Watari-kun blah blah: This show is ruined by a lack of communication. I'm pretty sure all problems could easily be resolved if everyone just explained themselves and what they were thinking, but of course that doesn't happen because then the show would have to end right at the beginning. Fail.
Silent Witch: This show is beautifully animated, but unfortunately the protagonist is another of these 'shy' girls, which means she's so lacking in social skills that she can't look at people or speak, much less go outside or do anything. I hate these cripplingly dysfunctional heroines. Get it together. Grow up. Fail.
Zutaboro Reijou: Have you ever heard of the phrase, 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth?' Some nobody girl happens to strike a duke's fancy and he proposes to her, but she turns him down. Idiot. Fail.
April Showers Bring May Flowers: An unprecedented story about an ugly girl's romance. Why would anyone fall for an ugly girl? Especially a handsome, popular, athletic guy who's being confessed to by beautiful girls left and right. So ridiculous. Fail.
Clevatass: This story has an interesting premise -- a sentient demon beast decides to destroy humanity but has to take a detour and raise a baby first to prove the mother wrong when she said he didn't understand humanity's worth. So long as the story stays philosophical it should be good. Pass.
Tsuyukote New Saga: I feel like this show shares a premise with some other show I watched earlier. A guy wins against the demon lord, but loses all his companions during the journey, so with the help of a magic item goes back in time. Now he gets to try the journey with a new game+ save where he's overpowered, so maybe things will go better this time. The important thing is the girl he's trying to save is cute, which is all that really matters. Pass.
Outcast Restaurant: If you get fired from your job, what's your first instinct? If it's to buy a loli slave then this is your show. ^_^. Pass.
Water Magician: This show reminds me of Kamitachi or Ken Tensei where a guy lives alone in the woods and polishes his fighting skills for years before meeting his destined partner. Not a bad premise. There's some gay vibes but maybe that's just me being paranoid. Pass.
9-Nine: Visual novels should be about romance, not chuunibyou action sequences. More importantly, the main characters don't exhibit basic courtesy to each other so there's no chemistry. Fail.
Fermat's Cooking: What cooking series fail to understand is that gluttony is a sin. Becoming overly fixated on how good something tastes is indistinguishable from using drugs to feel good. If food is nutritious and serviceable it's good, if it makes you fat it's bad, that's it. That's all a 'cook' needs to be concerned with. Fail.
Bad Girl: This is like a more smutty ripoff of Yuru Yuri. Fail.
Onmyo Kaiten: Too much happens in a single episode without enough effort to flesh it out. There's also too much cg. Fail.
Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku: The girl in this show is beautiful. The boy is stupid. If he already 'looks scary', why does he exacerbate that by dyeing his hair blond and getting pierces like a delinquent? He deserves everything he gets because he intentionally sabotages himself. But whatever, I'll watch for the girl. Pass.
I was kicked out of the hero's party blah blah: Another all powerful mage isn't recognized for his abilities so ends up working with a low-end party. How many shows are based around this premise? 2,000? The only difference is this time there was half an episode where the boy was abused by his mentor but somehow that's okay because the mentor was a girl so it's just some sort of joke. Fail.
City: This show was so bad it made me question why I ever liked Nichijou. I had to quit before the halfway mark. Fail.
Kimi to Ame to: Why should I watch a single girl take care of a space alien that doesn't even need tending to? What a waste of time. Fail.
Ruri no Houseki: Very pretty and well animated, with an interesting new topic of discussion -- how to find precious minerals all across Japan. My only complaint is when they discovered that gigantic deposit of garnets they didn't mine it and sell it for a fortune. Garnets are valuable gemstones. Why would you leave them in obscurity like that? The people who buy garnets would have loved to have them. But now they're abandoned and no use to anyone. Pass.
Isekai Myrnoghra: This reminds me of the good old days of playing the Dark Elf faction in Master of Magic. Pass.
GaCen Shoujo: It's like Kiniro Mosaic with romance. Pass.
Koujo Denka no Katei Kyoushi: One of the most promising shows of the season. The girls are beautiful, bashful, hardworking, talented and properly young. It's like a magical version of Ro-Kyu-Bu!. Pass.
Two Girls at a Food Court: I quit halfway because all they ever did was talk about nothing. Two girls talking about nothing. It's like Seinfeld with half the cast. Fail.
There's a few more shows that haven't debuted yet, but this coverage is sufficient. All in all it's a much better season than I expected, but due to series I had never heard of, while the series I had high expectations for generally sucked. Surprising all around. As expected, though, nothing here is as good as Medalist, much less Sora no Otoshimono, so it really does look like my top 200 anime's last new entrant is going to be Summer Pockets.
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