Currently Watching (Winter 2013 Edition)

[Buckeye]

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Originally Posted by Buckeye

But in the meantime, I have been watching the shorts for Encouragement of Climb.

I finished Encouragement of Climb yesterday, and I will just say that it was an amusing series of short episodes. There isn't much to this show given that it is just three minutes per episode, but at least it was enjoyable given the format. Watching these episodes in marathon fashion rather than in weekly increments definitely helped me enjoy this show, I think.

Magi is the last thing to finish for the season.

[pianocello]

Currently watching:
Outstanding
None

Very Good
Eureka Seven AO (2)
It's off to a decent start. At least the beginning is better than the first season. The animation quality and character designs are okay. Plus so far, we've not had any annoying brats. (at least not yet).

Good
None

Average
Mouretsu Pirates (finished)
And so we come to the show that everyone has been saying to me that "You must see!" and "This is definitely the best show of the year!". So I came watching with sky-high expectations. I found the show extremely fruity for lack of a better term. The whole concept of the show is cheesy to begin with but cheesiness only works when the show doesn't take that concept too seriously and plays it for laughs. Sorry to burst anyone's bubble but this show just didn't click for me. Frequently, the show would just go through its set routines and I didn't find myself engaged with any character. Even yuri failed to elevate this show.


Below Average
None

[stardf29]

March saw a lot of shows currently airing finish up, but I also managed to squeeze in a couple of other shows, including two shows for which sequels would air this coming Spring season (one of which was 75% a rewatch).

Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth - 10.5 [Satelight, 2011]
Kamisama Kiss - 9.6 [TMS Entertainment, 2012]
OreImo (rewatch + eps 13-16) - 10.2 [AIC Build, 2010-11]
Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos - 7.7 [Xebec, 2012]

Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth is one of those extremely relaxing shows that I already enjoy watching, with two things that really made me enjoy this show. One, Yune is beyond healthy levels of adorable. Two, I enjoyed how the show presented the aspects of learning about other cultures.

Kamisama Kiss was one of the shoujo shows from the Fall 2012 season that I had to put on hold because I didn't want to overload with shoujo, and I didn't feel like dealing with Funimation's streams. It really is too bad I had to do that, because this show was great. It's even slightly better than the shoujo series I did finish last year (Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun, score: 9.5), though that's in part to this show having some interesting supernatural elements and having a more satisfying ending. Akitaro Daichi hasn't lost his touch since Fruits Basket, and I'm definitely looking forward to Funimation's home video release.

OreImo was a rewatch for the 12 TV episodes, but it was also my first time watching the 4 "True Route" episodes. The score I have is actually the score I had initially given the first season… which is kinda funny in that had I re-rated the show based only on those 12 TV episodes that were my "rewatch", I would have rated the show lower; I guess these opening episodes didn't really grab me that much this time around. However, the True Route episodes brought my opinion back up, with a great end and some overall nice content. All in all, I really like this show and am looking forward to season 2.

Finally, there's Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos. This is the first time I'm officially rating a show in the 7's, so I should explain that, while it's definitely lower than most shows I've rated, it's still indicative of a show that I liked and enjoyed. There wasn't much to Nyarko-san, aside from some amusing jokes and references and an overall kooky cast, but I liked it and am looking forward to season 2.

[Glamrgrl104]

Uta no prince-sama-season 1-episode 1-3- AWW love this. I like the music animes.

[Buckeye]

Originally Posted by Buckeye

Magi is the last thing to finish for the season.

And I have put a wrap on the winter 2013 season of anime viewing by finishing up Magi yesterday. This show is just great to watch and the story was very nice as well. It tells a really deep story and while the show is about the pretty boys and other stuff, the story is what makes this show really go. About the biggest problem with the show is the pacing as the Balbaad arc lasted too long, while the Sindria arc wasn't as deep as it could have been. But with a second season coming, I am hoping to get more of what I want to see out of it.

[FUNiOP]

Previous post that this post constantly refers to.

Alright, everything that's going to end has ended and officially streamed, so it's time to look back at what I was thinking of everything three months ago and see how it all stacks up now.



New For Winter 2013:

The first number and icon is the number of spots and direction the series moved on the given ranking. The second is the number and direction of possible grades it moved. The former is obviously only relative to the other series around it, and the latter may show a movement of "00" even if my opinion of it did go up or down, if it wasn't enough to change the grade.

03▲ 01▲ 01. Problem children are coming from another world, aren't they? (B) This took the top spot due more to its competitors getting worse than anything, but it definitely did still get better. The worst thing is that this ended at a short 10 episodes, basically just as it was starting to get really good. Hopefully a second season can come along and continue getting better.
07▲ 02▲ 02. Cuticle Detective Inaba (B-) At first I was considering dropping this, but it ended up mixing things up in interesting enough ways to keep my attention, and in the end it wasn't too bad after all.
03▲ 01▲ 03. Love Live! School idol project (B-) The CG remains a painful detriment throughout the entire series, but the dynamic of the group and the other aspects of the performances make for some pretty solid enjoyment.
03▼ 02▼ 04. Kotoura-san (B-) The first few episodes were so good that it was really disappointing to see it fall like this. It doesn't get terrible, but it definitely never returns to the level it started at, and some of the plot points it attempts later on have some major issues. Still, for being based on a 4-koma, I'm amazed at what this anime accomplished.
03▼ 00► 05. MAOYU (B-) This definitely never ended up being the Spice and Wolf successor it showed some small promise of being. It has some of the same ideas going for it and they remain strong, but it also gets lost in otaku-pandering and trying to do too many things at once.
01▲ 01▲ 06. Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East (B-) This probably gets a boost just for having some Hitomi songs in it. Once it settles on its main story, it does become pretty engaging, although it's never quite my style.
03▼ 01▼ 07. Tamako Market (C+) Easily my least favorite KyoAni series. I really love the idea of using each of a show's 12 episodes to cover one month of an entire year, and I appreciate them seeing that through, but as a result there's equal time spent on various parts that should really be longer or shorter, and nothing ended up really gripping me.
03▼ 01▼ 08. Oreshura (C+) The production values are nice and Kamei is definitely a strong director (plus I ended up really loving the entire OP sequence), but the fresh concepts explored in the early episodes take a backseat to the harem cliches that overtake the series until the relatively unsatisfying finale.

Dropped:

01▼ 00► 09. Sasami-san@Ganbaranai (C) I actually watched as far as episode 10, so maybe I just should've finished it, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I guess I can't expect to like a series just because it's Shaft/Shino anymore.
00► 01▼ 10. Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman (D+) I think I might have made it through 4 episodes of this one. With as many series as I was following, there could be some bright side to dropping a show as it freed up that much more time, but this was the ONE show on Mondays, so even that aspect of it is a failure.

The fact that my highest final grade for the season was a solid B, and that only one series even got that high, should give some indication of what I thought of this season. Of course, there was plenty of strong stuff from the previous seasons still going, so that made up for the mediocre new slate.



Everything That Ended:

This section will include comments on series that ended but were not already covered in the above section.

Since I obviously didn't have this section last time, there will only be one set of movement number and icon per series, indicating the grade movement.

00► 00. Gintama' (A+) This is number "00" because I didn't include it in the previous post, due to half of the "new season" being reruns and therefore not something I considered appropriate to list along with the rest. However, now that it's ended and had over twice as many new episodes in the Winter season as it did in the Fall season, I feel that it needs to be acknowledged here. Obviously the grade is only referring to the new episodes.
01▲ 01. Fairy Tail (A-) After watching the Crunchyroll simulcast every Friday at 10:00 PM for a solid three and a half years, it's hard to believe Fairy Tail is over. It's sad to see it go, but at least I got to enjoy some really great moments in its final stretch.
01▲ 02. Psycho-Pass (A-) Urobuchi is doing some pretty damn good work these days. The start may have been slightly slow, but the story gets extremely captivating, and the character arcs are very strong, particularly in the case of Akane, whose arc comes full-circle at the end. It ends positively but realistically within its established world; there's not nearly enough time to fix all the problems that exist, but the clear objectives are accomplished nicely.
02▲ 03. From the New World (B+) There's some really lousy character writing in some of the later parts, but the story itself is as brilliant as ever, and the final episode is pretty much perfect.
00► 04. The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (B+) I have no idea how to write about this show while keeping it as short as I'm trying to keep all of these. In the briefest way possible, though, it's a hidden gem that looked like offensively creepy garbage at first but ended up being not only completely sweet and innocent, but the most heartfelt story I've experienced in a long time. That little description doesn't begin to convey how amazingly well-written all of the characters and their situations are, but again, it would take a lot more writing to do this show justice at all.
01▲ 05. Blast of Tempest (B+) It never quite reaches the potential I thought it might have from the beginning, but it definitely keeps getting better, especially in the second half, and the final episode gives a big leap in quality to bring everything to a very nice conclusion.
00► 06. Magi - The Labyrinth of Magic (B+) Most of this goes about as expected, but there's nothing wrong with that, because it's all done very well. The animation is normally of very high quality, which contributes to this, but there are a few times when it surprisingly gets relatively terrible.
01▲ 07. Kingdom (B) The CG is definitely very bad, but the story is compelling enough to make up for that, and occasionally we get some nice scenes without too much of it.
01▲ 08. Problem children are coming from another world, aren't they? (B)
02▲ 09. Polar Bear's Café (B) I almost can't believe I watched a full year of full-length episodes of this. I guess after a while it stops being surreal and just becomes another show. It definitely had its ups and downs, but overall it was very amusing and sometimes even quite sweet, along with being obnoxiously repetitive and largely not especially hilarious.
00► 10. Robotics;Notes (B-) This ain't no Steins;Gate, that's for sure! Okay, it's not fair to think that it should be, but I still expected a lot better than this. This was plenty better than Chaos;Head, but that had a lot to do with the adaptation. This adaptation seemed maybe not as flawless as Steins;Gate but still perfectly fine, so I guess the source material must've been really lacking.
02▲ 11. Cuticle Detective Inaba (B-)
01▲ 12. Love Live! School idol project (B-)
01▲ 13. Little Busters! (B-) It's good, but it's not nearly as good as I expect a Key-related anime to be at this point. As happy as I am about Sakurasou in every way, it seems strange that the new adaptation of a Key game would be the J.C. Staff production that got the far lower budget and far less competent team, to make for overall far lesser quality.
02▼ 14. Kotoura-san (B-)
00► 15. MAOYU (B-)
01▲ 16. Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East (B-)
02▲ 17. Ixion Saga DT (B-) I can't say the show ever really stopped being dumb, but it seemed to get a better grasp on how to use its attributes to be fun and occasionally even pretty clever. If nothing else, there was definitely some entertainment to be had here, at least quite a bit more than I had previously expected.
01▼ 18. Tamako Market (C+)
01▼ 19. Oreshura (C+)

Dropped:

00► 20. Sasami-san@Ganbaranai (C)
01▼ 21. Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman (D+)

TWENTY-ONE series I was watching just ended. That is far more than I've ever seen before.



Everything I'm Watching:

And here's everything, including everything from both the above sections. This is here to show the overall ranking and movement of everything in relation to everything else. There are only a few series not covered in either of the above sections, and I don't have anything in particular to say about any of them here, so there won't be any comments in this section.

As with the first section, the movement indicators show the movement in the ranking and the change in grade, respectively.

00► 00► 00. Gintama' (A+)
00► 00► 01. One Piece (A-)
00► 00► 02. Hunter × Hunter (A-)
00► 01▲ 03. Fairy Tail (A-)
03▲ 01▲ 04. Psycho-Pass (A-)
10▲ 02▲ 05. From the New World (B+)
00► 00► 06. The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (B+)
03▼ 00► 07. Space Brothers (B+)
01▲ 01▲ 08. Blast of Tempest (B+)
01▼ 00► 09. Magi - The Labyrinth of Magic (B+)
03▲ 01▲ 10. Kingdom (B)
00► 01▲ 11. Problem children are coming from another world, aren't they? (B)
06▲ 02▲ 12. Polar Bear's Café (B)
03▼ 00► 13. Robotics;Notes (B-)
09▲ 02▲ 14. Cuticle Detective Inaba (B-)
04▲ 01▲ 15. Love Live! School idol project (B-)
01▲ 01▲ 16. Little Busters! (B-)
12▼ 02▼ 17. Kotoura-san (B-)
08▼ 00► 18. MAOYU (B-)
01▲ 01▲ 19. Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East (B-)
01▲ 02▲ 20. Ixion Saga DT (B-)
07▼ 01▼ 21. Tamako Market (C+)
06▼ 01▼ 22. Oreshura (C+)

Dropped:

01▼ 00► 23. Sasami-san@Ganbaranai (C)
00► 01▼ 24. Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman (D+)

Also, I got caught back up on an ongoing series, but didn't include it in the above list so as not to artificially lower the rank of everything below it by one. However, I do give it the number it would have if it was factored into the above list:

12. Naruto Shippūden (B) After giving up on the hope of catching up on the manga via legal means, I decided to just catch up with the anime and watch that each week. The initial marathon of the canon content I was missing was pretty nice, but getting back into the weekly episodes, many of them still filler like always, is reminding me how much of a slog this can be. With the new cour starting, hopefully things can get back to being a bit more enjoyable for a while.



With all those series having ended, I'm the closest to having a blank slate I can remember ever being. Now it's time to move onto Spring 2013. I'll post my first impressions of the new series and how they stack up against the few remaining series once I've seen at least one episode of each one I plan on trying.

[Glamrgrl104]

Uta no prince sama 1000%-episode 3-13- Hilarious. I love the music and the relationships between all the characters.

Vandread episode 1- Interesting. Pretty funny too, I might watch more of this one.

Fairy Tail rewatch Vol.3- Just as awesome as the first time watching it!

Hetalia beautiful world-episode 11&12- LOL

[Buckeye]

Now that my viewing slate has wrapped up for the Winter 2013 season that it is now time i give out thoughts and reviews to everything I watched during this time frame. While the simulcast season had the quantity, it was lacking in quality as far as the new stuff goes. That said, there were plenty of good and enjoyable shows to be seen during this season. The categories are pretty much self-explanatory, and I prefer to use on hold rather than dropped because even the worst shows have an outside chance of being revisited by me (for example, this applied to Majikoi from Fall 2011 since the beginning was just so awful and dumb, but I ended up watching it through this season due in large part to the dub and my TAN subscription). Shows that I have interest in revisiting later are given the grade of "Incomplete" while shows that I can just about stick a fork in have a bad grade of sorts since reasons for dropping something are not always due to it being totally unwatchable. Alright, I said enough, so here are my reviews for this season.

Completed

[STG] Steins;Gate: A+
Just about everything was perfect in this show. Well, not exactly everything since the beginning was a little bit rough around the edges, but once the main plotline shows its face midway through the series, this show really takes off. There is a lot of development, the characters are quite colorful, and the mysteries and other stuff are just excellent. The beginning was very confusing, but all of it is cleaned up nicely, and watching it dubbed really helped me out.

[BTS-2] Baka and Test season 2: C+
It continues to be a nice way to pass the time as the first season was extremely hilarious. This season, it's not as funny and the plot moves too slowly, but it is still entertaining to watch. The flashback episodes are the highlights of this season, especially the one about Minami trying to reestablish herself in Japan after spending so much of her life in Germany.

[KON-2] K-On! season 2: A-
The first season is great, and this season is even better since it gets two cours to cover one year rather than one cour to cover two years. It's about cute girls doing cute things and play music, but at the same time several other characters are developed and become an integral part of this show. Character designs are top-notch as expected out of KyoAni and the music is the real highlight of this show.

[ANR] Another: B+
Here is a show that's about a mystery of students suddenly dying in gruesome ways, and that it is connected to some calamity from years ago. The show is full of suspense and the development of the mystery was pretty good leading up to the source of why all these murders are happening. It was pretty good to see all that go down.

[CSS] Casshern Sins: C
This show starts off being lethargic and the artwork was just tough on my eyes. This show doesn't really become anything until midway through the series when the final boss shows up. The first half is episodic and while it sets up one thing, unfortunately the plot is too fragmented. At least the second half was good when it talks about what eternal life really means, which is what Casshern has and so many other robots covet that it is leading to all these conflicts.

[PKI] Papakiki: B-
This is a pretty nice show to watch given what it is all about, an uncle who suddenly tasked with becoming a father of three half-sisters who suddenly lost their parents. The story is solid and the antics never rub me the wrong way as it tends to happen in shows like these. The plotline is solid, and it shows decent development.

[C2B] Chunibyo Demo Koi ga Shitai! : B+
Here is a show about how delusions are something that defines a character. The main character finds them embarrassing and while he tries to leave them behind, some other girls drag him back into the delusional world. The story showed some really nice development and while the show was set up nicely, the ending us just horribly done. I will just say that the ending was a case of contradiction. But thankfully, a second season is coming and hopefully some common ground will be found by the end.

[RDB] Rideback: C+
The first ten episodes were pretty nice, but then the last two episodes just ruined everything this show was making out to be. The show has a decent story to it, but then the last two episodes it rushed everything leaving out important details and not telling a complete story that it could have been.

[MJK] Majikoi: D-
This show was just crazy dumb, and the first half was just pure trash. At least the second half was decent when there is this conspiracy going on where the characters are caught up in something big. But the first half was mostly painful to get through since the female characters are all bullying the main guy and doing all sorts of ecchi stuff that is just too much.

[RNT] Robotics;Notes: B
If you are expecting this show to be another masterpiece like Steins;Gate, then you will be sorely disappointed. But as its own show, it's a pretty nice show. This show is pretty slow to develop, and I was pretty much snoozing through the middle of the series. The first few episodes were nice, but then things went way off track in the middle. Near the end of the show, when the truth behind everything is slowly revealed, that is when the show really starts getting great, and it was made possible by those earlier episodes that were not so enticing to watch.

[LEC] Love, Elections, and Chocolate: C+
It's a decent show based off a dating sim about a candidate in a school election, except that it's not just any ordinary school election. In this election, candidates are backed by branches of the Japanese government, and there is Washington DC style politics going on. The main character is there to help out the girls in his club that is threatened to be shut down, all while there is some connection between his girlfriend and chocolate. The story is solid, but nothing outlandishly spectacular. The girls are all solid characters except for one of them.

[UPT] Upotte: D+
It's a dumb show about girls who are actually guns, but it's fun enough that it is good for a few great laughs. There is not much of a story, but that isn't really needed in a show like this. I wasn't exactly pulled in to this show, but at least it was good enough to keep me interested.

[AKN] Akikan: F
It's girls as cans here. This show is just a total train wreck as it deals with girls who are actually soda cans due to some project to decide whether steel or aluminum cans are the superior. All but one of the characters (Najimi) have huge issues with Otoya being the worst of them with his yaoiish deposition, and it's a heavy on inopportune fanservice. And on top of that, the story was never settled in the end as one more character barges into the show and derails the plot.

[AMN] Amnesia: C-
I wanted to give an O-game adaptation a chance, and since the character designs are great that I decided to sit through this show. It starts off with the nameless heroine waking up not remembering anything and by dating several boys, the truth is slowly revealed. It feels like you are watching someone else play this game, which isn't what anime adaptations are supposed to be. The first eight episodes were pretty bland, but the last four episodes are when things start kicking into high gear, and the show has a pretty good ending. The characters have issues, especially Ikki, and then there is the heroine's naivety that will drive you crazy, although understandably so once you see the ending. By O-game adaptation standards that are usually terrible, this show is good, but that's as good as it gets.

[PET] Pet Girl of Sakurasou (13-24): A-
This is the sleeper show of the year, and it looked like this show was headed for a total train wreck in the beginning. But once the show took on the identity that it wanted to be in episode 4, that's when it became something special to watch. It's about the life of six weirdos who left the regular dorms for various reasons and ended up at Sakura Dormitory as their home. This show looked like it was going to be heavy on fanservice and love triangles, which didn't bode well at the start. But as the story progresses, it becomes a story about community and friendship. Even though these characters get a bad reputation, they are anything but that. This show then goes into depth about struggles and other stuff that is involved with going to school and finding work.

[TMK] Tamako Market: B-
By KyoAni standards, this show is a flop. But it's still a good show to watch, especially if you liked K-On! as the characters are designed by the same person. There are lots of nice moments and stuff in this show, and the characters are very likable. Basically, the episodes are either hit or miss, and the plotline was full of holes seeing its approach to covering an entire calendar year within 12 episodes. But despite that, it a great show to watch for the characters, and the other stuff that made K-On! such a hit.

[OSH] Oreshura: C+
This show is fun for its parodies and stuff, and while it's a harem, it's one that deemphasizes fanservice and some other bad aspects of harems and brings something new to the table with the whole fake couple charade. It's a good show, but one that isn't exactly going to change the perception of the genre. The characters are nice, but the animation style feels awkward with its overly bright colors.

[VRO] Vividred Operation: C+
It's Strike Witches, but this time the girls are wearing hot pants. The show has a solid storyline, while the action scenes are what makes this show so nice. But at the same time, it feels like the show settles into a typical formula that doesn't work and for the most part, it's predictable to a degree what will happen. The character development just wasn't there until the end, and that is what hurts this show the most.

[GUP] Girls und Panzer (11-12): B
It's a show about girls (and lots of them) and tanks. While this show could have been filled to the top with tank action, it is not the case with this show. There is lots of development going on with the characters, and that is what makes this show distinguishable from other shows of its type. The tanks are very cool as well, and this whole tankery tournament is what I watched this show for. The last two episodes are what I watched this season, and it was really nice to see the girls putting together a strategy that defines Miho as a character.

[EOC] Encouragement of Climb: C
These are three-minute shorts, so development was going to be limited. But with this show, it was pretty fun to watch the girls learn about camping and hiking. It does a nice job in getting the girls together with the time constraints.

[MGI] Magi (13-25): B+
In continuing this show, the storyline, characters, and animation were are very nice in this show, and it's a great thing a second season will be coming soon since there is just a lot going on. The one problem I had with this show is about the uneven emphasis in the story as the Balbaad arc took way too long, and the Sindria arc at the end just feels a bit rushed. I would have liked to see more of the Kou characters involved, but maybe that will be coming in the second season because they are great characters. Anyway, the characters develop quite nicely in this show, and one that will justify a second season.

Ongoing

[CHF-2] Chihayafuru 2 (1-12): A-
This is the best show of the season based on what I watched, and it picks up right where the first season leaves off, and this time the show does not mess around. Chihaya continues to develop as a character, and the two new members of the karuta club are nice additions to the show. Currently, this show is in a rough spot since the show's pacing has just slowed down considerably, and whether or not it is justified remains to be seen.

[BLE] Bleach (279-283): B-
Not much to say about these episodes that is different from the rest. Just some more fights, but they are fights that advance the story as opposed to the filler material. I only watched a few episodes here since my DVR is having problems and it stopped recording up to episode 283, and that I have been too busy watching other stuff.

[PKM-BW] Pokemon Black and White: C+
I watched up to the end of the Junior Cup tournament. Like with Bleach, not much to say that is any different from the rest of the series. It continues to be nice to watch, and it introduces an old friend. And Team Rocket is being used more strategically rather than being crammed into every episode, allowing natural development.

[TMY-GP] Tenchi Muyo GXP (1-8): C-
I began watching this show, which is the first Tenchi Muyo show that I have watched in a decade, and while it has a lot of the stuff that made Tenchi Muyo what it is, I feel that it is lacking. It's funny, especially with Seiryo going crazy and everything, but I just am not too fond of the characters in this show, not with the main cast missing.

On Hold

[MDJ] Mondaiji (1-4): Incomplete
This is the last show that didn't quite make the cut for my viewing slate. It's fun and the whole gift gaming wars stuff is interesting. The characters are nice as well. But it lacks that killer aspect for some reason.

[MYU] Maoyu (1-2): Incomplete
This show is set up to feel like Spice and Wolf, but with wars and stuff being the bigger focus. This show just skips from place to place without really doing much to advance the overall plot of this show. In any case, I just felt like something was going to go down, but I didn't get that sense from the episodes I watched, but the interaction between the main two characters was pretty good stuff.

[HKK] Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East (1-4): Incomplete
It's about a classic story retold with bishonen, and the show looked interesting from what I watched. It certainly has the feel of Saiyuki without the traveling, and the characters are really nice considering that they are able to transform into dogs of some sort. While I enjoyed the show for it's action, boys, and dogs, this show just felt too generic.

[SRK] Senran Kagura (1-3): F
This show just totally fails. Just about the only thing good from the episodes I watched were the action. But there is just not enough of it, and way too much fanservice of the crazy bad kind. Not to mention, the bad ninjas are far more interesting than the good ninjas as the good ninjas look far too generic.

[CDI] Cuticle Detective Inaba (1): D
It's a show that's all about comedy, but it's totally flat and fragmented. I couldn't get a sense of continuity when watching this show, so I was quick to drop it.