Nokemono-tachi: So in the first episode a nice pretty young girl is orphaned, beaten, sold into slavery, almost tortured, then goes blind. What kind of sadist would enjoy this show? Fail.
Benriya Saitou-san: This show has such great art, it's so sad that it's all wasted on a dumb plotless gag series. If only the fairy could be teleported to a different show. . .Fail.
Mou Ippon: This series has the exact opposite problem. The plot is fine, but the art is terrible. The girls are so very unattractive I can't concentrate on anything else. Fail.
Eiyuu-ou: An aged king lived a good life so as a reward he's reincarnated into a baby girl in his next life, retaining his previous magic power, intelligence and personality. Now he has the best of both worlds as he grows up into a pretty girl. He also has a pretty girl cousin his same age. He's also overjoyed at the fact that monsters plague the land, killing people and destroying nations, because it means he has a suitable opponent for his magic. Everything's just peachy for him. Fail.
Ayakashi Triangle: I already follow this manga and like it reasonably well, so I knew the anime would be good before I saw it. It really is good, with a unique romance, beautiful art and a fun setting. My biggest complaint with this show, strangely, is it's too lewd. If it toned it down and concentrated on the story it wouldn't keep distracting the viewer in a pointless direction. As it is it tugs your concentration in two different directions and spoils them both. You can watch the censored version but then you're just annoyed by all these ridiculous censorship decals and can't focus on the good story either. Doomed either way. There's no solution to this, it can only be endured, which is why it will only be a good, not a great series. Pass.
High Card: I thought this was going to be an anime about poker. Boy was I wrong. Instead the poker cards are magical artifacts that give you various superpowers and everyone who has one is fighting in a death match for everyone else's cards. This bizarre turn of events creates an amoral atmosphere of might makes right and nothing else happening in the show. Why should I care who wins, or if they all suddenly fell off a cliff and died? There's no one to root for, nothing to see, just death and gore. Fail.
Monogatari: What a boring show. A guy works to seal tsukumogami and is told he's too violent. He'll be fired unless he learns consideration towards his enemies, so he's stuck in a shrine palace full of them and told to get along. As it turns out he doesn't get along well with them (go figure) so I guess they should go ahead and fire him. Fail.
Tondemo Skill de Isekai: Cooking in another world isn't that interesting a subject, and it's already been done to death anyway. In addition you have this annoying Fenrir wolf that thinks it's so great when it's just leveraging its might to steal food from the protagonist like any mountain bandit. Fail.
Kubo-san wa Mob: This would be an awful series except for two things. Nagisa is beautiful and voiced by Kana Hanazawa. That alone is enough to keep my interest. KanaHana maji tenshi! Pass.
Ooyukiumi no Kaina: This isn't anime, it's full CG. Pretty good looking for CG, I'll admit. But even if it were animated, it would still suck. The story begins with the world already finished. The environment can't support life and the population has no children left. What a miserable setting. Who would want to watch this hellscape? Fail.
Hikari no Ou: An ambitious series. It's attempting to have as unique a setting as Shinsekai Yori, the animation of a Ghibli film, and the realism of Grave of the Fireflies, where on top of a miserable dangerous world the people who inhabit it don't get along with each other either. It's also, according to the opening, a battle series. Good luck weaving all that together. I'm certainly intrigued. Pass.
In sum, the winter anime season has 20 watchable shows, which is quite a lot:
Here's the good anime that's currently airing this season and is worth at least a try, in the order of how exciting each episode is week to week (not in the order of how good the series is overall, which would favor older/longer series too much):
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