One new show for anime club this semester. I don't know if I'll enjoy it.
We're watching Familiar of Zero, which appears to be a comedy series about a country where mages are nobles and non-mages aren't. The female lead is a talentless mage who summons her familiar -- except she accidentally summons a teenaged boy from Earth. Wacky hijinks ensue. Judging from the opening, there's supposed to be a romance between the female lead and the teenager from Earth, except I usually have problems since right now, she's treating the relationship as a standard master/magically-bound-creature, and he's all 'WTF, I didn't sign up from this, so I'm going to rebel as much as I can'. Yeah, not seeing the light-hearted romantic comedy.
Gurren Lagann also is a bit WTF, if only because the two seasons have such a difference in tone, while being about the same people in the same world. It's kind of amazing, actually.
The other stuff is pretty similar. Holic continues to be hilarious, though I prefer the 'mystical stuff happens' episodes to the 'karma bites woman in ass'* episodes. Twelve Kingdoms continues to be interesting, though suffering from severe pacing problems, Mushishi is a nice, thoughtful, pretty thing, and NHK continues to be both funny and painful (in the sense that a story about a character with severe social anxieties strikes a bit too close to home to laugh at sometimes, though I'm far from the recluse that Sato is.)
* Nearly always a woman. I'd say it's because women are statistically more likely to see fortune tellers like Yuuko appears to be, except things get drawn into Yuuko's house without much regard for intentions.
