Spring 2009 new animes impressions

Ok, so I finally managed to try all the new animes that I planned to watch this season for at least 1 episode and here are the thoughts on them. (For FMA, I already wrote my impression on my previous post so I'll skip that) Be aware that they are really my personal opinions and so they can be biased a little too.

Basquash! was one of the series I was most anticipating along with Pandora Hearts. While the first episode was fun in its own way with some nice visuals going along, there were some elements and feeling that didn't really set right with me. Also I can already see some signs of some characters turning rather annoying and complicated. I only watched the first episode on this one but from what I've been reading from other blogs, I have a feeling I'm so gonna dislike Sela, who is supposed to be the main heroine. (...and that is a BIG problem with me when anime heroines get in my nerve. I liked her in the first episode though~)

Phantom on the other hand kept me watching. I watched first 2 episodes and I found it a lot more intriguing compare to El Cazador, which was another Bee Train series. ...and Zwei gakkoiiyo Zwei! But poor guy... I hope he and Ein get a happy ending. >_< So far both production quality and script have been solid. Definitely will keep watching this.

Valkyria Chronicles has a nice feeling in character art with the unusual sketch-ness in colours(I really liked that) and seems to have some promises in story. However,,, I just... didn't enjoy the first episode all that much.(I liked Alicia though~) I don't know whether it's because of the direction or it was because the characters were boring but I felt the whole episode to be too dragging. At least for this one, the characters are likable(even though some of them were kinda dumb) but I think this will be one of the animes that spends more than half of the series on build-up of the story, which I usually don't enjoy a lot.

Polyphonica Crimson S has a nice setting, nice characters(Gotta love Phoron x Corte pairing) and nice story and all BUT! it needs to be more interesting. The first episode started off nice but it was just getting weaker and weaker towards the end. I hope it will get better but for now, this goes to the back of the line also.

Konnichiwa Anne also known as Before Green Gables was...WAO(imitating Hibari) interesting... (I can't believe it! I thought my head was already full of otaku otaku-ism @_@) I just found the first episode to be so heartwarming and enjoyable. Anne was so adorable too. ^O^ I love the background arts also.


...and since I won't write about Pandora Hearts ep 2 in detail, I'll just make a quick review here. Wow, the 2nd episode was much better in terms of both quality and storytelling. (Not to mention that TYL! Gilbert showed up~) Alice@Kawasumi Ayako was awesome too. (I loved that BUHAHAHAHAHA LOL) I hope it will get even better~