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Topic Started: Jan 7 2012, 01:00 AM (10,892 Views)
LightningBolt
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Definitely watching:
Diamond is Unbreakable
Flying Witch
Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto
Joker Game
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Kyoukai no Rinne
My Hero Academia
The Asterisk War (because I hate myself)

Maybe:
Bungou Stray Dogs
Kiznaiver
Kuma Miko
Macross Delta

Funimation has announced only one simulcast to the best of my knowledge and the first shows start airing in a few hours. Kinda strange, but there are plenty of titles still out there I suppose.
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So against my better judgment (read: after Dota night was done and everyone had gone to bed) I got talked into just trying one anime and decided to pick a random one from the front page of Crunchyroll. The least offending-looking one was called Konosuba and it looked short enough so fuck it. When I learned the studio behind it was studio DEEN, I didn’t know if it was the best one to start with. A couple friends of mine do nothing all night but shit on the quality of their work, talking about how it ruined their 7th expansion of visual novel eroges or whatever, so I didn’t know if this was going to be worth my attention, but I gave it a shot anyway, and I gotta say, what a fucking anime.

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At first Konosuba didn’t seem like it was going to be much, I mean for a good few scenes we had the blue haired god girl constantly sticking her ass into the screen and a lotta weird shit with the blonde knight girl panting every time something bad happens to her which I guess is a cultural thing for Japan but holy shit everything else, man. Every time the explosion girl showed up I fucking knew I was going to love it. She’s such a good character - I’d go so far as to say she was the best of all of them, with the thief girl as a runner-up. Real shame about thief girl only really getting like two scenes... I was hoping she’d be the 5th party member after the blonde one, but I guess I can’t complain with the results.

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Every time the show looked like it was going to do a cliché trope, it always threw a curveball at me. Like with episode 5, I thought for sure the explosion girl was finally going to have to realize there’s more to being a wizard than blowing shit, but they solve it with the “why not just use the giant fucking Macguffin you’ve been ignoring?” everyone asks themselves every damn time this shit comes in and continue on with their daily lives. Normally this sounds like bad writing but the way Konosuba pulls it off, it’s timed perfectly and is very entertaining.

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The episode that I would rank the highest would have to be episode 9, every second of this episode I was thinking to myself, "Wow, what a Grade A piece of Japanese animation." It truly changed my whole view of the country and the culture as a whole. And such a wonderful moral too, “There is always something that is worth fighting for.” Before, I’d say “I’m the best” and sock the guy in the face, but now I say “I’m the best” and sock the guy in the face for those I hold dear. Because of this episode I now understand the true meaning of "friendship".

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Overall this show is some grade A premium weebshit. I’m still not sure why anyone would buy those toys and all the crap the MC had in his room at the beginning but whatever. Maybe the next anime I pick up will be able to shed some light as to why.
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>next anime

RIP oli
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Best april fools joke of the day thus far. I lol'd the whole way through
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Amazing post. All dem references mayne, and the Jojo pic is one I don't think I'll ever be able to see without laughing. I think the only thing that could have made it better would have been a "people die if they are killed" reference.

Also lmao @ calling Konosuba episode 9 "a grade A piece of Japanese animation".

Anyway, an actual srs anime thread post. Winter season thoughts.


i shouldn't be allowed to write this many words about chinese cartoons

it literally was too long for one post

Thanks to based Laddie for attempting to fix this very obvious shortcoming, though. (Maybe it's a paid feature.)


I could have wrote about Sekko Boys/Galko-chan but they're shorts. You'll know if you like them in 8-16 minutes. It's also hard for me to think of much beyond "they're funny". Not much story/character development to either and those are the things I look at the hardest. I'd go 6 or 7/10 for each of these idfk. It doesn't really matter, so I'll probably go 7. I'd like to see another cour of both of these.

This season was stacked though. Erased and Showa Genroku were incredible shows, Lupin and Osomatsu were right below them, there was some second tier stuff that I would have put in first tier in any other season (Aokana, Schwarzesmarken, Grimgar, Phantom World), and some stuff came out of nowhere for me (Aokana again, Norn9). I still kept up with some meh stuff (because I hate myself? sunken cost fallacy? idk), but I feel confident in saying this season is the best one I've watched yet.


Continuations:


Osomatsu-San


Snow White With the Red Hair


Gate


Utawarerumono: The False Faces


Durarara



Originals:

Dimension W


Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash


Schwarzesmarken
Edited by Romanticide, Apr 1 2016, 09:25 PM.
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Part two, because apparently 50k characters is supposed to be "enough".

Moar originals:


Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue


Haruchika - Haruta & Chika


Myriad Colors Phantom World


Konosuba


Erased


Norn9


Lupin the 3rd Part Four


Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju


Dagashi Kashi


Pandora in the Crimson Shell
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The Ace Attorney animation is terribly meh. If I weren't so invested in this series, I'd drop it after episode 1, because it makes Studio Fucking DEEN look like Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci or some such.

The plot seems intact, but even the Wii ports of the original games look better than this shite. I don't know how to put it. Even Konosuba looked better than this shit, and I'm fucking drunk right now.

I'll probably still watch this because I hate myself, life, the universe, and everything, but if it stays this bad, I won't enjoy it. There are so many pivotal moments even in a season one that could easily be ruined with meh animation/meh pacing. This first episode didn't even make the tutorial case interesting. The tutorial case is always pretty easy, but because the game has more time, there's more development of that case/the criminal's motives.

I hate myself and this was utter shite. I'll probably watch again next week to see if it gets better.

Also press f to pay respects to Mia.
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Early Spring impressions because wynaut. I've watched pretty much everything I plan on trying out. Might watch Wagamama High, if only because Sekai Project is doing the VN, but I think I've tried everything else I want to.


Joker Game/Kabaneri/Kiznavier/Bungo Stray Dogs should be the obvious "top tier" of the season, barring a dip in quality. Each of these series had a pretty good debut episode, and every one of these had at least one incredible shot, with Joker Game being the best of the bunch IMO. I don't know if I'd recommend them without reservation yet because that's always hard to do after one week, but I enjoyed them all. I'll be sticking with this group of shows through the season; I'm interested to see where they all go.

Dat Kabaneri artstyle tho. Wit Studio did it again. Hell, this might be their best artwork yet (that I've seen, anyway). I'm still upset that's on Amazon Prime, along with the other Noitamina stuff. It might not always be great, but it sure as shit is different from the usual fare, and that's the kind of stuff I like to support on the legal streaming sites. No anime is worth $80/year, so I'll be using the illegal sites for this one.

Crunchyroll has been promoting Kiznavier like they're its pimp, and other hyped series have disappointed me, so I'm a bit reticent to say it's going to be great. Sure, I looked forward to it, but at this point that's more because Mari Okada wrote it and less because Trigger is making it. Trigger hasn't made shit to write home about since KLK. Episode one was good and all, but I'd wait at least a week or two and see how the series is going then before picking it up.


Jojo is Jojo, what can I say? It's still as good as it ever was, and I have high hopes for this part given the things I've heard about it. So far, it's lived up to the hype. The new artstyle might not be as "realistic" as that of past parts, but it definitely feels more unique and there have still been some great shots. I love the look thus far.

On that note, Rinne is also Rinne, but I don't expect it to do anything new. It might introduce new main characters, but I expect it to be more of Rinne and company trying to capture spirits and other hijinks. It's comfort food in that sense; I always know what to expect and that's a good thing for the most part. Show could benefit from a serious (by its standards) story arc, but beyond that it's good as is.


Haifuri was not what I expected. I expected cute girls and ships because, well, that art and the premise, but I didn't expect the plot twist at the end of episode one. This might be a bit more serious than I gave it credit for, which I don't mind in the least. I like my moe trash, but I also appreciate some substance to it, y'know? I'm almost definitely sticking with this one though; it's cute and it might be legitimately good to boot.


Space Patrol Luluco is good fun. Episode 2 was a bit too serious for my tastes, especially in an eight minute short that I'm watching because, one, Trigger, and two, because I expect batshit insanity most every week. I guess they had to introduce this Alpha Omega Nova guy to us though, and Luluco practically falling in love with him after watching him shoot a guy was fucking hilarious.


God Eater episode 10 was incredible. Matter of fact, I'd recommend watching the show for this episode alone. It was that good. You'd be sitting though 6-7 episodes that are "just there", and 1-2 legitimately good episodes (the one or two involving Vajra), but I'd still say it's worth. It was an amazing episode and I wouldn't hesitate to put it up against last season's best stuff. The ending is just... I dunno. I don't want to spoil it, but damn, I didn't expect something this "gritty" to be so moving.

Also, dem ufotable production values. You should know how good those are by now.


Endride/Re:Zero felt like they were meh after the first episode, but the second episode of both shows was better. Endride did absolutely nothing with ep one besides look pretty, but episode two set the stage for the rest of the show and established Alicia's character a little bit, which by default makes her the best character because the male leads are both kind of annoying. Re:Zero's jokes in part one went over like a lead balloon, but the drama in part two was more to my liking, and it established this as a more serious setting in spite of the cringe-worthy "humor". Of course, I wasn't in the best of moods when watching Re:Zero, so that might factor into how I felt about the humor. I'll watch the "second episode", as it were, tomorrow and decide if I want to stick with it, but as of now it's looking like something I can stay with.


I'll probably give Hundred at least through tomorrow's episode. If the fight is bad, I might just straight up drop it. Life is too short for a magical high school show with bad fighting. It's also pretty obvious already that Emile is a girl and she loves the MC. Being a silly progressive, I was hoping that Emile was really a guy and that he had fallen in love with MC, but I should know better. It's easier to write Emile as a girl, if only for the shitty heterosexual romance story and otaku/merch sales.


Kuma Miko is super cute. It's probably not going to be great, but it should be a fun watch every week. The interactions between Natsu and Machi are going to be what drives this show, but even outside of that the rest of the cast is pretty damn funny too. See: the girl screaming "SEXUAL HARASSMENT" after Yoshio's story, and Yoshio trying to get his drunk friend to stop fishing.

Bakuon and Sakamoto also fall into this category of "likely not great, but should be fun watches". Sakamoto more so because the MC seems like a Mary Stu and almost everyone likes him for being so cool/stylish (this is also why his haters hate), but he just seems to want to live a normal, everyday life. Bakuon was pretty fun itself, though. The part where the MC's bike is talking about men was the highlight of the episode for me, though the ending part where it went into blond girl's loyalty to Suzuki bikes was pretty fun itself.


The new Gundam was watchable. I'd continue this series, but it doesn't sound like this is a good starting point for Gundam and I want to cut back to 10-13 shows this season anyway. I'm sure guides are out there for getting into the Gundam universe, so I'd probably go by one of those and start wherever they recommend.


If anything is feeling like a clear drop, it's probably The Lost Village. A thirty character cast with few to no characters I care about, the first eight or so minutes of episode two focusing on MC (who I already fucking hate btw) falling for girls too easily, and these idiots wanting to live out some fucking libertarian fantasy all adds up to a drop. I imagine they're going to start killing cast members off because it'd be almost impossible for anything to make viewers care about such a large cast in ~12 episodes, and it kinda feels like it'll turn into some sort of horror show, but it won't do anything for me if I don't come to care about the survivors. The writers have tried to introduce everyone, but there's nothing to latch onto yet and I really doubt there will be.

I like the atmosphere of the show, but it's bogged down by stupid shit. Cutting the cast in half and making less of them idealists who want to run off and live out some shitty ass Ayn Rand novel would make the show infinitely more watchable.


And yeah I'm not watching Ace Attorney sober. I did that this week and it just confirmed the show looks cheaper than a three dollar hooker, which pisses me off. This IP deserves better. I also feel like a fair bit of the humor is lost. Sure, there are some chuckle-worthy scenes, but because this series will have to streamline everything, probably at the expense of investigations, it won't be as funny as it can and should be.

It's going to be a drunk hatewatch, but I've already written drunk thoughts. I guess that's fitting.


EDIT: I totally forgot My Hero Academia. I don't know how? The artstyle isn't to my tastes, but it's quite clearly well animated. I wasn't a fan of the giant lady, whatever her name was (obvious fanservice was way too obvious and not very funny despite them playing it for laughs), but outside of that it was better than I expected it to be. Then again, given that I expect most superhero stuff to suck hard, that's probably not saying much. I'll watch at least this week's before I decide if I stay with it or not. I probably need MC to grab my attention in some way though. Why should I care about some milquetoast that wants to become a superhero?


Fuck me I mentioned 19 shows. Not that I count God Eater as "this season" because it'll only have 3 more eps, so 18 shows rly. Way too many, and I wasn't planning on watching some of these, but there was nothing better to do on the days they came out. So I tried them because I hate myself.
Edited by Romanticide, Apr 11 2016, 08:09 AM.
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Hey weebz http://www.avclub.com/article/scarlett-johansson-ghost-shell-looks-about-youd-ex-235299
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http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/9/11612530/ghost-in-the-shell-anime-asian-representation-hollywood

Not that the world needs another taek on the GitS movie, but this is probably the best one I've read.

It might turn out to be a good action movie. It probably won't turn out to be a good Ghost in the Shell movie. While I did enjoy the action aspects of the series, they aren't the best parts of it. If there's an equivalent to how I feel about this adaptation, it'd be the Bourne movies. I can kind of turn off and watch them as action movies because they are enjoyable in that context, but they have never captured the essence of the novels to me. Even then I'd be like "the books were better", because the first three (arguably four) were. We don't talk about books post-four; they're universally bad and the movies are better than that tripe.

Given that this is by a former Grantlander: I miss Grantland. The Ringer can't get here soon enough, even if Simmons is becoming more insufferable by the day.
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A Little Witch Academia anime was confirmed. Yeahhhhhh boy.
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Spending my 4th posting about weeb cartoons. My #priorities are in order.

This season was a hard one to care about. There were a few obvious upper tier shows, if not exactly "top tier" shows, which I kept up with, but I felt this season didn't have much depth. There are a few of those "not the best, but still worth watching" (Kuma Miko, Sakamoto, etc) sorts of shows, but I didn't feel particularly motivated to watch them most days. Still not caught up on some of those shows, and I think my write-up would basically amount to "it's funny", with some mention of Bakuon's incredibly stupid fanservice, so I'll refrain from writing about them. Something like My Hero Academia is good according to most everyone, but it's also not really my thing and was more of a de facto drop than a "this is bad" drop.

This season can be summed up with "Fire Emblem Fates was better", and Fates has a worse story than every anime with a story this season. But that's a pretty boring post.

I'll try and watch Flying Witch soon-ish. Don't know if that will be this week, necessarily.

Winter spoiled me. Hopefully summer is better.


Continuing:


Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable



New:

Re:Zero


Joker Game


Bungo Stray Dogs


Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress


Haifuri


Kiznaiver



Also next season stuff I'll... try and watch, anyway... because I don't want to double post.

Continuing:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Re:Zero
Food Wars
Rinne
Arslan Senki
Ace Attorney (*sigh*)

Also have to catch up on Dragon Ball Super sometime. Heard it's getting better, which surprises me.

New:
Orange
ReLife
Sweetness and Lightning
91 Days
The Morose Mononokean
Rewrite
Handa-kun
Tales of Zestiria
Planetarian
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Jul 4 2016, 11:44 PM

Continuing:


Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable






Read the mango tho.
Edited by failureatlife, Aug 11 2016, 10:01 AM.
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Summer thoughts will come... When I feel like it. *If* I feel like it. Which tbh I don't, so I might just update MAL and be done with it. Not like a lot of people here read this thread/keep up with simulcasts anyway, and if I were at a more active anime board, there'd be more discussion. /shrug

Could also pare it down but that sounds like effort or something.

Also Sound! Euphonium looks incredible and y'all need to watch it.


Continuing whenever this fucking harvest ends:
Sound! Euphonium
Bungo Stray Dogs (I better not regret this)
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Watching:
Natsume's Book of Friends (I'll probably just start this over, it's easiest to do so.)
March Comes in Like a Lion
Izetta: The Last Witch
Kiss Him, Not Me
Keijo!
Yuri on Ice (these last two are going to be really dumb or really good, there is no in-between)

I don't fucking know. Not much this season jumped out. This will probably be a backlog season, unless I hear things are better than I thought. I got tons of backlog anyway. Well, that or a Civ VI season because the 21st isn't that far away now. If it's as good as the previews are implying, I'll probably put in like 200-300 hours this season.
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Thinking I'll shift my buying priorities to anime. PC games get so cheap so fast that buying most anything at >$10 is just pissing away cash. Not sure I'll upgrade to gen eight (or nine, in the case of Switch) any time soon either, if I do at all.

But yeah, starting my collection the right way.


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