Autumn 2011 – Mid-Season Review

One of my favorite things about blogging is making a list of all the anime I’m watching and putting them in order according to score and ranking.  It’s a fairly unscientific and messy process but it helps sort out my thoughts and impressions of every anime and helps me visualize which ones are my favorites and which ones are simply ‘alright’.  And it’s always fun to match these lists up with all the others, especially when there are major discrepancies between our favorites (and I’m fairly certain no one else has the same top anime as I do, so this ought to be fun).  With about half the Autumn anime season already over, now is the best time to create such a list and have my Mid-Season Review for Autumn 2011!

Autumn 2011 – Week 6 Anime Review

This week: a rejuvenation for Chihayafuru, compassion for the characters in Future Diary, and inconsistencies in Working’!!?

Autumn 2011 – Week 5 Anime Review

This week: I caught up on Future Diary (Mirai Nikki) and attempted Ben-To again, a complete loss of respect for a main character in one anime, and a brilliant character addition in another.

Autumn 2011 – Week 4 Anime Review

This week: HOLY SHIT MAKOTO EPISODE YES!, the greatest character in Penguindrum, and the most improved character in Working’!!

Autumn 2011 – Week 3 Anime Review

This week: The mystery of Inga from UN-Go, worries in Chihayafuru, and Tamayura not really being a photography anime.

Autumn 2011 – Week 2 – Weekly Anime

Reactions, thoughts, and opinions on this past week of anime.  This week: best character of the season in Tamayura, why I’m happy with UN-Go, and awesome fights in Persona 4.

Autumn 2011 – First Week Impressions (Part 3)

This post looks at Persona 4, Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, and Ben-To.

These three anime were some of the most anticipated (or ones I’ve heard positive game/light novel reviews for) anime of the season.  When I did my minimal amount of research on each series, Persona seemed like the only one to grab my attention with its story and characters while the other two seemed like fun, entertaining series with Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (shortened to Haganai) being the comedy and Ben-To being the fighting/action series.  And that’s pretty much what I got from their first episodes, so it’s good there were no surprises.  But were all three good enough to keep for this season?