Omnibus Summer 2012 Anime ThreadFollow

Rather than have the Bleach manga thread splinter off into anime discussions too, we probably ought to keep everything contained in an anime specific thread. Just to be tidy, you know. (One piece alone will guarantee the Bleach thread hits 100+ pages.)

We just watched Natsuyuki Rendezvous, which looked rather meh until The Reveal, at which point it suddenly got very interesting despite the slow pace. We're adding that to the watch list, which so far also includes Bimbougami Ga, Moyashiman Returns! (first ep not out yet but we are going to be all over it anyway), and probably Utakoi (despite all the weirdness.) Jinrui wa Suitai Shimash*ta is on the "ehhh give it another episode" list, despite the bleeding artificial bread.

Anyone else dive into some of the questionable shows from this season yet?

Edited, Jul 5th 2012 9:08pm by catwho

The description for Arcana Famiglia that I read seems to give the feel of it being Reborn! but replace Tsunayoshi, Reborn!'s wimp-***-turning-into-a-badass shounen hero with a shoujo protagonist, and turning the plot into a cheesy action-anime love story, but I'll give it a try. That said, I was thoroughly amused by Campione's first episode, more so than I thought I would be, so maybe this season's pool won't be as dismal as I was expecting.
Edit: Ok, having watched Arcana Famiglia, I'm retaining my opinion, despite their attempt to make the heroine not totally useless. I agree about Debito, @#%^ing love the way he sounds, but the two necessary-love-triangle-creating-rivals both seem rather... meh. Obnoxious spikey haired blondie and tsundere bowlcut bluehair. It feels like the show's strength and entertainment value will come from everyone that isn't one of the three main characters (red-yellow-blue color scheme on their hair... I mean really?). I'll give it 2-3 more episodes to win me over, but I'm not really impressed by the plot. At least the show is pretty.

Also, I'm looking forward to Kokoro Connect, if only because I haven't seen a good, new, gender-bender anime in @#%^ing forever, and when the writer/s know how to pull it off, I absolutely love the genre. There are, however, far more misses than hits.

edit3: k, one of the ones I had hope for, Hagure Yuusha, definitely gets my stamp of approval. Good animation, good fight scenes (what little they showed, anyway), amusing protagonist, and an interesting plot (Kid gets dragged off to another world and saves them by defeating the Demon King! sounds really played out. This story starts after that, when he gets home. Apparently, his world (presumably earth) has become aware of various kids getting dragged off from their world to others, and of the few that return, they retain any superhuman/supernatural abilities they gained in the other world they got dragged to, so they decided to stick them all in one school for supers.) Personally, I just ******* love how much of a snarkass Akatsuki (the hero) is.

Edited, Jul 6th 2012 12:34pm by Jinte

Sword Art Online: Definitely gonna watch this one. It's apparently by the same person who did Accel World, which I'm currently loving, and it's premise is pretty brutal. Basically, .hack//sign, only every single player in the game is tsukasa (can't log out), but this time, if they die in game, they die. period. The thing they're using to play the game will fry their brain. It'll also fry it if someone tries to take it off of them. It looks like it'll be tasty, tasty drama

One that I'm kind of surprised by, Jinrui Wa Suitai *********** Basically, the first episode had such contrasting tone and art style (very pastel, mellow, happy art, with a kind of morbidly happy-go-lucky tone, since humans are dying out), and managed to confuse the **** out of me the entire way through, making little sense, then making a lot of sense, then taking everything that just made sense and turning it upside down, all while being fairly funny. Kind of like a really, really, really sedated Panty&Stocking with Garterbelt (by which I mean, it reeks of Gainax) meets watercolor children's stories I'm having trouble describing it... and I have no idea whether I liked it, loved it, or hated it, but I know I'm going to watch a few more episodes

Is English your first language?

I plan to watch terrible anime this summer season.

Omnibus

Omnibus?

Just making sure, I know I've read a couple of your posts and they seemed coherent in my memory, so that post kind of made me go "Buah?"

So The Matrix.

Watched the second episode of Muv-luv, lot of action and decent animation. It feels like Blue Gender minus the causal sex and the whinny male lead. Doesn't look like it will be a great show but if it carries on like this it will at least be a decent one. As for the rest of the offerings this season I'm just not a big fan of their themes.so I'll catch them when they finish when the mood strikes me.

What did you not like about Death Note?

My recommendations
Durarara!! - From the creators of Baccano!
Bakemonogatari
Fate/Stay Night
Black Lagoon

Also check out Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood if you haven't seen that one. It contains some of the same material as the first FMA, but it stays truer to the manga.

The second half.

Lupin has a new TV series going, but it's more focused on Fujiko if that matters. Both Kore wa Zombies series and Magical Girl Madoka Magica were decent.

I haven't watched much yet, but so far:

Hagure Yuusha no Estetica - Not bad. Really neat concept. I'll keep watching for now.

Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita - Both the cute and WTF factors are off the charts. I'll definitely keep watching this if it keeps up like this. (The ending theme sung by Masumi Itou is a bonus too.)

Sword Art Online - Kind of cool. Seems like it could be a darker, grittier version of .hack.

Edited, Jul 11th 2012 12:21am by Karlina