Winter 2015 Anime Season

Carry-overs and second seasons:

• Parasyte
• Shirobako
• Log Horizon S2 (if it ended up being 2-cour)
• Tokyo Ghoul sqrt(A)
• Durarara x2

Will Watch:

• Kantai Collection: By now you should've heard of this bizarrely popular franchise. As a player of the game, I've been waiting long enough the proper anime adaptation. Even if the plot quality is subpar (most likely), it'll have some serious production values to back it up.
• Assassination Classroom: The long-expected adaptation is finally here, and hopefully it'll pace itself well enough that it didn't suffer from the Arc Fatigue the manga is often criticized for.

Three-episode Rule:

• Dog Days'': I hoped it'll live up to the first season. The second season amped up the fanservice a little bit too much. By now the staff should've been able to strike a balance between fluffy and raunchy.
• Rolling Girls: The animation style is similar to Yozakura Quartet, and that's enough to tell me that it's going to be a visually pleasing ride. I'm worried about the over-wackiness present in the trailers, though, hopefully the staff use their drugs sparingly .
• Yuri Kuma Arashi: I'm not a fan of mind-screwy/symbolic shows (or whatever Ikuhara's directing style is), but I'll give this a shot. If it's good, then all's well.
• Happy Cooking Graffiti: This is going to be quite an appetizing show. So long as they didn't go grossly overboard with the fanservice, this will most likely turn out to be a good watch.
• Junketsu no Maria: Because sometimes the simple-looking ones are the best.

I think what I'll watch depends on what gets on Crunchyroll. I'm definitely watching Assasination Classroom and Princess Pretty Cure. I'll probably watch Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE!, Rolling Girls, and Yoru no Yatterman. I'll try Aldnoah Zero, Dog Days, and Fafner Exodus for a few episodes and see how they are.

Assassination Classroom was picked up by Funi and won't be on Crunchy.

edited 19th Dec '14 12:35:19 PM by Logograph

Aside from shows that are continuing from previous seasons I intend to watch Go! Princess Precure, The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls and Durarara!! x2 Shou. Tsukimonogatari as well but I don't consider that a winter anime.

Watching: Yuri Bears, that fujoshi thing, Aldnoah S2, Tokyo Ghoul Goes to Math Class.

Oh, I know, but for the anime I really want to watch I don't mind taking extra steps to see it.

When it's something I don't really care about I probably won't bother unless it's on Crunchy.

And I forgot to mention I'm probably going to watch the Yuri Bear anime, just to see what the heck happens.

edited 19th Dec '14 1:41:57 PM by universalperson

Damn, being in Australia, I can't access the Funi website.

I can't watch stuff on either site. >.<

Same here, legal channels are blocked for me so I have to resort to 'usual' means.

Third world problems.

Nah. Non-American/Taiwanese/Japanese problems.

Turbo excite:

• Dog Days S3, for reasons
• Tsukimonogatari
• Yuri Kuma Arashi, ikuhara is always good and the studio is good too
• Drrrr

Kinda excite:

• Jojo, not my favorite arc
• Assassination Classroom, interesting manga, produced by a studio that mainly does really bad adaptations full of QUALITY
• Kuroko Basket, ha ha time for magical basketball

Not excite at all but maybe will check out

• Shinmai Maou No Testament, the season's siscon series
• Koufuku Graffiti, the season's cute girls etc
• Junketsu no Maria, this season's fanservice show
• Isuca, this season's magical tsundere girlfriend show

edited 19th Dec '14 7:10:50 PM by lazybanshee

I joined the police just to kill people.

Hold-overs from Fall (maybe):

G-Reco: It's quite literally the worst-written anime I've ever watched, but it is pretty fun
Garo: Well made, but mostly too standard for me to get excited about. May continue with if it goes somewhere interesting from the latest episode's events

Actually looking forward to:

Dog Days'': I really did enjoy the goofy humour of the second season
Kantai Collection: It looks good, and I am a fan already. Do hope the Abyss gets a good showing, though
Koufuku Graffiti: This sounds amazing
Tsukimonogatari: It's Monogatari
Yuri Kuma Arashi: Yuri! Ikuhara! Morishima!

Not super-interested in, but believe may turn out well:

Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: Supposed to be great, but I have a terrible history with Jump series...
Death Parade: Death Billiards was good, but I don't know how well it'll translate to a series
Cinderella Girls: In theory, this should be the sort of thing I like
Junketsu No Maria: Honestly, nothing about the premise appeals to me, but the staff is impressive enough that I can believe it'll surprise me
Rolling Girls: Should be interesting, one way or another
Samurai Warriors: I liked Sengoku Basara
Yoru No Yatterman: I have a good feeling about this and I don't know why

Will check out, but don't expect to follow:

Interchangeable LN Adaptions: Yeah
Magical Boys: Absolutely nothing against fujoshi-bait, but it's not really my speed
SaeKano: It's on noitaminA...

edited 19th Dec '14 8:55:29 PM by Hylarn

Something something sis-con creeps me out something something LN = instant shit something something

Samurai Warriors doesn't have much in common with Sengoku Basara except maybe the setting.

Shitty interchangable LN bullshit:Will inevitably watch it anyway until like halfway where it stops even being worth using as a time waster (except that...uh...hold on...right! Unlimited Fafnir thing, not even gonna bother with that)

Dog Days S3:Will watch it for pretty much the exact same reason I watch shitty interchangable LN bullshit but will actually watch it till the end for whatever reason

Durarara S2:See:Shitty interchangable LN bullshit

Rolling Girls:See:Shitty interchangable LN bullshit

Kantai Collection:See:Shitty interchangable LN bullshit...well ok I have slightly more motivation in that I need to see what could warrant its fanbase

Happy Cooking Graffiti:I don't even know, but maybe it'll be worth watching with someone else

Fafner Exodus:Well my relatively high-quality-only watching friend cares about it I guess so maybe I'll try?

MMORPGs are serious business.

I've come to the conclusion that the most important thing for spawning it's sort of fandom is having a consistent aesthetic

edited 20th Dec '14 2:47:23 AM by Hylarn

That, and the fact that the development team put out so little actual information about the setting that it paradoxically makes people even more interested. I know that was how it worked out for me.

And unlike the mangas (wich happen independent of each other of each are basically the writer's interpretation) and the game (wich is freaking HARD to get into), the anime will be more acessible to us plebs and will hold some actual weight when people start dicussing stuff about the franchise.

edited 20th Dec '14 7:06:54 AM by minusmagniaxe

Cute girls + lots of spaceleft for fan interpretation = Unlimited Fan Works.

Just look at Touhou.

There's Touhou and a few others (early Vocaloid, OS-tan), but also a huge number of works that fit that description that didn't take off the same way. I think a major part of it is that the fans need to be able to picture the characters as existing together. A lot of similar works have a hodge-podge of styles with few unifying traits

edited 20th Dec '14 4:19:55 PM by Hylarn

well you also think noitaminA implies bad

which it does not, see ano hana, moyashimon, kuragehime, usagi drop, katanagatari, silver spoon, honey and clover, paradise kiss, and that is off top of my head

edit: shigatsu kimi wa uso, psycho-pass, shiki, control, trapeze

edited 21st Dec '14 8:52:49 AM by lazybanshee

I joined the police just to kill people.

Who the hell ever said "noitaminA implies bad"?

I believe it's based on

though I don't like Ano Hana, Kuragehime, Silver Spoon, or Usagi Drop(though I did finish it) either, and the only other ones I've tried out of the ones mentioned that I did like is Moyashimon and Psycho-pass, the latter of which is being derided this season.

MMORPGs are serious business.

I think he meant "Its premise doesn't really click with me, but it's on noitaminA, so maybe it'll be good".

Well, the other ones are "Interchangeable LN adaptions", which very few people in this thread has protested to the typically low quality of, and fujoshi-bait that totally isn't Hylarn's thing, so the overall quality level of that section seems to be "do not want?"

MMORPGs are serious business.

Or maybe he's thinks Sae Kano falls under "interchangeable LN adaptations", but stands out because it's on noitaminA.

Speaking for entirely myself, I find that noitaminA shows often have interesting premises and start well, but have pretty consistently failed to stick the land and have a completely disappointing ending, so I've gotten fairly sceptical of them.

edited 21st Dec '14 10:31:36 AM by Gilphon