watching like 13 things at this point, dropped a couple. Tiger Mask W is the must watch. some other thoughts:
3-gatsu no Lion
this one's pretty cool. people were bagging on the first ep for no reason that I could tell, it felt like it was going to have a super solid core right from the beginning. the anime yelling and shouting in the first ep was the only bad point so far for me and I'm super happy that they seem to not be an overly common appearance. and I'm also pretty happy that you don't seem to need to know anything at all about shogi in order to get the show owing to the fact that I do not know anything at all about shogi. the fish faces are funny and the payoff seems like it'll be pretty fantastic.
All Out!!
realised about half way through the second episode that the entire show is a thin euphemism for penetrative gay sex. any time a character talks about tackling another man there is not chance that they are actually talking about simply throwing him to the ground and leaving it at that. allow me to break this down. the basic plot of the second episode is that mr main character (who is a rather small lad) has become interested in rugby after seeing two rather buff and handsome men 'tackle' each other. he's obsessed with the idea. he joins up to the school's rugby club in the hope of engaging in some 'tackling' with another man. the problem is: the one dude that he really happens to want to 'tackle' is a pretty big guy, especially for him. no matter how hard he tries he can't quite manage to 'tackle' the big guy. he get some exercises set for him that are based around crawling on his hands and knees with his back correctly arched, his arse straight up into the air, and a lot of strenuous stretches. unfortunately this still doesn't quite work. it's not enough. he needs some real 'tackling' experience to pull this off. fortunately, he just so happens to have recently made a friend who is also a very big guy and so decides to practice some 'tackling' with him. the plan works. he is able to 'tackle' the big guy without injury episode ends. this show is head and shoulders above yuri on ice in terms of pure homoeroticism and I'm going to keep watching it.
Flip Flappers
the meme of the season. paper thin characters, some pretty piss poor writing, but hey it looks pretty and is experimental so it must be good hey!! at this stage I don't particularly care for this show. I mean yeah, it's the some-old-gainax-dudes-make-something-pretty show airing at the moment but by god everything apart from that sucks. cocona! papika!! cocona!!! papika!!!! kill myself if this keeps up!!!!!! the basic breakdown of an episode is unrelated thing before op, op, a bunch of unrelated happenings with barely introduced plot points that are resolved within seconds, ed, plot relevant post-credits scene. the driving force (potential spoiler) of episode 3 sucked nuts. she suddenly wants to punch her? why? oh because the character told me so. how are they going to resolve this? oh the character said that nah actually they don't want to punch them. okay cool that's resolved, thanks for introducing it and taking up a bunch of the time with a boring magical girl transformation sequence that just served as fan service objectification. it's dogshit masquerading as higher pedigree dogshit. might as well keep watching to hope for the best though.
Gi(a)rlish Number
cheating here because the third ep ain't out yet, but it seems likely to be much the same. girls are cute I'm gonna keep watching it hell yeah
Keijo!!!!!!!!
the brown hair ponytail one is best so far imo. this one is a much watch
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
honestly: fuck madoka. ruined a whole fucking genre. I can't imagine anyone genuinely liking this. it's the most generic paint by numbers crap airing right now and is an insult to magical girl shows. stop watching this and go watch ccs or nanoha or nanatsuiro drops or something. get some friendship.
Occult;Nine
one of the worst first episodes of anything I've ever seen and luckily those boobies were there or I would have dropped it. the show itself sits somewhere between pretty interesting and so-so. but hot damn that girl has some serious shirt meat. I need to keep watching this in hopes of some sort of explanation.
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume
way better than it should be to be honest. the action is really well animated considering the rest of the art kinda sucks. the character progression could be interesting enough. REALLY hope it does go down the c3-bu route and make these young lasses all hate both themselves and each other. go purple.
Stella no Mahou
cute girls yo
Tiger Mask W
the #1 show of this season, maybe the year. this is so goddamn great, pure raw unbridled joy. if you don't like Tiger Mask W you suck. the refs are the true madmen.
Watashi ga Motete Dousunda
originally watched this as a joke but it's not bad??? I mean, it sure as heck isn't good. but hey there are worse things out there. I'm rooting for the cute little kouhai at this stage. wouldn't mind meeting him in a dark place and doing some things heh.
Yuri!!! on Ice
there's some good shit going on here. and the ending song is yolo so that's awesome. perfectly understandable if you don't like the solo sports character based drama sort of thing but if you can't ignore some manfuckman undertones then you're the true queer here.
dropped:
that izetta thing in ww2. it's hard to take something that wants to be some serious-war-is-bad something or rather when the fight scenes are a cute pink hair girl flying around on a nimbus2000 gun and flipping tanks over with one hand
that shrine maiden magical girl show because it grossed me out. a far more offensive perversion of magical girls than that cell phone one, or heck, even illya. has no honour.
also reminding people to watch KUROMUKURO, the best show that has aired so far this year.
