Winter 2011 Season Preview

So the final TV anime season of 2010 is beginning to come to a close, which means we’re all looking forward to what’s ahead next year. Have a look at what we here at Borderline Hikikomori are (and aren’t) looking forward to for the coming winter season.

Based on these early looks, it looks like we have high expectations for the Noitamina shows – Fractale and Wandering Son. They are following up some amazing shows from this year in that time slot, after all, including my personal pick of 2010, The Tatami Galaxy. We’ve also caught on to the hype for Shaft’s original work Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, as well as Gosick and Freezing which were adapted from a light novel series and a manga series respectively. For those who liked the first series, there are also sequels Kimi ni Todoke and Mitsudomoe to look forward to.

Summer Season 2010 Post Mortem

The fall season of anime has already started, which means that the summer season has come to a close. Of course, most of us watch more shows than we could – or care to – write about, and here are our brief thoughts about what we watched this past season.

Mitsudomoe 1 – I will never think of Hamsters in the same way…

…which is made more regrettable given what this show compares them to.

Though I usually don’t make a point of watching anime focusing on 6th grade girls, I might make an exception for this show after a pretty good first episode.  To be honest, this show didn’t show up on my radar at all over the past few weeks as its description seemed rather bland and gave the impression that it might just be an endless parade of panty shots. Fortunately, this episode was able to keep those to a minimum while providing one of the funnier episodes from any series I’ve seen in a while.  What made it even better was that the show didn’t rely too much on fan service, but instead used the naiveté of sixth graders as its source of laughs.