Winter 2018 Anime

So, uh, I was kind of stuck without much to do for about an hour

Shaping up to be a fairly typical season

edited 28th Dec '17 12:15:13 AM by Hylarn

A Basilisk sequel isn't very typical, though.

It interests me, though.

Overlord season 2 and Seven Deadly Sins season 2 are instant watches.

That weird mecha show Trigger is doing confirmed for January

Attractive women drinking alcohol. I feel like this is probably going to be shorts

...Is "drunk babes" a new genre or something? Fall has already Osake wa Fuufu ni natte kara...

Cardcaptor Sakura, eh? I still have to watch the original. I'll see it after I finish Precure.

I know Citrus is a really popular yuri manga but I've avoided it. I don't like step-sibling romance drama. However, maybe I'll check it out... We don't get decent yuri much these days.

Well, I'd say Citrus is somewhere between mediocre and So Bad, It's Good in its first part, and gets genuinely good after volume 4… but the anime will most likely only cover the former. In any case, it's worth it just for Yuzu and her BFF Harumin.

But if they put the same amount of effort in it as Netsuzou Trap, I don't have high hopes. :x

edit: Hmm, okay, looking at the trailer it seems they did put more effort into it.

edited 27th Oct '17 11:00:40 AM by Lyendith

More Saiki Kusuo. Dunno if it'll still have the weird broadcast schedule

excited for DARLING. Everything TRIGGER touches is gold in my opinion and the previews for it have been very promising. Everything else is a shrug for me right now.

Have you had enough Imouto already? Cause anime studios apparently haven't!

Ugh, please just make it stop already. Imouto trash, isekai trash, and queerbaiting trash. Please develop higher standards, industry.

Just wait for the season after that, where the best-selling anime will be titled: Trapped In A World Of Yaoi With My Fujoshi Sister.

edited 31st Oct '17 9:28:59 AM by Pyrite

Mind, the trashiest thing this winter is neither imouto, isekai, nor queerbait

Hey, at least there would be some novelty.

…Huh? Are they adapting Bloody Roar into an anime?

edited 31st Oct '17 3:39:46 PM by Lyendith

Not sure what that is, but the PV is Killing Bites, from the same guy as Arachnid.

Killing Bites, which is a manga (dunno if it was a light novel first) about half-beast hybrids in underground pit fights. Main heroine is half-honey badger. Probably gonna be plenty of gratuitous nudity and violence, from what little I've seen of the manga.

Bloody Roar was a popular arcade fighter series about people who could transform into anthropomorphic animals. I really liked the games, and the whole transformation mechanic made it unique from other arcade fighters.

edited 31st Oct '17 3:49:24 PM by danime91

Oh... And for anyone interested in Killing Bites, don't. It's an endless repeat of animal trivia, violence, edginess and nudity. Character development does not exist, nor is there any depth in story.

So it's just the author wanking another story to fulfil his fetish for girls with animal/bug motifs and gratuitous violence? Pity. TerraforMARS does it better.

edited 31st Oct '17 3:56:14 PM by danime91

Killing Bites is definitely gratuitous trash, but little sister incest fetish media is objectively garbage. Trapped In Another World stories are fine if they either bring something new to the table (No Game No Life resolving conflicts with games instead of fist fights, Konosuba being a sitcom, ReZero deconstructing the premise) or are just well written (Log Horizon). Queer baiting is unfortunate whenever that pops up, but anime can deliver when it's front and center about the gay (Yuri on Ice!).

I would argue about the quality and worth of the more popular titles in the isekai genre these days, but agree that it is good if done well. Anything with incest-baiting can just go jump into a wood-chipper. Big sister, little sister, mom, dad, doesn't matter. I honestly don't know if OreImo is to blame for popularizing the genre, but I'm gonna blame it anyway.

edited 31st Oct '17 4:07:23 PM by danime91

From what I can see, it's mostly Ore Imo's fault, yes. I hesitate to call Re:Zero an isekai series at all after its first episode, since aside from Subaru's insistence on calling his checkpoints 'save points', there's almost no lampshading of RPG mechanics or other similar [strike:crutches] tropes after the first time he dies.

Trapped in Another World stories aren't strictly about RPG mechanic verses, and have never been limited to them. In fact most don't ever approach lampshading themselves in anyway either, so I really don't know what that's about.

edited 31st Oct '17 5:49:55 PM by VeryMelon

No. The requirement for being isekai is the main character being sucked into another world. Any other trope use is besides the point. Don't redefine terms based on what you like

edited 31st Oct '17 5:48:42 PM by Hylarn

I definitely agree with that; it was a poor statement. I think the most recent spate of them has been overly defined by such things, though (see Konosuba and Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni); it's anecdotal and incomplete, but I'd also take a stab at around 60-70% as the percentage that use game mechanics or so on. (Perhaps because it's easier to use terminology like that as a way to distance the main character from the new world and keep that 'other' feeling?)

The thrust of the statement I was trying to make earlier is that it's set in another world but doesn't really focus on the 'othering' of the world, which now that I think about it is pretty untrue, so I was wrong about that.

That said, I'd also caution that big genre trends can end up moving what constitutes a 'current' isekai show away from earlier shows that would technically fall under isekai, but lack recent developments in the genre (for instance, it feels weird to put The Saga of Tanya The Evil under the same umbrella as No Game No Life, Mondaiji, or Smartphone just because it involves a different world). It's less redefining to exclude things I don't like and more wondering aloud if we've reached the point of big-name shows redefining the genre to some extent/splitting off subgenres. (Relatedly, I'd consider sucked-into-MM Os a distinct subgenre of isekai).

edited 31st Oct '17 7:08:51 PM by RedSavant