Summer 2013 Anime Season

It's already fairly big

Eh... having finished the episode it sticks quite a bit too close to "parody" to truly become what I had feared. I mean, obviously the idea has something going for it if it's an anime now, but I don't think there's any risk of people taking it seriously or for it to become separated from its origins.

edited 6th Jul '13 11:53:45 PM by Clarste

I hear it starts out as a parody but gets more serious later on.

It get more serious considerably soon. General knowledge of Zero, Stay Night, Ataraxia recommended and not just for sake of parody.

edited 7th Jul '13 4:09:13 AM by Tenzen12

...if it requires familiarity with the other series than it's even less likely to truly "spin-off" into its own thing. It'll always be living in the shadow of its predecessors. Unlike Lyrical Nanoha, because seriously does anyone even know what Triangle Hearts is even about? I sure don't.

edited 7th Jul '13 4:08:01 AM by Clarste

That is pretty much gist of what I wanted say, but I don't think Illya has to be afraid of living in shadow of standard Fate part of Nasu. It it it's own thing, but with whole complex settings of frenchise backing it up.

As person who is (very relatively) well versed with Nasu I enjoy it for various Mythology gags as well as it's inter-Continuity nods which helps greatly connect all dots.

I would compare it way gundams do it, but more in macross way (if it makes sense).

PS: official crossover of Illya and Nanoha is fun.

edited 7th Jul '13 4:21:33 AM by Tenzen12

Brothers Conflict 1: The best reverse harem in recent memory, though that's not saying much. The lead girl is okay and there's 13 (!) flavors of brother to choose from (unless you count the twins as one). Nothing to complain about production-wise, and the story is standard but watchable. The music is great, I like the BGM.

P.S. The squirrel's design is horrible.

edited 7th Jul '13 5:23:42 AM by fillerdude

The core Fate franchise is already so big and popular there's little chance a spinoff will overwhelm it. Triangle Hearts, in contrast, was a pretty small thing on itself.

Uchouten Kazoku is out: Nice slice of life story about japanese folklor beings in modern society with protagonist who doesn't care which gender he use.

It's few years already I watched something with this settings.

Uchouten reminds me of a Touhou fancomic I read once. It's...interesting.

I also just saw Fantasista Dolls which was just ehhhhhhhhh.... (Though it did have a Bland-Name Product Magic The Gathering!)

Somehow, I am geting impression this season have some serious lack of male characters.

And half of them are crosdressers anyway.

edited 7th Jul '13 12:21:48 PM by Tenzen12

Gifu Dodo stole all the testosterone.

Are you implying that Free! is a Bishoujo Series?

edited 7th Jul '13 1:38:15 PM by jkbeta

Are you implying bishonens count as guys?

Your jokes are dangerous ones, please warn me beforehand next time or I will die from laught

edited 7th Jul '13 3:33:43 PM by Tenzen12

Are you implying that yaoi fangirls count as lesbians?

Kiniro Mosaic: The manga kind of felt like a Lighter and Softer A Channel; cute, but with plenty of humour from the ditzy characters. The anime mostly dropped the humour to focus on the cute. I don't approve

Fantasista Doll: Ehhh. There's no specific aspect it does poorly (though several are average), but it gives a sense of being unsure of what it wants to do. The action and designs are good, at least. Also, yuri harem

Uchōten Kazoku: This I like! A well-executed Slice of Life drama, but with the premise of modern-day tanuki and tengu giving it an edge to stay compelling. Only real complaint is that the art style gives everyone monkey ears

Makai Ouji: It's fujoshi bait, but I don't mind fujoshi bait. What I do mind is the low production values and weak directing

Blood Lad: Like the style, rest isn't my speed. Probably worth checking out, though

edited 7th Jul '13 4:52:26 PM by Hylarn

Well, I liked Uchouten Kazoku. I may be biased though.

All I know is that it doesn't have Fate or Signum, so it's shit.

Uchouten Kazoku - the backgrounds are Eye Candy <3<3<3 Story is a little hard to follow cause atm, they're talking about stuff that happened in the past and doing round about way of illustrating relationships between characters. Not really yet interested in the characters themselves but I'm liking a lot the mythology in modern day setting. Wondering if it's going to just be limited to tanuki and tengu. (Will there be kitsune and kappa?)

Of course, it keeps reminding me of Studio Ghibli's Tanuki movie. Here's hoping it won't be a tearjerker as well.

I'm always amused by the fact hat tanuki are an invasiv species here, and they'rebasically "shoot on sight":

"Shoot on sight" doesn't sound like the most effective tactic against a shape-shifting enemy...

Aren't you from Sweden, Arilou? How did the tanuki even get over there?

Watamote is out! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Do you guys think its worth the hype?

Russian fur-farmers.

The Prisma Ilya Anime was sadly as generic as I'd feared. The parody elements (the way the conversations end up, mostly) fall flatter than where they've played the magical girl tropes straight. I was hoping animation would add a certain something, but it seems to be quite the same as the manga.

As for The World God Only Knows S3, it was both tantalising and disappointing to see the summary of the parts we won't get to see fully animated, but being thrown right into the thick of arguably the best large arc seems to be paying off from the very first episode.

So, not many surprises here. These are both anime for people who already know they're going to be watching.

edited 8th Jul '13 9:52:10 PM by UltimatelySubjective