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Ahahaah.

I can't like Arpeggio of the Blue Steel more. If it becomes a harem on top of an intense naval combat sci fi epic with comedic elements I am going to die happy.

The weird part of Arpeggio is that the male lead is... dull. No really. The human characters in this series (save one) are duller than dirt. There is no harem romance I'm afraid :( The majority of the plot certainly focuses on the Blue Steel members but Takao, Haruna, Musashi, 400 and 402 and the rest of the Fleet of Fog characters (included the recently introduced Bismark and Hood) are all infinitely more interesting to watch and are frankly, doing cooler things than palling around with Gonzou... Well not Takao. She's got that whole tsundere thing going on.

Now the manga is slow going but I won't be shocked to see Blue Steel eventually expand to include Takao, Haruna, Maya, 400-402, and Kirishima... assuming that last one ever solves the whole being blow to bits thing. At least for the moment though it definitely not a harem. Most of the Fleet of Fog characters only know Gonzou by name 2 years into the series (though Yamato does seem to have an interest beyond the usual) and have their own subplots. EDIT: Oh and the last chapter? Introduced a freaking carrier!

Thanks guys, for making me check yet another anime. I didn't have enough already /sarcasm

Well, Tokyo Ravens was one I didn't give much after the first 2 episodes, but now I say I'm pleasantly surprised where this is headed. I blame it on Kon. I can't believe how much one character can make me love a show so much more

That image is from Tokyo Ravens? Cause I'm watching that.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
That image is from Tokyo Ravens? Cause I'm watching that.

Yep, it's the new character. Tokyo Raven's "preview of the next episode" has always been a countdown about "how much time until her appearance", and damn, was it worth it!

She's wagging! Ooooh and lookit her ears!



and now a brief reminder to practice safe sexin.



Don't be a fool. Don't stare at girls.

I am ridiculously psyched up for the new Hellsing abridged episode - I've been looking forward to Halloween for months now!

I might give Kill la kill a try - where do you guys watch it?

Crunchy Roll for Kill La Kill

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
I am ridiculously psyched up for the new Hellsing abridged episode - I've been looking forward to Halloween for months now!

I might give Kill la kill a try - where do you guys watch it?

I usually download my episodes from http://horriblesubs.info/

But there's lots of animes I have been watching through streaming at http://anilinkz.com/

Cheers, It seems pretty interesting from the wiki, and what I've heard here

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
I am ridiculously psyched up for the new Hellsing abridged episode - I've been looking forward to Halloween for months now!

I might give Kill la kill a try - where do you guys watch it?

I too am super psyched for that episode. I didn't even realize TFS had been doing that until a couple months ago, despite following DBZ:A for years. Those 3 episodes were some of the best comedic material I've seen from any abridged series ever.

I tend to watch most stuff through anime-sub. Only time I don't is if a new episode just came out and there's some delay for some reason.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Ahahaah.

I can't like Arpeggio of the Blue Steel more. If it becomes a harem on top of an intense naval combat sci fi epic with comedic elements I am going to die happy.

I am really liking this anime as well. The ship combat can get pretty intense and the female battleships are unique and interesting.

I really, really, really want to like Coppelion, but the damn anime is making it so hard. This last episode had so much bullsh*t, it has to be a new record, not to mention how one main character still remains useless.

Well, Higurashi is a true winner for me. For the first time in my life I saw something so bad in an anime that made me enter in a true "NOPE, NOPE, NOPE, NOPE" mode.

Yeah, I didn't even bother to watch Copperlion this week. Glad to see you affirm my decision was wise.


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Oh, but it did watch thru all of Infinite Stratos. It's alright.

I do think the music's suffered as we hit season 2, that's really my only gripe except S2E1 being weak.

Regarding Infinite Stratos...

Char is the best of the harem!

I don't think Captain Char/Lieutenant Quattro would find that very flattering.

Indeed. She's the only one not constantly trying to kill him. Definitely a plus when it comes to girlfriend material.

Which is ironic, considering that almost the entire Zabi Dynasty was wiped out by Char's machinations. The only reason Mineva was spared was probably because Char considered her a mirror of himself.

 AduroT wrote:
Indeed. She's the only one not constantly trying to kill him. Definitely a plus when it comes to girlfriend material.

Cute, kind, not a murderous psychopath.... I mean if that's not chemistry what is? They also do the battle couple thing better then the rest of the main cast.


I'll ship it! All hands to the rails!

I think Houki has the best chance of winning in the end, what with the "First Girl wins" trope generally being in full effect in anime.

I kind of hope they avert it for the sake of averting it.

I'm kind of rooting for them to throw a curveball like SHUFFLE! and not go with Houki.

I'm not really in anyone's camp, I guess, but Tatenashi fits pretty well. She probably doesn't have strong feelings at this point in the anime, but I imagine if she developed them, she'd be the only one to directly make something come of it. While the rest run around passively AGGRESSIVELY competing for him, she'll likely just throw him against a wall and take what she wants.

I was kind of in Laura's camp because of that in season 1, but she's really sort of lost some of the edge in her personality.

I'm cool with a Shuffle Change up... provided they skip the yandere. However Houki's made the most progress so far, so she will probably win eventually. Seito Kaicho certainly seems to be leading aggressively, and Ran might make things interesting when she finally shows up at school.

What's funny is that Cecilia, if she hadn't gone all 'delicate violette' when she fell for him, would have seriously given Charl a run for her money. But you know what they say about a Perfect World.

And honestly, Charl is the character that is kinda the best friend of Ichika. They can hang out and talk about stuff more, whereas the other girls would almost inevitably try to hatch some sort of 'get him to promise to go out with me' scheme. Not that Charl doesn't do that, but hers are fewer, with normal hanging out in between.

Which is why she's (Charl) the superior romantic option in a sane world.

I don't disagree that Charl is a good option, but she's too nice. The way anime works, you need some Yandere to win against a cast full of Yanderes, and I'm not sure Charl is pushy enough to get to the forefront.

- Cecilia, I feel, fell off somewhere around the middle of season 1.
- Laura got the edge taken off of her, from a strong independent woman to sort of a softer personality, which is gonna hurt her. She still calls Ichika her "bride" but it's more of a joke than her truly laying claim to him anymore.
- Lingyin, I feel like, is sort of in little sister territory.
- Charl, as I mentioned, is probably too nice. If she was more assertive she'd probably win, but she's too nice, both to Ichika and her competitors.

Houki gets to stick around because of first girl wins principle.

But hey, anime writers have thrown curveballs before, so maybe one of the ones who seem to have fallen back into the peloton of the harem will pull back ahead.

She is a char? She isn't related to James Hetfield by any chance, is she?

For any of you who actually understood that, I am so, so sorry.

I don't know what's with new characters this week but man, oh man, the new Kill la Kill's one is AWESOME

My God-Emperor, I never, ever, thought about one day seeing a sewing machine gun. SEWING MACHINE GUN. I love Kill la Kill so damn much

Last episode, we find out he's gay. That's why he was so interested in helping out Charles.

 AduroT wrote:
Last episode, we find out he's gay. That's why he was so interested in helping out Charles.

I mean, that's always one of the prevailing theories about harem animes, that the protagonist is so indifferent to all these hot chicks hitting on him because he's not heterosexual. Right until the end, of course.

School Days is a "fun" deconstruction of the concept, and for that reason I feel it's great.

I sometimes like to think that harem anime protagonists actually are 4th wall breaking beings, namely they understand they're in an anime an act accordingly, following all the rules of anime that are set out before them, and their waffling is them making sure they follow all said rules. After all, if they pick one girl, then the rest might bail, and then when they fight the final big bad they won't be able to unite with the power of friendship to win because half his harem walked out mid way through the season.