Ahiru no Sora is decent. It's more or less a reverse Slam Dunk where instead of a delinquent joining a skilled basketball team it's a skilled basketball player joining a team of delinquents to teach them the love of the game. Probably the only sports show I kind of want to keep up with this season.
New Cooking Master Boy is way more of a cut and dry remake than I thought it'd be. It starts all the way in the middle of the original series run but the episodes it covers are pretty much unchanged and sped up a bit. Eh, it's fine but it might have been better left as a relic of the past.
Blade of the Immortal is good, much better than the previous adaptation. First of all the voice casting is improved starting with Manji himself who captures the lackadaisical gruffness befitting the character from the comics. It's also moving at a pretty brisk pace to the point that I wonder if it's leaving out too much back story for newcomers. I'll say the stuff that's been abridged and omitted seems thoughtfully done and is to the series' benefit in most cases. This is definitely one of those series that can't quite capture the splendor of the manga art but still looks very good stylistically. Most of the fights are extremely faithful to the books but the action moves so fast sometimes that I feel like viewers aren't able to appreciate the unique weaponry conceived by Samura-sensei.
Started watching Babylon which is pretty cool. It reminds a lot of Monster in that it is a horror anime with nothing supernatural about it (at least so far), where most of the dread stems from the "monster" of social infallibility and brainwashing.
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