a joke....it's a complete indictment on the indsutry....Geez, Sacred Blacksmith actually looks watchable compared to all the other series i tried the first episode of and dropped...
Guess there's still Nyan Koi, Natsu no Arashi 2nd season and Winter Sonata to try. But I'm now pretty certain Kimi ni Todoke is the ONLY series worth watching in October, unless you want part of your soul to die. A big part...
Disgusting...