New fall anime - part two
Tale of the Abyss 1! based on an RPG? The bad thing about old world fantasy is that everybody and every place has an odd name..that I immediately forget.
+ Bump of Chicken's Karma is the opening song (PV here)
+ Attractive characters
+/- Decent animation
- Have I seen this before?
Quick summary ~ Luke, a red-haired noble in a faraway land, was kidnapped in the past and has no memory of that time. There's a prophecy about a boy with red hair having power and bringing prosperity and a prophecy about destruction. In the first episode, we have Luke and C.C. Tear, random female sorceror?, accidentally being transported across the land.
Quick impression ~ It kinda reminds me of Scrapped Princess with a heavier RPG feel. The creatures look like cast-offs from Digimon. It does leave an impression of having a straightforward, interesting story, so I might watch a chunk of this later on in the season. Tear has the nice power of paralyzing people with a song.
Vampire Knight: Guilty 1! Guilty of what? Horribly butchering the original manga's artwork? or of presenting angst that is even more boring than normal angst? Or trying to be scary and sexy when the characters are too dumb to accomplish anything remotely more complicated that standing around staring vacantly through windows? This has the same production quality as the first season. Ugh. Like the above show, I might watch this in chunks this season or drop it all together. I'm curious to see if the eyepatch guy kills everyone off and marries the headmaster, but I suspect I'd get more of that kind of action from the yaoi anime later in the week.