Hail the new season: what will YOU be watching?

Copied wholesale from my thread on SBF, which in turn was stolen off ADTRW (SA) since I'm too lazy to compile the links myself.

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02/25 http://www.ergoproxy.com/ Ergo Proxy - Sci-fi dystopian ACTION!
03/02 http://www.momo100100.com/ Shinigami no Ballad/Momo the girl god of death - The "heartwarming story" of a shinigami, with her animal companion.
03/04 http://www.z-gundam.net/ Zeta Gundam Movie III
03/05 http://www.top2.jp/dvd_5th.html Aim for the Top! 2 Diebuster 5
"This is GOVA (Great OVA). High Quality of OVA is exceeded. The battle scenes are drawn with unprecedented 'Ultra Quality' and are a must-see!"
03/11 http://www.hokuto-no-ken.jp/ Fist of the North Star THE MOVIE 2006!
03/11 http://www.kerozoro-movie.net/ Keroro Gunsou ALSO THE MOVIE 2006!
03/18 http://www.punie.jp/ The Great Magic Pass/Dai Mahou Touge - A "black gag manga".
03/19 http://www.at-x.com/program_detail/i...=1949&from=new A Summer-colored Hourglass - SF love comedy involving "random time travel"
03/?? http://www.tbs.co.jp/erico/ erico - If you go the website and click on lesson it's in English and you can try to figure out what this is yourself.
03/?? http://www.trinet-ent.com/baldrforce/ Baldr Force EXE Resolution - Nobody cares.
04/01 http://futagohime.jp/ Fushigoboshi no Futago Hime Gyu! - SDS will explain all about this, I'm sure.
04/01 http://www.waw.ne.jp/bemu/ Youkai Ningen Bem - 1960 remake featuring 1996 website and a character probably named "Not Heat Guy J".
04/02 http://www.ki-ba.com/ Fang/KIBA - Some artwork by Internet superstar "Imperial Boy", so it has beautiful landscapes and I don't know anything else.
04/02 http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/digimon_s/ Digimon
04/02 http://www.tv-osaka.co.jp/mymelo/ Onegai My Melody ~Kurukuru Shuffle~
04/02 http://www.ariacompany.net/ Aria Season 2
04/02 http://www.school-rumble.net/ School Rumble Season 2
04/03 http://www.simoun.tv/ Simoun - Sci-fi alternate world war (drama?).... in a world where people are born female and can change on their 17th birthday
This might be good if they ignore that piece of concept art they have there with the lesbians.
04/04 http://www.office-ao.co.jp/kappa/kappa.html Frakappa - Frakappas love to dance. I think that's meant to be the plot summary.
04/04 http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/gintama/ Silver Spirit/Gintama - What a noisy website.
04/04 http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/airgear/ Air Gear - Shounen rollerskate battling. Unnecessary techniques ahoy
04/04 http://galgame.jp/anime.html Rabuge Chu ~Miracle Seiyuu Hakushou~ - This is dumb, you can skip it.
04/04 http://www.ntv.co.jp/host/ The Ouda High Host Club - Mantastic.
04/05 http://www.soul-link.com/ Soul Link - In the absence of a story page, I will assume this a harem show IN SPACE.
04/05 http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/moe/book...nko/anime.html Shibawanko - Public TV kids' show with a dog.
04/05 http://www.s-nana.com/ Nana - I hear this is the #1 shoujo manga in Japan, so I guess it'll be good.
04/05 http://inukami.jp/ Inukami! - This looks offensively stupid and presumably unrelated to the other Inukami. Those excessively manly fairies in the upper left might mean it's all a prank, though.
04/05 http://www.hack.channel.or.jp/ .hack//Roots
04/06 http://www.zegapain.net/ ZEGAPAIN - What a great name. Sunrise giant robot fights, looks derivative of Eureka Seven, but that's a perfectly good thing to be derivative of.
04/07 http://www.samurai-7.com/ Samurai 7 rebroadcast on NHK?
04/08 http://www.tachiguishi.com/ Tachipami-shi Biographies, a movie by Mamoru Oshii
04/08 http://www.cwfilms.jp/yonna/ Yonna in the Solitary Fortress (movie) - This is fancy-pants animation if I ever saw it.
04/08 http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/media/index.html#tv_a Glowing Cloud Country Tale/Saiun Kuni Monogatari - Based on a line of shoujo novels (bishies ahoy)
04/08 http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/ent/janggeum/ Shoujo Changgeum's Dream - NHK rebroadcasting some Korean animation.
04/12 http://www.himehime.jp/ Himesama de Youjin ("Be careful, Princess?") - What extremely large hats they are wearing.
04/13 http://www.sasami-club.net/ Sasami * The Magical Girl Club - Yes, a Pretty Sammy sequel, just what we need
04/13 http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/fujimi/webage/thethird.html The Third (Blue-eyed Girl) - girls and their swords
04/15 http://www.wowow.co.jp/anime/tokko/ - "Serialized in Kodansha Afternoon" spells quality, even if the author thought Tokko and Tokki were good names for units of the police force. (ANN for the manga)
04/22 http://www.akaitsuki.net/ Makai Senki Disgaea - Will this suffer the fate of all video game anime?

04/??:

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/tsubasa/ Tsubasa Chronicle Season 2
Spring Samurai - no website
Spider Riders - also no website
http://www.tbs.co.jp/holic/ XXXHOLiC - more Clamp
http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/jyu_ohsei/ (Beast King Star?) - Looks more mantastic. This and Ouda are being assisted in some way by BONES.
http://www.tbs.co.jp/megamisama/ Ah! My Goddess Season 2
http://www.witchblade.jp/ Witchblade - Haha, oh Gonzo.
http://ray.tv/ Ray - This is a mediocre manga, but they have a foolproof anime adaption strategy!
It involves adding a mysterious new character with a mysterious haircut who is mysteriously named B.J. and mysteriously voiced by Akio Otsuka.
http://www.utaware.net/ Utawarerumono - Based on a strategy RPG by Leaf? I don't know how this works.
Yume Tsukai If this is really an adaptation of a five-year-old manga then the anime industry is broken. The website looks like harem. (Editor's note: Apparently we are very mistaken about that, but I don't know why)
http://www.magipoka.com/ Alchemy Class 3 まじかる？ぽか〜ん - This sort of indecipherable name can only be given to one of those nonsense moe comedy things so I'll assume it's one of those.
Yoshinaga-san'chi no Gargoyle Tuxedo Mask makes his triumphant return. But he forgot his mask!
http://www.blacklagoon.jp/ Black Lagoon - "it's a group of mercenaries running around being mercenaries also assassin maids"
http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/himawari/ Himawari - Try to understand the story translation if you want. Art by another internet superstar, Okama.
Nishi no Yoki Majo AKA "Good Witch of the West 'Astrea Treatment'" or something. Based on a manga, decent ANN page.
Yoshimune Completely nonfunctional website, but the ANN says it's a Gonzo adaptation of a pachinko game(!). I used to think that Gonzo stuck mostly to young-adult stuff but that's really not the case any more.
Poka Poka Mori no Rascal cutesy animals
Higurashi no Naku koro ni The ANN says: Based on a popular, amateur created murder-mystery computer game. I say: SO MOE! I'M GONNA DIE! But it will have Yukari Tamura, Mai Nakahara, Fumiko Orikasa, and Satsuki Yukino in it.
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu Schoolgirls and a maid sighted
Girls High The possibility of another high school comedy devoid of boys has a certain appeal but my expectations aren't high.
Strawberry Panic! Yuri from Madhouse. Production staff doesn't look too promising.
Princess Princess EVERY CHARACTER IN THIS SHOW IS A MAN, ALL OF THEM
Saru Getchu Ape Escape vs. Disgaea - who will prevail? (Disgaea)
Yougyakumon - no website

So yeah, I'm definitely set on the second seasons of AMG, Aria and School Rumble. Other interesting candidates: Shinigami no Ballad, Ergo Proxy, Soul Link (only because the original game was by the same company that made Shuffle). Oh, and xxxHolic TV.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Luceid

Is this Natsuiro no Sunadokei?

It is; it's just the original 2-part OVA being broadcast on TV.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

No, that's actually Hello Kitty.



This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Ultima

Where are all the masterpieces? Hopefully they'll resurface soon.

ARIA the Animation, along with season two, will be more than enough to satisfy the awesomeness quotient for the rest of the year.

(Totally jumped ship there)

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

So, Hashihime has put up short reviews of a mind-boggling 30 new shows, if anyone's interested.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has been one of the most pleasant surprises for me this season. Kyoto Animation never fails to impress.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by HazelGuy

I'm really enjoying Utawarerumono so far. Its sort of like Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance + More Furry + Indian Style Clothing = Utawarerumono.

It seems as though it'd translate very well into a SRPG if they made a decent effort into it.

Actually, Utawarerumono was originally a game. An SRPG h-game, that is.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?