Gokukoku no Brynhildr
Let's just start off with this series where its PV had already set a "dark and ominous" feel around the series' plot, which does turn out to be true and a little humour and romance here and there but generally something similar to Elfen Lied.
This series is also one of the very few series that actually do not have vocals for their opening song and is just left with the same bgm as they used in their PV which is pretty cool IMO. Having watched their 3rd episode, I finally begin to understand the use of their opening animations, where you see the main female protagonists transiting between life and death because indeed they aren't exactly alive after all. Their starting pace was good though, slowly introducing the characters in and whatnot, until their 3rd episode which to me, seemed pretty rushed out. The whole idea of them not being "alive" could be a large plot driver that could be hammered in slowly throughout the series. However the episode just threw us off our feet by showing a Kuroha covered in bandage and later in blood, AND then subsequently explaining that they require to take a certain medication everyday or their body will melt as a consequence.
Now that is a pretty big plot development for those who didn't read the manga. If they were to disclose this information, I would rather them slowly showing Kuroha in the midst of having that withdrawal and after a few more episodes, then allow the viewers to learn the truth and not just cramp everything up in one single episode. I'm still interested in seeing how this story will progress so I'm hoping this landslide wouldn't continue for the rest of the episodes to come.
Break Blade
Apparently there was a movie series for this but I just happened to either miss them all or didn't realise that it was a series that I had previously chanced upon while reading its manga. Now that it's getting animated (or sliced into episode portions from the movies), boy am I glad to watch another series that I'd previously followed in the manga :)
As a mecha series, it did interest me in its manga and now getting animated is like a feast for the eyes. My only complain though, is how the seiyuu of Rygart turned out to be. Having the same seiyuu as Kira Yamato from Gundam Seed, this role of Rygart just doesn't feel right while watching the character's personality. It makes him sound less of an adult as I had perceived Rygart to be. Even he did a great job voicing the side character in Symphogear, but having him as Rygart, ... just feels weird to me :/
Black Bullet
I guess this is the most anticipated series of this series considering the difference in amount of publicity and its own amazing PV in the season preview. The series had an amazing start, quickly showing off the the existence of alien-type creatures known as Gastreas and their ability to infect humans and turn them into Gastreas as well. And then came the Cursed Children as well, who have the power of Gastreas inside them but aren't enough to turn them into one. These children might get contracted with a Promoter which is our male protagonist and are given the title of Initiators.
At first glance, this series appears to have a huge resemblance to World Embryo (which I still hope that it will get animated one day D:). Even their antagonists are similar, and not forgetting the Kanshu as well which are just like carbon copies of the Gastreas. Leaving that uncanny resemblance aside, this series had pulled off an amazing start, with the realisation that there is this controversy with the Cursed Children where they are treated as outcasts of the society but yet holds the power to fight against the Gastreas. However, similar to Brynhildr, the series quickly rushed out Anju's disappearance coupled with her being discriminated by the other school children, which weren't shown and bam, she is gone. Too fast of a development even though they did wanted to show that Anju wasn't welcomed by society. I am hoping though for a good plot movement for the rest of the series since World Embryo did an amazing job and with their debatable setting of the Cursed Children, boy this would be interesting to follow.
No Game No Life
An interesting twist to a "getting absorbed into a game world" kind of setting, previously defined by SAO itself. Instead of having many people getting stuck or sucked into a game world, this time round it is our 2 main protagonist getting brought over to another world where the people there gain everything through winning games and were all existence in that world unlike the duo.
Leaving their interesting art and just annoying fan service aside, this series does have an element of humour which makes it interesting to watch, together with their dissection of simple games itself. I was definitely impressed at the way they explained scissors paper stone with certain conditions, in terms of probability and mind games. In all, it is just fun seeing a pair of NEET siblings owning in all sorts of games, even if some do include cheating too :D
Hitsugi no Chaika
Chaika, the coffin princess. I absolutely love the way she communicates, it's original, special and just cute to hear. "Castle. Must obtain. Important thing." >___<
The plot's pretty simple for this series, with Chaika, the daughter of a dethroned king, who once wield great power as a wizard and after his defeat, his remains were a huge source of magic power and is kept by various people around the world. Chaika wants to retrieve her father's remains, not to harness the power but instead, wanting to give her father a proper burial.
With her holding on to a sniper rifle, her as a wizard definitely reminds me of the contractor in Darker than Black 2, where she too, used a sniper rifle as well. It gets pretty irritating seeing our male protagonist Toru with his disturbing hair style that apparently "opens up" when he uses his powers, and not forgetting the "mugi-like" eyebrows that Chaika has as well. So far the group had managed to secure one remain of Chaika's father so I do hope to see more plot development from here on, if not just mainly finding the remains could make this series a little boring after some time.
Captain Earth
This has got to be the most cliché series we had in recent years. We have a totally innocent male protagonist who still thinks like a kid, ignoring totally pain and law just to show his fellow friends his boomerang. =.=
It gets pretty confusing right of the bat too which 2 factions engaged in war and the antagonist for this series seems to me like they are funded by Earth too? Just not quite sure whatever that is happening over here. Still, it is too classic to be dropped, it was basically a reminder of how past anime series used to be life, like in E7 etc.
An here I am still grinning at the moment when he says: "I am a Captain!" X___X this is indeed interesting to contine watching :D
Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou
And here we have the first of the two hilarious series this season. This series revolves around our male protagonist, Usa, being a new high school student and gets a crush onto a senpai called Kawai. It later turns out that the two of them stay in the same apartment. To add more hilarious antics, we have Usa's perverted roommate, Mayumi, a working adult who does got dumped countless of times and a college student Sayaka who just flirts with any men she sees.
As an expressionless Kawai Ritsu, Kana Hanazawa fits the role of her just perfectly and with this dynamic range of characters in this series, I can't help but just laugh at their jokes every now and then. The "Birth of Venus" part was definitely one that got me laughing so hard since the previous Baka test had done the same. I do think that although there is a slight form of romance included in the plot between Usa and Ritsu, but it is those kind of series that the most likely scenario would be Ritsu opening up to Usa and not having any commitments being made between the two. I would however hope that there would be more to that, but considering that it is a humour series, it could just be better off not venturing into that territory no matter how much I hope it would.
Soredemo sekai wa Utsukushii
Here is the 2nd hilarious series we have this season, quite an underrated series I believe but nonetheless still hilarious to watch. The plot revolves around a princess called Nike from a poor country who is able to summon rain through her songs and she was eliminated by a game of scissors paper stone by her siblings to be sent to the Sun Kingdom to marry the Sun King, which was proposed since the Sun Kingdom is a place where it doesn't rains.
Turns out that the Sun King was just a child and Nike get got herself married to a small kid who just doesn't appreciate how beautiful the world is and just absorbs himself in country matters.What comes humorous is the ranting between the 2 where we have a "wild" princess such as Nike and the little Sun King who well, is a child after all :P The only disappointing part of the series is Nike's song to summon the rain, which I had hoped for it to be a little more "mythical or magical" instead sounding like a pop song with english words even included in it.
Mekaku City Actors
This is the series that I've been looking forward to for a very looong time and it's finally here! As an adaptation to a series of vocaloid songs called Kagerou Days, SHAFT has taken this series and have proceeded to wow me in both their first and second episodes. Supernatural: Check. Weird: Check. SHAFT head tilt: Check. Confusion: Check. Now with all that in place, this is the series that I have the most anticipation for in this season itself.
As of now, each episode is introducing a new character which each of them, appears to have certain abilities or powers. And for some, they have this special eye power, where each of them, holds different abilities as well. In our first male protagonist's case, we have Shintaro, who is a NEET and has a computer program in a form of a cute girl called Ene who appears in his computer one day through an email. Our second protagonist who was introduced is Momo, who is an idol but she holds a certain ability that makes her the center of attention whatever she do, or wherever she goes.
It also seems like there is a person with an unknown eye power scouting for the duo too, perhaps in trying to form a group or some sort? But this is definitely the type of series that I would enjoy, so am waiting very eagerly weekly for new episodes to come!
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and to end off, here's a catchy song also featured in the Magical Mirai 2013:
Shake it! emon feat.
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