3761

I enjoyed both Hajime no Ippo and Haikyuu. I think either is good as a first sport anime.

I like Haikyuu because it takes a short talented person and allows him to excel BUT it is because of teamwork and not just based on his gifts.

Hajime is great for many reasons but what I like best is that he remains humble and modest and rises due to very hard work.

Dsiclaimer:
I am short at 5’ 7’’ or so (starting to shrink as I get older - heh)

3762

I’ll have to watch it then. Hajime has a lot of teamwork too, a lot of the scenes are building their relationship together, and the focus shifts from Makunouchi to his teammates for many of the matches.

3763

Very true! I always enjoy watching due to the humor and shenanigans that go on as well.

3764

Takamura vs Bear :)

3765

Dropped everything this season except Rokka and Prison School.

3766

Rokka: I like when animes take interesting visual designs. But this one looks like “dude collects harem” a bit too much. Maybe since many things are good we will not notice, they are still introducing characters. This one is about 99 times more interesting that GATE.

World Trigger: This one of “by the numbers” bland generic anime #442. Theres nothing in it interesting, except is watchable. For every minute of episode theres like 20 minutes of intro, outro and other padding.

Prison School: Started watching it, but I don’t see the point. Maybe is very good and I just don’t get it.

Gate: Similar to other animes in this part of the year, they are introducing characters. Theres maybe a lot of potential, in one world we can get real world politics fiction, on the other world we can get evil gods scheming. But I have not seen a indication this anime will exploit these to make something unique.

Gangsta: I know the episodes are not self-constained by any definition of the word, but they still interest me that way (a self-contained way), and they build and build on the characters, answer questions and create more doubts. This is why I watch animes, unapologetic story, extreme quality, varied tones and context that you can’t get anywhere else.

Overlord: I spoiled myself by reading the manga, because the serie was so fucking slow. Theres nothing in here, I think, other than combats, so if the combats are good the serie will be good, ok?, I don’t know if the setup will provide anything interesting except the ludicrous self-conglaturatory satisfaction of watching a gamer playing a game that is not a game but real.

So just now, the animes that interest me are Rokka and Gangsta, but I follow the others in hope they become good.

3767

Akagami no Shirayuki-hime (Snowwhie with red hair) is an interesting anime. The protagonist is a refreshing kind of damsel-in-distress. She is not waiting for her prince to save her, but is working on her own escape or is handling her own troubles. So far only 3 or 4 episodes are aired. I like the way the story is being told and expressed in the show.

3768

I’ve been viewing a pretty old anime, .hack//SIGN, and am intrigued halfway through the series. Very interesting way of portraying MMORPGs and how they could affect identity in real life.

3769

.hack//SIGN soundtrack is AWESOME. So much so that I’m sure all of the filler walking-around-scenery scenes are just excuses to play more Key of the Twilight. Sometimes the song overpowers the dialog, which is completely fine here.

me: After thoroughly enjoying Fate Stay Night UBW series (thpppttptt to TurinTur), I’m slowly watching Revolutionary Girl Utena. Don’t spoil anything for me yet, I’m only at episode 5.

3770

I thought this anime (World Trigger) was directed more to kids though I do watch it sometimes.

I enjoy Gate more than Rokka at this point; I think it is because in the first episode the main character an otaku was presented in a way I had never seen before (soldier who does his job in strange circumstances).

I do like Rokka as well. Not sure about Overlord, he supposedly does not feel emotion but kind of thinks things through about what he should be feeling and than makes decisions (thinking about the butler and the town as an example).

3771

I liked the PS2 games with their amusing faux-MMO presentation in a single-player game. Never watched the anime, though.

3772

RGU stays strong all the way up to the end, IMO, but the end fell as flat for me as a crepe dropped from a blimp. Still, you’ve got I dunno, dozens and dozens of fun and interesting episodes up till then, anyway. Also give the “movie” compilation a miss, it’s an atrocity. But what other anime in the world would ever decide to use the old Yiddish folk song Dona Dona in one of its episodes?

3773

You should check out the anime, it definitely adds to the myth surrounding the entire franchise especially since you’ve played the games. :)

3774

I just finished both seasons of Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne (was on Netflix streaming) and I find that I’m in agreement with both of these sentiments. It is most definitely cliche. Clueless teen meets robot and becomes hero, dangerous but lovable aliens come to town, many characters end up living/working/going to school together, just open your heart to succeed, etc. But…they do it all so well, and usually with just a little twist so you think “huh, that’s not quite the cliche I was expecting”. Like in season 2, it looks like heroine Madoka has wrapped everything up nicely by cheerfully browbeating two space kings into being friends…so incredibly cliche…and then one of them more or less just ignores her and goes back to war anyway. Wait, that’s not the cliche! There’s a lot of little moments like that, generally every time I started thinking “ugh, I just know they’ll do X next”…they might do X, but it’s shortly followed by Y to either make fun of X, or take things in a different direction.

3775

I finally pulled Puella Magi Madoka Magica off the Netflix queue, and that killed about 3 days straight of TV time. Only 12 episodes long, and once I started I was hooked. SHAFT nailed this one for sure, as I’m sure is no surprise to everyone in this thread, seeing as it’s been recommended quite a few times. Netflix has the movies also, and Wikipedia says the first two are recaps but the third is new stuff, so I’ll probably queue that up next time I have a couple of hours.

3776

OMG! Why didn’t someone tell me about Nobunga the fool. Samurai, Mechs, DaVinci. This thing is awesome. It’s on Crunchy roll.

Psycho pass was meh. I liked what it was trying to do, but in the end just didn’t do it for me.

KK starts off really slow and I’m not a highschool anime fan but I love how this ended.

Knights of Sidona I’m not sure why I like it. It makes no sense and they leave a loose ends ( I realize it’s still going). That said, I binge watched the whole thing.

Expelled from Paradise turned out to be very cool. I love the message and I liked the Han solo/ Clint Eastwood character.

Any good horror or scary anime? Also is there a good place to get anime soundtracks without spending 40-60 dollars? I’m looking for Attack on Titan ost 2 and Nobunga the fool.

3777

The first two are largely recaps but there are a few minor differences. You can get by with watching just the third one as long as you know there’s a character introduced that you’ll have never seen before (doesn’t really matter all that much but might throw you off at first).

Until it turns into an absolute trainwreck, at least.

3778

Given that description, one would think the entire appeal it’s being a trainwreck in the first place? :P

3779

That’s exactly the reason why half the people watching it bothered. It wasn’t the entertaining kind of trainwreck, and ended up being the sadly pathetic kind.

3780

Well that’s good to know. I was enjoying it. That said, I do like the music.