D-3: Biggest Disappointments in Anime of 2011

Again simply my own opinion, as you are entitled to yours. Anime I watched can be viewed here.

1. A-Channel

It wasn't like I was expecting a masterpiece of anything but A-Channel wasn't even as close to as entertaining as I thought it would be. It wasn't even funny. It just felt like a Lucky Star wannabe to me. After a while I started getting really sick of the characters and the mediocre scenarios.

2. C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control

The premise was quite interesting and it was one of my most anticipated series of spring 2011. Sadly, felt like it became unnecessarily convoluted when it tried to be too much. Visually it's stunning but story-wise it just didn't cut it for me.

3. Steins;Gate

I haven't finished this. I don't know if I'm ever going to stay awake long enough while watching it to be able to. After all the hype that was going around for this series, I was expecting something awesome. However dumb this sounds, I feel like I should like it. The set up is great, the characters are great, but for some reason, I just find it extremely boring. In fact, it's so boring that I fall asleep not even half way into the episodes.

Steins;Gate First Impression

I don't really have much to say besides the fact they pretty much threw you in the deep end right from the get go and it was all like "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE? I'M SO CONFUSED." until the end of the episode. That doesn't mean I thought it was bad. Oh no, it was great. Very entertaining. It was just a little fast paced for my liking.

What I'm really liking at the moment is the originality. Microwaves that allow you to send texts back in time may sound a little far-fetched by it certainly is very original and who doesn't like original? I really wouldn't admit to that if I were you. The characters are also quite likeable. I haven't seen a single one out of the stereotype book just yet which is great.

Overall, this show is off to a really good start in my opinion. 7/10 for this episode simply because I was wondering if I was watching the right show for the entire 20 or so minutes.

Steins;Gate「PREVIEW」

Airing:

April 2011

Producer:

Fronteir Works, White Fox

Synopsis:

Steins;Gate is set in the summer of 2010, approximately one year after the events that took place in Chaos;Head, in Akihabara.

Steins;Gate is about a group of friends who have customized their microwave into a device that can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

Genre:

Sci-Fi

My Thoughts:

I had originally thought that it was a continuation of Chaos;Head so I was going to watch it before watching this one. However, I was told that there's nothing similar besides the setting and the fact that the events occur 1 year later. The plot sounds pretty interesting. It sounds to me that there is a lot of scheming and plotting that will be involved in this and I hope it doesn't fall flat on its face like Code Geass did (in my eyes anyway).