Tokyo Ravens: A Quick Take

Harutora lives a quiet life in the countryside away from any expectations thrust upon him except by his friend Hokuto. Coming from a family famous in onmyoji circles, Harutora is encouraged by Hokuto to become one himself. Unfortunately he has no talent for it since he can’t see spirit energy. The heir to the family, a girl named Natsume, shows up later in a confused manner only to disappear when Harutora says her actions aren’t cute. When a festival comes around, the fun Harutora is having with Hokuto and Touji comes to a swift end when an elite onmyou Suzuka appears to come after Natsume.

A Look Ahead to the Fall and Why it Doesn’t Really Matter

There’s the big image you come to expect from me at the end. I, of course lead with this under-appreciated character.

I will get this statement of fact out of the way quickly. There are 47 series airing in the fall. Only 2 of them are continuations of series that began in the summer. One of them is Kingdom which doesn’t really count. When you have that many shows I think it’s kind of pointless to write a lot on each and every series. I think I wrote about 3000 words on 20 organizations engaging in a competitive business against each other over the course of 9 months. That’s the most distant description I could write of describing sport I could think of by the way.

Not even having a popular voice actor can make minor characters popular.

I’m still going to look ahead to the coming season for the reason that it presents an interesting case. There is a hell of a lot of noise when it comes to looking at what’s being released. Light novel adaptations, sequels, sports anime, game adaptations and combinations of those 4 are the dominant shows. I think one can’t go wrong with a known quantity with this much going on. I don’t blame anyone for that because inevitably there’s going to be a ton of crap. Hidden gems are extremely unlikely because everything is known beforehand in this blogosphere. When a series is announced, it seems like a perception takes effect based on just a few facts about it and its either terrible, great or forgotten entirely. I’m still going to watch most of these to get an impression of where they are coming from and I present these to you knowing that I’m just as biased as everyone else. I’ll try to keep it short since I don’t think you want to 5000 word walls of text.