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Ah... the Animes I've seen over the months. Hey there everyone. It's that time of the year where many of our Summer faves end and the new Fall line up begins. Many of you are still talking about Code Geass R2 or D.Gray Man. I'm pretty sure many of you enjoyed it. As much as I'd like to review these animes, many of you beat me to the punch line (lol), but seriously I'd like to make some statements about Summer of 2008 anime.

First lets begin with Code Geass. I'm pretty sure it was the biggest thing many of you CLAMP and Mecha fans have been waiting for, and it was good. But being the hater I am, let me make some points. I never really like CLAMP animes, especially X1999 or any of the X series. Tsubasa Chronicles isn't my forte, and not many people really care about Card Captors. This was probably the only series from CLAMP that I really liked for a change. Even though the series had to much fan service, to many beshe boys and well racked females, it had a good story line and strong character development. This is to be expected from CLAMP. But the story line seemed like it came out of Mobile Suit Gundam mixed Eureka 7 and a dash of random Magic. Yes, send me hate mail for all I care, Code Geass as flashy as it seemed it was just another Mecha series with Emo boys piloting heavily equipped Military Machinery. Like my friend Edge always say to me, "They should call it Code Gay Ass". Also this series is just another excuse for Bandai to make more merchandise along side their Gundam products.

Next on my List is D.Gray Man. Even though this series is on my faves list doesn't mean I think it's the best thing in the world. This series smells of formulated crap, like many Shonen based series. D.Gray Man is DBZ mixed with FMA, but hey it's better then Naruto. What pissed me off in the end it how they ended the series. *SPOILER ALERT* I feel like I watched the last episode of Inuyasha again. Even though this series was totally predictable, it was worth talking about it at the water cooler as per say. The series had many satisfying battles and the characters didn't seem completely EMO. I placed this series on my Faves for the reason of saying it's worth watching, but eventually it will be replaced with something else that tickles my fancy.

Third on the list is my homage to D-List Animes, meaning specifically Fan services. These series include To-Love-Ru, Zero no Tsukaima Princesses no Rondo, and Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu. I'm pretty sure many of you haven't even herd of these series, well maybe one or two of them, but the point is these are not legit Animes as I would say. They are basically animes that just fill in voids that many major A-List animes left behind. I basically make it my duty to watch these animes knowing exactly what will happen next and squirm in pain because of the serious lack of Originality. But none the less it was all for good laughs anyways. Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, wasn't that bad though. It's an anime I would watch again, and one I'd recommend to watch. If you are a fan of Zero no Tsukaima, I'm pretty sure your getting pissed off by now. The series doesn't seem to be going anywhere and keeps making plot holes within itself.

Well that ends my little rant of this Summer's anime of 2008. I just hope with this Fallz line up well have some good anime to talk about. I'm just psyched up by Gundam 00 season 2, but wondering if I should *sigh*. Anyways, thanks for reading and send me a comment or message sometime. I'd love to hear some requests.

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