Starting into the Fall season of shows...Not sure if I'll get to Girls Last Tour as it's on Anime Strike and I don't plan to renew since that's the only show on there for the season that interested me. I do want to see that one though, the concept interested me.
Black Clover - Instant Fail. I have never hated a lead character so much so fast. Much as I was bringing up shonen shows this sounded like, the lead character is basically Luffy, Naruto, and Natsu, but all the bad parts of them, combined with what may be one of the single most aggravating voice actors I've heard in anime. He just yells 85% of his dialogue and it's piercing and painful. This show itself might have an okay premise, a generic one, but it's dead to me. The lead character has destroyed this show. An English dub would fix that awful voice, but it wouldn't fix this awful character.
Garo - Vanishing Line - I wanted to like this one more than I did. Premise is basic, seems to be a normal person with a mystery to solve gets caught up in this dark underworld of monsters, saved by the good tough guy, who is a part of a team hunting monsters. It's got good music, reasonably good animation, and the main character is your friendly, charismatic, but slightly sleazy, badass. It's negative is that the camera work they have going on makes a lot of the action incomprehensible. Lots of artificial camera shake and wonky edits, or just crazy camera work that takes what I can tell is good action, and makes it hard to follow. It's a shame, because there's a reasonable show here. I'll try and keep up with this one. Has a song from Jam Project for the OP, so that's also a plus. Need that camera work to get better.
Love is like a Cocktail - So I didn't know what this was exactly, but apparently it's a one of those super short shows and was only three minutes long and I didn't know this beforehand lol Basically it seems to be a show about this straight laced office chief who becomes a cute, goofball, when she drinks and the show features some specific drink in it...Yeah...It was a thing? A cute thing? It's a thing lol
Kino's Journey - This is a slightly odd one. I guess it's based off an older light novel that got an anime in the early 2000's and this is just a new adaptation on it. It's about a kid traveling through this fictional world on a talking motorcycle (Which is totally normal for the world) and it involves traveling to a new country (Countries seem to be quite small) with unique customs in each one. I feel like they want to say towns or villages more than countries... I think maybe every episode will sorta revolve around some sort of philosophical or moral concept, as this one was about a country that made murder legal. Sounds like it would be crazy, but it was actually very chill, almost slice of life like in tone as not a lot goes on, though it had a tiny dark bent to it in an interesting way. I kinda liked it though. I'm kinda curious where it may go, but not sure if I'll stick with it for long unless they bring more into the show.
Konohana Kitan - This was the last of the brand new shows I was gonna check out. Was looking at this one for my chill/cute show I tend to like having as something to wind down from most of the action heavy shows I watch and games I play, but...This wasn't bad, but it was a little fanservice'y and more goofy than I would like it to be. Story is basically about a young fox girl who comes to work with other fox girls at a traditional Japanese onsen, set in an old fantasy Japanese setting, but I feel like I wanted something a little more slice of life and less "Cute girls be cute"...Like Hanasaku Iroha was, where this kinda has that same concept, just more cutesy overall, and is less interesting because of it. I'll probably pass on this. I think my chill show will be Sakura Quest still, which I only watched the first 11 episodes of and it's up to 25 now.
Only thing left is Food Wars returning, which will be great. Oh and Blood Blockade Battlefront season 2, which looks like it starts today.
