Time to post my opinions
Shinsekai yori:
This was a weird show to start off the season with. The series starts out with a bunch of people dying while upbeat music is playing. Nothing is really explained about these people, but the show goes on. Afterward, the show goes on jumping to and from childhood flashbacks, sealing of a person's special powers, watching a school of students with supernatural powers, and talking about various urban legends. Needless to say these jumps are confusing with random information somewhat linking them together. These things are supposed to induce suspense into the viewers but with all the jumping and lack of information, I don't really feel attached to anything in the story. The only thing that dissipointed me is that at the end of the episode, something big happens, but they don't even show an image to build up the surprise leaving me to wonder why they executed it in that way. All I can say about this series is that there is too little information for me to say this series will be good or bad, so I will withhold a rating until at least episode 2. (Note: Not sure if it was just the quality of the raws or something else, but the pixelation and blurred edges in images really degraded the quality of my watching experience)
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
Brains Base + Generic Shoujo Characters = ??? Brains Base's show for the season is a show about a cold-hearted female lead with no friends and a free-spirit/socially awkward guy who hasn't interacted much with society, one of the somewhat typical shoujo formulas and definitely not a genre I would associate with Brains Base. Regardless, the episode developed quickly and was quite humorous throughout, but you can't help feeling that the jokes created from the contrast between the make and female's actions will get boring fast. The only real complain I have is that there is a lack of animation with the large amount of pannning. With that said, I'll give the show a weak recommendation in trusting that Brains Base can keep the show amusing.
Shinsekai yori:
This was a weird show to start off the season with. The series starts out with a bunch of people dying while upbeat music is playing. Nothing is really explained about these people, but the show goes on. Afterward, the show goes on jumping to and from childhood flashbacks, sealing of a person's special powers, watching a school of students with supernatural powers, and talking about various urban legends. Needless to say these jumps are confusing with random information somewhat linking them together. These things are supposed to induce suspense into the viewers but with all the jumping and lack of information, I don't really feel attached to anything in the story. The only thing that dissipointed me is that at the end of the episode, something big happens, but they don't even show an image to build up the surprise leaving me to wonder why they executed it in that way. All I can say about this series is that there is too little information for me to say this series will be good or bad, so I will withhold a rating until at least episode 2. (Note: Not sure if it was just the quality of the raws or something else, but the pixelation and blurred edges in images really degraded the quality of my watching experience)
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
Brains Base + Generic Shoujo Characters = ??? Brains Base's show for the season is a show about a cold-hearted female lead with no friends and a free-spirit/socially awkward guy who hasn't interacted much with society, one of the somewhat typical shoujo formulas and definitely not a genre I would associate with Brains Base. Regardless, the episode developed quickly and was quite humorous throughout, but you can't help feeling that the jokes created from the contrast between the make and female's actions will get boring fast. The only real complain I have is that there is a lack of animation with the large amount of pannning. With that said, I'll give the show a weak recommendation in trusting that Brains Base can keep the show amusing.