| @midnightblade Yes, Ping Pong IS that good, it's by Masaaki Yuasa, one of the best directors in the industry right now. It's essentially a character study, what drives these athletes to play this sport and why. What's at stake for them and how they feel. No one is an antagonist we see their lives as they are, no sugar coating, all the burdens they carry are shown to us. Our youngest duo of new talents also go through their own arcs. Even side characters are given some humanity, how they aren't worthy to play something they have no talent for. Mushishi is episodic, you can't really catch up to it quickly, just pick it up and watch the occasional episode. JoJo has 26 eps first season with 2 arcs, the first one being meh. But JoJo is the epitome of style over substance, it is cheesy self-aware campy 80s fun. That is so unique these days, any fan of action shounen has respect for that franchise. |
T3hSourceJun 30, 2014 11:37 AM
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| This season I will be watching: Locodol Higegoto Sailor Moon Crystal SAO 2 Sabagebu! Aldnoah.Zero Glasslip Space Dandy Jinsei Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance Ai Mai Mi Zankyou no Terror Magimoji Rurumo Tokyo Goul Yama no Susume Grisaia no Kajitsu Momo Kyun Sword Hanayamata Rail Wars Tokyo ESP Minarai Diva Akame ga Kill I'm basically watching everything except for the BL series. I may drop some stuff but I'll probably stick with most of it even if it's terrible. I have a lot of free time for a few weeks so I might as well watch as much as I can. |
| @midnightblade Ping Pong has a couple heavy-hitter names to it. Masaaki Yuasa and Taiyou Matsumoto are great in their respective fields (Directing and Manga.) Albeit, this is not one of Matsumoto's most renowned manga nor is it Yuasa's most fluid. In fact, looks like Yuasa wasn't given a good enough budget. However, Ping Pong is one of the most passionate sports anime you'll come across. This one is really about the love for the game. It's intense and smartly written. Plus, it's got a pleasant finish to it. I'm with T3hSource on this one. Check it out. And then, if you find it to your liking, maybe check out the other works by Yuasa (Kaiba, Mind Game, Tatami Galaxy) and Matsumoto (Tekkon Kinkreet and Gogo Monster.) |
| Thanks for the ping pong descriptions! Now that I've had time to really read through the descriptions for the anime coming out for Summer, this will be my schedule unless I drop some of the shows listed below. Its interesting that Barakamon has a main character who is 23, same age as I am. You don't see that often in anime nowadays, hopefully it won't be boring from that synopsis though. 1. Akame Ga Kill (Sun) 2. Dramatical Murder (Sun) 3. Ao Haru Ride (Mon) 4. Baby Steps (Mon) (Ongoing) 5. Glasslip (Th) 6. Rail Wars (Th) 7. Shirogane no IShi Argevollen (Th) 8. Tokyo Goul (Th) 9. P4G (Th) 10. Zankyou No Terror (Th) 11. Tokyo ESP (Fri) 12. Sword Art Online 2 (Sat) 13. Sailor Moon (Sat) 14. Barakamon (Sat) 15. Aldnoah Zero (Sat) 16. Mahouka (Sat) (Ongoing) 17. Captain Earth (Sat) (Ongoing) EDIT: Looks like Summer season is kicking off on Wednesday... good. I still have tonight and tomorrow to finish up make Spring backlog.. |
midnightbladeJun 30, 2014 1:55 PM
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SAO II 24 episodes  |
| Yeah no kidding. It will still be airing the same time Log Horizon 2 starts in the fall, gonna be one hell of a shitstorm :D Aldnoah.Zero being 24 episodes is pretty interesting, getting me slightly more hyped for it. And that Xebec mecha anime better be good now... |
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| I'm not super excited about the number of interesting shows for Summer, but there are a few at least Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei Hanamonogatari Hanayamata Jinsei Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance Sword Art Online II Cencoroll 2 ^ are the ones I'm gonna watch, with Fate/kaleid S2, Blade Dance and SAO II being the only real kickers |
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| Not to mention it is noitaminA, which always means 11 episodes per cour... |
| Steel Ball Run anime when? |
| I don't know if I should be excited for Aldnoah.Zero. I'm sure I'll love the soundtrack and I enjoyed every other Urobuchi's works I've watched (Fate Zero, Phantom, Psycho Pass, Suisei no Gargantia), but watching the two PVs gave me a Guilty Crown vibe. Basically I got the feeling there will be a large cast of characters, mainly in their teens, which I won't give a shit about and a mess of a plot. Hopefully I'll be proven wrong... |
| 5 main aspects I base my ratings on: 1. Did DramaEnthusiast make a thread about it? 2. Is it better than Breaking Bad? 3. Did MellowJello recommend the shit out of it? 4. Has it caused a (very entertaining) shitstorm on MAL? 5. Is it actually good? Scratch the fifth point, it's not very relevant... |
geralt said: I don't know if I should be excited for Aldnoah.Zero. I'm sure I'll love the soundtrack and I enjoyed every other Urobuchi's works I've watched (Fate Zero, Phantom, Psycho Pass, Suisei no Gargantia), but watching the two PVs gave me a Guilty Crown vibe. Basically I got the feeling there will be a large cast of characters, mainly in their teens, which I won't give a shit about and a mess of a plot. Hopefully I'll be proven wrong... I vaguely remember reading something about one staff member saying this will be the new Gundam. I got a horrible deja vu from the GC staff's proclamation that "GC will be the new GitS" back then... |
| Steel Ball Run anime when? |
| Is Tokyo Ghouls worth checking out? I really can't figure out what to watch this summer. |
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| If you can't decide whether or not to watch something just give it a try and see. |
| There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do. |
| Summer and winter is usually weak season. Lets see if this summer will also become weak season. |
 Kickstarter for Rokujouma is fully funded. Good work everyone. Lets wait for the result of our hard work together. |
| Free! second season!!!! for the swimming!!!! ;) |
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| I am just iffy about a staff being so overenthusiastic when it comes to praise their own work. They haped up GC a lot and int he end it was one of the biggest nails in the coffin of old noitaminA and had one of the worst storytelling I saw in the medium up to that date. People often say I am negative, but at least I can only receive positive suprises. I prefer that to get into such silly hypetrains liek the ones I decribed above, only to be left even more disappointed than I am when one of m< negative predictions comes true. |
| Steel Ball Run anime when? |
| This is the first time I am going to watch so many airing anime. I shall watch: -Tokyo Ghoul because it sounds interesting and i've heard people talking about it on Mal. -Bakumatsu Rock because it is unique, sounds interesting and has potential imo. -DRAMAtical Murder because it also sounds interesting. -Space Dandy 2 because I hear good things about Space Dandy 1, well i'll watch it after I watch Space Dandy 1. -Sword Art online 2 because I am interested on what will happen next and if the creators will fuck it up again due to unnecessary, unwanted, shit romance. -Tokyo Ghoul because, well, it sounds interesting. |
| Raise it up, raise up the happiness. |
Nidhoeggr said: I am just iffy about a staff being so overenthusiastic when it comes to praise their own work. They haped up GC a lot and int he end it was one of the biggest nails in the coffin of old noitaminA and had one of the worst storytelling I saw in the medium up to that date. People often say I am negative, but at least I can only receive positive suprises. I prefer that to get into such silly hypetrains liek the ones I decribed above, only to be left even more disappointed than I am when one of m< negative predictions comes true. Agree... Kinda... But... To avoid disappointment, I recently lowered my expectations for a lot of shows that look remotely promising... Yet some of them still manage to not meet my lowered expectations. Should one assume all anime will turn out completely shit to avoid disappointment? |
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AirStyles said: Should one assume all anime will turn out completely shit to avoid disappointment? For LN adaptions, romcoms, harems, ecchi and other stuff otaku prefer? Yes! I am more optimistic about the rest, though. I also learned to hype correctly. When Space Dandy came around I expected a good OST, nice visuals and some oldschool jokes because really, that is the most reasonable thing you can expect from its staff. I got what I prediected and was happy. Same for Kill la Kill, where I expected oldschool references, over the top action and a lot of classic Imaishi tropes. It's your own fault if you hype for false reasons like the people who thought that both shows would be 10/10 masterpieces... the only time I did that recently was with Ping Pong but that was only because this stuff only comes along once every few years. |
NidhoeggrJul 2, 2014 12:13 PM
| Steel Ball Run anime when? |
| Pri Para after how good Rainbow live was, i wanna see if this can match/surpass. |
| SAO II Everything else is shit. |
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| Lol I was gonna list those three as well haha. If I had to choose one, I'd go with Tokyo Ghoul! Also, Space Dandy S2 :-) |
| SAO II Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance (LN is awesome, suspect the anime won't live up to it though) Fate/kaleid 2wei Rest not very much tbh |
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kami_desu said: SAO II Everything else is shit. |
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| Zankyou no Terror Tokyo Ghoul Aldnoah Zero yay listing thread! |
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| I'm really hyped for Akame Ga Kill. |
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| Zankyou no Terror has the highest ceiling but could also lead to extreme disappointment. |
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| None. And even I'm/I was a Type-Moon fan, I'm not hyped for F/KL 2wei either. |
TennoujiJul 2, 2014 1:22 PM
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| Hanayamata and Shirogane no Ishi: Argevollen |
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| We must wait for Fate Stay Night , I see . . . Harem Art Online II since it's the only one I know about. |
"Fuck this shit, fun things are fun!" |
| SAO II free II |
| Glasslip. Tokyo Ghoul quite a bit, but I also am a little disappointed by it being a 1 cour. |
| I am excited about: -Backumatsu Rock -DRAMAtical Murder -Sao II -Space Dandy 2 (After I watch Space Dandy 1) -Tokyo Ghoul. |
| Raise it up, raise up the happiness. |
| Yama no Susume 2 is going to reign supreme this summer. No other show has a chance now that it's no longer a short. |
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Ratohnhaketon said: Yama no Susume 2 is going to reign supreme this summer. No other show has a chance now that it's no longer a short. Hanayamata might outsell Yama no Susume (Manga Time Kirara sells), and genre wise they are competing with each other. |
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| Space Dandy season 2 |
Ratohnhaketon said: Not being serious...right? I don't know how many people "cute girls doing mountain climbing things" will appeal to. I'm looking forward to it, though.Yama no Susume 2 is going to reign supreme this summer. No other show has a chance now that it's no longer a short. |
| Probably 2wei for Kuro. |
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| I'm guessing all this Tokyo Ghoul Hype iscoming from peope who've seen the source material. Based on the Synopis on MAL, it does not seem super interesting. |
| "Fuck this shit, fun things are fun!" |
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