Fairy tail

Was trying to get this done a while back, the watching list still stands, this season held nothing new besides Fate/Zero.

It seems I dropped nearly everything last season.

Fair few promising shows I didn't try though: Kamisama no Memo-chou and Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth ~ The Animation. A few pieces of trash that might be fun too.

Dropped/stalled list:

Hibiki's Magic (Hibiki no Mahou)

Apologies for not posting in ages, had this half finished for a good 3 months now
I picked up this by hearing about it in a podcast discussion of moe on manga out loud.

My first reaction was this is being regarded by a critic as good, should look it up.
My second reaction was it's probably just some other author with the same name.
Then I confirm it was indeed that author and instantly purchase both volumes off Amazon.

Summer '11first ep views

And now the anime forecast, issued by the myself on behalf of the aniblogging comunity at 17:54 BST today

iM@S: very active character animation, lots of activity in every shot. Good.

Mawaru Penguindrum: FUCK YES IKUHARA!!! Heavy showers. Good.

Usagi Drop: Very real, hits damn hard. Good

Yuruyuri: Moe blobs, K-on! without the cake. Poor becoming moderate.

Blood-C: Noodle people, decent animation. Light showers. Moderate.

Some musings on the UK anime market

Some Q&A.
Tl;dr version:
Your product sucks compared to the US and or Fansubs
If it didn't suck it's OOP.

First impressions

Everyone seems to be doing a preview guide, bandwagon ahoy!

Hanasaku Iroha
ooh shiny....
Seriously;
great CG work on the reflection effects, that level of animation is normally reserved for films.
Characters are nice,...  well not nice, more actually have personality.
All realy fluid as well.

Spring 2011 anime plans

What I've decided to watch. Based almost solely on studio, and Steins;Gate due to hype + looks like it might be interesting.

Seins;Gate,
the two SHAFT shows, (Maria Holic Alive, Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko)
the two Manglobe shows, (Deadman Wonderland, Kami Nozmizo Shiru Sekai 2)
and the KyoAni show. (Nichijou)

Not sure about:
the xebec shows (Hen Zemi, Sofuteni)
NoitaminA shows (C: The Money of Soul and Posibility Control, Ano Hana)
and the PA Works one.(Hanasaku Iroha)

 

5 Centimetres per Scecond (3 year delay -_-;)

Finally got my copy of the UK (Australian) edition of one of my favourite anime "film"s.
I will not be reviewing the film itself, which I first saw over four years ago, but the shambolic dvd release.

Much as Manga totally failed in alleviating fears I had about video quality (actually give accurate product listings, Amazon still thinks it's sub only), it was actually a good transfer. The standard for UK (Australian) anime dvds is a transfer from the US release, not from the source film, which leaves very bad artifacts form having the frame rate changed twice (e.g. interlace between 3 frames).