I tried watching this show so I could write about it, but I couldn’t really focus on it, and I barely remember anything that happened in the first episode. Granted, I didn’t try very hard, but still, I think this is enough to tell me that this is not my kind of show, and that I should probably not bother watching it.
They look cool, at least.
There may be something wrong with me. By the 8th week of a season, I usually have a lot of opinions about every OP and ED from shows that I’m still watching, but this season there’s nothing. In the past, I have said that particular seasons have been particularly uninteresting when it comes to their collections of theme songs, but even then I did have lots of opinions. This time, however, I feel very little. Because it seems unlikely that this season would be so extremely unremarkable compared to other seasons, I’m inclined to believe that the problem is in my head. To be honest, I’ve felt kind of burned out on anime lately, so it’s probably related to that.
It’s that time again when I have to decide which of the 30 or so shows I picked up win these incredibly vaguely defined categories. This time the decision-making process was not very difficult on my part, but I’m not sure I’m happy about the conclusions I came to, maybe because I wanted the disappointment to be the positive surprise and vice versa, or something like that.
Due to foreseen and not unfortunate circumstances, which I could however not compensate for, I still have not had time to watch the first episode of Battery, which is why I will not be publishing my first impressions on it (because I feel like writing an entire post after a week-long break would be too much of a pain). I just thought I’d make that clear so no one has to sit and wait for a post that will never come. However, based on other people’s reactions, I can say that I’m expecting Battery to be at the very least a decent show, though maybe not the best drama ever. That said, it’s sort of pointless to speculate too much, so I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.
Decent faces aplenty.
Believe it or not, I’m having difficulties deciding whether I liked this first episode or not. And it really is surprising that I’m having difficulties, because this show’s genres – comedy, slice of life, school – are ones that I am greatly lenient toward, because I don’t expect shows like this to have a complex story, characters or anything like that. And that’s the case here as well. The show is about the members of an art club, but it’s not a serious show about art. The art is used as a vehicle for jokes and references (pleasantly surprised to see references to historical artists), but other than that it doesn’t really matter that it’s an art club that the characters are in.
Oh dear, we once again have a season where I’m picking up 30 new shows. This is because almost everything looks woefully mediocre to me, so I might as well pick up a bunch of random shows and see if any of them stick. There are a few shows I have high hopes for, but the rest are pretty much completely wild cards.
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