NODAME CANTABILE: PARIS

Nodame Cantabile is back! This time set in Paris, the show does go on! I’m ready for another bout of heart tugging moments with the Nodame-Chiaki pair.  I’m also excited about the new characters since I have not read the manga.  Anyhow, I do have some reservation about since the news that there has been a director change.



In any case, it’s looking pretty interesting. I just finished watching the first 3 episodes, thankfully the humor is still there and Nodame is just as charming with her messy room and anime addictiion (I can relate!) hah. As for the OP/ED I do prefer the previous season’s but who knows maybe it’ll grow on me. I’m just glad the show is back.

VAMPIRE KNIGHT GUILTY

Yay I only endured two months of waiting time before the new season came out. The Kaname-Yuuki-Zero love triangle saga continues! wootwoot.  (with my Code Geass withdrawal syndrome I am glad to watch any show with a character named, Zero) ^_^



I’m a sucker for vampire stories, no pun intended. Plus all the vampires in this show just have to be so beautiful with hypnotizing eyes, especially Kaname, who could have been an animated version of Anne Rice’s vampire characters.



The first 3 episodes are intense and even though flashbacks pepper the first episode, it did not hinder the flow of the story. Zero is back to normal after drinking Kaname’s blood and the Council of Ancients hunting him down for allegedly killing Shizuka, I’m already hungry for more.

ONE OUTS-

I am a sports anime fan.  It never fails to make me feel good after.  Plus I don’t have to think much and just watch.  For this season I’ll be following the TV adaptation of Shinobu Kaitani’s manga ONE OUTS, about baseball (a game that definitely won’t bore me, as proven by my fanatic following of major and ookiku furikabutte).

Here’s a synopsis from ANN:

The story begins when Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the fictional Lycaons in Japan’s Pacific League, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and bring himself out of a slump. There, he meet Tōa Tokuchi, a 134-kmph (83 miles per hour) pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball called “One Out.” At Kojima’s urging, Tokuchi signs up with the Lycaons under an unusual contract: he gets 5,000,000 yen (about US$46,000) for every out he pitches, but loses 50,000,000 yen (US$460,000) for every point he gives up.



I just finished watching Episode 1 its definitely promising.  Tokuchi’s character design reminds me of Akagi, another anime about gambling men.  But then again both series are produced by Madhouse Studios. Episode 2 features the intense showdown between Hiromichi and Toah, the episode ending in a cliffhanger.  I am holding my breath.




     

KUROSHITSUJI

 A.k,a. Black Butler Awesome! At first I thought it would be cutesy but after the first episode, this one’s much more serious and bloody. It involves a demon butler of course (as some of my friends will attest, it’s always been my dream to have a butler hehehe)



“I am one hell of a butler.”

The fight scene in episode 2 is interesting so go watch it. I guess the premise could be similar to Full Metal Alchemist or other making contracts with the devil, or selling one’s soul kind of story.  But instead of your typical hero, we have the intellectual, powerful, Lelouch archetype (like I said I’m not over my Geass withdrawal syndrome yet.)





Anyway the characters are colorful so I’m sure this won’t be just a run-of-the-mill show.  I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

TO ARU MAJUTSU NO INDEX



With the Harry Potter series over, I have found an alternative to get my fix - Anime!  To Aru Majutsu No Index would have to be my fave show so far.  I’m off to work  so I’ll add my thoughts later on the first four episodes. Perhaps I’ll blog it in a separate entry.  I’ll leave you with the Synopsis from ANN:

“Set in a city of scientifically advanced superhuman students, but in a world where magic is also real. Toma Kamijo’s right hand, the Imagine Breaker, will negate all magic, psychic, or divine powers, but not his own bad luck. One day he finds a young girl hanging on his balcony railing. She turns out to be a nun from the Church of England, and her mind has been implanted with the Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum - all the magical texts the Church has removed from circulation.”

(This show is a MUST-SEE)

Will add more as soon as I have time to watch all the other new shows!

• Ga-Rei -Zero-
• Tales of the Abyss
• Yozakura Quartet