Spring 2015 Anime Season

Yeah, Kinmoza is really a straight up comedy series.

I thought it was hilarious though.

Oddly, the one series that is wall-to-wall moe that didn't bother me was Teekyu! and that one was because a. it was 2 minutes long and b. HanaKana speaking at Yahtzee speed.

edited 1st Jan '15 4:55:17 PM by Logograph

Arslan Senki

Except Teekyu wasn't a moe series. It's as much a moe series as Ai Mai Mi was about drawing manga (meaning it wasn't).

It's the Arakawa version, which is very much a subject of Broken Base for those who a) read the books and b) watched the original Arslan. At Animesuki for example, the reaction was pretty much universally "Well, sh*t."(uttered by the old hands who remember the first series)

edited 4th Jan '15 6:49:37 AM by MyssaRei

What's wrong with the Arakawa version? Arakawa is an excellent mangaka.

Compare the artstyle against the first films. It isn't Arakawa is terrible but the artstyle is dramatically different.

edited 4th Jan '15 2:18:09 PM by KnightOfNASA

Arakawa also shuffles events around, and introduces an important character into the plot two books early. Also, Arakawa's sense of humor, which worked in FMA and Silver Spoon, just rubs some people the wrong way in Arslan.

edited 4th Jan '15 6:13:49 PM by MyssaRei

Triage X time!

x6 Directed by the person who did Bleach... uhh well that just might ruin any kind of potental that that could have had

Uh, the director is mostly a symptom of it being a prime-time shounen manga adaption at Pierrot, which is the real problem. I'd expect it to be long and low-ish budget

>Kyo Ani making 4-girl music band anime
Not K-on season 3. Will still watch though

>Grisaia sequel
Thankfully, Teekyuu is airing too so I have the drugs to survive this

>Golden Mosaic season 2
Thank you kinpatsu gods. Now just waiting for Non Non Biyori which hopefully will air in the same year

So the cover art for Sound Euphonism has a guy member in it [1]◊... The thing might be completely different than what people are expecting.

Kyo Ani isn't exactly known for the faithfulness of their adaptions.... And the plot summary of the anime is entirely about the relationship between euphonium girl and the dark-haired girl

Is there any other kind of Pierrot anime?

Depends on who animates that week.

Kakashi vs. Obito in the kamui dimension from Naruto is downright Ufotable tier in that episode

Plus, studio Pierrot makes gorgeous movie animation too.

They also did Level E, Akatsuki No Yona, Sabagebu, Baby Steps, Tokyo Ghoul, Soredemo Sekai Wa Utsukushii...

Yep.

They were previously primarily shoujo creators before Naruto and Bleach got them even richer.

They made Tokyo Mew Mew, too.

Add Akatsuki No Yona to that list too.

Long-running series like Naruto and Bleach could be given some leeway with regards to quality I think, as while the budget may be bigger, it's also spread out much more thinly per episode compared to your average 12-episode series.

The Bleach anime was just badly directed like way too many tempo changes scene to scene for one, that made it worse than the source material.

That is what is killing the hype for me.

Just as long as there are no more cake episodes. -Sideshow Bob's annoyed shudder-

Yona of the Dawn has some pretty good backgrounds and character animations though. It's almost Twelve Kingdoms level.

ViVid

For some reason Seven Arcs isn't animating this?

Seven Arcs only does like one show a year aside from 2009, Dog Days seems to be that one.

I Guess the Nanoha money hasn't dried up yet.

Of all anime, Kaitou Joker gets a second season. This is really unusual since that it is a made for kids and kids only anime compared to Hero Bank or Majin Bone. (No, Oshiri Kajiri Mushi doesn't count because it is from a folk song.)