Summer 2018 Anime

He's not even right for the wrong reasons.

Blaming what happened on Otaku is ridiculous - there are about four other anime coming out this season which are all isekai harem. We must have at least 50 isekai harem anime and countless manga, LN and WN of the genre. This one wasn't exactly going to be Citizen Kane. If anything it's otaku pandering which is the only reason we have a glut of such stories nowadays.

The blame solely falls on the author for having such a dumb and offensive idea for the protagonist's background, expecting no one to notice, and for posting racist tweets which brought him to attention.

The only thing to take away from this is that the massive surge of W Ns and L Ns being used as anime fodder is opening the floodgates to a load of crap material whose authors no longer even need to know how to draw.

edited 7th Jun '18 12:15:37 PM by Sigilbreaker26

If this Yamakan guy's actually upset about this, then wow. He's barely any better than the author of this shitpile.

While I agree the guy is an idiot, and that isekai tend to be complete bullcrap, I'm not sure even manga authors needed to know how to draw. I recall a lot working with someone else that did the drawings. Like the guy who wrote Death Note.

edited 7th Jun '18 2:02:04 PM by RedRob

If you're working with someone who can draw then that at least implies a greater degree of accreditation than simply being some guy with a computer and internet access.

Yamakan wasn't the planned director (that'd be Motonaga Keitarou), he's just a garbage human being

Having read a translation of his comments, he claims that he deplores the racism of the original work and some of it's supporters, but that he turns around and blames both them as well as the Chinese online community.

Basically he's trying to portray himself as the voice of moderation between two extremes. But in reality if he really does believe what he says, he's fallen victim to the Golden Mean Fallacy. And that's being generous. (He was apparently the director of Kannagi so I'm willing to concede that might have permanently skewed his opinions).

Yeah, he sounds like a real ray of sunshine.

Quick glimpse of a few series coming this summer…

…I'm actually curious about that "Got lost on the way to school" anime. The one with the Grim Reaper seems intriguing too.

edited 8th Jun '18 3:19:07 PM by Lyendith

@Lyendith Huh...I can't see the video actually. Is it me or is it just unplayable?

Oh. I forgot a letter in the link. >.>

Well, after Spring and its season of action, vampires, action space operas, boxers and the like, I just want to cool down a bit with a good romance anime for a change...

Sooo...is there one this season? (A little help since I don't trust my sense of judgment with that part.)

Personally I recommend High Score Girl. Not good at describing why it's good though, and the MC can get somewhat irritating at first if you don't like brats, but seeing them becoming more mature as they grow up and realize their relationship with each other is fairly engaging.

Wotakoi (Love Is Hard For Otaku) is pretty good, though it sometimes doesn't feel much like a romance anime due to the unusual relationship dynamics of the two main pairs.

Wotakoi is spring anime

Sorry, misread 'this season' in the question.

How Not to Summon A Demon Lord has a very appropriate title, given that it just looks like shitty Overlord, and if you're watching an anime this season about a super powerful lord of evil who controls others, fights monsters, has two sidekick girls who desire his affections, and is actually just an awkward dude who just looks and acts like a lord of evil, you may as well go with the genuine article over this knock-off.

Huh… Is Overlord gonna become the new SAO with its droves of imitators?

I thought Overlord was part of the Isekai subgenre of people being reincarnated as inhuman beings.

Like that upcoming show about the guy who was reincarnated into a slime.

Speaking of Overlord, does anyone know why it hasn't announced airdates yet? It's been like a week since the second to last show got around to it

Likewise, Lord of Vermilion is the only one not to have a PV, though it's been weirdly late with most of it's promotional stuff

Overlord is odd. It's about a guy who plays a character and runs a guild in a video game, except when the game is shut down, him, his character, and his guild are transported to a completely different fantasy world that happens to use some of the same magic rules as the video game. It's kind of like a double isekai, where the video game NPCs are turned into living people, and both the video game characters and the real world person are unfamiliar with this new fantasy world.

I think it's ingenious, because the entire main cast of characters are in a strange and unfamiliar world, and there's another layer that the main cast used to be characters in a video game that the main character played.

edited 23rd Jun '18 4:55:17 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

I don't think that I got an answer to my request earlier...

So...are there any possible nice romance anime that might be worth a watch this summer season?

(I need to cool off after all the action this Spring season that I watched, and from the looks of it, there might not be that many shows that catch my interest this season (The "stuck in other world" animes will be a no, I will sit them out this time around...)...)

So anything that's nice and smooth for the soul?

I'd recommend Bloom Into You, but… it's in the Fall season. :x

See, the problem here is that the season hasn't started yet. There's a bunch of stuff that looks likely to have romantic elements, but until they actually air, all that can be done is speculation

It can be worth checking in advance if a good romance manga is going to get an adaptation, though.

Did you miss my High Score Girl recommendation, already know about it or is ignoring it?