Well, I'm busy with things like applying for jobs, working my current job, and just all-around trying not to die horribly in this crazy world, but it's the fall anime season and I gotta check to see if there's anything good!

There's not. Well, that makes it easy.

No, wait...there's nothing "OMG I MUST WATCH THIS" right now as far as I can see, which is okay, since I still have my weekly Soul Eater to watch. That being said, I usually at least try to hit up the slice-of-life series each season, since those are my favorite. I am always on the lookout for another Azumanga Daioh, and I've been lucky enough to find gems like Sketchbook and Hidamari Sketch and Minami-ke because of it. Here's hoping for this season as well!

Kannagi
-Um, this starts with a hapless male high schooler making a wooden statue and then it explodes and turns into a girl. She is some sort of forest spirit and needs his help saving nature from inky bugs. The girl is funny because she seems to know about things like TVs, but is fascinated by them. Hapless male lead is hapless, but not really to a hateable level. I guess episode two is needed to see whether this is going anywhere.

Verdict: Not deleted, but didn't wow. Give it a couple eps, I guess.

Toradora!
-Okay, so there's this hapless male high schooler who looks like a delinquent, but isn't. People are afraid of him at school because he looks evil, but people are also his friends because they know he is not evil. I don't know, it's confusing. There is a TINY GIRL in the school who looks like Chiaki from Minami-ke. Like, exactly. She is hyper-violent and bossy, so I think I'm really just riding the Chiaki vibe in enjoying her at all. She likes the hapless male lead's best friend, and hapless male lead likes her best friend. They decide to work together to get their targets...which sounds like a decent enough start to a romantic comedy, but it just seems to be an excuse for hyper-Chiaki to be a bitch and hapless male lead to get "I am boss"-ed around and then smile ruefully and shake his head, saying "that's our hyper-Chiaki."
This thing's had, like, eight light novels in Japan, so maybe it's good or something, but it just doesn't seem to add much to any of the conventions it's going with. Basic high school setting, basic loser male, wrathful loli, the end. I guess we are supposed to root for this mismatched pair learning to coexist or something, or maybe learning to...love? I have no idea.

Verdict: Chiaki-vibe makes me remember the awesomeness of Minami-ke, but so far it's really not funny or good enough. I may give it another episode.

That's all for now, here's hoping a couple more show up this week that are worth checking out.

-Myi