Summer 2015 Anime

I don't think the Working manga has even caught up to the end of season 2 yet. And that might be me being generous, I don't really remember for sure. I assume the Servant x Service manga is also way ahead of the anime, but we just don't have much of it.

Lucy~

Also, Charlotte ended on a ... umm... okay note, I guess.

And, just to triple post the thread that's coming to an end

WAAAAAH TAROUMARUUUUUUUUUU

Ahem. That is all. Dismissed!

Everything I'm watching is over, so review time:

Ranpo Kitan: Kishi and Uezu doing an art series. Kishi and Uezu have no talent for art series. It's interestingly bad (though the humour is pretty good)

Rokka no Yuusha: A good fantasy mystery stretched out about twice the length it should have been. Production values are too low to watch for the fights, at least after the first episode

Non Non Biyori Repeat: Like the first season, but not quite as good

Gakkou Gurashi: Pretty good. I liked the manga more. Anime is less nuanced

Symphogear GX: So Symphogear has a reputation for being composed of increasingly over-the-top action scenes and not much else. This isn't actually true for the first two series, but it is for this one!

Charlotte: Moderately interesting concept wrecked by terrible, terrible pacing

Also, why is it that CR tends to fuck up towards the end of the season?

edited 26th Sep '15 7:01:39 PM by Hylarn

Durarara: I continue to have zero idea as to what the !@#$ is going on in this series, and apparently never will understand, as who knows when season 3 will be released if ever.

Durarara!! isn't over yet though. Season two still has a third cour to air in Winter 2016.

Servant x Service and Working do cross over — Lucy and her friends take a break at a Wagnaria store that just happens to be the one everyone at Working is at. Since Poplar is the chief however, it's obviously set after the series itself.

A THIRD COUR?!? Madness!

I don't remember that from the anime, is it in the manga? or did I just miss it because I'm not enough of a super fan?

EDIT: Reading the School Live manga, it's kind of funny how sad I was about taroumaru in the anime, when we never even got to see him alive in the manga. Then again, I guess that technically applies to Megu-nee. Waaaah, Megu-neeeeeeee~

edited 27th Sep '15 3:30:08 AM by TheyCallMeTomu

And another review because I just binged Gatchaman Crowds insight: Unlike the first season, actually has a view of human nature that resembles reality. It doesn't have a whole lot else, and thus is kind of slow, and short on interesting characters. And it maintained the tone of the first despite a decidedly different message, putting it in the odd position of being a bright, upbeat series about humans being stupid, violent sheep

And Jitsu wa ended too. It was a pretty lackluster adaptation, sadly. It had some good ideas, but only managed to capture the tone of the manga sporadically. The animation and music were very mediocre (especially this fucking MINMI song that they felt the need to play in every single episode…), but the voice acting improved as it went on, thankfully.

I'm still not sure what they were trying to do… this anime was kind of stuck between being a faithful adaptation and doing its own thing, and in the end it did everything half-assedly.

Also, comparing manga Shiho and anime Shiho is painful. They really butchered her character.

edited 28th Sep '15 1:14:30 PM by Lyendith

I dropped it a long time ago, and in fact it even soured my take on the manga!

Worst Adaptation Ever. Well, no. It probably wasn't as bad as the Umineko adaptation.

As the what? I'm pretty sure the Umineko adaptation was cancelled at the last moment, they only had the time to record the opening and ending.

In other news, Makura no Danshi shows us the true meaning of unconditional love.

Jitsu wa was one of the two big disappointments of the season next to Chaos Dragon.

Neither of which I watched, despite planning to. Both had first episodes that were very negatively received, so I didn't bother.

I watched maybe 30 seconds of Chaos Dragon and thought "This is the trope that I hate, you do not get a second chance goodbye."

I want to say that it seems overly harsh... but that was the smart thing to do. It didn't get better.

I watched the first four episodes of Chaos Dragon and only stopped because the sub group I was using fell behind. They recently released episodes five and six though so I'm probably going to continue watching at some point.

If I recall, the series started with some melodramatic action battle without explaining anything.

That is an instant "no" button for me.

So, unable to wait for a season 2 of Prison School, I decided to follow the manga.

It is hillarious~

Oh hey, Sore ga Seiyuu didn't end last week after all.

Gasp! they got Masamin of all people to do a voice! I can't imagine how they managed that! No way!

Still would have liked to hear Hayashibara san as a walk on (she'd work really well in the theme of this episode too) but alas, the limits of possibility are what they are.

Sore ga Seiyuu's a good show. Looking into the daily life of voice actors was interesting. And guest star appearances were spot-on, though I didn't know one of them.

May Futaba, Ichigo and Rin find future glory! Until then, seiyuu later!

Awful awful cross-language pun. 10/10.