Anime

The only ones I've seen are to the only series I'm watching this season - Apocalypse Hotel, which is of note for an oddly off-key OP.

The first time I heard it I just took it to be the OP as sung by an awkward and poorly skilled robot, endearingly trying to sing a song that's more upbeat than she is, and I loved it. I still do and I still do.

So I started off the week finishing up Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e, which was excellent. It's part political thriller and part coming of age story, played out against a backdrop of quantum mechanics and multiverse theory, and just very well done.

Then I watched both seasons of Getsuyoubi no Tawawa, which, in spite of its four minute episodes dominated by fanservice is actually pretty good.

Then, somehow, I ended up watching Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! for the third time, and enjoyed it all over again. (And just thinking about it, I now have Easy Breezy stuck in my head).

And at the moment, I'm watching Mekakucity Actors, which atarted off being all style and no substance, which is particularly disappointing in this case, since its style is just a retread of the Monogatari series. And I don't just mean that it's the same basic style - it's the same sort of character designs against the same sort of backgrounds (and seems as if they could be literally the same backgrounds) doing the same stylized gestures and motions accompanied by the same sort of droning narration of the same sort of edgy pop philosophy. So basically the anime equivalent of reheated leftover cup ramen.

The first time I saw a character do this damned head tilt, I almost shut it off right then and there.

Thankfully, it does seem to be finally revealing some actual substance (seven episides in) though whether it ends up being enough to be satisfying or not remains to be seen.