This season I picked up about 9 titles, including Aikatsu's second season. That's a lot more than I did during summer. There will be spoilers for these shows. Ratings will be out of 10. And for you shippers reading this, I'll include my favorite canon and crack pairings for the shows.
Aikatsu!: Season 2 premiered in October and is currently airing. Ichigo, having returned from America to continue her Idol training, discovers the sudden appearance of Dream Academy, or DreAca for short. There seems to be a friendly competition between the two schools and with Ichigo and her friends. Each Brand (all the cards have "brand name" labels) has to come up with dresses that fit a theme. And this year's theme? Constellations.
Rating: 10/10 (I'll do a in-depth analysis of this season at the halfway point and again when it ends)
Canon Pairing: IchigoxSeira
Crack Pairing: IchigoxAoi
Ace of Diamond: This season premiered in October and is currently airing. Eijun Sawamura is a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Koushien championships through hard work and determination.
The last sports anime I watched was 2007's Big Windup! and I wanted the same, more or less. The main character is a little overenthusiastic about baseball and it sometimes could be a good thing. But in Sawamura's case, it comes off as cocky and he doesn't gain the respect of the coaches and the players. But it's his determination to become the school's ace, that really sells this series.
Rating: 8/10 (Will give this a better rating when I see the rest of the episodes)
Canon Pairing: SawamuraxBaseball
Crack Pairing: SawamuraxMiyuki
Golden Time: Banri Tada is a newly admitted student at a private law school in Tokyo. Due to the after-effects of an accidental fall from a bridge shortly after high school graduation, he lost all his memories from before then. At the time of the accident, Banri's soul had escaped from his body, and the "Spirit of Banri Tada" came into being, carrying his memories from before his mishap.
Banri finds himself completely lost after the opening ceremony, trying to find his way to the freshman orientation. At that moment, he runs into another lost freshman from the same school, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, and they hit it off at once. Somehow arriving at their intended goal just on time, there appears in front of them a beautiful girl holding a bouquet of roses, who hits Mitsuo across the face with them and hands the flowers over to him. This stylish, well dressed, and perfect woman is his childhood friend Kōko Kaga. As children, they had promised to marry each other one day, fulfilling their dreams. In order to escape from her, Mitsuo had gone out secretly and taken the examination for this well-known private college, but she also took the law school entrance examination, catching up with him there. She meets Banri Tada and many other new friends. But as her friendship with Banri Tada is increasing, Banri Tada confesses to her, much to her shock. But eventually, she falls for him and they become a couple.
There are times where Koko, is just a bitch to...well, everyone. I don't really like girls like that, but after awhile, she makes up for it and she becomes one of my favorite characters.
Rating: 9 /10
Canon Pairing: BanrixKoko
Crack Pairing: BanrixMitsuo
Outbreak Company: Shin'ichi Kanō is a young secluded otaku who is offered a job thanks to his vast knowledge of anime, manga and video games and just after meeting his new employer, he is kidnapped, awakening in an alternate world with a fantasy setup. Shin'ichi then is informed that he was in fact selected by the Japanese government to help improve his country's relations with this new world by establishing a company to spread the unique products of the Japanese culture to this new, unexplored market.
I like this concept. The biggest nerd on the planet is tasked with teaching Final Fantasy-like characters the ways of the otaku. Shin'ichi even takes his maid (Myucel) to a Maid Cafe. That scene was the most adorable scene in the history of anime. I also like how the elves and the dwarfs fight over which otome game is better.
Rating: 10/10
Canon Pairing: Shin'ichi and Myucel
Crack Pairing: Shin'ichi and Garius (The ruler's cousin and a knight)
Kill la Kill: Kill la Kill is set at Honnouji Academy, a fictional high school in Tokyo Bay set in post-apocalyptic Japan that is dominated by its fearsome student council, led by Satsuki Kiryuin. The council members wear special uniforms called Goku Uniforms that grant them superhuman abilities, which they use to oppress the rest of the school's students and staff. Ryuko Matoi, a student wielding half of a scissor-shaped longsword, transfers to Honnouji Academy in search of the owner of the other half of the scissor blade, the person who killed her father. Defeated by the council after interrogating Satsuki over the killer's identity and whereabouts, Ryuko comes across a sentient sailor uniform she names Senketsu, who puts himself on Ryuko. Using Senketsu's special abilities, Ryuko stands up against Satsuki and her henchmen, the Elite Four, to liberate Honnouji Academy from their iron grip and find out the truth behind her father's murder.
I really can't give a rating or a analysis of this because I only saw the first episode. It's not right judging a whole series based on a first episode. I really don't know who everyone is to say who my ships are.
Rating: /10
Canon Pairing:
Crack Pairing:
Meganebu!: The plot focuses on Akira Souma, a glasses fanatic at the rural Himaraya Third Technical School. Akira's great love for glasses causes him to form the "Glasses Club" at his school and he somewhat forces his classmates and glasses wearers Takuma Hachimine, Yukiya Minabe, Mitsuki Kamatani, and Hayato Kimata to join. The series follows the activities of the Glasses Club and the antics resulting from their shared passion for eye-wear.
Like Kill la Kill, I can't properly give this a rating and analysis being that I only saw the first episode. I can give my shipping choices though.
Rating: /10
Canon Pairing: Souma and his perfect X-ray glasses
Crack Pairing: Souma and Yukiya
Miss Monochrome: In order to be more in the eyes of the public, Miss Monochrome begins working to become a top-selling idol. Spacey Miss Monochrome once again runs around the idol show biz world, being tossed around by others.
This show is 5 minutes and it's packs enough story in but, it feels like 25 minute episode at times. That assistant's a good con artist if she convinced a robot to give her the robot's ENTIRE fortune. You'd have to be pretty gullible to fall for something like that.
Rating: 9/10
Canon Pairing: Miss Monochrome and her agent/manager
Crack Pairing: Miss Monochrome and that Idol she wants to surpass
Walkure Romanze: Walkure Romanze's story revolves around Takahiro Mizuno, a student studying at an academy with jousting as its main focus for sport. Takahiro acts as an advisor to the riders of the sport. Takahiro goes through each day tediously until the time of the annual competition draws near. Due to some odd circumstances, his childhood friend Mio Kisaki is enrolled into the competition. As she has never even rode a horse once in her life, Takahiro senses the fear in his friend and becomes Mio's coach.
I wanted to watch this because their outfits looked cool and jousting, to me, isn't a sport, but I guess it is. I don't know. I like how both Mio and her horse are named after the same flower. They even mention this in the first episode. Celia's a badass. And I also like that chick who's in love with her, Mio's best friend. Akane, I think her name is.
Rating: 8/10
Canon Pairing: Mio and Takahiro
Crack Pairing: Mio and Celia
Yowamushi Pedal: Sakamichi Onoda is an otaku, an anime obsessive, who has just entered high school and plans to join the anime club. In middle school Onoda did not have any friends with whom he could talk about anime, games, Akihabara and other otaku things and is hoping he can make such friends in the anime club, but he finds out it has been disbanded. In order to reestablish the club he tries to find 4 other people who would like to join.
Since he was a little boy, Onoda has ridden his mamachari ("City Bike" AKA "Mommy Bike" in the anime) – a bulky bicycle with a step-through frame mainly used for short rides, such as for casual fun, to pick up groceries or to go to Akihabara every week to check out or buy otaku things. His fellow freshman, Shunsuke Imaizumi, a cyclist, while training, notices Onoda riding his mamachari up a steep road.
Shōkichi Naruko, visit Akihabara to get some Gundam plastic models for his younger brothers and he meets Onoda, who caught his attention because of the his cycling skill on the mamachari and later finds out they go to the same school. Later on, both Naruko and Imaizumi try to convince him to join the bicycle racing club, but will he?
This first episode alone is what sets the tone for the rest of the series. The "race" between the two is pure awesome.
Rating: 9/10
Canon Pairing: Onoda and Akihabara
Crack Pairing: Naruko and his damn bike
Anime synopsis provided by: Wikipedia and Anime News Network (I would have butchered it otherwise)
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