Some quick first impressions: Queen’s Blade, Sengoku Basara and Asura Cryin’
Queen’s Blade
Short Synopsis: Our lead character has boobs.
Chance of me Blogging: 0% (No)
Seriously, what the heck happened to the clothes of those women? Even the characters of Ikkitousen wore more than these… things. Every single thing in this show is simply to generate as much fanservice as possible. Evil demons don’t specialize in easy and efficient ways to kill, but instead on ways to dissolve clothing while preventing any flesh wounds from forming. Characters’ bodies are apparently very oily (courtesy of very bad shading), but I guess that the weather must be very hot around these parts. That makes me feel sorry for those fully dressed male guards, though. Obviously, this show is going to be bad, and I have no intention to wait to see how badly the plot falls apart in the end.
Sengoku Basara
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is young, has lots of powers and leads an army.
Chance of me Blogging: 10% (The rest of the season has to be really bad for that to happen)
Okay, while this is at least a bit more like it, the only thing about Sengoku Basara that didn’t feel utterly generic was the bit with the CG dancing samurai in the OP, and that isn’t exactly something to be proud of. Here we yet again have an extremely powerful teenager who can take on armies at a time, and the gimmick of this show seems to be lots of exciting medieval warfare. Unfortunately there’s nothing that really catches your attention. The characters were just way too busy trying to look cool, instead of trying to go somewhere. In fact, I really wonder why everyone walks around accompanied by half an army in these series. I mean, the main characters can each wipe out half a city in an instant if they wanted to. What kind of difference did they really think that those puny men without any powers could make on the opponent? In fact, since this is a show about medieval warfare… how come those characters aren’t massively wiping out cities in the first place?
Asura Cryin’
Short Synopsis: Our lead character meets lots of cure girls including a ghost one.
Chance of me Blogging: 10% (Only if the rest of the season is really bad)
Oh, the incredibly generic character-designs! Throughout the entire episode I was facepalming at all of the incredibly bad and overdone clichés that appeared throughout this episode. To just name a few: the house with romantic cherry blossoms growing next to it, an OP with the lead female naked for no reason whatsoever, an OP that actually tries to rip off the ALI-project of all things, the generic male lead surrounded by lots of cute girls, the big breasted classmate who gets admired by every single guy in school APART from the male lead, the very annoying male classmate who never stops whining, et cetera. But, the good news is that there’s potential! There’s a huge back-story behind everything, which actually sounds mysterious enough to work. Let’s hope that the future episodes will cut down on the stereotypes, but there’s a chance that this could turn into something worthwhile.