The Anime / Manga Thread (MK2) | Beware Spoilers

[Stratos]

luluco ep 3 was just as fantastic, i absolutely adore the art style and it just keeps growing on me (always have loved the way gainax uses shapes and outlines) but at the end it said "continued next season." trigger don't do this to me.

also about the gits thing, i'm personally not bothered. maybe it's because i occasionally watch dubs.

 

[Martin]

Luluco is confirmed to be 13 episodes, so we're safe.

 

[tcr]

lol i thought the 2nd episode of netoge was fine o.o

ye it was kinda cringy to watch the autist complain about "normies" seem to be unable to grasp the very basic concepts of real life (tbh i never expected this to have a cohesive plot anyway, if someone went into this thinking it would be super super awesome theyre just setting themselves up for failure). maybe the humor just kinda appeals to me, its just cringy enough to where i can laugh at it and not see myself reflected in it. at least episode two finally has some sort of plot that might happen

re:zero is p dope, I really enjoyed how in ep 1 they really emphasized the relationship and how the main girl acts, so i actually felt like i should root for the poor dude to save the girl. TBH tho the way they conversed in ep 1 really reminded me of katangatari for some reason

 

[RODAN]

netoge is like one of those comedy central style cringe humour shows but an anime

what im saying is i like it and its funny

 

[Blue_Tornado]

Big Order, Episode 1:

That was sooo fun. I mean, it's been a while since I watched Mirai Nikki, but it felt less like that show and way more like... Geass. Except tone down the over-the-top serious factor, keep the campiness (I did NOT expect camp) and add trippy directing.

I kinda loved it. What the hell. Been a while since the last time I had so much fun watching an episode of something.

 

[RODAN]

sry im awful at sound mixing

 

[Stratos]

Holy shit, Girls Und Boat (Haifuri) definitely the surprise of the season, thought it was gonna be stupid slice of life moeshit, its actually a decent action/battle/suspense anime thats also moe as fuck......whoa

 

[Blue_Tornado]

Holy shit, Girls Und Boat (Haifuri) definitely the surprise of the season, thought it was gonna be stupid slice of life moeshit, its actually a decent action/battle/suspense anime thats also moe as fuck......whoa

Oh it's definitely a moe show but the best kind of moe show, the kind where they replace all the 4-koma style humor with battleship skirmishes.

 

[Martin]

I just watched the first two episodes of High School Fleet and was really pleasantly surprised by it. I went into it expecting a slice of life show about high school girls (based on Crunchyroll's description I couldn't imply anything else), and the first three quarters of episode 1 painted the show like that. However, the way that the plot twisted late in episode 1 really caught me by surprise and got me invested in the situation the characters are in. The action is interesting to watch (this really caught me off guard as I would have never expected myself to describe the action in a battleship show as interesting) and

key plot point of both episodes

the situation of them being attacked by the instructir who greeted them and put into a situation where their only possible response was to retalliate, leading the MC's ship to be accused of mutiny and to get targetted by the authorities

has interested me more than I would have expected it to.

 

[watashi]

if you liked haifuri i`d definitely check out girls und panzer, which is by the same writer. it`s pretty much the same thing except with tanks instead of ships, but they`re fighting in a controlled environment instead of actually being in war (?). there`s a lot of overlapping themes like a moe cast, talented/lucky main character, overcoming impossible match ups, etc, and it definitely has the same feeling to it

 

[Asek]

. there`s a lot of overlapping themes like a cast, talented/lucky main character, overcoming impossible match ups, etc, and it definitely has the same feeling to it

This sounds like the base for a smogon tournaments anime

 

[Martin]

This sounds like the base for a smogon tournaments anime

Gakusen Toshi SMOGON

A battle school harem starring Leftiez, Whitequeen and xtra$hine

7.8/10 too much salt

 

[Tokyo Tom]

hello everyone

this isn't really current season, but has anyone heard of a manga called The Legend of the Legendary Heroes (Densetsu no Yuusha no Densestu, I believe)? it has all of the stuff i've gravitated towards in my limited experience w/ manga - an actually competent male lead that isn't just a filler for the series to show off its female leads (look at freezing for example, ugh), the emotionally distant/borderline tsundere female lead that warms up as the story progresses, a likeable backing cast with at least somewhat complex characters, a number of anti-heroes and anti-villains, a fairly deep plot, humour, and a fantasy setting. unfortunately they only released one season of anime and it ends on a massive cliffhanger (it's adapted from a light novel series which i don't believe was ever completed

), but i was just wondering if anyone had read or seen this before and had any other recommendations

 

[Cresselia~~]

Gakusen Toshi SMOGON

A battle school harem starring Leftiez, Whitequeen and xtra$hine

7.8/10 too much salt

I'm going to be those twins who use trickery and be like complete assholes.

 

[Thatsjustpeachy]

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hello everyone

this isn't really current season, but has anyone heard of a manga called The Legend of the Legendary Heroes (Densetsu no Yuusha no Densestu, I believe)? it has all of the stuff i've gravitated towards in my limited experience w/ manga - an actually competent male lead that isn't just a filler for the series to show off its female leads (look at freezing for example, ugh), the emotionally distant/borderline tsundere female lead that warms up as the story progresses, a likeable backing cast with at least somewhat complex characters, a number of anti-heroes and anti-villains, a fairly deep plot, humour, and a fantasy setting. unfortunately they only released one season of anime and it ends on a massive cliffhanger (it's adapted from a light novel series which i don't believe was ever completed

), but i was just wondering if anyone had read or seen this before and had any other recommendations

This series is completed in novel form and available in english assuming you are indeed referring to the original Densetsu (not Dai Densetsu and Shin Densetsu). It's not publicly available due to DMCAs forcing the novel translations to be taken down but pdfs should be floating around. Just an option in case you don't want to wait for the manga. No mangas for me if I can avoid it.

 

[Stratos]

I always wondered if there would ever be another anime that would make me feel as hard as Toradora did, or if that was the magic of it being my first anime.

...Well, apparently, there was, and Kokoro Connect was that anime. I've only finished the first arc, so please don't spoil, but my god. The show kind of feels like the cheap melodrama I hate Jun Maeda for, but it's melodrama done oh so right. And Miyuki Sawashiro is now my seiyuu waifu, i loved her in Monogatari but holy shit her performance in Kokoro Connect is even better.

 

[Acklow]

I won't spoil but you should stop at the end of the first arc because the rest of the show is an utter disappointment.

 

[moonbound]

I won't deny the noticeable drop in quality in the second arc; but if he just stopped he'd miss Michi Random, which is arguably the best ending that a shitty romance anime has ever had in terms of like actually ending things in a way that is concise and at least somewhat satisfactory.

 

[Stratos]

i just watched the second arc and it was worth watching still even though definitely not nearly as good as the first, so yeah, im glad i didnt take acklows advice.

edit: having finished the anime, definitely nothing was as good as the first arc, but it was worth watching.

 

[Fishin]

Hai Furi bugs me because it's the sort of plot that could probably be resolved if the main characters at least tried talking things out, but no, they just keep digging their hole deeper. If someone accuses you of being violent and your response is to punch them, you're not really helping your case.

 

[Blue_Tornado]

Hai Furi bugs me because it's the sort of plot that could probably be resolved if the main characters at least tried talking things out, but no, they just keep digging their hole deeper. If someone accuses you of being violent and your response is to punch them, you're not really helping your case.

Think of it like an episode of Air Crash Investigations.

 

[Acklow]

My Jojo Character

Stand Name: ⌈Apollo⌋

Stand Ability: [Sanitized Metabolism] (http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Sanitized_Metabolism)

Power - B

Speed - C

Range - E

Durability - B

Precision - A

Potential - A

Description: The power to have a sanitized metabolism. The user has a sanitized metabolism, which means their body is clean all the time, and never gets dirty. They never sweats, leave behind any kind of dander or biological residue, etc. They cannot develop things like unsightly skin problems or bad breath, and waste products, if there are any at all, are both minimized and sanitized. And even if the user has any body odor, whatsoever, it will actually be pleasant.

Make your own Jojo Character:

Face Generator:
http://dagobah.net/flash/jojo_face_maker.swf

Stand Generator:
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dft29/Stand_Generator/Stand-Generation-Overdrive.html

 

[Stratos]

Hariyama Yui

 

[RODAN]

Stand Name: Have a Sad Cum BB

Stand Ability: [Beauty Inducement](http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Beauty_Inducement)

Power - D

Speed - B

Range - C

Durability - D

Precision - C

Potential - B

Description: The power to increase the physical beauty of oneself and others. Opposite of Ugliness Inducement. The user can alter the physical qualities of people (including themselves), animals and inanimate objects so that they will become more pleasing aesthetically.

 

[moonbound]

I got really worried for a second that Netoge was starting to take itself too seriously, but it jumped right back on the stupid train almost immediately.