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BACK IN TIME - Summer 2014 Anime Season

Oh, Summer 2014.... Hot damn!

  Welp, we’re here at the Summer 2014 Anime Season. Looking back at this one…. wow, there was shows that I either dropped at 1 episode and forgotten, sequel seasons of shows that I watched and then forgotten, some good shows, some meh shows, and those that just left a bad taste in my mouth. And this is the season that had some particular shows that did that. But first off…. You know, I forgot…

[kocurek1921]

I should start using my useless knowledge of obscure 2010s mecha shows to make memes.

[dudadragneel]

I'm just updating this

So, here's the list I said I'd share.

This is a mess, there's manga, webtoon, kdrama, jdrama, animes, tv series...

Not all of them are whump, some might be just my favorite episodes (probably because the animation was good.

ChaoS Child - 10 (vomit)

Tales of Zestiria - 4 (nausea)

Argevollen - 15 (vomit)

M3 - 3 (vomit)

Mob psycho 2 - 6 (vomit)

Persona 5 - 2,4,5, 15 (pain, injury)

Dororo - 5, 12 (faint, fever)

Fukigen na mononokean tsuzuki - 6 (faint)

Donten ni warau - 3 (nausea)

Darling in the franxxx - 5,6,11,12, 13,15,17, 18,21 (fever, faint, pain)

Duel ep 8 (vomit)

Wolf's rain ep 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14

God's Quiz - season 2 ep 12 (vomit)

God eater - 5, 6❤, 9,10 (injury)

Re: zero - 5,8, 10 (vomit)

Sign language - 68 (fever)

Aldnoah zero - 5 (vomit)

Battery chapter 10 (vomit)

Forever mine - 43,44,45,46, 63, 64,65, 69 (collapse)

Kakao 79 - 113-115 (fever)

Plastic memories - 07, 12 ( faint)

Doukyonin - 08 (faint)

Miira - 3,07 (fever faint)

Goboutan - 12 (fever faint)

Plastic Memories - 07 (faint)

Hyouka - 07 (nausea)

Black Lagoon - 1 (vomit)

Full metal Panic Fumoffu - 2, 8 (fever faint)

Knights of sidonia - 2 (vomit, faint)

Fruits basket - 23

Ai yori aoshi - 4

Guardian - 8

My love from another star - 9, 16

Guardian - 8,9,10,12, 19, 20,21, 23, 28

Love shuttle - 2,3,4,5,6,9,10, 11,12 (fever, vomit)

Riverdale - 4season ep 1

GRAND HOTEL - 1Temp - 7 3 TEMP - 2,3, 19,20 (injury)

Tokyo ghoul movie (emeto)

TEEN WOLF- Season 6 ep 6, season 1 - 1,2,6,8,11, season 2 - 6,7,9,10, season 3 - 5,6,11, 13 season 5 - 6,9 , season 6 - 13

RIVERDALE- 1- 10,11,12

Love stage - 9 (fever)

Skip beat - 15 (fever)

Miira no kaikata - 07 (fever)

DETECTIVE CONAN -  49,188,191,193,522,927,928,219, 118,126 (pain - faint)

Bleach - 9

Code breaker - 6

Tada kun - 9 (fever)

Mayonaka no ocult komuin - 1

Omiai (hentai) - 5,6 (fever)

Naruto - 140

DIVE!!- 12 (faint)

Katsute - 09

Beelzebub Ojou - 04

Cagaster -3,4,5

Pinocchio - 5,12,13

Itaewon class - 10 (emeto)

Richard - 10

Kakafukaka - 5 (emeto)

Uzaki - chan - 3 (fever)

Titan's bride - 4

Grisaia - ep 1 & 3 (vomit)

The God of Highschool - ep 5 (vomit)

Run with the wind - 8 (fainting), 18 ,19,20 (fever)

Kanojo okarishimasu - 73 (emotional breakdown/vomit)

Inuyasha - 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 32, 42,45, 46, 51, 57,58, 70, 78, 82, 87, 90, 89, 107, 113, 117, 122, 125, 126, 132, 137, 138, 140, 146, 155, 156, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167

Umibe no etranger - 7

Kkondae intern - 8

One piece 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83

Kekkai sensen - ep 4, 5, 8

Kekkao sensen and beyond - 9

Tensei shitara slime datta ken - 10,11,13

Persona 5 - 2,4,5, 15

Dororo - 5, 12

Fukigen na mononokean tsuzuki - 6

Donten ni warau - 3

Darling in the franxxx - 5,6,11,12, 13,15,17, 18,21

Naruto shippuden - 9,11,17,18,19,20,23,24,25,26,29,30,31, 39,40,41,42,43,44,45,49,50,52,56,68,70,71,73,74,75,79 ❤,80 😢,81,82😢, 84 ,85 🤯,86, 87 🤯🤯, 88🤯,89

Fruits bqsket ep 12j

13 reasons why - 4×02

WHUMP

ChaoS child - 10

Tales of Zestiria - 4

Argevollen - 15

Kimetsu no yaiba - 12

The K2 - 4

Healer - 6,12, 13,14

Train 2020 - ep 2 (emeto)

Pinocchio 4, 12, 18

One piece - 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 597(Law) 598, 599,600,601,602

Jujutsu kaisen - 23 (megumi vomit)

Taishou otome - ep 2

One piece - nebulandia, 3d2y

True beauty - 5 (panic attack)

Casualty - series31 ep 34 (vomit)

Love and leashes - slight gag

Attack on titan - season 1 ep 3 (eren gags)

Tokyo ghoul movie - emeto

Hamatora (emeto)

Boruto - 234- 236 (emeto)

Anatomy of a scandal - 3 (emeto)

Slam dunk - 8,9,10,11,15,16(whump),23,24💜,25,28,29,30,33,38,39,40,42,43,44😭,45,46,48,49(whump),51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58(w),59😭,60,61,62,63,65,66,67,70,71(w),72(w)73,74,75,76,77,79,81,82,84😭

My strange friend (c-drama) - ep 14 (emeto)

Miss Hammurabi (K-drama) - ep 12 (emeto)

Lucky Romance (k-drama) - ep 9 (emeto/panick attack)

Goodbye Mr. Black (kdrama) - 18 (emeto)

Your honor - 19+20 (emeto)

Outlander - season 3 ep 9 (emeto)

2gether the series - 13 (emeto)

Kimi no tonari de yurarete (emeto?)

Stranger things - s1e4 - Jonathan gags

Kinnporsche - 2, 4 (emeto)

Time (drama) - 4 and 6 (emeto)

- my strange friend (c drama -youtube) - ep 16 (emeto)

- stranger things - s1ep8 (not really emeto but the scene gave me whumperflies)

- Kinnporsche - 02,04 (emeto)

- Banana Fish - 5 (nausea - I know but like, the scene gave me whumperflies)

- Chainsaw Man - 1 (blood), 6 (blood)

- Romantic Killer - 6 (slight panic attack) 11 (emeto)

- Aku No Hana - 8, 11 (emeto)

- Kimetsu no Yaiba - Mugen Train movie and season 2 episode 1

[the-barista-who-became-a-rabbit]

ACK, enough with these creative anime titles.

Kanojo Okarishimasu, dropping now. The guy pisses me off so much, he’s an asshole. Hard to relate with that guy. 

Is it too much to ask to go back to the good days of anime. You don’t need to give us any creative anime. Give us the trashiest anime you’ve got. The most cliche harems. Take us back to the simplistic anime times like Jokumachi no Dandelion or Sore ga Seiyuu. I don’t care. A crappy copy of Chivalry of failed knight, Infinite Stratos or Date alive altogether. 

Animes like nanana no maizoukin, Tanken Driland, Escha and Logy, Argevollen were among the least popular in their times and still they are a thousand times better than the crap anime they give us these days. 

I used to watch 24 animes a season. Now I survive on three. 

[drilanime]

[tpab1]

Summer 2014 Lineup

After two years of being in this lineup, I’ve finally finished the Summer 2014 lineup. I kinda burned out back in 2015, and my life got hectic. I also went back to school and took the teacher’s licensure exam this year. I passed, btw. I got my groove back for some reason though, and I saw a lot of anime in the second half of the year. Anyways, these are the shows I’ve seen in the lineup. I’m…

[sunder-the-gold]

Autism and Argevollen’s Samonji Ukyo

Shirogane no Ishi Argevollen isn’t an especially interesting story, so I don’t think I’ll finish it. But one of the most interesting things it does is realistically depict Autism through the character of officer Samonji Ukyo, which comes to a head in the flashbacks of Episode 12.

This is clearly a man with Autism. While he has a healthy amount of compassion for other human beings and an admirable level of concern for his subordinates, he has no natural ability to empathize with people. His lacks the power to read or predict their feelings and motivations. The best that he can do is learn through experience, building a set of rules in his head that he uses to navigate future encounters.

Military protocol was especially helpful for that, as it provided plenty of rules for how soldiers are supposed to interact with each other. As long as other soldiers and his superior officers stick to those rules, he knows what to do. This gives him the confidence to act.

But when Reika, a (higher ranked?) mecha pilot (who also happens to be a pretty woman) interrupts a briefing and insists on greeting everyone with a handshake instead of a salute, he insists on saluting and stands there like a frowning statue because he’s shocked and confused. She misunderstands this response and concludes that he’s mean and cold.

The familiarity of this judgment pained me.

His friend, Quasimodo (no, really), has to explain to another character that Samonji isn’t rigid out of anger, but because he’s paralyzed with indecision.

This is something that Quasimodo has seen before in their friendship. Samonji would encounter some social situation he had no training, preparation, rules, or past experience about, and he would lock up.

He can’t figure out which possible course of action would be socially acceptable and harmonious, because people are inconsistent and unpredictable and his mind isn’t geared for reading or intuiting their feelings and mutable, unspoken rules. His strengths in systematizing and calculation are useless here without an example to follow, or trusted guidance.

I’ve been there. I know.

Autists want to love you and be loved by you, but we don’t communicate in the same way. It’s like we’re coming from completely different cultures and speaking entirely different languages. What’s worse is that Autists, being rare and seldom growing up around other Autists, are pretty awkward even with our own form of communication.

But there’s hope. Samonji and Reika had enough time to get to know each other. Though continued misunderstandings initially increased the friction between them, getting to know more about each other helped them understand each other’s mindset and appreciate each other’s motivations.

You have to get past the first impressions. You have to try to understand someone, even when they seem alien and frustrating, and either evil or dangerously foolish. They, too, are human, just like you. They’re just human in a different way; a different color of the human rainbow.

[l0nely-edgel0rd-g0d]

1: Planets 2: Boku No Pico 3: Active Raid 4: Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 5: "Into The Sky" by SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]:Tielle (Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096) 6: "Heikousen (平行線)" by Sayuri (Scum's Wish) 7: Production IG 8: ???? 9: Macross Plus 10: Hayami, Saori 11: The death of Maya (My Youth In Arcadia) 12: The Tatami Galaxy 13: Affection (GITSSAC2ndGig) 14: Kuzu no Honkai/Scum's Wish 15: YuruYuri 16: Bleach or Gate 17: Project A-ko 18: Kon (Bleach) 19: Mr. Hanamori (Princess Jellyfish) 20: Shikamaru Nara (Naruto) 21: Youruichi Shioen (Bleach) 22: Roy & Claudia (Robotech) 23: Chibi-Usa (Sailor Moon Crystal) 24: Shogo Makishima (Psycho Pass) 25: Tomoko Kuroki (Watemote) 26: Golgo 13 (Golgo 13) 27: Perfect Blue 28: Argevollen 29: Cowboy Bebop 30: Macross Plus

[ljaesch]

Crunchyroll to Remove 77 Sentai Filmworks Titles

Crunchyroll to Remove 77 Sentai Filmworks Titles

Crunchyroll has announced that it will remove 77 anime titles from its service on August 1, 2020. Sentai Filmworks holds the license to all 77 titles.

The titles slated for removal include:

Action Heroine Cheer Fruits

AKB0048

AMNESIA

Aoharu x Machinegun

ARGEVOLLEN

BAKUON!!

Battle Girl High School

Bodacious Space Pirates

Broken Blade

Captain Earth

Celestial Method

ClassicaLoid

CROSS ANGE Rondo…

[sparkynekolinz13]

Anime I’ve Watched

Okay, here’s this massive post!

My roomie/best friend, Amanda, has gotten me into watching new anime as it comes out every season. We’ve been doing this since college, either 8 or 9 years ago, and it’s accumulated in a crapton of shows that we’ve watched. Obviously I’ve liked some more than others, and I can’t remember every single show I’ve watched, and with so many to list, it’s hard to think of shows I’ve seen when people ask me.

So I’m going to use this as a way to track all the shows I’ve watched!

I’m going to list shows that I’ve seen more than just a few episodes of. There are a ton of shows I’ve started watching, but then quit. Those aren’t going to count here.

Also, I’m going to use the titles I’m used to, so there will likely be a lot of Japanese titles of shows that I’ve noticed are more popular with the English title. I honestly don’t know the English title of some of them. XD;; It’s just how I’ve watched them. I will add akas where there is more than one version of the title.

I’ve watched all of these in Japanese, unless I specify that I watched it in English. The first few shows I watched in my life were in English, and so I tend to only watch those in English even now, but now I’m a Japanese snob and refuse to watch dubs. XD

07 Ghost

91 Days

ACCA

Ace Attorney (aka Gyakuten Saiban)

Ace of Diamond (aka Diamond no Ace)

Active Raid

Akagami no Shirayuki-hime (aka Snow White with the Red Hair)

Akatsuki no Yona (aka Yona of the Dawn)

Aldnoah.Zero (though don’t ask me about it; I hate it; I call it “That Show”)

All Out!!

Amaama to Inazuma (aka Sweetness & Lightning)

Antique Bakery

Ao Haru Ride (aka Blue Spring Ride)

Aoharu x Kikanjuu (aka Aoharu x Machinegun)

Arcana Famiglia (aka La storia della Arcana Famiglia)

Area no Kishi (aka The Knight in the Area)

Argevollen (aka Shirogane no Ishi Argevollen)

Arslan Senki (aka The Heroic Legend of Arslan)

Atom The Beginning

B-PROJECT

Baby Steps

Baccano!

Bakuman

Bakumatsu Rock

Barakamon

Battery

Big Windup! (aka Ookiku Furikabutte, or Oofuri)

Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! (aka Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!)

Black Cat (in English)

Bleach

Blood Lad

Boku no Hero Academia (aka My Hero Academia, or HeroAca)

Bonjour Koiaji Patisserie (aka BONJOUR Sweet Love Patisserie)

Boruto (the movie; I’ve only seen a bit of the anime)

Brave 10

Brothers Conflict

Buddy Complex

Bungo Stray Dogs

Captain Earth

Cardcaptor Sakura (in English, as Cardcaptors)

Cardfight!! Vanguard (not all of it, but enough of it to list it)

Case Closed (but only the episodes Funimation aired on their channel, in English)

Cheer Danshi!! (aka Cheer Boys!!)

Chihayafuru

Chiruran Nibun no Ichi (aka Chiruran 1/2)

ClassicaLoid

Classroom Crisis

(La) Corda d’Oro Blue Sky

Cuticle Detective Inaba

D.Gray-man

Dagashi Kashi

Damekko Doubutsu

Dance with Devils

Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou (aka Daily Lives of High School Boys)

Dantalian no Shoka (aka The Mystic Archives of Dantalian)

Darker than Black

DAYS

Death Note

Death Parade

Devil Survivor 2 The animation

Digimon (seasons 1 and 2, and part of 4, in English)

Dimension W

DIVE!!

Divine Gate

Dragon Ball Z (parts of it, in English)

Dream Festival!

Durarara!! (only the first season)

Earl and Fairy

Endride (about half?)

Fairy Tail (only like the first season or two, I think)

Fate/Apocrypha (still in progress, but I’m not planning on quitting atm)

Fate/stay night

Fate/Zero (I didn’t finish it, but I watched the majority of it)

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (movie)

Fireball Charming

Flying Witch

Free!

Fruits Basket (in English)

Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu (aka The Highschool Life of a Fudanshi)

Fukigen na Mononokean (aka The Morose Mononokean)

Fune wo Amu (aka The Great Passage)

Galilei Donna

Gallery Fake (didn’t finish it, but watched about half or more)

Gangsta.

GATE

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (aka Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun)

Getbackers (haven’t finished it, but I want to)

Gifuu Doudou!! Kanetsugu to Keiji

Gingitsune

Gintama

Granblue Fantasy the Animation

Grave of the Fireflies (movie, in English; had to watch it for a class...never again)

Grimoire of Zero (aka Zero Kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho)

Gugure! Kokkuri-san

Gundam Build Fighters

Gundam Build Fighters Try (counting this as separate since it’s a different generation)

Haikyu!!

Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East

Hakuouki (aka Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom)

Hamatora

Hanasakeru Seishounen (only about half)

HaruChika: Haruta to Chika wa Seishun Suru (aka Haruchika - Haruta & Chika)

Hataraku Maou-sama! (aka The Devil is a Part-Timer!)

Heat Guy J

Hetalia Axis Powers (not all of it)

Hibike! Euphonium (aka Sound! Euphonium)

Hikaru no Go (haven’t finished it, but I’d like to)

Hotarubi no Morie e (movie)

Howl’s Moving Castle (movie, in English)

Houzuki no Reitetsu (aka Hozuki’s Coolheadedness)

Hunter x Hunter (2011; not all of it, but a good portion)

Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha (aka Inari Kon Kon)

Inuyasha (in English; not all of it yet)

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (aka JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken)

Joker Game

K

Kabukibu!

Kaichou wa Maid-sama! (aka Maid Sama!)

Kami-sama no Memo-chou (aka Heaven’s Memo Pad)

Kamigami no Asobi

Kamisama Hajimemashita (aka Kamisama Kiss)

Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi (aka Kami-Nai aka Sunday Without God)

Karneval

Katekyo Hitman Reborn! (not all of it, but a good portion)

Katsugeki! Touken Ranbu

Kekkai Sensen (aka Blood Blockade Battlefront)

Kenka Banchou Otome: Girl Beats Boys

Kimi to Boku (aka You and Me.)

Konbini Kareshi (aka Convenience Store Boy Friends)

Kuroko no Basuke (aka Kuroko’s Basketball aka The basketball which Kuroko plays....that version of the title always cracks me up)

Kuromukuro

Kuroshitsuji (aka Black Butler; not all of it)

Kyoukai no Kanata (aka Beyond the Boundary)

Kyoukai no Rinne (aka RIN-NE; about a season and a half)

(The) Legend of the Legendary Heroes

Library War (aka Toshokan Sensou)

Log Horizon

Magic Kaito: 1412

Magic-kyun! Renaissance

Mahou Sensou (aka Magical Warfare)

Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro (aka Neuro - Supernatural Detective)

Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist (aka just Devils and Realist)

Makura no Danshi

Marginal#4 Kiss Kara Tsukuru Big Bang (aka MARGINAL #4 the Animation)

Medaka Box

Meganebu!

Miracle Train - Ooedo-sen e Yookoso

Mobile Suit Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit

Nana Maru San Batsu (aka Fastest Finger First)

Nanbaka

Naruto

Naruto Shippuuden (not all of it; got tired of all the fillers and stopped watching)

Natsume Yuujin-Chou (aka Natsume’s Book of Friends)

Nijiiro Days (aka Rainbow Days)

No. 6

Nobunaga no Shinobi (aka Ninja Girl & Samurai Master)

Nobunagun (only saw about half; want to finish it someday)

Noragami

Norn9 - Norn + Nonette

Nurarihyon no Mago (aka Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan)

One Punch Man

Onihei

Ore Monogatari!! (aka My Love Story!!)

Orenchi no Furo Jijou

Ooshitsu Kyoushi Heine (aka The Royal Tutor)

Otome Youkai Zakuro (aka just Zakuro)

Ouran High School Host Club

Overlord

Pandora Hearts (I can’t remember if I’ve seen the entire anime, or just a good portion of it)

Peacemaker Kurogane (I haven’t finished it yet...)

Peach Girl (in English)

Persona 4: The Animation

Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation

Phi-Brain - Kami no Puzzle (aka Phi-Brain - Puzzle of God)

Pokémon (in English; only like the first two or three seasons, and the first...4? movies)

Prince of Stride: Alternative

(The) Prince of Tennis (aka Tennis no Ouji-sama; almost all of it)

Princess Mononoke (aka Mononoke Hime; movie)

Psycho-Pass (not the second season)

Re:CREATORS

ReLIFE

Rokka no Yuusha (aka Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers)

Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan (aka The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.)

Sailor Moon (in English; a good portion of it, and the 3 movies)

Saint Seiya

Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary (movie)

Saiunkoku Monogatari (The Story of Saiunkoku)

Saiyuki

Sakamoto desu ga? (aka Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto)

Scared Rider Xechs (aka Scar-red Rider XechS; didn’t finish it)

Seikai Suru Kado (aka KADO - The Right Answer)

Sekkou Boys

Sengoku Basara (just the first season and the movie)

Servamp

Servant x Service

Shingeki no Bahamut Genesis (aka Rage of Bahamut: Genesis)

Shingeki no Bahamut VIRGIN SOUL (aka Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul)

Shirokuma Café (aka Polar Bear’s Café)

Shoukoku no Altair (aka Altair: A Record of Battles; ongoing, but I’m not planning on dropping it)

Shounen Hollywood - Holly Stage for 49

Shounen Maid

Shonen Onmyouji

Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu (and the second season, Descending Stories)

Sket Dance (not all of it, but a good portion)

Skip Beat!

Spirited Away (movie, in English)

STARMYU (aka High School Star Musical)

Starry Sky

Steamboy (movie, in English)

Super GALS! (in English; probably not even half of it, but more than just a few episodes)

Switch (OVA)

Taboo Tattoo (I watched until B.B. died; he was the only reason I watched the show in the first place)

Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge (aka Tanaka-kun is Always Listless)

Tegami Bachi (aka Letter Bee)

Tiger & Bunny (plus both movies)

Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta (aka The Pilot’s Love Song)

Tokyo Ravens

Tonari no Seki-kun

Tono to Issho (but just the original OVA, not the TV series)

Toriko (about half? maybe?)

Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru

Trickster (like...7 episodes or something?)

Trigun

TsukiPro the Animation (only 3 episodes so far, but I’m definitely planning on watching all of it)

Tsukiuta. THE ANIMATION

tsuritama

(The) Twelve Kingdoms (maybe about half?)

Uchouten Kazoku (aka The Eccentric Family)

Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari (aka Poco’s Udon World)

Un-Go

Ushio to Tora (aka Ushio & Tora)

Uta no Prince-sama (aka UtaPri)

Utakoi (aka Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi)

Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen (aka Utawarerumono: The False Faces; not all of it)

Vatican Miracle Examiner (aka Vatican Kiseki Chousakan)

Watashi ga Motete Dousunda (aka Kiss Him, Not Me)

Weiss Kreuz (aka Knight Hunters)

Welcome to the Ballroom (aka Ballroom e Youkoso)

Working!! (aka Wagnaria!!)

X

Yakitate!! Japan (maybe like 20-ish episodes?)

Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo (aka Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches)

Youkai Apaato no Yuuga na Nichijou (aka Elegant Yokai Apartment Life; still ongoing, but it’s been about 14-15 episodes now)

Young Black Jack

Yowamushi Pedal

Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files (in English; never finished it, but wanted to)

Yuri!!! on Ice

Zetsuen no Tempest (aka Blast of Tempest)

And that’s all of them! I missed a couple while I was going through, so I might be missing a couple, but...this is theoretically all of the shows I’ve watched! Well, that I’ve watched more than like 5 episodes of. There’s a ton more shows that I’ve only watched like 1-5 episodes of, haha. I don’t need to make a list of that...

[newsintheshell]

Dynit, le uscite home video del 6 novembre

Arrivano finalmente in Blu-ray e in DVD la seconda parte di Sword Art Online: Alicization, The Promised Neverland e Voglio Mangiare il Tuo Pancreas!

DI seguito trovate in dettaglio info e prezzi sulle tre, attesissime, nuove uscite in home video targate Dynit disponibili da oggi.

VOGLIO MANGIARE IL TUO PANCREAS

Struggente storia d’amicizia tratta dal romanzo best seller di Yoru Sumino, vincitore del Japan Bookseller Award che arriverà prossimamente sempre grazie a Dynit, che ne ha già portato in Italia la versione manga disegnata da Idumi Krihara.

Il film è scritto e diretto da Shin'ichirō Ushijima presso Studio VOLN (Karakuri Circus, Ushio e Tora). Il design dei personaggi concepito da loundraw (Tsuki ga Kirei, Boku wa Robot-goshi no Kimi ni Koi wo Suru) è stato adattato da Yuichi Oka (To Love Ru, Shirogane no Ishi: Argevollen), che ha curato anche il comparto delle animazioni. La colonna sonora che accompagna la pellicola, invece, è firmata da Hiroko Sebu.

La storia racconta del ritrovamento, da parte di uno studente delle superiori, del diario di una compagna di classe, Sakura Yamauchi. Ma quel diario custodisce un segreto, perché Sakura soffre di una gravissima malattia pancreatica. I suoi giorni sono contati, ma la ragazza ha deciso di affrontare la tragedia con leggerezza e allegria, e il suo compagno, custode del segreto, decide così di trascorrere sempre più tempo con lei… Nonostante i due abbiano personalità agli antipodi, quel tremendo segreto li avvicinerà sempre più.

Scheda tecnica:

Video: MPEG4-AVC / 1080p / 23.98fps / 1.85:1 Durata: 108 min extra esclusi (Blu-ray) MPEG2 PAL / 16:9 Anamorfico / 1.78:1 Durata: 108 min extra esclusi (DVD)

Audio: ITALIANO dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 GIAPPONESE dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 (Blu-ray) ITALIANO Dolby Digital 5.1 GIAPPONESE Dolby Digital 5.1 (DVD)

Sottotitoli: Italiano

Extra:

Cd audio della colonna sonora

Booklet di 32 pagine

Special Booklet di 32 pagine

Poster Cinematografico

Card esclusiva

Trailer originali

D-trailers

Music Video: “TEMPO DI AMARE” (eseguita Sonia Sox) 

Il box amaray in edizione limitata è acquistabile su Amazon in versione combo Blu-ray+DVD a € 39,88.

THE PROMISED NEVERLAND

Prima stagione di 12 episodi della serie animata tratta dal popolare manga di Kaiu Shirai e Posuka Demizu, edito nel nostro paese da J-POP. 

L’anime è stato diretto da Mamoru Kanbe (The Perfect Insider, So Ra No Wo To) presso lo studio CloverWorks (Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai, Persona 5 the Animation) e la sceneggiatura è stata curata da Toshiya Ono (Gatchaman Crowds, Tsuritama). Per il 2020 ne è stata confermata una seconda stagione.

Quella da sempre adorata come una madre, in realtà non è un vero genitore. Le persone che vivono qui insieme sotto questo tetto, non sono davvero fratelli. La Gracefield House è dove vivono gli orfani. Una casa insostituibile dove 38 fratelli e una madre vivono vite felici, anche senza essere davvero consanguinei. Tuttavia, un giorno la loro quotidianità verrà bruscamente interrotta...

È notte all’orfanotrofio di Grace Field e due ombre corrono verso i cancelli. Emma e Norman, amici per la pelle, vogliono riportare il coniglio di pezza alla loro amica Connie appena adottata. Non è facile dire addio, lasciare un ricordo indelebile quello degli anni di studio e dei giochi all’aria aperta, sotto lo sguardo amorevole di “mamma” Isabella. È notte, Emma e Norman non lo sanno, ma ciò che c’è nel buio del mondo al di fuori dei cancelli di Grace Field è pronto a inghiottirli!

Scheda tecnica:

Video: MPEG4-AVC / 1080p / 23.98fps / 1.78:1 Durata: 300 min extra esclusi (Blu-ray) MPEG2 PAL / 16:9 Anamorfico / 1.78:1 Durata: 300 min extra esclusi (DVD)

Audio: ITALIANO dts-HD Master Audio 2.0 GIAPPONESE dts-HD Master Audio 2.0 (Blu-ray) ITALIANO Dolby Digital 2.0 GIAPPONESE Dolby Digital 2.0 (DVD)

Sottotitoli: Italiano

Extra:

Booklet di 32 pagine con schede personaggi, schizzi preparatori

Card esclusiva

Sigle di Testa e Coda senza crediti

Spot Tv

D-trailers

Il box digipack in edizione limitata è acquistabile su Amazon in Blu-ray a € 44,08 e in DVD a € 34,98.

SWORD ART ONLINE: ALICIZATION (Box 2)

Terza stagione dell’anime tratto dal popolare romanzo di Reiki Kawahara, edito nel nostro paese da J-POP, che prende il nome dalla saga di Alicization, raccontata dal 9° al 18° volume dell’opera. 

La serie è diretta da Manabu Ono (Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon, Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei), con l’aiuto di Takashi Sakuma, presso lo studio A-1 Pictures (Fate/Apocrypha, Wotakoi: L'amore è complicato per gli otaku). Attualmente ne sta vnendo trasmessa la seconda parte “Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld”.

“Dove mi trovo?” Non è la prima volta che Kirito si pone questa domanda… questa volta è entrato in un universo fantasy, ma ha completamente perso i ricordi di ciò che è accaduto prima del log in. Vagando in questo mondo in cerca di indizi, raggiunge un enorme albero e incontra un ragazzino: “Piacere, mi chiamo Eugeo.” Ma Eugeo dimostra molte più emozioni rispetto ai normali NPC dei giochi virtuali, e mentre Kirito cerca di scoprire un modo per tornare alla realtà, gli tornano in mente ricordi lontani. Ricorda di correre insieme a Eugeo bambino, e c’è qualcun altro insieme a loro due… una bambina bionda di nome Alice. Un nome che non avrebbe mai potuto dimenticare.

Scheda tecnica:

Video: MPEG4-AVC / 1080p / 23.98fps / 1.78:1 Durata: 300 min extra esclusi (Blu-ray) MPEG2 PAL / 16:9 Anamorfico / 1.78:1 Durata: 300 min extra esclusi (DVD)

Audio: ITALIANO dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 GIAPPONESE dts-HD Master Audio 2.0 (Blu-ray) ITALIANO Dolby Digital 5.1 GIAPPONESE Dolby Digital 2.0 (DVD)

Sottotitoli: Italiano

Extra:

Booklet di 32 pagine

Web preview

Trailer e spot originali

D-trailers

Questo secondo box digipack in edizione limitata, che raccoglie gli episodi dal 13 al 24, è acquistabile su Amazon in Blu-ray a € 44,08 e in DVD a € 39,99. Il primo box è disponibile dallo scorso luglio.

Autore: SilenziO))) (@s1lenzi0)

[deadmugen]

What animes do you recommend?

ANIME LIST MASTERPOST:

Samurai Champloo

Naruto

Sword art online

Garganita on verdurous planet

Durarara

Attack on titan

Black bullet

Log horizon

Broken blade

The irregular at magic highschool

Inu x boku secret service

Hamatora

Argevollen

Hetalia

Free!

Attack on Titan

Pokemon

Sailor Moon

Dragonball Z

Digimon

One Piece

Durarara!!

Ouran High School Host Club

Soul Eater

Bleach

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Death Note

Fullmetal Alchemist

Hayao Miyazaki

xxxHolic

Air

Paradise Kiss

Hell Girl

Fate/stay night

Paranoia Agent

Cowboy Bebop

Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Psycho Pass

Devil Is a partimer

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Nichijou

Saint Young Men

Mushishi

Hellsing ultimate
Beserk
Kara no kyoukai
Corpse party
Deadman wonderland
Blood+
Zetman(raw)
afro samurai
Sword of the silent stranger
Akame ga kill
Tokyo ghoul
Shiki
Devilman
genocyber

yko ghoul,

kyoukai no kanata,

kuroko no basket,

zankyou no terror,

akame ga kill,

black bullet

haikyuu

kill la kill,

ao no exorcist

noragami

ao haru ride

toradora

kimi ni todoke

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Shirogane no Ishi: Argevollen Review

Shirogane no Ishi: Argevollen Review

This is review number four hundred and four. This anime is part of the Summer 2014 lineup. The anime is called Shirogane no Ishi: Argevollen or Silver Will: Argevollen. It’s a twenty four episode anime about a mecha and a very lovely room decorated with a nice aquarium. There’s also another room with a big window and a nice sofa. It’s very quaint, and it’s very lovely. My sarcasm ends here, so…

[andythelemon]

Andyy I think I'm about to start watching IBO, and it's because of you! Hahah :D So, I have a question: is it necessary to watch something before IBO? (I know the Gundam universe is kind of.. big) Thank you in advance for answering (and for introducing me to what seems to be a beautiful hell).

*sits you down*You want to know the honest truth? I'd never watched a Gundam nor did I ever think the mecha genre would be my thing until this February - I was tricked into watching it by a friend! I liked TTGL (though I wouldn't call it a mecha show per se, so that doesn't really count lol) and also Shirogane no Ishi: Argevollen which is similar to Gundam in that it's very war/political based but I wasn't super invested.It's definitely not necessary to have watched any other Gundam series before getting into IBO, but it helps to understand the themes that underly the franchise; like how mecha suits are pretty commonplace, how if a character has stupid coloured ridiculous hair and clothes they're probably a political elite/upper class lmfao... the design took me aback at first, but now I absolutely LOVE it. 💙 I will say though; this series is VERY HEAVY! Not sure how it squares up to other Gundams but it's a pretty hard punch to the gut if you're not used to seeing so much death/suffering, especially as the main cast are a bunch of child soldiers. I fell in love with it because the characters are so interesting and endearing and there's a lot of moral ambiguity on both sides, but that's up for you to decide. If you do give it a go, let me know how you like it! It totally took me by surprise. Also, the soundtrack is AMAZING I've been listening to it for months on end. And there's canon gay 👌🤞✨

[lex1nat0r]

The Price of Smiles

Don’t forget to add tax

I wanted to like this one, I really did. A nice middle-of-the-road mecha show would have been good. I still have fond memories of Argevollen, an anime that wasn’t extraordinary but had a solid core. The Price of Smiles does not have a solid core. It has a meandering, wobbly core. Trying to show a war from both sides is a good idea, but I didn’t feel like Smiles actually does anything worthwhile with it.

The price of more of my thoughts is spoilers, below the thing.

So you’ve got the Empire and the Kingdom on some semi-terraformed planet, right. And the planet is resource-poor so tensions are high, which leads to the Empire invading the Kingdom and that gives us our war for the show. That is pretty much the extent to which the show goes into its politics. There’s something about a terrorist attack that made both sides suspicious of each other, but that isn’t really a plot point so much as an explanation as to why the current head of the Kingdom is a twelve year old girl (we’ll get to that). This would be fine if we were just shown things from the Kingdom’s perspective with the focus on the aforementioned twelve year old princess. It would be the story of a young ruler trying to guide her nation through a turbulent time, and that’s all fine and good. But then the show also gives us the Empire’s perspective with the fantastically named Stella Shining and her squad of troopers, and here’s where it stumbles: the footsoldiers of this implicitly fascistic empire don’t actually comment on how the Empire works or what its values are or why we should sympathize with them in the big picture. Really, the bits with the princess don’t do that either. And this is my biggest problem with the show, that it doesn’t so much refuse to engage with its politics as just flat-out ignore them in favor of trying to make both sides seem sympathetic.

The lead mech has a black-on-white-on-red insignia, which I can’t even call subtle sarcastically. Also I just noticed it kinda looks like it’s flipping the viewer off. There’s a metaphor there.

Let’s talk about our leads. We’re first introduced to the twelve year old princess who is just so precious that for the first episode she’s kept in the dark about there actually being a war on while actively being a head of state. That seems a tad short-sighted to me. Fortunately that plot thread gets dropped by the second episode so we don’t have to endure wacky hijinks as her advisors try to hide increasingly dire casualty reports from her. And it’s a good thing that she gets informed about the war after all, as apparently this princess is a tactical genius, which we see in all of about three scenes throughout the show. That’s another thing that I think could have been expanded on. As it is, it feels like a wasted character detail. What isn’t wasted is shots of the princess in anguish over the deaths of her people. The anime does like to show this child being sad when it can get away with it (at least I didn’t feel it was too excessive, which may be damning with faint praise). Though this does lead to one thing I’ll compliment Smiles on: in the first episode it looks like the princess will be saddled with an annoyingly generic anime boy sidekick but he is killed off in the second episode, which is a decent enough twist.

Thank you for not being our protagonist, generic anime boy.

Over on the Empire side, we have Stella Shining and her squad of stormtroopers. Stella Shining who, in the first episode where she has focus, threatens to shoot a group of children. Not a great introduction to a character we’re supposed to sympathize with. 

She doesn’t actually shoot any children, which is a blessed relief

It’s later revealed that she had an abusive foster home experience (her birth mother is also revealed to be one of the princess’ advisers. This does, at least, get resolved.) and ran off to join the Empire’s military. What could be spun into a point about how military recruitment preys on the vulnerable members of society is deftly brushed aside in another disappointment.

The plot is resolved with a macguffin that shuts down all the military technology of both sides (they were running off an unobtanium that interfered with the terraforming nanites and thus was causing the resource shortage in the first place). I don’t have a problem with that, they’ve only got twelve episodes to work with and sometimes you just need to pull something like that so you have some kind of ending. I just wish the path leading us there had been better.

These Empire folks sure have that generic anime fascist look on point.There’s a visual coding at work that makes attempts to sympathize with the Empire side not sit right with me.

Like I said, my biggest problem with the Price of Smiles is how it refuses to actually say anything regarding its politics. If the Kingdom was shown to be corrupt and contrasted with the Empire’s authoritarian militarism it would have been better, if there had been something to at least try and show how both sides have good and bad points I could have seen what the show was trying to go for. As it is, I have the sneaking suspicion that we’re supposed to view the Empire as just as valid as the Kingdom, regardless of how authoritarian they are. Then again, the other political body we’re shown is a monarchy, and that also isn’t great (there’s a scene where the princess blesses one a newborn child of one of her advisers and I have to wonder if that’s something that all citizens are entitled to or if it’s just nepotism at work).

I will leave you, as the show pretty much leaves its viewers, with this image of some kind of police crackdown in the Empire after the armistice is signed with the Kingdom. I only regret that I can’t provide the jaunty music that the show does.

[the-barista-who-became-a-rabbit]

YES YES YES YES!! Knights & Magic, ON MY LIST!!

I’ve never been a particular fan of mechas, but not gonna let that get in the way this time. I remember when because of dumb reasons, I missed on Shirogane no Ishi: Argevollen, exactly three years ago.

Not to mention, her voice!!!