That's from the first full metal alchemist series, isn't it? The one before brotherhood?
Is it me, or did the older series had the better art style? I liked Brotherhood, but I thought something was off with the aesthetics. Brotherhood still has the better pacing and story though.
Anime Club Update
1: Seven Deadly Sins: feth THIS MANIPULATIVE SHOW: Oh I was on your side all along, and that was a code. I was never truly evil. Seriously, feth it
2: School Live!: Im liking it. Seeing how she got her shovel was disturbing.
3: goddess of poverty Pretty fun show, looks like something is building up to be very insane, but im gonna have to wait
4: Erased: you know, everyone in my group says the reason he is happy is because he is at a time his mother actually loved him. But im saying the opposite. He realized even in the "present" when he was 28, his mother still loved him, but showed it in different ways after he grew up and didnt need to be taken care of.
5: Danki Gai: Yeah, this is ecchi im sure.
6: Kekkai Sensen: This anime doesnt have fights: it has finishing moves. Not even action, just........final attacks.
We finished two shows in an event
1: Your Cry in april: WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
2: Mononoke: feth YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So we got the premier of Trigger's new show, Kiznaiver, tonight. Odd premise, and I have no idea where they plan to go with it, but man is it well animated. Very pretty. Must be investing all the money they saved with that dumb ninja show they did previously.
AduroT wrote: So we got the premier of Trigger's new show, Kiznaiver, tonight. Odd premise, and I have no idea where they plan to go with it, but man is it well animated. Very pretty. Must be investing all the money they saved with that dumb ninja show they did previously.
Is it me, or is Tenga Kamina? Because that guy totally looks like Kamina.
What got my attention this season was Mayoiga. A group of 30 people (and they do introduce all 30 characters!) is in a bus, travelling to a village where they can start all over again.
A shady bus tour of young men and women is headed to an elusive village called Nanakimura. A destination where people can partake in a utopian existence, free of the world's obstacles... or so goes the rumor.
Heading deep into the mountains, the bus is carrying 30 different individuals, each harboring their own expectations and troubled hearts...
What they had arrived to was an uninhabited village with lingering, faint scents of life and it was falling apart.
Just what is the secret of Nanakimura?
It's from the same director of "Another". Yes, I'm expecting so many people to die. 2 eps in, the mysterious vibe just keeps getting stronger, I'm loving it!
I don't think Mayoiga is going to pay off with such a large cast. Mari Okada did 2 shows this season (Mayoiga and Kiznaiver), and I think both shows are probably going to suffer for it.
Overlord Thraka wrote: Still watching yet more Naruto Shippuden. I'm taking WAY less time than I did before because I'm skipping all the fillers.
Also, 2nd brother started on Naruto! Yay animebros!
I stopped watching Naruto when they finished the long AU filler streak, teased maybe half an episode of getting back to the main story, and then kicked off a "the life and times of sasuke's dead brother" filler arc that's been going on for a couple of months now. It enfuriates me so much because the manga is over, and they've even made a movie with spoilers for the end of the series, but they won't actually finish the damn series.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Holy crap. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress got really good in the second episode already. I'm gonna declare the show an Attack on Titan clone, but their fight scenes and music are a lot better.
I'd actually expect the series to ultimately go down the path of Code Geass, because literally everything Ichirō Ōkouchi writes ends up at the same place in the end
Speaking of Code Geass, Big Order is basically what happens when you cross Jojo part 3 with Geass, Darker than Black and Mirai Nikki, with some Overlord thrown in.
That Rin chick is totally Yuno, its unreal, and Orders have what are basically stands. Not too surprised that Big Order has a bit of Future Diary though; they share a creator.
It was an interesting first episode. That ending though...its sooo going to be taken out of context
Overlord Thraka wrote: Still watching yet more Naruto Shippuden. I'm taking WAY less time than I did before because I'm skipping all the fillers.
Also, 2nd brother started on Naruto! Yay animebros!
I stopped watching Naruto when they finished the long AU filler streak, teased maybe half an episode of getting back to the main story, and then kicked off a "the life and times of sasuke's dead brother" filler arc that's been going on for a couple of months now. It enfuriates me so much because the manga is over, and they've even made a movie with spoilers for the end of the series, but they won't actually finish the **** series.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Holy crap. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress got really good in the second episode already. I'm gonna declare the show an Attack on Titan clone, but their fight scenes and music are a lot better.
I've gotten through the whole story by playing the video games. We generally skip fillers though. I do wish they could wrap it up, but then that might mean starting a Boruto anime, and that's the last thing I want
So, Hero Academy. Test next week where they have to race to defeat enemies worth varying amounts of points. There's one enemy that's designed to be annoying though not impossible to kill, but it awards zero points so they suggest you just try to avoid it if you see it. How blatantly obvious is it that the real test is to see who will stop and defeat this enemy that gains them no personal glory?
AduroT wrote: So, Hero Academy. Test next week where they have to race to defeat enemies worth varying amounts of points. There's one enemy that's designed to be annoying though not impossible to kill, but it awards zero points so they suggest you just try to avoid it if you see it. How blatantly obvious is it that the real test is to see who will stop and defeat this enemy that gains them no personal glory?
Yeah, its so obvious. If they introduce a scenario where this worthless enemy threatens some simulated civilians, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
Oh, firehands rival kid will only defeat it because it was in his way and he's too bad arsed and didn't feel like going around. At the least he'll claim that. He's starting to act a bit tsundere.
Also, I have a sinking feeling that the kid can't activate his power unit the very last minute. So I'm expecting lots of running around and screaming.
I'm kind of disappointed he got a quirk though. I was expecting him to build an exosuit or something, and be like batman, using his intelligence instead of genetics. I get that its kind of needed for the plot, but it would have been interesting to see.
Maybe they will introduce a villain like that, a quirkless who studies heroes, determines their weaknesses and exploits them.
Its funny. All my friends from high school who got me into anime("OMG, go to this new thing called youtube, you can actually watch the future naruto there") are now out of it and deride me for being so young and still watching cartoons.
hotsauceman1 wrote: Its funny. All my friends from high school who got me into anime("OMG, go to this new thing called youtube, you can actually watch the future naruto there") are now out of it and deride me for being so young and still watching cartoons.
Show them a kids show like Hellsing Ultimate, Psycho Pass or GITS
hotsauceman1 wrote: Its funny. All my friends from high school who got me into anime("OMG, go to this new thing called youtube, you can actually watch the future naruto there") are now out of it and deride me for being so young and still watching cartoons.
Show them a kids show like Hellsing Ultimate, Psycho Pass or GITS
What do you mean a show with necrophilia isn't for kids?!
hotsauceman1 wrote: Its funny. All my friends from high school who got me into anime("OMG, go to this new thing called youtube, you can actually watch the future naruto there") are now out of it and deride me for being so young and still watching cartoons.
Show them a kids show like Hellsing Ultimate, Psycho Pass or GITS
hotsauceman1 wrote: Its funny. All my friends from high school who got me into anime("OMG, go to this new thing called youtube, you can actually watch the future naruto there") are now out of it and deride me for being so young and still watching cartoons.
Show them a kids show like Hellsing Ultimate, Psycho Pass or GITS
Brony them.
Mass Murder is Friendship Yuno Gasai taught me that. Mirai Nikki is anime Barney you know
hotsauceman1 wrote: Its funny. All my friends from high school who got me into anime("OMG, go to this new thing called youtube, you can actually watch the future naruto there") are now out of it and deride me for being so young and still watching cartoons.
Show them a kids show like Hellsing Ultimate, Psycho Pass or GITS
What do you mean a show with necrophilia isn't for kids?!
Nazi Vampires eating babies and murdering London is totally Saturday Morning Cartoon material, you guys
Anime club week four(episodes four
Kekkai Sensen: God bored, didnt pay attention.
Seven Deadly Sins: FETH THAT SHOW!!!!!!
School Live: Right in the feels man, right in the feels. Sakura :( its so sad.
Erased: Like wow, that was happy, like way toooooo happy. Oh, ofcourse something happens
Denki-Gai. Paid Attention, Still didnt understand
Goddess of poverty: Still no Idea going on.
Other than that, our president signed us up for a joint festival with the Japanse Student Association and we are like "Uhhhhhhhhhh, We are all a bunch of Weebs that dont know gak about japanese culture" and scared of what will happen.
hotsauceman1 wrote: Its funny. All my friends from high school who got me into anime("OMG, go to this new thing called youtube, you can actually watch the future naruto there") are now out of it and deride me for being so young and still watching cartoons.
Show them a kids show like Hellsing Ultimate, Psycho Pass or GITS
Also, me and my friends have come up with the best thing ever to make money.
Modular Body pillows
Transperant pillow case seperated into Head, torso and leg parts. that are interchangable. We than sell the various pillows that go inside for that
Make your own waifu.
Wow. Yeah, source some transparent pillowcases and get some iron-on character patches, and you have yourselves the start of a cottage industry right there.
Anvildude wrote: I have started re-watching Bleach, due to a fantastic crossover I read that incorporated it. It's better than I rememberspected it to be.
I tried Bleach. Watched the 1st dozen or so before I just went "Not for me!" and noped outta it
LordofHats wrote: Bleach is even worse than DBZ when it comes to dragging out story lines XD
I watched it for a while. Lost interest in the main characters after a while. But the secondary characters were still interesting. Then they got dull. Got to the point I was only watching to find out more about the tertiary characters, as anyone resembling a main/secondary character had been pretty fleshed out, so was just going through their moves. Then I just dropped it and didn’t look back.
I liked Bleach, and even though it had a ton of filler, I did not know most of it Was filler, because they didn't really interrupt ongoing plot arcs so bad with long long strings of flashbacks or random crap. I'm looking at you, Naruto.
Very true. This is part of the reason I'm such a fan of crossover fanfiction- it allows better storytelling in a world with good concepts but bad execution.
For example, the Bleach crossover I'm reading now is one where they're basically taking characters from another 'toon and slotting them into the Bleach roles- not with the names or powers or anything, but the general ideas and situations. Character A suddenly gets Soul Reaper powers, Character B shows up to deal with it, deeper issues start showing up as the Hollows get worse, etc. etc.
But it's stuff like watching what the author chooses as new Zanpakuto release forms and how these different characters handle the situations given them that's really interesting.
Rewatched Girls Und Panzer: Still a fun show, but a tank being back to drift (while fething awesome) is kind of silly.
That said, I am planning to watch Persona 3: Falling Down when I get the chance from painting and my school work (going through both Persona 3/4 right now but it is kind of slow due to school and other factors).
AduroT wrote: I minded the drinking tank less than the rules of the game constantly changing to keep making the protags ever more underdogs.
Eh, tournaments do what they want. It's also implied in story that the big schools do that on purpose to keep the smaller schools from having a chance at winning.
I'm looking forward to the movie, even if it'll be another Sentai production (they also got Flying Witch, but they probably won't dub it so I'm not too mad. Plus if they don't pick stuff up no one else will sometimes.)
Now if only someone would pick up Konosuba (probably waiting for that ova or the second season, I'd wager.)
Speaking of GuP, or at least their staff, has anyone given High School Fleet a go? I've heard it's Hunt for the Red October with high school girls, so I'm considering giving it a go (or maybe waiting for the hopeful Funimation dub.)
Hoitash wrote: Speaking of GuP, or at least their staff, has anyone given High School Fleet a go? I've heard it's Hunt for the Red October with high school girls, so I'm considering giving it a go (or maybe waiting for the hopeful Funimation dub.)
Yeah, I'm on episode two right now. It's feeling a lot like Girls Und Panzer crossed with Arpeggio of Blue Steel. Im enjoying at the moment.
I think I said my problem with GuP was the fact of its large cast.
I liked the hippo team girls, but they where barely part of it. The First years seemed cool too, but the same problem. The Volleyball team seemed the best just because of it.
And wearing skirts in thw inter, seriously.
If you guys haven't given it a shot yet, go watch Redline, it's a movie that came out a few years ago from Madhouse, it's a solid racing film with awesome animation to boot.
Alfndrate wrote: If you guys haven't given it a shot yet, go watch Redline, it's a movie that came out a few years ago from Madhouse, it's a solid racing film with awesome animation to boot.
Watched it some time long ago. The story and characters were simplistic, but it was simplistic enough that it was enjoyable with a charm to it and the animation is quite solid.
Just finished watching Ergo Proxy. Very cool visuals and atmospherics...but a totally drawn out story that's extremely "been done before...a lot" once they *finally* get to it.
I'd give it a solid "B", the plot was ultimately "ok" but very droning, though animation & stylings were absolutely top notch.
I thought Ergo Proxy's pacing was terrible. It felt really slow and drawn out. At least NGE had interesting character interactions during its slow moments, but Proxy just felt sluggish to me. It had gorgeous animation and a nice setting, but it should have gone a bit faster.
Speaking of NGE - Episode 19 is brutal and awesome. I like how Shinji finally has a badass moment, and then it ends because he's out of batteries The whole show is basically Murphy's Law mixed with Freud, I love it
Yeah, they could have cut out a ton of the angsty teenage existential stuff and long dramatic shots of nothing happening and probably taken five episodes out of the total length and sacrificed none of the plot or impact of the show, or maybe had time to try and fill out the plot in something other than the last 20 mins of the series
But not a terrible watch, it was pretty at least.
I should rewatch NGE, at least it had a reason for its awkard ending (budget issues) that they then fixed with a movie.
Waiting impatiently for the next episode of Jojo Duwang is- I mean Diamond is Unbreakable. Also noticed there was a new Gundam anime on Crunchyroll. Gundam Unicorn 0096 I think it was called? Always hoped to get into it, so I'm hoping it winds up being good. First episode was awful, but the second one was decent, so I'm feeling a bit optimistic. There's also a Phoenix Wright anime. It's actually not too bad so far.
So...NGE begins to fall apart after episode 20.
Its apparent that Gainax was running of money, as they started to pad the episodes out with psychological probing of the main characters, which featured...let's say abstract animation, with repeated scenes.
I don't mind it per se, as I still find it interesting, but it does feel a bit tedious to watch, like during Asuka's mind probing where it repeats that sequence about her identity like 3-4 times.
I do appreciate that they tried to do something with what limited resources they had, but it still felt a bit awkward.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: So...NGE begins to fall apart after episode 20.
Its apparent that Gainax was running of money, as they started to pad the episodes out with psychological probing of the main characters, which featured...let's say abstract animation, with repeated scenes.
I don't mind it per se, as I still find it interesting, but it does feel a bit tedious to watch, like during Asuka's mind probing where it repeats that sequence about her identity like 3-4 times.
I do appreciate that they tried to do something with what limited resources they had, but it still felt a bit awkward.
Being that I am a fan of the show as well, I do agree that their quality began to go down from a lack of a budget and the last six episodes suffered because of it. But it does not help the studio got a little over-ambitious with the animation of the battle scenes (which are still pretty damn good in my opinion), hence I can assume most of the money went towards that. I am almost tempted to tell people to skip episodes 25-26 and watch EoE which gives a better indication what is truly going on and conveys it much better in my opinion.
SkavenLord wrote: Waiting impatiently for the next episode of Jojo Duwang is- I mean Diamond is Unbreakable.
Also noticed there was a new Gundam anime on Crunchyroll. Gundam Unicorn 0096 I think it was called? Always hoped to get into it, so I'm hoping it winds up being good. First episode was awful, but the second one was decent, so I'm feeling a bit optimistic.
There's also a Phoenix Wright anime. It's actually not too bad so far.
Gundam 0096 is a television reedit of Gundam Unicorn OVA. It does kind of require a little knowledge of the events of Mobile Suit Gubdam, Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta, Double Zeta, and Char's Counterattack. But they do a decent job of explaining what the major events are.
SkavenLord wrote: Waiting impatiently for the next episode of Jojo Duwang is- I mean Diamond is Unbreakable.
Also noticed there was a new Gundam anime on Crunchyroll. Gundam Unicorn 0096 I think it was called? Always hoped to get into it, so I'm hoping it winds up being good. First episode was awful, but the second one was decent, so I'm feeling a bit optimistic.
There's also a Phoenix Wright anime. It's actually not too bad so far.
Gundam 0096 is a television reedit of Gundam Unicorn OVA. It does kind of require a little knowledge of the events of Mobile Suit Gubdam, Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta, Double Zeta, and Char's Counterattack. But they do a decent job of explaining what the major events are.
Ya the series is insanely good, at least the OVA was. Hopping they add stuff to it like with the BreakBlade ova. Also there's Gundam Thunderbolt out, it's super awesome as well
CthuluIsSpy wrote: So...NGE begins to fall apart after episode 20.
Its apparent that Gainax was running of money, as they started to pad the episodes out with psychological probing of the main characters, which featured...let's say abstract animation, with repeated scenes.
I don't mind it per se, as I still find it interesting, but it does feel a bit tedious to watch, like during Asuka's mind probing where it repeats that sequence about her identity like 3-4 times.
I do appreciate that they tried to do something with what limited resources they had, but it still felt a bit awkward.
Yeah, the first time watching it was like "wtf is going on...", and it *kinda* works as a sub-par psychological twister ending, but man there is zero reason to watch those episodes again, when they hit the "We ran out of money" point, just put the movie on and pretend the last few episodes don't exist...because they really don't
That said, it was amusing looking at the DVD box in stores when they would try to play it off as the directors "amazing genius thriller ending"...
CthuluIsSpy wrote: So...NGE begins to fall apart after episode 20.
Its apparent that Gainax was running of money, as they started to pad the episodes out with psychological probing of the main characters, which featured...let's say abstract animation, with repeated scenes.
I don't mind it per se, as I still find it interesting, but it does feel a bit tedious to watch, like during Asuka's mind probing where it repeats that sequence about her identity like 3-4 times.
I do appreciate that they tried to do something with what limited resources they had, but it still felt a bit awkward.
Being that I am a fan of the show as well, I do agree that their quality began to go down from a lack of a budget and the last six episodes suffered because of it. But it does not help the studio got a little over-ambitious with the animation of the battle scenes (which are still pretty damn good in my opinion), hence I can assume most of the money went towards that. I am almost tempted to tell people to skip episodes 25-26 and watch EoE which gives a better indication what is truly going on and conveys it much better in my opinion.
Aye, just skip the last bit and go straight to EoE, no reason to bother with the ending TV episodes
Holy crap, I just realised how heavily Aru from Mirai Nikki is inspired by Kaworu.
If Yuki Amano is a Shinji expy, then Aru is a Kaworu expy, right down to the homoeroticism. I keep expecting "yaranaika" to be uttered.
I do like episode 24, its one of the best of the series. The sequence with beethoven near the end was incredible, though I felt the bit where Eva 01 is holding Kaworu while Beethoven is playing in the background went on for too long; it killed the mood a bit. But there's a plot hole
Spoiler:
If Seele wants 3rd contact to happen, and for Angels to inherit the Earth, why form Nerv? Why not just let it happen? Or was it all a lie to get Kaworu to serve them, as he was surprised that it was Lilith that he was supposed to make contact with?
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Holy crap, I just realised how heavily Aru from Mirai Nikki is inspired by Kaworu.
If Yuki Amano is a Shinji expy, then Aru is a Kaworu expy, right down to the homoeroticism.
I keep expecting "yaranaika" to be uttered.
I do like episode 24, its one of the best of the series. The sequence with beethoven near the end was incredible, though I felt the bit where Eva 01 is holding Kaworu while Beethoven is playing in the background went on for too long; it killed the mood a bit.
But there's a plot hole
Spoiler:
If Seele wants 3rd contact to happen, and for Angels to inherit the Earth, why form Nerv? Why not just let it happen?
Spoiler:
It has been a while since I watched the show some of the details will evade me, but Seele essentially Human Instrumentality(Third Impact) on their terms and needed the angel eliminated because of that. Along with that, the Humans were the Angels born under Liltih and Adam so hence why Rei was created between a mix of Human and Angel DNA in order to accomplish that goal.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Holy crap, I just realised how heavily Aru from Mirai Nikki is inspired by Kaworu.
If Yuki Amano is a Shinji expy, then Aru is a Kaworu expy, right down to the homoeroticism. I keep expecting "yaranaika" to be uttered.
I do like episode 24, its one of the best of the series. The sequence with beethoven near the end was incredible, though I felt the bit where Eva 01 is holding Kaworu while Beethoven is playing in the background went on for too long; it killed the mood a bit. But there's a plot hole
Spoiler:
If Seele wants 3rd contact to happen, and for Angels to inherit the Earth, why form Nerv? Why not just let it happen?
Spoiler:
It has been a while since I watched the show some of the details will evade me, but Seele essentially Human Instrumentality(Third Impact) on their terms and needed the angel eliminated because of that. Along with that, the Humans were the Angels born under Liltih and Adam so hence why Rei was created between a mix of Human and Angel DNA in order to accomplish that goal.
Spoiler:
Ah, so Rei was created under orders of Seele to act as a trigger for Human Instrumentality, but seeing as Rei belongs to Gendo, they tried to get a real Angel to do it then, under the pretext that they believe angels should inherit the earth, when really Seele wants to be god as well? How would that work though? Wouldn't Kaworu become god?
Also, is it customary for husbands to take the last names of their wives in Japan? Ikari was Yui's family name, and Gendo was originally Gendo Rokubunji.
Anyone else following Joker Game? I'm enjoying it. Plots within plots. Its pretty much "JUST AS PLANNED" the anime. Tzeentch's no1 show.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Holy crap, I just realised how heavily Aru from Mirai Nikki is inspired by Kaworu.
If Yuki Amano is a Shinji expy, then Aru is a Kaworu expy, right down to the homoeroticism.
I keep expecting "yaranaika" to be uttered.
I do like episode 24, its one of the best of the series. The sequence with beethoven near the end was incredible, though I felt the bit where Eva 01 is holding Kaworu while Beethoven is playing in the background went on for too long; it killed the mood a bit.
But there's a plot hole
Spoiler:
If Seele wants 3rd contact to happen, and for Angels to inherit the Earth, why form Nerv? Why not just let it happen?
Spoiler:
It has been a while since I watched the show some of the details will evade me, but Seele essentially Human Instrumentality(Third Impact) on their terms and needed the angel eliminated because of that. Along with that, the Humans were the Angels born under Liltih and Adam so hence why Rei was created between a mix of Human and Angel DNA in order to accomplish that goal.
Spoiler:
Ah, so Rei was created under orders of Seele to act as a trigger for Human Instrumentality, but seeing as Rei belongs to Gendo, they tried to get a real Angel to do it then, under the pretext that they believe angels should inherit the earth, when really Seele wants to be god as well? How would that work though? Wouldn't Kaworu become god?
Also, is it customary for husbands to take the last names of their wives in Japan? Ikari was Yui's family name, and Gendo was originally Gendo Rokubunji.
Anyone else following Joker Game? I'm enjoying it. Plots within plots. Its pretty much "JUST AS PLANNED" the anime. Tzeentch's no1 show.
Spoiler:
Not quite, since Gendo was just selfish and wanted his wife back and Seele only wanted Instrumentality for themselves while everyone died. Then Rei comes along and says 'Nope, screw you guys, I am taking over' and then you see Rei turn everyone into orange juice and gave Shinji control of Instrumentality. Probably not explaining it as well, but it has been a while since I have seen the show in full. And my memory slightly escapes me.
And yeah, I think it is somewhat customary that the husband does take the surname of the wives. Need to check into that.
Yeah, I know about Gendo's motive, but I don't quite understand Kaworu's role. Like, I got that Seele wanted him to initiate Third Impact, but wouldn't that be counterproductive?
Saw the last two episodes of NGE. Not as bad as I was expecting. I've seen worse. The last episode wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible.
Episode 25 was better, as it hinted to what was going on in the real world, outside of god-shinji's mind. It was apparent that he was peeking into everyone's souls when they were tang.
I did see EoE a long time ago, but I didn't like it that much; the ending was too open for my liking, and it was apparent that Anno had an axe to grind with the fanbase and his own creation.
Anyway, now off to Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, an anime about a suicidal eternally pessimistic teacher who carries a noose around, and is put in charge of a class full of misfits. Shenanigans ahoy. 8 minutes in and I love this show already. Its the best thing to watch after NGE. Its so dark, yet so funny.
Bah. Disappointed that the Magi:Sinbad series is just the OVAs from a bit ago. Was hoping it would continue where they left off. With luck maybe there will be more in them later than there was in the OVAs.
Ok. anime club time
Episode 7 of
Erased: Can none of these end happy? And I want ti love in a bus on the side of a road
Kekkai Sensen......Wow, That was sexist. That sometimes men just want to punch eachother.....I mean its TRUE
Goddess OF poverty. who would let her where just bandages around her breasts at school?
Gakku Gurashi........Ehhh, to much Slice of life
Danki Gai: We dropped this. It slipped into porn far to many times. Like when their all massaging breasts
Episode Two of Kyosa Giga: Im sure I went insane watching that.
So, Paramount Pictures has a YouTube channel where they've released a bunch of movies that you can watch for free on their channel.
One of the films they released today is Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress, which so far, is a fantastic film. it's very surreal in how it blends the present day characters with the past, and the movies the actress starred in.
Edit: Gorram was that good. very very good movie, a bit of a tearjerker, but Satoshi Kon really knows how to play with emotions.
Just want to clarify, now that we have a whole board devoted to the novels, comics, movies, TV, etc., that we love, posters should feel free to open multiple threads about anime. Only caveat - try to keep the discussion about a certain series to a single thread. Thanks!
We could always keep the mega thread around (kinda like the "what game are you playing now" thread in Video Games). Would be cool though now that we have the ability to have threads on specific animes. We can tag with with [SPOILERS] or some such, and avoid cluttering up the super thread with discussions about ongoing series that some member might not be caught up on
Round up for episodes 8 of
Gakkou Gurashi: Wow, so the school was.....just wow.
Goddess of Povety: I went to go get food, thought nothing of it.
Kekkai Sensen: Ok, that was legitimatly funny.
Erased episodes 8/9............Oh God, The Feels. when she started crying when she saw the breakfest. God. I was really Really hoping Satoru's MoM would just adopt her. The bath scene though. Satoru is scarred for life. Like man, piling on the feels man.
Episode 3 of
Kyousa Giga. Stilldidnt interest me that much. very much Meh.
LordofHats wrote: We could always keep the mega thread around (kinda like the "what game are you playing now" thread in Video Games). Would be cool though now that we have the ability to have threads on specific animes. We can tag with with [SPOILERS] or some such, and avoid cluttering up the super thread with discussions about ongoing series that some member might not be caught up on
My only worry is that we would spread the discussion out and it would just be like three of us discussing some moe show that most of Geek Media doesn't care for.
The benefit is that other Dakkanauts might come across a show that they find worthwhile and start watching it.
The question becomes 1) What show gets the first nod to its own thread? Should it be an older show that is pretty easy to find and we can do a Dakka rewatch of it to test out the Show Threads?
Edit: Hotsauce, glad you are finding Kekkai Sensen funny. It's a solid show, and you're lucky that you don't have to wait 3 months for the final episode to come out.
That could be fun. I've been re-watching Bleach, and a dedicated thread for that might be a good idea- to mayb give people ideas of which are the arcs to skip (and which episodes to do so with).
Or maybe the 'Dakka Darling' shows that people all seemed to like...
LordofHats wrote: We could always keep the mega thread around (kinda like the "what game are you playing now" thread in Video Games). Would be cool though now that we have the ability to have threads on specific animes. We can tag with with [SPOILERS] or some such, and avoid cluttering up the super thread with discussions about ongoing series that some member might not be caught up on
My only worry is that we would spread the discussion out and it would just be like three of us discussing some moe show that most of Geek Media doesn't care for.
The benefit is that other Dakkanauts might come across a show that they find worthwhile and start watching it.
The question becomes 1) What show gets the first nod to its own thread? Should it be an older show that is pretty easy to find and we can do a Dakka rewatch of it to test out the Show Threads?
Edit: Hotsauce, glad you are finding Kekkai Sensen funny. It's a solid show, and you're lucky that you don't have to wait 3 months for the final episode to come out.
Yeah. I'd say in general there's maybe four or five main posters in this thread like you and hotsauce, and then maybe a dozen or more posters like me who hop in and out. Certainly, we don't want to flood Geek media with threads about every new anime in the Summer lineup. I think posters can just use their best judgement. It's not like there's a thread here for every single tv show people are watching. General anime talk could just stay here, and if a thread pops up on an anime it'll either live or die based on its own interest.
So, this week's re zero was pretty tragic
Da Feelz
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Subaru finally has his first mental breakdown, and it reveals the reason why he is so hyper is to mask his fear. Its pretty hard seeing him like that, and Emilia finally gets him to drop the act and release some of his anguish. As he didn't die this episode, the next one will probably be dire.
Out of curiosity, is anyone watching "Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress"? I kinda dropped everything this season until I was told how good this was, and boy, they were NOT kidding. This anime is flippin' amazing, binged the whole available 6 episodes when I decided to give the first ep a look
Well, truth be told, it's amazing if you are into action-oriented, post-apocalyptic anime.
If you are up to a tiny bit of spoilers for the 2nd ep, here's a sample of the amazing action (and music! Even the OST is sexy)
TheDraconicLord wrote: Out of curiosity, is anyone watching "Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress"? I kinda dropped everything this season until I was told how good this was, and boy, they were NOT kidding. This anime is flippin' amazing, binged the whole available 6 episodes when I decided to give the first ep a look
Well, truth be told, it's amazing if you are into action-oriented, post-apocalyptic anime.
Kabaneri is fun to watch if you don't try to think about how their society has been able to last this long with stuff like that Smoke around and their virtual inability to fight back before now.
Planning on starting it. Looks awesome and steampunky. I've been wanting more steampunk anime since I first saw Steamboy.
On a completely unrelated tangent, I had a bizarre dream last night about an anime- I don't think it exists, but I figured I might ask if bits sound familiar to anyone-
So an 'ordinary school girl' (albeit rather macabre and antisocial) one day notices a monster attacking the school that nobody else reacts to- so she summons an oni to fight it (of course). However, that was the monster's plan all along, and she gets sucked into the monster's home world.
This is where it gets weird, and I think the 'dream' aspect of things is messing with stuff- the girl is now in the form of the Oni she summoned, only gigantic, and has to fight the Monster herself, which is also now gigantic. She's all ruthless and unphased, which throws the monster off, and she wins handily (and brutally)- but it turns out these fights are regulated in this world. Law enforcement comes in, blah blah blah, girl (still in Oni form) gets bailed out by a strange anthro-wolf character who claims to be her sister (though she doesn't have a sister in her normal world)... And then to top it all off, when she turns back from the Oni form, she's a guy.
Yeah, strange, strange dream mash-up anime. Anyone have any idea where the components may be? I'm thinking a little Yu-Gi-Oh, some Ouran School Host Club, maybe a little Dokuro-chan, and possibly some Supernormal Step (which is a webcomic, not an anime, but still).
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is one of the coolest Animes I've seen in years. The production values are incredible, and the art manages to look a lot like Miyazaki without feeling like a rip off. Definitely my favorite show this year.
I've been watching it, it's really good. It's like the creator of the show saw Attack on Titan and said "I can do better" and so far I'm enjoying it more than I did AoT. Not saying it is or is not better, but it's pretty solid.
The thing I like about it is what the probable ending for Mumei and Ikoma is, given aing enough period of time. I'm also digging the world building that's going on, like how we're getting just enough snippets about the world to keep me hooked wanting more.
Im close to crying now. The anime club is done and im never gonna see those friends again. They made school bearable. up to the end of our dinner no one wanted to leave because we will never see eatchother again. And its a changing of the guard to. Barely anyone is staying and a few of the old members are satying to raise a new generation of young weaboos.
Goodbye all yall fething weebs, im gonna miss you all.
One Final Roundup
Finished erased. Dont get why people hate kayo getting together with hitomi, the relationship was done when she left. Still sweet ending.
Gakku Gurashi. even in a zombie apocalypse, beach episodes.
dont care about the rest.
Im going to go cry.
Erased ending was awful, went from a pretty solid series to huge upset. Not just the weird out of nowhere relationship, but pretty much everything about it was disappointing.
Trains and zombies is ok, great for zombie media. Most things having to do with zombies is predictable and unoriginal, but this seems like an original setting and story. So far I don't think there are any complaints I have about it. It doesn't matter if the science of their tech doesn't make sense, it's a fantasy setting.Trying to pick that apart it stupid.
Just finished watching Ajin on Netflix. Interesting premise, but the more I learned about the characters, the more I wished they would all die in a fire.
The sidekick girl and the new kid were the only ones I vaguely cared about by then end of the first season they have. And that’s probably only because we don’t know a huge deal about them. The girl especially.
Would not recommend it, and if they do release a second season will probably pass. Unless I’m really bored. I’ve burned through most of the stuff on Netflix the looks worth watching.
Alfndrate wrote: The comic for Ajin is pretty good. Did they go into how she discovered she's a demi-human?
Nope. She just hangs out at the elbow of The Suit, looks cute, and doesn’t have any details offered up about the hows/whys of her position.
Oh man! I guess they're saving that season 2, or if you have a Crunchyroll premium account, you can read pretty it. 90% of what you read will be in the anime though.
Alfndrate wrote: What out of nowhere relationship? The one with the girl he saved?
The marriage between his childhood friend and the girl he save came out of nowhere. And they gave the dude a super tiny child head on an adult body. The whole thing just felt super rushed. I would definitely not call it predictable, aside from who the killer was. So it had originality going for it
Alfndrate wrote: What out of nowhere relationship? The one with the girl he saved?
The marriage between his childhood friend and the girl he save came out of nowhere. And they gave the dude a super tiny child head on an adult body. The whole thing just felt super rushed. I would definitely not call it predictable, aside from who the killer was. So it had originality going for it
To be fair, it was 15 years between when he went into the coma and when he woke up. Think about the last 15 years of your life, a lot changes. The relationship with one of the friends made more sense than it would have with Satoru.
In the mecha department, Gundam Thunderbolt is pretty sweet and gridy. I think the manga is mostly better though, translations of it are out there.
Gundam the Origin: Also impressive, seeing both sides to Char is really weird and interesting. His ascension to madness is a bit shallow, but still interesting.
Gundam Unicorn: So far it doesn't look like they added anything from the OVA, but it's been a long time since I've seen it. Still awesome, although I prefer the dub. The English voice actor for the main character makes him seem less whiny to me.
Finally, there's a series airing with samurai robots or something like that? I'm thinking of giving it a watch, dono if it's any good though
Kuromukuro/Black Relic might be the Samurai Robots one. Has a samurai from some 400 years ago who wakes up from stasis when aliens piloting giant mechs land on earth and who is able to pilot a mech of his own with the help of conveniently nearby schoolgirl. It manages to be not Too incredibly cliche and has several entertaining characters. The scene where he first wakes up is pretty good too from a "filming" perspective.
While I'm at it, Kiznaiver. It's entertaining, though being from Trigger I want to compare it to KLK and Gurren, and it's not nearly as good as those two. Do love the opening music though.
Terraformers is better this season than ones past. For the most part the narrator has shut up so you don't have that constant "made from this powerful creature, he is unstoppable. But wait, this guys made from this other more powerful creature and is more unstoppable. But wait, this guy is made from this other more more powerful creature and is more more unstoppable!" There is also less giving us backstory on that new character they just killed to try and make us care about them after the fact. Both element still exist, but they're toned way down and they are some good moments of random humor spread around to lighten the mood as well. Also interesting the way this season's opener, Revenge, seems to portray (to me) to frame the humans as the bad guys.
Re: Zero has been really good too. One of my two favorites. Shut in neet transported to fantasy world. Cliche but they know it and play on it. Great of good action and horror and fun with some great characters. The main gimmick of the show makes the overall plot advance slow, but I like how they play with the gimmick. If you've not seen/read about it I strongly recommend watching the first episode without reading more and spoiling what said gimmick is.
Other favorite show of the season is Boku No Hero Academia/My Hero Academia. A world where it's not uncommon for people to be born with super powers similar to Xmen, and become heroes/villains. As the name suggests, it's following kids in the super hero school. I Really wanna see the next episode after the way the last one ended. Gonna get Really good I think.
Kabaneri is pretty good, buts Biba ruins it a bit; he is so cartoonishly evil, and his motivation is kind of odd.
Like, lets overthrow the shogun because he's weak, and make a stronger society by...feeding everyone to Kabane. What?
And his soldiers are all completely fine with betraying humanity.
Like, if they are were all Kabaneri and there was a sort of Ubermensch / Fallout 1 Master complex going on I would kind of get the idea, but it seems sort of odd how there are human soldiers in his private army who are ok with selling out their own people to zombies.
Hopefully I'm the only one that got spoiled on that, but it's my fault. I was on vacation and had plenty of time to watch the latest episode(s). I'll probably throw them on tonight.
I haven't seen Re: Zero but if it's that good I'll give it a try. As far as Trains and Zombies go I'm fine with the villain being kinda contrived, because I don't take that show super seriously. It's just another zombie series to me, the politics part is just added to keep the plot from being like every other zombie media
I started watching the new Voltron. Very happy with it so far. Good mix of action comedy and character development. Reminds me of Avatar almost. (Yes I know some of the same people are involved)
So after catching up on anime the past two evenings, I have to say, Bungo Stray Dogs is definitely one of my favorites of the season. It features tons of references to Japanese authors (and a Canadian author) with the characters in the show.
Each of the major characters is named after a Japanese author, and their special gift relates (for the most part) to what that author was known for. This is kind of a spoiler for episode 1,
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but the main character Nakajima Atsushi is based on the author of the same name. One of Atsushi's more famous works is a "response"? to Kafka's Metamorphosis, where instead of turning into an insect, the main character turns into a tiger. In the show, Atsushi can turn into a big, mystical tiger as his special power.
I liked it, and for the most part it didn't jump the rails like Kabaneri :(
Thanks to this thread found Kabneri and enjoying the animation style and the unique setting.
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I am a little put off by the "let the world burn because I have daddy issues" motive of Biba Amatori. Just seems to me to be a tad bit lazy story telling.
The other thing that stands out to me is Suzuki, especially the voice acting.
Interested what is on your watch list for the summer 2016 season? Myself I am Looking forward to checking out Mob Psycho 100.
Yeah, the cgi was weird and at times moved so quick with the angle changes I wasn't sure exactly what he was hitting. Did the recent movies show how he got away from the big demon party or is there a gap there? I mean I've been Told how he survived by someone's who's read some of the mangas, but I'd have liked to have seen it.
Well trains and zombies is over, and it ended on a pretty meh note for me. Idk if they should have stretched it to more episodes, but I do think the last half of the season seemed pretty rushed. Also they could have developed the villain a little more, his motives seemed pretty thin for all the destruction and slaughter he causes. I'd probably give it a 6ish outa 10.
The first episode of the new Tales series just came out, hopping I can finally get a good fantasy series after idk how many seasons.
I was thinking about getting into Tales myself. Still on the fence.
Still waiting for High School Fleet's dub. Might give up and just watch it.
Sweetness and Lightning is adorable, but it's a sentimental adorable and not a funny adorable like most of these types of shows. Not gonna lie, got a bit teary at the end.
Fate/Kaleid is what it is. I'm wondering when
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Mapo Tofu Seller Kotomine shows up.
The Art Club has a Problem was cute and amusing enough to keep me interested.
Busy season so far, I guess. I also got my copy of Knight of the Twin Moons in the mail, my favorite Familiar of Zero season.
darkcloud92 wrote: Well trains and zombies is over, and it ended on a pretty meh note for me. Idk if they should have stretched it to more episodes, but I do think the last half of the season seemed pretty rushed. Also they could have developed the villain a little more, his motives seemed pretty thin for all the destruction and slaughter he causes. I'd probably give it a 6ish outa 10.
Agree. Binged the show after this thread, thought highly of the animation style and background, but the ending was just lazy to be honest. I only finished the season because of my completionist tendencies.
Binged Kuromukuro which apparently is a Netflix "Original" by virtue of them having global distribution/streaming rights. Right now a solid 6 out 10 as it falls just on the right side of will continue watching, but only if I have watched everything else. As soon as the summer season kicks into high gear, probably will forgot about the show. Mecha designs are definitely meh. Villains are kind of poorly designed and shallow at this point which is a shame because they had for a couple of episodes you starting to wonder if the visible enemy was the real enemy.
Finished High School Fleet recently and throughout the series kept thinking of Girls und Panzer which I definitely enjoyed more.
So I thought there'd never be censorship so annoying in a show as last year's Terra Formars. The constant string of black bars, boxes, and even circles, completely ruined the show in its initial run and were bizarre given than much gorier content has aired on Japanese TV before.
Welp. I found a show that managed to be even more annoying! Ange Vierge has it's all female cast spend almost the entirety of episode one in the nude, and avoid being cast a pure porn by casting blinding rays of light to hide the special bits! It's like someone watched JJTrek and thought "these bloom effects will be perfect for covering genitalia" XD
LordofHats wrote: So I thought there'd never be censorship so annoying in a show as last year's Terra Formars. The constant string of black bars, boxes, and even circles, completely ruined the show in its initial run and were bizarre given than much gorier content has aired on Japanese TV before.
Welp. I found a show that managed to be even more annoying! Ange Vierge has it's all female cast spend almost the entirety of episode one in the nude, and avoid being cast a pure porn by casting blinding rays of light to hide the special bits! It's like someone watched JJTrek and thought "these bloom effects will be perfect for covering genitalia" XD
Yeah, that's a standard censorship technique. They use it in Big Order and To ru love, irrc. Its pretty bad. Just where are those god rays coming from? Is there a spot light out of frame? Its just so painfully obvious.
I know. And it's not even like this is effective fan service at this point, so why have we even bothered? I actually don't think I've seen an anime dedicate its entire first episode to fan service like that XD
I haven't watched anime in a few weeks. Too much GenCon prep, so I'm binging shows in English, but here's what's on my list so far.
Sweetness and Lightning (been loving the manga)
Berserk ( the cgi is not great, but it's the only Berserk anime I'll get)
Re\Life
Taboo Tattoo
Thunderbolt Fantasy (not anime, but written by Madoka Magica's writer, and the first episode was fething awesome)
91 Days
Food Wars
New Game...
and Jojo's from last season... It's a lot, but they're all scratching an itch for me. When I can get back to them :(
Sweetness and Lightning, Alderamin, and Fate/Kaleid are about it for me this season. I'm thinking of giving New Game a try, I need to start High School fleet at some point, and I'm re-watching Lucky Star since it got uploaded.
I'm also watching Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans and One Punch Man on Toonami, because sleep is for the weak, apparently.
Watching berserk. It would be so much better if it weren't for the crappy CGI animation.
I really hope this doesn't catch on; we have 3 series so far that use mostly CGI, Sidonia, Ajin and now Berserk, and in all cases it looks like cheap, poorly produced crap.
What's funny is that in berserk they include scenes from the 90s anime, and it looks so much better than the 2016 anime.
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Watching berserk. It would be so much better if it weren't for the crappy CGI animation.
I really hope this doesn't catch on; we have 3 series so far that use mostly CGI, Sidonia, Ajin and now Berserk, and in all cases it looks like cheap, poorly produced crap.
What's funny is that in berserk they include scenes from the 90s anime, and it looks so much better than the 2016 anime.
I will; say this about Berserk though, the art may look like butt, but they have a solid team working on the storyline and scripts.
Yeah, the story and script is good, and I do like the premise. But holy crap, the animation sucks. Berserk does have some awesome scenes that work despite the shoddy CGI, like in the first episode when Guts was fighting those Skeleton Warriors (na na na na na naaa) and then the Corpse Rotted Greatwood.
Anyway, round up time
Berserk - Already mentioned
Mob Psycho 100 - Awesome. It's basically One Punch Man with exorcisms and psychic powers.
91 Days - Pretty nice mafia drama anime, except this time with no supernatural elements, which tends to show up in these sort of a shows. I like that
Rewrite - Generic SoL fest. Basically inferior Suzimiya Haruhi
Planetarium - Zzzzz
Masuo Gakuen HxH - This season's harem anime. It's...not that terrible. It's saving grace is that the premise of the anime supports all the ecchi shenanigans going on and it acknowledges how stupid it is. The girl designs though...I don't know why people think beach ball tits are attractive. I find it disturbing.
D Grey Man Hallow - Pretty good, but I think it's predecessor was superior.
Alderamin on the Sky - Its ok I guess. I don't like the little fairy things though
Tales of Zestiria - Appears to be a solid adaptation of a game series that I don't know. I like how at the end there's RPG style dialogue sequences.
Saiki Kusuo - Surprisingly good. Nice light little comedy. I have a feeling its going to get stale really quickly, though episode 2 was pretty funny.
Taboo Tattoo - Trying really hard to be a serious Mirai Nikki shonen sort of anime.
And that's it. I think the AotS might be 91 days or Mob Psycho 100 for me.
Something I've been watching I've not seen mentioned yet is Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars. A blend of action packed giant mechas with Loli yuri moe. It's working out alright so far.
Anybody knows if there's any hints of sword arts online continuing? Reading the phantom bullet books made me think that would be much better than the 2nd season was. Would like to see that in anime form.
I am worried that they're doing SAO as a "Did you like this adventure? Go read the Light Novels!" sort of marketing thing. I really hope that the popularity of it encourages them to continue making it into an easily-accessible anime, but I wouldn't hold my breath. From what I understand, it's incredible that they got a second season at all.
Anvildude wrote: I am worried that they're doing SAO as a "Did you like this adventure? Go read the Light Novels!" sort of marketing thing. I really hope that the popularity of it encourages them to continue making it into an easily-accessible anime, but I wouldn't hold my breath. From what I understand, it's incredible that they got a second season at all.
Well I don't mind reading the novels since I love reading and indeed reading is my default mode of enjoying so for me it's actually reverse Enjoy the book? See the anime as well! As it is depending on did they know do they get 3rd season or not I would have rather done 2nd season from phantom bullet than the fairy land thingie! The 3rd and 4th book(anime 2nd season) were IMO much weaker than 1st and 2nd(SAO) and I'm enjoying 5th and 6th(phantom bullet) lot. Almost as much as SAO indeed.
edit: I doubt they would be doing that anyway(anime business is harsh. They aren't generally looking multiseason ahead but season by season. If you did well on 1st season it's still no quarantee you can run 3+ seasons. That depends on how 2nd season did if 1st season did enough to give you 2nd season...). Much more likely is simply that the 2nd season dvd/bluray sales were unsatisfactory since it's those that anime gets most of it's money from. DVD/bluray sales stink, anime either generates low profit or is even deficit. And while I'm not partial(I didn't like 2nd season) can't say I would be surprised if the 2nd season media sales were low...
edit2: Also those books are already very old. Like 99% sales they are going to generate have already likely to be generated so they wouldn't really gain anything by not doing anime to drive sales of book. Sales aren't going to be big anyway! If anime generates profit it would likely be more money than book sales would lose(it's not like book sales would go to 0 anyway...). So much more likely they simply look at possibility of anime generating profit or not. And if season 2 tanked profit wise they will likely decide "no". The one thing in anime industry I don't like is aversion of risks :-/
In a way that's the regrettable thing about having animation get so, uh, "mainstream". It means a lot of the studios will be in it for a quick buck and so the gems that get thrown up in the scuffle have a good chance of being lost. If it were all done 'for the art' they'd last longer, and probably have more work done beforehand to iron out the issues, so that bad production or writing decisions don't drag down an otherwise good concept.
I'm hopeful that the recent trend of "Cinematic Universes" that the comics industry has started might push the whole film, cinema and animation industry towards long-term franchise development as opposed to short-term, season-by-season work. You can already see that some of the most successful properties of the last decade have been continuous, multi-part works- Game of Thrones, the MCU, the DCTVU, even the long-running crime dramas have all hopefully done well enough that that sort of 'deep universe' writing will become the norm.
Anvildude wrote: In a way that's the regrettable thing about having animation get so, uh, "mainstream". It means a lot of the studios will be in it for a quick buck and so the gems that get thrown up in the scuffle have a good chance of being lost. If it were all done 'for the art' they'd last longer, and probably have more work done beforehand to iron out the issues, so that bad production or writing decisions don't drag down an otherwise good concept.
I'm hopeful that the recent trend of "Cinematic Universes" that the comics industry has started might push the whole film, cinema and animation industry towards long-term franchise development as opposed to short-term, season-by-season work. You can already see that some of the most successful properties of the last decade have been continuous, multi-part works- Game of Thrones, the MCU, the DCTVU, even the long-running crime dramas have all hopefully done well enough that that sort of 'deep universe' writing will become the norm.
Interesting thought. There is precedent for this in anime, but the examples that come to mind do not fill me with confidence.
Started and go up to date on New Game! over the weekend. Another interesting slice of life even if the all female developer team is just a tad bit unrealistic and the fan service is obnoxious given the setting. Really looking forward to when the show gets to the publishing deadline or whatever other crisis event that the show is building to.
To date these are where shows rank in my watch list;
1. Gundam Unicorn
2. Alderamin on the Sky
3. Food Wars
4. Mob Psycho 100
5. New Game!
6. Sweetness & Lightning
7. Taboo Tattoo
8. Qualidea Code
Also catching up on Fate/Kaleid liner Prisma Illya.
Alderamin on the Sky continues to be a fun little anime that requires thinking but has the political stuff simple enough that you can follow along without hurting your brainspace.
The whole Empire vs. Republic thing gives me strong divided Roman Empire vibes, with the Empire being the West and the Republic the Byzantines. I wish more was revealed about the Republic... eh, maybe I'll give the translation of the light novel a go.
Hoitash wrote: Sweetness and Lightning, Alderamin, and Fate/Kaleid are about it for me this season. I'm thinking of giving New Game a try, I need to start High School fleet at some point, and I'm re-watching Lucky Star since it got uploaded.
I'm also watching Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans and One Punch Man on Toonami, because sleep is for the weak, apparently.
I binged One Punch Man not expecting to like it....I can honestly say I rather enjoyed it. The oblivious bored superhero who just wants a good fight, the side kick who thinks he is the greatest thing since sliced bread, the convoluted superhero ranking system and the brat girl at the top of the pile.
From what I recall, it was Murata himself who said it.
As for Unicorn, maybe I was expecting it to be too much like Iron-Blooded Orphans or the Origin, not a whiny spanker who plays hostage roulette with all the big factions, tries to resolve fights through hugs and cries just a bit too much about how much of a crapsack that universe is.
BrookM wrote: From what I recall, it was Murata himself who said it.
As for Unicorn, maybe I was expecting it to be too much like Iron-Blooded Orphans or the Origin, not a whiny spanker who plays hostage roulette with all the big factions, tries to resolve fights through hugs and cries just a bit too much about how much of a crapsack that universe is.
The whiny teenager who cries about how much of a crap sack the universe is, is practically a staple of Universal Century shows. Alternate Universe stuff (Like Iron Blooded Orphans) can still feature that protagonist, but they tend to be shades of difference because they're not beholden to the UC timeline.
Also, if ONE had said that, I'd give it more stock since he's the original creator. Murata saying it, while having some force behind it, works mostly for Murata since it will hopefully drive up Jump sales whenever OPM is in the magazine. ONE is just doing this for fun and releases chapters on his website for free.
Unicorn disappointed me as well, especially the juxtaposition of the weirdly metaphysical/hocus-pocus-magic-ey stuff (psychocrystals erupting organically from a giant robot...?) they went with in the ending contrasting with the reapolitik and real world military feel of much of the rest show. Not the first time a Gundam show has done something like that, but it especially didnt work for me in Unicorn (I could kind of forgive the way they did it in Char's Counterattack), particularly when contrasted with other UC gundam stuff like 0080/0083/08th MS Team/Origin, etc.
I'll wait for the second season of Iron-Blooded Orphans myself, along with whenever they'll do the last instalment of Origin.
In other news, I've added Shokugeki no Soma to my list for this season after watching over half of the first season last night on the insistence of a friend. While the way the battles are shown is a bit idiotic and done to death, it's still fun to watch.
Yeah, Berserk is getting better. The CGI is still awful, but at least it has cool stuff now. What's annoying is that some bits aren't in CGI and it looks so much better.
I love Skull Knight. He has such a nice armor design.
Is no one else following Thunderbolt Fantasy? It's some crazy martial arts doll nonsense and I've been loving every minute of it. Absolutely worth a watch.
Yeah. The last episode was pretty awesome.
Subaru went from a complete scrub to a cool guy who doesn't afraid of everything.
Its like in Dark Souls how you start off getting your ass beat by a zombie, and you end up killing a friggen god. That's basically what Re: Zero is; its a very well disguised RPG anime, which is why everyone in this world is a complete badass. They are level 50 while the main character is like level 2.
I loved the last episode, especially when Subaru faced down the White Whale and then jumped from it! It is a pity that so many of the fans despise him, especially as up until now he has actually been acting exactly how your average joe would if they where in his situation.
Yeah, they don't seem to understand that Subaru isn't Kohaku (aka Sora and Shiro, who are geniuses in an environment they excel at).
He's some random average kid with no skills, barely any education, who had the misfortune of being thrown into a strange and hostile world where everyone is more competent than him, and who has experienced several deeply traumatizing events.
To build on my video game analogy, he's a casual thrown headfirst into a hardcore game with a strict respawning mechanic, with no tutorial, manual or starter equipment.
I suppose one could count Return by Death as a starter ability, but that's basically just a respawn mechanic; any player gets it, provided they aren't playing on ironman / hardcore.
So yeaaah, he's going to have a bad time.
He's like this age's Shinji, except with a bit more confidence and less Murphy's Law (well, not that much less).
The story is, at its heart, a zero to hero tale. You can't be a zero if you have everything to begin with, and one must earn one's hero status.
But yeah, the whale battle was
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fething Awesome. I mean, they droppped a friggen tree on it, and Subaru had a badass moment. I was like Never before has being bait been so epic. The only way it could be more epic is if he was playing a guitar solo and ended it with elbow dropping a T-Rex, who happened to be both a member of the witch cult and a nazi.
I wasn't aware there was a new Berzerk show, I got super mad that I didn't know about that, so that's on the watch list for the weekend.
I'm almost done with Psycho-Pass, it's pretty trope-ey but amusing, especially with it's cookie cutter "slightly feminine mannered Übermensch adonis" of a bad guy and irrepressibly optimistic and absurdly young female protagonist It did have a couple of genuinely hard to watch brutal moments which added some kick though, we'll see how it ends...
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Yeah, they don't seem to understand that Subaru isn't Kohaku (aka Sora and Shiro, who are geniuses in an environment they excel at).
He's some random average kid with no skills, barely any education, who had the misfortune of being thrown into a strange and hostile world where everyone is more competent than him, and who has experienced several deeply traumatizing events.
To build on my video game analogy, he's a casual thrown headfirst into a hardcore game with a strict respawning mechanic, with no tutorial, manual or starter equipment.
I suppose one could count Return by Death as a starter ability, but that's basically just a respawn mechanic; any player gets it, provided they aren't playing on ironman / hardcore.
So yeaaah, he's going to have a bad time.
He's like this age's Shinji, except with a bit more confidence and less Murphy's Law (well, not that much less).
Well yeah, that is pretty much it. Subaru is not some kind of super character with amazing abilities, he is a simple person. Hell, he is a gamer and he actually mentions this early on. People are expecting a classic anime hero with all these super powers and crazy abilities, someone who is confident and already skilled with everything and the like. They already have their expectations.
We have been spoiled with overpowered heroes lately (looking at you Kirito) and it is nice to have one who is normal for a change.
Rosebuddy wrote: Is no one else following Thunderbolt Fantasy? It's some crazy martial arts doll nonsense and I've been loving every minute of it. Absolutely worth a watch.
I am! It's been fantastic so far, my only gripe with it is that Crunchyroll is using the Chinese names for the characters, which doesn't match up with the audio so I have no clue who anyone's name is and thus I just give them nicknames.
Rosebuddy wrote: Is no one else following Thunderbolt Fantasy? It's some crazy martial arts doll nonsense and I've been loving every minute of it. Absolutely worth a watch.
I am! It's been fantastic so far, my only gripe with it is that Crunchyroll is using the Chinese names for the characters, which doesn't match up with the audio so I have no clue who anyone's name is and thus I just give them nicknames.
It's a weird choice but I like it for the extra flavour it gives. I also like that they kept the little character poem or w/e it's called in Chinese. The tradition is apparently to have a single actor speak all of the lines for all characters and they're just using that audio for the Japanese release.
This show is better written and more interesting than most shows and it has really given me a taste for more doll drama. It's just so refreshing.
Rosebuddy wrote: Is no one else following Thunderbolt Fantasy? It's some crazy martial arts doll nonsense and I've been loving every minute of it. Absolutely worth a watch.
I am! It's been fantastic so far, my only gripe with it is that Crunchyroll is using the Chinese names for the characters, which doesn't match up with the audio so I have no clue who anyone's name is and thus I just give them nicknames.
It's a weird choice but I like it for the extra flavour it gives. I also like that they kept the little character poem or w/e it's called in Chinese. The tradition is apparently to have a single actor speak all of the lines for all characters and they're just using that audio for the Japanese release.
This show is better written and more interesting than most shows and it has really given me a taste for more doll drama. It's just so refreshing.
I'll take more puppet wuxia shows. It's definitely an interesting excursion for the creator (Gen Urobuchi).
BrookM wrote: Just when I thought 91 Days couldn't get any grimmer, alas poor..
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Corteo
You thought that was bad, you should see the
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Other guy. Fango got it hard. You'd think he would expect someone to try to kill him, considering how cunning he normally is, but I guess he thought Corteo was that pathetic.
Never underestimate a man on the edge and close to snapping. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds, as they now got a lawless island without its boss smackdab in the middle of the city. Plus with the prohibition close to ending, the Vanetti family will need to look to a new source of income.
I can't help but feel that they are rushing things quite a bit though with the show, going through characters at quite a rate.
Though we still have the fourth trigger man to look forward to, plus the identity of the mysterious sender of the letter in the first place.
What I think will happen is that Subaru will respawn after the Whale's death, and he will try to work out how the possession works. I suspect it has something to do with that book.
What I think will happen is that Subaru will respawn after the Whale's death, and he will try to work out how the possession works. I suspect it has something to do with that book.
I concur with you.
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Either that or the Witches Scent - maybe the person has to have enough "Love" on them first?
Berserk was nice, Alderamin was quite.. painful and 91 Days really had me on the edge of my seat, the unveil at the end was quite surprising, can't wait until next week's episode now!
Yeh, Beserk and 91 days was hype. Alderamin is growing on me. I didn't like it at first, but I'm beginning to appreciate it. Also, holy gak, its not often
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you see a main character maim himself, with no chance of getting the body part back. That...escalated quickly
In other news, Taboo Tatoo is gak. Would drop, 10/10
CthuluIsSpy wrote: Alderamin is growing on me. I didn't like it at first, but I'm beginning to appreciate it.
Also, holy gak, its not often
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you see a main character maim himself, with no chance of getting the body part back. That...escalated quickly
Yeah, I
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fully expected the Chief to stop him, but no, he full on yubitsume'd himself.
It'd be great if the light novel got an English release cuz of the show (that seems to be happening a lot these days) but I feel it's too obscure for that to happen.
I was finally bullied into watching new game, seems to be mostly just another of the cute shows where nothing happens, but the premise and characters are good so far.
Also, apparently tsugumomo is going to be made into an anime. Should be interesting, as it's basically soft-core porn with a good story at this point.
Reading volume 8 in Sword art online light novels. This one has the story about supposed in-town player killing. First time differences between book and anime versions jumped out. Generally there's not been huge differences but in this time anime cut quite a lot out. Lots of background information, Heathcliff parts were completely cut down(including his funny wannabe Gandalf/Jedi/other mysterious guide-like hint toward final solution). Also good thing this story wasn't in 1st book or ending could have gotten "bit" spoiled for acute readers...
Then the encounter with laughing coffin was shortened a lot. Not even any mention that the trio contained leader of said guild. And Grimlock...In anime he just admitted what he did right off the bat. In book he tried to deny but got beaten by evidence forcing him to finally admit.
Quite surprised. There been small changes here and there before obviously but generally biggest change has been order of stories rather than story itself.
Good thing I read this. Made ending more sensible, answered question that had been bugging me(why werent' laughing coffin members charged with murder in real life after game was cleared...) and more scenes for Heathcliff. I like that guy!
Morning all... I hope this is the right place to post this - seems it...
My daughter is getting bang into anime and keeps asking me to suggest things for her to watch, but (I'm sorry!!) I've never been a huge anime fan so I am clueless...
I'm hoping y'all might be able to suggest some age appropriate anime movies/series that she could watch (she's 11)... She's watched Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa etc, so things in that vein would be ideal.
Archroy wrote: Morning all... I hope this is the right place to post this - seems it...
My daughter is getting bang into anime and keeps asking me to suggest things for her to watch, but (I'm sorry!!) I've never been a huge anime fan so I am clueless...
I'm hoping y'all might be able to suggest some age appropriate anime movies/series that she could watch (she's 11)... She's watched Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa etc, so things in that vein would be ideal.
Cheers!
Hard to know her preferences but let's see. I assume you have already covered entire Ghibli production since that would fit the bill?
I'm out of touch with new stuff so these might be tough to find...
Usagi drop
Hikaru no go(subject might not be of interest to her though)
Folktales from japan
Hanasaku Iroha ~Blossoms for Tomorrow~
k-on
Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica <- not quite yet I think but in few years could be. Bit dark story at times and has characters dying.
nichijo(every day life)
melancholy of suzumiya haruhi(maybe wait few years. rated pg13)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
toradora(pg13 though can't really understand why)
Co'tor Shas wrote: Just started sweetness & lightning. I was not expecting so many feeling in the first episode.
Just wait......
My watch list in order of priority;
Alderaminn the Sky - really like the vibe and the plot. Looking forward to the forshadowed match up between the "lazy" and "unsleeping" geniuses in the next episode.
Mob Psycho 100 - yeah I know this is turning into a bit of a One Punch Man clone, but I can't help but love the quiet, underestimated, underdog story line
Re:Zero - Got lots of issues with this show, but can't help but watch the latest episode as soon as it goes up
Fate/Kaleid Liner PRISMA ILLYA - magical girl with a twist and of course just a sucker for the whole Fate/ universe
New Game - so much slice of life.....
Sweetness and Lightening - so much feels
Qualidea Code
Taboo Tattoo
Food Wars! - Ep. 24 lost me a bit and kind of a let down after the conclusion of the Autumn Elections
Berserk - just hard to get through the CGI style
On the list to watch but haven't gotten to
91 Days
Orange
Co'tor Shas wrote: Just started sweetness & lightning. I was not expecting so many feeling in the first episode.
Just wait......
Just watched 7&8.
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My heart can't take too much more of this. The "I want mommy's" line really hit me.
Honestly, I'm not 100% it's on purpose, but the way they draw the dad's face makes me a bit emotional. It's really the eyes. More than anything, he looks like somebody who is tired from trying to keep everything going well, and himself going.
Just to clarify: Archroy, Lord of Deeds' list was NOT for you- some of those shows are very much not appropriate for most 11 year olds.
A lot of the Magical Girl shows would probably be appropriate, though- and though there's some catering to 'girl stuff', there's also a lot of good storytelling and action in them- as shown by the number of people here who watch/watched Sailor Moon. But avoid some of them- Utena, for one- Lyrical Nanoha's first season starts out sweet and light, but the series quickly gets very, very heavy and rather violent, so hold off on that one for a few years.
Cardcaptor Sakura should be a good one. Tenchi Muyo! and the others in that 'series' (a couple OVAs and some disconnected retellings- all good, though) are a little raunchy, but all in good fun. Same with Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura- the occasional boob shot (this is Japan, after all) but nothing too out there. Inuyasha gets violent at times, but is mostly a love story. One Piece has a lot of cartoon violence (and some actual violence as well, now that I think about it) but it's setting appropriate, and long enough that she'll be older before you get to the harder stuff. Same with Fairy Tale (from the same creator).
Lucky Star might be good, along with any other Moe anime- those tend to be 'school life drama' style.
I'd recommend Glass Reflections YouTube channel for good reviews of series- he's done a lot of them, so you might be able to find out more about some titles before recommending them to your daughter. One he reviewed was Squid Girl, which might be a good one.
Another place would be CrunchyRoll, if you don't use that already- anything in the Slice of Life, Sports or Comedy category should be alright.
OH! Ouran High Host Club is hilarious. She might like that one, and you might too.
I think the phrase "do your own research" fits well here. Different people will have different ideas of what is acceptable, as will different cultures. Pay attention to ratings, all that jazz.
Alfndrate wrote: I would not suggest Usagi Drop based on its ending, but that's just me
Are you refering to past 4th book? Is that even anime'ized?
Anime I watched ended basically Daikichi coming to grips with being father and deciding it's not sacrifice anymore. In 4th book last picture IIRC was pic of Rin smiling with missing front tooth.
I tried watching Arpeggio of Blue Steel due to it being featured in World of Warships...but oh man that was a cringeworthy helping of awkward ultranerd fanservice, and I say that as an affirmed ultranerd.
Anvildude wrote: Just to clarify: Archroy, Lord of Deeds' list was NOT for you- some of those shows are very much not appropriate for most 11 year olds.
Oh dear god yes please do not take my list as a recommendation for anyone under 16. Sorry for any confusion. Though some of the shows, e.g sweetness and lightening, would be appropriate.
As others have side, slice of life genre is full of shows that will probably be okay, such as New Game....but be careful as you probably know, fan service shows up in the darndest places and sometimes the slice of life shows venture into very adult subject matter (e.g. sex, alcohol, etc.)
Another good one that my kids when they were younger really liked was Mushi-shi
Your lie in April is a good recent one that I think would be good for tween/young teens.
Of course for any budding anime fan I think the Hayao Miyazaki films are a must watch, with Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Castle in the Sky being among my favorites.
As others of mentioned, crunchy roll is a great site to browse a variety of shows, filtering by genre and you can watch for free if you can put up with ads and on the simulcasts the broadcast delay.
Alfndrate wrote: You are correct. I was thinking of the manga ending. Proceed with that suggestion.
Well he was asking anime and not manga so as long as that's followed usagi drop is safe. Agreed on volumes 5-8. Weird ending. Should have ended on book 4.
If manga is also fine and not just anime yotsuba & is similar slice of life(and if I had to recommend manga for beginner japanese student would incidentally rank pretty high. Very easy to read japanese most of the time. Of course you can read it in english as welll. Just a sidenote)
But in anime form weirdest concept is idea of 70 odd guy having kindergarden daughter. If the 11 year old doesn't go nuts over that idea it's sweet slice of life anime. Scariest part would be the funeral in the first episode.
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Lord of Deeds wrote: As others of mentioned, crunchy roll is a great site to browse a variety of shows, filtering by genre and you can watch for free if you can put up with ads and on the simulcasts the broadcast delay.
Ads have come pretty ridiculous though. One episode I had like 4 times ads came up and in one of the 4 times same add repeated like 6 times IN A ROW. Sheesh.
I used to watch by crunchyroll and even was subscribed but this is turning me off. And no subscribing again isn't much of a solution because out of principle I'm on side that this won't make me feel like paying them. There's some sort of limit to reasonable adds and having same bible related finnish ad coming up 6 times in a row IS NOT reasonable. So I rather skip entire site.
Ads I can live with. I don't use adblock etc either. But there should be some sensibility in the amount of ads.
Vaktathi wrote: I tried watching Arpeggio of Blue Steel due to it being featured in World of Warships...but oh man that was a cringeworthy helping of awkward ultranerd fanservice, and I say that as an affirmed ultranerd.
I remember that show. Good OP. Not much else I can say.
What's interesting is that I don't use Adblock, but either my browsers or my antivirus automatically do that for those most annoying 'autoplay' ads anyways. I've not actively done anything to avoid ads (I'm all for paying for my stuff, even if it's in the form of watching an ad) but they've sort of... stopped showing up for me.
Anvildude wrote: What's interesting is that I don't use Adblock, but either my browsers or my antivirus automatically do that for those most annoying 'autoplay' ads anyways. I've not actively done anything to avoid ads (I'm all for paying for my stuff, even if it's in the form of watching an ad) but they've sort of... stopped showing up for me.
It could be because some ads were used to deliver malware.
If you want a good family show that everyone can genuinely enjoy, I recommend Dennou Coil. It's like if Studio Ghibli did cyberpunk. It's also absolutely hilarious at times.
You've got a group of kids enjoying the new trend of a kind of internet overlaid over everything and visible through special goggles and generally messing with bugs, finding lost virtual pets and being at the forefront of a world that most of the older generations don't pay much mind to. Obviously they stumble into stranger things but one of the great things about the show is that the level of danger they're actually in is very appropriate. The authorities can mess with their toys but aren't going to hurt anyone. So go find that and give it a go.
Eureka7 is also very good and an excellent robot action show. Great soundtrack, too. Maybe slightly more young adult than tween but it's worth checking out.
For something that's on the more wholesome end of the scale, Kimi ni Todoke is pretty much the best shoujo highschool romance/drama show. It's about a gloomy girl who slowly gains friends and opens up as she starts her first year of high school. It's the most extremely innocent thing I've watched. The main character is the very definition of "pure-hearted" and the rest of the cast are all nice people.
So those are three very different recommendations that I believe will work for an 11-year-old girl. This is without getting into old classics like Revolutionary Girl Utena or newer, niche comedies like Astro Fighter Sunred.
Oh man, Eureka 7 is amazing. And it's pretty much the definition of bildungsroman, or Coming-of-Age story. It's got heavy themes to it, but I think it's probably perfect for that age. Male protagonist with a female love-interest/co-protagonist, and a very characterful supporting cast.
So for anyone into like serious character studies and organized crime drama stuff during Prohibition, and some great animation (even if the setting is relatively mundane), 91 Days is a pretty spectacular show.
So I read the berserk manga. Its pretty good, and there's a lot of arcs that haven't been animated. Though that may be because said arcs are pretty gorey and disturbing. The thing I noticed about the manga series is that it (slightly) becomes less grim later on, though there is still a feeling that things might go wrong any moment
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Does anyone else think that Griffith is going to sacrifice the population of his new city to acquire even more power? I mean, he is a Godhand now, and those guys are donkey-caves. I really hope not, because I happen to like Luca :( I keep having this feeling that at the end of one of the chapters it will show a bird eye's view of Falconia, and it reveals that the city plan looks like a Brand of Sacrifice
The thing with Berserk's manga is that we're still really on the early end of the timeline. Back in the 90s there was a 27 episode series of the Golden Age arc, which spanned like 11 volumes. Then the company doing the anime came out with 3 movies that covered the Golden Age arc. This 12 episode aeries is the first that has gone into the Black Swordsman arc. They did skip the lost children arc, but that doesn't do much for the grand scheme of the story.
Well I finally got around to watching Episode 25 of RE: Zero and all I can say is that I pray for another season. It was such a wonderful and romantic series and Subaru was such a relatable character that I am still in semi denial that it is over. What is more I am curious about the rest of the world, and what will happen to the other characters. How will the election competition go? Who will be crowned? What will happen to Rom and Felt? What angered Priscillia, and why did she react in such a way? How is the Witch related to all of this?
We need a second season.
master of ordinance wrote: Well I finally got around to watching Episode 25 of RE: Zero and all I can say is that I pray for another season. It was such a wonderful and romantic series and Subaru was such a relatable character that I am still in semi denial that it is over. What is more I am curious about the rest of the world, and what will happen to the other characters. How will the election competition go? Who will be crowned? What will happen to Rom and Felt? What angered Priscillia, and why did she react in such a way? How is the Witch related to all of this?
We need a second season.
Indeed! There are still so many questions to answer and stories to finish. I really hope this doesn't leave us hanging like NGNL.
master of ordinance wrote: Well I finally got around to watching Episode 25 of RE: Zero and all I can say is that I pray for another season. It was such a wonderful and romantic series and Subaru was such a relatable character that I am still in semi denial that it is over. What is more I am curious about the rest of the world, and what will happen to the other characters. How will the election competition go? Who will be crowned? What will happen to Rom and Felt? What angered Priscillia, and why did she react in such a way? How is the Witch related to all of this? We need a second season.
Indeed! There are still so many questions to answer and stories to finish. I really hope this doesn't leave us hanging like NGNL.
There might be a second season as its apparently super popular in Japan. There's still material in the novels that haven't been adapted, so its not as if the story is finished. For example
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Judging by what I gleamed from the internet, Subaru is supposed to acquire Beetleguise's Unseen Hand at some point, albeit a much weaker version. As opposed to the Archbishop, who can manifest hundreds of hands, Subaru can only use one
Another question I would like to ask is what happened to Elsa Granheart, and who was she working for?
(Elsa is the Bowel Hunter we see in the first few episodes of RE: Zero, and by far the best girl in the series)
Yep Re:Zero needs another season (or two) to go into all those plot threads it started which was great if you could be confident that there would be more seasons, but definitely left me feeling a bit unsatisfied with where the season left off.
Qualidea Code's finale was okay, I guess. They tried throwing in their own slight twist, but I think this will end up a forgettable series as nothing about it was really innovative be it design, story, characters, etc.
Fate/kaleid Liner PRISMA/ILLYA - meh is all I can really say about this most recent season with the finale seemingly very business like. However the show is becoming stale despite really enjoying the setting.
Also I'm thrilled they are going to continue Berserk. Not a fan of the animation technique they chose to go with, but aside from that I enjoyed this new season, even if not quite as much as the original series.
So the new season has begun. So far I've only seen the Wagnaria spinoff, but it was pretty fun. Not a copy/paste of the original, and it's own take on stuff is enough to keep me interested for now.
I've also hopped onto the 91 Days train. As a historian it was pretty much inevitable. I'm only one episode in, but definitely looks to be a fun ride.
Yes. Super excited for RWBY season 4! I saw the revealed time skip character designs awhile ago, and generally liked the changes myself. Ruby seems to have gotten a lot better with her semblance too.
Co'tor Shas wrote: Watched the first episode of Flip Flappers. I have no idea what is happening, but I love it. Great art style.
Yuri is happening, from what I can tell...
Also I sit next to an anime fan at work and this morning I asked him "Hey, do you want to watch the gripping sports anime Yuri on Ice?" he looks as me sarcastically, "Oh yeah, what's that about?" I deadpan and go "Yaoi." He nearly spit out his monster. Well worth it, even if I never see the show. Which I probably will, I think sports anime have become my guilty pleasure, as long as the sports is still some part of the focus.
Iron Blooded Orphans has me excited, and in non anime news. The first episode of Kamen Rider Ex-Aid wasn't terrible and the music was pretty good, I'll probably watch it until I get bored.
Second episode of Flip Flappers was great. A bit less of just catching you and more establishing this episode. It's reminding me a lot of humanity has declined, with the art-style and color scheme.
Co'tor Shas wrote: Second episode of Flip Flappers was great. A bit less of just catching you and more establishing this episode. It's reminding me a lot of humanity has declined, with the art-style and color scheme.
This season of anime offerings is quite nice, much better than the last one IMHO!
Nobunaga no Shinobi
All Out!!
Drifters
Bloodivores
Long Riders!
Shuumatsu no Izetta
WWW.Working!!
3-gatsu no Lion
Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari
Tiger Mask W
Mobile Suit Gundam – Iron-Blooded Orphans
Ao Oni The Animation
Only downside is, most of this isn't available until the end of the week.
Great characters so far, Scipio and Hannibal in particular are great together, if they're not fighting, they're making bad ass boasts. Though Butch and Sundance are also awesome, though I do hope they keep on getting bullets, because having a pair of bad ass outlaws who rely on guns not being able to shoot would be lame.
This show, despite very lacking in the character design (I mean, the artist really needs to work on new character designs! ), is going to be so awesome. I can't wait for the Sacred Band of Thebes to show up.
Co'tor Shas wrote: Second episode of Flip Flappers was great. A bit less of just catching you and more establishing this episode. It's reminding me a lot of humanity has declined, with the art-style and color scheme.
3rd ep delivers in spades, tho, with its mixture of fist of the north star, DBZ, fury road and wailing electric guitars. And then it gets crazy for real with the miniature sorceress bathing in a fountain of bondage lesbians. Hopefully this show will go 100% ape.
Co'tor Shas wrote: Flip Flappers really is all over the place. The only consistent tone is strangeness, it's wonderful.
And the ED it great.
Flip Flap, Flip Flap~
Flip Flappers is the show I most look forward to each week this season.
I'm still getting used to that.
Although now that Funi's dubs are coming out, I'm liking Izetta and 91 Days (which I knew I would. Master's in History and all that.)
now if only Drifters and Kiss Him, Not Me would dub (I don't have anything against subs, but since dubs are coming out I'd rather not watch the show in both. Although I did that with Snow White with Red Hair. And Girls und Panzer.)
Speaking of Girls und Panzer, seriously considering going to the movie release. Just need the money and someone to go with so it won't be weird.
Don't know about the rest of you, being past the halfway point of the current, getting pretty frustrated with the pacing on a lot of the shows this season. One show that comes to mind is Bloodivores. Also Izetta is either going to come to a very frantic (and possibly sloppy) end or this has definitely been written with a 24 episodes in mind given the plot developments and the new character introduced in the last episode. Still one of my favorite shows this season.
Just to run down my current watch list (not presented in any particular order);
Sound! Euphonium - enthusiasm for this show as waned. Did it peek to early?
Bloddivores - see comments above. Really hoping this show moves towards something
Bungo Stray Dogs - Other than the power creep that just seems to be inevitable with this show and of course the you knew it was going to happen plot development with the Port Mafia and the Agency, still enjoying this show and its creativity in how the various powers work and interact. Have done a really good job of keeping you interested and wanting more of each character.
Izetta: The Last Witch - probably my favorite of the season so far. Love the setting, the animation style, but really concerned about the pacing and how they are going to finish off the last 4 shows of the season
Magical Girl Raising Project - a bit of a guilty pleasure, Pon. Kind of like how they have taken typical magical girl and turned into this dark kill or be killed story
Brave Witches - meh....watch it when I don't have anything else to watch
Drifters - hmmmm overtones of Hellsing are everywhere and being familar with the manga, kind know where this is going so struggling with the show at the moment.
All Out! - somewhat meh, but kind of want to see where this goes
March comes in like a lion - another one of my favs of the season and easily the top slice of life show of the season. Love the animation style and the character designs.
ClassicaLoid - not sure why I am watching this. I keep expecting something to happen, but it doesn't.
Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans - Anyone else rooting for McGillis? Seriously, some of the best story writing in a Gundam show in quite sometime iMHO, but it seems to be missing something that I can't put my finger on yet......
Anything standing out for any of you this season or are you already looking forward to next season?
Hibike! Euphonium S2 - I love this show, not sure why, but it's pleasant.
Drifters - May drop it as I've gone and read the manga instead, which I've found.. okay so far.
Long Riders! - I'm not a cyclist, but I still enjoy this one a lot.
WWW.Working!! - One of my two personal favourites of this season.
Shuumatsu no Izetta - Ehhhhhh, not sure if I'm going to hold onto this one.
3-gatsu no Lion - My other personal favourite for this season!
Tiger Mask W - May drop this one as well, the main character is a bit too much of a Larry Stu.
Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari - Another slice of life show that I'm really enjoying.
Mobile Suit Gundam – Iron-Blooded Orphans - I'm saving this one up for when I'm bored, so I can binge watch it all in one go.
I find myself more and more drawn towards slice of life shows, WTF?
Finally started Flip Flappers since most of my other shows had the week off for the holidays. Five episodes in and it's certainly an odd one but a good one so far. Probably better than most of the other stuff I've been watching this season.
So the current season is winding down. Any finale's anyone is looking forward to or maybe dreading?
For me I am dreading a bit the end of Bungo Stray Dogs. Some of the story writing seem's to have gotten lazy the last couple of episodes and they seem to be mailing it in a bit.
I am not sure what plot device will be used to wrap up "March comes in like a Lion".
And what I was afraid would happen to Izetta did, and the plot has had to move along at light speed to bring it to final(?) conflict. Still love the animation and setting.
I have given up for now on the other shows I was watching and will binge them when I have nothing better to do.
I am excited for the endings of Jojo's Part 4, Keijo!!!!!!!!, and Yuri on Ice. It's been kind of a quiet anime season for me. Been feeling sort of burnt out, so I've been watching random shows on Netflix instead of anime.
Well Little Witch Academia is getting a full show, and Interviews with Demi-Humans is getting an adaptation (the manga is quite good, very cute), so I'll definitely be watching those. As is Miss Kobayashi Dragon Maid, which is by the same guy who wrote the I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying manga. Other than that nothing has really caught my eye.
Fuuka is an okay series about a bunch of late teens starting a band. The manga has an odd twist very early on that affects the rest of the story. I've been reading it, so I'll check out the manga.
Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu was very good, and the second season hopefully builds upon the first.
Yowamushi Pedal third season will probably be okay. The series isn't spectacular, but I miss that god awful singing they do.
More Iron Blooded Orphans and Little Witch is always good. I'll probably pick something else up that might pique my interests.
Or take a break and burn through some of my physical discs/more gundam shows I haven't seen.
Alfndrate wrote: Fuuka is an okay series about a bunch of late teens starting a band. The manga has an odd twist very early on that affects the rest of the story. I've been reading it, so I'll check out the manga.
I saw this was getting an anime, and just nope. All the nope. You can't make a sequel series, get us all hopeful, and then drop a bus on us like that!
Alfndrate wrote: Fuuka is an okay series about a bunch of late teens starting a band. The manga has an odd twist very early on that affects the rest of the story. I've been reading it, so I'll check out the manga.
I saw this was getting an anime, and just nope. All the nope. You can't make a sequel series, get us all hopeful, and then drop a bus on us like that!
shows I may have a gander at (low expectations for most, though little witch looks alright)
ACCA
Chain Chronicle
Akibas trip
youjo senki
chaos child
little witch academia
The two previous showings of Little Witch have been quite good so my hopes for that one are high. For Exorcist, are they doing another season or what's the deal there?
