Tomoya does some party preparations for Kotomi’s birthday.

Flavor: Mild

Yeah, I found this quite disappointing since I was expecting something more exciting after the lack of CLANNAD goodness that we suffered for the past two weeks. I’m not sure why, but I didn’t really find Kotomi’s past that sad or depressing… maybe I just don’t like her that much anymore. The rest of the episode was just Tomoya cleaning up Kotomi’s backyard… which was simply “meh“.

Next week’s episode is called “Theory of Everything”, so it’s most likely that it’ll be the ending for Kotomi’s arc, and everything that hasn’t been explained yet will be covered in this one.

Only watch this if you want to see loli Kotomi/shota Tomoya.

So much hate.

Flavor: Mild

Whoa, so Takuma is now able to see perfectly fine but it’s like nobody gives a damn. Anyway, this week we got the first wave of flashbacks that this series has to offer, more school violence involving Hayami and less fanservice.

Aside from that, all the stuff in this episode it’s not that different from what we saw in the last one. The animation quality is still pretty bad, and I haven’t grown fond of any of the characters yet… the only girl I kinda care about is Hayami. I mean, poor kid, even the teacher hates her. I wonder what she did in the past to deserve all that ANGST she’s getting… maybe they’re all just tired of her tsundere attitude.

Obligatory nice boat shot of the week.

Obligatory t- er… nevermind.

Everybody’s favorite robotic cat.

Flavor: Sweet
Initial reaction: *gasp* Nobita!

Yay! I love Doraemon, so I really liked that parody at the beginning of the episode. Apparently, it was added because Noramimi’s concept of “having children adopt a freeloader character who helps them to become good adults” is based on Doraemon.

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Now that most of the new shows have started airing…

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My vote: Light Novel adaptations (Shigofumi, Spice and Wolf)

Before the winter season started, I was really looking forward to True Tears and H2O, but now that I’ve seen the first episodes for both of these shows, I’m not finding myself that excited for them anymore. I didn’t watch any of the sequels since I skipped the first seasons of SZS, Minami-ke, etc. So, the only series that have made me want to see more are Shigofumi and Ookami to Koushinryou… both Light Novel adaptations. Oh, well… luckily, there’s still CLANNAD.

The only scene where Horo appears fully-clothed in this episode.

Flavor: Mild
Initial reaction: How long is she going to stay naked?

This was a rather good start, though it wasn’t that much of an interesting episode since it served mostly to introduce the two main characters. Still, I don’t have any complaints with the animation quality shown so far. I really liked the BGMs they used in there since they contributed to the medieval atmosphere in which this story takes place. The OP theme was quite nice, too… The ED, instead, seemed pretty weird with all those engrish lyrics. Also, I hope all you guys who are wathing this solely for the wolfgirl enjoyed this week’s fanservice since probably we’ll be getting much less from now on.

Keep blogging? Indeed.

Someone killed my CHICKEN!

Flavor: Mild
Initial reaction: Yay, an eufonious OP!

I was pretty hesitant about this anime because of the absolute alteration from the source material that True Tears suffered, but now that this first episode was somewhat better than I expected… I think I might enjoy this show.

I don’t really like the character designs they used for this series that much, but I guess the animation quality makes up for it. Also, the three main heroines have already been introduced and they didn’t seem as annoying/boring as I thought them to be.

Something that still bothers me, though, is how they’re planning on developing the drama and the plot in this show. I mean, the -Noe being unable to cry because of a childhood trauma or whatever- thing has a lot of potential, but when they try to show us her inability to produce tears by making her feel sad about a silly chicken, it makes you wonder if the producers are really going to put an effort to make things more exciting.

Other than that, this show had a decent start… and hopefully whatever studio is behind this will make me change my overall opinion of their production real soon.

Keep blogging? I guess.

I can’t believe she actually liked that!