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Hmm, cool ! And sorry for the late reply xD

I'm really enjoyed Shinsekai Yori (although it started last season), Sakurasou na Pet
no Kanojo (same), Maoyu, Oreshura, and a few others :)

Any all-time favorites? For me, I'm a Gintama-nut lol. Can't get enough of it :) I also am in love with NANA (probably the best romance drama ever..), Mushishi (just so deep xD have to rewatch it soon), and Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni. (just perfect.).

Btw, I think it's super cool you're learning Japanese :D My brother is taking Japanese classes in college as well, so I think that's really cool. Are you taking it in high school? Because I wish my school offered it !!!

Very nice, I also really like action anime. My favorites so far are Bleach, Naruto, SAO, Kenichi, and Dragon Ball Z.

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Glad you accepted! What are your favorite anime?

Shin Sekai Yori is based on a novel 30 years in the making (which you may or may not know) so it is a very large-scoped sci-fi tale but with a rural-dystopian-civilization rather than a technologically advanced one. It presents a lot of mystery boxes early on, and initial episodes provide some minor details as to what lead to the current setting and noteworthy events in the past involving political discord, psychics and what not. The main story however, focuses on these 5 young psychics who are trying to unravel the conspiracies of the world they live in. To be honest, the pacing is a little all over the place; arcs that should've taken 2 episodes take 5, and strong plot details or events that need more exposure don't get much time at all, at least at the point I'm at. It's an interesting world they've established, and all the mystery boxes allude to a very dark backstory, but it seems that despite having lots of world building, there's no clear direction. First the protagonists will be at war with animal tribes, then they'll go searching for their friends to and fro, it all feels kind of insubstantial. There are some episodes of brilliance, but there are times when you might lose track of the purpose to some of the events and may even get bored. I'm kind of on the fence with SSY, but given that the novel won some awards and it was 30 years in the making, I'll stick with it to see where it goes. It's an experience to say the least, but I think it would be a much better viewing experience if you marathoned it rather than watching weekly, perhaps wait for the DVDs or all the episodes to be released before jumping in.

As for Toriko, it's a simple and fun adventure with a very thorough and imaginative world structure. It is formulaic to some extent, but nonetheless a joy to watch. Akin to Fairy Tail, their plots are rather basic at face value and don't take themselves to seriously, setting their standards a bit low, but ironically, they achieve greater depth than they set out for in comparison to something like Naruto or Bleach where their plots are almost entirely serious but poorly plotted almost to the point of being dumb (excuse the strong term). While Fairy Tail's depth lies in it's character backstories, Toriko explores some unconventional themes but in a light-hearted and subtle manner. For example, given that the entire world of Toriko runs predominantly on hunting & gathering en mass, they clone animals to preserve the a species' existence while maintaining the Food Cycle for the humans. It's a cool concept they threw in, and people who may have been initially weary of watching it due to the government's good intentions in the series. This branches off to more complex (for lack of a better word) themes such as capitalist divides and some of the corrupt hobbies of the leisure class. In one episode we see Toriko arriving at this one island where there's a tournament amongst some of the world's more dangerous creatures battling it out in front of all these shallow upper class people; they are making a mockery of how demonic and barbarous the creatures look while getting a thrill out of watching them fight each other. When the arena starts to crumble and the animals nearly break out, their pompous sense of security & satisfaction quickly melts away into utter cowardice and anarchy, while the humble Toriko and company are hardly dissuaded and seek to help both the animals and the arrogant rich folk. It shows the fragility & hypocrisy of the upper class and an interesting facet of corruption through exploitation. There are also some rather heartwarming moments in that episode as well, but I won't spoil it. These are a few among many of the intriguing themes Toriko tackles, and I've only seen a few episodes of it! We can't forget the selling point of Toriko though; the setting is bizarre, flamboyant and very alluring. Waterfalls of pasta, stocks of lollipops, you name it. In short, Toriko is an exhilarating adventure and a genuinely fun time to be had that is deeper than one might expect, not to mention it has some well animated fights to boot, so I recommend you check it out.

Canada got Awakening early haha
On second play through CD

It's really fun I'll know you'll love it haha

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Hey! Welcome, what have you been watching lately? ^_^ Are you following Winter 2013?

It is mostly the studio's effect than the director, unless the director takes over every project like in the cases of Shinbo Akiyuki at Shaft or Hayao Miyazaki at Ghibli. A-1 Pictures is good at fluff slice of life shows, not action or dramas.

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