General Anime Thread

… what? Oh, sorry. I was just thinking about Hellshake Yano.

We just passed the 10th anniversary of Oreimo.

@Holofan4life  
I’ve watched that. I liked it well enough. I think most of the first season is pretty average, spending most of its time setting up scenes that look cute in screenshots and clips rather than developing the characters or anything like that. It’s not until the latter parts of the first season and the second season that it starts to get good.
 
I don’t know how well it would hold up, though.

 

@dt  
Hey, I found it again. The Eva episode of Shinkalion.

One-Punch Man Season 2 will NOT be premiering in 2020. The actual premiere date will be sometime in April of 2019. Also, JAM Project will be returning to perform the opening theme again.
 
https: //www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-08-12/one-punch-man-anime-season-2-unveils-teaser-jam-project-return-april-premiere/.135393

Haven’t been able to keep up with Cells at work past ep1.
 
The frilly dressed macrophage is some kind of cleaner crew/butcher of enemy corpses?

Mascot character killed my interest in Tamako Market. A shame, everything else about it looked at least okay.
 
Hanebado ep 7 is a mixed bag. The good: the match. I feel like this match works better with the tone of the show, with the transformation scenes beforehand and the impossible levels of athleticism. I feel like this show’s strength, the badminton animation, also works against the rest of the show. Most of the badminton is meant to feel realistic but the show’s drama is a little (okay, a lot) over-the-top and it would probably get away with that better if the animation style matched that.
 

 
And now for the bad: the character development. I thought maybe the point of the main character’s character development was how she could now turn her killer instinct on and off because her motivations are different. But no, she has actually totally regressed, even outside the court. Are they trying to show that to be the best in your craft this sort of attitude is necessary? I don’t mind that on principle, but isn’t that the opposite of what they were trying to show earlier in the series? I can accept the main protagonist being thoroughly unlikeable, but she already had an ep where she learned how fun badminton is. Is she going to just learn that again? And how the hell are they going to pull that off when she’s been such a cunt to everyone, including her teammates.
 
I can’t even say this show is trying to make everyone seem terribly unlikable and we’re meant to detach ourselves from it and just enjoy these bitches being bitches to each other, because they go out of their way to try to humanize them. You can’t expect us to feel for the character just because she’s crying, you have to give us a reason to care. I don’t get this show anymore. Maybe I’ll drop it and just read the manga.
 
So, I expected Harukana Receive and Hanebado to be opposites in terms of tone, but the former knows what it is and pulling it off, and the latter has this weird tonal dissonance.
 
Hugtto ep 27. Another episode about babies, but this time it’s about the pain of childbirth. No, really.
 

 
Fuckin’ hell. I mean, it wasn’t terribly realistic or brutal, but still.
 
Asobi Asobase ep 6.
 

 
Haha, what a funny show this is… haha… …

@PonyPon  

@PonyPon  

 
Yep, because that’s exactly what macrophages do in your body: rip apart and consume foreign bacteria.

Last ep of Hataraku Saibou ended with actual clifhanger, longer crisis finally (and its just start how serious things will be later).  
And Cancer cell himself is great too, he is like Alex Mercer.
 
BTW  
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura - here desease that would be most horrible and hearbreaking to see happen in this show.

@DeathCloud  
That would be very heartbreaking to see in the show.

The latest episode of Attack on Titan was really good. Also, the latest episode of Cells At Work was the best episode of the show so far.

Yesterday at Otakon, Discotek Media announced some more of their upcoming releases. Two of them are releases I’m most likely getting: Giant Robo, and Bo-Bobo-Bo-Bobo-bo.

I got the Gash Bell movie collection released by Discotex. Hopefully, they will also release the whole show as well.

@Background Pony #993C  
Cool. Hopefully, this attempt at releasing Bobobo on DVD will go a lot better than the previous attempts.

I’m of the belief that when you start watching an anime, you should watch the first three or four episodes before deciding whether to drop it or not.

@Holofan4life  
Yeah, it’s better to just start at the beginning, as with any other live action or animated series, then to start watching in the middle of a show.

@09MurphyM  
I mean, that goes without saying

Yama no Susume ep 7. This show continues to exceed my already high expectations. I melted at the scene with the kid buying a cake for her sister. I worked in retail for a long time and did that sort of thing for a number of customers, and their gratitude always made my shitty day better.
 

 
This show is perfection. Perfection!

Just got through Yuru Camp and I can see why this anime was anime of the season for more than a few people, it’s a nice anime that’s both relaxing and funny (as well as making you a little hungry while watching it lol). Overall, I really enjoyed it.

@EPPony  

 
Haha, yeah, happened to me, too.

This is a strange comparison, but Cowboy Bebop reminds me of All In The Family in regards to the quality of the writing.

Anyone here watch Boku no Hero Academia? The reason I ask is because my buddy Sean recently described it as being “Harry Potter, except one of the characters is a frog for no reason.”
 
I need to know how accurate this is.
 
Edit: Someone else just told me that it’s more like an anime version of the movie Sky High. I’m just surprised somebody else remembers that movie.