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Summer. Really hot in the Northern hemisphere, distinctly less so in the Southern hemisphere. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. Here's some anime. As usual, the primary source for these dates and titles is Moonphase. This list will contain all of what Moonphase lists for TV series, along with some of the OVAs and movies as well. It is worth noting that, like always, Moonphase lists cinema dates for anime films, not BD/DVD release dates, so said dates will be largely useless to you unless you live in Japan. I have bolded series that I think will be definite must-watches or sure bets. This is merely my predictions / personal taste, and it is by no means necessarily accurate one way or the other. I've certainly been wrong before in both directions. Italicized series are ones that absolutely no one will give a poo poo about even in the slightest (ultra kids shows, merchandise gimmicks). For television series, the date listed is the day the first episode airs in Japan. For reasons related to time zones and Japan's screwy way of counting hours past midnight, this might be +/- 1 day from what you'd expect it to be. For OVAs, it's the DVD release date. For movies, it's the cinema premiere date, unless otherwise noted. Shows with ADTRW threads have a "  " next to a thread link below them. These shows are not necessarily must-watch, but at the very least someone in ADTRW felt a desire to make a thread about them. If you make a thread about a show listed here, please do let us know by posting it in this thread or by PMing me a link to the thread! 06/12 Adventure Time, “Food Chain” So: Adventure Time is a really cool show and worth checking out. Let’s put that out there. But this episode is going to be extra-special as its written, directed, and animated by Masaaki Yuasa (Tatami Galaxy, Ping Pong, Kaiba, Mind Game). Which loving rules. TVIV thread07/02 Bakumatsu Rock Shoujo manga adaptation by Studio Deen. What if the Tokugawa shogunate was oppressing people with brainwashing police who happen to ALSO BE IDOLS?? What if, further, a bunch of anime teens began the Meiji Restoration to overthrow the shogunate by rock and roll? What if, indeed? It's being directed by Kawasaki Itsuro (Legend of Legendary Heroes, Sengoku Basara). 07/02 Free! Eternal Summer The second season of Kyoto Animation's Free! Anime about dudes in a swimming club. Basically your typical KyoAni series, just aimed at more of a female audience. Kind of boring really. The backlash that happened from people angry last time was more interesting than the show itself. (club count: 1) 07/03 Glasslip Original anime by P.A. Works, directed by Junji Nishimura (Ranma 1/2). It appears to be your standard somewhat-melancholic P.A. Works anime about a bunch of high school teens that meet during the summer. The protagonist dreams of becoming a glass artisan. Summer Will of Silver: Argevollen (Shirogane no Ishi: Argevollen) Original mecha series by Xebec, directed by Atsushi Ootsuki (Working') with composition by Tatsuo Satou (Nadesico, Mouretsu Pirates, Rinne no Lagrange). No idea what it's about, beyond robots fighting. 07/03 Tokyo Ghoul Seinen manga adaptation by Studio Pierrot, directed by Shuhei Morita (Freedom, a bunch of shorts). A suspense dark fantasy story set in a Tokyo beset by the Ghouls of folklore, humanoid creatures that feast on human flesh and apparently hide in Japanese society. The protagonist is a college freshman who finds himself pulled into the ghoul underworld. According to people who have read the manga: it starts out interesting, but then goes super anime/shounen and basically becomes Bleach. 07/03 RAIL WARS! Light novel adaptation by Passione (this really is the season of in-betweener studios making their first anime), directed by Yoshifumi Sueda (episode direction, Heroman & Majestic Prince). In an alternate present where Japan did not privatize its national railways, an ordinary high school boy dreams of a comfortable life working for the top-rated Japanese National Railways; he's assigned to the Railways Security Force that must fight an extremist group that wants to privatize Japan's rail network. I think this author may have a thing about Japan's railway. Just a thought. 07/03 Normal High School Girls Tried Being Local Idols (Futsuu no Joshikousei ga Locodol Yattemita) Adaptation of a seinen 4koma manga. It's being produced by Feel and directed by Munenori Nawa (a lot of dumb fanservice stuff). Two highschool girls become a small town's "local idols", performing lower-grade idol tasks in the area and getting their salaries from the town's taxes. Somehow this is not parody. idol count: 1 07/05 Pretty Rhythm Puri-Para Another Pretty Rhythm idol anime for younger girls. (idol count: 2) 07/05 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal A remake of the trend-setting magical girl show for girls, Sailor Moon. It's being produced by Toei Animation and directed by Munehisa Sakai (One Piece, various PreCure episode directions). For those who have never heard of this: a normal girl discovers she's from space and that she and her planet-themed friends need to defeat an evil lady. If you are interested in this, it’s worth noting that it's being aired every other week (which is weird) and that none of the staff from the original are around (which is actually kind of a big deal since a bunch of really good writers / directors arbitrarily got their start there). Sailor Moon general thread07/05 Sword Art Online II Sequel to the previous Sword Art Online light novel adaptation by A-1 pictures. To review: virtual reality MMO is created, and to no one's surprise it's impossible to log out of and if you die in the game, you die for real. The anime was insanely popular in both Japan and the US for some reason, so a million spin-offs followed and here we are with the sequel. This time, the protagonist is hired to investigate some kind of wild west MMO where apparently someone has a gun with the power of “if you are shot in the game you are shot for real”. Because that is literally the only stakes one can add to “MMO anime”. ADTRW thread07/05 Aldnoah.Zero Original anime by A-1 Pictures, directed by Ei Aoki (Fate/Zero, Wandering Son) and concepted (not written) by Gen Urobuchi (Madoka, Psycho-Pass, Fate/Zero, Gargantia). In 1972, a hypergate is discovered on the surface of the moon, leading into contact with beings from Mars. Mecha warfare commences. I dunno, I find it a bit hard to get too excited; Ei Aoki is very competent and Gen can certainly write decent plots, but the closest thing to this he's written anime wise was Gargantia, which was pretty disappointing. Probably worth checking out. ADTRW Thread07/05 Sengoku Basara: Judge End Another anime based on the Sengoku Basara games (think a much more anime Samurai Warriors). The original was pretty popular due to how hammy and over the top it was. This one will depict the Battle of Sekigahara. 07/05 Barakamon Slice of life comedy manga adaptation by Kinema Citrus, directed by Masaki Tachibana (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Legend of the Heroes). A young and handsome Calligrapher is exiled on a small island after punching a famous calligrapher. Being much a city-boy, he is forced to learn to adapt to his new life and his new, strange neighbhors that become his new family. Seems very Yotsuba&-esque, which is a good thing. The manga has been pretty well received and Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 was really good so hey. ADTRW Thread07/05 Shounen Hollywood: Holly Stage for 49 Anime sequel to a light novel, created by Zexcs. There's a fictional theater called Hollywood Tokyo. A bunch of dude idols in a dude idol group develop their dude idol talents. (idol count: 3) 07/05 Gundam-San Anime shorts by Sunrise. It's a Gundam 4koma thing. 07/06 La Bonne Vie (Jinsei) Light novel adaptation by Feel, directed by Keiichirou Kawaguchi (Hayate the Combat Butler, Sket Dance, Zettai Karen Children). A boy who joins his school's second newspaper club is immediately assigned to the life advice column. He and the other column writers requests from students on whatever is troubling them. (club count: 2) 07/06 Always! Super Radical Gag Family (Maido! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku) Gag manga adaptation by nobody knows (previous adaptation was by Deen but that was like 15 years ago), directed by Akitaro Daichi (Frutis Basket). It's about weird kids and gross out gags. 07/06 Survival Game Club! (Sabagebu!) Shoujo (???) manga adaptation by Pierrot Plus (in-betweening studio, porn), directed by Masahiko Ohta (Love Lab, Minami-Ke, Mitsudomoe, Yuruyuri) and scripted by Takashi Aoshima (same). A middle school girl is dragged into her school's Survival Game Club, where they undergo paramilitary training. Not to be confused with the Gainax anime with the exact same concept. (club count: 3) 07/06 Psycho Pass Re-Air Reair of Psycho Pass in 1 hour episodes for noitaminA block due to scheduling weirdness. May or may not have cleaned up animation and some small bridging content to make it work in the new format. Wouldn't list this normally, but the possibility of additional content justifies. For those that missed it: cyberpunk cops, written and directed by Gen Urobuchi (Madoka, Fate/Zero). Was pretty well received. ADTRW Thread07/06 SPACE DANDY, PART 2 Continuation of Winter's super excellent episodic comedic space adventure animated by Bones and head-directed by Shinchiro Watanabe (Bebop, Champloo, etc). It's basically a collection of different directors and animators on a single goofy setting ("a bunch of layabout alien-hunters attempt to make money") doing really strange and interesting things with a whole lot of budget. This second season was enabled by the support of Adult Swim (where it'll be airing on Saturdays again), which is great. There's a Masaaki Yuasa episode sometime this season that I'm pretty drat excited for. Just don't go into this expecting a plot or anything serious. It's a hell of a ride, and if you enjoy animation for animation's sake, you will likely find a lot in this. ADTRW Thread07/06 Akame Slashes ( Akame ga Kill! ) Shounen manga adaptation by White Fox, directed by Tomoki Kobayashi (Amagami SS+, Utawarerumono). Set in a fantasy setting, it follows a young man who travels to the local capital to earn money for his starving village. Finding the society unimaginably corrupted, he is recruited into a group of assassins that aims to kill those responsible. Apparently the budgets in the manga are pretty cool, so if there's a budget this may be interesting to watch even if the concept is a bit trite. 07/06 Monthly-Girl Nozaki (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun ) Shounen manga adaptation by Doga Kobo, directed by Mitsue Yamazaki (Hakkenden). Romance comedy-thing. A girl confesses her crush to her classmaste, the titular Nozaki. Because this is anime, he is a published monthly shoujo manga artist and misinterprets her as a fan of his, leading to crazy misunderstandings. Can she get her feelings across? Going by all anime romances ever: not before the final episode at least. Apparently the manga is actually pretty drat good & funny so this may be worth a look. 07/06 DRAMAtical Murder Shounen-ai VN/manga adaptation by NAZ. In a future where a virtual fighting game is popular, a boring protagonist hears of people disappearing and goes to solve the mystery in order to protect his boring life. Dudes making out presumably follows. 07/06 Francesca: Girls Be Ambitious So, uh, question: Is Hokkaido, Japan particularly associated with the undead? Like… as a general thematic thing? Because this here is an anime about an undead idol that is somehow intended to promote Hokkaido. Because apparently Girls und Panzer did so much for Oarai's nerd tourism that everyone else wants in. (idol count: 5) 07/07 Theater of Darkness 2 (Yami Shibai 2 ) Sequel to a previous TV Tokyo short series, it's folk ghost stories from Japan imitating the traditional paper-figure and scroll style. 07/07 Himegoto Seinen cross-dressing 4koma manga adaptation by Asahi Production. A boy with huge debt is saved by his school's all-girls student council who agreed to pay off his debt if he 1. joins the student council and 2. cross-dresses for the rest of his high school life. Because that's some people's thing, I guess! club count: 4 07/07 Blue Spring Ride ( Ao Haru Ride ) Shoujo romance manga adaptation by Production I.G, directed by Ai Yoshimura (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU). A newly-high school decides to act as unladylike as possible after being ostracized by her friends in middle school for her cuteness and because she could never convey her feelings to the boy she liked. Enjoying this new way of life, she meets the boy she had a crush upon, who has transferred to his school but has changed his name for some reason? Okay? 07/07 Hana Yamata Seinen "moe" anime adaptation by MADHOUSE (whyyy), directed by Atsuko Ishizuka (Pet Girl of Sakurasou, No Game No Life). Generic anime middle schooler lives a generic life until she meets a foreign girl that gets her interest in yosakoi dance. For those not familiar. 07/07 Re: _Hamatora Sequel to the previous Hamatora multi-media anime/game/manga project from Winter this year. Not-Mutants have special powers. I don't remember anyone saying anything about the show whatsoever soooo. Wait, here's a quote from The Black Stones "I did say something about this show when it was airing and eventually dropping it. It's poo poo." There you are. 07/08 Ai Mai Mi 2nd Season Sequel to the 4koma manga adaptation of Winter last year. It follows a manga club with girls who find themselves in "crazy situations" when not drawing manga. (club count: 5) 07/08 Momo Kyun Sword Light novel adaptation by Project No.9 (whom I've never heard of before now, but apparently they've in-betweened). It's the folklore story of Momotaro except Mototaro it's a fanservice combat thing because Momotaro is a teenage girl with combat-ready oversized peach-boobs now. 07/08 Encouragement of Climb 2nd Season (Yama no Susume) Another season of the 8-Bit Production animated shorts about an introverted girl being pulled into mountain climbing by her outgoing friend. 07/09 Majimoji Rurumo Shounen manga adaptation by J.C. Staff. A "perverted high school boy" finds a book in the library on how to summon witches, does so, offers a wish in exchange for his soul, he helps her, she doesn't take his soul, now she's been demoted and he has to help her become a full witch again. Seems pretty dumb. 07/09 Love Stage!! Shounen ai manga adaptation by J.C. Staff. College student from a family of stars is a nerd, wants to make manga. Is pulled into a commercial he can't turn down, meets another guy he co-starred with on a project ten years ago, cue dudes making out. 07/09 Fate/kaleid liner Prisma?Illya 2wei! Sequel to the Fate/stay night magical girl spin-off. 07/10 Terror in Tokyo / Terror in Resonance (Zankyo no Terror) This season's noitaminA series. It's an original anime by MAPPA, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy) with music by Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex). No idea who is writing it yet. In an alternate present, Tokyo has been decimated by a terrorist attack. The culprit is unknown, and the only clue is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet that befuddles the police. The culprits, however, are two young men called "Nine" and "Twelve", two men who form an organization dubbed "Sphinx" that aims to create a grandiose game that will encompass all of Japan. Really vague summary, no idea what's going there really, but Watanabe is super super competent and the trailer looks interesting. Watanabe has never done a thriller before (though he's certainly directed episodes with elements of that), so it'll be interesting regardless. Plus, you know... Yoko Kanno. ADTRW Thread07/10 Strange+ 2nd Season Second part of an anime from Winter this year. Gonna just paste that summary here " Manga being adapted by Seven and directed by Takashi Nishikawa (mostly porn). A kid comes to a slum looking for their elder brother, discovers that he's now the head of a private detective firm; now kid runs errand for the firm. The original manga is apparently shoujo comedy / slice of life type thing." Another case where I don't recall anyone saying much of anything about it. 07/10 Persona 4 the Golden Animation Yes, another Persona 4 anime adaptation. The first one was fairly popular, this one is being done by a completely different studio, A-1 Pictures, and its moving the director of the previous (Seiji Kishi) into the Chief Director slot and bringing in Tomohisa Tagucha (episode direction on previous anime) to direct. Apparently it is retelling the same exact thing again, except with the added character plot from the Golden updated version of Persona 4. Oh, and if you're not familiar with the plot of this somehow: kid moves to live with uncle and cousin, meets new friends, summons ADTRW Thread 07/10 Black Butler: Book of Circus Continuation of the A-1 shounen (?) manga adaptation by A-1 pictures. Boy sells his soul to a demon in exchange for revenge, has a demon butler now, “vague” homoeroticism follows. 07/11 Tokyo ESP Shounen sci-fi manga adaptation by Xebec (apparently?). A poor high school girl living with her father in Tokyo sees a flying penguin when coming home from school. She follows it to the top of New Tokyo Tower, only to have strange fish swimming through the air appear before her. One passes through her, giving her the ability to slip through solid objects. Anime follows. 07/11 Nobunaga Concerto Historical shounen manga adaptation by (???), produced as part of one of those scatter-shot adapt into every possible medium simultaneously deals (there's going to be a live-action show and film as well). A high-school boy from modern day Japan time-travels to Japan's Sengoku era and takes the place of Oda Nobunaga. Isn't this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III? Anyway, apparently it has romance elements. No idea what else is going on here. 07/11 Invaders of the Rokujyoma!? (Rokujyoma no Shinryakusha!?) Light novel adaptation by Silver Link, directed by Shin Oonuma (Watamote, ef: a tale of memories, Baka and Test). A boring / generic / anime high schooler rents a cheap six-mat room for $50 a month. Subsequentially, a ghost girl, a magical girl, two alien girls, and an underground-dwelling girl (not familiar with that one) move into his room because anime. Going off the preview, dumb fanservice harem crap follows. 07/14 Blade Dance of Elementalers (Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance) Light novel / manga adaptation by TNK, directed and written by nobody you've heard of or care about. At a school for girls summoning ghosts, a boy summons a ghost and thus becomes the stand in for a girl's summon spirit because gently caress whoever writes these loving things. 07/14 Diva-in-Training (Minarai Diva) A "live" anime produced using the 'MikuMikuDance' software & motion-capture technology, with the lines and songs performed simultaneously similar to radio. Looks like it's a one-hour single episode dealio but who knows / cares. (idol count: 4) 07/?? Nyanpuku Nyaruma Twin cat darumas hang out with friends. These flash anime must be really cheap to make. Dating sim adaptation by 8bit. It appears to be all your generic dating sim tropes as far as I can tell from the Wikipedia page. Apparently it won the "2011 Moe Game Awards" which makes me laugh for those awards even existing. 08/16 Hanamonogatari New -monogatari five-episode special by SHAFT and Shinbo. If you liked the other -monogatari stuff, you will probably like this I guess? They’re apparently airing all five episodes at once. 08/20 Mushishi Special TV airing of the episodes they weren't able to get into this anime season due to production issues. 08/?? When Do You Break the Yolk of an Egg Fried Sunny-Side Up? (Medamayaki no Kimi Itsu Tsubusu?) Comedy gag manga adaptation by Fanworks, it's four short Flash-animated episodes paired with live action segments. It's about how people eat. Summer Kantai Collection: Kan Colle Goddamn it. Browser video game adaptation by Diomedea. The premise is this: "what if we made moe girl versions of Japanese warships from WWII". That's it. That's all there is. Summer 2014 OVAs No real OVAs worth commenting on. OVAs are pretty dead as a format, I think. RIP. Summer 2014 Movies 06/07 Persona3 The Movie #2 "early summer This is the Persona with the robot lady 06/21 Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary 3D CG Saint Seiya film. Comes across looking like Kid Icarus Uprising, really. 06/21 Lupin the III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine: Daisuke Jigen's Gravestone Film for the Takeshi Koike-animation directed Lupin III origin / retelling / spin-off thing from a couple years ago that was super cool and featured a lot of owls and tits. This film is focusing on how Jigen and Lupin became partners. This movie is especially notable since Koike is going to also be directing this, and he previously directed Redline which was marvelous, so. 07/12 The Next Generation -Patlabor- 3 Are these Patlabor live action spin-off micro films any good? 07/12 K - Missing Kings I don't recall what K was about, and after quizzing people who actually watched the series this is a sequel to I'm pretty sure nobody does. A quick perusal of Wikipedia indicates something about color coded Kings. 07/19 When Marnie Was There New Studio Ghibli film, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi. A girl befriends another girl who is a ghost. 07/19 Pokemon the Movie XY Scientists in PokeFrance use a dragon of undeath / an elk of immortality to destroy all life. 08/09 Space Brothers Movie #0 I have no idea what's going on with that numbering but hey, Space Brothers. Two brothers get into the space program, wanna go to the moon. 08/23 Initial D Reboot Movie #1 Somehow the CG cars have not improved at all in like two decades 08/30 The Next Generation -Patlabor- 4 Even if they are, this whole episodic micro movie thing seems dumb as hell. Is this the future release format of OVAs? Gross. Summer Cencoroll 2 Sequel to the sci-fi film of 2009 animated solely by a single dude, Atsuya Uki. It was pretty neat! With the Spring season wrapping up in the next few weeks, you may want to consider leaving your thoughts on concluding series on the ADTRWiki. REMEMBER: There’s a “Three Episode Rule” for season threads. After three episodes have aired for a show, if you wish to discuss the show you need to make a thread for it, or I’ll be probating you! Zorak fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Jul 13, 2014 |
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Glossary of useful terms etc AT-X: Subscription-based satellite TV channel airing mostly anime. Because of its obscure nature it's (in)famous for airing uncensored versions of various fanservice anime that has naughty parts removed on normal terrestrial free-to-air television. BONES: Animation studio. Made a bunch of fantastically good shows some years back, has been less than successful lately. They have five separate sub-studio teams that specialize on various things. ANN Entry Gen Urobuchi: The dude who wrote Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Blassreiter, Saya no Uta, and Fate/Zero. He's sort of a hot topic of discussion in both the Japanese and Western anime community since quite a large number of people are really into his plots, which are typically very dark. Patron Saint of jonjonaugs everywhere. ANN Entry Gonzo clause: Rule of thumb that says that any anime animated by studio Gonzo will suck poo poo. Quite accurate in general, and no longer irrelevant since Gonzo magically lives again now. ANN Entry JC Staff: Animation studio, usually considered to do above average quality work. Mostly known for their endless stream of romantic comedies with at least one tsundere character voiced by Kugimiya Rie per show. Sort of a non-topic nowadays. ANN Entry Josei: Literally means "woman", but in this context it means a watcher/reader demographic, mostly consisting of young adult women and girls in their late teens. Often totally interchangeable with seinen. Light Novel: A style of Japanese novel roughly equivalent to the Western "Young Adult fiction" in terms of complexity and length, though the audience is wider. They are the source for a lot of anime adaptations nowadays, and typically have incredibly long and stupid titles. MADHOUSE: Anime studio that produces some high quality works and generally aim towards non-conventional works (say, about karuta). They offset this risk by interspersing their good shows with a lot of contract work and a lot of really cheap sure-sells to make ends meet. These guys do all the western nerd animes (Batman, Halo, Mass Effect). ANN Entry Noitamina: A late-night one-hour anime timeslot on Fuji TV, a Tokyo-based terrestrial channel. It was initially explicitly aimed at the josei demographic, but these days almost anything goes. It has a reputation for airing odd or experimental shows, as well as for above-average quality. ANN Entry ONA: Original Net Animation, short term for "straight to internet stream". OVA: Original Video Animation, short term for "straight to video". Production I.G: Generally well-regarded animation studio, known for things like GitS:SAC, Patlabor and a bunch of Oshii Mamoru movies. They are probably the best studio at the moment for making 3DCG work well. They have several sub-studios and teams working on things simultaneously. ANN Entry Seinen: Literally means "man", but in this context it means a watcher/reader demographic, mostly consisting of young adult men and boys in their late teens. Often totally interchangeable with josei. SHAFT: Animation studio, mostly known for very low-budget but nevertheless visually interesting shows. See also Shinbou Akiyuki. ANN Entry Shoujo: Literally means "girl", but in this context it refers to the demographic aimed primarily at teen girls. Shounen: Literally means "boy", but in this context it refers to the demographic aimed primarily at teen boys. Shinbou Akiyuki: A director that seems to be at least partially insane or permanently high. Usually works with SHAFT and has a number of gimmicks, many of which involve meta-jokes and the like. The animation in his shows is often ridiculous and ADTRW is down with that. ANN Entry Studio DEEN: Animation studio infamous for its lovely adaptations and even shittier animation. ANN entry ufotable: Animation studio, best known for their habit of putting stop-motion clay figure animation in odd places, and for the Kara no Kyoukai movie series. Generally does high quality work these days. ANN entry Visual Novel: "Video Game" novel. Text stories presented with art, sound, and often voice acting. Dating sims are a typical example, though it can often skew towards adventure games as well. Wakamoto Norio: That guy with that awesome voice that everyone likes. ANN entry Spring Look Back The Spring Season is still ongoing, so take care to keep all discussion about it in the Spring Season thread. If you can't find anything that interests you in the Spring season, you should consider checking it out! Here's shows from Spring that had threads posted for them in ADTRW. Keep in mind that the entries date back to when it was posted in Spring. Spring stuff Mushishi - Second Season Oh hell yes. So first: You really should watch Mushi-Shi. It's a super atmospheric work of art with stellar imagery, audio work, and a phenomenal soundtrack. It follows the adventures of Ginko, a Mushi master (mushi-shi) who journeys across Japan researching the mysterious entities known as "Mushi", strange supernatural phenomena that dwell in and shape our world, while helping the people who encounter them. The original series won a tooooon of awards. Seriously, watch it; it's free on both YouTube and Hulu. Plus you can pick it up really cheap on Amazon. This is more of that! If it's anything as good as the original series, it's going to be sooooooo good. ADTRW Thread Ping Pong the Animation The season's second noitaminA anime, and something I'm rather excited for. It's an adaptation of an award winning short manga about a young ping pong prodigy; it previously had a live action adaptation back in 2002, so the timing of this new adaptation by Tatsunoko Production is a bit odd. What is very notable about this is that it's being directed by Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, Tatami Galaxy, Kick Heart, Kaiba, etc), one of the most interesting and talented animation directors in Japan. Love that Yuasa. Apparently the original manga has a very similar art style (it's by the Takemitsu Zamurai guy). Award winning source material, great director and staff, ping pong, sounds like a winning proposition all around. ADTRW ThreadJoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Another season of the incredibly popular adaptation of the incredibly popular manga. It continues the story of the Joestar bloodline's bizarre adventures with the occult. The adaptation of the first two arcs by David Production went over so well that they got the sign off to do the third arc, which corresponds to the turning point of the manga where JoJo became INSANELY popular in Japan. Stardust Crusaders follows Jotaro Kujo, a half-Japanese descendant of the Joestar family (grandson of Battle Tendency protagonist Joseph Joestar) , who goes on a globe-trotting journey to defeat a dark specter from his family's past. The early previews look fantastic, and if they continue what they did with the first series, this should be amazing. I highly recommend giving the adaptation of the first two parts a watch if you haven't already. ADTRW Thread Manga ThreadYoung Animators Training Project - Anime Mirai 2014 The 2014 edition of the Japanese Government's thing where they pay animators to produce some artsy and interesting / unique anime. There's usually some really interesting shorts out of these. Hopefully they'll end up on DVD/BD soon. Trailer. ADTRW ThreadKnights of Sidonia Ok, first off I'm going to outright highly recommend the manga this is based on (written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei). I made a thread for it, check it out. Set thousands of years after Earth was destroyed a bizarre alien race known as the Gauna, humanity has fled into the depths of space using seed ships made from the remains of the Earth's crust. The Sidonia is one such massive ship, home to hundreds of thousands of human lives. Even though they have fled, they are still pursued by the Gauna, unknowable adapting entities, whose only goal seems to be the complete annihilation of humanity. In response, the humans on the Sidonia have taken drastic measures: developing large combat weapons known as Guardians, and beginning a widespread program of genetic modification across the ship. Nagate Tanikaze is a young man who was raised along in the bowels of the ship away from all others except his grandfather, with only a simulator to pass the time. After his grandfather's death, he emerges to the population at large, and finds himself drafted into the Guardian pilot corps that desperately fights for the survival of humanity. It's pretty dope. This adaptation is by Polygon Pictures. and is being directed by Shizuno Koubun (Detective Conan, Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still). I really hope it'll be good, but here's the thing: the entire series is being animated completely in 3DCG. Which never looks good. Oh well, maybe it'll be the exception. At the very least check out the manga!  This is already licensed for Netflix streaming, by and by. ADTRW Thread Manga ThreadOne Week Friends (Isshuukan Friends) Shounen drama / comedy / romance manga adaptation by Brains Base that is looking to be this season's "melancholic slice of life anime". It follows a loner girl, Kaori Fujimiya, who never gets involved with anyone due to her short term loss which causes her to forget her experiences every week. A boy from her class, Yuuki Hase, decides to try to get closer to her each week, hoping that one day she will call him a friend. It's being directed by Tarou Iwasaki (Ryoko Case Files, various episode direction for BONES shows), with its screenplay by Shotaro Suga (Darker Than Black, Eccentric Family, much of GITS:SAC). The staff looks actually pretty good on this; there's a pretty decent chance this will be quite good all in all. ADTRW ThreadCaptain Earth An original mecha anime by Yoji Enokido and Takuya Igarashi (Sailor Moon, Ouran High School, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and most recently Star Driver). They're a duo of writer and director that like to team up. They've apparently got together a lot of the staff that worked with them on Star Driver at Bones and are making this! The story begins with a second-year high school student, Daichi Manatsu, seeing a strange circular rainbow in the skies over the island of Tanegashima (home to Japan's Tanegashima Space Center). Filled with foreboding, he travels to the island alone, discovering chaos as well as a machine called the "Earth Engine". With alien life from Uranus called the "Kiltgang" (no, seriously) attacking, he is asked: "Are you the Captain?" Frankly, I think I am stuck with a much more ever present question: Why does every robot they make have a fancy hat? I'm not complaining, I'm just wondering why that's a thing. Hmm. Anyway, Star Driver was pretty cool, the staff on this is pretty good, it should be pretty good (or at the very least, watchable due to sheer fabulousness). ADTRW Thread Even So, The World is Beautiful (Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii) Shoujo manga adaptation by Studio Pierrot. The fourth princess of the Rain Dukedom, who has the power to call forth the rain, is sent to the Sun Kingdom to marry its Sun King in order to maintain peace between their nations. Reluctantly traveling there, she discovers that the Sun King who has conquered the world in only three years after his ascension to the throne is even younger than she, and is quite childish indeed. Romance comedy ensues. It's being directed by Hajime Kamegaki (Fushigi Yugi, History's Strongest Disciple Ken'Ichi, Air Gear). ADTRW Thread Mekaku City Actors Anime adaptation of a manga adaptation of a vocaloid song. Why does this keep happening? It's being produced by SHAFT and directed by Akiyuki Shinbou (All Those Shaft Things). It's about a basement dweller guy who meets a digital girl through his computer after receiving a "mysterious anonymous email ". She messes with his computer forcing him to go outside for the first time in two years! Apparently it's part of a wider setting / storything based on these vocaloid songs that focus on a group of protagonists with eye-related special powers. Concept sounds stupid as hell, but Shinbou can often redeem even dumb crap so whoooo knoooows. ADTRW ThreadM3: That Black Steel New original anime by Satelight. It's being directed by Junichi Sato (Sailor Moon, Aria), composition is by Mari Okada (Hanasaku Iroha, Toradora, bunch of bad original stuff), with mechanicald esign by Shoji Kawamori (Eureka Seven, Macross, Aquarion). A bunch of eight teens are the key to using robots to stop the incarnation of human despair from destroying Tokyo or whatever. ADTRW ThreadBlack Bullet Light novel adaptation by Kinema Citrus, and directed by Masayuki Kojima (Monster). It's about a post-apocalyptic near future where humans have been defeated by viral parasites. A boy and a girl fight them, with guns. ADTRW ThreadChaika the Coffin Princess (Hitsugi no Chaika) Light novel adaptation by BONES. A retired 20-year old soldier meandering through life now that the war has ended encounters a 14-year-old sorceress (with sniper rifle) carrying a coffin and starts following her in hopes of finding meaning to his life again, along with his adopted sister. The original light novel is by the author of Scrapped Princess and Strait Jacket, is being directed by Soichi Masui (Scrapped Princess, lots of storyboarding for basically every BONES series, literally), with series composition by Touko Machida (Galilei Donna, Amagami, Lucky Star, Is This a Zombie?) ADTRW ThreadIs the Order a Rabbit? (Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka?) STOP. Ponder the context that title makes sense in. OK, CONTINUE: there is a café called Rabbit House. The main character likes rabbits a lot and goes there. That's it. Are there rabbits being served, or is just everything rabbit themed? Is the café just awash with rabbits everywhere, making GBS threads on everything? Whooooo knoooooows. What I do know is: it's based on a seinen 4-koma manga, it's being animated by White Fox, and directed by Hiroyuki Hashimoto (episode direction on R.O.D. TV, Code Geass 1 & R2, Angel Beats). So, another "nothing happens" comedy. ADTRW ThreadNanana's Buried Treasure (Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin) The season's first noitaminA block offering is this light novel adaptation by A-1 Pictures. It’s being directed by Kanta Kamei (Usagi Drop, also a lot of key animation all over the place), and with Hideyuki Kurata doing the script (GunXSword, Galilei Donna, Samurai Flamenco, also a ton of weird incest poo poo). It centers on the titular ghost who was once a ~beautiful basement dweller~, her buried treasure of "mysterious power", and a boy who accidentally moves into the apartment haunted by her (of course) after being forced to transfer to a high school on an artificial school-island. Those sure are a lot of things assembled into a concept. I am not optimistic that it isn't tripe. ADTRW ThreadMarvel Disk Wars: The Avengers I should probably be italicizing this but people will watch this. After the Avengers get trapped in technomagical disks by Loki, Spider-Man does the obvious solution of giving them to plucky multinational teens so they can use them to summon the Avengers Pokemon-style in order to fight crime. Gee Spidey, you could have like called Dr. Strange or something, but nope: PLUCKY TEENS. You dick. ADTRW ThreadSpring 2014 | Summer 2014 | Spring 2013 | Summer 2013 | Fall 2013 | Winter 2013-2014 Spring 2012 | Summer 2012 | Fall 2012 | Winter 2012-2013 Spring 2011 | Summer 2011 | Fall 2011 | Winter 2011-2012 Spring 2010 | Summer 2010 | Fall 2010 | Winter 2010-2011 Spring 2009 | Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Winter 2009-2010 Spring 2008 | Summer 2008 | Fall 2008 | Winter 2008-2009 Spring 2007 | Summer 2007 | Fall 2007 | Winter 2007-2008 Spring 2006 | Summer 2006 | Fall 2006 | Winter 2006-2007 Spring 2005 | Summer 2005 | Fall 2005 | Winter 2005-2006 Spring 2004 | Summer 2004 | Fall 2004 | Winter 2004-2005 Zorak fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Jun 5, 2014 07:59
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Since Zorak is a big jerk and didn't include it the Girls und Panzer Italy OVA comes out 7/25. Sailor Moon is gonna own and I'm pretending nothing else is airing in Summer so I can quit anime.
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Jun 5, 2014 08:17
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Actually going to be trying out a bunch of dumb shows this season because why not Akame ga Kill! Manga is peak edgy and I'm betting the anime will just be a censored mess. Pretty interesting fights though in the manga, so who knows Free! Eternal Summer awyeah, swimming anime Hanamonogatari Persona 4 The Golden Because I just can't get enough of Persona, just stuff all this schlock down my throat Atlus please Space Dandy S2 SAO S2 Peak anime incoming Tokyo ESP Manga seemed pretty interesting Tokyo Ghoul What Zorak said is true, but if this turns out to be like 12 episodes then it probably won't get too far into the generic shonen parts Zankyou no Terror E: Also Space Brothers movie, for that feel moon feeling. Futaba Anzu fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Jun 5, 2014 08:32
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Pretty meh season.
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Jun 5, 2014 08:33
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Tokyo ESP is by Xebec, apparently. There was some info from a magazine previously that said it was going to be Manglobe but then they ended up apologizing and retracting the info completely. Kinda weird. Hanayamata will likely be good because of the staff working on it (Reiko Yoshida, Atsuko Ishizuka, etc). Also looking forward to Aldnoah Zero because Urobuchi and Glasslip because PA Works, and I'm gonna check out Akame ga Kill because White Fox, even though it might be terrible. I could go either way on a bunch of other stuff. Xythar fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Jun 5, 2014 08:53
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This season looks mostly bad again. But the last season hat some surprise hits, so maybe we will get lucky again. I love the mangas for Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun and Barakamon. The slice of live thread generally agrees that those are good. Makes me very hopeful. They also have both almost no creep potential. Himegoto is a Sekiotai Yakumindomo kind of thing. Pretty funny if you like that style of comedy.
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Jun 5, 2014 09:34
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The only things that interest me really are : Akame ga Kill! (the manga is awesome, but I agree with pandeK about it probably being horribly censored), Zankyou no Terror (just looks interesting), and maybe Rail Wars (the trailer was... something. I am hoping for multi-track drifting). I guess I can watch the first season of Space Dandy to see if I want to move on to the second. Probably depends of what I feel like. This is sad. I found quite a few things to watch during the Spring season. Hopefully there are some hidden gems somewhere in the mess.
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Jun 5, 2014 10:03
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Far less shows this season I am into. Argevollen and Aldnoah because robots, Space Dandy, and terrorists, and that's about it. Certainly less than the...10 I am following for spring (it used to be 12! but uggggh dai-shogun and daimidaler)
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Jun 5, 2014 10:07
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Wait, isn't Tokyo ESP by the dude that created Ga-Rei? That manga went into a really weird place during its final lap.
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Jun 5, 2014 10:10
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Looks pretty weak. I did enjoy Sword Art Online, though, and have heard some good things about the manga for Tokyo Ghoul and Akume ga Kill. Aside from that, I guess I'll just give some stuff the 3 episode test and see if anything stands out. I know nothing about Terror in Tokyo, but it's hard to go wrong with Watanabe/Kanno in a noitaminA slot.
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Jun 5, 2014 10:16
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Akame ga Kill, Zankyou no Terror and Sailormoon, of course! And probably Locodol because I'm a horrible person. Also this can't be the worst season, it has Sailormoon after all! Edit: Maybe Himegoto if its funny. Lucy Heartfilia fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Jun 5, 2014 10:18
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Wark Say posted:Wait, isn't Tokyo ESP by the dude that created Ga-Rei? That manga went into a really weird place during its final lap. Yup. The manga features a tough, competent female protagonist who phases through objects and beats the poo poo out of dudes with batons. Well, the first half. The second half, which is currently ongoing, features a female protagonist who is not tough, competent, or prone to beating the poo poo out of guys with batons. I kind of doubt the anime will get that far. Still, good character work, fights and pretty art. Here is hoping it gets a good adaptation.
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Jun 5, 2014 10:47
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Zorak posted:07/03 Tokyo Ghoul "Bleach" is kinda harsh. It's definitely... degenerating into a battle manga, but it's not all the way there yet and there's still such a thing as a good battle manga (he said, obliterating any credibility he ever had). Plus, it takes 6/7 volumes before that starts to kick in- I've no idea if the anime's even going to get that far. pandaK posted:Akame ga Kill! Manga is peak edgy and I'm betting the anime will just be a censored mess. Pretty interesting fights though in the manga, so who knows "Peak edgy" sounds about right. This manga really loving loves introducing new characters just in time for them to be brutally murdered in extremely graphic ways, purely for shock value. Wark Say posted:Wait, isn't Tokyo ESP by the dude that created Ga-Rei? That manga went into a really weird place during its final lap. Yeah, it is, and it's got the same quirky feel as the Ga-Rei manga. The characters learn martial arts from a panda who is actually Yoda in a panda suit because of course. Anyway, I lost pretty much all interest in it after the time skip/season break, where it decided to drop all its characters for an all-new, really boring, cast. Kinda hoping that whoever is animating this is going to pull a Ga-Rei Zero. fakeedit: Serious Frolicking posted:Yup. The manga features a tough, competent female protagonist who phases through objects and beats the poo poo out of dudes with batons. Well, the first half. The second half, which is currently ongoing, features a female protagonist who is not tough, competent, or prone to beating the poo poo out of guys with batons. I kind of doubt the anime will get that far. Still, good character work, fights and pretty art. Here is hoping it gets a good adaptation. Yeah, that.
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Autonomous Monster posted:"Bleach" is kinda harsh. It's definitely... degenerating into a battle manga, but it's not all the way there yet and there's still such a thing as a good battle manga (he said, obliterating any credibility he ever had). Now listen up. There are good battle manga out there. Gamaran was pretty decent... well, at least I thought it was. ... kinda digging myself into a hole here, aren't I? 
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Jun 5, 2014 12:09
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Oof, that is one weak rear end lineup. Hanamonogatari and Persona 4 I suppose, maybe the Terrorist one?
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Jun 5, 2014 12:16
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Zorak posted:07/06 Survival Game Club! (Sabagebu!)
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Jun 5, 2014 12:38
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Zorak posted:
I did say something about this show when it was airing and eventually dropping it. It's poo poo. No, seriously. It's super loving bad. The plot is a disjointed mess and there's all this intrigue going on but nobody cares because there's no reason for you to, and the colour style that the show uses was garish as poo poo. To sum up, it's a pretty bad show and nobody should watch it because it's Seiji Kishi probably at his worst, and he has been on a huge downhill slide since Humanity has Declined.
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Jun 5, 2014 15:08
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Hamatora was a massive trainwreck of a terrible show on every level, yeah. Honestly this looks like a pretty weak season, but I'm pretty much hating Spring and only watching three shows so bring it on. With Jojo and Space Dandy I only need one more show for summer to be break even so I'm feeling pretty optimistic. Have my eye on Sailor Moon, more Monogatari, Tokyo ESP, (Thought the manga looked interesting, kinda bummed that people say it goes downhill.) and uh...Terror in Tokyo, I guess. I want more comedies but predicting those is always a crapshoot.
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Jun 5, 2014 15:27
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grrarg posted:I am unironically looking forward to this after the spring season's lack of comedy. The writer and director have a history of making me laugh at dumb gags, and it cannot be worse than C3-bu. The Spec Ops: The Line edits were that show's only redeeming factor. Yeah, this'll in all likelihood be better than C3-bu. That show had no idea what it wanted to be. I'll also check out Sailormoon, Space Dandy, Himegoto, Free, and Locodol might be entertaining garbage.
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Jun 5, 2014 15:30
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grrarg posted:I am unironically looking forward to this after the spring season's lack of comedy. The writer and director have a history of making me laugh at dumb gags, and it cannot be worse than C3-bu. The Spec Ops: The Line edits were that show's only redeeming factor. Me too. The manga has gotten positive reviews from the yuri news network for being a good bonkers comedy. Looks like summer is going to be really good on the comedy front especially with Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki kun leading the way. Ai Mai Mi is goin to rule too. Glasslip should be good too.
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Stuff I'm Excited About P4G The Animation: Because I am a loving idiot that wants to see something I've already seen once and played twice but also because I played P4G for the first time a few months back and I love Marie and her lovely sense of poetry no matter what anyone says. Monthly-Girl Nozaki: The anime I've been waiting for since I found out it was gonna be made. Which admittedly wasn't that long a time ago but I love this manga and I love the goon that posted it in the "Convince With A Single Image" thread. Hanamonogatari: It's monogatari. Other Stuff I dunno, Akame ga Kill, maybe? I do keep up with the manga. Honestly Monthly-Girl Nozaki redeems this entire season for me so I don't care how bad everything else is. Hopefully P4G turns out to be decent too.
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Hey cool game-playing people, I haven't played any Persona games, but I watched the previous Persona 4 adaption and I thought it was nice (the thread was p. bad though), should I care about the new one? Is the new material worth my time now that I know what will happen with the main plot anyway, or is it there just to appease the fans?
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Rexides posted:Hey cool game-playing people, I haven't played any Persona games, but I watched the previous Persona 4 adaption and I thought it was nice (the thread was p. bad though), should I care about the new one? Is the new material worth my time now that I know what will happen with the main plot anyway, or is it there just to appease the fans? It might be better animated but the story is going to be exactly the same, unless they take huge liberties, the Golden version only added extra dungeons and one or two new soul links, only the latter of which would matter for an anime adaptation. There's also a chance they'll gently caress up the MC, one of the original anime's strengths was that it took what was essentially a silent protagonist and made him interesting, if the new show just sticks him with a generic bland character like the Devil Survivor anime it would be pretty bad.
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Jun 5, 2014 15:48
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Glasslip because P.A. Works, Sword Art Online because I can't imagine it being nearly as bad as the Fairy Dance arc, Akame Slashes because White Fox and the premise sounds interesting, Terror in Tokyo because I can't imagine it being anything less than absolutely fantastic (premise has a very Dark Knight vibe to it),Psycho-Pass (again) because it is awesome and hopefully doesn't have broken animation, Aldnoah.Zero because Urobuchi, Free! if it does what the first season started off as, Fate/ ... Prisma Illya 2 because the first season had some really awesome fights, Tokyo ESP because it might be interesting, and finally Hanamonogatari because its more Shinbou directed -gatari and after that last season I'm expecting this to be magical. I really hope I'm going to have time for all of these. Has there always been this much anime in a season? ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Monthly-Girl Nozaki is going to own if it at all captures the spirit of the manga. It's probably the only new show I care about in the coming season. For those who have not read it (go do it now!), don't be fooled by the trailers and descriptions suggesting it's a generic rom-com. It's a straight up comedy and delivers really consistently. The suggestions of romance are really more just there to make fun of shoujo manga, while the rest of it is pretty much morons being morons.
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grrarg posted:I am unironically looking forward to this after the spring season's lack of comedy. The writer and director have a history of making me laugh at dumb gags, and it cannot be worse than C3-bu. The Spec Ops: The Line edits were that show's only redeeming factor. You should be because the manga's pretty good. A lot of people probably think it's a dumb slice-of-life thing, but it's actually more of a gag comedy. The best selling point is the main character, who's a violent, selfish dick. Although it takes a bit for that to really come out in the manga. The best way I can think to describe her is "Seinfieldian" in that she's enough of an rear end in a top hat that it's funny when bad things happen to her, but not so much of an rear end in a top hat that you actively want worse things to happen to her. And because it's shoujo there's very little fanservice and creepy stuff in general. That can change, of course, over the course of being adapted to an anime, though. At least one of the characters seems to have been redesigned to be a bit more appealing to the young male demographic, so we'll have to see. The Black Stones posted:I did say something about this show when it was airing and eventually dropping it. I quit watching the show after the episode where the gay terrorist with the mutant power of making people gay for him invaded a spa to get a foreign dignitary's son to be gay for him so he'd get his dad to put pressure on the Japanese government to make the gay terrorist's favorite singer popular again. Although I suppose if the whole thing had been that stupid it would have a lot more fans around here.
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Any season where we get two shows by Watanabe can't be bad. And hay, Sailor Moon. But yea, beyond that there aren't any other shows that are sure hits, but there's a lot of definitely possibly could be amazing. Even after Gargantua I'm excited for Aldnoah.Zero because I can't really blame Gen for the problems in that show when he was brought on so late in production. Love Lab and YuruYuri are a step above the usual moe so Survival Game Club! is actually a sure bet for that audience. Barakamon and Akame Slashes have cool concepts. There's a cool movie coming and also Yuasa's Adventure Time! So basically there's going to enough to fill in the time between Watanabe's shows.
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Joshlemagne posted:I quit watching the show after the episode where the gay terrorist with the mutant power of making people gay for him invaded a spa to get a foreign dignitary's son to be gay for him so he'd get his dad to put pressure on the Japanese government to make the gay terrorist's favorite singer popular again. Although I suppose if the whole thing had been that stupid it would have a lot more fans around here. That sounds amazing.
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I vote that the undead idol show should count towards the idol count. This sure is a season of anime.
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The Devil Tesla posted:That sounds amazing. I would definitely encourage people to give Tokyo ESP a shot, it's a pretty good manga. Akame and Tokyo Ghoul are going to be hilariously censored, but I can't wait to see the reactions to their first episodes. Sindai fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Hey technically Usagi's original voice actor is returning to voice her in the Sailor Moon reboot, that's one person from the original staff  As for me, the usual Space Dandy and Terror in Tokyo plus Persona 4 (only because I like the series and I don't have the money to afford a Vita for the Golden) are my must watches. Free! as my guilty pleasure and Dramatical Murder just to see if they hilariously botch this up like another Nitro+chiral animated adapted work. And of course, Sailor Moon since it was my gateway anime and something that I still love dearly despite its flaws. Maybe Aldnoah Zero if I have the time. With Mushishi and Jojos continuing off from last season, this is enough for me.
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Hunter x Hunter will be completing the Election arc so we'll at least have some closure with having animated up to the new chapters that Togashi is making. Free! Eternal Summer is something I'm looking forward to so I can have more swimming  debates and also wait for the inevitable backlash.Space Dandy 2 I'm kind of torn on because while certain episodes like the George Romero Yogurt tribute episode was fantastic, the majority of the episodes were fairly insipid; I'll probably lurk the new thread and watch specific episodes like Yuasa's. Sailor Moon for sure because it's a classic and I might as well watch at least one complete season of this work. I'm already a fan of HxH so I should try to watch the better half of Japan's power manga couple's seminal work.
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I'm excited for Space Dandy and more JoJo is it as far as good shows go. Sword Art Online II and Kancolle, that poo poo is the main event though. I can't wait to see how much dumber SAO gets and knowing what I do about it, am very excite.
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Is Akame ga Kill anything like Assassins Creed? That could be pretty cool.
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Zorak: wouldnt bakumatsu rock be an idol show too?
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Monthly-Girl Nozaki barely qualifies as a romance, it's pretty much exclusively satirical shoujo manga gags. I mean, an entire chapter's devoted to how old shoujo tropes have been ruined by stricter bike safety laws. There's no chance of that trailer being serious, it's closer to a shoujo manga version of early Bakuman. I'm not sure why it's listed as shonen because it's not for that demographic at all? also more Space Dandy i guess. this is a pretty dull season
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Raenir Salazar posted:Is Akame ga Kill anything like Assassins Creed? That could be pretty cool. It's a group of assassins instead of one central figure against a corrupt government, so sort of-ish
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As far as I'm concerned the most notable thing about Summer is that it's the last season before ufotable's Fate/stay night airs.
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This year is the year that Rail Wars finally airs. I can feel it.
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