Just watched the first episodes of Ikoku Meiro no Croisée and Sacred Seven.
Sacred Seven is about something or other, I don't know. The first episode was basically about a cute girl, her bishounen mecha pilot butler and a talking hell stone thing (I shit you not) wanting the help of typical Sunrise bishounen MC with a bad past and a bad attitude. Said MC has glowy eye powers as usual, and grows a big fabulous spiky horn from his forehead, followed by a whole suit of armor. He then fights some monsters. I didn't like it that much, but it's Sunrise, so who knows.
Ikoku Meiro no Croisée (also known as some huge French name) is about a Japanese girl who gets sent to live in Paris. The first episode was just introducing the characters and the setting, but it was really fucking good. The pacing, the exceptional art, and the way that it relied on the setting sort of reminded me of Aria, which can only be a good point. The male MC seemed a hell of a lot more believable than your usual affair. All in all, quality show right here.
Season so far, in my opinion:
Note that this is only shit that interested me on the season preview picture. There are probably 3-5 shows missed in total.
Double-J: It's 4 minutes per episode so who cares what it's like.
Ro-Kyu-Bu: It has lolis playing basketball. What else needs to be said?
Blade: Subs fucking where?
Kamisama no Memo-chou: Pretty good, especially for a JCStaff show.
Sacred Seven: Not so good.
Ikoku Meiro no Croisée: Best so far, easily my favorite.
Natsume Yuujinchou San (fantastic), Yuru Yuri (good) and Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel (JCStaff) are all airing tomorrow. The first two are being CR'd, so I expect some group will un-shit the subs and throw them onto a better encode. But for Kaitou Tenshi, I expect no subs for a while, being a magical girl show. I know that Blood-C is out, but i'm not watching a fucking web rip.
I've also started bolding the series titles because that's what all the cool kids do.