As I did last year, here is the list of what I thought the top 10 anime EDs of 2009 were. Enjoy!

10. “Kimi ni, Mune Kyun” by Yu Kobayashi, Asami Sanada and Marina Inoue – Maria Holic ED

This was kind an odd ED, though it probably fit the series in that regard.  It kind of grew on me, though, after a while.

9. “Hajimari no Asa ni Hikari Are” by midori – Shangri-la ED

I’m kind of surprised this landed as low as it did.  I guess it says something about the quality of the EDs this past year.

8. “Transparent” by KOKIA – Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom ED2

Like KOKIA’s OP for the same series, this one is somewhat eerie, and as a result, fits the series well

7. “Zetsubou Restaurant” by Zetsubou Shoujotachi – Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei ED1

This is kind of a funny ED.  I’ve never seen any of these series, though it kinda almost makes me want to

6. “Link” by angela – Asura Cryin’ ED1

Another good song by angela.  Many of the songs for this show were good, and this was the best one, but the only one to make the lists.

5. “Koi no Uta” by Haruka Tomatsu – Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica Crimson S ED

This is kind of a nice, soft but feel-good-like song, with interesting animation to add to it.

4. “BACCHIKOI!!!” by DEV PARADE – Naurto Shippuden ED8

Yes, I even check out OPs and EDs for shows like Naruto when doing this list.  For once, they had one which was not only good enough to make a list, but high on the list.  This ED is just hilarious to me, even though I’ve never watched the show.

3. “Blue sky, True sky” by Aira Yuhki – Tears to Tiara ED1

This was a tough choice for the #3 spot, but I think this song was, overall, a bit better quality.

2. “Don’t say ”lazy”” by Yoko Hikasa with Aki Toyosaki, Satomi Satou and Minako Kotobuki – K-ON ED

This song was a pretty easy choice for #2.  The show might not have been that great, but it did have some good music.

1. “Hikari to Yami to Toki no Hate” by Ceui – Sora wo Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai ED

I melt whenever I hear this.  This was a no-brainer as #1 on my list.

Josh – I guess I didn’t have to do a first impressions post for this, since this is the direct continuation of the first season, but since it’s “new,” I thought I would.  The first episode ended up being a fairly light-hearted re-introduction to the series, but we’re already back into the serious stuff in the 2nd episode.  One of the things I like about this series is that it’s able to mix seriousness and comedy reasonably well, though it could certainly do better at it as well.

I had some grave doubts about this series the last time I wrote about it, 5 episodes into the first season, but I think some of the writing and shear confusion has been cleared up, or at least there is a clear hope that things will eventually get answered, which is more than I could say then.  I’d still say that Asura Cryin’ overall is only about an average show, but I think it still has the potential to be pretty good or crash and burn at this point.

Sorry for not putting together a Fall 2009 Preview post this season.  I’d kind of fallen into one of my occasional funks in the past month or so where I think I have to take a short break from anime, but I think I’m about over it and ready to come roaring back again.

This past week I started catching up on over 40 episodes of anime that I was behind on for the summer season, but hopefully by the end of today, I’ll be almost through with those.  I also hope to have the final episode review of Phantom out sometime this week as well.

Having said all that, it’s time to look ahead at the shows that I want to blog and watch in the Fall 2009 season.

Blog List

Kobato

I think since I still haven’t completely gotten on my feet again in regards to blogging, it would probably be unwise to pick up more than one show at the moment, so that’s what I’m going to do.  Those of you who know me know that I’m a CLAMP freak, so the show that I am blogging should have been pretty easy to guess.

Watch List

11eyes
A Certain Scientific Railgun
Asura Cryin 2
Kimi ni Todoke
Letter Bee
Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu: Purezza
Winter Sonata

For my watch list, I have two second seasons in the list.  The first, Asura Cryin 2, I mainly included because the list of new shows this season didn’t look all that spectacular, so it ended up being a logical choice to add since I watched the first season.  The second, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu: Purezza, is the second season to a show that I liked quite a bit, and I was thinking about blogging it until I decided to take on only one new show.

For new shows I’m watching this season, 11eyes sounds like it could be interesting, and I liked the show art for this series, so that’s why it ended up being picked up. I swore to myself, that after the disaster called A Certain Magical Index, I wouldn’t watch A Certain Scientific Railgun, but here I am.  I think mainly because of the blandness of the season, and it also centers around one of the characters I actually liked.  Kimi ni Todoke was a borderline series when I first saw it, but decided to include it, again, because nothing else much looked interesting this season.  Hopefully it’ll turn out to be a good series.  Letter Bee is the most hopeful of the new series that I’m watching this season, and I definitely would have considered blogging it if I were blogging more series.  Finally, there is Winter Sonata, which also looks like a rather promising series to me, so I decided to pick it up.

There is also the OVA series Shakugan no Shana S which is supposed to release it’s first episode in October, which I’ll be blogging.  But I’m expecting that to be a “one episode every 2 or 3 months” type of deal so I’ll blog it as it comes.