Interesting Spring 2009 Anime

It’s new anime season once again and for the last few months I have been keeping touch with all new the anime that are set to premiere or continue and this post has been a draft slowly built on over time. Everyone has different tastes for anime so there area crap load of genres and art styles. I find my idle time time being increasingly shortened as of late and with my recent Japanese drama interest anime watching time is now split in two. We are already in April so spring in in full swing and below are some of the anime I am looking forward to watching over the next couple of months just from watching trailers, looking at artwork and considering previous work from the studios.

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Valkyria Chronicles: Gallian Chronicles – It’s in 1930’s Europe and no surprise there is war between two great empires, what are they fighting over? A small neutral country right between them. I don’t know why but I am addicted to anything based on Europe at war and I know a saw a video game trailer based on this anime a while back.

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Queens Blade – The country needs a new queen! What do you do? Gather mostly scantily clad women from far and wide to fight over the crown and the right to be ruler. The last woman alive or didn’t flee wins. Simple enough, I think I’ll watch.

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Sengoku Basara – It’s in the fantasy genre with feudal lords, waring states, bright shiny lights, chaos and lots of bloodshed is promised plus I like the art style.

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Guin Saga – Medieval fantasy, more war, demons, what looks like a princess and a main character that reminds me of King from Tekken plus I don’t really know why but I think this anime is worth at least a trial watch.

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – It’s a new Full Metal Alchemist anime series FULL STOP no explanation necessary.

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Shangri-La – This anime is like the wildcard choice from 3 other anime that I kind of thought would be interested but this one came out slightly on top and when I read that story involved global warming turning Tokyo into a tropical city I was sold.

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I still will sample everything

Not all these anime are guaranteed to be subbed for my watching pleasure but I hope most if not all of them will be. I will watch at least the first episode of some of the other new anime that didn’t make this short list so who knows maybe something not on this list will tickle my fancy and end up being enjoyed and thus reviewed by me. Dragon Ball Z has been remastered, re-dubbed and will be released as Dragon Ball Kai – it seems there are a few more billion dollars still to be made from the franchise.

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10 thoughts on “Interesting Spring 2009 Anime

  1. I’m looking forward to the new Fullmetal Alchemist series (woohoo!) and Valkyria Chronicles. Dragonball Kai.. it’s meh, but I’ll check it out in small doses since I’ve seen them all already. [tongue]

  2. I totally feel you when it comes to Japanese Anime and Drama.. I use Keyhole tv(do you know it?) to watch a lot of Drama and Anime stright from Japan. Today I watched the first ep of K-on! ( I think that’s the title) but I lost interst >_<

    Now I am trying to find time for anime as I am currently have my Drama fix (Have you seen Mei Chan no Shitsuji? I’m watching that now)

    I haven’t even gotten through Winters Anime yet haha

    Well I would say for Spring I am going to keep tabs on
    Fullmetal Alchemist for sure! I’m also really interested in seeing Guin Saga like the story as well as the art from what I’ve seen.
    Valkyria Chronicles is also on my list!

    Guess we wil have to see how good each are 🙂 Thanks for sharing!

  3. Queens Blade looks like it’s similar to Witch Blade. I’ll watch! and Im so looking forward to Full Metal Alchemist!! Wooot woot!! ^_^

    @M-Kat…thanks for the tv ^_^

  4. I have watched the first episodes of all the anime listed above look out for first impression posts on each of them in the coming weeks 😀

  5. You should REALLY try Basquash! too.

    That, Eden of the East, and Phantom are the only shows this season I am very unlikely to drop.

    1. I have seen Basquash and I’ll pass on that, Eden of the East I have not seen that and which Phantom are you referring to the assassin anime with the guy and girl “Phantom: Requiem Of The Phantom”?

  6. Except for the new FMA and Shangri-la I have checked out all the others haven’t been blown away or have really liked any of them but for the most part they are watchable but Jamaipanese I know you like the whole combination of cultures thing but you should really stop smoking a combination of marijuana and opium when you watch these animes “Queen Blade” what were you thinking after watching 3 or so minutes of this I was trying to get in touch with the Yakuza to see if I could get a hit on the team that created this anime. I think these guys don’t have much interaction with women every 5 seconds there is a naked scene of some sort which makes you wonder why the hell are they even naked, acidic breast milk as a weapon thats when I decided that I just stop while I was ahead.

    Valkyria Chronicles: Gallian Chronicles: this didn’t add up much for me I think the cast was weak but I only watched like 4 episodes or so I think and to me it was too cheerful for war.

    Sengoku Basara: this has some crazy fight scenes kinda reminded me of “Tenjou Tenge” it has those kind of way out there fight scenes but Tenjou is far superior with its fighting content and execution.

    Guin Saga: this started of with potential but it somewhat slowed down somewhere along the line and otherwise from Guin I didn’t really come across any other character that held my interest some of the cast were some what annoying.

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