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Animation Summer 2016
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Madhouse what are you trying to do ?
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I feel like Days skipped 3 or 5 episodes. No idea the names of most the players. Why is Kazuma special? Why is there a tournament already without any mention of it before?Also Tsukamoto has the dumbest run lol.
From what i could see, they skipped chapters 1, 4 and 6 and cut some pages from the others but it doesn’t deal with your questions. The other team members are revealed later during the future matches. And they participate in a training camp not a tournament.
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A few more things I watched: Bananya is a great short - the cutest thing. 10/10. Anime of the year. Thunderbolt Fantasy is great. I've never seen anything like this. Aside from having difficulties with keeping up the names and sometimes keeping up with the action, it looks gorgeous and especially the hero of the story is instantly likeable.
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From what i could see, they skipped chapters 1, 4 and 6 and cut some pages from the others but it doesn’t deal with your questions. The other team members are revealed later during the future matches. And they participate in a training camp not a tournament.
Ahh okay. I must have missed them saying training camp. And also how much time passed between Tsukamoto running like a dork to being able to lead the pack.
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Mob Psycho 100 - Uh. That happened. That happened. The opening is awesome. The animation is.. woah. There is no strong statement with the first episode specifically, but if that explosion happens… this is all leading up to that isn't it. I quite haven't seen anything like this before.
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Saiki anime's profile on Funimation says this season will have 24 episodes and 85 specials. Since an episode is made up of 5 specials, 85 specials would mean only 17 episodes. So maybe there will be 7 odd episodes unconnected to the specials. Or maybe some episodes will expand over the content of the specials instead just copy them, resulting in less specials for episode. An another thought: If the format "5 specials = 1 episode" is used only in the first half of season (12 episodes), the second half would have a format of "2 specials = 1 episode" with 10 minute specials, but that would result in 84 specials instead 85.
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I have no desire to read Mob but the anime is amazing. The shoddy drawings mixed with top notch animation really works.
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Well … Re:Zero just delivered the best episode so far and one of the best anime-episodes i've seen in a while. Holy shit ... I still don't really like Subaru, but i really dig the way the story is developing. I'm glad this anime took a turn for the better. Also Mob Psycho 100 was fun. Definitely continuing this one.
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I have no desire to read Mob but the anime is amazing. The shoddy drawings mixed with top notch animation really works.
You should give a try to the manga, I'm reading it again since yesterday and its ONE's more solid work so far. OPM is shackled by being initially a joke series that exploded on popularity, there is much more thought an care put into Mob.
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- 91 Days: Anyone who liked Baccano!, watch this, as this studio has Baccano! in its DNA. Even if the story remains a straightforward revenge story, the cinematography and directing was on fire; I completely forgot at moments that I was not watching a feature-length anime film but a half-hour-long episode. A good strong start for this one, and I chuckled at hearing the lead mobster at the beginning being voiced by Kazuhiro Yamaji since he has the perfect voice for that sort of role.
- Mob Psycho 100: I haven't quite seen anything like that before. Not necessarily the setting or writing, since it's very obviously by the writer of One-Punch Man, but retaining ONE's simplistic art style and then taking advantage of it for all sorts of artistic experimentation makes it the most visually-unique anime I've seen outside of stuff by Masaaki Yuasa. How ironic that it's such a treat for the eyes, and I'm sure the staff's having a blast with the material.
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Thunderbolt Fantasy is a show written by Gen Urobuchi.It is also a wuxia story animated with puppets.
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I have no desire to read Mob
Putting those words in a sentence together like that
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New Gen Urobuchi show that uses actual puppets! has way more quality behind it than new Berserk anime. Who would have thought? xD I certainly never would have thought I would like it as much as I did by just looking at the cover. Everyone should at least give Thunderbolt Fanatsy a chance and watch episode 1.
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Servamp is very odd. The end theme animation reminds be of me of Blood Blockade Battlefront ending.Cheer Boys got a few laughs out of me. The guy with glasses is a massive dork.
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ReZero has me by the balls and won't let go.
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Someone make a thread for 91 Days. I'm absolutely loving this so far!
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Not enough people here watching Danganronpa i guess? There are also 2 series. Does anyone know where each series take place in terms of the timeline?
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Not enough people here watching Danganronpa i guess? There are also 2 series. Does anyone know where each series take place in terms of the timeline?
Actually, people are talking a bit about it at the dangan ronpa thread http://www.arlongpark.net/showthread.php?t=34879&page=45&p=3671280&viewfull=1#post3671280
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Lol….It's weird to have been watching Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto-kun then watching Hanada-kun. Similar gags but the lead has very different outlooks.
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It's a pretty cool season so far. Bit late but will watch:
Onara Gorou (it's not weird at all)
Arslan Senki
Bananya
Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu
91 Days (fresh setting, cool characters, I like it)
Mob Psycho 100 (great stuff)
Time Travel Shoujo (I dig the artstyle and I'm learning something)
Days
Battery (what's with these manipulating mothers?)
Re:ZeroDropped: Berserk (it just looks wonky and the story really didn't grabbed me)
My usual Re:Zero rant
! Well Subaru pays a horrible price right now for dawdling around the first 10-14 episodes.
So no one knew about the White Whale beeing a maebeast? How convinient. Of course you get plot twists left and right when your MC doesn't ask questions whatsoever or try out sentences like "This place is about to be attacked by the cult, evacuate or bolster the security" for a change.
I give it to the series that the story is consistently told from Subaru's perspective, but the worldbuilding suffered immensely because of that. We're are left in the dark all the time. I even welcomed this crazy lunatic of a villain who was finally introduced two episodes ago.
! And how easy is it to kill an heiress like Emilia? There were no bodyguards or caring subordinates around. -
Awesome: Orange, 91 Days, Relife
Great: Mob Psycho 100, Arslan Senki, Days, Battery
Good: Shokugeki no Souma, D. Gray Man, Handa-kun, Konobiju
Okay: Planetarian, Cheer Boys, Berserk, Jojo
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! Of course you get plot twists left and right when your MC doesn't ask questions whatsoever or try out sentences like "This place is about to be attacked by the cult, evacuate or bolster the security" for a change.
! As you may remember, he doesn't have any proof to back up his claim. After Subaru's stints in the capital, Emilia's trust on him is considerably low at the moment. Only Rem who actually trusted his claim without question, but that's just her being subjective due to her liking the guy. As Krusch said, Subaru knowing when witch are cult going to attack is only believable when he's one of them. Telling Emilia about it would just make her trust him even less, don't you think? @Wintermute:
! And how easy is it to kill an heiress like Emilia? There were no bodyguards or caring subordinates around.
! I believe that's a plot point. Not counting Subaru, Emilia's only loyal ally is her familiar Puck, but she cannot summon him freely during nighttime. The maids are pretty much tasked only to guard Roswaal's territory, but not Emilia herself.
"Where in this frail body do I find the strength to stand up?"
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I'm a tad surprised that this season doesn't offer me much in terms of keepers. The only shows I'm watching weekly are Handa-kun and Amaama to Inazuma. I do have Days, Battery, and LL lying around somewhere on my HDD but the motivation to watch those past episode 1 is extreeeemely low…
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! As you may remember, he doesn't have any proof to back up his claim. After Subaru's stints in the capital, Emilia's trust on him is considerably low at the moment. Only Rem who actually trusted his claim without question, but that's just her being subjective due to her liking the guy. As Krusch said, Subaru knowing when witch are cult going to attack is only believable when he's one of them. Telling Emilia about it would just make her trust him even less, don't you think?
! Well he wants to safe her whatever the cost, doesn't he? "So you can put me in handcuffs, but for the love of god tighten the security and safe the villagers."
But (even without the heavy trauma he has) I gave up on believing he can produce a sentence to her that actually would make sense a long time ago. Well his rant about failing was quite on point. But that was more addressed to himself. -
! Well he wants to safe her whatever the cost, doesn't he? "So you can put me in handcuffs, but for the love of god tighten the security and safe the villagers." But (even without the heavy trauma he has) I gave up on believing he can produce a sentence to her that actually would make sense a long time ago.
! I don't think it would work either way, seeing how disastrous it was in the previous runs. They just don't have enough manpower to protect the whole territory and its tenants. Intercepting the assailants by making use of Subaru's knowledge of their arrival instead of defending would have better success rate, I think.@Wintermute:
! Well his rant about failing was quite on point. But that was more addressed to himself.
! That's the point. He has no faith in himself right now, so how is he going to convince others to trust him? If he succeeded in it anyway, then it'd be bad writing.
"Where in this frail body do I find the strength to stand up?"
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! I don't think it would work either way, seeing how disastrous it was in the previous runs. They just don't have enough manpower to protect the whole territory and its tenants. Intercepting the assailants by making use of Subaru's knowledge of their arrival instead of defending would have better success rate, I think.
That's the point. He has no faith in himself right now, so how is he going to convince others to trust him? If he succeeded in it anyway, then it'd be bad writing.! Yeah, that's what I mean. Using his knowledge somehow is all I ask. But because he fucked up big time in previous episodes it won't work.
And I think if he would use the right words he could convince Emilia. After more than 15 episodes of meandering between these two it wouldn't be bad writing, it would be a turning point. But the author won't let that happen right now for some reason. -
Days is aggressively the worst sports show I've sat through. It's a shallow copy of every other sports series that tries to hit similar story beats without any build up or even trying to make me care about it's characters. 5 mins after introducing a senpai character they slap crappy sob story on him about why he has to quit football in a shit attempt to make me care about him not getting chosen. Worst of all is the obnoxious main character. I get that they're trying to go for an Onoda like character from Yowapeda, in that he's awkward but very earnest and you can't help but cheer for him. But with Onoda we actually got to see why he became so passionate about cycling, what he enjoyed about it and how much effort he put into it. When he gets selected for the team he totally earns it. Whereas with Tsukamoto I have no idea why he like football so much. He's not remotely talented and I do not want to cheer for him. The show plays up his actions like they should be big accomplishments but they're absolutely nothing. I thoroughly enjoy hate watching this
On a more positive note I gave ReZero another chance after dropping it withing the first episode last season. Hands up and egg on my face, it's really good. I marathoned it up to the recent episode all in one day. What a fun ride
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Yeah the main character in Days really has nothing going for him. Being overly positive but still sucking is very meh. His reasoning for playing is a weak version of Onoda, like you said. He's not even wanting a position for himself and he knows he's the worst. His talent is motivator? That's kinda irresponsible of the coach. Kazuma also makes for an odd mentor in a sports series lol. I don't think I've ever seen the slacker type used on the main team who is naturally talented and puts forth no effort.
Cheer Boys is also fairly boring. But I like more of the characters on that. Plus college setting makes it a bit different. sigh Haikyuu needs to come back soon lol. Or my dream to come true…Eyeshield 21: Brotherhood lol.
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Days:
At least the MC makes progress in a believable and natural way. He can run now thanks to his training and reads simple tactics. He doesn't look THAT miserable now when running.
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I was going to watch Days, but I've been reading/listening a lot of negative commentaries about it.
I really wonder why 1/11 didn't get an anime adaptation (instead it got a live-action movie), it seems to be way better than most of the sport animes that we have been getting lately.
And it's really sad that Giant Killing will never get a second chance after that weak adaptation years ago. The story gets more interesting, but the anime covered only the okayish parts…
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Re: Zero… Please spare my heart. I can't take all this anymore.
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Wow, awesome episode from Re:Zero (can't believe I'm writing this). We still don't know shit but I guess that was the turning point for Subaru I was waiting for.
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ReZero continues to be one of the best Anime's Japan has put out in the last DECADE.
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Welp, the fight with the giant Mexican/Terminator/assassion dude in this week's episode of 91 Days was certainly anticlimactic lol
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I was going to watch Days, but I've been reading/listening a lot of negative commentaries about it.
I really wonder why 1/11 didn't get an anime adaptation (instead it got a live-action movie), it seems to be way better than most of the sport animes that we have been getting lately.
And it's really sad that Giant Killing will never get a second chance after that weak adaptation years ago. The story gets more interesting, but the anime covered only the okayish parts…
I think Days is great, most people are way too harsh on the main character.
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1/3 into the summer season! This is actually turning out to be a pretty solid season by itself, fewer as solid series, but nothing too horrible. Everything I'm watching is different from each other and while there isn't anything straight-up blowing my mind, there is quite a bit of very solid stuff! Add to that, very unique stuff. There's three series I'd recommend solely based on their visuals and two pretty unique ones.
Thunderbolt Fantasy continues to be a very visually distinctive and absolutely beautifully directed and choreographed series, but it also backs that up with very strong character writing. While the cast is all familiar archtypes and nothing very original, characters stand out and are instantly likeable. It's a very "easy" watch - once an episode starts you're very easily absorbed. It's the first of the series I'd recommend for the visuals.Sweetness and Lightning is absolutely charming. The key part here is that the little kid character feels like a little kid. Very much like the cast of Flying Witch last season, they don't feel like otaku-pandering archtypes Slice-Of-Life can end up having and the cooking adds another fun element to all of it. Like the series My Love Story, I dreaded it would get a little too sugary and eventually samey for me, but by episode 4 this isn't the case at all. It has some more sugariness than Flying Witch, which was very down-to-earth and chill, but still in good measures for now.
Mob Psycho 100 is the second series I'd purely recommend by visuals this season, more in terms of the surreal element, but the real highlight in the series by episode 3 is Mob. Saitama was really fun, when talking about the author's other known work, but with three episodes, I care more about Mob and I care more about what's going on, I also like the side cast a bunch more, even if One Punch Man started off much definitively. It's a much stronger series in terms of character writing in my eyes so far in my eyes, of course keeping in mind it's only 3 episodes in so far.
Berserk 2016 - it looks like crap, but I like the character writing and story so far, so I'm going to keep with it. However, I will say the old series handled the shocking material like rape with much more delicacy. A lot of it seems unnecessary - like Farnese running around half-naked the whole 3rd episode. I'm sick of the rape, too. Yeah, it wasn't entirely pointless, but it sure was very sexualized.Tales Of Zestiria the X continues to be a fine adventure series. This is the third series I'd recommend purely for visuals. This one shines purely in terms of regular on-model animation and art. The environments are gorgeous, the character animation and fight scenes incredibly detailed and even if I'm not the most invested in it, it's been a fine enough so far.
Macross Delta is keeping it up and pretty much the same as I've said previously. Fun J-pop songs and spectacle.
Bananya is still just a very cute and fun 3 minutes in the week.
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I think Days is great, most people are way too harsh on the main character.
What would you say has been too harsh about most people's critiques of the main character?
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So what is this re:zero thing and why is it good? The comments here make me interested but I have so little time for watching things and a huge backlog already….
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What would you say has been too harsh about most people's critiques of the main character?
Nowadays most people want a protagonist who's strong and confident. They don't want someone who starts off weak and wimpy, regardless of how much he works to overcome his weaknesses.
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What would you say has been too harsh about most people's critiques of the main character?
What Dom said. I have no idea why people have a problem with a guy that tries to improve himself despite not being freakishly talented in some area.
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So what is this re:zero thing and why is it good? The comments here make me interested but I have so little time for watching things and a huge backlog already….
So… I'm not the best one to talk about this, since I'm horrible at making good thought out posts but I'll try to do a little resume for you.
Quoting the wiki here:
"Subaru Natsuki is surprisingly summoned to another world. With no sign of who summoned him he soon befriends a silver-haired half-elf girl. When he and the girl are mysteriously killed, Subaru awakens and discovers that he has the ability "Return by Death" enabling him to reverse time by dying, though only he remembers the events of the previous timeline." The thing is, a few deaths down the line, he starts to get emotionally broken a little more at each death, and then it gets all the more interesting.
So if you are curious about it, I say try it, but you need to watch quite a few episodes to get to the actually good part. The first few episodes were all as cliche as it gets, but episode 8 (or 7, not sure) is when it really caught me.
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So is one of those animes set in a RPG world that is not a videogame?
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So what is this re:zero thing and why is it good? The comments here make me interested but I have so little time for watching things and a huge backlog already….
I've been following the novel for about 3 years.
It's probably one of the more interesting "alternate world" stories around, kind of a deconstruction of the light/web novel tropes.
It's pretty bleak, as the protagonist is not promised any kind of convenient solution for his problems and is pretty powerless other than infinite respawn.The novel was most noted for its reveal halfway through the third arc (where the anime reached this week) that this was in fact a zero to hero story, and all the pathetic actions of the protagonist was a build up.
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Yeah, when I started I thought it would go along the lines of that stupid Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? xD
Glad it was actually way better than that.
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I've been following the novel for about 3 years.
It's probably one of the more interesting "alternate world" stories around, kind of a deconstruction of the light/web novel tropes.
It's pretty bleak, as the protagonist is not promised any kind of convenient solution for his problems and is pretty powerless other than infinite respawn.The novel was most noted for its reveal halfway through the third arc (where the anime reached this week) that this was in fact a zero to hero story, and all the pathetic actions of the protagonist was a build up.
So this episode really was like the end of the prologue like some people were saying on reddit?
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So this episode really was like the end of the prologue like some people were saying on reddit?
Yeah pretty much.
Believe it or not, by the fifth arc he's become a leader in the struggle against the cult.
He's still somewhat pathetic at parts, but gradually grows to become a hero.He's just you know, dumb and a slow learner as you have seen. Good thing time is the only thing on his side.
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Yeah pretty much.
Believe it or not, by the fifth arc he's become a leader in the struggle against the cult.
He's still somewhat pathetic at parts, but gradually grows to become a hero.He's just you know, dumb and a slow learner as you have seen. Good thing time is the only thing on his side.
Kinda hard to believe as of now. But we should get to some happy developments from now on I assume? Because the last few chapters were a complete grim fest.
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Sad times are coming…
