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Simulcast Schedule

Sunday
CR,DS,HL - Magi: The Kingdom of Magic - 1:30am PST
FN - Space Dandy - 6:00am PST
CR, FN - Nobunagun - 7:00am PST
FN - Noragami - 8:00am PST
CR - Wizard Barristers - 10:00am PST
CR - Saki - The Nationals - 10:30am PST
CR - Tonari no Seki-kun- 11:00am PST
CR - Nobunaga the Fool - 12:15pm PST

Monday
CR - Bottom Biting Bug - 3:00am PST
GU - Gundam Build Fighters - 4:00am PST
CR - The Pilot's Love Song - 7:00am PST
CR - Super Sonico - 9:00am PST
CR - Yowamushi Pedal - 11:00am PST
FN - Buddy Complex - 7:00pm PST
CR - Toriko - 11:00pm PST

Tuesday
CR - Hamatora - 10:00am PST
FN - Tokyo Ravens - 10:00am PST
CR - Hunter x Hunter - 11:00am PST
CR - Wooser’s Hand-to-Mouth Life: Awakening Arc - 11:00am PST

Wednesday
CR - Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions! REN - 9:30am PST
CR - Witch Craft Works - 11:15am PST
CR - Onee-chan ga Kita - 12:00pm PST
CR - Phi Brain Season 3 - 12:00pm PST
CR - Saint Seiya Omega - 12:00pm PST
FN - Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha
FN - Maken-ki! Two

Thursday
CR - Naruto Shippuden 3:00am PST
CR - Mikakunin - 6:45am PST
CR - Nagi no Asukara - 8:00am PST
CR - Strange+ - 9:30am PST
CR,DS? - Silver Spoon - 9:50am PST
CR,DS,HL - Kill la Kill - 10:30am PST
CR - Samurai Flamenco - 10:30am PST
CR - Z/X Ignition - 10:50am PST
CR - Hoozuki no Reitetsu - 11:00am PST
CR - Golden Time - 12:30pm PST
CR - Mahou Sensou - 12:30pm PST
CR - Pupa - 12:30pm PST

Friday
CR - Sakura Trick - 9:00am PST
CR - Wake Up, Girls! - 10:30am PST
CR - Strike the Blood - 11:00am PST
YT - Future Card Buddyfight - 3:30pm PST

Saturday
CR - Space Brothers - 6:30am PST
CR- Recently, My Sister is Unusual - 8:00am PST
CR, AP, DS? - Nisekoi - 9:00am PST
CR, AP, DS? - World Conquest Zvezda Plot - 9:30am PST
CR - Seitokai Yakuindomo* - 10:00am PST
CR - Hajime No Ippo: The Fighting! - 11:00am PST
CR - Kuroko's Basketball 2 - 11:30am PST
CR - Ace of the Diamond - 5:30pm PST
CR - Folktales from Japan - 5:30pm PST
CR - One Piece - 6:00pm PST
CR - Cardfight!! Vanguard Link Joker - 6:30pm PST


Legend:
CR = Crunchyroll
VZ = Viz Anime
FN = Funimation
DS = Daisuki
HL = Hulu
GU = Gundam.info
AP = AniplexUSA
YT = Youtube.com

(regional streaming restrictions may apply)



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TV Line-up

Space☆Dandy
Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Animation Production: BONES
Opening Date: 1/4
Official Site: http://www.space-dandy.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoZ2udQkr3c


Five episodes in and opinion is split on exactly how entertaining Space Dandy is, which is just another reminder that hype makes no promises. It is easily one of the best-animated shows in recent memory, but given the staff pedigree involved and freedom afforded to each episode director, the refinement of its comedy and creativity of its scenarios come up lacking. There are flashes of something "greater", but more often than not it relies on doofusy slapstick and basic pervert humor rather than genuine absurdism. Still one of the better shows of the season.

Recently, My Sister is Unusual
Director: Hiroyuki Hata
Animation Production: Project No.9
Opening Date: 1/4
Official Site: http://imocyo-anime.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpLDtLLWyL4


The imouto genre reaches new lows of depravity. Do you have or fantasize about having a little sister? Do you get an erection just by thinking about her? Do you like rape? Do you have a pissing fetish? If so, for the sake of public safety I sincerely hope you're incarcerated/institutionalized, in which case you probably don't have access to Crunchyroll anyway, so forget I said anything.

Buddy Complex
Director: Yasuhiro Tanabe
Animation Production: Sunrise
Opening Date: 1/5
Official Site: http://buddy-complex.jp/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Y5PEEmwQw


Calling this babby's first mecha is giving it too much credit. Sunrise continues its fruitless struggle to establish a successful new mecha IP, this time applying the impeccable logic that their new attempt needs to be less original and creative than their previous attempt.

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions II: Chuu Harder
Director: Tatsuya Ishihara
Animation Production: KyoAni
Opening Date: 1/8
Official Site: http://www.anime-chu-2.com/tv/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZZgn8xNdJs


Everyone's favorite anime that fetishizes autism returns, this time with no pesky conflict or drama to get in the way of Utah's social consequence-free weeb LARPing, because, like adulthood and responsibilities are just, like, social constructs that limit our ability to be our, like, inner anime character, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang.

D-Frag
Director: Seiki Sugawara
Animation Production: Brains Base
Opening Date: 1/6
Official Site: http://www.d-fragments.net/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0NzWpD4Hvg


This is just Brains Base's next stepping stone on the path to Baccano! S2. This is just Brains Base's next stepping stone on the path to Baccano! S2. This is just Brains Base's next stepping stone on the path to Baccapfffffffffahahahhahfhahfhahahahahafhahfashfkhaahh.

Silver Spoon
Director: Kotomi Deai
Animation Production: A-1 Pictures
Opening Date: 1/9
Official Site: http://www.ginsaji-anime.com/


Silver Spoon returns to noitaminA to take the bad taste out of our mouths left behind by Galilei Donna.

Hamatora the Animation
Director: Seiji Kishi
Animation Production: NAZ
Opening Date: 1/7
Official Site: http://hamatorapj.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgG2mbdxyrA


K meets Un-Go, or in actual terms people can understand since only a pitiable few have seen both of those, the rainbow-blasted fusion of Un-Go's shoddy, corner-cutting detective fiction and K's ultra-hip hippity-dip urban aesthetic. I wouldn't still be watching this, but the antagonist--a mad scientist with a love of tiki torches, pseud speeches on HUMAN NATURE, and a sexual attraction to brains in jars who looks like Rin from Free!--is so unbelievably corny that I can't help myself.

Cool-headed Hoozuki
Director: Hiro Kaburaki
Animation Production: Wit Studio
Opening Date: 1/9
Official Site: http://www.hozukino-reitetsu.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZZHTHUWcL0


Reitetsu has an impressive visual style that resembles traditional Japanese artwork depicting the underworld, but much of the humor is completely impenetrable to cultural outsiders. Some viewers continue to be sufficiently amused by it so try it for yourself.

Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha
Director: Toru Takahashi
Animation Production: Production IMS
Opening Date: 1/15
Official Site: http://inarikonkon.jp/


The entertaining adventures of a shrine maiden girl and a somewhat neurotic cat lady of a fox goddess who gives the girl the power to

Spoiler

transform into whoever she wishes

. It's actually quite good and the central conteit is used to great effect. If you tried Gingitsune and couldn't stomach it, you may be much better served by this.

Magical Warfare
Director: Yuzo Sato
Animation Production: Madhouse
Opening Date: 1/9
Official Site: http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/mahosen/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTg8bgMga5U


[THIS REVIEW SPACE AVAILABLE FOR LEASE. CONTACT ME VIA PM FOR HOURLY, WEEKLY, AND MONTHLY RATES]

Maken-Ki! Two
Director: Hiraku Kaneko
Animation Production: Xebec
Opening Date: 1/16
Official Site: http://maken-ki-two.com/ NSFW
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Ypf_Sl6Wo NSFW


Lame softcore featuring grotesque mutations of what at one time may have been human females. Where is Hentai Miyazaki to make the procalamation that hentai artists need to observe real women?

Mikakunin de Shinkoukei
Director: Yoshiyuki Fujiwara
Animation Production: Dogakobo
Opening Date: 1/9
Official Site: http://mikakunin.jp/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g30-vTU-IIo


Don't get your hopes up from the trailer. The shrill, precocious loli and the protagonist's sister constantly plotting to molest her ruin what otherwise could have been a pleasant romcom.

Nisekoi
Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Animation Production: SHAFT
Opening Date: 1/11
Official Site: http://www.nisekoi.jp/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MImaD8AbGUE


SHAFT's trademark visual techniques actually complement this romcom, giving life and flavor to the awkwardness and panic of

Spoiler

a boy and girl who dislike each other forced to pretend to be lovers to prevent a yakuza gang war between their parents

. Nisekoi's story is apparently "infamous" according to manga readers, so be ready for anything.

Nobunaga the Fool
Director: Eiichi Sato
Series Composition: Shoji Kawamori
Animation Production: Satelight
Opening Date: 1/5
Official Site: http://www.nobunaga.tv/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1jXxiLDn1k


This is sort of a throwback to a kind of terrible-but-sincere sci-fi drama anime that just don't exist anymore (many of which were also, not coincidentally, produced by Satelight.) It's kind of ugly and stupid, but damn it if it isn't trying to be something. If you have a soft spot for stuff like Kiss Dum, Glass Fleet, and Fafner, you might actually perversely enjoy this.

Nobunagun
Director: Nobuhiro Kondo
Animation Production: Bridge
Opening Date: 1/5
Official Site: http://www.vap.co.jp/nobunagun/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqzo7tvEj6A


Nobunaga is indeed a gun in this, but the first few episodes have made it clear that it just doesn't have the budget or directorial vision necessary to adapt the concept for the animated medium with the relentless bombast that it needs. As it stands, it's just the poor man's Symphogear.

Noragami
Director: Kotaro Tamura
Animation Production: BONES
Opening Date: 1/5
Official Site: http://noragami-anime.net/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpFjMtWTmsY


The superior BONES show this season. Strong direction, good comedy, aesthetic cohesion, and a superior OST elevate a pretty average shounen story about battling evil spirits into something great. Watch it!

Nourin
Director: Shin Oonuma
Animation Production: Silver Link
Opening Date: 1/11
Official Site: http://www.no-rin.tv/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYtwYijnZxk


This managed to hit just about every bad LN trope in the book in a single episode so I didn't watch past that. Hopefully someone just compiles all of the scenes with the Christmas Cake teacher and uploads it to youtube.

Romantica Clock
Opening Date: 2/4


Wait, is this even airing?

Saki Zenkoku-hen
Director: Manabu Ono
Animation Production: Studio Gokumi
Opening Date: 1/5
Official Site: http://saki-anime.com/


I swear I'll get to nopan mahjong lesbians someday, but, yknow, that whole learning to play mahjong thing gets in the way.

Sakura Trick
Director: Ken'ichi Ishikura
Animation Production: DEEN
Opening Date: 1/9
Official Site: http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/sakura/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHxwu_Ak5GY


Possibly for you if you can get hard watching kittens frolick with each other, because that's the only way that I can describe the "lesbian romance" in Sakura Trick.

Seitokai Yakuindomo＊
Director: Makoto Nakamura
Animation Production: GoHands
Opening Date: 1/4
Official Site: http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/seitokai/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB6_wMkg0lU


I never watched S1 but apparently they're still finding new jokes about dildoes and semen to keep the fans laughing, so I guess check it out if you like gross-out sex comedies.

Sekai Seifuku ~ Bōryaku no Zvezda
Director: Tensai Okamura
Original Character Design: Kouhaku Kuroboshi
Animation Production: A-1 Pictures
Opening Date: 1/11
Official Site: http://www.sekaiseifuku-zzz.com/
Trailer: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7xo9gYv3Ab8Rk1zZzhQcFFicEU/preview?pli=1



This comic in application.

SoniAni -Super Sonico the Animation-
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Animation Production: WHITE FOX
Opening Date: 1/6
Official Site: http://soniani.jp/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkJqYhUxQjg


This is the sadness-tinged tale of a girl who simultaneously juggles three jobs and degrades herself for lustful men with money just to be able to afford her dead-end marine biology course at the local community college and to keep her cats fed. Born with malformed ears that impair her hearing, she still aspires to be a guitarist and simultaneously navigates several social circles, but she can only open her heart and her home to animals, whose nonverbal communication makes her feel truly at ease.

Too young to cope with the ennui and stress of unending responsibility and toil, she spends what little free time she has eating rich desserts from chic patisseries, putting her at odds with a culture that fiercely rejects overindulgence and endangering the commoditization of her body that she relies on to support her lifestyle. How will she balance all of these conflicting considerations and achieve her dream of breaking onto the Japanese pop music scene with her all-girl band?

Especially when her manager is Japanese Sweet Tooth?

Strange+
Director: Takashi Nishikawa
Animation Production: Seven
Opening Date: 1/9
Official Site: http://www.dreamcreation.co.jp/stpl/ NSFW
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAZ6kSyUf-E


2Strange4Me.

Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta
Director: Toshimasa Suzuki
Animation Production: TMS Entertainment
Opening Date: 1/6
Official Site: http://koiuta.tv/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmI3TnFHKPo


Stolen from Branduil:

Apparently this is a prequel to The Princess and the Pilot, a movie nobody watched besides me. It wasn't exactly a good movie, but it might have potential. Too bad all the dogfighting looks to be in ugly CGI.

Wake Up, Girls!
Director: Yutaka Yamamoto
Animation Production: Ordet
Opening Date: 1/10
Official Site: http://wakeupgirls.jp/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-CZKcRRPE


In a year where idol shows have risen above merely being a curious novelty to be poked with sticks from a safe distance by viewers perversely engrossed by this creepy, sexually-stunted, purity-obsessed subculture, Yamakan still manages to make one that stymies everyone on the question of whether or not it's glorifying or criticizing this creepiness. That would be an impressive feat in and of itself if anyone could actually bring themselves to believe that it was intentional and not simply Yamakan's usual laughable ineptitude.

Witch Craft Works
Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Animation Production: J.C. Staff
Opening Date: 1/5
Official Site: http://www.witch-cw-anime.jp/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA3CLxPX-VY


This is very much a sudden magical girlfriend show with lots of high school and "anime magic" elements. I couldn't handle the anime tropez for more than two episodes, but I also recognize that it had good qualities like some whimsical visuals and good gags that, depending on your own tastes and tolerances, might result in an entertaining product.

Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil
Director: Yasuomi Umetsu
Animation Production: ARMS
Opening Date: 1/12
Official Site: http://wizardbarristers.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxx2pnBKHes


I really, really want to like Wizard Barristers. It has some cool concepts (LAWYERS THAT DEFEND MAGICAL CRIMINALS IN WIZARD COURT?!? DUUUUUUUUDE), solid production values, NORIO WAKAMOTO AS A FUKKEN TALKING FROG

Spoiler

-bon

, and ferromancer Canadian girls on mopeds, but when the concept meets execution, it's kind of uneven. Everything outside of the courtroom ranges from decent to great and I love the show's eccentric supporting cast and pleasantly garish color palette, but the actual legal component is sort of a mess, and trials suffer a near-total absence of procedure, logic, believable cross-examination, and some really hamfisted messages on discrimination and judicial hypocrisy. Especially after Galilei Donna's final episode resulted in the worst depiction of a courtroom trial in the entire history of fiction, Umetsu might just want to abandon doing anything with courts altogether.

I still recommend trying it, but only so long as you go in with the expectation that it sort of tries and fails to be Fantasy Anime Law and Order and ends up as something else entirely. Some including myself refer to it as a kind of lost 90s OVA.

Z/X IGNITION
Director: Yuji Yamaguchi
Animation Production: Nippon Ichi Software
Opening Date: 1/10
Official Site: http://zxignition.tv/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5gQ2NOpe7Q


Ugly, cliched, and enough shaky cam to kill a baby. Don't be fooled into thinking that this will scratch your Yu-Gi-Oh itch because it's more like a super ghetto version of Digimon with military weapons and magical turf warz.


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[madp]

Pupa
Director: Tomomi Mochizuki
Animation Production: DEEN
Opening Date: 1/9
Official Site: http://www.pupa-anime.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CQmcFWxM6I


It's not so much an anime as a disjointed series of moving images that represent nothing and say nothing. Read the manga instead.

Go! Go! 575
Original Character Design: Hiro Kanzaki
Animation Production: Sega
Opening Date: 1/10
Official Site: http://gogo575.sega.jp/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvmRbh6LQp0


Shorts for Sega's new video game.

Minna Atsumare! Falcom Gakuen
Director: Pippuya
Animation Production: DAX Production
Opening Date: 1/5
Official Site: http://www.fal-gaku.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey_UoTI_GLQ


A series of shorts with really bad animation based on a 4-koma about characters from Falcom games.

My Big Sister Arrived
Director: Yoshihide Yuuzumi
Animation Production: C2C
Opening Date: 1/8
Official Site: http://www.takeshobo.co.jp/sp/tv_oneechan/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEE9suh3SXw


This has far too good visual design for something so insipid.

Pupipo!
Director: Kaoru Suzuki
Animation Production: AIC Plus+
Opening Date: 12/21
Official Site: http://pupipo.tv/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwr5Q9Sv29s


An anime about GAF member ponpo.

Toei Robot Girls Z
Director: Hiroshi Ikehata
Animation Production: Toei Animation(duh)
Opening Date: 1/4
Official Site: http://robot-girlsz.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRgqPx7p_w4


The Mazinger mecha are now waifus. No, really.

Tonari no Seki-kun
Director: Yuji Mutoh
Animation Production: Shin-Ei Animation
Opening Date: 1/5
Official Site: http://www.t-sekikun.jp/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ufd8z0F0Uk


Funniest show of the season. Watch it.

Sugar*Soldier
Opening Date: 1/14


Donuts... I got nothing.



If you want other charts which actually talk about silly stuff like plot synopsis:
http://anichart.net/winter
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/11/28/updated-winter-2014-anime-chart


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Movie Line-up

Buddha 2: Tezuka Osamu no Buddha ~Owarinaki Tabi~
Director: Toshiaki Komura
Original Creator: Osamu Tezuka
Screenplay: Reiko Yoshida
Music: Michiru Oshima
Animation Production: Toei Animation
Opening Date: 2/8
Official Site: http://www.buddha-anime.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_SVSvBSNjk


No, unfortunately not the next Happy Science movie, but it is animated by Toei so there should still be plenty to (unintentionally) laugh at.

Daicon Film 33
Animation Production: Gainax
Opening Date: 1/8


"Gainax". Don't expect anything.

Giovanni's Island
Director: Mizuho Nishikubo
Animation Production: Production I.G.
Opening Date: 2/15
Official Site: http://www.productionig.com/contents/works_sp/94_/index.html
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2W1ED3Xc90


A story set on the Shikotan island after the end of WWII. Looks pretty neat. Also, potential slapkuga.

Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission
Director: Keiichiro Kawaguchi
Animation Production: Madhouse
Opening Date: 12/27
Official Site: http://www.hxh-movie.jp/index.html
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzafTryO2vQ


Original films created for shounen manga don't exactly have the best track record, but everyone seems to like HxH '11 so I guess that earns this at least a bit of automatic good will.

Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie
Director: Hajime Kamegaki
Animation Production: TMS/Double Eagle
Opening Date: 12/7
Official Site: http://lupicona-movie.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXpXVXY2GOQ


If AnimeGAF's long-suffering Detective Conan contingent is happy, I'm happy.

Majocco Shimai no Yoyo to Nene
Director: Takayuki Hirao
Animation Production: Ufotable
Opening Date: 12/28
Official Site: http://majocco.jp/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuGHvuZ7UE


Ufotable makes a film about two witch sisters. Expect great animation.

Mouretsu Pirates Movie
Director: Tatsuo Sato
Animation Production: Satelight
Opening Date: 2/15
Official Site: http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/mo-retsu/gekijo/


Sequel to the TV show.

The iDOLM@STER Movie: To the Glittering Other Side!
Director: Atsushi Nishigori
Animation Production: A-1 Pictures
Opening Date: 1/25
Official Site: http://www.idolmaster-anime.jp/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YD0jTHxLlo


The series that set off the current wave of idol anime overwhelming the airwaves gets a movie. Expect vicious arguments about the rankings of the new waifus.

Tiger & Bunny 2: The Rising
Director: Yoshitomo Yonetani
Animation Production: Sunrise
Opening Date: 2/08
Official Site: http://www.tigerandbunny.net/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsfcJnLhj7Y


More Tiger and Bunny.



The Other Stuff

Continuing Shows:
Golden Time - From the author of Toradora, a story that is not Toradora.
Kill La Kill - She's gotta find out who killed her dad.
Kuroko no Basket 2 - Now with less fan events cancelled by insane terrorist threats.
Log Horizon - Like Sword Art Online except not the worst thing to ever happen to anime.
Magi: The Kingdom of Magic - Biggest hype train derail since ever?
Nagi no Asukara - She has a fish in her knee. The latest masterpiece from Mari Okada.
Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle 3rd Season - Children's puzzle games.
Pocket Monsters XY - Apparently this is based on a popular video game or something.
Samurai Flamenco - A show about things.
Strike the Blood - Verb the Noun.
Tokyo Ravens - floating cars.
Yowamushi Pedal - A cycling anime about a new-fashioned way to became a master biker: NOT pumping your veins full of drugs and working hard instead.
Hajime No Ippo: The Fighting! - It's Ippo.
Gundam Build Fighters - My Gundam can beat up your Gundam.

OVA/ONA/Special:
au Mirai Kenkyuujo (A.U.F.L) (12/12)
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (????)
Blood Lad OVA (12/16)
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren Lite (12/25)
Double Circle (12/18)
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya (1/25)
Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou: Fumikome nai Kokoro (12/25)
Genshiken Nidaime no Roku (12/20)
Kikou Shoujo wa Kizutsukanai OVA (12/25)
Kyoukai no Kanata Mini Gekijou (1/8)
Little Busters! EX (1/29)
Mushishi Special: Hihamukage (1/4)
Natsume Yuujinchou: Itsuka Yuki no Hi ni (2/5)
Neppuu Kairiku Bushi Road (12/31)
Noragami OVA (2/13)
Sekai de Ichiban Tsuyoku Naritai! Specials (12/12)
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G OVA (2/5)
Shingeki no Kyojin OVA (12/16)
Sword Art Online: Extra Edition (12/31)
To LOVE-Ru Darkness OVA (12/4)
Yozakura Quartet: Yoza-Quar! (12/18)
Zetsumetsu Kigu Shoujo: Amazing Twins (12/29)



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Thread Credits
Concept - HosannaExcelsis
Graphics - Branduil
Continuing show Simulcast Schedule - Articalys
If Anything Goes Wrong Please Blame - 7th
Production Committee - AnimeGAF[/QUOTE]

 

[Narag]

super bowl sucks
save us, gbf!!

 

[amishpriest99]

I think this is the first time I've ever actually gotten a post on the first page. Anywho, probably going to watch some anime soon now that the Super Bowl is waaaaaaaay out of hand.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

I love that new thread smell.

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

May our happiness be consistently charged for the next year.

Also all that juicy art.

 

[survivor]

I didn't know that Recently, My Sister is Unusual and My Big Sister Arrived were two different shows. My knowledge in the sisters genre is lacking.

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

Glorious retribution

 

[cajunator]

Damn I was still responding 4 pages back in the other thread lol.

 

[SDBurton]

New thread!

Omg I love the banner! Friends and family are looking at me like I'm crazy due to me laughing so hard.

 

[Chet Rippo]

You guys really need to stop killing the old thread too soon.

 

[Gazoinks]

I hate this OP for reminding me that Baccano S2 is a thing that will never happen. Why madp. WHY.

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

Damn I was still responding 4 pages back in the other thread lol.

Can't you do a carry over effect or something?

 

[dakkumauji]

Always nice to get reminded of shows that are basically vaporware at this moment.

 

[OceanBlue]

Sekai Seifuku ~ Bōryaku no Zvezda

This comic in application.

Lol.

I guess I should try out the new Precure if people are positive on it.

 

[HolyBaikal]

I wish I had hear how... bad "Recently, My Sister is Unusual" is, before trying it out. I thought the anime had an interesting name, before watching it. So I decided to try it out.

It was one of the worst and most horrifying anime I've ever seen. I cannot believe I suffered through the entire first episode. It was creepy and awful in the worst ways.
There's no joke, the first episode contains rape. It was an extremely disturbing anime with some of the most backward values.

 

[madp]

You guys really need to stop killing the old thread too soon.

I'm an old man and I need my sleep, so it goes up while I'm awake.

Spoiler

>will still be awake for the next five hours

 

[Soma]

Oh hey OT2 already.

I'm behind on so many shows this season. Blaming SMT IV for that.

 

[cajunator]

Hapiness charge Precure - 01
i'm actually surprised
This really feel like a 10th anniversary serie , because it reuse very well most of the best things from the previous seasons .. i hope that it won't make the serie predictable ...but so far it's very entertaining , and that's including everything.

For me , as a long time fan , it looks like they too the heartcatch template , shuffled things a bit , a bit of futari wa , a bit of dokidoki , a small bit of suite and served me this meal ..
The meal is so far delicious.

Magnifique mention to the Ed that is of a much higher budget than before .. after all this time maybe toei managed to have Cg precure that doesn't look that bad .

The fairies are quite good so far , i like it.
The setting seems very intresting with the precure being common place from the get go
The transformation are alright , i do get some very strong aikatsu vibes however.

Overall , very strong first episode , can't wait for the handholding and the dual attack next episode .

all I know is so far I love the ED and im indifferent about the OP.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the show and experience. It's just that I feel that it's a show that I can take at my own pace.

It definitely is. You can take your time and get the most out of it. Its worth the wait.

Tonari no Seki-kun 5

The true adversary revealed.

I feel a kinship with seki although this sorta stuff doesnt turn out well on the grading reports I assure you. I did make little props on my desk and stuff like that. Just couldnt focus ever. I probably shoulda gotten help.

Hataraku Maou-sama 1

It's inoffensive so far with some decent comic timing and interplay complemented by solid production values. I don't buy how quickly Maou is "broken" by his new environment given that he's supposed to be death and evil incarnate (and, as such, he really shouldn't even be capable of exhibiting so much humanity so quickly) but I guess it works as a way to underscore just how utterly powerless he is without any of the resources he's used to having at his disposal. More than anything, it all really just made me want a cheeseburger.

Not sure if youll like it but Chihos reactions are worth the watch. Fino and Yuusibu is a more worthy show.

 

[Theonik]

The thread is dead. Long live the thread.

 

[cajunator]

Can't you do a carry over effect or something?

I can and did.

 

[Shengar]

Hozuki is really fun even though I'm sure 50% of the jokes pass through my non-japanese head.

I want to return Mushishi recently, been one year since I watched it.

 

[Branduil]

Anime>football

 

[Gazoinks]

I feel a kinship with seki although this sorta stuff doesnt turn out well on the grading reports I assure you. I did make little props on my desk and stuff like that. Just couldnt focus ever. I probably shoulda gotten help.

I'm sure Seki-kun somehow aces all of his tests anyway. Probably learns via osmosis.

I want to check out Noragami, Hozuki, and maybe Zvezda, but I'm thinking I'm going to drop some of the seasonal shows I'm watching. Very little has really captured me, and I want to do some work on my backlog.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Shows You Really Should Be Watching:
Gundam Build Fighters
Hoozuki no Reitetsu
Noragami
Silver Spoon S2
Yowamushi Pedal

I hate this OP for reminding me that Baccano S2 is a thing that will never happen. Why madp. WHY.

Any possible Baccano S2 wouldn't be as good as the first season, which felt as self-contained as it could get, so I'm good.

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

Let's all talk about how Plamya is the best Sekai Seifuku.

 

[Hattori]

New Thread, time for me to catch up on 8 of the top 10 in AOTY.

 

[Gazoinks]

Any possible Baccano S2 wouldn't be as good as the first season, which felt as self-contained as it could get, so I'm good.

That's probably true. I just really like Baccano.

 

[Caladrius]

I'm ready to finish my second show!

Spoiler

In |OT3|

 

[CorvoSol]

What the Hell, man, I was watchin' ma shows and then the thread was locked. It's like going out for groceries and coming home to find your home abandoned.

Also:

Possibly for you if you can get hard watching kittens frolick with each other, because that's the only way that I can describe the "lesbian romance" in Sakura Trick.

I'd like to point out that I have watched an anime in which the main villain does exactly that.

Orphen 11

It wasn't even a good episode.

 

[nintendoman58]

New thread? Wall of shame time!

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With each thread I'll grow even stronger!

 

[wonzo]

mor = me
fish = space dandy
ali = watanabe

 

[HolyBaikal]

Anime>football

I very much agree. I don't like football. Well, soccer football is good. I can't stand American football, though.

A sports anime about girls and/or women playing American football would be great, though.

 

[Passive Assassin]

Noein 1

All I know about this show is the hilarious English outtakes. So far it's pretty interesting.

 

[Vecks]

I'm here. Precure's got top spot. Nice. Will jump in tonight to get in on the hype.

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

New thread? Wall of shame time!


With each thread I'll grow even stronger!

Soon your power creep will surpass even cajun

 

[madp]

Not sure if youll like it but Chihos reactions are worth the watch. Fino and Yuusibu is a more worthy show.

I made it five minutes into Yuushibu before I had to bail because it was so disgustingly crass. Maou-sama is thankfully tame in that respect (so far).

 

[Gazoinks]

New thread? Wall of shame time!


With each thread I'll grow even stronger!

I was behind Woofington?! Shame indeed!

 

[MikeHattsu]

New thread? Wall of shame time!

MikeHattsu  150

Aww yiss!


Oh, and for amishpriest99:

 

[Tenumi]

I didn't break 100 posts last thread. Maybe I will this time.

Also, there was an anime about donuts this season? News to me.

 

[CorvoSol]

New thread? Wall of shame time!

cajunator  1,150  
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With each thread I'll grow even stronger!

God damn I wasn't even close, haha. Nearly a full 100 posts short of the mark. Well there you go, Kirby, even with all the freebies and handicaps I couldn't do it. Defs not trying that again.

 

[KirbYuuYuu]

I was behind Woofington?! Shame indeed!

Aren't you always behind him?

 

[Gazoinks]

Aren't you always behind him?

I'm pretty sure I beat him during fall.

 

[PsionBolt]

Dokidoki hate front and center? Cute.
At least it might convince some more people to watch HaCha.

 

[Theonik]

Let's all talk about how Plamya is the best Sekai Seifuku.

Yes

 

[madp]

I'd like to point out that I have watched an anime in which the main villain does exactly that.

do i even want to know

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

Sekai Seifuku ~ Bōryaku no Zvezda

This comic in application.

I'd say this resembles every time some weak person watches Strike Witches without any prior knowledge to it except the top panel would just be "Butts legs butts".

 

[SDBurton]

I very much agree. I don't like football. Well, soccer football is good. I can't stand American football, though.

A sports anime about girls and/or women playing American football would be great, though.

Now I want a manga/anime about girls playing rugby.

Spoiler

Or beach volleyball. Yuri would be a major element to both of course.

 

[OceanBlue]

I made it five minutes into Yuushibu before I had to bail because it was so disgustingly crass. Maou-sama is thankfully tame in that respect (so far).

I don't think the fanservice in Maou-sama was too particularly bad. All-in-all, I thought it was a good watch. If I remember correctly, it was like Noragami in that the general quality of the show was enough to make Maou-sama more entertaining than the premise would lead you to imagine.

 

[cajunator]

Anime>football

In this case absolutely. What a horrible game.

God damn I wasn't even close, haha. Nearly a full 100 posts short of the mark. Well there you go, Kirby, even with all the freebies and handicaps I couldn't do it. Defs not trying that again.

Youre a worthy adversary and I like your style. Youre adorable. I loves you Corvy