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Summer Anime 2015 |OT| SharingMana

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"There will be no Shirobako season 2 because the director has anime lined up for the next several years"
http://yaraon-blog.com/archives/65829

Well i guess it's not really a bad news, a great doesn't really means need a sequel.
Plus according to PA Works history, they don't know to count to 2, even worse than Valve.

RIP Anime. I'm so saddened by this news. This is the worst news I've gotten since the Digimon Adventure Tri trailer. The year of dreams is over.
 
Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace Episode 2
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Hashiba blushes so much, love?

All the bl made me wish the plot had went with Kobayashi's one of the teacher in love with the student instead of the typical
obsessed female killer

Good overall.
 

Cornbread78

Member
Since I really love Non Non Biyori I don't mind you watching it before Barakamon. I really love both shows so it's nice seeing you enjoy this one.
Although once you're done with Non Non Biyori could you provide some impressions of Barakamon.


I know, I know... ごめんなさい

I need a break from NNB for the afternoon anyhow, so I'll watch a couple episodes real fast now. Monday I'll be going back to Full Moon, so hopefully I can clear it this weekend, but those damn Hulu commercials...
 

John Blade

Member
Oooooh, well then John Blade, thank you for your write up of Someday's Dreamers, made me want to watch it. I will be watching the Sora version next, since I'm curious on what they do. It's a good anime, I mean I watched it and gave it an 8, so that's pretty good.

I will say this, Sora version will have more emotional feeling when you watch it. You will understanding when you get there as you kinda wish it didn't happened but can't help but understand why the main character is doing it. Do hope you like the show.

Also, if you like a romance show that isn't Anime cliche you see in most anime, do look into Emma A Victorian Romance as I just finish the 2nd season in 1 day Marathon. The best way to say 2nd season is emotional roller coaster from beginning to end. Will make my impression of 2nd season and the whole series a bit.
 
Chaos Dragon - 01 & 02

This blows. I can't tell if it's the eyes, but something rubs me the wrong way in how this looks. Some scene transitions feels disjointed, like I dozed off for a minute and missed something in between.
I can't evoke any emotions during the "sacrifices" that they play up so dramatic because I don't give a fuck about any character! Action sequences are boring and the villains makes me cringe.

I think the only thing I liked from these two episodes was one dude's sword holster that looked like a gun wheel, that load turned and then shot out weapons.
So yeah I'll probably end up watching all of it anyway. RIP.
 

Arcadius

Banned
Okusama Episode 2

Nothing to be said...

School-LIVE Episode 1

Yuki, ahhh, so cute. Taroumaru is a cute dog too. Love the OP, very fun and up beat with a great animation. Kurumi, Mii, Rii, all the girls are pretty. The amount of cute and "moe" that School Live gives off is so much, so so so much! The way the first episode is setup is really neat, we're never shown the outside world, all the windows are really bright so we don't know what it's like until the "twist" occurs. I'm really curious about Yuki and why she sees things the way she does, it's very... interesting, mad interesting. The ED is really good too, I enjoyed it.

Is this a 1-cour or 2-cour show?

Himouto! Umaru-chan Episode 1

I looooooooooooooove the chibi Umaru, oh my "ahhhhhhhhhhh', yessss! Looking forward to more of the blue haired girl, she's awesome. I love the segment on eating foods that go great with cola, holy crap that was funny. Her brother has to deal with quite the handful, but Umaru is so much fun. I really like this one.

I like the art style, especially the way chibi Umaru is drawn, that's really great. Nice colors and detail where it needs to be. The sound effects used are really fun and cute, like when we first meet Umaru-chan and she crawls towards her food, the cute sound that went along with her crawl, ahhh, just so good. OP and ED are both really good and fun. Heck, this whole anime is just fun and cute, can't wait to see what else they can do.

Non Non Biyori ep. 1-6:
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I don't even kow what to say about this one. It's a straight SoL with nothing but cuteness, more cuteness, a little comedy and not much else, lol. Renge is the cutest 1st grader ever and poor senpai, just keeps getting dumped on. A whole lot of anime cuteness in here. Entertaining to say the least.

Yaaaaay Cornbread!
 

Sterok

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School-LIVE 1

This is one of those instances where I wish I could've gone in completely blind. I read the first few chapters of the manga before dropping it for some reason. Yuki is a fairly typical protagonist for the most part, except she ends up being one of the most bonkers protagonists in anime history. Shovel girl is cool. Should be a decent watch.
 
Gintama 278

Never forget Moms lunches are the best and filled with lots of love. I really loved this episode and it made me crack up with different lunches Seita received. Loved the note Sa-chan left seriously leftovers ahahaha. Also that Toriko reference.

The new Opening is really great. I love it.
 

Ascheroth

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Ranpo Kitan 2

Aaaaand dropped. I stopped the minute they revealed the murderer.
Called it last week who the murderer was and I was right, even though I hoped I was wrong because it felt rather obvious to me.
Combine this with the whole lot of anime in this anime and I'm done. The protag, BL blushes, 120% anime teacher and the random as fuck autopsy report feel reaaally out of place, and the, in my opinion, rather weak mystery can't outbalance that.

Well, I already have a guess regarding the murderer. But I hope I'm wrong, because if it's that easy I'm going to drop this show immediately.
It's
the greyed out girl in the classroom scene that talkes with Kobayashi and the class rep. She says something about how the corpse of the teacher looks, but we learn later that detective shounen forced a media ban, so no one should know specifics like that except for Kobayashi and class rep who were at the murder scene. And they couldn't have told anyone because they were at the station and when they came back it was already animu-sensei time. Of course this theory falls apart if there were some off-screen things going on.
 

Jarmel

Banned
Adding a few of my panel observations in bold to what Jarmel already said:
(I removed stuff I'm not commenting on, definitely look at his full post if you missed it)

Thanks for correcting me on Miyazaki with the Conan run stuff, I thought it was some random ass animator that I hadn't heard of. Miyazaki makes a lot more sense. I'll fix that in my post. Utsunomiya's style of running does seem more realistic in that when you run, your landing leg isn't completely straight but rather still bent.

Also did you pick up/understand Iso's instructions to the inbetweener? That section went completely beyond me.

For Trigger, I kind of got the impression that Yoshinari was a downer after all the insecurity he displayed and expressed during the two panels and the LWA2 screening, so I'm glad to hear that it's just his personality in general.
Yea Yoshinari is a fairly serious person and if Imaishi is optimistic, Yoshinari is critical. Their personalities are pretty much on the opposite spectrum. At some point or another, he described Imaishi as Akko and him as Diana. If you haven't seen the "Making of Little Witch Academia" behind-the-scenes documentary, it gives you a fairly good insight into his personality. He's overly blunt at times.

On the note of Kawasumi, someone asked her to say "EXACLIBAH" during the FSN event and she was in a kimono. So she had to take an open leg stance to say it, as the line comes from her gut. Kinda cute.
 
Game of Laplace 2
Even the teacher wanted the MC lol.
Himouto! Umaru-chan 1
pencils in ear
Danchigai 01
que
Okusama ga Seitokaichou! 2
anime boobs does not make this less terrible
Kuusen Madoushi Kouhosei no Kyoukan 01
holy shit @ this shit.
 

Shard

XBLAnnoyance
One neat detail I liked about School LIVE! is how it tipped its hand
with one of the girls reading Steven King's The Stand.
 
Gakkou Gurashi - 01

They did a nice job with the cute stuff. I liked the breadcrumbs throughout like the writing on the board and the cross for examples.
The window scene was neat, with the wind still blowing and her not giving a fuck. Looking forward to how this plays out.
 

Cornbread78

Member
Barakanon ep 1-3
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I don't know if I can handle all these cute anime series today, lol. This little cutie makes the show and if you put her and Renge together and my goodness, you could have a fun and energenic cast. I guess this will be a coming of age of sorts for Sensei in this one as he finds himself through his personal discourse, but his interactions with the kids like Naru and the other girls are excellant so far and we are only 3 episodes in. This should be an entertaining watch and I'll probably have enough time tomorrow to finish this and NNB, so it should be a great day!
 

Gbraga

Member
Umaru-chan is so cuuuuuuuuuuuuute, oh god. TT_TT

This is truly the beast season in a long time, Umarun is adorable TT_TT

I wonder where the story will go though, she does the same stuff every day. Not that I have any problems with that. Umarun
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She's so relatable, too. Of course I'm not nearly as amazing as she is in everything, but the whole "I'm home, time to be myself" is just universally relatable, I guess. Especially given the kind of stuff she's into.

YOU DEAD
 

Joe Molotov

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One neat detail I liked about School LIVE! is how it tipped its hand
with one of the girls reading Steven King's The Stand.

I wish I could watch this first episode without already knowing what the game is, but I'd already heard about it a while back.
 

Arcadius

Banned
Barakanon ep 1-3
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I don't know if I can handle all these cute anime series today, lol. This little cutie makes the show and if you put her and Renge together and my goodness, you could have a fun and energenic cast. I guess this will be a coming of age of sorts for Sensei in this one as he finds himself through his personal discourse, but his interactions with the kids like Naru and the other girls are excellant so far and we are only 3 episodes in. This should be an entertaining watch and I'll probably have enough time tomorrow to finish this and NNB, so it should be a great day!

Welcome to a day in Arcy's shoes. The cute anime will save us all.

Umaru-chan is so cuuuuuuuuuuuuute, oh god. TT_TT

This is truly the beast season in a long time, Umarun is adorable TT_TT

I wonder where the story will go though, she does the same stuff every day. Not that I have any problems with that. Umarun
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She's so relatable, too. Of course I'm not nearly as amazing as she is in everything, but the whole "I'm home, time to be myself" is just universally relatable, I guess. Especially given the kind of stuff she's into.

YOU DEAD

Mega squeees, so much. Umaru is pretty amazing and I also wonder how the anime will progress; I also have no issues if it's just the same things everyday, though I have a feeling Ebina will have some role to play, maybe find out what Umaru is like at home, hehehe, it's going to be so much fun.
 

JKTrix

Member
Also did you pick up/understand Iso's instructions to the inbetweener? That section went completely beyond me.
Not completely. The way I understood it was in the context of the whole production being a lavish Super Animator party where they could do whatever they want, just because (aside - that's a big part of why I really like Space Dandy too). The specific thing he was talking about was when the other guy on the left comes in and starts tapping the main guy's belly.
http://sakuga.yshi.org/data/a2f1bd54a0a884365a73d96544b7c1a9.webm
Iso wanted to inject more life into the characters by animating the kinds of actions one does subconsciously, I guess like those hand taps, rather than a conscious action like them swinging their cups around. So I understood that part, but there were some more abstract explanations in it that I didn't fully catch.
 
Barakanon ep 1-3
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I don't know if I can handle all these cute anime series today, lol. This little cutie makes the show and if you put her and Renge together and my goodness, you could have a fun and energenic cast. I guess this will be a coming of age of sorts for Sensei in this one as he finds himself through his personal discourse, but his interactions with the kids like Naru and the other girls are excellant so far and we are only 3 episodes in. This should be an entertaining watch and I'll probably have enough time tomorrow to finish this and NNB, so it should be a great day!

Yeah if I there was a show that had both Naru and Renge together I'd probably die from cuteness overload.

Also I can't wait till you see best Mom introduced later on.
 

Gbraga

Member
Mega squeees, so much. Umaru is pretty amazing and I also wonder how the anime will progress; I also have no issues if it's just the same things everyday, though I have a feeling Ebina will have some role to play, maybe find out what Umaru is like at home, hehehe, it's going to be so much fun.

The whole ending part with the grocery store culminating in the flashback was the most adorable part of the episode. She's even more cute when she's trying really hard not to be herself. She seems to handle school just fine, but when she's along with her brother, it's much tougher to keep being her public figure.

Oh man, I'm already in love with this anime.
 

Arcadius

Banned
The whole ending part with the grocery store culminating in the flashback was the most adorable part of the episode. She's even more cute when she's trying really hard not to be herself. She seems to handle school just fine, but when she's along with her brother, it's much tougher to keep being her public figure.

Oh man, I'm already in love with this anime.

Haha, that's a great pickup. It was really noticeable during the ice cream scene, when she for a second gets really happy, but then decides to stay angry at him anyways, but when she got happy, it was more like... the chibi Umaru type of happy and not the Perfect Umaru type of happy, if you know what I mean. The dynamic is really great. I love it how she changes between chibi and normal Umaru too, that's such a neat thing to animate, a lot of this show is really well done.
 

Pundere

Member
Gatchaman Crowds Season 1
Well this is pretty awesome. Shame you barely get to see
OD and Katze's transformations
as they seem really damn cool. I still need to watch the director's cut to figure out wtf happened at the end but overall great show. Can't wait to start in on Insight.

Prisma Illya 1-4
Yeah I'm gonna keep watching this. The world of the Fate series is the best part about it and this is a neat twist on it.

Ninja Slayer - About 5 minutes of episode 1
Yeah no thanks I'm good.
 

Arcadius

Banned
Prisma Illya 1-4
Yeah I'm gonna keep watching this. The world of the Fate series is the best part about it and this is a neat twist on it.

I'll be watching them before the new season airs, but the best twist is the cute girls, right... right..... right? (Answer is, yes).
 

R.D.Blax

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Senki Zesshou Symphogear- S1 & S2

Holy shit ! What a wild ride ! Why did I never heard of this anime until now ! Seriously, it was everything I like !!
Epic and over the top action ? Check !
Kick ass female protagonists ? Check !
Nice soundtrack ? Check !
Female character holding hand ? Double check !!!

All of this in a decent packages, and it has become one of my favorite anime ever ! Now, time for the next season !

Senki Zesshou Symphogear GX- Episode 1

Oh boy, if all the other episodes are at least half awesome as this one, I'm going to enjoy it even more than the 2 others seasons !
 

Gbraga

Member
Haha, that's a great pickup. It was really noticeable during the ice cream scene, when she for a second gets really happy, but then decides to stay angry at him anyways, but when she got happy, it was more like... the chibi Umaru type of happy and not the Perfect Umaru type of happy, if you know what I mean. The dynamic is really great. I love it how she changes between chibi and normal Umaru too, that's such a neat thing to animate, a lot of this show is really well done.

Yeah, yeah, exactly! The same for when she almost cried when she dropped it. She can't help but let bits and pieces of her chibi self show when she's around her brother. Which is natural, it's the only person she's used to be herself around, after all.

It's just fucking adorable.
 

Mandelbo

Member
Debating whether I should watch Gakkou Gurashi now or wait until some more episodes are out... I'm probably just gonna end up watching it tomorrow, but watching a lot of it in one sitting would be good...
 

Arcadius

Banned
No it's the interesting reimagining of the heroic spirits an- yeah it's the cute girls.


Yay to the girls.

Yeah, yeah, exactly! The same for when she almost cried when she dropped it. She can't help but let bits and pieces of her chibi self show when she's around her brother. Which is natural, it's the only person she's used to be herself around, after all.

It's just fucking adorable.

I agree so much!

Debating whether I should watch Gakkou Gurashi now or wait until some more episodes are out... I'm probably just gonna end up watching it tomorrow, but watching a lot of it in one sitting would be good...

If you can handle waiting, I think it might be better to watch a couple episodes back to back, but if you can't wait, it's a pretty good first episode right off the bat.

there's an uncensored version of My Wife is the Student Council President?

looks up GIS

why

Because we need to see the nipples and boobs!?
 

cajunator

Banned
I took it more as a warning of sorts lol. A small reminder that we are being watched.

I think we are all well aware that we are being watched here.

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions S2 ep. 7-END:
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I love the color of her eyes in this gif...

OK, I'll agree with everyone here; this was a big step down from Season 1. It was entertaining in a SoL kinda way, but even in the end, there was only a small step forward in character developement and story. I guess that was the creative story they were going for, or they were trying to keep the idea open for a third season. In the end, there was a very cute moment, but just felt meh in the grand scheme of things.... It's a shame because I enjoyed the first season with it's mix of feel good moments and comedy. Both where limited in the 2nd season. Overall, it's an enjoyable ride, but still a letdown from the Season 1 closing as I thought they were going to go deeper into watching Rikka outgrow and overcome her Chunibyo and deepen her relationship with her man. Instead, we got a demi- love triangle, teanage angst and some SoL fun.

I particularly love the eye design in Chuuni. One of KyoAni's most expressive designs I think. Very beautiful. Theyve always been outstanding at expressions and character design. As for story, as you can see its hit or miss lol. But I think it has more to do with the material they used rather than any lack of talent on KyoAni's part.

Laggy crunchyroll is torture. I don't want to hear any of this calm down shit. If it takes you an hour to watch a twenty two minute video and you can't even just sit there and let it buffer there something fucking wrong. When your performance is worse than if I just went to some random streaming site I begin to question why I sub at all.

Before you ask my hardware and my internet are monsters and it was working perfectly fine until what I'm guessing is an American onpeak traffic hour or something like that.

Honestly I havent come across this, but I have had rock solid fiber internet for years. I wonder if that makes a difference at all? I do get a occasional freeze, but stuttering definitely doesnt happen on my end.
 
Gintama 279


Holy shit did this segment crack me up. Seriously nipples lol. Anyway this episode was quite different in the visual department than any Gintama episode. It felt different especially with all the city lights and everything. The episode itself was good and quite hilarious. The part where Gin said this one's for Krillin killed me.

Reaper-chan is pretty hilarious and cute herself, with her removing Gin's nipple. Great introduction to the serious arc so far.
 

Mandelbo

Member
If you can handle waiting, I think it might be better to watch a couple episodes back to back, but if you can't wait, it's a pretty good first episode right off the bat.

That's basically my thinking, too - impressions have been quite good so far, but then shows like this are best viewed relatively quickly rather than across several weeks.

Actually, I have a question. I read a little bit of the manga, so I know stuff about the start, but for those of you who read it more closely did it ever finish? Or is it still ongoing?
 

Cornbread78

Member
Yeah if I there was a show that had both Naru and Renge together I'd probably die from cuteness overload.

Also I can't wait till you see best Mom introduced later on.

The manga girl was pretty funny as well, but they sketch her so she looks like she much older than she is, lol

A cutie Mom huh? Is she on Sanae or Yui's mom level?


Welcome to a day in Arcy's shoes. The cute anime will save us all.

Definitely a lot of cutenses going on today, lol.


Yessssss, I didn't realise you hadn't watched Non Non Biyori yet! Renge is the best, and brings a smile to my face whenever she's on screen. When I first started watching, I thought she might be the sarcastic, pessimistic type based off her facial expressions - man, I'm glad I was so, so wrong.

Yeah, you guys were right, from the music in the OP through the presentation and setting, it's a very serene series.
 

Squishy3

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Gintama 279



Holy shit did this segment crack me up. Seriously nipples lol. Anyway this episode was quite different in the visual department than any Gintama episode. It felt different especially with all the city lights and everything. The episode itself was good and quite hilarious. The part where Gin said this one's for Krillin killed me.

Reaper-chan is pretty hilarious and cute herself, with her removing Gin's nipple. Great introduction to the serious arc so far.
It's only fitting that Gin's nipples get removed, the Monkey Hunter arc got his penis, the Onymoji arc got his balls, so there was only one organ of a somewhat sexual nature left to be fouled.
 

Ascheroth

Member
Gangsta 2

Another interesting episode this week!
We get more information about the "Dogtags", which seems to be the main mystery so far.
The sign language usage is really, really cool and I love the little details during the character interactions, like when Worick turned his back against Nicolas in the office and talks, the latter immediately moved up, so he could see his lip movement.
Seriously, I never thought a deaf character could be this interesting if done right.

There are also a few new characters introduced this episode. We have badass Doctor Theo and his cute little assisstant Nina and it looks like the girl has some backstory with Nicolas.
And we also get a look at what are probably going to be the main antagonists, though saying look is rather farfetched considering they are only shown in classic silhuette style with their face largely blacked out.
And on the topic of characters: We learn the full names of the two protags
on a wanted poster in the police office
Nicolas Brown and Worick Arcangelo. Goddammit, the Japanese and their western naming sense xD

The action segments also felt way better then last week. A few scenes felt weirdly slow, but all in all nothing dealbreaking for me here.
 
The manga girl was pretty funny as well, but they sketch her so she looks like she much older than she is, lol

A cutie Mom huh? Is she on Sanae or Yui's mom level?

The manga girl gets even better with her antics and there's this specific scene where she literally gets blown away. It makes for a great gif. Also the whole cast in this series are really enjoyable and full of energy.

As a person who thinks Yui's mom is great the Mom that gets introduced later in Barakamon is far superior.

It's only fitting that Gin's nipples get removed, the Monkey Hunter arc got his penis, the Onymoji arc got his balls, so there was only one organ of a somewhat sexual nature left to be fouled.

What about the belly button?
 

Gbraga

Member
Is Nicolas supposed to be mixed? They refer to him as asian, but Nicolas Brown isn't exactly a traditional asian name, is it?

Legitimately asking, maybe Nicolas is a common name in some asian country I'm not aware of.
 
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