Summer 2015 Anime

Adlet sure did lose his cool, which is understandable. Chamot could still be suspected due to being the only other unaccounted person but..

What we know is that it's impossible to reseal the door in the amount of time given. So, once that door was open, it stayed open.

The "The guards attack the first person to enter illegally!" claim is pretty irrelevant; it's only since the seal was set.

If the latest seal was set from the inside, and the person inside had been in there for, let's just say, days or however long, there'd be no contradiction.

After all, when they entered, there was no seal on the temple-ergo, they didn't enter illegally.

Basically, all the arguments against Adlet are super weak, and I was a bit disappointed he didn't counter them. He's no Battler Ushiromiya, that's for sure!

Adlet brought up something along those lines. The latest seal was set at least four years ago, probably longer, so unless you're that suggesting somebody out there's capable of going 4+ years without food or water, that seems pretty unlikely.

edited 8th Aug '15 9:25:55 PM by Gilphon

I am saying precisely that!

But, eh, okay. Hmm. Will have to consider this one then. I was so sure of myself too.

Well, I mean,

I guess it's also possible the barrier wasn't triggered from within the temple.

edited 9th Aug '15 12:05:37 AM by TheyCallMeTomu

Maybe it was a sort of Schrodinger's temple. Until you open the thing you don't know if the barrier was activated or not, and it might have been either anyway.

We have a thread

I'm not going to go into every single thread of every anime I watch, man! That's, like, too many threads!

With it's mixture of live action, stop motion and animation the Gatchaman Crowds: Insight openingis definitely the most interesting of the openings I have seen this season.

So I'm catching up on Classroom Crisis. Am I supposed to be rooting for Nagisa to succeed in shutting down ATEC? Because he's kind of the only character that's of any interest. And he's making sense while everyone in the class seems 'cute' and quirky but entirely useless. I mean, they seem to be completely in the wrong here. They waste money, break labor laws, waste materials, leak company secrets, don't know how to submit a proper budget and don't even produce results to make up for it.

edited 11th Aug '15 3:08:22 PM by Arha

Don't worry, I felt the same way. They sloooooooooooowly start getting their act together. Nagisa is not the series antagonist.

Speaking of which, Prison School might be the first series I watch/read that apparently actively tries to make me hate the protagonists. I mean, no matter how much the guys suffer, they are 100% to blame. 90% if I'm nice.

I do enjoy the peculiar animation style though. And the voices.

^^ Yeah, I could guess that his brother is from pretty early on. It's just that I don't think he's wrong about anything. His kindly old predecessor basically admitted to favoritism. It's not his money to give out without a solid basis. Which is probably why he was... what actually happened to him anyway? Was he fired?

The trick to enjoying Prison School is to never take it seriously. I made that mistake when I was binging the manga, and couldn't enjoy it. When I caught up and started reading it weekly, it's a lot more fun.

It doesn't have the traditional Boke and Tsukkomi Routine so it caught me off-guard and took it seriously, when it's in fact a silly and stupid series presented as serious.

The boys aren't people you should identify with and root for. The boys are all idiots you should be laughing at for their stupidity.

edited 12th Aug '15 2:50:50 AM by TrueShadow1

I think he just retired.

The show overall seems to be about the clash between useless idealism and aimless pragmatism to come with something hopefully better than both.

Yeah I kind of figured that out after a while. ^^" It's all so over-the-top…

(That sunray censorship though. That trend needs to die, quickly.)

So, guys, what's good lately? I just emerged from a three-day Utena binge. It's been a looooong time since an anime engaged me and thrilled me on such an intense level. Did anything like that come out recently? (Assume that I've watched every GAINAX and TRIGGER show ever)

I need something with mystery, something with suspense, something with passion, and, if possible, something with symbolism (faux or not, I don't really care).

You're not gonna find any masterpieces this summer; it's a pretty dry season (heh).

Have you watched Penguindrum? That's another Ikuhara show, and it's probably even denser than Utena.

Lupin: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine might be up your alley.

it's really raunchy but to me that was part of the enjoyment.

edited 12th Aug '15 12:37:25 PM by wehrmacht

I'm getting shot for this but: Shimoneta

…It does have "symbolism" I guess.

I love Shimoneta :P

As for "I need something with-" I wish I could refer you to umineko, but that came out a long time ago and also the anime sucked, only the VN was any good.

But holy cow was it great. I recommend it to everyone. You haven't experienced life until you've read/played Umineko and Steins;Gate.

But, again, not super recent.

edited 12th Aug '15 1:49:16 PM by TheyCallMeTomu

Well, they may not be "masterpieces" but there are some very good anime this season. There's Gangsta, Ushio and Tora and Shirayukihime.

Shirayukihime falls into the category of "beautiful but unmemorable." That's the same category I give "The world is still beautiful" (Soredemo sekai wa utsukushii) and a few other works that escape my memory.

A hallmark of these works is that they're good enough to watch the anime, but it only lasts a single season, and it's not worth picking up the manga where it exists.

edited 12th Aug '15 2:58:35 PM by TheyCallMeTomu

Symphogear GX is crazier then ever.

Dat Ignite Module.

I'm watching a lot more shows this season than I normally do, but none of them really stand out to me as amazing.