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I'm definitely watching New Game 2, and I'm sticking with Sakura Quest and MHA. Made in Abyss and Restaurant to Another World look interesting, other than that I'll just see what gets picked up by Crunchyroll.
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Chio-chan is getting an anime
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Jun 29, 2017 23:14
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i wasn't familiar with that one, since the whole "otherworlders screech and moan like orgasmic chimps in response to japanese food" thing never appealed to me. the dorks writing those wn's really don't quite understand that different cultures and nationalities have varying palates, so no person has ever been waiting their whole lives for some lovely instant curry. lovely japanese instant curry is great though
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Jul 3, 2017 23:24
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I watched two mediocre first episodes. Restaurant to Another World was kind of bland and boring. The first episode managed to establish that, yes, there is a restaurant, and yes, it is connected to another world, but it still isn't clear to me where they're going with this. Is it going to be a Konosuba-style genre-subverting comedy, or maybe a Working-style workplace comedy? Probably not, or else they would have put more actual jokes in the first episode. Is it going to be a serious fantasy story about the faith of one or more worlds? Maybe, but then again, there were some comedic elements, like the dragon butler. Maybe they're aiming for more of a feelgood food-based show in the vein of Gourmet Girl Graffiti? That seems the most likely at this point, but I didn't really care for GGG either, so eh. It's a cautious maybe at this point, I might drop it if it doesn't start making some sort of point soon. Elegant Yokai Apartment Life, on the other hand, is clearly straightforward comedy. Most of the first episode was spent on establishing that yes, there is an apartment building, and yes, it is inhabited by Yokai, but now that that's out of the way it looks like we're in for a dozen or so episodes of surreal slice of life comedy. The only problem is that it's... not that good at telling jokes? Timing and voice direction felt off in more than one scene, which spoiled some otherwise decent jokes and visual gags. Still, some of the characters in the OP look fun (the birds were good, if nothing else), so it's another cautious maybe.
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Jul 4, 2017 14:22
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Fastest Finger First was pretty bad. I like the "sport anime, but about a weird sport or niche hobby" in general, but FFF is too middle-of-the-road so far to be interesting right now. The show does seem vaguely aware of how ridiculous its premise is, but at the same time it is too sincere to really sell it. I don't know, it might become interesting if they start dialing up the ridiculousness in later episodes, during the inevitable tournament arc. The somewhat unique voice of the main girl's VA was pretty cool, but her hammy acting wasn't. Someone else please keep watching this and report back to me in two months or so if it got any better. Knight's [sic] & Magic is the most superfluous isekai ever. The real-world part takes all of two minutes and only establishes that the MC is a genius programmer, and then he gets hit by a car and is reborn as a six year old boy in a fantasy world with giant robots. The only time the isekai aspect is brought up after that in the first episode is when the MC is studying magic and goes, "Ah yes, this is just like Java". They could've easily skipped the isekai setup without losing anything, but I guess that's what sells light novels these days. Stupid isekai trappings aside, this was actually pretty enjoyable. The robots look cool, the character design is cute, the story is super generic fantasy fluff, but in a good way. This looks like this season's WorldEnd for me, including the delightfully terrible fantasy names. Cleanliness Boy! Aoyama-kun was actually really good! I was wondering how they could stretch a single joke ("sports guy, but he doesn't like dirt") into a whole episode, let alone an entire season. To be honest, I'm still wondering that, since I felt that the first episode drained that particular well pretty thoroughly. Still, the first episode had a lot of energy and good comedic timing, including a couple of non-neat-freak-related jokes that made me laugh out loud. This series looks like it'll get a lot of mileage out of its absurd side-characters (like abs guy and butt boy), so it might still be funny after the titular joke wears off. It feels like a cross between Sakamoto and Tanaka-kun with a light sports anime sauce, so watch it if you enjoyed either of those shows (which you should).
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Oh man I forgot to mention Aoyama-kun's ED. It's really good y'all.
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Jul 5, 2017 14:53
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Food Wars is getting a third season.
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Jul 6, 2017 05:52
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Tsurezure Children is... good.
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Jul 8, 2017 05:02
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StrixNebulosa posted:Ballroom really reminds of me of Haikyuu - similar style, humor, everything. Suddenly I'm interested in Ballroom.
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Jul 9, 2017 05:15
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Katsugeki! Touken Ranbu is the best show about time-travelling swords and Dutch steamships you'll watch all summer. Also, the time-traveling swords all look like pretty boys, and there's a talking fox-like creature whose main job seems to be looking up historic facts on Wikipedia. Fujo-bait weaponry aside, it's all very generic, from the character designs and personalities of the main cast to the glowing-red-eyes-engulfed-in-black-smoke monsters. It's also clearly based on a video game, with a very obvious line between plot scenes and fight scenes (in which enemies literally spawn from the sky). I watched the first two episodes, and while they weren't terrible, I already feel like I've seen everything this series has to offer. 18if's first episode was terrible. I got the feeling that the show really wants to be capital-A "Art", and so it'll throw everything it's got at you from the very start: A strange dream world with absurd inhabitants, wonky camera angles, psychedelic colors, and a whole bag of visual tricks to try to convince you that this is good and deep and relevant. The problem is that the show has neither the artistic vision nor the budget to make any of it stick, which results in a disjointed mess of uninteresting characters with badly timed dialog talking over ugly 3D backgrounds. Maybe the other directors will do a better job, but this series already felt like it tried to bite off way more than it could chew.
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Jul 9, 2017 14:40
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Crunchyroll got New Game 2.
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Jul 11, 2017 00:47
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Agronox posted:I care. I always like to read what people are enjoying (or not). Well feast your eyes on these hot takes then. Ninja Girl & Samurai Master: I'm like six episodes behind, but it's still good. Sakura Quest: Has started to grow on me in the second cour. It's not as good as Shiroboka or Iroha, but it's got its own kind of charm. My Hero Academy: It's good, but the current arc doesn't really do it for me. I hope we'll get some more classroom scenes before the season is over. Hina Logi(c): This show is really dumb, and really cute, and they still haven't used their magical girl skills for anything more serious than "cleaning the bath" or "growing some flowers". Restaurant to Another World: Ehhhhhh. Every half-episode is "exposition, exposition, food porn, exposition", except the exposition isn't interesting and the food porn isn't interesting either. Knight Is And Magic (or maybe it's & Magic of Knight?): Surprisingly fun. The past two episodes have just been the dorky robot otaku building up his robot army, but it looks like the next episode will have some action. Swordboys: I was ready to drop this, but apparently poo poo gets real in episode five? I guess I could watch two more episodes of the bland fujoshi bait show. Tsuredure Children: Show of the season so far. Aoyama-kun: Runner-up of the season so far. Gamers: Ehhhhhh. I hate the protagonist, but there have been a couple of decent jokes so far. Yokai Apartment: Ehhhhhh. Just ehhhhhh. Can't even formulate an opinion on this show. New Game!: More of the same, but still really good. Classroom of the Elite: Not great, but surprisingly interesting. I'm genuinely curious to see where they'll take this concept, so I'm going to keep watching this. Centaur's Worries: Has troubles with comedic timing, but otherwise pretty good. It occasionally does the same "social commentary by way of monsters" thing that Demi-chan did, though not as well. Already dropped: 18if, Fastest Fingers First. In conclusion, I watch a lot of anime I don't really like.
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a kitten posted:Put in my queue, but haven't started watching; will i? The first episode of 18if was easily the worst episode of anime I've watched this season, and I've watched a lot of mediocre shows. Ugly, bad acting, poor pacing, and riddled with cliches. I recommend not watching it.
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Jul 30, 2017 02:08
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Wark Say posted:Worse than Winter's Hand Shakers? I didn't watch Hand Shakers (only saw a bunch of gifs), but at least it seems to have been entertainingly horrible, 18if doesn't even have that.
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Counter-point: It's a bad show, and probably my biggest disappointment of the season. Every half-episode follows the exact same structure, and the show's completely devoid of plot or interesting characters. The owner doesn't have a shred of characterization beyond "nice person", the waitress girl hasn't had a single interesting moment since her half-episode ended, and everybody else just exposition-dumps their entire life story in ten minutes, then has a minor orgasm about some food, and then leaves. Maybe at some point the show will start connecting the various narrative dots it's been drawing, but the first half of the season has been nothing but the same inconsequential short story, repeated ten or twelve times.
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Aug 5, 2017 06:58
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Compendium posted:Like, I'm not sure what you were expecting since the first three episodes are pretty indicative of what you're gonna get, so you're probably expecting too much. Yeah, in retrospect I'm not sure what I was expecting either, since it's not like the promotional material made it look terribly exciting. I think I expected it to be more about the restaurant's staff and regulars, but it turns out the owner is a blank of slab of generic affability, the waitress girl stopped being a character after episode one, and the customers are little more than walking and talking exposition dumps. Boring slice-of-life shows are only as good as their characters, and this show doesn't have any.
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Aug 5, 2017 09:46
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Gamers! has been surprisingly good these past few episodes. The Game Club has barely been part of the show ever since the MC turned down the invitation to join in episode 1, and it's far from the "us gamers, right?" wink-nudge-fest it looked like at first. Instead, it's more like an endearingly stupid romantic comedy, starring characters who occasionally talk about games. It's got some good jokes and the occasional bit of inspired directing, and while the MC is a spineless dork, at least there's a character who's constantly calling him out on being a spineless dork.
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Centaur's Worries continues to be really weird and hard to pin down. The latest episode starts with some standard slice-of-life school comedy scenes about the MC's hair (in which we learn that the halos of the angel folks are in fact formed by a single, extremely long hair), but then it ends with a fake exorcism and a deadly serious conversation between a father and his daughter about how the former is wasting his life. And on top of that, they keep alluding to how messed up their society is, like with the middle school teacher who was arrested for racism because he didn't believe that the MC is a natural redhead. The comedic timing being always slightly off, even in the straight-up comedy scenes, makes it even harder to determine what is and is not supposed to be a joke. I wouldn't call it a great show exactly, but it does make for a weirdly intriguing mix, and it's one of the few shows this season that I'll watch as soon a new episode is released.
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Aug 14, 2017 14:23
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The internet's no place for jokes.
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Aug 15, 2017 00:46
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I somehow managed to read that as "pancakes" both times.
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I will watch season 2 of the hamster goblin show.
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Aug 20, 2017 05:10
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I liked OG im@s better than CG.
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Hina Logi was good. Did anyone here watch the original Luck & Logic series last year? I might check it out if it's similar in tone to Hina Logi.
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