So, Anime You Like Lately

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 8:11 am

*nods*
good even with all the fanservice, still very much the spiritual successor to strike witches ^^

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 9:50 pm

Steins;Gate is a keeper. It gets really good toward the middle and didn't start off bad at all. I enjoy the main character quite a bit.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:27 am

Watching more of Vividred, it's a keeper for sure. An excellent mix of serious, funny and cute. Episode nine is cute overload.

That said, those references.
"Professor, are you sure this will work?"
*very familiar sunglasses*
"Just who in the hell do you think I am?"

And the military has a supply of devastating conventional bombs called NGE bombs locked away. NGE bombs? Nuclear... something... Energy? No, of course not. It's fucking Neon Genesis Evangelion bombs. They're N2 bombs with the serial number replaced by a fucking sticker of what they're referencing! Once I realised, I nearly spat my tea across the room.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 10:28 am

*nods*
good fun isn't it? ^^

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 5:13 pm

Anime March to May 2013:

also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondaiji-t ... Desu_yo%3F
is kinda like rogue hero without too much fanservice and many lampshades . . but ends way too soon and too abrupt with 10 episodes . .

in older news:
god damn it but Black Lagoon - Robertas Bloodtrail is a bleak one x.x

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 12:16 am

The DBZ cross over special looks fucking awesomesauce (as all crossovers are). I really hope they dub it to English.

Also, Girls und Panzer looks like fun.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:08 am

if you can get over how horrible the graphical quality is and how flat the characters and plot are . . yes . .

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:55 am

To which, DBZ or chicks in tanks?

'Cause when it comes to high school females in machines of mass explodyness, plot, character development and art quality are not one's primary concern.

Explodyness is.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 2:02 am

Yeah, they do seem a little flat, but they're not all too bad.

If you couldn't see the boob joke coming, I am disappoint.

Also, apparently Vividred is only 12 episodes, and with episode 10, shit just got serious. Given anime doesn't prescribe to the rule of mandatory happy endings, I'm a little worried, really hoping Akane's YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND, CONSENT IS NOT REQUIRED power will save the day and work out. Saving the day isn't even a big deal, the important thing is saving her friendship with Rei.

Best case scenario is Rei ends up as The Black Power Ranger, and we get a second season.

Red_Rob · Post by **Red_Rob** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:33 am

Just reading through that list of Anime was a nice reminder that Japan is a pretty strange place.

Stahlseele wrote:The comedy revolves around Sayuri Satō, the new front desk worker at the Sparrow's Hotel — "the closest hotel to Heaven." Her special features are her large breasts and her skills of assassination.

I'm sure that's what she lists on her CV.

Stahlseele wrote:The story revolves around Kiri Haimura (voiced by Natsuki Hanae), a boy who loves to cut girls’ hair. He meets Iwai Mushanokoji (Kotori Koiwai), the “Queen of Hair” whose hair can’t be cut due to a curse.

That's one specific curse!

Stahlseele wrote:Ketsuekigata-kun, the manga about anthropomorphized blood types,

whatisthisidonteven...

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:24 pm

What's with all these short series anime this tiee around? <.<
Vividred only 12, Problem Children had TEN . .

And no, i expect a bit more character from characters, even from something like girls und panzer.
And much more in the graphics department . . that stuff looks horrible x.x
Furthermore: Nope, not much explodyness either . .

As for Happy Endings:
Nope, not much of these around either nowadays it seems <.<

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 12:40 am

Indeed, Senran Kagura looks like it could be a 12-13 episode one. Granted it could probably go the full distance as 24-26, but it seems like it's building to a showdown and conclusion, leaving the possibility of another season later on. Given it's based on a series of video games, they probably want to actually mirror the plot arcs of those.

Yes, apparently the games are full of exploding clothes and wobbling boobs too. Yes, if we get localised releases, I am so getting them.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:53 pm

*bites into desk*
AAARRG!
even love!live! is getting dramaed up damn it <.<

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:01 am

@Little Busters 23:
THE HELL WAS THAT! x.x

Like ARE YOU SERIOUS?
They send THE PUPPY into a bloody civil war and then tell her that her mother is actually alive and but never let her meet her but make her into a prisoner of rebel forces?
And then THE MAGIC OF FRIENDSHIP HAPPENS AND SHE IS SUDDENLY BACK IN JAPAN?

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:32 am

Patlabor to return as Live Action . . oh god why x.x

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:41 am

And it's looking like Rin/Suzune had the plan all along of infiltrating Serpent Academy and launching a double-double-cross coup.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:53 pm

Good News Everybody!
In other patlabor news, maiden japan is planning on re-releasing the original t.v series

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:41 pm

So, Robotics; Notes ended . .
And it was a good and strong end too!

Sakurasou no Pet no Kanojo 23 would have made an excellent ending for the series too, but it seems there will be one more episode at least O.o

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:53 pm

The other day I found the Chinese issue of Comickers magazine with the 25th anniversary of JoJo's bizarre adventure

In it, Hirohiko Araki meets Clint Eastwood, and Mr. Eastwood does a Jotaro pose.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 6:07 pm

sounds like japanese drugs allright O.o

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:17 pm

So, we finished the main run of Baccano!

Most. Badass. Sophist. Ever. Also, Nice got to do her very favorite thing, and Isaac and Miria were themselves to a greater extent than ever before.

We also completed the Golden Ghost Ship arc of Mouretsu Pirates, which left a couple unanswered questions:

So, apparently the last Serenity mission for the Ghost Ship was 15 years ago, but Gruier and Grunhilde were both younger than that. Were they not born from the Rose Spring? If so, how is their DNA recognized by the ship?

Also, how does the Ghost Ship have FTL? I thought it was originally a sublight colony ship.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:03 am

And that was the last episode of Senran Kagura. A decent ending. Now sure, I find it hard to believe that a Super Ninja could not

find some way to kill a dude she had grabbed from behind in the "chokehold/sleeper/break-your-neck" position, and her only option was apparently to leap off the building with him, into fire and death

but seriously, there are bigger questions, like "how do the bikini tops suddenly appear when their shirts fly off?" and "how does Katsuragi's shirt stay attached to her boobs?"

It was a nice ending, and leaves room (a lot of room) for a second season. But if they don't do one, it doesn't leave us hanging. I'm pleased to have watched it.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:06 am

Zettai Karen Children (which I found through Unlimited Hyobu Kyosuke, which is also pretty good) is tremendously good tongue in cheek anime. A great blend of Magical Girl and Shounen tropes, but makes fun of them.

Also, I like that they made the main characters ten, so that they can then make fun of perverted stuff, and have it really just be making fun of the tropes, with absolutely no seriousness, where if they had the main characters be "16" or whatever, then it would still be using it as a draw even when it pretends to make fun of it.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 8:01 am

I took a trip down memory lane with HEROIC LEGEND OF ARSLAN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5BgGA9pMU0

One of those OVA's that begins with increeedible animation, then peters off and gets cancelled.

The music, designs, animation, all of it is very beautiful. Very influenced by Yoshitaka Amano (who did covers for the novels). I really enjoy this style of heroic fantasy.

Based on a Persian legend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Arsalan

Atmo · Post by **Atmo** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:58 am

Stahlseele wrote:What's with all these short series anime this tiee around? <.<
Problem Children had TEN . .

Quality over quantity.

Right now, i'm enjoying Ixion Saga DT. Very crazy world, puns that intend to be puns and some more crazy stuff.