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Thats right fiends your winter animes have ended and now your left with a large hole in your otherwise full agenda.  But fear not, for the mother land has new animes to consume your life once again, NOM NOM.   Its a bit early since the final list of animes aren’t let out till about a week before the first series airs, but some promo stuff  has already found its way out into the internets and now I will show you what I find to be the best from the rest.

Reaper’s Top Picks!

Ladies X Butlers

Let me first start off with an easy one.  Ladies x Butlers in 2010’s fan service anime, which equals an auto hit.  It dosnt matter in which box, bag, or bin I am served fan service I just cant get enough!  This little service anime is about….wait for it….beautiful school girls.  Now I know that makes up 99% of the anime world, but LXB’s twist is that is is a school to train servants.  So now we have Maids and school girls, but it gets better.  A kid gets enrolled into the school and now has to “Put up” with all the beauties that attend.  poor kid. :C

Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu

Tired of school romance/comedies?  Well too bad.   Baka is about a school who separates its students into different classes depending on their test grades, *gasp*.  Although we all may think this is standard practice in Japan the school also distributes equipment and other learning necessities in the same manner.  Now that sounds a bit more like home.  The A class students have reclining chairs and all other luxury items, while the F students get crappy tables and matts to sit on.  So what is an F student to do?  Summon creatures and challenge the A class for their lazy boys of course.    Seriusly, they summon creatures, train them, and then use hyper bea…. I mean unique  techniques to win the A class’s perks.  Judge if you will, but this is another proven anime formula.

Omamori Himari

So a blood line of Demon charmers, or hunters or whatever is now embodied by an orphan boy with allergies.  He is all alone in the world, but dont worry because he has a magical charm which protects him form evil spirits.  Which just ran out of JuJu, sucks.  So now our helpless orphan is now subject to attacks by the demon race with only a hot samurai cat girl to protect him, Yay!, but remember he is allergic so he cant be near her, orz.  I have to say I’m somewhat morbidly interested to see what depths they go to to get them together.

Dance in the Vampire Bund

I dont know what a Bund is, but I think I can guess. O_O
This Vamp anime is a bit of a mystery to me.  I know the manga was considered epic by many, but I still cant get around all the Loli art work.  So hereis the story,  An ageless (12, at the oldest)  vampire queen bribes Japan into giving her a province for her vampire race.  She hopes to change the way of vampires for the constant existence that they have had.  This all seems very True Blood, till enemies come out of the woodwork to end her.  The art is nice and all the conflict promises some nice vamp fight scene but we will see if the politics dont get in the way of a good fight.

Seikon No Qwaser

Get your bibles ready and brush up on your Russian to fully wrap yourself around this anime.  Follow some school girsl, again, as they solve the mysteries of an orthodox school in Japan.  Relying heavily on the conflict between church and science, I hope  the story will not be so far fetched that all interest is lost.  Also when a  Scythe is added to an anime, is something of a personal sign of approval.

Well thats it kids, there are others, but I really dont think they are worth bringing up.  As the complete and final list emerges, expect more posts.

Who would you choose?

As news spreads about the new animes that will arrive this coming year, the presences of a Vocaloid anime has caused a giant stir.   Hatsume Miku, who has spawned video games, a dance, and other merchandising franchises, has now been reported to star in the new anime.  These posts have been meet with some turbulence, since the anime is actually about Black Rock Shooter.  ”What’s the F-ing difference you say?”, allow me to explain.  Hatsume is the kind lovable icon of the Vocaloid company.  She sings, Dances, and on occasion spins a leak around.  BRS on the other hand is what Miku would be like if she got out of prison, in hell.   BSR carries a cannon, has scars, and has a glowing eye, huge difference.  Now here is where the confusion lies.  BSR is not a Vocaloid.   She was created by an artist who is a fan of Hatsune Miku.  Huke,  Drew BSR as an alter ego and his image grew into popularity. Now BSR has her own line of toys and will be the main star of the new anime.  Looking at the two its no wonder people have jumped to the wrong conclusion and knowing the difference, background, and history of the two, could only really be explained by someone with too much time on their hands…

The idea of a maid cafe is litterally the spawn of anime.  From the hugly popolar harim animes, to the pure fan service animes, maid cosplay has always been the corner stone of moe fantasy.  Then like magic, real life cafes were popping up with cute girls in maid outfits serving tea and snacks.  These girls would of course not just supply japanes men with stellar service, but also company and conversation.  These neo-geshia have boomed and other themed cafes have also sprung up, including a bikini bottom, but not top, cafe.   These charming ladies have always drawn a crowd and now AFA’09 is adding them to their roster.  I have never heard of an expo or con having its own maid cafe, but I cant say the idea isn’t appealing.  Due to the reputation of glomping and other otaku social taboos, AFA was kind enough to include an instructional video about the don’t of cafe etiquette.

Let us know if you think every con should have its own Maid cafe, or if you ever been to one yourself.

update:

This week Microsoft has unleashed a huge ban that has claimed more than 600k users already and still going up. This is by far one of the worst bans in modding history. Rumors say that M$ is able to detect DVD drives in the 360s that have modified firmware. Once a modified console has been connected to Xbox live you will be perma-banned instantly. Now this doesn’t affect your gamertag or profile what so ever but the console cannot be connected to Xbox Live, Windows Media Center will not work and you cannot save games to the hard drive.

thanks to Neko-Kun for the Update.

If you have been banned or have any other info add a comment below.