/animu/ - Anime & Otaku Culture

Unfortunately I didn't get opportunity to watch much outside of the streams, so that's more or less what I've seen.

My personal favorite was Hataraku Saibou. The animation quality was cheap, but it had a great balance of humor and action and the plots always felt both appropriately dire and silly each episode. It's one of the rare times an "edutainment" show actually felt fun. A+

for other shows:

Happy Sugar Life - an edgefest done right. I was pleasantly surprised with both the mystery/thriller aspect of it and just how fucked up and edgy all the characters are. Just don't try to make much sense of everything. A-

Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight - I don't really care too much for the plot and symbolism, but maybe the final episode will change my mind. The fights scenes are probably the best of any this season though. B+

Hanebado! - Not bad for a sports anime, and I like the two main characters, but it feels overly derivative of Ping Pong! the Animation. Looks nice. Worth a watch if you like sports anime though. B+

-Harukana Receive - Absolute garbage, poor pacing, and even the fanservice is shit. D

-Asobi Asobase - Hilarious, and a surprisingly accurate depiction of the mind of an average roastie. A

-Grand Blue - has its moment, but I really hate most of the characters, and not in a good way. The over-reliance on the "reaction faces" when there's no real joke is kinda offputting too. C

-Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro - Pretty faithful to the mango, but worse art. Just read the goddamn mango though; it's good. B

-Baki - Beefy men fighting - unfortunately, they do weird scene cuts and don't have enough actual fighting and martial arts. When they do, it's good, but the cgi can sometimes be offputting. B-

-Sunohara-sou no Kanrinin-san - was looking forward to this because i like /ss/ and ~Ara, but there's way too much crossdressing and sissyfication shit for my tastes. Some arcs are good, some garbage. C-

-Jashin-chan Dropkick - An overall fun, silly, comedy. Good, but I'll probably forget it in a season or two. B

-Angolmois - Genkou Kassenki - The godawful parchment filter ruined the show. Otherwise it would have been an okay, albeit slightly bland war show. C

-Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu - All the worst aspects of MMO Isekai. However, once you get past that, you realize that the show is 90% fanservice and the Isekai is just a dressing. C

Leftovers and continuations

Lupin 3 - I've always been a huge Lupin fan, and this season does not disappoint. Normally I hate when shows try to get with the times and incorporate modern technology, but I think this season continues to do a pretty fair job of introducing modern tech and appropriate themes without resorting to the "tech=magic" fiat or losing the essence of what makes the series great to begin with. The standalone eps in the 2nd cour were a lot better than the first too, not to mention the recurring cast all were done justice and had plenty of moments in the sun. (Ami is also a lot less insufferable than the girl in Lupin: Italia). A

BNHA - I forget where last cour ended and this cour began. Overall you got what you expected from it. OFA vs AFO was great, but the license exam arc and filler were weak by comparison. - B-

Overlord S3 - Also basically more of the same. Lots of standing around and talking with horrible pacing, some mortals get the idea to try and be clever, then Ainz and crew do some overpowered shit, mopping the floor with them without any tension whatsoever. Don't forget terrible CGI and the failure of Ainz to ever actually bone his subjects. C-

>>54983

In terms of trends, I'm glad that stuff like Hataraku Saibou seems to be getting a lot of love, because it shows people still appreciate creativity and fun.

On the flipside, we have like 4 complete garbage Iseakai, and people continue to eat them up like shit.

On top of that, there's even more grbage CG shows, weird filters, and soulless sequels/remakes like FLCL alternative.

One trend that I hope continues is more musicals like we got with Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight this season and in Spring with Lost Song.

I love musicals and it's rare to find teams ambitious enough to do them, let alone with good stories.

>>54987

>isekai

shit, I even forgot about those

been in and out of big tidday elf and flat cat isekai, not much to see there, and I'm glad we're still getting plenty of other stuff to make up for it

Nothing went right, it was the same seasonal cancer as always. Ecchi LN adaptions, Chinese MMO adaptions, another fucking entry in the overrated Rick&Morty;Gate series. Fuck modern anime and fuck you.

>>54992

Nah, I think Happy Suggar Life had a pretty deep psychological plot. Kind of like Evangelion

>shilling for happy shit life

I hate all of you disgusting seasonal plebs. This season was shit and you should all kys.

>>54996

why don't you tell us what you liked instead?

>>54992

>>54996

Oh no guys it's the anti fun comissars. Hide anything made after 2000 unless you want to be labelled a shitposter and sent to reeducation gulag where you're only allowed to watch board approved anime and upon release must present a 4000 word dissertation on why they chose that particular color pallet!

>>54981

>Happy Sugar Life is just alright. Everyone is a psycho, and that's too unbelievable and doesn't work well imo. You need to throw a psycho in normal situations with normal people to make it work, not have every interaction be some deranged peyote dream.

her friend that died was the epitome of a normalfag and got burned for hanging out with damaged people but I guess she was the only normal person on the show. she did serve the intended purpose though: a final lifeline or perhaps an insert for someone to try to reach out and help mc unfuck her life, although she was too late.

>>54983

>-Angolmois - Genkou Kassenki - The godawful parchment filter ruined the show. Otherwise it would have been an okay, albeit slightly bland war show. C

I agree the filter is stupid. I do enjoy shows where they are on the brink of destruction and have to think their way out of shit though and the constant threat of the mongol horde vs mc's wits and war experience make for nice drama. it'd be more enjoyable if mc weren't an invincible gary stu incapable of making poor decisions and just lucks his way through all the betrayals they endure but the threats still somehow feel real considering its like fighting an avalanche. even with the filter I liked this more than Golden Kamuy

>>54992

>>54996

What do goons even get out of pretending to like anime?

>>55030

>on HSL and Hanebado

We'll agree to disagree then. HSL felt a lot more unbelievable and forced to me. At least in Hanebado the source of all the emotional drama and mental issues was clear, and made more sense. HSL has broken people for teh sake of being broken, and everyone loves the loli like she has some sort of supernatural power to her.

>loli headpats you

>AAAAUUUUGHGHGHGH I LOVE YOU I'M GONNA COMMIT CRIMES FOR YOU NOW

>>55034

>loli headpats you

more like

>sees two inch printed image of loli on 'missing' poster

>>55028

Gonna agree with almost everything there.

Jashin-chan is very weak though. Or maybe not weak, but certainly mediocre.

>>54983

This Lupin series really outshone Italia by leaps and bounds. The art direction for the main cast is great, reminded me of both Red and Green jackets. The lone pink jacket episode was cute, too

I found the standalone ep directors' choice of using the respective art direction for each era to be a splendid touch.

Some of the subplots felt a bit strung out to show off Enzo and Shake HanzThe entire notNepal story.

Ami is much better than the bitch from Italia, but that is comparing an apple to a turd. Also, I feel that a bit of "Mine Fujiko to iuu onna" spilled over into Italia, and gave it a bit more pretentiousness (not saying Mine Fujiko is bad, but it got really full of itself in some parts)

Adult Ami high impact sexual encounters fucking when?

>>55043

>rozen maiden

are you gonna try to revive DESUDESUDESU?

please don't

>>55040

>that last spoiler

yes pls

Personally, I think I liked Italia over Fujiko Mine. It was just way too different stylistically from what I was used to.

In this season, I think the only episode that I actually disliked was the Smart Safe episode.

>>55049

>I liked Italia over Mine Fujiko

I enjoyed both, but Mine Fujiko was definitely going for a different tone and theme. One much, much heavier. If the owls weren't enough of a hint, I don't know what is

Italia was plenty fun, though the MI6bugger was kind of lame overall, and the "could DaVinci still be alive???" twist was a bit silly.

>smart safe

That was the weakest one, but it also felt like a episode from Pink jacket's saga, so I gave it a pass as a homage to the series no one likes to talk about.

Excited for the finale tomorrow, I hope it leaves a decent open end

Really is a shame how fast this series blew by, but I am glad I got to enjoy it.

Let us pray the next movie is not a crossover shitshow.

>>55053

The last few episodes of Italia were the weakest part, definitely.

If you're counting the goemon/ jigen movies are part of Mine Fujiko, I liked both of them a lot.

I think the homages are an interesting stylistic choice too, but I wish there were more fun one-off episodes that fit in with the continuity like the Russia one.

Hopefully the finale will be good.

>>55056

>for teh sake of being broken

forgot to add that all the broken people, the reasons for them being broken, how they are broken is all important to the plot so it isn't just "for the sake of being broken"

>>55056

>anon he was raped by an ara, its only logical he would take a 2dqt waifu in the form of a loli on a poster.

You'd think he'd go after an idol or something. The odds of a shitty tiny printed pic being the one for him in a world where he could just go online and see millions of potential 3d waifus is pretty stupidly tiny.

>>55059

normalfags don't use computers otherwise they wouldn't be normalfags, checkmate anon

>>55055

Jigen and Goemon's movies were good, albeit lightly connected to Mine Fujiko.

After seeing Mine Fujiko, it really changes the perspective on her retroactively. Who'd a thunk she was actually a femme fattale sex kitten assassin sleeper trained/owned by the world's elite?

I really hope we see more of Ami, but she will likely go the route of any woman that isn't Fujiko. The void

>>54992

>fuck modern anime speg

No one cares, get over it.

>>55029

They get to false flag as "outraged fans" in hopes that someone like CR or Kikeflix will listen and tarnish the industry with pozbux like everything else they touch.

And all they got was a tumblr cartoon.

>>55081

>I dropped this at episode 1 because the gag already felt worn out in the first 10 minutes.

I nearly did the same and I'm glad I didn't. The first episode bored me but they did some new stuff after. Would recommend watching more, took me about 3 episodes before I realised how much I was looking forward to the next one.

>>54969

AOTS: Grand Blue

Then come Hataraku Saibou and Chio-chan at the same spot, followed by Overlord because I already know what's going to happen in the last two episodes and it's going to be hilarious.

All in all, OK-ish season. Nothing I'd call a must-watch.

>>54983

>-Grand Blue - has its moment, but I really hate most of the characters, and not in a good way.

yes, most of them are utter scum. The episode where they ruin that one guys relationship so he could hang out with the rest of the virgins almost made me drop the show.

>>55103

>The real anime of the season for me is the anime in our hearts

Lol what a fag

>that the kind anon who translated Torako for us created.

I-I-I mean… you're welco- t-thanks… y-you too

>>55109

Yeah, that was me. I'm gonna miss Torako too. It was a lot of fun, it's not everyday we come across such loveable characters.

>I enjoyed Happy Sugar Life and Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight the most.

That's because you're fucking gay

>>54992

I agree with this guy.

You all like shit and you pretend like it's good and convince everyone else that if they like anything except the shit you like they have a problem.

You people are a mental disease, a plague.

You need to be erased.

>>55119

>>55120

>being this triggered by departures from the formula

another nostalgia hugbox escapee

>>55120

>you pretend like it's good and convince everyone else that if they like anything except the shit you like they have a problem

lacking a bit of self-awareness there, buddy

>>54992

>If it aint 80s gorefest MANIME it is SHIT!

>>54996

>>54992

>t.former BO

>>55676

>Radiant

Come to think of it, frog anime isn't anime at all

>But anon, it's produced by nips

You can't fool me, Shlomo

DROPPED, HARDER THAN MY SISTER'S NEWBORN BABY

>>55661

>Kaiju Girls Movie

Wait, this is getting a movie?

>>55661

>Thunderbolt Puppet Show 2

Definitely the anime sequel I have been the most excited for in some time. I'll be making a thread, but I expect autistic /a/fags to spam the meta petitioning that it be banned.

>>55798

I didn't made the connection from the non-chibi characters

>>55656

I wish It's My Life wasn't a single episode.

Summer 2018:

Bad season for lolicons.

AOTS were the comedy show for a change (Asobi Asobase, Chio-chan, Dropkick)

Fall 2018:

Another bad season for lolicons.

>>55656

>Akanesasu Shoujo

Girl's club research crystal radio.

I'm into crystal radios for occultist use.

>Anima Yell!

Highschool girl cheerleaders.

>CONCEPTION

Man is isekai'd to mate wiht the hottest chicks for… reasons

>Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san

Skeleton works for a manga shop. Apparently pretty popular comedy.

>Gakuen BASARA

Sengoku Jidai as highschoolers. Mainly watching for the tits on the cover.

>Goblin Slayer

An autistic man sets out to do something.

>Gyakuten Saiban: Sono "Shinjitsu", Igi Ari! Season 2

The little priestess is hot.

>Hangyaku-sei Million Arthur

Based on an MMO. Mostly curious how an anime about an mmo will be like.

>Ingress

Cover looks like the Matrix.

>Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara

Girl gets sent back in time to spend time with her grandmother when she was in highschool so she can recover her sense of color.

No, it doesn't make much sense, but it looks like it may have incestual yuri.

>Ken En Ken: Aoki Kagayaki

Anime adaptation of fantasy RPG. Fantasy seems nice.

>Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet

Secret yuri at a girl's school.

>Merc Storia

Fantasy.

>Ore ga Suki nano wa Imouto dakedo Imouto ja Nai

I vaguely remember hearing the novel's great.

>RELEASE THE SPYCE

Highschool girls battle to protect the city in lewd outfits.

>Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume wo Minai

Hot girl gets mad because she doesn't get enough attention even though she runs around in a bunny girl costume.

I'm mainly watching for the costume.

>Sora to Umi no Aida

Fishermen in space, except there's gender quotas so the fishermen are female.

>Sword Art Online: Alicization

Sometimes, I like to feel pain.

>Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken

Slime stronk.

Manga's great.

>Toaru Majutsu no Index III

Obviously.

>Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san

Vampire girl and girl friends.

>Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru

/fit/ lolicon maid gets told to take care of little girl.

>Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc to Renkin no Kishi

Jeanne d'Arc in nip. Also there's magic.

>Yagate Kimi ni Naru

Yuri, though I'm not sure if I'll like the pseudo-NTR aspect. Probably not.

>>56045

>Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru

>/fit/ lolicon maid gets told to take care of little girl.

Too bad I'm not into muscle girls especially with aggressive face, and that's all the fanservice the show is gonna have anyways.

>>56048

I love pailolis

>>55797

actual chinese puppet theatre was surprisingly enjoyable also

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>>56453

>broken

she just wants to love and be loved

>>56655

>of the lolifag

>/ourara/

It's sad to see when a board is so against lolis, and loves literal hags and obviously 3D too.

>>55656

redoing my post bc my autism made me post a synopsis in my own language

Gakuen Basara

>The Gakuen Basara school battle comedy parody reimagines the Warring States Era warriors of CAPCOM's action game franchise as rival students in a modern high school. Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura battle to replace Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the next student council president.

Seems interesting. Hope it's more funny than action-oriented

>>55656

Ingress

>based on mobage

>Netflix

>3D

how can a single show raise so many red flags?

>>56764

forgot my vid

>>56765

>>56764

Netflix just wanted to show us the could pump billions into anime and still manage to make something that will flop harder than Hand Shakers.

>>56769

>>56769

Netflix doesn't have a bad track record, actually. They just are at permanent threat to become a gateway for western fuckery into anime.

They came up with some good stuff in the past. And I remember seeing somewhere that unlike crunchyroll, which pays japanese studios based on views, Netflix outright buys an entire series upfront. That means they offer a certain amount of money for a finished product. This way, since the producer/studio is already being paid, he theoretically has more creative freedom.

>>56788

I was talking about their anime. They do give creative freedom to nip studios.

>>56792

>missing the point entirely

Leftists can't live without pushing their agenda, kikeshill. Look at what happened to the West.

It's going to be a matter of time before they start demanding shit from nip studios.

>>56796

Jesus fuck Negative Nancy, the point was and still is that they have put out some good anime. If some bad anime comes out, I won't watch it. Surprise surprise.

I'm not even shilling for them, I torrent everything I watch. But acording to you, if I enjoy something from netflix I should stay silent because god forbid I might trigger some anon on the internet.

>>56796

>muh slippery slope

hope you slip down a slope of dicks into a sea of aids you fucking sperg

of the three "anime" you listed, only 1 was animated in japan with all remaining (((production))) done in USA (surprise, surprise)

>>56801

>Netflix doesn't have a bad track record, actually.

<This statement is totally not false, and I'm totally not shilling kikeflix guys!

Quit being a dishonest faggot.

>>56803

>muh no such thing as agenda

Fuck off, you normalfag fenceshitting SJW enabler.

>>56807

You're either retarded or baiting.

The initial statement was about anime. It was factualy right. Don't get your knickers in a twist m8, just because you don fucked up.

>>56809

>The initial statement was about anime.

Your initial statement was muh slippery slope, you fucking nigger.

>It was factualy right.

Doesn't guarantee that kikes (who can't stop pushing their agenda) won't push their fucking agenda.

>>56810

>projecting much?

You literally said that "Netflix didn't have a bad track record".

You could've just complimented their anime instead of saying that they dindu nuthing wrong, you fucking faggot.

>how is netflix funding worse for the industry than depending completely on sales from idol shows and moe merch?

At least there'd be no window for them to invade the industry, you brainless cuck.

>>56817

You're replying to two different people there.

And you're grasping at straws.

It was you who brought up western animation into it. The conversation has been about anime from the beginning. I even mentioned them funding japanese studios.

>>56820

Did no such a thing. They have put out pgood anime in the past. I'm allowed to like it. Netflix has plenty of flaws, but I'm talking about the anime that I liked. You are sperging over nothing.

>>56817

>Doesn't guarantee that kikes (who can't stop pushing their agenda) won't push their fucking agenda.

they're trying it anyways netflix or not, thanks to the language barrier and the tight bonding between the consumers and the producers for better or worse of anime, no one in japan really gives a shit

>>56820

there's a difference between

>here's some money make an anime

and

>make this anime, here's some money

only 2 of the anime from this list >>56810 are even remotely "lefty" and devilman crybaby was exactly what the director and author wanted to make (netflix didn't tell them to make it, they wanted to make it on their own volition but needed funding and a studio); aggretsuko doesn't intentionally pander to western audiences - its made for middle age jap OLs, that's why the tumblr crowd and that one anon from /tv/ is so triggered by it

additionally notice that netflix licenses a lot of anime for exclusive distribution after airing (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_distributed_by_Netflix#Exclusive_international_television_distribution ) as opposed to directly funding the creation of said anime (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_distributed_by_Netflix#Anime )

>>56824

>And you're grasping at straws.

And you're missing the fucking point, you fucking retard.

The kikes at kikeflix are all about pushing their agenda, which means that the anime industry is a potential target.

That's why I brought up western animation, you illiterate nigger. They're kikes. Pushing their agenda is what they do.

>>56827

>no one in japan really gives a shit

Until they pump enough money to make the industry betray their customers. (((They))) own the money printing cartel.

Reminder that while (((Netflix))) pushes a lot of leftist crap, they do their best to cast a broad net. They funded Doug Tenapel to do Veggietales because they wanted to have evangelical content on their platform.

There is a threat that they'll bring too much western influence into anime, but that hasn't happened yet, and they can still put out good stuff.

>want to talk about this season

>want to talk about next season

>thread is just another "is Netflix better for anime than restrictive TV regulations and otakubait pennypinching shows?" discussion

>>56937

Next season is shaping up to be better than the current.

>>56937

One flaw of slower boards is threads are easily derailed by dedicated shitposters and assmad retards. Of all the seasonal show threads only 2-3 threads were alive by the end of the season, and the only decent thread out of all of them was the fucking isekai demon lord thread. All the rest got derailed by retards like the loli sperg or just random faggots shitting up the threads because they don't like the show.

I had hope for this board but I think I'm starting to realize decent anime discussion is impossible in current year since no one can find a happy medium to manage the inevitable cancer that crops up in these places.

>>57020

I'm looking forward to Release the Spyce and Zombieland myself. Probably also going to check out SSSS Gridman and the bunny girl show too.

>>57027

You never know, she might switch side's or something.