This. Like, WHY?!
With the second week through, my watch-list has stabilized on Gundam, Pandora, Monogatari, Grimgar, Dimension W, BBK BRNK, and Kouya. A few notes on these:
- Pandora: Surprisingly old-fashioned sense of humour despite a fairly modern cast. Things like characters suddenly turning into outlines and a character that exists to get hurt
- Grimgar: Lots of slice of life, emphasis on just trying to survive, incredibly brutal fights. Which is to say that it's remarkably similar to the current Gundam in tone
- Bubuki Buranki: Interesting but "rough around the edges" is something of an understatement. Design-work and world-building are the only parts that feel professional
Huh, I checked Winter 2015 and Spring 2016 and still no sign of Mob Psycho yet
I get the feeling it will be either summer or fall while bones focuses on My Hero Academia.
Watch SymphogearBoku Machi had an extremely angry Satoru this week, and it was good. poor somewhat creepy lonely 23-year-old dude :(
Haruchika continues to be bad, and let me tell you why. It's Haruta, and the way the show sets him up as this cool genius. He's an asshole. He's constantly pushing into people's super private and intimate spaces and trying to "fix their problems" so they'll join his stupid band, and somehow it works. In real life, they'd just tell him to fuck off, and rightly so.
edited 21st Jan '16 2:48:42 PM by majoraoftime
Sculptures being realistic in anime isn't a new thing. Hidamari Sketch did it years ago with Brutus.
@ Magical Nurse.
Man it annoys me so much at the forced Clark Kenting in the series on top of putting actual friends as unknowing rivals.
'the victim died of electric shock, there is yellow hair on the floor, the killer is electric mouse' Lol.
edited 24th Jan '16 6:27:46 AM by Memers
Phantasy Star Online 2: the Animation: this is my trainwreck watch of the season. Part commercial for the PSO 2 MMRPG, part how-to for the same aimed at the noobest of noobs ("gee, what is a troll"), inexplicably not set in the world of the game itself but rather at generic high school #782 where the protagonist has to prove the game is not actually incompatible with being a good high school student. I especially like the hilariously inexplicable hostility of the student council mooks to the protagonist.
Started watching Swharzesmarken. I want to like the show, but the Fridge Logic in the premise is way too apparent. The civil war feels like a conflict being dragged out for the sake of conflict, even though the BETA should serve as an ample enough conflict. Is there anything explained in the source material or Muv-Luv that I'm missing here?
Ozymandias would disagree.
I might take a look at Dagashi Kashi this season... I don't know, the female MC's eyes fascinate me. She looks like Pain's evil daughter.
edited 25th Jan '16 3:45:31 AM by Lyendith
The problem is that despite how campy and cartoonish it is, the show is actually pretty accurate about how paranoid and repressive the GDR was, and how obsessive about preserving its own identity. Think a slightly more functional and better-funded North Korea. Now try to imagine the DPRK working together with South Korea, even against an existential threat. They'd just completely lack the governmental mindset for it.
It is, but really only for the MC.
It's a good thing that the MC is rather spacey too, if I was her I would have taken issue with a teammate basically kicking you while you were down in the middle of a game at the end of episode 2.
Sure it scored points and seemingly was legal but damn that was mean to a person actually playing her first game.
edited 26th Jan '16 2:28:50 PM by Memers
