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Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#177: Jan 17th 2016 at 5:56:24 PM

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

Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
T-manboy55 Since: Jan, 2016
#179: Jan 21st 2016 at 9:15:22 AM

Huh, I checked Winter 2015 and Spring 2016 and still no sign of Mob Psycho yet

Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Face me now, bitch!
#180: Jan 21st 2016 at 10:44:54 AM

I get the feeling it will be either summer or fall while bones focuses on My Hero Academia.

Watch Symphogear
majoraoftime (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#181: Jan 21st 2016 at 2:47:23 PM

Boku 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

mwisse Since: Apr, 2009
#182: Jan 21st 2016 at 9:50:57 PM

[up] this. He's a dick, his solutions are insultingly simplistic and he's reduced the rest of the cast to bystanders.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#183: Jan 22nd 2016 at 10:15:01 AM

Sekko Boys.

Wow.

Just...goddamn.

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#184: Jan 22nd 2016 at 10:27:48 AM

Those be some stone-cold, rock-solid white boys. They sure make a girl lose her marbles.

edited 22nd Jan '16 10:29:12 AM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#185: Jan 22nd 2016 at 10:30:34 AM

It's utterly bizarre yet hilarious how the titular sculptures are photorealistic. [lol]

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#186: Jan 22nd 2016 at 10:34:53 AM

Sculptures being realistic in anime isn't a new thing. Hidamari Sketch did it years ago with Brutus.

majoraoftime (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#187: Jan 22nd 2016 at 3:55:45 PM

Holy shit, Rakugo. Head and shoulders the best thing airing this season. That OP is classy as fuck.

also wow this was made by a BL mangaka wasn't it

edited 22nd Jan '16 4:10:58 PM by majoraoftime

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#188: Jan 24th 2016 at 1:21:24 AM

@ 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

mwisse Since: Apr, 2009
#189: Jan 24th 2016 at 2:07:27 PM

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.

MyssaRei Since: Feb, 2010
#190: Jan 24th 2016 at 3:32:08 PM

Hmm, interesting how Grimgarl seems to be dead-set in maintaining the almost Ghibli-esque pace is has right now. I've read somewhere that the studio is trying to adapt just one book, but THEN someone told me that the first two books form a single arc. What. o_o

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#191: Jan 24th 2016 at 5:18:12 PM

It's actually moving faster than what I read of the manga adaptation

edited 24th Jan '16 5:18:22 PM by Hylarn

Rynnec Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#192: Jan 25th 2016 at 2:12:49 AM

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?

MyssaRei Since: Feb, 2010
#193: Jan 25th 2016 at 2:58:41 AM

[up]

The answer is: yes. Schwarzmalken relies way WAY too much on supporting material to fill in the holes in its plot, and this isn't even getting into the whole Muv Luv setting as a whole.

Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
Pronounced YAK-you-luss
#194: Jan 25th 2016 at 3:02:44 AM

[up][up]Are you in any way familiar with the real Cold War? No shit East and West Germany would have trouble working together against an alien threat.

What's precedent ever done for us?
Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#195: Jan 25th 2016 at 3:41:40 AM

Ozymandias would disagree. tongue

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

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#196: Jan 25th 2016 at 8:39:33 AM

Which civil war are we talking about here? The one in Alternative was really stupid, if it's the same one.

Rynnec Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#197: Jan 25th 2016 at 5:30:47 PM

The East vs West Germany during the Cold War. The historical precedence of which kinda goes out the window when you add aliens from outer space into the mix.

Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
Pronounced YAK-you-luss
#198: Jan 25th 2016 at 6:34:33 PM

[up]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.

What's precedent ever done for us?
Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#199: Jan 26th 2016 at 2:15:35 PM

Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm is probably my biggest pleasant surprise of the season. It's just so much fun to watch. grin

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#200: Jan 26th 2016 at 2:25:14 PM

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


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