Something old, something new...
Apr. 12th, 2014 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsStill haven't finished the anime from last season, but the new season is starting. Given my experience the last couple of times, I was less ambitious and only picked up two shows.
Well, maybe one and-a-half, because one isn't a "new" show as such, it's just thatTHEY'RE MAKING NEW EPISODES OF MUSHI-SHI OMG OMG OMGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!! Yeah, I'm not even gonna try to describe it; if you haven't seen it yet just go look at the first season here, try two or three eps and see if it's your thing. (I say two or three because episode 1 is pretty atypical of the series.)
The only entirely new thing I've tried and picked up is One Week Friends. A boy wants to become friends with the standoffish girl in his class, but when he finally manages to coax her out of her shell, he finds out the reason for her reticence: her memories of her friends are reset every week; every Monday he'll be a stranger to her again. The laser-guided amnesia thing isn't necessarily believable, but it doesn't have to be, it's just an excuse to explore the emotional implications of the premise. This kind of human-scale exploration of emotion and connection really seems to be my thing, and episode one delivered it well. The characters are rendered in a charmingly-simple style but their faces are richly expressive, and that feeling extends to the animation as well (I'm particularly recalling the hero's adorably rubbery "shot-through-the-heart" comic takes). It remains to be seen how they'll sustain the high-concept premise through an ongoing series, but the opening was very promising.
(Oh, and I've also become acutely addicted to Puzzle & Dragons. Yeah, I knew that Android tablet was good for something... ^_^;;)
Well, maybe one and-a-half, because one isn't a "new" show as such, it's just that
The only entirely new thing I've tried and picked up is One Week Friends. A boy wants to become friends with the standoffish girl in his class, but when he finally manages to coax her out of her shell, he finds out the reason for her reticence: her memories of her friends are reset every week; every Monday he'll be a stranger to her again. The laser-guided amnesia thing isn't necessarily believable, but it doesn't have to be, it's just an excuse to explore the emotional implications of the premise. This kind of human-scale exploration of emotion and connection really seems to be my thing, and episode one delivered it well. The characters are rendered in a charmingly-simple style but their faces are richly expressive, and that feeling extends to the animation as well (I'm particularly recalling the hero's adorably rubbery "shot-through-the-heart" comic takes). It remains to be seen how they'll sustain the high-concept premise through an ongoing series, but the opening was very promising.
(Oh, and I've also become acutely addicted to Puzzle & Dragons. Yeah, I knew that Android tablet was good for something... ^_^;;)
