{"id":1496,"date":"2013-08-29T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T09:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2014-12-07T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T12:12:43","slug":"summer-2013-anime-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2013 anime – viewing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"C3-bu\"<\/a>
C3-bu<\/figcaption><\/figure> I confess that I have dropped most of the titles I mentioned in my previous anime post, in addition to those that were an obvious miss.
\nRozen Maiden 2013: dropped as depressing and unengaging.
\nKinmoza!: dropped as iritatingly twee.
\nGen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122en Otakeru Taiyou (il sole penetra le illusione \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Daybreak Illusion): Dropped.
\nGifuu Doudou! Kanetsugu to Keiji: Dropped. I felt no inclination to watch a second episode.
\nServant x Service: Dropped.
\nKami Nomi Goddesses: I’ve rather lost interest.<\/p>\n

Still watching:
\nUchouten Kazoku (The Eccentric Family):<\/strong> Imaginative and funny.
\nMonogatari Second Series:<\/strong> Not the best of Shinbo Akiyuki, but worth watching if you are familar with the rest.
\nWATAMOTE:<\/strong> This is proving a bit of a disappointment. It started off well, but each succeeding episode underlines that Tomoko is a hopeless case and is making no progress to becoming socialised. Episode 8 was painful to watch.
\nGin no Saji (Silver Spoon):<\/strong> This was rather different from the usual fantasy-based stuff in that it is about a youth who opts to attend an agricultural senior high school as a boarder. Cue lots of real-life stuff, much of it icky or smelly, and mostly a shock to our hero who seems to have chosen this school on a whim. He seems out of place among the other students, who all come from agricultural or food-processing backgrounds and are often not strong on academic subjects. Inevitably there is one cute girl who attracts our hero’s attention. This reminds me rather of the bio-tech series “Moyashimon”.
\nGenshiken Nidame:<\/strong> The story of college-age otaku and their obsessions continues. Suffice to say that I have now ordered the DVDs of the previous two series. The obsessions of female otaku in this 3rd series are rather adult-rated – let’s just say that Vladimir Putin wouldn’t like Genshiken Nidame \ud83d\ude42
\nDog and Scissors:<\/strong> A rather pervy tale of dog abuse, which also takes in the world of literature, and magical-girl battles. Rambling, rather silly, but fun.
\nStella Jogakuin Koutouka C3-bu:<\/strong> Initial publicity gave the impression that this was another girls-with guns show, but it’s something quite different. A group of nice girls have wholesome fun with war-gaming. The story centers on shy, retiring new girl Yura, who as the series progresses develops into a gun-toting war-game fanatic. There’s no fan-service or suggestiveness other than a couple of episodes showing the girls in swimwear. The girls have fun – you will too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I confess that I have dropped most of the titles I mentioned in my previous anime post, in addition to those that were an obvious miss. Rozen Maiden 2013: dropped as depressing and unengaging. Kinmoza!: dropped as iritatingly twee. Gen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122en Otakeru Taiyou (il sole penetra le illusione \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Daybreak Illusion): Dropped. Gifuu Doudou! Kanetsugu to … Continue reading “Summer 2013 anime – viewing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}