Winter '10 - The Story Thus Far

We're about halfway into the Fall/Winter anime season for 2010 and I think it's safe to draw some conclusions.

Let's start off with the show I'm currently downloading the latest episode of.


The World God Only Knows.

First, this show started off pretty good. The plot kind of goes nowhere quickly and the story is ridiculously simple. It's pretty run of the mill, but that could or could not be a good thing. It's...safe.

The manga was pretty popular and the overall feel is light. I'm still watching this because it's ridiculously easy.


Yosuga no Sora

I played Yosuga no Sora. I played the shit out of Yosuga no Sora because I have a maid fetish and the maid in YnS is pretty hot.

That said, I couldn't enjoy the anime at all, and have since dropped it. This isn't because the show has slews of quality streaks or is eye cancer, but because I have a large porn stash, and softcore isn't really my thing.

I have a hard time figuring out if this show is supposed to be ironically funny, comedic funny, or super serious. The game itself doesn't even have a harem ending, I don't see where they're coming up with all this 'new guy rolls into town with his incestual sister, bangs everyone.' shit from. I really do not.

Moving on.


(The note Lia hits at around 0:15 just makes my ears cringe, am I the only one?)
Fortune Arterial

What is with the world and vampires? Really. Ok, now this show is -really- run of the mill. It's the same eroge-turned-anime that we've seen a million times and doesn't really stride much in it's own territory.

If you haven't already grown tired of this, and it's like...2AM...and you came buckets to the original game (which was substandard if I recall) then I -guess- it's an ok show.


Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt

Now. Gainax are master trolls as we all know, so I'm not going to spend too much time on this one.

It's clever.


Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai

Now, I like this one.

But I'm disappointed to see this title deviate so much from the original story, I'm also disappointed to see so little screentime for Saori, who I consider to be the best character behind Kuroneko. It's pretty funny but still pretty safe. The biggest appeal for it is the catchy music and story, coupled with pretty high production values.

Anything else I'm either saving for another entry, or is shit and thus dropped without comment.

-Kageryu