Winter 2017 Anime

Once again a new season is approaching

Lots of romance and comedy, along with some oddball stuff and sequels. So, fairly standard for winter

edited 25th Dec '16 1:07:38 PM by Hylarn

I'm looking forward to Little Witch Academia, but nothing else is sticking out yet...

Oh good, I'll finally find out what Granblue Fantasy is about and why is it so popular.

It's a mobile game from the creators of older final fantasy games with a soundtrack from Nobuo Umatsu.

What else so there to say?

edited 17th Nov '16 11:10:46 AM by Demongodofchaos2

It's a game that the west will never get.

Anyway Konosuba, Academia and Saekano are probably going to be the standouts.

I expect Akiba's Trip to suck major ass, it's going to be an original story that is completely ignoring the aspects of what made the game interesting.

Seiren looks to be Amagami SS 2.0,

edited 17th Nov '16 11:41:30 AM by Memers

Konosuba Season 2. My body is ready.

Based on who the director is, I wouldn't get ahead of yourself on saying the Akibas trip anime will automatically suck.

edited 17th Nov '16 11:41:07 AM by Demongodofchaos2

The only thing that would help a Akiba's Trip anime would be an episode of Dog Days, yay.

The trailer for the actual anime completely killed any hope of a decent adaptation or even capturing what was good about the game.

edited 17th Nov '16 11:48:50 AM by Memers

An anime for a game doesn't have to adapt it directly.

Sure but it should at least attempt to capture what made the game good, some of its absurdities or at least look like the game.

The trailer is so generic Shonen with bad character designs, it's just flat out painful.

edited 17th Nov '16 12:02:23 PM by Memers

Um, the game itself is a parody of edgy Shonen anyway?

It fits, honestly.

Looking forward to Ao no Exorcist season two, Little Witch Academia, and the usual Precure. Can't say anything else stands out for me outside of maybe Granblue Fantasy and even then that's only because I haven't played the game even though there was an English version released in Japan that I could download with my Japanese itunes account.

It doesn't look like it is even trying that. It looks like Robot Girls Z with the deformed and SD animation and character designs, really it should look more like Seikon No Qwaser.

edited 17th Nov '16 12:29:46 PM by Memers

Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu's getting a second season? Hell yeah.

Verymelon preaches the truth; Rakugo is legit.

Rakugo and Konosuba are all i neef this season.

I'm actually looking forwards to Akiba's Trip. It has the Sore ga Seiyuu director as well as the first reunion of the trio seiyuu in said show. Shame only Takahashi Rie got her big break among the three (Emilia's Re:Zero, Konosuba's Megumin).

DEEN domination is imminent with second seasons to two very good series. Also I'm interested in whether 1) they're going to give Konosuba the budget it so badly needed 2) they're going to adapt Volume 5 which will definitely consolidate Megumin's position as best girl.

Little Witch Academia is of course a must-watch. This is also Yoshinari's TV anime debut as director which is huge news considering how big he had been in Trigger productions.

Granblue Fantasy is doomed unless A-1 somehow acquires the capability to emulate how MAPPA handled the Rage of Bahamut adaptation. A-1 is also doing Demi-chan which is basically Monster Musume with every girl having a lower monster:girl ratio.

Kuzu no Honkai, Fuuka, Masamune-kun's Revenge... We're getting a lot of dramatic, backstabby series. At least there's Seiren which is just about the purest kind of romance story (a.k.a boring) you can have in anime.

Handshakers is probably the most chuuni anime I've seen in a while. Hopefully it does better than other Go Hand productions like, say, Copellion. Also they can try using less color filters, I've gotten sick of that in K.

Ms. Kobayashi's Maid Dragon. Now that's a series I wouldn't dream of getting adapted by Kyoto Animation, but they did. It'll be interesting to see how they'll handle this adaptation since they haven't adapted any sort of manga since Nichijou (Koe no Katachi isn't out yet). Also Takemoto of Amagi Brilliant Park is on the helm for this, so I suppose the manga's heavier fanservice scenes will make it in, somehow.

Already looking better than this season, for sure.

Wasn't Takahashi already the most experienced of the three at the time? The other two had only had a couple of named roles under their belt then, IIRC.

Er? It's a different genre (slice of life instead of harem comedy)

Nah, it's a romcom

Last I checked we knew very little about it?

Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!

Gintama

Zestiria

No, this wasn't actually confirmed before

So, preview of sorts. I skipped sequels and series I couldn't find much on, but this is still most of the season

ACCA

Noir-ish series, I guess? Character designs tend toward the fabulous, though. Has the director of Space Dandy and One Punch Man, though I don't know how compatible they'll be with the material

Akiba's Trip

Apparently unrelated to the games beyond general premise, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. It has the staff of Robot Girls Z, which was a great bit of goofy comedy

BanG Dream!

Like Love Live, but with a band, I guess. It does have Flip Flappers' writer, so it may turn out well

Chaos;Child

Another one of those semicolon shows, this one directly related to Chaos Head. I'm not sure how watchable it'll be without having played that (the anime being an utter mess). Or at all, since the fans are saying it'll be hard to adapt well, and the director is also in charge of the writing (never a good sign)

Demi-chan wa Kataritai

Slice of life with some slight supernatural elements. Not much in the way of fanservice or romance. I find it fairly dull, but it's apparently popular

élDLIVE

It's pronounced "L-drive", if you're wondering. So, shounen action thing. Struck me as being aimed at a pretty young audience

Fuuka

A Kouji Seo series, which might give you some idea of what it's like. Seems to be fairly polarizing; seen people that quite like it, and others that describe it as hack-ish melodrama

Gabriel Dropout

This one is kind of interesting— it's a Cringe Comedy. Like, moe and yuri subtext exists in it, but the bulk of the time is spent on cute girls making asses of themselves

Granblue Fantasy

I can definitely tell you that the game this is based on is popular, but I have no idea whether the story is any good. They've also managed to avoid adding any characters I recognize as popular to the cast^note Djeeta, probably the most popular character in the game, is in the announced cast, but not any of the promotional art. No idea what's up with that

Hand Shakers

Very obviously from the same studio as K, with the same sort of visual approach, for good and ill (characters look a bit worse here, though). Main difference is that it's aggressively heteronormative instead of heavy on the gay. Also, no staff announced

Idol Jihen

The premise has some sort of potential but I don't really expect it to get lived up to. Most likely just an attempt to cram as many characters from the game into the anime as they can

Kemono Friends

Game adaptation... the game is ending service before the anime starts. Also, full-length episodes despite looking like a short

Kuzu no Honkai

One of those series that tends to inspire a lot of rage while maintaining a large audience. I hear the characters are terrible peope

Marginal Number 4

The main writer is the same as Free's, at least

Masamune-kun no Revenge

Despite the rather unpleasant premise, this is a fairly typical romcom

Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitenshabu

You know that Long Riders show that's on now? It's pretty much exactly like that. Main differences being that this is set at high school and the animation studio is competent

Also, what I read of the manga was super clunky. Neither the dialogue nor the art flowed well. Of course, that can be taken care of in transition to the anime

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

Mostly slice-of-life with a tendency towards dramedy. While inarguably yuri, this aspect gets fairly little emphasis. 's reasonably good

The big thing, though, is that Kyo Ani is animating, and they tend to change things at random. Thus far they've already butchered the art style, but there's no telling what'll happen to the story (it's well within their comfort zone, but who knows)

Schoolgirl Strikers

Game-based, and the PV doesn't fill me with hope for the animation quality... but they did get decent if not outstanding staff on board. I still wouldn't expect much from it, but it might be worth looking at

Seiren

Character designs and writing by the character designer of Amagami and KimiKiss... who as far as I know hasn't done writing before? Aside from that, I don't really know much. Like, there's no given premise and it's unclear if this is a harem series, CGDCT, or what

Urara Meirochou

The manga runs in Manga Time Kirara. This should tell you everything you need to know

Youjo Senki

War story where the main character is a terrible person. What I read of it was fairly interesting, but people that have gotten farther are worried that the focus on military tactics won't translate well to anime

edited 1st Dec '16 5:13:48 AM by Hylarn

I kind of want to watch the reactions of people who'll go into it blind. Will be much better fun than actually watching the show myself.

Yeah, I don't see Narmaya, why even watch?

Oh, this. Yeah, unpleasant is the right word to describe it.

edited 1st Dec '16 5:05:59 AM by Shlugo_the_great

Maid Dragon PV

That's a big dragon.

Given I find Kouji Seo an utter hack, I agree