I’ve been out of the blogging game for a few months, now. It isn’t that I haven’t wanted to blog. Time is simply not on my side. That beast eats so much of my life, ya’ know.

At any rate, to the point of this post. I’ve still been watching the anime. There were some good shows last season: Ladies x Butlers, The Book of Bantorra, Omamori Himari, Chu-bra (kinda). Of course, the last Best Show Ever winner, A Certain Scientific Railgun. BTW, Uiharu won the Best Hair Accessory That May Not Be a Hair Accessory award.

First Up: Angel Beats!

Okay, so this guy apparently dies and awakes in a strange world with a cute girl named Haruhi who is god. Umm…that’s not right. Her name is Yuri, she isn’t god, and she’s dead too. The basic story, follows the SOS brigade group of main characters in the “Afterlife Battlefront” while they try to destroy a mysterious organization, Angel, that may or may not be a single girl who happens to be the student council president.

Oh yeah, that guy I mentioned earlier, he lost his memory so he doesn’t know anything about anything at all. Also, he dies a few more times after waking up (Beat to Death Angel Dokuro-chan style).

Second: B Gata H Kei

Okay, so there is this really cute girl who every boy in school wants to go out with. The only problem is that she is a neurotic mess fixated on losing her virginity. She hides it well. Only her closest friends and family know about her secret obsession with sex. Despite her willingness, she has unfounded body image issues centered around her, for lack of better words, happy place. So, she decides to target a plain looking guy who couldn’t possibly see her in any other light than perfection, because he’s a virgin like her.

Normally, the ecchi factor of this show would make it a hard sell to the Best Show Ever committee. However, the first episode was more funny than ecchi, and it looks to be pushing a romantic aspect of the storyline, which garnered it points.

We will see.

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Edit:  Holy crap, I just found out Angel Beats! has an exclamation point in the name! You know how I feel about shows with exclamation points! They’re totally awesome and not overused at all!

Also, corrected the name…