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Jan 10 2012

Categories: anime
Tagged: another, bodacious space pirates, brave 10, kill me baby, nisemonogatari, rinne no lagrange, zero no tsukaima

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New year, new gimmick post.

A traditional thin slicing relies on (a) at least one episode of a series and (b) all of the to series from a new season aired. I wanted a post that’s leaner and more agile… something even thinner. Atomic thin slicing cuts even thinner… as thin as Newt Gingrich’s presidential chances… as thin as a FINFET… as thin as Greece’s chances of economic recovery within a decade… as thin as Rio Rainbow Gate‘s hopes for being blogsuki’s 2011 anime of the year… as thin as Gilgamesh’s changes for bonking Saber… yep, that’s right. Atomic thin slicing is just watching up to the first spoken line… and that’s it.

(If there’s an OP, I skip it.)

(Yes, I am also writing a proper thin slicing and some shows on this list I have indeed watched more of. Some, like Zero no Tsukaima, this is all I’m gonna watch. But for this post, I’m only considering up to the first line.)

(Yes, I am planning a best of 2011 feature… right after I finish that best of 2010 one. I am planning on sometime in 2013.)

#MR IRRELEVANT. Knights of the Area

As relevant as soccer is in America. If Oharuhi-sama wanted soccer to be popular in America, Tim Tebow would have been a striker for the Los Angeles Galaxy instead.

#10. BRAVE 10

Boring. Sleeping samurai is as cliched as pimple-faced anime blogger.

#9. The New Prince of Tennis

One, there’s no conductor with a whistle for the New York subway. Two, if he did this and whiffed any NY transportation worker with a tennis ball, he’s going to have his ass bent over and cuffed by NYPD. Three, the animation looks just as terrible as the original Prince of Tennis TV series. From 2001.

#8. Another

“Have you heard of Misaski?” No. End of story.

#7. Kill Me Baby

早安, Добро утро, お早うございます, 안녕하십니까 , buenos días, góðan daginn, صباح الخير… and this concludes the test if Unicode is properly displaying in your browser.

#6. Rinne no Lagrange

Wow, happy ending. That was a quick and good series.

#5 (TIE). Amagami SS+ plus and Nisemonogatari

Two sequels that thought it would be fun to dump the male protagonist into a situation where the lead haremette has him by the balls. Literally. Again.

#4. Male Nichijou

It’s the stereotypical start of any and every harem anime… except it’s normally the lead haremette’s job to run out late with toast in her mouth and then crashing into the typical male loser lead and then giving him a sneak peak at her special “bento.”

#3. Zero no Tsukaima F

Didn’t even need to watch until dialogue. This said it all. I am glad I skipped out on last season as not much has changed, and I figure not much will change this season. Just going to wait around for my Siesta-centric episodes and call it a series.

#2. Highschool DxD

Awesome line. I fully expect an anime written by virgins, animated by virgins, for virgins. Mitigating factor: I think there’s one episode in season one of Californication starts with David Duchovny asking a well-endowed car saleswoman if he could motorboat her melonpan. And he does. I doubt any of these guys will be as smooth as Fox Mulder.

#1. Bodacious Space Pirates

Sorry, you just can’t top “Time for some piracy!” I will picture this image every time I visit a fansub site. What makes this even better is that the animation is so terrible and the backstory is equally terrible and how the pirates are literal pirates using swords and muskets to win an interstellar war. I can’t tell if it’s going to be in the so bad, it’s good pile or the rubbish pile. Either way, “Time for some piracy!” has stolen my heart.