The Next 12 Days of Christmas and the Not so Secret Santa Projects

HO HO HO!

It's that time of year again! Anime bloggers all around will be participating in the fun 12 Days of Christmas project where we remember 12 things that inspired us greatly over the last year. This will be my 3rd year taking part in this so I plan on following the format I did last year inspired by the awesome Desu ex Machina whom gives us those wonderful Anime Power Rankings posts each week so check those out! I've already thought up all my ideas for the 12 Days of Christmas project because while my wrist is still quite painful to use I just couldn't not participate this year since I feel that this is one of those fun things that I started off with when I first started blogging 2 years ago. ^__^ So I figured if I start writing them early enough I should be able to get them done on time and not injure my wrist further. Look forward to them starting on December 14th going straight till the 25th!

Next we have Reverse Thieves doing their Secret Santa Project again this year. Third year running to my knowledge. I was very new the first year so had no idea about this project (hilariously enough found out about the 12 Days one though ) and last year I didn't notice the initial sign up post until people were tweeting about their choices on twitter. This year I vowed to pay attention around October and sign up! YAY I DID! I got e-mailed my 3 choices from my Secret Santa through the Thieves and was rather disappointed with my choices honestly. 2 were shows I had already seen (which kinda defeats the purpose of writing a review for said anime imo) so I was really only left with one choice. Glass Mask will be watched (urg...) and 2 reviews will be coming out starting on the 24th (1984 version) and the 25th (2005 version) which was the actual pick of my Secret Santa. I might do a post on the OVA that came out in 1998 as a Snack of the Week post but we'll see if it can be watched without knowing anything else about the series.

Anime-Planet is also hosting a fun Secret Santa this year that I have decided to join. I don't know if I'll bother posting about it on here because I dunno when we have to watch our anime by, but if it's something I can manage I certainly will put up a review of the lucky anime I get. Others should join too if they have AP accounts! ^__^

Always wanting to give more and more to my blog readers, (I've kinda slacked this year posting wise I think...) I've decided to give the Not so Secret Santa Project a go again this year. YAY more review goodness! I asked on my Formspring a simple question to all: "Is there an anime I haven't see that you really think I should watch ASAP? Watched List <- for your convenience ", and I received many wonderful responses! So I'll be taking some of the answers from there along with a special one that started a pretty fun twitter conversation. Who and which anime they have chosen will be a secret until I start publishing the reviews yet again this year. I bet most have forgotten that they gave these suggestions to me so hopefully they will be surprised. The reviews will start on December 19th and run straight till the 25th.

And because I like the end of year tradition I started when I first started up this blog, I shall once again be doing a review of all anime that aired this year in 4 separate seasonal posts starting on the 28th and ending on the 31st.

Hope you are looking forward to the December posting madness coming up! All Pictures in this post were done by my favourite artist matataku.

~A Look at Anime to Come~ Winter 2012

There is only one anime everyone needs to concern themselves with coming up in winter 2012.

 Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki!

That is all...

Seriously though I'm also looking forward to a grand total of 5 other anime that will be airing. Another (Looks interesting), Brave10 (Could be good), Daily Lives of High School Boys (Because I'll need something to fill the Kimi to Boku void),  Mouretsu Pirates (Fuck yeah!), and Season 4 of Natsume Yuujinchou!

There's also an awesome OVA adaptation of one of my all time favourite manga coming out sometime in February (hopefully) called Gyo. It kicks ass and everyone should be excited for it. GASHUNK!

Two Years of Blogging Complete!

So yeah here we are at year 2! wooooo

Picture done by rezi

I was going to do a much larger post for this but I have injured my wrist and shouldn't even be typing this. I hope it gets better soon so I'll be putting everything on hold blog wise for a bit longer to let my wrist heal as quickly as possible. I wanted to start the Toriko episodic posts up again next week but that again will have to be pushed back till I'm better and of course the Chibi Devi! posts will be on hold as well.

Picture done by gabaisuito-n

I will mention, (since I made people take a look at this post anyway) that I'll be bringing back my "365 Days" project next year! This time it's going to be titled: 366 Days of Anime School Uniforms 2012. 366 because next year is a leap year! I haven't fully thought out much of how these posts will take form yet but you can be sure that they will be fun and hopefully interesting. I've already created a few charts of anime school uniforms and I'll be showing those for every 30 uniforms that pass throughout the year in a sum up post.

Oh those adorable Kimi to Boku boys~

So look forward to another awesome year from Oishii Anime and thanks for reading even though the posting has been lacking lately.

~A Look at Anime to Come~ Fall 2011

 Using the chart from here. I give you the below edited for my preferences:

Click to actually read it

8 anime made it to the super looking forward to and will watch. Hilariously only 2 of those titles aren't season 2's and of course they both happen to be the noitaminA titles Un-Go and Guilty Crown. The only 2 season 2's I don't give a crap about are Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi (lol yaoi) and Shana III (lol tsundere). I'm currently trying to watch Shana Season 1 and it's not going so well enjoyment wise so who knows if I'll even get it watched by the time III starts. I find it rather amazing that Shana is the only show I have to watch to catch up with what's airing. Generally I got 2-3 titles to do that for when Spring and Fall roll around but only 1 is just a little shocking for me.

The one anime I'm most pumped up about is Hunter X Hunter. I love the original series and always hoped that they would make more.  I really can't wait for it! I dunno what I'll do if it disappoints me.

Gundam Age has been getting a lot of flack but I still think it'll be enjoyable. I gotta watch it anyway cause then I wouldn't be able to say I've watched ALL gundam titles! (Somehow I made it through all of SEED) Still waiting on more awesome Gundam Unicorn. An episode of that should be out pretty soon.

Ben-To has me interested for the silly factor. I don't really know what to expect but I do expect to laugh! It's probably the silliest anime I'm looking forward to this fall. I do hope that Kimi to Boku proves to be entertaining and not some kind of Ouran knock off without a reverse harem. Hori­zon on the Middle of Nowhere I hope it wow's me. I just want something that I think might be trash to actually be good.

I really hope that Last Exile and the new Fate/Zero do not disappoint me. I probably could live with Fate making me sad but if Last Exile is crap... I dunno...

I'll be interested in how Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai AKA "I got me no Friends "will do. There's a fair bit of hype about it but I'm still not so comfortable with it personally. Something about it just screams run away to me. Kinda like how Tamayura does along with those other few red highlighted titles...

SO MANLY!

I won't be blogging any of these but I might start that strange Busou Shinki Moon Angel soon because it's got 5 minutes episodes but I haven't decided on that yet. I've been doing pretty good with the Nyanpire posts so if that keeps going I plan on keeping up! I'm totally going to re-start blogging TORIKO as it's a shame I had to stop. It'll be fun catching up with it because GUTS GUTS GUTS is awesome!

<3 TROLL CAT!

 Fall anime is going to be exciting! YAY for season 2's of shows I actually like! Bakuman, Ika, and Working woooot!

Catch Up with FALL! January 15-16 Anime-Planet’s Monthly Marathon

It's that time for another Monthly Marathon Event called Catch Up, with Anime-Planet hosted by me. Click on the image below to see the anime list. It's all Fall 2010 anime so if you haven't watched everything you wanted to now is the perfect time to do it as there will be people around to chat with!

I've been hosting these events over on Anime-Planet for a whole year now and I gotta say it's been a blast. If you haven't checked out Anime-Planet in general you should as it is always growing! It's a great place to keep all your watched, watching, etc anime in check so you always know what you are doing with each show you watch. You can love and hate anime characters and even voice actors. New features and improvements are added pretty often and it generally doesn't take that long for a minor request to be filled. The newest feature is anime badges which are similar to X-box ones that you can unlock with certain anime that are watched or other random accomplishments. Tis all very fun stuff and more of those are going to be added soon. If you are the winner of this event you'll even win one!

Happy viewing!

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