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[Anime Thread] S2: Haruhi Strikes Back
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Spring season series currently airing.
Of those we've got a number that people are following:
Basquash!: Giant robots playing basketball in Nikes. Basketballs are not the only thing you will see bouncing.
Sengoku Basara: Adaption of the video game series, basically Dynasty Warriors Japanese style. The crazy action anime of the season.
K-On: Slice of life series about a group of high school girls starting up a band to save the music club at their school. The catch? They can't play to save themselves.
Valkyria Chronicles: Adaption of the video game.
Full Metal Alchemist - Brotherhood: Remake of the series, follows the manga more closely this time around. Episodes are available for streaming here each week a couple of days after it shows in Japan.
Cross Game: Slice of Life series of a boy playing baseball. Highly recommended by a lot of people here.
Eden of the East: A man finds himself in front of the white house with no clothes, a gun and a mobile phone linked to a bank account with eight and a half billion yen on it. Again, highly recommended.
OAVs:
Spice and Wolf
Lupin
Gurren Lagann Movie (1st half)
Upcoming summer season series.
Looking to get into anime? Here are some forumer recommendations to check out or just ask in the thread and let us know what sort of theme you're after.
A few trailers and OPs/EDs from the current season.
Basquash! Trailer
Eden of the East
K-On Ending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKyIvW1hEA
Full Metal Alchemist Trailer
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Spring season series currently airing.
Of those we've got a number that people are following:
Basquash!: Giant robots playing basketball in Nikes. Basketballs are not the only thing you will see bouncing.
Sengoku Basara: Adaption of the video game series, basically Dynasty Warriors Japanese style. The crazy action anime of the season.
K-On: Slice of life series about a group of high school girls starting up a band to save the music club at their school. The catch? They can't play to save themselves.
Valkyria Chronicles: Adaption of the video game.
Full Metal Alchemist - Brotherhood: Remake of the series, follows the manga more closely this time around. Episodes are available for streaming here each week a couple of days after it shows in Japan.
Cross Game: Slice of Life series of a boy playing baseball. Highly recommended by a lot of people here.
Eden of the East: A man finds himself in front of the white house with no clothes, a gun and a mobile phone linked to a bank account with eight and a half billion yen on it. Again, highly recommended.
OAVs:
Spice and Wolf
Lupin
Gurren Lagann Movie (1st half)
Upcoming summer season series.
Looking to get into anime? Here are some forumer recommendations to check out or just ask in the thread and let us know what sort of theme you're after.
juice for jesus wrote: »Giant Robots: Gunbuster
Romantic comedy: Nodame Cantabile
Slice of life/school life: Sketchbook Full Colors
Martial arts: Hajime no Ippo, Bamboo Blade
Romance drama: ef - a tale of memories
"Hard" sci-fi: Planetes
Fantasy/Sword & Sorcery: Tower of Druaga
Action / Comedy: Great Teacher Onizuka
Slice of life / Comedy: Azumanga Daioh
Romance: Honey & Clover
Slice of life / Supernatural: Natsume Yuujinchou
Action / Supernatural: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Slice of Life: Honey & Clover
Comedy: Detroit Metal City
Comedy/Parody/Crazy Alternative History: Gintama
Long-running shounen fighting: Yu Yu Hakusho
Sports: Hajime no Ippo/Fighting Spirit
Mecha: 08th MS Team
Mystery/Action/Comedy: Baccano!
mystery/science fiction : Denno Coil
Real Robot: Nadesco
Magic Girl: Nanoha A's
Drama/Mystery/Psycological: Monster
Slice of Life: Ichigo Mashimaro
What category is Skip Beat! I was thinking something of the KawaiiiSoCute~~Funnyy ~~~*!!!!=3 Category
Giant robots: Gundam 08th MS Team
Comedy: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Historical fiction/action: Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
Comedy/sci-fi/historical fiction?: Oh! Edo Rocket
Horror/mystery: Mononoke
Fantasy: Twelve Kingdoms/Juuni Kokki
Supernatural: Mushishi
Fighting: Airmaster
Slice-of-life: Honey & Clover
Magical Girl: Shoujo Kakumei Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Epic Space Opera: Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Romance (manga): Mars
Post-apocalyptic slice-of-life (manga): Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Cafe Alpha)
Action: Black Lagoon
Romance: Ouran High School Host Club
(manga): Yankee-kun to Megane-chan
Comedy: Azumanga Daioh
Comedy: Potemayo
Romantic comedy: Ouran High School Host Club
Slice of life/school life: Sketchbook Full Colors
Economics drama: Spice and Wolf
Comedy: Azumanga Daioh
Action: Black Lagoon
Robot: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
BEST EVER: Baccano!
OLDER THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE WATCHED YET BUT SHOULD
Samurai Champloo.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Big O.
G Gundam.
Bounen no Xam'd: Lost Memories (Mecha/Sci-fi/Fantasy)
Kara no Kyoukai: Garden of Sinners (Action/Horror/Drama)
Kannagi (Rom-com/Drama)
Michiko to Hatchin (Action/Drama)
Minami-ke 1st and 3rd seasons, skip the 2nd one (Comedy/Slice-of-life)
Rideback (Mecha/Action)
Sketchbook ~full Color'S~ (Slice-of-life/...erm... it's good, just watch it)
To Aru Majutsu no Index (Action/Comedy)
Toradora (Rom-com/Drama)
Little Girls in an inapropriate setting (war): Strike Witches
Little Girls kissing a more little boy (also magical action): Negima
Little Girls being adorable little girls + 1 fucking bitch (slice of life): Straberry Marshmellow
Must watch for fans of Harem Anime (Drama): School Days
Magical Gril Drama (Not Anime): Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
I love fapping to h-games that I skip the story, but the story was pretty good and I want to know what happened: Clannad+Clannad After Story, Kannon, or Air
Giant Robots with charm, space bugs, a perfect ending and great animation: Gunbuster
Giant Robots with music and love triangles and missile spam: Macross
FABULOUS with giant robots: Code Geass
Giant Robots with PIERCE THE HEAVENS: Gurren Lagann
I AM GUNDAM: Gundam 00.
Slice of life (The only entry I'll ever put on), charming cast of characters: Azumanga Daioh
Sheer hilarity and randomness: Pani Poni Dash!
ProfMoriarty wrote: »Code Geass <--- I don't know how to categorize this. Mechs doesn't do it justice, but neither does drama.
Mech: GaoGaiGar
Comedy: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
You Will Cry Like a Little Girl: Air
CyborgZeta wrote: »Mech/Romance - Eureka Seven
Comedy - Full Metal Panic Fumoffu
Action - Cowboy Bebop/Samurai Champloo
Super Robot - GaoGaiGar
Mystery/Horror - Ghost Hunt
Additional - Overman King Gainer
Chrono Helix wrote: »I would like to add Akagi and Kaiji to the list of recommendations.
Best sport series: Hajime no Ippo
Slice of Life: Honey & Clover
Comedy: Detroit Metal City
Giant Robots: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
The odd one out pick? Let's Bible.
Sex starved Croatian fisherboy punches the female reincarnation of Jesus Christ unconscious so he can lose his virginity, ends up fighting the banjo wielding son of Lucifer, Santo.
For lack of anyone else recommending it-The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Way better than Air-Kanon: Kyon in the snow (Less chin version)
Shipping delight without a proper ending-School Rumble
Board games with pretty good music-Hikaru no Go
Polearms!-Moribito
Kuwabara playing basketball-Slam Dunk
A few trailers and OPs/EDs from the current season.
Basquash! Trailer
Eden of the East
K-On Ending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKyIvW1hEA
Full Metal Alchemist Trailer
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Also, episode 02 of the Higurashi Rei OVA is out.
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I quite liked the old one, but found the resolution to be quite weak (including what came in the film) and I know this is supposed to address those issues due to output speed differences between the manga and original series. So, opinions thus far?
Very good. They're sorta going fast-forward at the moment, though - mainly because we haven't hit the divergence point yet in the storyline.
But don't take my word for it, go watch the eps at Funi's website.
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I enjoy that the focus is more on the cast and their shared experience through Wakaba than the typical shounen baseball business.
It's been out and subbed for a while dude. Didn't like it, but I'm apparently in a minority.
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I was thinking about the moon in it though and just how aggravating that would be. They basically broadcast giant images and you're stuck listening to the music in the middle of the night.
Now imagine if that was that was real when Armageddon came out and every radio station was running that fucking horrible Aerosmith song all night. Or the Titanic one.
Christ that would get old quick.
I'm slowly catching up on Basquash, but it is difficult, as this may be the dumbest thing I have ever willingly subjected myself to.
Dumbest most best thing.
Phantom, Valkyria Chronicles, Eden Of The East, Basqush, new DVDs for Claymore, Baccano, Lucky Star. And I still have to finish Allison & Lillia, Shikabane Hima: Aka, Mouryou no Hako, and Library Wars from last season. And there's always the interminable keeping up with Once Piece. AND I have Utawarjfdklsfhfsdjklsdfjklfuck queued up on Netflix streaming.
Here's a lesson kids: You can either get a job or watch anime. Not both.
Also does anyone know why Tokyotosho is down?
It's something we're going to be telling our grandsons about.
Shit haven't watched it yet I'm out son.
Not that there's that big of a difference, but just lettin' ya know.
I enjoyed Library Wars. It was different enough from the usual fare that it felt fresh.
I picked it up for one reason and one reason only.
Library. Wars.
I mean, come on. Librarians with guns. Books and armaments. It has to be good. And it is a rather good mix of silly rom/com and military action/drama.
I do both. vacation/sick days can be anime catch up days.
yea, episode 5 is where more of the basketball elements start to show up. Until then it's nothing but tits and yelling.
3 on 3 with robots is fun.
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Anyway, I think this has been a great season so far. I've been following Cross Game, Shin Mazinger and Sengoku Basara and they're all pretty much astounding. Well, Basara slipped up a little when it decided to NOT be ludicrously awesome for about 2 episodes, but then I saw that they were going to introduce some kind of Gundam samurai in the next episode preview and I knew I had to keep watching.
Not that there's anything wrong with a face-full of moe.
Eden of the East remains promising, but I can't seem to keep up with it. This is probably because I am usually eating while I watch it, and I fail at subtitles when eating. I'll probably re-watch the series thus far soon.
Totally not going to happen, but a man can dream....
His name is Honda!
He has the fan nickname of Mobile Suit Hondam, apparently.
I can see where they're coming from
Shame on you.
Also this is the best ending to any chapter ever.
Just watched this one last night, funny as hell. The teacher was hilarious. The bit when they reveal the result of Yui's "special training" and they're both making :P:P faces, oh man. In fact, the faces in general are a riot in this show.
We are on the same page, bro. The faces were so great.
I know it's a show about a band that can't really play, but I'd really like to hear more music-playing in this show about music-players.
kyun~
i did like that, but i liked it with a very stern face.
Last night I finished it up and it was great. I didn't expect it to be one of my favorite series but there it sits now. I knew nothing about it when I started watching it other than that dance people do, who knew the series was actually something totally unexpected and unlike what I thought it was.
Now I want more. I hope they actually come out with a second seasons like the rumors are saying possibly might happen this year.
I KISS YOU!
Yeah, the second season is coming. Right after they tease and then disappoint us a few more times. Look, we're airing more Haruhi! Except it's just the first season again! Psych!
"They're wearing some kind of very progressive outfits!" That is very amusing.