Let us know what you think of Dennou Coil. I've seen it mentioned several times as a good anime that never really got much look in internationally so it's peaked my interest but givem the backlog Im currently running on, not enough to actually find it
Watched a couple of shows recently:
Eden of the East - genuinely liked this. The ending falls a bit short because it branches out into some films, so it's a bit of a 'tied up current crisis but that's it' sort of ending.
I'll definately try and get hold of the films though;the two main characters are both quite likeable and easy to watch (something that the makers of TWGOK could have learnt; the main guy in that was horrendously unlikeable, I'm a gamer and I still couldn't like him), and the running subplot about the two of them was nicely carried without being rediculously thrust in your face at all the points, as you followed what was going on with Takizawa and the Selecao. There were also some little flashes of humour here and there in the series, so it wasn't as dry/serious a show as the premise and general plotline could have made it.
That it felt very much inspired by recent spy and mystery movies like the Bourne series (which it actually referenced in the first episode); and generally felt different to most of the other shows I've seen recently made a nice change, and luckily the show had a reasonable amount of goodness going for it to prevent it just being a shallow smile.
Retaining the original intro for the first episode (Oasis) was also a nice change, and set it apart; something about the track felt very inline with the show, and this whole, well, we're doing something a little away from the anime norm attitude carried on throughout the run.
Soredemo Machi Wa Mawatteiru - Fancied something a little random, light and comedic, so threw this on. Unfortunately the series as a whole didn't really click with me. I personally wasn't much a fan of the humour (similarly to how I wasn't amazingly fond of Arakawa Under The Bridge).
The series wasn't completely unlikeable, but as the series was generally built around humour, rather than overplot, I never really got that into the show. Initially I watched it to see what it was like, then I ended up watching it as I recognised the main voice actress from Seitokai Yakuindomo (which I actually really enjoyed) and to see if it got better, before being put off almost completely but the absolute randomness of the last few episodes, and basically finishing just to feel like I'd finished it.
Not a terrible series, but just not for me, so I don't think I'll be rewatching this one.
Just started Maria-holic, as it seemed like a comedy with a little more plotting and drama behind it, rather being built around a oneshot/4-koma formula, not to mention the slightly cynical sense of humour the series is based on appeals to the darker side of my own (the whole underlying premise behind the series is almost a ****take in it's own right).
Not really given me any belly laughs as yet, but I'm enjoying it more than Soredemo, so I'll see how it goes, either way it should help space things out a bit, as I'm feeling like watching something a little more serious in the near future, or at least one of the bigger series I've been stacking up to watch for a while.
