[TV] The What Anime Are You Watching Thread!

Yoshimickster · Apr 9, 2016

Sherlock Hound

Dear LORD I can tell I'm gonna love this, though part of me kept feeling Moriarty should've yelled out "NEXT TIME GADGET! NEEEEEEEEEEEEEXT TIME!"

Bones · Apr 12, 2016

Love Live season 1:
Holy crap who thought a show about an all girls school facing shutdown trying to be saved by 9 of its students forming an idol group would be this interesting. Best of all the girls are pretty well fleshed out too!

PatrThom · Apr 12, 2016

Bones said:
Love live season 1:
Holy crap who thought a show about an all girls school facing shutdown trying to be saved by 9 of its students forming an idol group would be this interesting. Best of all the girls are pretty well fleshed out too!

That plot sounds so stereotypically Disneyish.
The only way it could be more Disneyish would be if they had to play baseball at some point.

--Patrick

AshburnerX · Apr 12, 2016

PatrThom said:
That plot sounds so stereotypically Disneyish.
The only way it could be more Disneyish would be if they had to play baseball at some point.

--Patrick

It's called Princess Nine and it's actually pretty good.

PatrThom · Apr 12, 2016

AshburnerX said:
It's called Princess Nine and it's actually pretty good.

I think the best part of that trailer is how much it tries to sound like the theme music to TWiB.

--Patrick

Bones · Apr 12, 2016

AshburnerX said:
It's called Princess Nine and it's actually pretty good.

princess 9 starts out super cool and just kind of sputters, and coasts to an end.

Covar · Apr 13, 2016

Bones said:
princess 9 starts out super cool and just kind of sputters, and coasts to an end.

It's not my favorite Baseball anime (Cross game), but it's serviceable. Your description is spot on too, I don't even recall if I finished it, and I'm not sure I particularly care.

Bones · Apr 13, 2016

Covar said:
It's not my favorite Baseball anime (Cross game), but it's serviceable. Your description is spot on too, I don't even recall if I finished it, and I'm not sure I particularly care.

long story short

the main character ends up mutually confessing her love to the boys star batter after they lose their final championship game to the boys team in nationals.

LittleKagsin · Apr 13, 2016

Bones said:
Love Live season 1:
Holy crap who thought a show about an all girls school facing shutdown trying to be saved by 9 of its students forming an idol group would be this interesting. Best of all the girls are pretty well fleshed out too!

I FREAKING adore Love Live. Kotori is my baby.

Bones · Apr 13, 2016

LittleKagsin said:
I FREAKING adore Love Live. Kotori is my baby.

protip: i am on the last episode and just dropped the money for season 2 TODAY.

LittleKagsin · Apr 13, 2016

Bones said:
protip: i am on the last episode and just dropped the money for season 2 TODAY.

Yaaay! I'm so excited for you. =^^=

Bones · Apr 14, 2016

So i also just finished Chiaka the coffin princess. Holy shit what a screwed up fantasy series. I really cant wait for season 2!

CynicismKills · Apr 14, 2016

Bones said:
So i also just finished Chiaka the coffin princess. Holy shit what a screwed up fantasy series. I really cant wait for season 2!

It's a great series.

Bones · Apr 14, 2016

CynicismKills said:
It's a great series.

white chiaka is so fucking adorable it hurts. she reminds me of the necromancer from is this a zombie!?

CynicismKills · Apr 14, 2016

Chaika's not as funny as Zombie, but it's still a fun series. All the main characters are great.

Bones · Apr 16, 2016

Im now trying to finish Maburaho. Show is fricking formulatic as hell...

fade · Apr 27, 2016

Apparently they are remaking D Gray Man.

Yoshimickster · Apr 27, 2016

fade said:
Apparently they are remaking D Gray Man.

Ah, the series based in England but the monsters are named after Japanese personifications of hate....even...though they look nothing like anything inspired by either English or Japanese folklore. Either way, if its popular enough for a remake show ala FMA, I think I might give it a second chance. Either way, every time I think of these two forces of good and evil fight over a power source I will think this is the Shonen version of Transformers Gen 1. Also the main character's possessed arm is a rip of "Hell Teacher Nube" as well as the entire TREND of possessed arms. Its either eyes, or arms, what about legs? Have a guy with a possessed leg, call the series "Restless" it'd be awesome.

Frank · Apr 28, 2016

Gantz CG movie looks pretty boss.

CynicismKills · Apr 28, 2016

It's interesting to see how anime CG has evolved over the years. A lot of it still looks like hot garbage, but every once in awhile a shiny diamond pokes through the rough.

I linked it somewhere earlier in the thread, but it still amazes me that the absolute best CG I've seen in a 30-minute anime is a bunch of moe animal-girls fighting each other to be Zodiac representatives.

fade · Apr 28, 2016

Yoshimickster said:
Ah, the series based in England but the monsters are named after Japanese personifications of hate....even...though they look nothing like anything inspired by either English or Japanese folklore. Either way, if its popular enough for a remake show ala FMA, I think I might give it a second chance. Either way, every time I think of these two forces of good and evil fight over a power source I will think this is the Shonen version of Transformers Gen 1. Also the main character's possessed arm is a rip of "Hell Teacher Nube" as well as the entire TREND of possessed arms. Its either eyes, or arms, what about legs? Have a guy with a possessed leg, call the series "Restless" it'd be awesome.

The thing that is most irritating about the original series is that it's a) mostly filler, and b) ends in the middle. I know this isn't the studio's fault, though. The manga author got sick, and still suffers poor health and hiatuses.

CynicismKills · Apr 28, 2016

fade said:
The thing that is most irritating about the original series is that it's a) mostly filler, and b) ends in the middle. I know this isn't the studio's fault, though. The manga author got sick, and still suffers poor health and hiatuses.

Hunter X Hunter has gotten so bad that the hiatus is considered normal and a comic being published is the real break.

fade · May 25, 2016

Thanks "Another" for giving me an irrational fear of walking down stairs with an umbrella. Especially one tipped for some reason with apparently a dagger of some sort.

GasBandit · May 25, 2016

fade said:
Thanks "Another" for giving me an irrational fear of walking down stairs with an umbrella. Especially one tipped for some reason with apparently a dagger of some sort.

Hope you didn't wanna go to the beach this summer.

Null · May 25, 2016

Ever get the feeling that Japanese culture just really hates teenagers?

GasBandit · May 25, 2016

Null said:
Ever get the feeling that Japanese culture just really hates teenagers?

Anybody who doesn't hate teenagers must not interact with them to any notable degree

Null · May 25, 2016

GasBandit said:
Anybody who doesn't hate teenagers must not interact with them to any notable degree

I work at 2 colleges, one a junior college. Like 2/3rds of the students I interact with are 18 and 19 year olds. Yeah, they're kind of annoying, but they're just young.

CynicismKills · May 25, 2016

The best thing to come out of Another are the edited death gifs. If I weren't at work I'd look some up. Just think pies and lightsabers.

GasBandit · May 25, 2016

CynicismKills said:
The best thing to come out of Another are the edited death gifs. If I weren't at work I'd look some up. Just think pies and lightsabers.

I'd post some but I don't want to spoil anything for Fade.

Null · May 25, 2016

GasBandit said:
I'd post some but I don't want to spoil anything for Fade.

Yeah, he wouldn't like that.

CynicismKills · May 26, 2016

Full Metal Alchemist movie announced, and they're saying it'll be an all-Japanese cast.

I mean, that's cool, but if anything most characters would likely be of Germanic descent save for the foreign (likely Chinese) ones introduced late in the series.

Bones · May 26, 2016

started watching Assassination Classroom, the dub is really good. fun show, many laughs, love kuro-sensei.

AshburnerX · May 26, 2016

CynicismKills said:
Full Metal Alchemist movie announced, and they're saying it'll be an all-Japanese cast.

I mean, that's cool, but if anything most characters would likely be of Germanic descent save for the foreign (likely Chinese) ones introduced late in the series.

Japan has a real problem with casting non-Japanese people, even if they can speak perfect Japanese. It's just a cultural thing; they seem to think the language is beyond gaijins or something so anytime a western speaks it well it just completely blows their minds.

Denbrought · May 26, 2016

Eh, we'll fix it in the remake.

GasBandit · May 26, 2016

AshburnerX said:
Japan has a real problem with casting non-Japanese people, even if they can speak perfect Japanese.

I suppose it's fair. I have issues with Japanese live-action adaptations of anime because anime is drawn in such a way that none of the characters look to be of asian descent.