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The side characters made sure to keep the series fresh and new, and because of them every battle was different. Taira in particular was a great character, but yeah: you do need some suspense of disbelief when the main character escapes this large blast that Anime Canvas would have killed off any other character… after the juggernauts of Nodame Cantabile and Honey and Clover it was the first Noitamina series to get a sequel. Was it really necessary? Nope. The second season is not as good as the first and lacks the hand painted canvas shoes charms it has, and most importantly the germs don't really feel like the main character anymore: they're sometimes there to give a bit of explanation. Beyond that though, the sequel still had plenty of reasons to make it enjoyable. The chemistry between the characters still is great, it's still chockful of creativity about the germs and it still was a very enjoyable ride with talking germs.
Shirokuma Cafe is a show that took the concept of a panda and a penguin that walk into a bar, and turned that into an entire series. It's a deadpan comedy at heart, with lots and lots of dry humour and animals trolling each other. There were plenty of times through the series at which I just cracked up and laughed hysterically. The big problem with this series however is that it's too long: it's slated for 50 episodes, and it has canvas shoes anime nowhere near enough material to fill everything with fresh jokes. The result? Padding.
This was a simple, flawed but effective action series around bombs. It had a solid atmosphere, and particularly impressive side characters that kept the story going.

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Oh about the animation by the way: K wins the award of the best animation of the season, or at least the biggest production values can be found here with tons of smooth animation, realistic character movements and well hand painted canvas shoes coordinated fight scenes. It's also got a pretty good soundtrack. My only complaint is that the creators like to abuse lighting effects, to the point where every short has some sort of obnoxious filter over it.
So yeah, I'll be checking out the second season. Then we'll know whether the build-up in this series was actually worth it.
Overall 2012 was not such a good year for OVAs in terms of quantity compared to other years. Because of that I'm including series-based canvas shoes anime OVAs this year in the rankings because otherwise I can't make a proper top 10 this year.
One Off is Sato Junichi's latest slice of life work after Tamayura. It too focuses on the lives of a bunch of teenaged girls who live in a remove village. It's not as good as Tamayura though, mostly because it feels too much like a copy, and because there is one really annoying quasi-british character who tends to ruin the mood whenever she's in the spotlights. Still, good enough to make number 10.
Computer Kakumei was part of a two-part OVA along with Kyou no Asuka Show. The latter was crap, but Computer Kakumei Anime Canvas was short but sweet, using 10 minutes to paint an interesting picture of science fiction in combination with school life that was surprisingly well acted.