Filed under CODE GEASS, Miscellaneous, Random Musings by Omni | 53 comments
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Happy New Years! Now that I’ve gotten a chance to sit down and reflect, I realized 2007 really went by quickly. It seems like just yesterday I was writing about Shuffle Memories and Manabi Straight.
I’m hearing a lot of disappointment over the anime offerings for this upcoming winter season, and I somewhat share that sentiment since there’s only a few shows that I really care to see (Wolf and Spices, maybe Gunslinger Girl S2). With that in mind, I looked ahead further at the Spring 2008 and found it a lot easier to get excited about with the likes of Macross Frontier, the hilarious Kamen no Maid Guy, and the next CODE GEASS. There’s also a series called Special A (S.A for short), starring the talented Fukuyama Jun (Lelouch of GEASS) and Gotou Yuuko (Mikuru of Suzumiya Haruhi). The story of S.A - about a girl who has a middle-class upbringing who attends a rich school - is one that I find similar to Ouran in many ways, including how much it makes me laugh and how fun the manga is to read, so I’m really looking forward to seeing the anime adaptation. If you get a chance, I’d recommend checking out the manga.
Oh and speaking of CODE GEASS, there was news out a few days ago that it is not in fact taking over Gundam 00’s Saturday 6PM timeslot (as was widely expected) but is instead taking a new Sunday 5PM one come April of this year. I find that rather worrisome in terms of the direction the series will take with its more mature themes because it’s roughly in that same timeframe that more kid-friendly shows like Kirarin Revolution, Ultraman Mebius, and Chibi Maruko-chan air. That’s not to say that they’re going to dumb down the show or completely cleanse it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were major thematic differences - and I doubt things like Viletta or Kallen’s nipple slips, or Nina’s masturbation scene would make the final cut.
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Hikarihoshi at 1:39 am on January 3rd, 2008
Ahh… thanks for the Code Geass info! ^^
loki at 1:39 am on January 3rd, 2008
i heard that code geass new season will be air some where is april (spoiler). hope this is not true…because i dont like to wait that long…=.=
Omni at 1:46 am on January 3rd, 2008
loki: It has been widely reported, including here a month ago, that GEASS S2 is indeed airing in April.
Final at 1:52 am on January 3rd, 2008
Maybe that loli-shota character claiming to be a Lamperouge influenced the time-slot change.
Anyways, I’m definitely looking forward to more shows in April rather than this Winter, seeing as how the second season of Gunslinger Girls is the only show I’m looking forward to this year.
hurumi at 1:53 am on January 3rd, 2008
I’m also looking forward to the spring shows
can’t wait for code geass.
Wcastro at 1:55 am on January 3rd, 2008
oh code geass. 2 temp oh!!
Jose Fuentes at 1:57 am on January 3rd, 2008
oh cool code geass second season. but i’m sad that is on april. but at least there would be a second season
pach at 2:00 am on January 3rd, 2008
any news on Jaalin’s whereabouts?
Omni at 2:01 am on January 3rd, 2008
pach: If I knew, I’d have said something long ago. So, still nothing.
pach at 2:03 am on January 3rd, 2008
damn, hoping he’s alright
On topic, really excited on CG, hoping for the new time slot to keep things unchanged
Anryu at 2:20 am on January 3rd, 2008
no more nip slips and masterbation? NUuuu
FalloutDude at 2:22 am on January 3rd, 2008
It better not change to a kiddy show…
Tamario at 2:38 am on January 3rd, 2008
Geass is certainly not going to be a complete kiddy show, but they’ll probably tone it down somewhat. How much, of course, is speculation at this point.
Still, they could always just cut or edit some scenes for the TV version and reanimate or re-add those bits, whether it’s in terms of too much violence or too much fanservice, for the DVDs. That’s what other shows do and seems to work.
anotheronebitestehdust at 3:06 am on January 3rd, 2008
what? no geass pr0n in my geass 2nds? OH O_O
yohkoyamamoto at 3:29 am on January 3rd, 2008
Ooh… There’s Special A? I hope they don’t ruin the story of the manga. I also hope the art’s decent. Looking forward to it.
polar bear at 3:31 am on January 3rd, 2008
lol,when i heard about it at animenewsnetwork,i thought they want to give a chance to small kids to watch geass.
can’t wait for more new animes..vampire knight is one of the anime that i am looking forward to
Slightly Bald Wizard at 3:45 am on January 3rd, 2008
“Oh no! Code Geass is not gonna have any reason to be worth watching anymore without my precious Table-tan and nipple-slips!”
Maybe it would help more if all you watchers of “1:00am and onward” anime just GROW/MAN THE HELL UP.
Anime, the expensive hobby for broke people; foreign cartoons filled with the best ideas ever put forward only to become train wrecks and insults toward the otaku-tachi. Even the heads of Bandai Visual USA know that “anime IS NOT BIG” anywhere.
It would be wise and nice if the anime industry finally decided to keep their masturbating lesbians and their masturbatory dreams out of my anime. Since, you know, the industry’s begging for more people to pay for it and, you should know, people who care are LOSING MONEY messing with these circus clowns.
Atobe at 4:24 am on January 3rd, 2008
The irony of course is what put Code Geass over the top is exactly that, the stuff over the top, you know the masturbating lesbians as you like to put it.
Seriously why else are you watching Code Geass? The show doesn’t have an amazing storyline (no offense but it’s a sunrise shows), but what clicked for the show last season was the style with the substance it had, a pizazz to it that other mecha shows (or any other shows) haven’t had. And yes a change in the time slot can limit what they can show on TV. I don’t even get the rant on the industry and its fans and what it actually has to do with the 2008 season but whatever.
The winter season isn’t really that bad. But I guess it has to do with your individual tastes. I love Major, so a 4th season is always good (and I am pretty sure no one else on the internet has watched it). More Zetsubou and Minami-Ke is good, maybe, hopefully? More Aria should be a good thing, but it really feels like they’re stretching right now when everything with a pulse gets more and more tacked onto it, I certainly don’t think Gunslinger Girl or Mai-Otome were good enough to get a 2nd season or some more OVA’s.
quigonkenny at 4:51 am on January 3rd, 2008
Hmm… *reads* “Kamen no Maid Guy”? WTF? *clicks* …
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Oh, man, I am so there…
Never has a promo picture for an anime made me want to watch it as much as this one. Maybe I’ll finally get to refill that gaping hole in my heart that Muteki Kanban Musume’s passing left…
mutio at 5:22 am on January 3rd, 2008
Well, I can’t share completely the negative feedback on the winter season.
Sure, there are not many shows which are really worth to take a look at and no “revolution”, but for me there are 5-6 shows I’ll watch for sure.
And f***k yeah Aria’s new (and last) season is coming, how can I be disappointed?
It depends on the fan though. I with my law studies have no time for more than 7 series the week, other watch normaly 20 whatever.
“More Aria should be a good thing, but it really feels like they’re stretching right now when everything with a pulse gets more and more tacked onto it, I certainly don’t think Gunslinger Girl or Mai-Otome were good enough to get a 2nd season or some more OVA’s.”
As long as Aria has new stories from the mnaga and some good anime original ones I don’t see a problem. As for Mai Otome, you know that it was Omnis most favoured show 2006? But everybody his/her taste, I’m just another Arika fan