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Seasonal Retrospective: Spring 2010

Posted in Angel Beats, Arakawa Under The Bridge, Hakuouki, Heroman, House of Five Leaves, Rainbow, Seasonal Retrospectives, Senko no Night Raid, The Tatami Galaxy, Working! on September 1, 2011 by Johan Joestar

OK, OK, every three days starting today.

Anyway, we now go way back except not quite as far back but still way back to the season of Spring 2010. Amusingly, this was of course before I was jaded to the new output we get every season, and since a lot of stuff here looked half decent I decided to try out everything I could.

Why would I do this to myself.

Still, Spring 2010 was firmly the best anime season I’ve seen so far. Despite having a decent amount of utter crap in it. Because it wouldn’t be fun to rant about if it didn’t.

Aliens + Lightning + Children's Toy = SUPER ROBOT

Heroman

Well, I went in hoping for a lovably camp, unbashedly over-the-top and amusing super robot show, and what I got was a saturday morning cartoon without a hint of irony. This is pretty much what Megas XLR was a parody of (Chicks dig giant robots).  The only thing of worth that it produced was some sweet animation and a meme that lasted about a week revolving around Stan Lee wanting coffee.

FETID. THEY HIDE THEIR FINEST BEAN.

Garçon, Coffee!

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