Summer 2018 Anime

As always Gigguk has great insight.

Surely Hanebado has awaken a lot of people to their sweat fetish.

Re: Gigguk's insight

Nice vid though, I like the description of it. Though I'm sad that he didn't put Tenrou Sirius the Jaeger on his list which is understandable...Considered Netflix probably delayed the release of the show a little bit and oof.

Well, I've finally dropped Asobi Asobase. With that, I've got a lineup of Hanebad, Harukana Receive, Happy Sugar Life, Chio's School Road, Grand Blue and Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight. To my delight, these all come out on mostly the same day, so it's easier to just watch them all.

I might also give Banana Fish a try later if I get the time, but as it stands, that's going on the backburner for those slow seasons.

So that's two sports anime, two trashy comedies, one pseudo-horror anime, and whatever Starlight classifies as. Weird season.

Banana Fish may or may not be a series that's better to just wait and marathon, I'm not sure. I got too impatient and am watching it weekly, and so far it's fast paced enough to do that. Every week you get some more twists and action.

Planet with looks good, but I can't be bothered to catch up so that can wait I guess.

Just when I think there's nothing new this season, I'm reminded that Muhyo and Roji was still supposed to come out. Oh well.

Muhyo and Roji - How fitting that a story that opens with it's protagonists failing to impress their client just simply fails to impress all around. The show reminds me a bit of a weaker version of Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro, with considerably less charm and creep factor. It's basically supernatural Sherlock Holmes a lot more shounen stylings. I'll give the show this: the story for the client was pretty well done, if a bit overblown, but that's about it. From there, it's a very generic shounen detective series with nothing to stand out from the others. A pity, really.

Man, that just made me realize how much I miss the Neuro manga. That was good stuff.

Edited by TheLovecraftian on Aug 4th 2018 at 2:03:41 PM

There's a year difference but M&R did come out before it. And both ended within a year of each other too.

Huh. Interesting how these little coincidences happen once in a while.

Well, I'm hoping the newest character in Demon Lord doesn't end up being a yandere. She's a little close to looking the part for my taste.

Edit: Of course she fucking is. The eyes never lie.

Edited by RedSavant on Aug 5th 2018 at 10:33:42 AM

Lucifer: Fallen angel of rebellion Episode 7: Keter attempts to kill Uriel instead of Lucy. I guess that will be the moment she falls.

Lucifer: Fallen Angel of Rebellion Episode 8: Keter is killed & Uriel is safe, but Lucy sever her ties with her fellow angels to rule the purgatory.

I wondered if this will get a sequel in which the angels decided to conquer the purgatory.

Is it possible to re-do the list on Pg.1, since it turns out that Sunoharasou No Kanrinin has a page already.

Since the season's 2/3 done, why don't we see what people we've kept up with?

Now heavly abridged, because the browser ate my post (except for the first sentence (?)) when I tried to save.

Overall kind of a weak season.

• Angolmois Interesting primise, but really dry. My screen is dirty enough that didn't notice the filter at first, but I still don't get why they thought that was a good idea. dropped 6/10
• Asobi Asobase & Chio's school run, Asobi was never as cringy as as so parts of Chio, but it was also not as funny as the good parts. Asobi dropped 6/10, Chio-(any scenes with that one girl) 8/10
• Hanebado! I don't like most of these people. They'll turn out to be right, for pushing the rival into this, even though she was fine playing tenis. This is a badminton anime, badminton is better than sliced bread. dropped 4/10
• Cells at Work I might get back to this.
• Planet With This has just enough going on that I'll finish it. 7/10 for now
• Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight I'm not super impressed, or confused, but I hope they tie all of this together at some point. 7/10

And as far as continuations go

• Attack on Titan Season 3 is still going strong. Someone should probably stop that one guy, they don't need anymore that going down in the history books, than there already is going to be. a solid 8/10
• My Hero Academia 3rd Season same, the spring season had the stronger arc it seems, but still good. 9/10
• Lupin III: Part 5 I hope the older season are like this. another solid 8/10
• Steins;Gate 0 7/10 and on hold until the season wraps up.

Edited by supermerlin100 on Aug 27th 2018 at 12:43:20 PM

I had planned to watch a whole bunch of shows like Chio-chan, Planet With or Sirius, but only ended up watching Hanebado, which at least made me discover the manga (and is a treat to look at); and Attack on Titan S3, which manages to be miles better than the manga (and I already liked this arc back then).

I'm really only still watching Isekai Maou, Harukana Receive and Chio-chan. I had to drop Asobi Asobase because Hanako's face, voice, attitude and personality make me unreasonably angry.

Kind of like Manana from Chio-chan, but at least she has some redeeming qualities.

I'm finding it to be a mostly decent season. Found six at the start, have kept them until now.

Hanebad - Great animation, decent character drama. I'm just kind of hoping they reach the point where all the misery starts turning into good things, because it's getting a bit too much at this point.

Harukana Receive - Fairly light-hearted fun. It's been keeping up fine, if not amazingly impressive.

Grand Blue - The stupid, "turn you brain off" kind of comedy, but I still find it consistently amusing enough to watch.

Chio-Chan's School Road - Arguably the most consistently good of the lot. Fun, relatable-ish comedy.

Happy Sugar Life - Decent drama, if a bit predictable on a moment-to-moment basis. An idea of the endgame right about now would be nice.

Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight - Started out well, but has petered out a bit by this point. It's in dire need of a main plot to avoid becoming a "CGDCT of the week" kind of show, but it's at least entertaining.

Like last season, there's nothing I've found to be particularly amazing here. It hasn't been particularly memorable, but it's kept a decent pace.

Edited by TheLovecraftian on Aug 27th 2018 at 1:52:13 PM

Not counting continuations from Spring or long runners (So My Hero Academia, Yugioh Vrains, Black Clover, Steins;Gate 0, Gundam Build Divers and Boruto.) I'm following Harukana Receive, How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, and Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs. There's also Zoids Wild and Precure (Though that's either a Spring or Winter anime depending on who you ask.) but those have no legal subs and Future Card Buddyfight Ace but that started in June so I'm not sure if it counts as Spring or Summer.

Edited by Chariot on Aug 27th 2018 at 1:32:56 PM

My Hero Academia isn't a long runner, this is just a two-cour season.

I said from Spring or long runners. My Hero Academia is a Spring anime.

So has anyone seen that Baki anime?

How is it?

It's been picked up by Netflix, so no one outside of japan has seen it yet.

Why do Netflix anime have such a long delay, anyway?

Well, legally anyway.

@Lyendith I'm wondering about that too. Sees Tenrou Sirius: The Jaeger

Several reasons.

On the whole Netflix prefers to release their episodes in batches rather than weekly. That's not the big obstacle though since they will do it for other shows when they have international licenses but not in the home territory. (See Star Trek: Discovery)

The real issue in this case is that for their non-English series, if there's going to be an English dub, Netflix seems to have a policy of releasing all language versions simultaneously. So for anime they wait until the English dub is complete before releasing it. The one exception they've made to this policy so far is Violet Evergarden which in some territories outside Japan was released weekly, but that was mostly possible because Kyo Ani's production process differs from the industry norms which means that the episodes a completed much earlier (relative to the air date) and thus available to dub in time for a simulcast release.