I Am A Cabbage

As the huge weeaboo fuck I am, I accidentally wrote "Mouretsu Kaizoku" in my last entry instead of the official "Mouretsu Pirates", thus retranslating a loanword and being a huge wanker.
Find it in your heart to forgive me.

To make this entry worthwhile, a review.
Another: Another tries too hard to be scary, has a bland main character and an infuriatingly slow pace. Also, Mei is clichéd beyond all logical comprehension.
There, I said everything bad there is to say about Another. Everything else is perfect - the visuals are stunning, the design of Yomiyama town is chilling, the atmosphere (though at times forced) is eerie, the music is haunting and the plot shows promise.
Yes, I said that. I'm at least allowed to hope that instead of continuing on with a bland, clichéd plot (Kouichi begins cooperating with Mei to let her pass on, develops a slight romance with her, finds a bigger evil than her and basically becomes the Otonashi to her Kanade, turning the series into Angel Beats!, complete with high school), the studio will take advantage of the blank slate to expand upon the plot in an engaging and novel way. All in all, Another is in my opinion the most promising series of the season aside Mouretsu Pirates, but maybe it's just because I have a huge hard-on for the visuals.
90/100.

Coming next (at some unspecified point in the near, far or distant future, as well as in the past, if I get my Hououin Kyouma laugh right):
Kill Me Baby: novel, entertaining and mercifully devoid of fluff, but drags on like an Eva analyst at a pop-psychology seminar.
Mouretsu Pirates: takes a horrible, painfully clichéd space-opera plot, mixes it with an even more clichéd mysterious-past school plot complete with Akemi Homura clone, and comes out with something delicious, promising and incredibly entertaining.
Danshi Koukousei: Maybe it's just my kind of humor, but I find this hysterically funny. It manages to do otaku humor without only relying on references, off-color humor without being Mitsudomoe and pure sitcom humor without being... well, a sitcom.
Symphogear: The concept is eardrum-implodingly lamentable, something between The Idolmaster and G Gundam. The characters are well-worn, if not cliché, and the designs are kinda off. But it all comes together in a huge storm of awesome, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it works out.