Brief Fall 2013 Anime Previews #3

Alright guys, so this is the last of my preview posts for episode ones. Yesterday Blazblue-Alter Memory began and today Ore no Nounai came out. As both series are far from my favorite, this may be shorter than anticipated. Anyways, let's get to it.

Accel World - Review

Kuroyukihime and Haruyuki Arita (Image taken from: anime-planet.com)

Since I'm already tired tonight, this summary will be more to the point. Accel World takes place in a universe in which everyone has this necklace-computer thing and is on an online network at all times. Basically Kuroyukihime, the school's idol, and Haruyuki meet and Kuroyukihime suddenly takes an interest in this short pudgy boy, Haruyuki. Not too far into the series, Kuroyukihime transfers a program called Brain Burst to Haruyuki, which is later discovered as a fighting game between people with the program in addition to access to the 'Accelerated World' which lets someone slow and start time at will at the expense of their points within the Brain Burst fighting bracket. Essentially, if one player runs out of points, the program is automatically uninstalled and that person can never reinstall it.

Brief Look into Animes That Started As Of Sunday

So, as of today, two more animes have been added to this season's watching list. If I also count Sunday, I have three more to talk about. The three animes are Walkure Romanze, Non Non Biyori, and Unbreakable Machine Doll. Each series has only had one episode each, so this isn't much more than speculation. As my post title suggests, this will be a bit more brief than my prior preview post. Anyways, let's get right to it.

Ano Natsu de Matteru (Waiting in the Summer) - Review

Takatsuki Ichika from AnoNatsu (Image taken from: anime-planet.com)

Okay, as I had said a few posts back, random reviews will gradually leak in, this marks the first review I haven't rewatched lately but am too lazy to rewatch at the time being. In all actuality, it's more that I'm busy catching up with animes having sequels this season than anything, but that's a different point. Anyways, AnoNatsu is about this alien girl, Ichika, who crash lands in Japan over Kirishima Kaito. Kaito of course forgets the incident for a while only to have it come back later. Ichika lives amongst Kaito and his peers as if she were just another human until late in the series when the intergalactic secuity authorities (forgetting what they were actually called) come to Earth looking to take Ichika back into space. In the time Ichika was on Earth, her and Kaito along with other friends made a movie together which they eventually show toward the end of the show.

Brief Look Into Animes This Season (Thus Far)

Alright, so, this Fall 2013 season is packed with animes I'm planning to follow while they air in Japan. Thus far, three series I'm following have started: Outbreak Company, Golden Time, and Log Horizon. All three animes seem to have promise in their own way, but I'll briefly break down each.

Kokoro Connect - Review

The members of the Cultural Research Club [From left to right: Aoki, Yui, Taichi, Inaba, and Iori] (Image taken from: picky wallpapers.com)

Okay so, yesterday I completed my rewatch of all 17 Kokoro Connect episode and let me just say the series wasn't as good as I remember in the first half-ish, but it was much better in the second half. Kokoro Connect is about the five students above struggling against supernatural phenomenon caused by Heartseed. Some of the cases include: switching personalities (one's soul would exchange with another's and live in each other's bodies for some time) and emotion transmission, which basically made any of their thoughts possible to be transmitted to one or multiple other club members, regardless of distance/what the person actually says. Through those difficulties the club members face so much stress both between them and just amongst society as a whole. In each case, someone breaks down in some way, but eventually the members patch up the damage and return to be happy peers again.

Voice Actor/Actress Appreciation Post #2

I know it's kind of boring for me to do the same post on consecutive days... but it's just how I feel today. As for today's VA, I'd like to highlight Horie Yui. Horie Yui voiced several characters I really liked in their respective series, a few include: Kotori from the first two Da Capo seasons, Minori from Toradora, Eri from School Rumble, Ryuunosuke and his program, Maid-chan, from Sakurasou, and Akane from Yuru Yuri. Today I'd like to highlight her characters in Toradora, School Rumble, and Sakurasou.

Horie Yui (Image taken from: last.fm)

Voice Actor/Actress Appreciation Post #1

Okay, so today I decided to do something brief, but something new. Today I have chosen a voice actress to spotlight for their achievements and what I like about them/their respective character(s) that I know of. Anywho, without further ado, the first VA I chose to highlight is Kayano Ai.

Kayano Ai (Image taken from: myanimelist.net)

Lucky Star - Review

The four main girls of Lucky Star [From left to right: Konata, Kagami, Miyuki, and Tsukasa] (Image taken from: photobucket.com)

Lucky Star was the first real slice of life/comedy hybrid anime I watched. The anime follows the daily life of the four girls above and any other peers they interact with. While it isn't jumping with action or utterly dramatic, the anime has several funny moments. The storyline (if there really is one) is quite vague in the sense that one episode may have no real lead into the next and so on and so forth. As such, the episodes often are just a daily look at the lives of four high school girl characters, what they go through, what they laugh about, what they talk about in general, and how they get along all around.

RAP #3 (Complete with general blogger's life update)

Alright so, welcome to my third RAP. To start I want to address the future of posts a bit. Since a season is ending a new one beginning, I will have no real fresh reviews right off of watching the anime. I plan to rewatch Kokoro Connect and finish up Haiyore Nyaruko-San W and will have reviews for those, once I finish. Otherwise, reviews will be primarily of animes I have watched that I don't have the patience to rewatch, or, in Clannad's case, depress me so much I'd rather not rewatch. Anyways, as usual, let's start with images.~

Images: (Again, most of these are taken from my personal files which were saved off of primarily booru/sankaku imageboards)