It’s really hard to watch the anime this season. The one thing that I’m grateful for is the fact that despite their many, many faults, there are a number of things that bad anime has that really separates itself from good anime. I have no idea if this is something I can attribute to the industry in general, or if it really only applies to this season in particular. Time will tell.

Yeah, I’m late with this. If you read my comment on the back-to-school post, you’d know that I blame the Guild Wars holiday event offering ridiculous rewards on a certain quest. Fortunately, said event is over and I’ve reached mostly endgame content, which bores the shit out of me generally, so less time on that and more time on anime. And this post. And/or other posts. And/or me procrastinating in spite of that. Or maybe that whole school thing.

Wow how time flies.  Well I’m over the jet-lag now but the craziness continues on.

So this is for some sort of lottery.   If you lose do they put metal clamps on your lips and force you to eat coins?  O, the mysteries of life fascinate me.   While I pondering this I went up to Okazaki castle on the weekend.

Just in case you forgot. Now wouldn’t that be embarassing! Hahaha, oh man…

Yo, my name is Alex Osecky. I’m going to be doing some posting on the blog for a while. I just graduated from Mines in the fall semester with a degree in CS. As a kinda graduation trip I decided to go to japan and study Japanese.  So at least for a little while I will be posting some stuff that will probably be 100% unrelated to anime.

It’s new year, and the ad for 2nd episode of Touhou anime project was released in C79 (though I haven’t seen it yet), so I thought I’d post something new.

Sadly, I don’t really know doujin works with pro seiyuus other than some of the Touhou stuff.

So, when I first heard the Maikaze casted pro people for their Touhou anime project, I couldn’t understand how they were able to hire those people. It turned out that when seiyuus work for doujin circle, the circle can pay whatever they want, when in the professional world, they have to pay them according to seiyuus’ rank. Of course whether seiyuus take the job is their call, so they can’t pay them too little.

So, it seems like I gotta do a list too… Well, I was gonna do 10, but it seems like almost all the list is top 10 this and that. It’s even 20 10. You know, it’s too non-unique. So  I decided to do 11.

Okay, to be honest, I couldn’t pick 10.

So, here we go.

Yeah, yeah, it’s late, but at least it’s still 2010.

After looking up and down gg’s list of 2010 Anime, rubbing my chin thoughtfully, gazing wistfully into the sunset, meditating upon my learnings for 10 days and nights, and shoveling snow in my driveway, I concluded two things.

Of eligible shows in 2010, I had started 28.

I had finished 7.

As I don’t feel qualified to review anything I haven’t completed, this clearly presents a problem. So, instead of reading Wikipedia and /a about random shows and pretending like I knew what I was talking about, I instead decided to review the 7 I actually watched, and add some filler top-picks at the bottom. Note that while this will be a “worst-to-best” list ala Grant, the fact that any show appears on this list at all means it was in the 25% I felt was worth watching, so it’s more like a “worst-of-the-best to best-of-the-best.” Or maybe, since I didn’t like 2010 that much, it’s a “worst-of-the-best-of-the-worst to best-of-the-best-of-the-worst.”

I went through about 4 iterations of this list. I had to think hard, something I’m not used to doing when it comes to anime. Especially this year. Not a lot of particularly “deep” anime series came out this year. The only reason any became deep was when I heard Chris talk about “loldark” explanations for most anime (I shat bricks when he told me the one about Squid Girl). 2010 didn’t have any anime that I would elevate to the point of “timeless,” but there were a few that were definitely at a different caliber of entertainment than others.

Then we have the various adaptations. There were a ton of those this year, including Bakuman, B Gata H Kei, Giant Killing, and RAINBOW, none of previously mentioned made this list (due to making me really bored most or part of the way through). On the plus side, I’m proud that we got through all the anime I had wanted to get through this year. The club got entirely caught up on the worthwhile 2009 anime, and in turn we managed to get to the 2010 stuff this semester, aka “the stuff nobody but me likes.”

So read on, because I have really bad taste in anime. It’s a miracle I’m your President at all.

It’s winter break, and I got nothing to do. Except checking out animes that Hanazawa-san was in, of course. Now I finally have time to watch everything featuring her.

If you’re thinking, “Wait, haven’t you done her already?” the answer is yes. BUT, I’m such a big fan. It’s my duty to keep posting about her. Also, I checked my previous post, and it was combined with Asumi-san, other seiyuu named Kana I know. So, this time, it’s going to be all about Hanazawa-san.