Well, 2008 is looking like a truly boring year so far.
Premiering in December:
Saa! Iko Tamagocchi
At least it isn't another shiny boringly animated "bishoujo" show. Going by the design, anyway.
Ah! Megami-sama! Tatakau Tsubasa
Lovely! More romantic relationships that fail to go anywhere!
AYAKASHI
Action porn visual-novel adaptation with generic character design. Exciting!
Haruka Naru Toki no Naka de 3 -Kurenai no Tsuki
Third sequel to a reverse harem about a priestess girl and her eight highly attractive magical knights. You know you've watched too much anime when "reverse harem" is a genre to you.
Premiering in January
H2O~FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND~
Animated version of another "porn with plot" game. Expect no porn and ugly outsourcing killing an already terrible art direction.
Sisters of Wellber: Dainimaku
Sequel to a fairly uninteresting IG project that from IG only has the name.
Rosario to Vampire
Gonzo Jump fanservice manga adaptation about a school for monsters, most of which are obviously "hot chicks".
They are my noble Masters.
Holy porn without porn Batman! Guy falls into the servitude of some badly designed supposedly beautiful girls.
Hatenkou Yuugi
Even if I do like the character art, the staff seems completely unappealing and the production is by DEEN. Shame since the synopsis sounded nice.
true tears
Terrible name, pseudo-artsy badly written summary, more visual novel crap... wait, WHAT? Junji Nishimura is in charge? Sure, he IS guilty of Kyo TV, Soul Hunter, Zenki and Simoun but Windy Tales was decent enough for me to think a little of the possibility of not dismissing this without a single chance. Still, first actual full production for P.A Works, who previously just did a few outsourced episodes for DtB here and there. Sigh, I know I'm to regret this...
Shigofumi
Light-novel based, about a "shy but hard-working girl and her talkative staff" that create miracles by delivering post-hummus letters from the land of the death. Helmed by the Tatsuo Sato of Cat Soup and Tokyo Tribes 2 despite carrying the shameful composition of Geass' infamous Okouchi.
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Second Season
First series lost it charm by episode 10 by ineffectively rehashing Shinbo's directorial quirks to the point of tedium.
Porfys Long Journey
Finally! The revival of World Masterpiece Theatre brings forth a worthy design for their new proposal! Adaptation from Bonzon's "The Orphans of Simitria", with screenplay by the fairly unknown Kei Kunii but directed by veteran Tomomi Mochizuki, who you may recognize from classics such as KOR and Fancy Lala or little but interesting minor productions like Seraphim Call or Zettai Shounen. Expect no subs.
Persona -Trinity Soul-
I don't really know what to expect, the staff may go anywhere and the setting is 10 years after P3 conclusion. Enemies are zombies, if nothing else.
Hakaba Kitaro
Taking over Noitamina slot. Another incarnation of GeGeGe no Kitarou.
Noramimi
The manga was quirky fun with corporate mascots and wacky Japanese antics but I'm not sure about this yet. Must be the union between an average director and TMS Entertainment at production.
Wolf and Spice
Another light-novel that becomes animation, a tale on the travels between traveling merchant Craft and a wolf sage in the shape of a cocky pretty girl named Horo. It's by the "brilliant" team behind Cosmopolitan Prayers and Love Love, so obviously you should only watch when looking for boobs or something.
ARIA The ORIGINATION
Rowing slowly is preferred here, part 4.
Major Season 4
Not a big fan, but it seems to have quite the following here.
Yatterman Remake
Am I the only one that believes this has a better design that most of the other stuff set to air this season?
