Everything is Shit

Jesus Nega-Christ, pretty much all the series this season ended in a horrible cliché-fuckfest. Kaminai and Gen'ei both bombed miserably in a way that makes me deeply zaad. To explain further:
Kaminai didn't fix up its meandering ways and ended with tying up the Alis/Alice subplot, which is fine and all, but it's really not a fitting ending for a series that showed so much potential. To the end, Kaminai carried its main flaw of unexplored potential - and I'm still of the conviction that if Hampnie had survived, the series would have gone off in a more satisfying direction. Hampnie was a pivotal character who gave the show drive and initiative, pushing it to do something greater than be a glorified anime road-movie. When he died, and his subplot with him, the series lost momentum and was forced into countless pointless, inconclusive side stories. Ortus was promising, but after that, with the Academy arc, the series finally seemed to give up. It introduced countless new characters and then threw them away, and the arc itself was a rushed hack job that came out of nowhere, driven by that mysterious, universe-bending force known as "The Studio's Deadline". The hurried pace, inconclusive storyline, indecisive mood and theme, character jumblefuck, irregular momentum and overall inconsistency, topped off with a half-assed ending that makes you wonder where the first two episodes and their fascinating mood went all boil together in one huge clusterfuck, one that gets a 60/100 from my side. The concept, mood and animation put it just above average - an interesting experience, but one that turned out to be a disappointing waste of potential.
Gen'ei, meanwhile, got better and better during the series' run, going from an irregularly paced Madoka ripoff to a frantic, crushingly dark series not afraid to hurt its characters. In the end, however, it falls flat in an inconclusive cop-out ending that makes you wonder what the point of it all really was. Everything was ready for a fantastic ending in tune with the series' mood - the show had built up an interesting, flawed main cast with genuine internal schisms, the show had found direction and pace, Cerebrum was a truly fantastic villain - everything was perfect. Instead, the series ends with a cheap, cheesy happy ending, an unsatisfying cheesefest that makes me wonder why I even bothered watching the show. The whole plot and all the character development is scrapped in the end for a neat cop-out that leaves us where we started, without any real feeling of payoff. Cerebrum, the series' most interesting character and a villain who manages to accomplish goals through manipulation alone, is fought seemingly "because the final boss has to be defeated", the Leguzario plot is pissed away, Ginka comes back from the dead for no reason but plot convenience, and the ending scene is a cliché, vomit-inducing scene of the girls on their way to their new magical-girl-love-in-adventures. The ending is cheap, forced, hackneyed and most of all unsatisfying. All the progress achieved through the show, all the promise the show built up in plot and character development, is thrown away in a way that makes you wonder what the purpose of it all even was. It makes me feel hollow, zaad and in the mood to fire a good old Excelion Breaker at the studio staff.
The series itself is a 75/100. The ending can die in a pool of AIDS.

Repeated and Forceful Genuflecting

Once again, I have pissed away months doing absolutely nothing constructive. The only things I have accomplished are brewing up a few roleplaying settings (braving GURPS and thus hex-grids and cross-referenced headings along the way) and waking up every roughly fifth day with a patchy memory of last evening and a harrowing sense of dread hanging over my head, telling me that the secrets that transpired are best unknown to even the oldest of squirming, mephitic abominations from beyond existence.
Thus, almost a whole cour has passed by, and still I haven't written shit on the blog that it's my responsibility to update. As can be inferred, my groveling technique has been honed to a razor's edge in the last few months.
However, now is the time for me to write with the force of a thousand Final Sparks.

Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi:
(Disclaimer: Commercial subs can't romanize for shit. It's Gora, Rex and Yuri.)
I had great expectations for Kaminai when I first learned of its existence. Now, I tend to be the kind of guy whose expectations are always a bit off, and Kaminai is no exception. As always, let me start with the bad parts: The character designs are wonky and hackneyed, Ai is annoying and the story can't decide what it wants to be. Two- and three-episode arcs, especially the Gora Academy arc, make the story flit around erratically between myriads of settings and genres, and the series seems to be so preoccupied with covering as many bases as possible that the main story is extremely thin. As of episode 9, there's only a vague hint of an overarching metaplot, and characters are introduced and then thrown away before they can be explored. Again, the horribly stunted Academy arc is a perfect example - the genre and setting shifts in an instant, several hackneyed characters are introduced, then everything is resolved and the cast moves on its merry way. As of Episode 9, the characters that have been pissed away include, but are not limited to Hampnie, Pox/Rex, Ulla, Kiriko, Katya, Volrath (who wins the prize for Most Unfitting Name) and Dee, not to mention the rest of the Academy crew. The series is horribly indecisive, stretched way too thin and trying to do too many things at once, which results in an inconclusive and fuzzy plot.
However, the backgrounds and locations show a sharp sense of design and ambience, and every location (except the fucking Academy) is interesting and evocative. The soundtrack is strong too, applied intelligently and sparingly, and some of the character designs (Yuri, Hampnie, Scar, Volrath) are wholly interesting. Now all the series needs is to break out of its indecisive rut and stop being a meandering anime road-movie.
60/100, but with the potential to be a 85/100 if it gets its ass in gear, and it can't be soon enough.
Also, Volrath is love.

Stella Jogakuin Koutouka C3-bu:
Oh ye Gods.
What I expected of Stella was K-On with guns. More precisely, a clusterfuck of K-On with Upotte!.
The worst thing is that it was what I got for all of the first episode. However, Stella slowly unhinges during its run - starting out completely realistically, it starts going around the bend with Karira's almost supernatural antics, and goes completely off its rocker in episode 4. The supernatural gets into the show, as does a nonsensical backstory about Sonora being raised by an American hardball master who got killed in combat and practiced Hardball Zen, and both lapse in and out of the story as needed. Surreal elements slowly creep into the series, as do outrageous and only marginally comprehensible plot twists, and even the humor starts to go unglued (the sudden cake-drifting in episode 9). Characterization alternates between flanderization and stone-cold drama, and in general, the surreal inconsistency of the show is enough to give me a headache. The show is quite honestly starting to look like its creators were horribly intoxicated on something 80% alcoholic and 20% extradimensional madness.
In short: I don't even know what I'm watching anymore.
wat/100

Gatchaman Crowds:
Okay, granted, I have only watched two episodes of this, and rumor is that it gets better over time.
What I saw, however, was not inconsistent like the two above series, but rather a skull-burstingly colorful toku show seemingly instructed by The Skinless One. Crowds is a sanity-eroding ride through 80's toku shows, social media awareness and alien geometry, as experienced from atop an eldritch 1d10/1d4-Sanity damage pull-cart captained by Daoloth. The pace, color and sheer flesh-ripping intensity of the series is championed in Hajime, the Elder God of headaches. I've always hated righteously idealistic characters with a passion, feeling that they remove moral conflict from the series by giving a clear "right" answer, and Hajime is that and more. She's abrasively energetic, dumb as a box of rocks and with the worldview of a Big Four shonen protagonist, three things that make me hate her. Such a shallow and hackneyed character not only removes any actual moral conflict from the series, but also grates on the viewers' patience by being such an intolerable Mary Sue. I found myself enjoying much of the two episodes I watched, but only the segments where Hajime wasn't there to instantly solve everyone else's problems through the Power of Heart, and thus where her bone-snapping pace didn't take focus away from the other characters.
I want to irrevocably damage the bitch. Hajime has made me reach that rare and dangerous state, the Super-Cheetobeard, where my innermost desire is to see the offending character broken, crippled for life or just plain killed. I want to destroy Ichinose Hajime and everything she stands for. I want to burn her purpose of existence to a crisp with a balefire flamethrower, Wyrm-taint be damned. I want to use the whole bloody Daemonia Tarot deck to annihilate everything Hajime-related. I want the Tree of Exodus to grow right under her. I want her to get Radical-6 and Tief Blau. I want to use California King Bed against her. Actually, I also want to use Star Platinum and The World against her. I want to sic all the world's Melos Warriors against her. I want her to land in the Gamma Timeline. I want her to pilot Zearth. I want to put her on the receiving end on the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and all the Reality Marble users I can possibly gather.
DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH