la divina tragedia ~Makyoku~ – Jimang

I think I’ve stretched myself out too thin covering anime and music, so I’m going back to just writing music reviews for anime OP/EDs. Someone asked me a while back to try a negative review, since so far I’ve only focused on reviewing things I liked. Well in trying to think of a song I hated, the Umineko ED theme immediately popped into my head. In contrast to the beautiful OP track, the ED track is terribly disappointing.

Katayoku no Tori (One-Winged Bird) – Akiko Shikata

I really liked the OP for Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, enough that I watched half of the series before dropping it due to boredom.  Although I didn’t plan on watching Umineko, I wanted to check out its OP.  Although somewhat different than Higurashi, it provides the same great music.

Image thanks to Incise-soul.

And the summer is already upon us with full force. I have been feeling the raging heat here for weeks already, so much so that my room temperature has gone up abnormally each day, forcing me to turn on my air-conditioner for short stretches to bring it down so I can survive. But in any case, I was never a fan of summer anime much, and this current list of anime series airing is still not enough to make me feel encouraged. Nevertheless, here are mine and three other guest writers’ impressions of the shows we are or are not watching, and unlike my spring anime watchlist, this is a serious post, because I got others’ opinions written in as well.