What Current Anime Are You Watching Version v4.0

[Focslain]

5 hours ago, Big s said:

Love death and robots is kinda like liquid television for a new generation.

Agreed.

Top favs were: Suits, Good Hunting, and Secret War.

[blackconvoy_D01]

On a Dragon Ball Super and Kai rewatch/ watch currently. I was hoping NGE would be on Netflix in April but moved to June. I've never watched it and was looking forward to it sooner.

 

[Bolt]

On 3/23/2019 at 7:31 PM, Bolt said:

Love ,Death, Robots.

Awsomeness

(..is it anime?)

be prepared

Lucky 13 , fish night& good hunting were among my fav’s

[Marzan]

New season is not really too impressive so far. Granted, the heavey hitters like Attack on Titan 3 and OPM 2 haven't  started yet. Most interesting so far has been Demon Slayer on Saturdays. Really fluid animation, nice looking art and the story seems promising enough.

The Fruits Basket remake really took me back 15 years. Exactly the same, just with better animation.

[Big s]

I saw demon slayer episode 1 and really liked it. The zombie thing has been really popular lately.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

Fruits Basket is my favorite of this seasons new shows.  Finished Index III and I am sad it is over it was just too short.  Way too much missed and Misaka was missing compared to the books.

[no3Ljm]

Don't want to start a new thread so I'll just post it here Makoto Shinkai's new anime film coming July, 2019.

TENKI NO KO (Weathering With You)

 

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

15 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Don't want to start a new thread so I'll just post it here Makoto Shinkai's new anime film coming July, 2019.

TENKI NO KO (Weathering With You)

 

I am looking forward to seeing this movie.  I loved Kimi no Na wa

[kajnrig]

Who here have seen Shinkai's pre-Your Name works? He's been on my radar ever since Voices of a Distant Star, and his works have been hit or miss with me. Seems every other one is pretty good, with a mediocre one in between projects. Me, I tend to prefer his short stories. His feature-length films prior to Your Name have always been a bit too convoluted for their own good.

Always beautiful to watch, though.

 

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

On 4/10/2019 at 3:41 PM, kajnrig said:

Who here have seen Shinkai's pre-Your Name works? He's been on my radar ever since Voices of a Distant Star, and his works have been hit or miss with me. Seems every other one is pretty good, with a mediocre one in between projects. Me, I tend to prefer his short stories. His feature-length films prior to Your Name have always been a bit too convoluted for their own good.

Always beautiful to watch, though.

 

I have seen Kotonoha no Niwa, Byousoku 5 Centimeters, and Hoshi o Ou Kodomo.  I enjoyed them all.

[Big s]

Is one punch season 2 streaming anywhere in the U.S. yet? I’ve been noticing reviews up already.

[Seto Kaiba]

4 minutes ago, Big s said:

Is one punch season 2 streaming anywhere in the U.S. yet? I’ve been noticing reviews up already.

Hulu Plus is supposed to be carrying it, IIRC.

 

Edit: yep, Hulu Plus.

Edited April 13, 2019 by Seto Kaiba

[Big s]

Cool, I’ll check it out, I thought it would be somewhere else so I didn’t think to check hulu.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

I started Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san  and I loved it Senko is so cute.

[fenrir72]

Just got to see the BD Eva 3.3. The sound wuzz like cr@p! 1.1 and 2.2 had awesome sound.

[fenrir72]

Concerning anime I prefer them if they were true to their roots and not turned PG from their original R.

Fate Stay Night is a great franchise and all but its origins do come from an eroge source. Same with Valkyrie Romanze. If they made it like To love Ru with a little spiciness......... 

[fenrir72]

Ikkitousen's Epoch Extravaganza hasn't made any an appearance in the Ikki wiki. Only Western Wolves have some sort of acknowledgement. It's as if fans are purposely ignoring it?

The former is kinda a let down in that it is two short, just 2 episode with kanu getting all the awesome hits against this weirdo who just loves stamping his signature via a glowing stone on his foe's breasts (the female ones that is). He brands the guys on their faces.

Sonsaku lost her magatama which lead to an almost 3 year cliff hanger wait prior to Western wolves...........

 

[JB0]

4 hours ago, fenrir72 said:

Concerning anime I prefer them if they were true to their roots and not turned PG from their original R.

Fate Stay Night is a great franchise and all but its origins do come from an eroge source. Same with Valkyrie Romanze. If they made it like To love Ru with a little spiciness......... 

Fate/Stay Night isn't actually that racy. The first anime omitted one sex scene, rewrote a second one completely, omitted one bath scene, and added a few episodes of Sakura wearing a dominatrix outfit.

[fenrir72]

53 minutes ago, JB0 said:

Fate/Stay Night isn't actually that racy. The first anime omitted one sex scene, rewrote a second one completely, omitted one bath scene, and added a few episodes of Sakura wearing a dominatrix outfit.

I rest my case. Thanks.

[JB0]

So you're saying that broadcast anime needs to have explicit bangin' illustrated, in spite of broadcast guidelines explicitly prohibiting them from airing it? Because I honestly enumerated every "adult" scene in the original game, as well as all the racy content ADDED by the animation studio.

(Also, both sex scenes in the Fate route are terribly written and incredibly unsexy, and the story is better for their omission.)

[fenrir72]

1 hour ago, JB0 said:

So you're saying that broadcast anime needs to have explicit bangin' illustrated, in spite of broadcast guidelines explicitly prohibiting them from airing it? Because I honestly enumerated every "adult" scene in the original game, as well as all the racy content ADDED by the animation studio.

(Also, both sex scenes in the Fate route are terribly written and incredibly unsexy, and the story is better for their omission.)

Yup. What you said.

[JB0]

" in spite of broadcast guidelines explicitly prohibiting them from airing it "

Good way to make sure your show is cancelled midway and your company shut down when it can't pay the fines.

[kajnrig]

The things I hear about the Fate franchise perpetually leave me both wildly fascinated and thoroughly uninterested.

[Seto Kaiba]

25 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

The things I hear about the Fate franchise perpetually leave me both wildly fascinated and thoroughly uninterested.

Shame... you're missing out on some truly wonderful good-bad dialog like Emiya's frequent insistence that "people die when they are killed".  

Fate/stay night was a so-so series that tried to bundle a LOT of lore into not a lot of runtime.  Unlimited Blade Works was better, IMO, if only for being slightly more action-focused and dramatic.  Hard pass on everything the franchise has put out since, which seems to be mainly for the waifu crowd or that one knockoff of Shokugeki no Soma they had.

 

Looking at this season's offerings, it feels a tad underwhelming to me.  Apart from One Punch Man's second season and the Gundam: the Origin series, nothing's really catching my eye except Nobunaga Teacher's Young Bride.  The Rising of the Shield Hero is the most interesting of the lot right now.  I'm currently stuck playing catch-up on shows I didn't get the chance to finish yet like Lupin III Part V, The Morose Mononokean, and Domestic Girlfriend.

[JB0]

7 hours ago, kajnrig said:

The things I hear about the Fate franchise perpetually leave me both wildly fascinated and thoroughly uninterested.

That's fair. I feel like it is really good at the concept and outline stages, but Nasu isn't a great writer and desperately needed an editor. The /stay night animes are stuck because of it. 

 

And then there's the wall of stuff that just uses the name on something unrelated.

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

I started High Score Girl it was so funny.  I like it.

[Marzan]

Anyone watching Carole and Tuesday? The production values are insane and its pretty entertaining. It's also pretty interesting from a Macross perspective. A music centric show by Watanabe set in another planet (granted the depicition of Mars makes it indistinguishable from Earth).

[Hikaru Ichijo SL]

I am watching Hagure Yuusha no Estetica because i needed a anime that I could shut down my brain to watch.  It also is not terrible.

Edited April 18, 2019 by Hikaru Ichijo SL

[Lolicon]

I've read the Fate visual novel and found myself fast forwarding through the sex scenes. It's a porn where the plot is more interesting. 

The 2006 Fate/stay night TV series was terrible, thanks to ham-fisted efforts to try to cram three completely divergent storylines into one, result in an incomprehensible mess. Also, Studio Deen sucks.

Emiya Shirou also sucks as a protagonist and human being. 

The Fate/Unlimited Blade Works anime was a lot better, focusing only on the UBW route. Shirou is also more interesting as an extension of Emiya Kiritsugu's story arc. But that requires having seen Fate Zero, which was decent. Ufotable simply did a way better job on the anime adaptations than Studio Deen. 

[JB0]

1 hour ago, Lolicon said:

I've read the Fate visual novel and found myself fast forwarding through the sex scenes. It's a porn where the plot is more interesting. 

Total boner-killers, which is usually the opposite of what you want in a porn scene.

[Marzan]

Fate Zero was a good watch but the rest were pretty boring IMO. One thing though is that Gilgamesh has to be the single most irritating and smug SOB I've seen. Dislike him with a passion!

Just picked up the second season of One Punch Man. Is it just me or did the quality of art/animation take a nosedive? Really noticeable. I can see Madhouse is no longer doing it too.

Edited April 22, 2019 by Marzan

[Vifam7]

Pleasantly surpised that there are two baseball themed anime this season with Cinderella Nine and Mix.

Of the two, Cinderella Nine has more of my attention as Mix is based on Adachi Mitsuru's manga series which I have been reading for the past 6 years.

[Focslain]

4 hours ago, Marzan said:

Just picked up the second season of One Punch Man. Is it just me or did the quality of art/animation take a nosedive? Really noticeable. I can see Madhouse is no longer doing it too.

No it has, JC Staff is doing it this season, also the original director is not on staff either, so there is that. IF the story is good then I'll take a quality drop, just hoping they don't drop the ball completely.

[Marzan]

1 hour ago, Focslain said:

No it has, JC Staff is doing it this season, also the original director is not on staff either, so there is that. IF the story is good then I'll take a quality drop, just hoping they don't drop the ball completely.

That makes sense. It's too early to tell about the story only two episodes in. It's  a real shame that Madhouse couldn't do it again. They did a great job with season 1.

[Focslain]

1 hour ago, Marzan said:

That makes sense. It's too early to tell about the story only two episodes in. It's  a real shame that Madhouse couldn't do it again. They did a great job with season 1.

Yeah, that has been the biggest compliant about this season is the dip in animation quality, but if you start with MadHouse that was a high bar to set for the rest.