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[Line_HTX]

Both Citrus and Netsuzou Trap just got anime announcements. Both are actual yuri (not bait) and are pretty good if very melodramatic.

Not quite sure what you're insinuating here, but both Citrus and Netsuzou Trap are "trashy" in the same way as a telenovela/soap opera, not in the way you'd expect from something like Cross Ange or Valkyrie Drive. It's important to point out that both manga run in Yuri Hime, which (like most actual yuri) has a target audience that's mostly female. The characters are actual lesbians and are treated like actual people with their relationship being an actual thing with lots of melodrama.

Actual relationships that are as real and on par as Yuri on Ice, hmm....

I'm interested. Are these two yuri smut too?

 

[Cornbread78]

So it's School Days all over again?

Makoto's reaction is about right here:

lol

 

[Qurupeke]

Actual relationships that are as real and on par as Yuri on Ice, hmm....

But Yuri on Ice doesn't have any real romantic relationships...

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Puzzle & Dragons X Episode 20 – Tiger's Tough Time

Her monster is so much better than Tigers

Spoiler

goodbye

 

[victreeb3l]

Izetta 4-7

I will never get used to United States of Atlanta. lol.

Speculation:

Spoiler

Berkman will find and reanimate the corpse of the original White Witch.

 

[Cornbread78]

But Yuri on Ice doesn't have any real romantic relationships...

Are you saying Yuri on Ice is pure Yaoi baiting?

 

[blurr]

Coming home late, need to wake up early so anime watching becoming more and more difficult lol and I started so many shows.

 

[Puruzi]

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Trickster Episode 7 – Pure Tryst

Awesome pool episode, that was so much fun that it was better than the other stuff going on. The Hanasaki brother stuff and family plot is intriguing and makes me hope for some improvement. At least his father is as hard and disapproving as some series like to make the father be (he didnt kick Kobayashi out, and he still lets Hanasaki do whatever he wants).

Spoiler

brother as the antagonist is good

 

[PK Gaming]

Actual relationships that are as real and on par as Yuri on Ice, hmm....

I'm interested. Are these two yuri smut too?

NTR is more smutty in comparison to Citrus's SoL

Incidentally, Citrus starts out decently but it nosedives preeeeeeeeetty hard after a certain point

 

[Maximilian Kolbe]

Sakurada Reset anime announced, 2017 spring.

Staff:
Director: Shinya Kawatsura
Series composition: Katsuhiko Takayama
Character Designer: Tomoyuki Shitaya
Studio: David Production

Nearly half the population of Sakurada, a small town near the Pacific Ocean, has some sort of unique power. These powers range from being able to enter the mind of a cat, to resetting the world back to a certain point in time in the past. There is a group known as the "Kanrikyoku" that controls and monitors the use of these powers.
Asai Kei and Haruki Misora work for their school's club called "Houshi" club, which execute any missions received from the Kanrikyoku. Misora has the ability to reset the world 3 days.
This means that all events and any memory of the past 3 days that "could have" happened, never happened. Kei has the ability to "remember" the past. Even after Misora uses her powers to reset the world back 3 days, Kei will retain those 3 days in his memory. Combining their powers, these two solve missions issued by the Kanrikyoku.
Live action movie also coming 2017 spring.

 

[e_i]

oh, that bad? The whole "yuri" thing does nothing for me...

I think they should animate Girlfriends. Anyway, I took a look at Netsuzou Trap and it has an interesting premise.

Spoiler

Two girls cheating on their boyfriends with each other.

It sounds like Maki-Maki.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

I think that if I rewatch dragon ball z I'm skipping essentially up until the end of the Frieza saga. Androids/Cell and buu saga is good enough.

I don't need to watch goku train run through the serpent trail in heaven, or learn a method of power up he never uses again. Or the many episodes of namek with the underlings before they fight Frieza.

 

[PK Gaming]

I think that if I rewatch dragon ball z I'm skipping essentially up until the end of the Frieza saga. Androids/Cell and buu saga is good enough.

I don't need to watch goku train run through the serpent trail in heaven, or learn a method of power up he never uses again. Or the many episodes of namek with the underlings before they fight Frieza.

Saiyan Saga / Namekian saga is like peak DBZ though! Vegeta is actually well utilized instead of being the Prince Of All Jobbers.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

i like the part where vegeta gets killed by freeza and cries to goku to beat him up

lol vegeta

 

[PK Gaming]

i like the part where vegeta gets killed by freeza and cries to goku to beat him up

lol vegeta

Bruh

Vegeta is literally the most active player on Namek. Stealing the Dragon Balls from Freeza, killing all of his top fighters, getting wrecked by the Ginyu force... his involvement in the arc is pretty great.

Meanwhile Goku shows up gets wrecked and is out of commission until he can fight Frieza.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

The most recent Sakuga Blog article is an interesting examination of the wealth of talent working on Occultic;Nine.

 

[Jex]

I saw the trailer for Ghost in the Shell, which looks pretty awesome I have to say. It also got me thinking about anime.

Anyways, I haven't watched any anime except for about half of Cowboy Bebop. I've always been somewhat interested in trying it out but I'm pretty skeptical for reasons I'm sure many people have expressed over the years.

Any recommendations for some shows, either older or newer that you would recommend to an anime newbie that is somewhat skeptical? I tend to enjoy action/sci-fi movies and tv shows, so anything that fits into those categories would be awesome. Mysteries/political or spy thrillers are also big genres for me, but I'm not sure if anime has anything like that.

In any case, I didn't see a recommendation thread linked, so i figured I'd ask here. Please redirect me if there is another thread for this.

Given the tastes you express, I would recommend checking out the following anime films and TV shows:

Ghost in the Shell (either the first film or SAC will probably be up your alley)
Gunslinger Girl (first season only; the premise involving young girls might raise your eyebrows, but the show itself is actually very thoughtful, and atmospheric)
Jin-Roh
Perfect Blue
Skull Man
Space Battleship Yamato 2199.

I don't really feel like you can go particularly wrong with anything on this list.

I'm almost tempted to add Black Lagoon to this list because it is a largely competent series, but it's been too many years since I watched it.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

although this kinda needs updating after super

 

[PK Gaming]

Speaking of revisiting long running shonen anime, I've recently discovered that the original version of Yugioh was actually pretty damn solid.

Seriously, listen to this track.

 

[Qurupeke]

The most recent Sakuga Blog article is an interesting examination of the wealth of talent working on Occultic;Nine.

Sakuga Blog is actually understating how uncomfortable this scene was...

Interesting read. There are a lot to hate and a lot to love in this show. It has gotten better though, so I hope by the end of it, O;9 will be something I can recommend to people.

 

[Jex]

Sakuga Blog is actually understating how uncomfortable this scene was...

What's wrong with her nose?

 

[Haly]

Wow that nose. Animation talent indeed.

 

[Szadek]

Smile Precure! - Ep. 35-36.
The show has an exellent run right now.
In Ep. 35 the show tunred into a Mech anime and is was super funny.
Sunny's and March's faces were great:

It's a good thing that Beauty know how to pilot a Mecha.

In the next episode sunny had a crush on a transfere Student.
The love story was very well done and the english was actually decent.
Sunny gott tobeat the shit out of the Akanbe before running through the city to catch him before he leaves.

Only 12 more episodes left and I'm currently pretty excited about Pretty Cure, so I will try to finish the show my tomorrow.
Also, my Cure Sunshine Figure should arrive soon!

 

[Qurupeke]

What's wrong with her nose?

It's not just that scene, they draw them like that frequently. There are normal noses though, so I'm not sure why...

 

[PdotMichael]

Sakuga Blog is actually understating how uncomfortable this scene was...

This makes me angry

 

[Ascheroth]

Sakuga Blog is actually understating how uncomfortable this scene was...

Rokka had a similiar scene and it was even worse.
Why the fuck do anime directors think this is a good idea? Camera usage like this just isn't working at low framerates without motionblur.

 

[names2hard4you]

I've expressed my thoughts on O;9 before. I'm still watching it, there is a reason for it. Now, is it the next coming of Jesus? Hell no. I appreciate its animation quite a bit though (SOME CHARACTERS' design choices aside), and believe it may be one of the most visually rich shows this season with fluid movement. The problem comes when the pace is all over the place. This also affects the plot delivery, since there are quite the number of pieces moving around at the same time. I think another element that they absolutely nail is how fucked up the occult is in this world. The last episode legitimately made my stomach turn since I had just eaten. The contrast between the way a particular character is drawn and portrayed

Spoiler

talking about the white as heck creepy motherfucker

compared to every one else is just unsettling and makes me feel uneasy every time he shows up on the screen. And this is a good thing, since seemingly he is not one of the good guys.

 

[nintendoman58]

HEELLLLLOOOOOO WHAT DO WE HAVE HEEEEERE?

EDIT: So it's apparently a short anime about 2 robots fighting an invasion after a breach caused by the 2011 Japan Earthquake.

The main robots are apparently named after two Japanese destroyers that were sunk in the bay.

 

[BluWacky]

HEELLLLLOOOOOO WHAT DO WE HAVE HEEEEERE?

You have a single short film designed as promotional material to boost tourism in Onahama coming out next spring. Not that exciting!

 

[nintendoman58]

You have a single short film designed as promotional material to boost tourism in Onahama coming out next spring. Not that exciting!

Eh, I'll take it.

It'll probably be less of a disappointment than Regalia.

 

[GoldCrusader]

The most recent Sakuga Blog article is an interesting examination of the wealth of talent working on Occultic;Nine.

This was a really good read, I love these article, he always brings up excellent points.

He is so right about the polarizing views on this show haha.

Also I don't understand the problems some of you have with the noses, they look perfectly ok to me.

 

[phaze]

Soul Eater 31

Thesis: SE's second OP is second best shounen opening ever.

 

[Jex]

Psiconautas (Official Title - Psychonauts: The Forgotten Children)

Psiconautas is a movie which I would never have even have heard of, let alone watch, if not for its placement with the festival schedule. For those who don’t know anything about this movie, which I imagine is most of you, Psiconauts is a 2015 animated Spanish film directed by Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez. It is a direct sequel to the 2011 Short Film ‘Birdboy’. I wasn’t aware of this going in to see the movie, but it turns out that Psiconautas recaps the most important elements of the short anyway. Still, you can check out the original short here https://vimeo.com/34658195 to give you some indication of the directorial style of the feature film. Psiconautas itself is far more polished and refined than the short, almost everything has been improved from the character designs to the background art to the composition and you can see how much of a step-up it is from this trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HeRwcDxCbI

All the characters on Psconautas live on what was one a thriving island. An industrial accident some years ago destroyed the island’s factories, killing many of its inhabitants. The remaining population have no choice but to struggle through the collapse of the islands economy however they can. Some, the titular ‘Forgotten Children’ fight and kill each other for scraps in the ruins of the Island once great factory district. Others, including our protagonist Dinky, are looking to escape the crushing poverty of the Island however they can. Meanwhile, the mysterious Birdboy struggles to overcome his inner demons.

I was very pleasantly surprised by this movie. I went from having no expectations for this movie to thoroughly enjoying it every aspect of it. This film continuously surprised me, whether it was its black comedy, it’s depictions of drug abuse and mental illness or its social commentary (which is something a number of reviews I read seemed to have missed).

The direction of the movie is constantly designed to put you in the headspace of its variously damaged characters through a subjective and emotional lens so there’s lots of unusual cinematography, dreams, visions and hallucinations. Stylistically, the art design is very, er, European in a manner that I cannot adequately explain because I experience of European animation and art.

The script is equally important here because, like the short Birdbody, the tone of Pisconuats is very oppressive and unforgiving. The writes did a really great job balancing the movies very bleak tone and unhappy characters with moments of genuine levity, humanity and hope in a way that means you don’t feel like ending it all as the movie draws to its inevitable conclusion.

Now, I briefly mentioned social commentary earlier and that was perhaps the most striking thing about this movie. The movie has only been touring the festival circuits so there’s not a lot of reviews out there, but some describe the scenario depicted in the movie as being post-apocalyptic. While that is somewhat accurate I think what the movie is more clearly depicting is the country of the filmmakers origin, that of Spain. Spain, after all, is a country with a 42% (peaking at 56% in 2013) youth unemployment rate. A country where a generation of young people literally had their futures taken away from them. The 'Forgotten Children' This, then, is a movie that deal with their lives. Their mental illnesses. Their pain. Their drug addictions and other coping mechanisms. Their search for an escape from a collapsed economy. Their hopes that, despite everything they see around them, that there will be a future. Understanding this is crucial to understanding Psiconautas.

Please, please, watch this film if you have the opportunity to catch it in a festival screening.

 

[Auctopus]

Did you watch Konosuba yet?

Nope. Just looked it up, looks a little too harem for me. Is that how it is?

 

[GoldCrusader]

Soul Eater 31

Thesis: SE's second OP is second best shounen opening ever.

Yea the Op 2 is pretty godly with those animation.

But I always liked the endings more, all 4 of them. The third I think was my fav.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

I just want to tell Jexhius that I greatly appreciate your thoughtful writeups of the various films you had the opportunity to watch. It's very enlightening.

 

[Line_HTX]

code geass disks 1-4 rewatch (original bandai release ) so like eps 1-17

still a really fun series... sad I forgot Mao was a character.

also made me realize I can't remember what Gene from outlaw star sounds like in english since they have the same voice actor.

The actor was Jason Beck in Big O and Hubb Lebowski in Wolf's Rain. He was not Mao though, that's somebody else.

 

[Jex]

I just want to tell Jexhius that I greatly appreciate your thoughtful writeups of the various films you had the opportunity to watch. It's very enlightening.

Thanks. I have to say that as great as the film festival format is for watching movies it is particularly bad in terms of reflecting on them. Even with a short break in between each movie there's almost no time to unpack or absorb your experience, especially when you're trying to cram 6 movies into one day. I wish I'd taken some more notes on the day itself to help.

 

[TUSR]

I started Oregairu the other night.

It's definitely interesting.

 

[Theonik]

The one episode of Star Driver was pretty great.

Then they just repeated the same episode every week. Weird decision.

Endless 26.

 

[Cornbread78]

I started Oregairu the other night.

It's definitely interesting.

Nice choice.


It just keeps getting better. Good luck trying to psycho analyze this dude.

Nope. Just looked it up, looks a little too harem for me. Is that how it is?

Oh no, not a harem at all, lol. It's got some fanservice, but it's more about the party just being complete a$$holes to each other a majority of the time in an RPG setting. It's pretty funny stuff! Watch the first few episodes, you may end up really liking it!

 

[Taruranto]

Dictionaries are serious business #5

I feel sorry for these guys. They don't know that in a couple of years the glorious internet will cover all our dictionary necessities.

This was the first episode I enjoyed through and through.

I'm not saying the other episodes were bad, but I found really hard to get pulled into the show. Majime also come off a surprisingly different MC from the usual anime shy guys.

 

[Jex]

A Silent Voice

This movie was the hardest to watch on the day and is now proving to the most difficult film to write about after the fact. Not only is this an incredibly raw and emotionally draining movie but I watched it the tail end of a 10 hour movie marathon I was thoroughly punch-drunk on excellent cinema. As a result, you can consider my eye-witness testimony to be suspect at best. For a more in-depth and complete review, why not check out Branduil’s impressions here http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=217495397&postcount=18062

A short synopsis: A Silent Voice is a KyoAni produced film directed by their wunderkind director, Naoko Yamada, an individual I can only describe as ‘sickeningly talented’. It tells a story of Shoya, a classroom delinquent who bullies a deaf girl named Shoko and all of the consequences that follow from this event. Spoilers: Their Will Be Tears.

So, as you might expect from a KyoAni produced feature, this film looks amazing. As you might expect from Naoka Yamada, the direction is excellent. As you might expect from the premise, the material is emotionally draining. What is there that I, as a very tired viewer, can add?

I think it’s very, very exciting to see KyoAni tackle this kind of material. It was actually a literal disorientating to watch these familiar KyoAni character designs and visual style used to depict this kind of dramatic material. Even something as grounded as Hyouka never depicts its characters as being as unpleasant, upset or damaged as A Silent Voice. It’s a hugely different tonal world for Yamada and I’m impressed by her ability to capture this tone as effectively as she captures the soft, fluffy world of K-On! This is drama with a capital D, but I think the question for myself and I imagine other views of this film is: does A Silent Voice stray into melodrama with a capital M?

I, obviously, cannot predict how most people will reach to this movie but I have a feeling that this film could end up being fairly divisive. This is a film where characters spend a lot of time hurting each other on an emotional level and not just once, but several times. I imagine there will be some people who find the level of a drama present in the text to be overbearing, that the characters are exaggerated and that the scenarios are too contrived to be believable. Others, I am certain, will be too swept up by the power of the craft to even notice or maybe if they do notice, they’ll be able to accept it. While I was watching the film I was constantly aware that the film was regular skirting the limits of my own tolerance for plausibility. I was surprised how often the film managed to keep me on its side, walking a very thin tightrope of believability. Eventually, however, I started to feel like the characters were going through slightly too much emotional torture. It didn’t ruin the movie for me, because it is a truly superb movie on so many levels, but it did lower my overall appreciation for the film. Others will no doubt see it differently. Maybe I’ll even change my opinion once I get to see the movie again in a rather different setting.

 

[jgminto]

So it's School Days all over again?

One day we'll get the Summer Days/Cross Days anime we deserve.

 

[PK Gaming]

I started Oregairu the other night.

It's definitely interesting.

It's a pretty good anime

S2 is leaps and bounds better (even from just a visual standpoint, it looks way better)

A Silent Voice



This movie was the hardest to watch on the day and is now proving to the most difficult film to write about after the fact. Not only is this an incredibly raw and emotionally draining movie but I watched it the tail end of a 10 hour movie marathon I was thoroughly punch-drunk on excellent cinema. As a result, you can consider my eye-witness testimony to be suspect at best. For a more in-depth and complete review, why not check out Branduil’s impressions here http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=217495397&postcount=18062

A short synopsis: A Silent Voice is a KyoAni produced film directed by their wunderkind director, Naoko Yamada, an individual I can only describe as ‘sickeningly talented’. It tells a story of Shoya, a classroom delinquent who bullies a deaf girl named Shoko and all of the consequences that follow from this event. Spoilers: Their Will Be Tears.

So, as you might expect from a KyoAni produced feature, this film looks amazing. As you might expect from Naoka Yamada, the direction is excellent. As you might expect from the premise, the material is emotionally draining. What is there that I, as a very tired viewer, can add?

I think it’s very, very exciting to see KyoAni tackle this kind of material. It was actually a literal disorientating to watch these familiar KyoAni character designs and visual style used to depict this kind of dramatic material. Even something as grounded as Hyouka never depicts its characters as being as unpleasant, upset or damaged as A Silent Voice. It’s a hugely different tonal world for Yamada and I’m impressed by her ability to capture this tone as effectively as she captures the soft, fluffy world of K-On! This is drama with a capital D, but I think the question for myself and I imagine other views of this film is: does A Silent Voice stray into melodrama with a capital M?

I, obviously, cannot predict how most people will reach to this movie but I have a feeling that this film could end up being fairly divisive. This is a film where characters spend a lot of time hurting each other on an emotional level and not just once, but several times. I imagine there will be some people who find the level of a drama present in the text to be overbearing, that the characters are exaggerated and that the scenarios are too contrived to be believable. Others, I am certain, will be too swept up by the power of the craft to even notice or maybe if they do notice, they’ll be able to accept it. While I was watching the film I was constantly aware that the film was regular skirting the limits of my own tolerance for plausibility. I was surprised how often the film managed to keep me on its side, walking a very thin tightrope of believability. Eventually, however, I started to feel like the characters were going through slightly too much emotional torture. It didn’t ruin the movie for me, because it is a truly superb movie on so many levels, but it did lower my overall appreciation for the film. Others will no doubt see it differently. Maybe I’ll even change my opinion once I get to see the movie again in a rather different setting.

When does this end? I've read the manga and I was a huge fan, but the ending was a little too abrupt for my liking.

 

[TrueBlue]

A little late but...

He somehow ends up becoming the most endearing/likeable character in the manga.

Yep.

Ha! That's a damning indictment even of itself. I'm assuming he's just an okay guy who isn't a colossal dick?

Either way, can't say I'm excited for this or Citrus. I agree with you that Citrus started off okay, but then it just kinda crapped out.

 

[firehawk12]

O-OK...

I mean, from what I remember of the anime it was about girls going through puberty and learning why they need bras in the first place. It's something that 12-sai covered as well, come to think of it. Not being a tween girl, I have no idea if getting fitted for a bra is awkward or not, so of course I'm just taking the anime at its word.

Of course since the manga author went on to write that Student Council Waifu anime that's currently airing now, I'm more willing to credit Yoshida for the more introspective parts of Chu-Bra.

 

[PK Gaming]

A little late but...



Ha! That's a damning indictment even of itself. I'm assuming he's just an okay guy who isn't a colossal dick?

Either way, can't say I'm excited for this or Citrus. I agree with you that Citrus started off okay, but then it just kinda crapped out.

Yeah more or less

-The lead is a wishy washy mush girl
-The deuteragonist is basically Tharja
-The deuteragonist's boyfriend is... the less said about him, the better

Leaving the lead's boyfriend as the only decent human being of the bunch. It's not just that though, you genuinely start to feel sorry for him after a certain point, haha

 

[Aaronrules380]

Yu-gi-oh Arc-V is coming to Crunchyroll, but apparently just as a catalog title so they still won't be simulcasting it. Kind of upsetting as a Yu-gi-oh fan since it's one of the few shows I watch that I still have to watch fansubs for