neko's thinkbox

Chaos.

It is always nice to be surprised by such a seemingly boring anime, which turns out to become one of the best shows of the summer season.

Not to repeat myself on what I’ve said in my previous impressions of this anime, I’ll just focus a little on this concept of realism.

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“Courage” is lost.

Actually, this series wasn’t really high on my Catching up to clearing list. But due to unforeseen circumstances – read: hints and spoilers on twitter – my utmost curiosity was awakened, thinking to myself, “that is impossible“. And now I’m here. But before joining the new conjecture bandwagon fad, I’ll first drop a few comments about the series so far.

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I believe summer should be all about watermelons, big melons, small melons, and mysterious purple cocktails.

I believe summer should be all about watermelons, big melons, small melons, and mysterious purple cocktails.

Okawari! Yep, I am not sated yet. With so many potentially good series this summer, it is hard to make a decision which series to effectively watch and perhaps even blog. So here’s to confirm or veto my first good impressions on the eight series I picked. Don’t worry, I will (try to) keep it short this time.

Of course, I hope to reduce that number to a strict minimum. After all, there still are plenty of long seasoners from spring (Basquash!, Cross Game, Phantom, Saki, Tears to Tiara, Valkyria Chronicles) I am currently watching and blogging, so I will have to limit my choices here. (Even if I rarely do episodical posts now anyway, but it still is a lot to watch and muse about.)

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I believe summer should be all about the beach, the blue sea, and girls in bikinis with light swords.

I believe summer should be all about the beach, the deep blue sea, girls in bikinis and, of course, light swords.

Thanks everyone for all the comments to the first batch! Maybe this summer isn’t as draughty as it seemed to look like. And without further ado, here are five more series to muse about.

Note, if you don’t want to be spoilt on certain series, you can simply click on any quicklink in the post and you should only see the series you want to read about. (I wrote enough crap per series to fill the height of a 1050px screen, so you won’t see what’s above or below.)

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