Upcoming Anime Spring 2009

[shinta|hikari]

@BOC - What... so you were serious about liking Basquash? I thought it was absolute sarcasm. I personally thought it was good, until I saw the main character screaming and raging like a fucking idiot while being beaten by a girl in the second episode.

Top series
Cross Game. - I read the manga, and I generally never watch an anime if I already know the story (or I will check it out and hate it), but I can honestly say that the anime rivals or even exceeds its manga counterpart here. Heart-wrenching ED song too.

K-ON. - Solid slice-of-life and comedy. Great characters. Awesome ED sequence. Sometimes, simple is best.

Potentially rising to the top after a few more episodes
Eden of the East. - Interesting setting, with loads of potential. A serious story that seems to be thought out, so it just needs time to develop (I hope, at least).

Valkyria Chronicles. - Huge potential both in story and characters, as well as the battle situations and tactics that may be introduced later on as the show progresses.

Most disappointing
FMA 2009 - but only because of the unrealistic expectations about it.

[Pandadice]

@BOC - What... so you were serious about liking Basquash? I thought it was absolute sarcasm. I personally thought it was good, until I saw the main character screaming and raging like a fucking idiot while being beaten by a girl in the second episode.

Top series
Cross Game. - I read the manga, and I generally never watch an anime if I already know the story (or I will check it out and hate it), but I can honestly say that the anime rivals or even exceeds its manga counterpart here. Heart-wrenching ED song too.

K-ON. - Solid slice-of-life and comedy. Great characters. Awesome ED sequence. Sometimes, simple is best.

Potentially rising to the top after a few more episodes
Eden of the East. - Interesting setting, with loads of potential. A serious story that seems to be thought out, so it just needs time to develop (I hope, at least).

Valkyria Chronicles. - Huge potential both in story and characters, as well as the battle situations and tactics that may be introduced later on as the show progresses.

Most disappointing
FMA 2009 - but only because of the unrealistic expectations about it.

I figure my top so far would be something like

Valkyria Chronicles
Eden of the East
and
K-ON!

while potentially raising would be

Cross Game
and
Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~

though Charady's Daily Joke is off to a pretty splendid start and has a lot of potential too.

biggest let down is definitely Shangri-la.

apart from Charady, I've yet to watch a second episode of anything. I am getting on it though and I'm downloading a ton of second episodes now :\

[Board of Command]

@BOC - What... so you were serious about liking Basquash? I thought it was absolute sarcasm. I personally thought it was good, until I saw the main character screaming and raging like a fucking idiot while being beaten by a girl in the second episode.

I haven't gotten to the second episode yet.

[Archangel]

Anything "shoneny" from this new batch of anime?

[Buffalobiian]

Anything "shoneny" from this new batch of anime?

-Full Metal Alchemist
-Sengoku BASARA
- Basquash!
-Queens Blade

[Ryllharu]

How shoneny are we talking?

If you forget about the Full Metal Alchemist Remake or the Dragonball Z Remastering, Basquash! is probably the shonen flagship title this season. Sports, all kinds of merchandise, mecha, and boobies.

Guin Saga may also fit the bill, in the Fist of the North Star/Conan the Barbarian vein.

Cross Game is a must if you want sports-romance shonen. This is one of the pinnacles of the micro-genre of sports romance shonen.

Of course, if you want to shift into seinen, and go with infinite badassery, look no further than Sengoku Basara.

...and Queen's Blade if you are a pervert who doesn't care that the story is lame and the lead character is an annoying waste of good negative space (with notable exception that she is voiced by Ayako Kawasumi).


Of course, if you're not watching Eden of the East...you shouldn't be watching any anime this season.

[Buffalobiian]

...and Queen's Blade if you are a pervert who doesn't care that the story is lame and the lead character is an annoying waste of good negative space (with notable exception that she is voiced by Ayako Kawasumi).

It's getting better.

....well, the second episode was the best, so it's sort of "downhill" right now, but still.....

[KrayZ33]

Guin Saga is probably the coolest series of them all in this season...

Haven't seen such a good fantasy anime in a while (well actually I've never seen such a good one in general)
it reminds me a bit of the older animes and cartoons (simply because the main character looks like a cool He-Man version ^^) and the animation is so great, I'm totally in love with it so far.
Even though I hate the kid-prince in that show *grrr*