A Pleasant Surprise: Beelzebub ED 2

By TheBigN

Honestly, I should have noted this weeks ago when it first appeared, but for some reason I forgot about it until now.

10 episodes into the silly delinquent fisticuffs fun of Beelzebub, the show decided to change the OP and the ED, and other than noting that it felt a little too early to switch those two songs (I have no idea how it works, but I’ve come to expect such a change corresponding with each new cour the show goes for), I had no problems with it. Especially with the OP song, which went from something more cheesy punk rockish (fitting the tone of the show), to something cheesy poppish, and was the better of the two songs for me. The new ED song, “Tsuyogari” by Shoko Nakagawa, wasn’t as good as the first ED for me, but the ED animation was a bit of a surprise:

Entranced By The Sound Of Many Voices

By TheBigN

The ED of Nichijou, “Zzz”, is one of my favorites of the season, with its combination of what I find to be “adorable” animation of Yuuko and Nano with no noticeable outlines walking and skipping to a general pop song that’s easy on the ears, along with an imaginary dream-like world along the way. However, the song isn’t one that easily stays on the ears by itself. At least until episode 7, where they decide remove most of the instrumentals, and just let Sayaka Sasaki‘s voice do the talking:

Suddenly, the music makes the imagery becomes a lot more adorable to me, and the song’s a cappella version becomes that more special and awesome to me as it takes a more jazzy tune.

Spring 2011 Anime Initial Impressions

Another day, another late quick impressions post. As with the impressions done last season, Link’s the main author here, and when TheBigN or dm00 post, we’ll indicate it by name and by color.