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The Spring 2010 Anime Preview Guide

As for stuff I personally want to see this season, Rainbow, Night Raid and House of Five Leaves are all on the top of my must-see list. Here's hoping at least one of them is good!

Zac wrote:

As for stuff I personally want to see this season, Rainbow, Night Raid and House of Five Leaves are all on the top of my must-see list. Here's hoping at least one of them is good!

Ah, good to hear. Those are three of the four shows on top of my list as well. (The fourth being Hakuoki). I find our taste in anime is usually quite similar so I'll be very interested to hear your take on them.

B Gata H Kei's premise is inherently stupid, it really and truly is. Couldn't the writers have made it a bit more palatable? Like, have the girl be a slut with a dozen guys "under her belt" (or in her panties, if you know what I mean), who falls in love with her next target. Then she tries to woo him, which is hard because he actually has a spine of sorts and is wary about going out with someone whose history suggests she just wants a meaningless empty fling. He makes her realise that she doesn't need lots of sexual partners to make herself happy, because one genuine guy is better than a dozen of the sort of drunk guys she meets at wild parties (or wherever). Whether or not they end up together is besides the point; what matters is how she grows as a person, and how he (oh, let's say) develops confidence in himself and in his skills at interacting with members of the opposite sex.

Hey, at least the story could then be touching in parts, with room for realistic characters rather than the less-than-one-dimensional characters found in B Gata H Kei. Yeah, it could get rather sappy, but it would still be orders of magnitude better than what it is now, which appears to be a painfully unfunny risqué "comedy".

B Gata H Kei...her "goal" is to sleep with 100 men. Really? This concept actually got a greenlight for a full blown series? Seems more like something for a 1-2 episode hentai OVA at best.

Warning: Plot device spoiled ahead.
spoiler[She doesn't end up getting 100 guys. She doesn't even get past the first. That's basically her motivation as it turns into a romance comedy.]

I'd watch that. Heck, it would resemble a gender-inverted Wedding Crashers, or any number of other raunchy romantic comedies. Just make her a college student while you're at it, please!

If Tim was referring to the spoiler[broken planet at the beginning] of Heroman as being a hint to Galactus cameoing, it's sadly not what it looks like. spoiler[The alien villains are locusts who loot planets of their resources and leave them ruined.]

Vent wrote:

If Tim was referring to the spoiler[broken planet at the beginning] of Heroman as being a hint to Galactus cameoing, it's sadly not what it looks like. spoiler[The alien villains are locusts who loot planets of their resources and leave them ruined.]

Aw, really? That's a shame. But then I'm also intrigued spoiler[by the aliens themselves, who do kind of remind me of the Dire Wraiths and the Skrulls. In fact, for some reason Heroman is giving me a strange Rom: The Space Knight vibe.]

If not true then that's a shame, a cross-over to the Marvel universe in form of some bad guys - or even a cameo from another hero - would be a great direction for the show. I mean, why else set it in the US? (Apart from wanting to sell it there, obviously...)

Any chance of seeing the first Eden of the East movie here? I haven't downloaded it yet because of the massive filesize the fansubbers are insisting on (like 2.7 gigabytes; F!@#), and I was wondering how good it was.