I don’t normally do this, but I’m going to post Jason’s thin slicing review of HOTD in its entirety, given its brilliance:
BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BREASTS BRAIN BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS
Well, I’d have added “BLOOD” at least once, and the ratio is off a bit, but still, you get the picture, I’m sure.
I have to say that this season has turned into a stunning winner to make up for the last two crappy quarters we’ve had to endure. Strike Witches 2 and Sekirei 2 have both turned up the quality. HOTD has just about the perfect mix of horror, blood, and breasts. Asobi ni Ikuyo is keeping me in stitches with its zany Illuminati hijinks, and Occult Academy had a good first pair of episodes to start before the reportedly atrocious third episode.
Losers: Mitsudamoe (too-perverted kids); Seitokai Yakuindomo (too-perverted teens, and derivative of recent series); Shukufuku no Campanella (too boring, wake me if anything happens).
Edit: I don’t know what happened to the 2nd half of this article; it was there when I opened the edit screen but not displaying until I re-saved it. Weird.
