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Summer 2012 Anime |OT3| Where All the Waifus Are Made Up and the Points Don't Matter

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Branduil

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Welcome to the thread where we pretend we still have lives by arguing passionately about animated shows for children made in another country.

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COUNTDOWN to judgment day. Or the airing of certain anime, either way.
Some kind of chart with pictures and words.

STREAMING INFO

Sunday
CR - Jinrui wa Sutai Shimashita - 8:30am PDT
CR - La storia della Arcana Famiglia - 8:30am PDT
CR - Chitose Get You!! - 10am PDT
CR - Oda Nobuna no Yabou - 10am PDT
CR - Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse - 10:30am PDT
CR - Tari Tari - 6pm PDT

Monday
CR - Utakoi - 11am PDT
CR - YuruYuri♪♪ - 11am PDT
FN - Hagure Yuusha no Estetica - 8:30pm PDT (11 days delayed)

Tuesday
CR - Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere II - 9am PDT (3 days delayed)
CR - Hakuoki Reimeiroku - 10:30am PDT (1.5 days delayed)

Thursday
CR - Moyashimon Returns - 10:35am PDT
CR - Natsuyuki Rendevous - 12:45pm PDT

Friday
FN - Binbougami ga! - 9:50am PDT (2 days delayed)
CR - Campione! - 10am PDT
CR - Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! - 8:30pm PDT (1 day delayed)

Saturday
CR - Kokoro Connect - 9:00am PDT
CR - Dog Days' - 9:30am PDT
CR - Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai. - 11am PDT (9 days delayed)
CR - Sword Art Online - 12pm PDT

Legend:
CR = Crunchyroll
FN = Funimation

TV

Natsuyuki Rendezvous
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Ryosuke works part-time as a florist. He has bad eyesight, a pure heart, and a secret crush on the store manager, Rokka. Unfortunately for him, Rokka swore off love 8 years ago. But when Ryosuke goes up to her apartment on the second floor, he runs into a good-looking half-naked man. At first upset, he learns that this isn't Rokka's live-in boyfriend; he's the ghost of her late husband, Atsushi. She can't see him, and Ryosuke decides not to give up on her, even with a dead husband standing in the way.

Show of the season, for what that's worth.

Director: Kou Matsuo
Studio: Dogakobo

Sword Art Online
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The only way to escape is to 'clear' the game. Death in game means actual 'death' ----

The ten thousand who have logged onto the as of yet mysterious game 'Sword Art Online' using their Nerve Gear have been forced into this perilous death game and are trapped inside.

Protagonist Kirito, one of the many gamers, has greeted this 'truth'.
He plays as a solo player in the giant castle that is the stage for this game ---- 'Aincrad'.

To meet the conditions of clearing the game and leaving this twisted virtual world, he must get through all 100 floors. Will Kirito have what it takes to clear the game, or will he die trying?

What a dishonest summary. The only thing anybody cares about is which girl he XP farms from among the wide number he's aggro'd.

Director: Tomohiko Ito
Studio: A-1 Steak Sauce

Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita
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It's been several centuries since human beings declined due to the steep drop in birthrates. The most prosperous species on the Earth are "Fairies", 10 cm tall creatures with high intelligence. I became a UN arbitrator between the humans and the fairies and returned to my hometown to help my grandfather. I thought my job would not be a tough one and visited one of the fairies' habitats to say hello to them but...

This show's quality has declined.

Director: Seiji Kishi
Studio: AIC

Tari Tari
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The story centers around five Japanese high school students who are too young to be called adults, but who no longer think of themselves as children.

Wakana Sakai once took music lessons, but she withdrew from music after losing her mother. Konatsu Miyamoto is a positive-thinking girl who loves singing and spends time after school at the vocal music club. Sawa Okita is a spirited archery club member who dreams of becoming a horse rider. Daichi Tanaka is a chronically late badminton team member who lives with his college student sister. "Wiin" just transfered into Wakana's class after 12 years abroad in Australia.

Music brings Wakana, Konatsu, Sawa and the others together into an ensemble during their last summer in high school.

A touching story of how teens with severe facial deformities find their own happiness in the school music club.

Director: Masakazu Hashimoto
Studio: P.A. Works

Yuru Yuri season 2
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Season 2 of Yuru Yuri (duh).

You don't really need to watch this just wait for .gifs of the entire episode to be posted.

Director: Masahiko Ohta
Studio: Dogakobo

Joshiraku
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A group of girls discusses random things and usually reaches an unusual or humorous conclusion that's far from the initial discussion topic.

This work will take on new meaning when it is revealed that it is actually taking place 500 years in the future in an advanced holographic simulator... AND ALL THE SIGNS WERE THERE FROM THE BEGINNING.

Director: Tsutomo Mizushima
Studio: J.C. Staff

Binbougami ga
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Sakura Ichiko is a 16-year-old girl who leads a charmed life and is blessed with beauty, brains, and health. She has an abundance of "Happiness Energy", which can make people happy, but at the cost of absorbing all the Happiness Energy from her surroundings. She has caused the energy balance of the world to become unbalanced and because of this, she becomes the target of a Poverty God named Momiji. Momiji goal is to remove Ichiko's power of absorbing other people's Happiness Energy and to return all the energy she has taken to its rightful place.

Some people like it. Others don't. Humor is truly the most divisive subject ever devised by man.

Director: Yoichi Fujita
Studio: Sunrise

Moyashimon Returns
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Season 2 of Moyashimon (duh).

I guess they thought the show might sell better if the characters were uglier.

Director: Yuichiro Yano
Studio: Shirogumi Inc

Kokoro Connect
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The "love and teen pentagonal comedy" follows the strange phenomena at the Yamahoshi Academy's Culture Club, starting with the five male and female club members switching bodies with each other.

Don't be fooled, this isn't a KyoAni show.

Director: Shin Oonuma
Studio: Silver Link

Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi
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Uta Koi tells the "super-liberal interpretation" of the Hyakuninisshu anthology compiled during Japan's Heian period of 100 romantic poems from 100 different poets such as The Tale of Genji's Murasaki Shikibu.

Loose gates sink ships.

Director: Kenichi Kasai
Studio: TYO Animations

Rinne no Lagrange Season 2
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Second part of Rinne no Lagrange.

NISSAN: HOLY CRAP HOW MUCH MORE DO WE HAVE TO PANDER BEFORE YOU GUYS BUY THIS GARBAGE THIS WAS SUCH A WASTE OF MONEY

Director: Tatsuo Satou
Studio: Production I.G. and Xebec

Oda Nobuna no Yabou
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Ordinary high schooler Yoshiharu gets pulled into a time slip to the warring states period. There he meets Nobuna Oda - not Nobunaga, Nobuna. In this world, all the famous warlords of the era are female. Nobuna recruits Sagara, who she dubs "Monkey," to help her in her quest to rule the world.

The originality of the premise is only matched by its execution.

Director: Yuuji Kumazawa
Studio: Madhouse

Kingdom
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In the Warring States Period of ancient China (475-221 BCE), Shin and Hyou are war-orphans in the kingdom of Qin. They dream of one day proving themselves on the battlefield. One day, however, Hyou is taken to the palace by a minister. Winding up on the losing side of a power-struggle, Hyou manages to return to the village, barely alive. Shin then meets a boy who closely resembles Hyou, Ei Sei. For now he is the king of Qin; later he will become the emperor Shi Huangdi.

Whoever wins, our eyes lose.

Director: Jun Kamiya
Studio: Pierrot

Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon season 2
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In the far future, humans abandon a devastated Earth and traveled to outer space. However, due to unknown phenomenon that prevents them from traveling into space, humanity returns to Earth only to find it inhospitable except for Japan.

To accomodate the entire human population, pocket dimensions are created around Japan to house in the populace. In order to find a way to return to outer space, the humans began reenacting human history according to the Holy book Testament. But in the year 1413 of the Testament Era, the nations of the pocket dimensions invade and conquer Japan, dividing the territory into feudal fiefdoms and forcing the original inhabitants of Japan to leave.

It is now the year 1648 of the Testament Era, the refugees of Japan now live in the city ship Musashi, where it constantly travels around Japan while being watched by the Testament Union, the authority that runs the re-enactment of history. However, rumors of an apocalypse and war begins to spread when the Testament stops revealing what happens next after 1648.

I don't understand.

Director: Manabu Ono
Studio: Sunrise

Dog Days'
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Republic of Biscotti faces a predicament by the invasion of Galette Leo Knights. In order to save the country, Princess Milchore summons a "hero" from the outer world. Shinku, a junior high school boy living in the Earth, is chosen as the hero.

So if the hero gets married to a dog girl and they give birth to a boy is he literally a son of a

Director: Junji Nishimura
Studio: Seven Arcs

Campione!
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A harem love comedy plus magic battles. Kusanagi Godo is a 16-year-old high school boy, who once killed the god "Verethragna" and acquired the title of "Campione (god killer)" when he was 15. Erica Brandelli is a 16-year-old Italian girl, who is a "Great Knight" of the magic society "Bronze Black Cross" and had fought together with Godo to defeat Verethragna. Godo doesn't like fighting but his title of "Campione" makes him get involved in battles against other Campiones and uncontrollable gods.

Like Gunslinger Girl except terrible and harem crap. So not like Gunslinger Girl.

Director: Keizou Kusakawa
Studio: Barnum Studio

Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse
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Since 1973, an invasion of aliens known as BETA upon Earth is driving human civilization into nearly collapse. Facing an enormous mass of enemy force, mankind has developed large humanoid arms called as Tactical Surface Fighters and deployed them to its defense lines through out the world. However, all those efforts could slow down defeats but could not stop BETA, and mankind is forced to abandon major area of the Eurasian Continent. For 30 years, mankind is bogged down in an endless war against BETA without any hopes of victory.

In 2001, the Imperial Japan faces difficulties in the development of a next-generation main Tactical Surface Fighters (TSF) as it defends the front lines of the Far East. The UN has proposed a joint development program between the Imperial Japan and the United States as a part of its international mutual development project of TSF, the Prominence Project.

Yui Takamura, a surface pilot of the Imperial Royal Guards of Japan, is given responsibility for the project and sets off to Alaska. Meanwhile, Yuya Bridges, also a surface pilot of the US Army, was heading to the same destination.

Yet they never knew that their encounter would change their destiny drastically.

A PS2 game disguised as an anime.

Director: Takayuki Inagaki
Studio: Ixtl and Satelight

Kono Naka Ni Hitori, Imouto Ga Iru!
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Abiding by his father's will, Shougo was transferred into an academy where many young girls attend. It appears as though his younger sister (separated from him at birth) also attends this academy, and that she is trying to get closer to him without letting know him who she actually is. Problem is, Shougo seems to be popular with the other girls as well! Can Shougo "properly" reunite with his little sister and while making a girlfriend at the same time?!

You might think that there's no way an anime about NOT *wink wink* dating your sister could possibly be classy and well-done. Well, you'd be right.

Director: Munenori Nawa
Studio: Studio Gokumi

Koi to Senkyou to Chocolate
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Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate follows the protagonist Yūki Ōjima, who attends Takafuji Private Academy a large school with over 6,000 students. Yūki is a member of the Food Research Club along with seven others, including his childhood friend Chisato Sumiyoshi. The members leisurely spend their time in the club not doing much activities. When the election of the next student council president comes up, the front runner Satsuki Shinonome proposes that clubs that have no merit should be sorted out and abolished. The Food Research Club seeks advice from the current student council president Yakumo Mōri, who suggests Yūki run in the election as an opposing candidate. Yūki learns about the issues facing the school and decides to run in the election.

Does anybody even care about that summary right there? Nobody who's watching this show cares about the "plot."

Director: Toru Kitahata
Studio: AIC Build

Chitose Get You!
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Chitose is an 11-year-old girl who is madly in love with an older guy named Hiroshi. He works at the town hall right next to the school and Chitose spends every day relentlessly pursuing him. Can Chitose ever convince Hiroshi to go out with her?

I'm not even surprised any more.

Director: Takao Sano
Studio: Silver Link

La storia della Arcana Famiglia
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The story takes place on the small island of Regalo in the Mediterranean Sea. The island has been protected by a vigilante committee called "Arcana Famiglia". The members of the family have psychic powers gained by a secret ritual.

Felicita is a 16-year-old girl who was raised by her strict mother. She visits Regalo to see her father who is the head of Arcana Famiglia. He tells her to become the leader of "Serie of Sword", the arbitrator section of the family.

What's with the Italy fetish this season?

Director: Chiaki Kon
Studio: J.C. Staff

Hagure Yuusha no Estetica
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In normal RPGs, a hero defeats the Satan king and the story ends. But what does the hero do after that? Ohtorizawa Akatsuki defeats the Satan king in the fantasy world of Alleyzard and returns to the real world. He is sheltered by the international organization BABEL, which protects and controls people transferred from the outer worlds. BABEL is astonished to know Akatsuki has really defeated Satan and brings Satan's daughter Miu from Alleyzard. In the academy of BABEL, Akatsuki confronts other "returners", who have psychic powers.

Bad character designs and dumb premise will not watch.

Director: Rion Kujo
Studio: ARMS

Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai
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Kaga Ryosuke is an ecchi high school boy. One day, he meets a girl standing alone in the rain. She is Lisarah Restor, an elite Death, who visited the human world in order to find "Singular Man".

Ryosuke makes a contract with Lisarah and she sucks energy required for her activity in the human world from Ryosuke. The source of the energy is his ecchi spirit.

To recover the sexual desire, Ryosuke has no choice but to help Lisarah's search.

She's a demon why is she blushing?

Director: Takeo Takahashi
Studio: Feel

Hakuouki: Reimei-roku
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A third TV series, it is the prequel of Hakuouki and tells the story of the dawning of the Shinsengumi.

I don't care enough to even finish thi

Director: Osamu Yamasaki
Studio: DEEN

Ebiten Kouritsu Ebisugawa Koukou Tenmon-bu
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Noya Itsuki just started his school year at the Ebisugawa High School and since he has always had a fascination with space, he decides to join the astronomy club. However, he mistakenly walks into the all girls Otaku Club. He notices that the members are really weird, but Itsuki has yet to realize that he isn’t in the astronomy club. His life is about to get complicated by being surrounded by so many girls.

Remember when you were in high school and all the hot chicks hung out in the astronomy club?

Director: Hideki Okamoto
Studio: AIC Classic

Aruvu Rezuru: Kikai Jikake no Yousei-tachi
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A cyber battle sci-fi. In 2022, the technology of quantum computing has greatly advanced and many people have transfered their mind into the cyber space.

Remu's sister-in-law, Shiki, skipped grades and entered a high school in the academic city "Okinotori-island Mega Float City (OMFC)" when she was 14. One day, Shiki confessed to her brother via Skype that she was talking to him directly from the cyber space and her real body had been kept in a water tank filled with a culture medium. It's called "Body pool" and Shiki connected to the network by nanomachines implanted in her brain.

Remu was surprised but he accepted her decision until an accident called "Early Rupture" happened. The network server got overloaded and users' minds were lost in cyber space leaving soulless living bodies in the Body Pools. In order to bring Shiki's mind back, Remu visits her apartment in OMFC and there meets Shiki escaped from the hospital. But the girl tells him that she is not Shiki and she happens to haven taken over Shiki's body.

When Remu tries to figure out the situation, a violent attack strikes the apartment.

Does this show even exist? I'm serious.

Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara
Studio: Zexcs

Tanken Driland
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Due to the influence of someone who visited her town when she was a child, Princess Mikoto of Elua decides to become a hunter and search for treasure all over the land of Driland. She sets out on her journey with her personal assistant Wallens, but they are soon joined by Pollon, a hunter who dreams of being a hero, and Paan, a wandering knight. As they continue their exploration they begin to sense great danger drawing near.

Dunno much about this except that wonzo is watching it. Looks cute.

Director: Toshinori Fukuzawa
Studio: Toei

Pokemon: Best Wishes Season 2
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Satoshi, Iris and Dent will continue their travels through the Isshu region and Satoshi's league challenge.

I WANT TO BE THE VERY BEST

Director: Norihiko Sudo
Studio: Oriental Light and Magic

Movies

Fairy Tail: Priestess of the Phoenix
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Don't care.

Naruto: Road to Ninja
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Don't care harder.

Blood C: The Last Dark
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Saya protect my hype.

Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto-hen
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Remember when DEEN was good?

Berserk Ougen Jidai Hen II
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Remember when animators could draw armor and horses?

Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki
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THE HOSODAPOCALYPSE WILL SAVE US ALL Or kill us. Either way, we will all be changed forever, in ways both fuzzy and mysterious.
 

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Character of the season

Wein - Tari Tari

Gif of the season

Hyouka celebration

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Members that are a public health risk

jman2050 - with 261 shameful posts in OT2

please keep your eyes peeled for this avatar and then ignore at all costs

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duckroll - his insanity will consume us all. may also be a loli in disguise.

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cajunator - he can bend the laws of moe at will. very dangerous and possibly not human.

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Members of wisdom

DTL - his mind is a database, filled only with the most emotionally moving shows!

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Kayos90 - one day, he shall dethrone cajunator. one day!

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Hyouka sales >>> Denpa sales (the people have spoken)

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Chuunibyou girl will out crazy all Denpa girls!

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K-ON is AOTF.
 

cajunator

Banned
WHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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In the midst of all this craziness. ANN has reviewed SAO. lolz

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/sword-art-online/episodes-1

Multiple early side stories foster impatience, Kirito isn't that interesting on his own.

The monsters do not look all that different from something that could have popped up in the .hack// series, and beyond Asuna the character designs are largely uninspired (although the way equipment quality has decidedly increased over time is a nice touch).

The one time I read these and Im disappointed. Why does no one in the critical community like Kirito, he has a large fandom of loyal fans and he is called "uninteresting"? He's like my main reason for sticking with it with all the terrible characters he has to babysit since they are not competent on their own :(

Also, too many comparisons to .hack//sign...
 

Tomat

Wanna hear a good joke? Waste your time helping me! LOL!
Great thread title!

Isn't the wall of shame a little too big? That's basically everyone who posts in here more than twice a week!
 

madp

The Light of El Cantare
Sengoku Collection had more good episodes this season than anything that premiered in July! (that I'm watching)
 

darkside31337

Tomodachi wa Mahou
For once I'm not on the wall. Yay.

From what I've seen this season I've been enjoying it. Nothing amazing but the only show I've considered dropping was Hyouka, and being a total glutton for pain (lets go jets!) I've kept at it. Yuru Yuri, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Kokoro Connect have been pretty enjoyable.
 

cajunator

Banned
For once I'm not on the wall. Yay.

From what I've seen this season I've been enjoying it. Nothing amazing but the only show I've considered dropping was Hyouka, and being a total glutton for pain I've kept at it. Yuru Yuri, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Kokoro Connect have been pretty enjoyable.

Hyouka isnt THAT bad, but episodes 2-3, 6, and 18 have been kind of meh to me.
The rest ranged from decent to great.
 

RurouniZel

Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
For once I'm not on the wall. Yay.

From what I've seen this season I've been enjoying it. Nothing amazing but the only show I've considered dropping was Hyouka, and being a total glutton for pain (lets go jets!) I've kept at it. Yuru Yuri, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Kokoro Connect have been pretty enjoyable.

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