366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 26/366 Bakuman

Day 26/366

Bakuman is about 2 boys who really want to make a manga while still attending school. Oh the joys of growing up!

Unlike most anime we see the boy uniforms the most in this series since it mostly follows 2 boys around. There are 2 different coloured uniforms each gender wears. A green jacket or a tan one is the big difference with the boy uniforms.  They still wear gray pants with a black and red striped tie. The green jacket has a nice dark green trim to it where the tan jacket sports a breast pocket with the schools crest on it. I don't like crests but this one looks alright on the pocket. Not so much for the girl tan uniform though. The green uniform for the boys wins my heart over the tan one. I like the jacket more.

Girl uniforms are rather plain. The green one has a similar jacket to the boys and they wear a gray skirt which I find to be hideous. Both uniforms have a red floppy bow tie. If I had to choose between the green or tan for the girls it would be the tan one unlike picking the green one for the boys. The tan jacket for the girls I find to be ugly because that crest just isn't flattering at all on a girl but I love plaid skirts even if this one is a little odd being red and gray.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall: Love the show but don't want to wear either of the green or tan uniforms.

Review of 2011 Anime Part 4 ~Fall~

More kiddy shounen shows aired this fall that I didn't watch. Another season of Digimon Xros Wars, Battle Spirits, and Cross Fight B-Daman. I watched the Tamayura OVA when it came out last year and was bored to tears. Decided that it was best to start actually not watching shows I won't like and put Tamayura: Hitotose on my won't watch list. Sengoku Paradise: Kiwami I would have watched if I could find subs of it. Something tells me they won't show up for a long time if ever. I know it's about pretty boys and all but the episodes are 3 minutes long!

A lot of falls (still airing) shows might end up with a rating change (the 7-8 ones) but for now this is how they stand. I'm excited to see how much better Gundam Age can get for me. It's been quite fun so far. Bakuman 2 is going strong so far and I'm very happy that we can all look forward to a Bakuman 3 next fall! Ben-To, Persona 4, and Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere were a lot of fun to watch. I'm happy with how they went from me wondering if they would be good to being AMAZING. Persona 4 is continuing on into winter so there's more to look forward to of that.

Best Show of fall should be Last Exile: Fam but since it's still airing I'm going to award this honour to Fate/Zero. As said before I haven't played any of the games but I did watch Fate/stay night and enjoyed it a lot. So much that I even re-watched it before Zero aired so the bf could experience it. I can't wait for S2! What a mean cliffhanger to leave us with.

Worst Show of fall is of course Mashiro-Iro Symphony. Eroge. Harem. Yeah...

Here's my big list of Best to Worst shows of fall 2011:

1. Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing (still airing) 10/10
2. Fate/Zero 10/10
3. Ben-To 10/10 
4. Bakuman 2 (still airing) 9/10
5. Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere 9/10
6. Hunter x Hunter (still airing) 9/10
7. Guilty Crown (still airing) 8/10
8. Kimi to Boku 8/10
9. Un-Go 8/10
10. Mirai Nikki (still airing) 8/10
11. Persona 4 (still airing) 8/10
12. Chihayafuru (still airing) 8/10
13. Chibi Devi! (still airing) 8/10
14. Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (still airing) 7/10
15. Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle (still airing) 7/10
16. Working 2 7/10
17. Squid Girl 2 7/10
18. gdgd Fairies 6/10
19. Sekai-Ichi Hatsukoi 2 6/10
20. High Score 5/10
21. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai 5/10
22. Morita-san wa Mukuchi 2 4/10
23. Shakugan no Shana 3 (still airing) 4/10
24. Maken-ki! 4/10
25. C³ 3/10
26. Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!! 2/10
27. Mashiro-Iro Symphony: The Color of Lovers 1/10

Surprise enjoyment: Guilty Crown simply because everyone else in the whole wide world likes to hate on it. How I'm not a hater with the haters is amazing honestly but I like the damn show! Kimi to Boku could have gone either way for me honestly. Something drew me into it though and it may or may not have to do with cats~ Can't wait for more come spring. Chihayafuru is super girly for me but this 'Karuta' game they play keeps me interested. I'm not fond of her or the game but I do like watching them play it.

Surprise fail: Honestly there were no anime that I found bad that I thought weren't going to be already. That just further proves how awesome the fall season of 2011 has been!

Honorable mentions: High Score & Chibi Devi! I'm actually blogging! Un-Go was everything that Shinrei Tantei Yakumo wanted to be. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai I wanted to like very much but deep down I knew it wouldn't be for me. It just drove me crazy with the 3 main characters being very unlikable as well. Phi Brain is the funnest shounen to sit back and enjoy... As long as you like puzzles... It helps when the very awesome tweets by @fathomlessblue are around to be read for it too!

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas My True Love Gave to Me: Eleven Season 2′s

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas My True Love Gave to Me,
Eleven Season 2's,
Ten Long Anime,
Nine Delicious Openings & Endings,
Eight Digiboy Top Anime,
Seven Franchise Continuations,
Six Top Tier Anime,
Five Nyanpire Kitties,
Four Marvel Anime,
Three Teachers,
Two Anime Buddy Challenges,
and an Underrated Anime

Season 2's can either be great or not so great. Generally when season 2s are announced I make sure to watch the first one before they start airing. Amazingly all these I had already seen their season 1s for so I didn't have to go through any prep and just dived right in.

Bakuman 2

I FUCKING LOVE THIS SHOW! I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU MANGA READERS SAY!

Working 2

I was happy to get more of this show but unhappy that I had to sit through more episodes revolving around Inami... If she wasn't in this show it would be a million times better.

Mitsudomoe 2

 Oh these girls... Weird that S2 was only 8 episodes.

Squid Girl 2

More aweseome squidaliciousness~

Seikon no Qwaser 2

I don't know... It gave us more boobs... I guess that's enough...

Tono to Issho 2

More hilarious shorts from feudal Japan!

Kimi ni Todoke 2

Thanks for another season of growing up angsty done in a girly way...

The World God Only Knows 2

I hope we get more. Haqua <3

Nurarihyon no Mago 2

Did anyone else even watch this? You should cause it's fun!

Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu 2

While season 1 was all hit, season 2 was mostly miss. I still enjoyed it but wish it was more like the first series.

Kaiji 2

BALLS BALLS BALLS!

~A Look at Anime to Come~ Fall 2011

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

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...

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!

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

Tuesday Tally Week 5-8 End of Year

I didn't forget about this! I just got so busy for December that there was no time to do one. So This one will be short and simple. The list consists of a lot of fall anime and since I already talked about those in my 2010 Fall Review post there is no point talking further about them here unless I have a special moment I wish to share. So here's some fun pictures from everything I watched over the month of December and a little bit of talking in between! I'll be starting the next Tuesday Tally from January 1st onward. I think this is the best way to start off the new year since it'll be way more fun of keeping track of ALL the anime I have consumed in a whole year by starting fresh!

Week 5 I started off with some Not so Secret Santa picks so Black Heaven, NightWalker, Hitohira, and Shion no Oh were watched.

Melody of Oblivion episodes 9-11 were watched and it's still pretty @.@

I watched some anime with the Skype anime viewing group for the first time and ended up sitting through Amagami SS episode 23, episode 4 of Tamayura and Kuragehime episode 8 I watched once on my own and once with the group. Overall that was a fun first experience but hope to do shows I actually care about in the future and that I haven't viewed already.

The rest was just Fall airing anime that ended up having nothing worthy of a mention.

Week 6 Starts off with more current airing anime but I shall only talk about Bleach from that. WE SAW GINS EYES! That is all...

I also re-started Gundam Seed this week and got through 7 episodes. The first time I watched episode 7 I was pissed at the end of it and this time around I felt even more rage oddly enough!

Yosuga no Sora episode 11 deserves a moment here. Sora, Haru, Sora, Haru, Sora, Haru, Sora, Haru, Sora, Haru... Urgg this show is pure crap.

My last Not so Secret Santa anime, Akagi was started. I got through 12 episodes before friends arrived for the week.

Week 7 I finished off Akagi very slowly but got it done before I posted about it on the designated day.

More anime group blogger watches started happening around Christmas time and what better show to pick than the happy go lucky Gundam 0080! This was a re-watch and honestly I was glad to watch it along side some super Gundam fans out there. I didn't like the OVA the first time around watching it on my own but with this re-watch I certainly appreciate it even more now. Those hamburgers were delicious!

Katanagatari episode 12 I finally got around to and lets just say. BEST ANIME OF 2010! More random fall airing anime episodes were watched.

In order to complete my anime goals for 2010 Shiki needed to be restarted since I had pretty much dropped it at episode 10 for being super lame and boring to no end. Man am I ever glad I picked it back up again. Episodes 11-13 were rather dull but gaining re-interest and when episode 14 hit I was hooked. I ended up watching it none stop all the way to episode 21 and ended up eagerly waiting for the final episode to air on new years eve. The end episode was something...

More weird Melody Of Oblivion was watched and it's still very @.@

Week 8 I decided to finish off straggler anime before I left for new years. So that meant picking up the Spring old K-on II. All I can honestly say is blaaaaaaaaa BUT I did find it hilarious that the bf was interested in it but ONLY because they had actual sponsored instruments in the show and he liked that.

Star Driver and Bakuman were caught up with from episode 9-13 for both. I gotta say I've completely enjoying these 2 series even though the majority of people aren't.

For some reason I watched episodes 1-3 of Haiyoru! Nyaru-ani: Remember My Love(craft-sensei). But then again I know I only watched it because I watched the other 2 minute 9 episodes of Haiyoru! Nyaru-Ani before. These ones are only 4 minutes now so no brain damage occurred.

Starry Sky episode 1... Theres a lot of stars in the sky! The lead boys mom looks like she is his age which is a tad disturbing. But not as disturbing as his SUPER girly looking dad.The art honestly looks like they just took the manga and coloured in the pictures poorly.

Melody of Oblivion was finished off and honestly... I still have no idea what I watched... I didn't hate it though that much is known.

Samurai Girls I started from episode 6 straight onto 12. I wouldn't have enjoyed it so much if I didn't watch it in one scoop like this. The art is definitely something to marvel at though.

Gundam Seed episodes 11-15 were watched and they are all new ones for me now. I don't have much to say about it at this point but I did enjoy the odd kind of recap in episode 14 showing the gundam models as a report.

Winter Sonata I had started back in 2009 but subs were slow so I stalled it. Since I wanted some fun anime to bring with me on my new years trip I figured it was the most logical choice. After all I consider anime I actually want to watch fun anime even if the subject at hand is pretty darn harsh and dramatic. Which Winter Sonata will throw at you many many times. I only watched episode 0 which is basically a long plot episode and then the first episode of the series. I had seen both before but watching them again as a refresher was good for me.

Pretty Cure's magical silhouette sequence is awesome... Just sayin...

December was a busy month but was fun! Lots of anime watched and many more to come!

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