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[Dresden]

It's too cold outside, stay in and watch Japanese cartoons.

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Haiyoru! Nyaruani is about moe Cthulu or something. The flash episodes were god-awful. Generic moe desecration of an English classic.

Air Date: December 10, 2010
Animation Studio: DLE
Channel to be aired on: BS11 at 24:30
Official Site: http://ga.sbcr.jp/bunko_blog/nyaruani/

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Card Fight!! is about people fighting with cards. Not much else to say about it.

Air Date: January 8, 2011
Animation Studio: TMS Entertainment
Channel to be aired on: TV Tokyo at 08:00
Official Site: http://cf-vanguard.com/
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Fractale is the story of a boy named Crane (voiced by Yu Kobayashi), who lives on an island where the Fractale system--apparently a virtual-reality network seamlessly integrated into the land itself--is breaking down. He then finds a girl. There's been an underwhelming manga adaptation for it, for which a few chapters have been released, should you find the urge to check it out before the show airs. From the director of Kannagi. It's an anime for noitaminA, so it might be worth checking out.

Air Date: January 13, 2011
Animation Studio: A-1 Pictures & Ordet
Channel to be aired on: Fuji TV at 24:45
Official Site: http://fractale.noitamina.tv/

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Dragon Crisis is about... zzz.

A normal high school boy Kisaragi Ryuji's peaceful life is turned into an adventure by the return of his second cousin Eriko. Ryuji and Eriko seize a relic box from a black broker. In the box, they find a red dragon girl Rose. In order to protect Rose from the black organization, Ryuji decides to fight using his power as a relic handler.

Air Date: January 10, 2011
Animation Studio: Studio Deen
Channel to be aired on: Chiba TV at 25:30
Official Site: http://dragoncrisis.jp/
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Suite Precure. A new focus on music? Could be interesting.

Air Date: February 6, 2011
Animation Studio: Toei Animation
Channel to be aired on: TV Asahi at 08:30
Official Site: http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/suite_precure/
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Motherfucking Beelzebub, son. About a bro who gets saddled with an infant demon prince and his delicious combat maid. Adapted from the Shonen Jump manga of the same name.

Has the potential to be enjoyable; the comic is funny stuff, for the most part.

Air Date: January 9, 2011
Animation Studio: Studio Pierrot
Channel to be aired on: Nihon TV at 7:00
Official Site: http://www.ytv.co.jp/beelze/
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Freezing. I really can't make sense of the summary, and I read a bit of the manga. Unremarkable stuff.

Set in a slightly futuristic world where Earth has been invaded and is at war with aliens from another dimension called the Nova, the story follows the adventures of a Japanese boy named Kazuya Aoi who enrolls for training at a special school for genetically modified girls called Pandoras who battle the aliens, and their male partners, called Limiters, who use a special power called "freezing" to limit their opponent's mobility. The protagonist makes the acquaintance of an unusual older girl named Bridgette L. Satellizer who appears to be the most powerful Pandora in her class, but has not yet chosen a male partner to be her Limiter, and in spite of the warnings of all his friends, he decides to be her Limiter.

Air Date: January 8, 2011
Animation Studio: A.C.G.T
Channel to be aired on: AT-X at 9:30~/23:30~
Official Site: http://freezing.tv/
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GOSICK, a show from BONES. About a crime-solving loli and her requisite Japanese sidekick in some European setting.

GOSICK takes place in 1924 in a small, made-up European country of Sauville. The story centers on Kazuya Kujo, the third son of a Japanese Imperial soldier, who is a transfer student to St. Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. There he meets Victorique, a mysterious yet beautiful and brilliant girl who never comes to class and spends her days reading the entire content of the library or solving mysteries that even detectives can't solve.

Air Date: January 7, 2011
Animation Studio: Bones
Channel to be aired on: TV Tokyo at 1:23
Official Site: http://www.gosick.tv/
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Starry Sky is about a girl who elopes with twelve handsome boys, who in turn represent twelve constellations of the Zodiac. Reverse-harem, from DEEN. Forgettable.

Air Date: December 23, 2010
Animation Studio: Studio Deen
Channel to be aired on: Animate TV at 16:00
Official Site: http://sta-ska.com/index.html
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Infinite Stratos. The trailer may make it look like a generic harem anime, because it is. Awesome, because it has guns. Set in a world where girls do the fighting because men can't, for some odd reason or another; yet the protagonist, a conveniently Japanese self-insertion character, can and thus is beset by virgins, virgins everywhere.

Thumbs-up for generic harem anime everywhere.

Air Date: January 6, 2011
Animation Studio: 8-bit
Channel to be aired on: TBS/BS-TBS at 25:25
Official Site: http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/is/
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Kimi ni Todoke 2 continues the story of Sawako, a dim-witted girl whose extraordinary moe-ness helps her find friends, thwart romantic adversaries, and fall in love.

Supposed to be good. Check out the first season if you are interested. It's certainly a beautifully produced show.

Air date: January 4, 2011
Animation Studio: Production IG
Channel to be aired: NTV at 24:59
Official Site: http://www.ntv.co.jp/kiminitodoke/
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Kore wa zombie desk ka? is about a dude who dies and becomes a crime-fighting zombie after he screws over the magical chainsaw loli's powers.

Air Date: January 10, 2011
Animation Studio: Studio Deen
Channel to be aired on: Teletama at 25:30
Official Site: http://newtype.kadocomic.jp/zombie/
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Level-E, from Yoshihiro Togashi, the oft-"ill" creator of Hunter x Hunter and Yu Yu Hakusho. Tsutsui Yukitaka is a young man who moves out of his father's house, ready for the bachelor life. When he arrives at his new apartment, however, he meets a young man who claims to be an amnesiac alien.

Could be good.

Air Date: January 10, 2011
Animation Studio: Studio Pierrot & David Production
Channel to be aired on: TV Tokyo at 25:45
Official Site: http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/level-e/
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Madoka Magica is about a girl named Madoka who becomes a magical girl or something. From SHAFT, with designs by Ume Aoki, the creator of Hidamari Sketch.

Air Date: January 6, 2011
Animation Studio: Shaft
Channel to be aired on: TV Tokyo at 08:00
Official Site: http://www.madoka-magica.com/
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Mitsudomoe 2 continues from where the forgettable first season left off.

Zoryochu continues the adventures of teacher Satoshi Yabe (Yabe-cchi) and the troublesome Marui triplets: Futaba, Mitsuba, and Hitoha.

Air Date: January 08, 2011 (8 episodes)
Animation Studio: Bridge
Channel to be aired on: MBS at 26:58
Official Site: http://www.mitsudomoe-anime.com/
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Rio-Rainbow Gate, based on a pachinko game. Japan is such a wonderful place.

Rio is a popular casino dealer at the Howard Resort, an entertainment resort hotel where people from all over the world gather. She competes for the greatest honor among dealers — "Most Valuable Casino Dealer" (MVCD) — by collecting 13 legendary cards known as "Gates."

Air Date: January 4, 2011
Animation Studio: Xebec
Channel to be aired on: Tokyo MX at 23:00
Official Site: http://riorainbowgate.com/
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Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne—!! , based on the awful manga of the same name.

Junior high school student Nao is determined to make her brother, high School student Shuusuke, see her as a woman. So determined is she that goes to his room to throw away all his non-incest related porn. But as she's looking for his porno stash, she finds a photo album...and she's not in any of his childhood pictures.

Animation Studio: Zexcs
Official Site: http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/oniichan/

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Wolverine. Wolverine is that guy with the claws and shit.

Air Date: January 7, 2011
Animation Studio: Madhouse
Channel to be aired on: Animax at 22:00
Official Site: http://www.animax.co.jp/marvelanime/wolverine/
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From the director of Casshern Sins comes Yumekui Merry, or Merry Dream Eater.

Ten years ago Fujiwara noticed he had a power to see multicolored auras surrounding the person's body. Ever since then he's been having a weird dream about a war with cats. Then one day a mysterious girl falls on top of him...

Air Date: January 6, 2011
Animation Studio: J.C. Staff
Channel to be aired on: TBS/BS-TBS at 25:55
Official Site: http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/yumekui/
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Houkago no Pleiades is the collaborative project between Gainax... and Subaru. It certainly sounds odd. Not much information about it, but if you're a Gainax whore--a scarred, broken whore like me--then you'll watch it, and you'll like it. Hanamaru Kindergarten represent.

Animation Studio: Gainax
Official Site: http://sbr-gx.jp/
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Wandering Son.

I thought about writing up a long-ish post about it, but I ain't very eloquent--so I decided to link to the post that made me read the series in the first place. Hopefully, the anime adaptation--which has looked excellent so far--lives up to the source material.

Hourou Musuko certainly hasn't gone unnoticed. The first chapter debuted in the long ago year of 2002, and continues to run today; in Enterbrain's Seinen magazine, Comic Beam.

For the sake of those who are not aware, and to make thing's more simple; Seinen is the name given to works intended for an older male audience. Seinen Manga tend to be Mature works comparable to the modern novel; usually not involving strange fantasy or science fiction tales, but realistic story lines that follow relationships, growing up, and so forth.

Hourou Musuko is not a series that can be summed up to couple of sentences. Even if you read the first volume you won't be able describe what is so great about it, you won’t be able to easily digest or divulge the plot, you wouldn’t even be able to tell anyone exactly why you were reading it.

The story begins rather simply, portraying a common japanese family getting ready for school, having breakfast, and that sort of thing. The dialogue is natural, it flows alongside the plot like a calm stream of fact. The children bicker, the parent's look on lovingly, everything seems perfect; and it is, it’s the perfect family.

Over the next couple of volumes, the characters and setting are laid out quite matter-of-factly, and it doesn’t feel the least bit forced when you begin to notice that the protagonist is a bit different from all the other boys in his class.

With a shy and pretty demeanor and a tendency to cook, bake, and socialize with the fairer sex, Nitori Shuuichi is presented as a character that is completely human. A character that can be identified with. A character that even the most cold hearted Christian could love. This tenderhearted identifiable and innocent boy likes to dress up as a girl.

Not only that, he want's to be a girl; he identifies as a girl.

The series exposes one of it's prevalent themes nonchalantly and naturally, without passing judgement or playing to stereotypes and without sensationalizing, the series begins to demonstrate the most accurate account of Transgenderism in any form of media.

Nitorin, the quickly adapted nick name for the protagonist, demonstrates a calm demeanor and seems to easily befriend others, many with similar issues. For instance Takatsuki; the second main character and what could be called the cannon coupling for the young Nitorin, is a tomboy who wishes she was herself a boy, and whose influence leads Nitorin to join in cross-dressing 'dates' they share through much of the first four volumes. Visiting their grown up friend; a Male-to-Female Transexual, much like Nitorin; albeit clearly shown to be of a different sexual orientation as she lives with her boyfriend.

Hourou Musuko manages to approach the very tender issue of sex and gender roles, without being sexual in any form. When dealing with puberty that truly is a great accomplishment.

Hourou Musuko is still being published in Japan, just ending it’s ninth volume. The series is possibly the most realistic, and most honest depiction of people growing up with gender dysphoria and other role issues. It’s not in the least bit trashy, and is considered by some, including myself; to be a masterpiece of the Manga art-form.

Air Date: January 13, 2011
Animation Studio: AIC
Channel to be aired on: Fuji TV at 25:15
Official Site: http://www.houroumusuko.jp/
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All the other shit worth noting, including OADs:

Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail #3
Supernatural: The Animation e.

Mazinfuckingkaiser SKL

Kuragehime

Redline hits dvd (and bluray?) on February 22nd, surely that deserves some kind of mention.

 

[luka]

Todoke, Madoka and Houkago plz. Fractale seems interesting too.




May this thread be full of moe~

 

[Lafiel]

Only show i have high hopes for is Wandering Son. Because from i read from the manga is amazing, and the trailers look extremely promising.

Fractale has potential based on it's premise, but the staff behind it isn't giving me any hope for it.

Other shows i will check out - Beelzebub, madoka Supernatural, Mazinfuckingkaiser SKL, KNT S2 (if i watch the first season).

 

[Hellsing321]

Thank you for saving us from ourselves.

I'll check out Wandering Son and uhhhhhh whatever else people say is good. Not much is looking interesting to me this season.

 

[flawfuls]

I approve of the Wandering Son pimping. It will no doubt be amazing.


Also I don't think anyone posted this in the old thread

Footage from Yoshitaka Amano's Deva Zan. It looks really nice, but I really wish it was hand drawn instead of CG.

 

[Trojita]

I'm so glad Kimi ni Todoke is back.

Mitsudomoe 2 continues from where the forgettable first season left off.

Those are fighting words.

 

[Lafiel]

Hall of shame from the last thread!

Jexhius 1,650
InfiniteNine 1,510
firehawk12 1,229
Branduil 1,058
Halycon 1,021
Dresden 993
Lafiel 776
mAcOdIn 690
Hitokage 582
Nonoriri 571
cosmicblizzard 511
trejo 480
Geneijin 447
luka 432
zoku88 425
icarus-daedelus 389
Salazar 364
jman2050 342
7Th 325
Infinite Justice 323
zeroshiki 308
DrForester 284
Hellsing321 273
DY_nasty 273
Regulus Tera 249
flawfuls 242
Reknoc 229
duckroll 208
Vox-Pop 206
Pandaman 179

 

[mjc]

Wait....there's a Supernatural anime? The CW Supernatural? Is it a one-off or a miniseries?

 

[InfiniteNine]

Kimi ni Todoke S2
Hourou Musuko
Fractale
GOSICK
Houkago no Pleiades
Mazinfuckingkaiser SKL

and I'll skim over the other stuff.

 

[Lain]

I like the line about Kimi ni Todoke 2, because that's the only good thing one could say about that show. Which is also the only reason I'll watch the second season while raging at the stupidity of that awful female lead and her love interest.

So many shows to watch this winter, I wonder if I'll actually follow all that I want to.

 

[zoku88]

This thread title pretty much sums up my feelings XD

I think I'll also watch the one about the crime solving goth loli.

 

[B.K.]

The only show I'm really interested in is Fractale.

 

[Jerk]

Ye of anime-gaf with decent taste, which shows should I be watching?

From where I sit, all of these look like garbage.

 

[Haly]

Hourou Musuko, Fractale, that Shaft thing, the BONES thing, Houkago and maybe Supernatural.

Jerk: Wandering Son seems to be the safest bet of the season.

I stopped posted during the last 50 or so pages thanks to WoW and I'm still 5th.

MY FAMILY IS FOREVER SHAMED.

 

[expy]

if( anime_series.hasLoliChars())
{
addToWatchList(anime_series.title);
}

 

[Jerk]

if(! anime_series.hasLoliChars())
{
addToTempWatchList(anime_series.title);
}

Fixed.

 

[Infinite Justice]

Beelzebub, Gosick, Freezing, Black Lagoon, Wandering Son, etc

 

[Geneijin]

I hope Moshidora turns out alright. Might be a surprise for this season.

 

[A Black Falcon]

Hall of shame from the last thread!

If that list was by characters posted I'd be on it...

 

[Trojita]

If that list was by characters posted I'd be on it...

It's not something to be proud of.

 

[zoku88]

If that list was by characters posted I'd be on it...

There wouldn't even be a contest :lol :lol

Maybe from Macodin, though...

 

[flawfuls]

I hope Moshidora turns out alright. Might be a surprise for this season.

Isn't that next season?

 

[Dresden]

There wouldn't even be a contest :lol :lol

Maybe from Macodin, though...

Nah, mac can't measure to to The Falcon.

Hail to the king, baby.

 

[jman2050]

if( anime_series.hasLoliChars())
{
addToWatchList(anime_series.title);
}

Might as well remove the "if" statement then, that's just wasted cycles.

 

[Geneijin]

Isn't that next season?

Yep, it is. My mistake. >.>

 

[Trojita]

With a shy and pretty demeanor and a tendency to cook, bake, and socialize with the fairer sex, Nitori Shuuichi is presented as a character that is completely human. A character that can be identified with. A character that even the most cold hearted Christian could love. This tenderhearted identifiable and innocent boy likes to dress up as a girl.

What's up with the jab at Christianity? :lol

 

[lordfroakie]

Level-E
GOSICK
Fractal
Beelzebub

 

[Dresden]

What's up with the jab at Christianity? :lol

It's from dailykos. :lol

Mazinfuckingkaiser SKL

Mazinfuckingkaiser SKL

Mazinfuckingkaiser, fuck yeah.

 

[Griffith]

Wait....there's a Supernatural anime? The CW Supernatural? Is it a one-off or a miniseries?

Yeah. It's 22 episodes and covers the first two seasons of the TV series. It looks pretty good from the trailers released so far.

 

[Articalys]

Crunching the numbers, the top five people in the Fall thread (Jexhius, InfiniteNine, firehawk12, Branduil, Halycon) accounted for roughly 32% of posts. Top ten bumps it up to 50%.

Fractale, Gosick, Beelzebub day one, waiting on first episode impressions for everything else.

 

[NomarTyme]

Kimi ni Todoke 2... done!

 

[InfiniteNine]

I thought the Lovecraft thing was this season as well?

 

[Vox-Pop]

I need to start watching anime again. :lol

 

[Dresden]

I thought the Lovecraft thing was this season as well?

Right, need to edit that in.

 

[Geneijin]

Thumbs-up for generic harem anime everywhere.

Not when it involves mecha

Spoiler

moe.

 

[Dresden]

Not when it involves mecha

Spoiler

moe.

You know I'll be there day one, brother.

 

[Blader]

Redline hits dvd (and bluray?) on February 22nd, surely that deserves some kind of mention.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Nothing really interest me.

 

[Haly]

I need to start watching anime again. :lol

That settles it, worst season of anime ever.

 

[Jerk]

Cthulhu? Her?

The fuck...

That settles it, worst season of anime ever.

Indeed.

 

[InfiniteNine]

Redline hits dvd (and bluray?) on February 22nd, surely that deserves some kind of mention.

Probably belongs in Bluray releases thread more than a seasonal anime thread.

 

[Hellsing321]

Cthulhu? Her?

The fuck...



Indeed.

Nah shes Nyarlathotep. Cthulu is the pink haired one I think.

 

[cosmicblizzard]

Will watch the first episode of everything. Particularly interested in Haiyoru! Nyaruani (just because it's moe Cthullu), Fractale, Dragon Crisis, Beelzebub (highlight of the season which hopefully goes far), Freezing (because it doesn't make sense), Gosick, Infinite Stratos, zombie moe!, Level-E, reverse Oreimo, Wolverine, Wandering Son, Supernatural, and Mazinkaiser.

I'm predicting at least half of these will be shit that I'll drop after a few eps. Would still be a successful season though.

 

[thetechkid]

At least card fighting is better than moe, and Beelzebub seems like the best out of this bunch. Also when's Gintama come back, spring?

 

[LowParry]

Hrm. Nothing of interest. Guess it's a good time to catch up on the ol'backlog of animes I still haven't watched.

 

[Geneijin]

That settles it, worst season of anime ever.

 

[InfiniteNine]

Well last time I partook in Lovecraft moe I enjoyed it, but it's Nitro+ so they set a high bar. Will watch out of interest in our ruler Cthulu.

 

[cosmicblizzard]

So are there going to be individual threads again? How many actually warrant one? Seems people want to pimp Wandering Son, so I guess that. Also Beelzebub since it could potentially be the next big long running WSJ adaptation. Wolverine maybe? Can't really think of anything else.

 

[Dresden]

I think shidoshi was doing a Wandering Son thread. Or was that someone else? Can't remember.

Then... I don't know, nothing truly stands out. I was thinking about making a short one for Infinite Stratos, a.k.a. the Next Great Thing, but I'd much rather play WoW.

 

[TheVampire]

Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne—!!

Sounds good.