Winter 2008: What are people here watching.

Out of a need to resume a tradition started so long ago involving Blah, Mr. VacBob, and the ADTRW subforum at SA, I'd like to ask what people here will be watching for Winter 2008.

Originally Posted by Mr. VacBob

11/22 Candy☆Boy - One episode long, broadcast yesterday, tagline is a joke about tsundere.
11/25 Strait Jacket ep 1 - SF anime with a gun and a robot and a frightening scriptwriting credit.
12/01 Kara no Kyoukai movie 1 - The plot prototype for Tsukihime. I'm not sure if this is a theater date or DVD release.
Movies 2 and 3 on 12/29 and 1/26.

12/08 Ah! My Goddess Fighting Wings - I hope it has a good excuse for the name being so dumb.
12/12 Ayakashi - Why are there so many shows named Ayakashi? This one is a "superhuman battle action visual novel adaptation".
12/23 Frontiers of Macross - Special preview of Macross F for the 25th anniversary.
12/28 Harukanaru no Jikuu no Naka #3 Kurenai no Tsuki (In a Distant Time - The Red Moon) - girls' thing with beautiful men

01/01 Sisters of Wellber 2
01/01 Neon Genesis Wevangeriyon movie 2 - I think this one actually has new content!

01/02 H2O ~footprints in the sand~

01/03 Rosario + Vampire - see reply below

01/04 Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de (They are my noble Masters) - hgame
01/04 Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei - "Vulgar Edition" or something
01/04 Dazzle (Hatenkou Yuugi) - Shoujo fantasy, with bonus scriptwriting by Yasuhiro Imagawa assuming ANN isn't wrong.
01/04 .hack//G.U. summary movie

01/05 Zenryoku Usagi (Full Power Rabbit) - It's about rabbits wearing hard hats.
01/05 Major 4th season - baseball
01/05 Persona -trinity soul- - Anime sequel to Persona 3, which is a great game about shooting yourself in the head.
01/05 Shigofumi - A girl delivers posthumous messages from people to their families.
01/05 true tears - some moe stuff

01/06 Minami-ke Seconds (tentative name)
01/06 Porphy's Long Journey - World Masterpiece Theater anime of a French book called "Les Orphelins de Simitra" which I've never heard of.
Direction by that cool guy, plus awful preview art.

01/07 Aria the Origination - peaceful boat riding
01/07 Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- - Brainwashed little girls shoot people, and there might be a moral about how this is bad, I'd hope.

01/08 Spice and Wolf (lots of other name translations) - Medieval moe economics thriller.

01/09 Noramimi - http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...i#post335972453

01/10 Hakaba Rentarou - Pretentious remake of GeGeGe no Kitarou in the Noitamina timeslot. (what)

01/13 Indian Summer 2 (Koharu Biyori) - tits
01/14 Yatterman - remake of 1977 kids's show
01/14 Moegaku 5 - Did Moetan try to teach five languages at once? No, because it was porn.

02/22 Mai Otome 0 ~S.ifr~ 1

Unknown dates-

February
Yes! Precure GO GO GO! - See, go means 5.
Mnemosyne -Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi- - 6 episode OVA about something.

March
Saint Seiya Hades Elysion

April
Soul Eater
The Library War
Alison & Lilia - ~1930s-equivalent adventure series by the author of Kino's Journey.
Kyou kara Maoh! 3 - gay
Real Drive Sennou Chousashitsu - Production I.G. tries to re-do Lain again again.
The Masked Maid Guy

Gunslinger Girl is easily topping the list as my most anticipated release for this winter. But all in all, I'm quite impressed with all the series that are coming out. ARIA the Origination is also going to be another no-brainer seeing as how much I loved watching the ARIA series. Another season of Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei will be quite fitting for my comedy slot because crazy high school girls + suicidal teacher = AWESOMESAUCE. And of course, the Persona anime looks quite promising as long as they don't try to be too cool and turn it into something like Darker than Black. There'll probably be some more series that I'll pick up just because people are talking about it, so we'll have to wait and see.

On the flip side, I shudder to think at what a new season of Minami-ke will bring. I'm not sure if it can be as hilarious as the original, so I might be treating that the way I'm treating Shana 2 at the moment, that is, cautiously. It doesn't help that the director of Shuffle! Memories is behind this incarnation so my hopes are already low as is. But who knows, it may end up being a pleasant surprise.

What about the rest of you?

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Spice and Wolf - slow-paced and awesome. The story could go in a whole lot of directions, but the character chemistry is most excellent which adds to the enchanting atmosphere of the series.

Initial reports are in that True Tears might be worth a watch as well as ARIA (but we kinda knew that already) and SZS2. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Gunslinger Girl 2 or Persona, but since I haven't seen either of those, I'm not ready to comment just yet.

There's nowhere I can't reach.