This new season isn't turning out to be as dreary as it seemed. There is some watchable stuff after all.
The one I'm really enjoying is
Durarara!!.
Ryuugamine Mikado is a boy who longs for the exciting life of the big city. At the invitation of his childhood friend Masaomi, he transfers to a school in Ikebukuro. Masaomi has warned him about people he doesn't want to cross in the city: a champion fighter, an informant, and a mysterious gang called "Darazu." Nervous from Masaomi's stories, Mikado witnesses an urban legend on his first day in the city, the Headless Rider astride a black motorcycle. From then on, the existence of supernatural cases and a gang called the Yellow Turbans will rise to the surface, and Ikebukuro will pushed to the breaking point.
It's well done by the same people who did
Bacchno!.
Nodame Cantabile: Finale continues to be as entertaining as ever. Going to hate to see this one end.
Take the girls from
K-ON!, put them in the Army and stick them in some backwater post and you have a fair idea of what
Sora no Woto is about, but that's actually a good thing. I like this show a lot it's well done with a good story and without being too moe.
After a cease-fire during a long war. A second-class Bugler soldier, Kanata Sorami, is reasigned to her new outpost to a stronghold Fortress in the little city of Seize, where other female soldiers reside to serve in a multi purpose task, 1st: maintain the fortress, 2nd: contribute to the traditions of the city since all are young females and the folklore tales that the young maidens keept a demon under control, and 3rd: also to be prepared in case of a non probable attack due to the isolation of the city.
Katanagatari is another good one. It has a simple but striking artistic style, interesting characters who interact amusingly and a captivating story.
This story takes place in the Edo era where Yasuri Shichika is the seventh head of the Kyotou school of Japanese sword martial arts living in Fushou Island with his sister Nanami. With the order from a female samurai general Togame, he sets out for a trip to collect the twelve treasured swords created by a legendary swordsmith Shikizaki Kiki.
That "Kyotou school of Japanese sword martial arts" is a
sword less school of swordsmanship. I can't believe they left that out. It's kind of important. Since he doesn't use a sword, he is immune to the ill effects of wielding these special swords he is supposed to collect. That's why he was the one picked to do it.
The rest of the stuff I have been watching is pretty mediocre. Anyone know of anything good I'm missing?
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