Summer 2015 Anime

@Arha: Yep, that was Yuji.

I think it's really good. The suffering is tough.

OH! Okay, I was super confused, because it looked like that other classmate guy. If it was Yuji then that makes a lot more sense.

Classroom Crisis: Aaaand once again Angelina screws up. Seriously, you didn't even take his gun or make anyone watch him? And stabbing him would have been fine too. Man, Yuji is a shit villain.

The shittiest shit that ever shat.

I feel really bad for Iris

Wheee, Chaos Dragon is done.

This was the new Tsukihime anime.

Chaos Dragon is too entertainingly terrible to not exist

Basically, there are two things that make Yuji dangerous as a villain. One is that, as Pratchett put it, 'against the berserker, there is no defence'. Yuji doesn't care about long-term objectives or self-preservation. If he wants to fuck you up, he will do it, and damn the odds and the consequences. The other thing, of course, is that he's so incredibly easy to underestimate. I mean, look at the guy. It's really easy to believe that because you've shut down his poorly-thought-out plans and reduced him to a snivelling wreck, it's game over. Nobody in the Kirishina corporate team (Nagisa, Kazuhisa, or Angelina) expects him to actually show something resembling a spine.

Kuusen Madoushi Kouhosei no Kyoukan - Okay, all sins are forgiven just for how hilariously goofy the villain is. I couldn't catch my breath for a full minute because of this guy.

Waaaah, Sore ga Seiyuu is repeating the cameos? Laaaaaame.

It's cool.

Not idolm@ster smooth but nice concert. Ichigo's dad crying had me a little emotional.

So, since the season is drawing to a close, what are the thoughts about it? I honestly found it to be an unexpectedly good season, with many more good shows than I expected from looking at the lineup. Of course I dropped a few of them early, but I also kept watching some that I didn't expect much from. It had it's share of up and downs.

Symphogear GX remained my highlight

Personal highlights of mine were Charlotte, School Live and Wakaba*Girl. Nice mix of humour and cuteness, there. Braves of the Six Flowers was pretty good, too. Less action than I'd expected, though. And of course, Prisma Ilya continues to be great.

Chaos Dragon was just dull and uninteresting the whole way through. Couldn't even manage to be entertainingly bad.

God Eater... is there, I guess.

Six flowers was good but holy shit did they take forever.

Charlotte was pretty amazing.

I liked Sore ga Seiyuu, but was super duper disappointed that none of my favorite seiyuu got to have walk on roles.

So, I've been wondering something about Classroom Crisis. Are they mistranslating the units or something? 42 km/h is not exactly an amazing speed. That is literally slower than people have run.

And yep, left things open for a season two. Thought they might. Kind of lame that they never told us Nagisa's real name.

edited 25th Sep '15 3:55:00 PM by Arha

So, the main take away I got from the Summer 2015 season is that I have a fascination with Miss Monochrome 's belly button.

It's always good to learn new things about yourself.

Wait, she has a belly button? Never noticed!

yaku yon juu ni man kilo de

So, it's off by a factor of 10 thousand. It's 42 * 10000 aka 420,000 km/h.

I'm not sure why it took me so long to realize that. As someone who's familiar with mah jong, I should full well know what the man in mangan means, so yonjuuniman should obviously be 420000

That's about mach 340, though this is obviously speed in a vacuum.

Anyway, the biggest flaw in Classroom Crisis is simple:

There's no way A-TEC's workers wouldn't have a non-compete clause. They're not contracted workers after all. Now, being summarily disbanded, they'd probably be fine (alternatively, severance pay), but if they just resign I can't imagine that they'd get away with it.

edited 25th Sep '15 5:19:15 PM by TheyCallMeTomu

Aren't they students? That was noted to affect what labor laws apply to them.

Also come to think of it I at least know the Japanese numbers. I could have checked that myself. Somehow it did not occur to me to just listen to the audio.

edited 25th Sep '15 5:25:06 PM by Arha

Ha ha ha, don't feel bad, they say it really quickly and I had to play it back about 5 times to make sure I picked it up right.

So, I think the most surprising thing is that Working!!! didn't finish everything up and apparently there's some crazy 1 hr special thing? Weird.

I don't think I watched the last episode or two anyway. I've heard that Working and Servant x Service cross over at some point.

edited 26th Sep '15 1:49:19 PM by Arha

Maybe in the manga? I don't recall ever seeing a crossover in the show.

I love both shows :3 But I don't recall seeing the Servant x Servant manga being translated to any extent at the time the show was out.