So, Anime You Like Lately

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 1:56 am

While it's sad that Yuyushiki ended, it ended nicely, all happy and silly just like the entire series. It's very much a "happycrap" feel-good show.

Not sure what I should watch next, though in the meantime there are the little 4-minute silly specials for Senran Kagura. Mostly I'm waiting for non-anime stuff (Season 2 of Orphan Black, Season K of QI), but I guess I'll ask my contact about new anime I'd like.

Corsair114 · Post by **Corsair114** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 1:59 am

Enjoyed Valvrave right up until the Season finale. Really hoping they keep the plot from doing a complete head-over-heels nosedive when it starts back up in October.

Attack on Titan continues to impress. I hope they sort out their back-end animation problems and keep on doing the bang-up job they've done. A few bits of inconsistent pacing have cropped up but so far, in my opinion, that fails to be a serious detriment to the story.

I think I'm gonna go back and re-watch Shin Getter Robo: Armageddon and New Getter Robo this week.

Whatever · Post by **Whatever** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 3:12 am

I also just watched Mononoke a few days ago, and likewise hadn't seen it in at least a decade. Was really interesting to be able to compare it to his other works this time, especially Nausicaa.

edit: missed that there were posts on a new page. Clarified this.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 4:54 pm

still don't like the new mayor, but arise is watchable . .
sadly, it's a damn prequel and i don't like these <.<
and the intro is pretty damn weak ._.

also:
[Vivid] Stella Jogakuin Koutouka C3-bu - 01 [1E41FDBA]
schoolgirls doing airsoft O.o

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:25 am

I personally am still watching Railgun:S.

Episode 13: Mikoto loses her shit.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:19 am

to each their own, but s is not for me sadly . .

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:56 pm

Watched Infinite Stratos yesterday.

I have determined that one thing I absolutely cannot get over in any anime ever is tactical incompetence. It's like ex-military viewers and left-handed salutes. Maybe I have played too many video games. Specifically pissing me off on a regular basis:

Index: The main character has an anti-magical hand and is fairly good at punching people right in the face. His most effective and dependable tactic is to charge directly at mages while screaming. That has only failed him like twice over both seasons of his show. For some reason he does not default to using it. Admittedly, usually he's attempting to resolve the fight via an inspirational speech instead, but not always.

Fullmetal Alchemist (both shows): Edward likes transmuting a sword from his arm and charging into hand-to-hand combat. That's fine and frequently works quite well. But sometimes he is fighting some tremendous badass who he can't land a hit on and yet inexplicably does not use alchemy to transmute the floor into a steel cage or something.

Infinite Stratos: Our hero, I shit you not, decided (with inner monologue!) that in a swordfight fight between his murderously offense-focused mech armed only with a sword and a mech that was not armed only with a sword, what he really needed to do was open up some distance. Naturally, he was stuck dodging a state-of-the-art shockwave cannon and trying to close the distance for the rest of the fight.

Show is pretty good, though.

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:20 pm

Yeah Index really suffers from the fact that the mc is a bmx bandit who warps the world around his lack of ability.

Dogbert · Post by **Dogbert** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 5:49 pm

Right now I'm watching Fairy Tail. At this point, however (around chapt 30), I keep watching it mostly for the humor. I like the world building, but the Japanese cliches are getting more trite, and I find the badass decay they're forcing Erza through distasteful.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:01 pm

Erza doesn't really stop being badass. I've been keeping up with the manga and HOLY FUCK she does some incredible shit throughout the series.

About her lowest point emotionally is the Tower of Heaven arc. Apart from that? Yeah.

Erza kicks ass.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:18 pm

Erza is the same level as everyone else -- with two caveats:

Firstly, the rest of the PCs think she's higher level than they are.

Secondly, she both one-shots more enemies than anyone else and also gets one-shotted by more enemies than anyone else. Thus the rest of the PCs get to say "gee if Erza wasn't poisoned / kidnapped / off on another mission, we'd have an easy time here" a whole lot.

And sadly, as the series goes on the humor takes more and more of a back seat to the epic season-long plot arcs.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 12:55 am

Railgun has finally finished up the epic 15-episode Radio Noise arc (which could easily have ditched at least two episodes by leaving out scenes from Index Mikoto wasn't present for instead of lengthening them) and had itself a breather episode.

Highlights: Saten apparently finds Mikoto getting flustered about Touma as adorable as the viewers, and brings up her baking cookies at every opportunity. Also, Mikoto runs into Mugino in a restaurant, and their fangirls get into an argument about their respective merits that proves how similar they really are in some ways.

Mikoto and Mugino wrote:Hey, watch your hands! *zap*

Unfortunately, for whatever reason it's on hiatus this week.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:32 am

Ah that Arc is finally done?
I might give it another go then.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:15 am

I watched the entirety of Madoka Magica today. That was seriously pretty dark there.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 7:08 am

well duh o.O

In the series' continuity, there are curious creatures that have the ability to grant young girls any wish they desire. However, in exchange for having their wish granted, that girl must become a magical girl tasked with the duty of fighting against witches, evil beings born from despair that are responsible for unexplained accidents, murders and suicides.

In the city of Mitakihara, the incubator Kyubey encounters a 14-year old girl named Madoka Kaname and her best friend Sayaka Miki. This small, cat-like creature offers a contract in which a girl can have any wish granted in exchange for becoming a magical girl tasked with fighting against witches. Meanwhile, a transfer student named Homura Akemi tries to stop Madoka from becoming a magical girl at all costs. As Madoka contemplates becoming a magical girl, she learns that a magical girl's life is not as glamorous as she thought and is filled with anguish, suffering and despair. Madoka soon learns that not only do magical girls give up their souls to form their Soul Gems, the source of their magic, but when those Soul Gems become too tainted with despair, they transform into the very witches they fight against. She also learns that Homura is a magical girl from a different timeline who had repeated the same month countless times in order to try and save Madoka from a grisly fate. Learning all of this, Madoka decides to become a magical girl with the wish to stop witches before they are created, which rewrites the laws of the universe, resulting in Madoka becoming nothing more than a concept and Homura being the only one who remembers her in the new world that is formed.

The third film, Rebellion, takes place after the series and focuses on Homura as she deals with the loneliness of being separated from Madoka. The spin-off manga, Puella Magi Kazumi Magica: The Innocent Malice, is set in Asunaru City and follows an amnesiac magical girl named Kazumi who, along with a band of other magical girls known as the Pleiades Saints, starts to discover the dark nature of magical girls as she regains her memories. Puella Magi Oriko Magica takes place in an alternate timeline to the main series, in which Homura, Mami Tomoe and Kyōko Sakura, along with a young orphaned girl named Yuma Chitose who was abused as a child by her mother, find themselves up against a magical girl pair, Oriko Mikuni and Kirika Kure, who are hunting other magical girls.[3] The story has two spin-off series, Noisy Citrine, which serves as a prequel, and Symmetry Diamond, which takes place in an alternate timeline. Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Different Story also takes place in an alternate timeline, mainly focusing on the relationship between Mami and Kyōko.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Aug 17, 2013 12:32 pm

You know, I actually knew all that going in.

The "It's true! I really don't feel any pain! *manical laughter*" scene was absolutely brutal, as well as the entirety of Episode 10.

Still, happy ending, kind of. My interpretation of the final post-credits sequence is that Homura is now the immortal champion of hope, as opposed to it being the apocalypse. Plus, for one shining minute, Kyubey is not a dick.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Aug 17, 2013 7:50 pm

now imagine how it was for me who did not know that and expected a funny cute magical girl series <.<;,

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 6:11 pm

Started watching Steins;Gate.

I am amused by the time-traveling/parallel world hopping guy also being a crazy person.

Wiseman · Post by **Wiseman** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:35 pm

So I've been watching Fairy Tail as well. Got to say it's now one of my favorite anime and it's inspiring me to design a setting similar to their world. The humor's pretty good, although it kind of irks me that a lot of the time Lucy's the damsel in distress when considering her ability set she should be able to do a lot more.

Also watched Freezing. Though it's very fanservicey once you get past that it actually has a decent plot and mostly believable characters.

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:01 pm

Hunter x Hunter certainly seems to be going in two different directions with its tone. On some episodes it's very serious, getting dark almost to hopelessness, while other times (sometimes within the same episode) it gets sappy, with the usual Gon/Killua in development shenanigans. Overall I approve.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:15 am

Because y'all kept talking about it, I am now watching Fairy Tale. Erza is hilarious and awesome.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 5:07 am

New Semester means more Anime Club. Actually, we started last week, but that was voting for new shows.

First is Maoyuu Mao Yuusha, in which a Hero's noble quest to slay the Demon King is suddenly derailed when she ("It's a traditional title.") tells him that in the absence of a single powerful enemy to fight humanity is going to have trouble as the people in the icy southern wastes suddenly stop being able to import massive amounts of food from the fertile regions for the war effort and opt to take it. They then embark upon Logistics and Dragons, only mildly inconvenienced by the Hero not knowing what economic theory even is.

We're also watching Durarara!!!, by the Baccano! guy. I've seen the entire thing before and am having some difficulty stifling my giggles at the forshadowing.

Lastly is Psycho-Pass, in which our heroes are literally Thought Police.

Dominator wrote:Crime Coefficent is 120. Subject is a target for enforcement action. Mode is non-lethal paralyzer. Aim carefully to subdue the target.

There's actually two groups: Enforcers, who are judged potential criminals and do most of the grunt work, and Inspectors, who keep them on a leash and may shoot Enforcers at will. However, the senior inspector appears to be completely incompetent at actual detective stuff and the junior has had this job for like a week at this point.

The Dominators are wicked-awesome, although it is kind of a design flaw that they shut down in the absence of a network connection. Seems like the Inspectors should have them default to Paralyzer mode with trigger unlocked when they don't have access to the Sybil system.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 6:28 am

name_here wrote:First is Maoyuu Mao Yuusha, in which a Hero's noble quest to slay the Demon King is suddenly derailed when she ("It's a traditional title.") tells him that in the absence of a single powerful enemy to fight humanity is going to have trouble as the people in the icy southern wastes suddenly stop being able to import massive amounts of food from the fertile regions for the war effort and opt to take it. They then embark upon Logistics and Dragons, only mildly inconvenienced by the Hero not knowing what economic theory even is.

Sounds like it might be good. Assuming the protagonist doesn't grate too much. I do like Logistics and Dragons. Maybe I should check this out.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:02 am

Frankly, it isn't. The characters are shitty, and as you would expect from something invented on 4chan, it is way too tropy. It also goes overboard on exposition that isn't in any way interesting and doesn't develop the characters.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:14 am

Sad. I guess I should have seen it coming when I noted that there didn't seem to be much reason for the hero be involved.

Thanks for the heads up, Kaelik.