Not much good out this season. This is not all that surprising after the quality of the last few seasons. At the moment I'm following Ore no Imouto and Index II.
Ore no Imouto - Best show this season by far. Seiyuu casting is brilliant -- Kirino especially. Ayana Taketatsu is probably my favorite seiyuu in the business right now; that raspy voice is very endearing without being as annoying as, say, Aya Hirano's Konata voice. And the characters themselves seem fairly well done at first glance.
Moreover, the setup here is pretty genius. It feels pretty realistic to me. (Yes, "my little sister is into siscon eroge" is a stretch, but not as much of one as you'd think.) Kirino and Kyousuke act more or less like actual siblings; this is pretty rare in anime unless one of the siblings is plot-irrelevent (see Kyon's sister in Haruhi). It helps that the anime did not follow the manga in building an implied relationship between them. Leave that to the doujin artists, please.
Index II - Seriously disappoints. OP/ED music this season is nowhere near par for the series. Every character seems to be getting more and more Flanderized. ('Cept Mikoto, cause it's not like you can make her any more tsundere than she already is.) Honestly has yet to match the quality of Railgun, much less the first season of Index.
First episode was tolerable, if only because dere-dere Mikoto is hilarious. Episode two, not so much -- no coherent plot, but let's throw in some loli-nun fanservice and no one will be the wiser. (Granted, Index has always had trouble being coherent, but it hasn't been this bad before.) And they didn't even do a good job making it funny.
Hopefully this will be a quick arc and then we can get back to the interesting parts of the series like the Misaka network or Last Order and Accelerator.
Otherwise, there are some OVAs coming up that look good, specifically Koe de Oshigoto. I really do not understand why this isn't a TV series; going by the manga it's not visually explicit, and if B Gata H Kei can get a series on the premise of "jerkass highschool chick wants to get laid a lot" then I don't see why this can't. Whatever, maybe the OVA will pave the way for a full series?
Overall this season looks fairly uneventful. Really hope something nice pops up for the winter season. KyoAni, at least, ought to have something -- Haruhi Season 3, maybe another Key anime?
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