Spring 2019

[Hidden]

MAL

lets hope its a good one ladies and gents.

[DragonSinger]

29 minutes ago, Hidden said:

MAL

lets hope its a good one ladies and gents.

There's too many shows to list that I'm interested in, which hasn't happened for a long time. I'm even getting a Detective Conan movie featuring Makoto, so there should be great fight scenes.

[Gina Szanboti]

Ace of Diamond Act II, baby!  OPM 2, Titan, Stray Dogs, too.  The Fruits Basket reboot will probably be good.  Not seeing much of interest in the new offerings yet, but descriptions are usually inadequate indicators for me.

Either way, it's all good.  If there's not much new to follow, I still have a huge pile of shame in a box I need to dig into.

[jackiemarie90]

People are saying One Punch season 2 might be bad because they switch studios. But I hope not, it's one of my favs and I'm looking forward to it.

[Hidden]

Fruits Basket

Carole & Tuesday - heard about this the other day. this might be the 3rd music anime ill have seen and it sounds super good. seems like a nice change of pace too.

Shoumetsu Toshi

Sarazanmai - ikuhara. enough said.

Hitoribocchi

Joshikausei cause i want to see how nice it looks in color.

 

Maybe:

Fairy Gone is a huge maybe. might not even try it since its another recycled plot. could be at my limit for these types.

Ao-chan - could be mindless fun but depends on how funny it is.

Kono Yo no Hate

Gunjou no Magmel*

Kono Oto Tomare*

Jimoto ga Japan* - when a weeb goes to japan.

RobiHachi*

Yatogame-chan*

[stilgar]

I would say I m the most excited about Kimetsu no Yaiba.

 

Followed closely by Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai.

 

 

 

[QueenoftheDorks]

So far I'm probably gonna watch Fruits Basket and idk what else. I have too much to catch up on.

[scope]

10 hours ago, jackiemarie90 said:

People are saying One Punch season 2 might be bad because they switch studios. But I hope not, it's one of my favs and I'm looking forward to it.

The director of the first season, Shingo Natsume is really good and has a good eye for talent and attention to detail, he co-directed Space Dandy too and he's not directing this season =/ That doesn't necessarily mean Season 2 will be bad though, anime fans are always dramatic and wanna make snap judgements based on trailers with 15 seconds of actual footage, take whatever the hyped seasonal crowd says with a grain of salt, positive or negative.

[Daos]

As long as they properly animate this it will be fine

[Ric]

I'll definitely watch Fruits Basket. 
And probably Bean Bandit, didn't know that's a thing happening.

[Cidz]

for sure fruits basket. idk about the rest havent had a chance to properly go thru the list. 

edit: ok i went thru the list. ah theres quite a few im interested in. i doubt ill end up watching all as airing. i might just wait till some are finished but so far theyre:

• Carole & Tuesday
• Kimetsu no Yaiba
• Shoumetsu Toshi
• Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai
• Senryuu Shoujo
• Hitoribocchi no ○○ Seikatsu
• Sarazanmai
• Mayonaka no Occult Koumuin
• Joshikausei

Edited April 2, 2019 by Cidz
added too many animes dammit lol

[The1gairon]

One Punch JC Staff

Attack on Titan Season 3 Part II

RobiHachi

Carole and Tuesday

Sarazanmai

Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu

[panic]

Other than OPM and the anime about the boy rapping to the beat of his farts, seems pretty bland.

[The1gairon]

9 hours ago, panic said:

the anime about the boy rapping to the beat of his farts

.........

 

...

[QueenoftheDorks]

I think I'm gonna pick up Sarazanmai too. The PV popped up in my YouTube recs last night and from the thumbnail I thought it was some kind of magical boy show and it is, but they turn into kappas.

[The1gairon]

14 hours ago, QueenoftheDorks said:

I think I'm gonna pick up Sarazanmai too. The PV popped up in my YouTube recs last night and from the thumbnail I thought it was some kind of magical boy show and it is, but they turn into kappas.

and the animation is a ton better than I expected!

[mochi]

On 4/6/2019 at 6:29 PM, QueenoftheDorks said:

I think I'm gonna pick up Sarazanmai too. The PV popped up in my YouTube recs last night and from the thumbnail I thought it was some kind of magical boy show and it is, but they turn into kappas.

I'm considering avoiding it

I usually love Ikuhara but there was apparently a pre-screening and I kinda don't think I'm emotionally ready for what the pre-screening viewers have been allowed to leak about what happens in it

[The1gairon]

26 minutes ago, mochi said:

I'm considering avoiding it

I usually love Ikuhara but there was apparently a pre-screening and I kinda don't think I'm emotionally ready for what the pre-screening viewers have been allowed to leak about what happens in it

Are you afraid they're not gonna pull through with the content you want to see?

[QueenoftheDorks]

I mean we have Mamoru Miyano as a shark toothed cop and Yoshimasa Hosoya as his darker haired partner so I'm already on board.

[mochi]

34 minutes ago, elfie said:

Are you afraid they're not gonna pull through with the content you want to see?

slightly

 

Ikuhara does not write anything but Yuri, so I find it exceptionally hard to belive he's writing a Yaoi series without there being some kind of catch

[Chapinator_X]

Everything new I’ve seen so far has been disappointing. I still need to watch We Never Learn and am waiting for Sarazanmai and Carol & Tuesday, but the best shows I’m finding are the on-going ones like Dororo and JoJo.

What The Hell are You Doing Here, Sensei!  was good but it’s also ecchi so that’s the main reason why I would enjoy it.

Edited April 10, 2019 by imchapp.in

[QueenoftheDorks]

This whole season feels really underwhelming for a spring season outside of the sequels. This feels a lot more like a summer/winter type lineup.

[The1gairon]

17 hours ago, QueenoftheDorks said:

This whole season feels really underwhelming for a spring season outside of the sequels. This feels a lot more like a summer/winter type lineup.

Yeah I know! Despite OPM and AoT getting new seasons.

[mochi]

Sarazanmai is amazing

 

Extreme spoilers:

Spoiler

and it's every bit as gay as I expect from an Ikuhara work...or debateably trans maybe?

episode one begins with Kazuki, one of the 3 Kappa boys going on about how he loves the idol girl Sara

and saying he has a "special connection with her"

 

then it cuts to one of the other boys meeting Sara and chasing her down angrily because the selfie she took has a picture of him breaking into a car in it

then he runs into Kazu and they accidentally break a Kappa statue and black out, they wake up the next day acting like Kappas

they return to the broken statue and discover there's now a REAL Kappa there, the third boy joins them at this point, 

the Kapppa procedes to bite their butts and lick their prostates, and then swallow them, later shitting them out as Kappas

he tells them they have to eat the prostates of "Zombies" to become Human again, and then takes them to a giant naked man with pendulous testicles with a cardboard box on his face, the 3 Kappa boys sing a musical number (this series' Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku presumably)

and then join hands and turn into a set of Anal beads and fly into the Giant man's ass, plucking out his prostate, revealing him to be a man who's "hidden secret" is that he's a nudist

the Kappa then tells them to feed him the Man's prostate, so they do, in doing so, Kazu reveals he is a crossdresser.....and the Sara that the other boy chased down the other day, was him, in drag

they then wake up in the alleyway as humans again

 

 

Edited April 11, 2019 by mochi

[The1gairon]

Arrrrrg argargargargarg I'm gonna see it soon but I have a headache and it's cold in here. I gotta prepare....

[mochi]

Just now, elfie said:

Arrrrrg argargargargarg I'm gonna see it soon but I have a headache and it's cold in here. I gotta prepare....

You'll probably love it

[Chapinator_X]

Sarazanmai is definitely anime of the season material. 

[Gina Szanboti]

Although that could well be the origin of the lore, shirikodama aren't prostates, as every human supposedly has one.

There's potential in this series, but I suspect I won't last more than about 5 episodes.  Ikuhara's work since Utena reminds me too much of NisiOisin and Masaaki Yuasa's stuff - too dense and frenetic and exhausting to watch.

[mochi]

15 hours ago, imchapp.in said:

Sarazanmai is definitely anime of the season material. 

and by that I assume you mean "only good anime this year" material

[The1gairon]

... k where did this thing about shirikodama come from? Apparently it's widely known in Japanese folklore, but the Wikipedia article on kappas tells you nothing about it, and I never knew it from any other source!

But yeah, serious contender for anime of the season!

[Chapinator_X]

37 minutes ago, mochi said:

and by that I assume you mean "only good anime this year" material

I’d put Dororo up there with Sarazanmai

[mochi]

1 hour ago, elfie said:

... k where did this thing about shirikodama come from? Apparently it's widely known in Japanese folklore, but the Wikipedia article on kappas tells you nothing about it, and I never knew it from any other source!

But yeah, serious contender for anime of the season!

there's a legend that Kappas reach up your ass pull out your internal organs and eat them

 

from what I gather shirikodama is just Ikuhara adding prostate milking symbolism to that legend

[The1gairon]

14 minutes ago, mochi said:

there's a legend that Kappas reach up your ass pull out your internal organs and eat them

.... still never heard anything like that.  And there was a time i was even into kappas as a concept!

[Gina Szanboti]

3 hours ago, elfie said:

the Wikipedia article on kappas tells you nothing about it

Don't know how you missed it.

"They are sometimes said to take their victims for the purpose of drinking their blood, eating their livers, or gaining power by taking their shirikodama (尻子玉), a mythical ball said to contain the soul, which is located inside the anus.^[12][17][18]"

It was also brought up in episode 9 of GeGeGe no Kitarou (2018), so no, Ikuhara didn't make it up.

The good news is that if they're coming after your shirikodama, you can repel them by farting at them.

[QueenoftheDorks]

I always knew my farts would save my soul.

[stilgar]

21 hours ago, imchapp.in said:

Sarazanmai is definitely anime of the season material. 

I mean, it's not, but ok.

[Chapinator_X]

1 hour ago, stilgar said:

I mean, it's not, but ok.

You can like what you like, but I don't trust your judgment on this one.

[The1gairon]

2 hours ago, imchapp.in said:

You can like what you like, but I don't trust your judgment on this one.

Because clearly he has seen all of the unreleased, likely unfinished episodes.

[Gina Szanboti]

Well, from the previews I saw I didn't think I was going to like Carole & Tuesday, but it looks like it's going to be pretty good after all.  Too bad they didn't get Yoko Kanno on board for the music.  Still, they got Takahiro Sakurai and Hiroshi Kamiya (who are both in Ace of Diamond too!), so I'm a happy camper.

[stilgar]

10 hours ago, elfie said:

Because clearly he has seen all of the unreleased, likely unfinished episodes.

Yes, because I'm the only one here basing my opinion on a show off of one episode. 

[Chapinator_X]

I am jumping the gun, but from a first episode basis, it’s at least the best intro of the season. Kimetsu no Yaiba’s was great, but Sarazanmai’s impressed me the most. 

[panic]

17 hours ago, stilgar said:

I mean, it's not, but ok.

It's no B Rappers Street.

 

[The1gairon]

8 hours ago, stilgar said:

Yes, because I'm the only one here basing my opinion on a show off of one episode. 

Questioning the inspiration of a metaphorical element is NOT judging off of one episode.

[stilgar]

53 minutes ago, elfie said:

Questioning the inspiration of a metaphorical element is NOT judging off of one episode.

Is that what you think you guys are doing?

[mochi]

16 hours ago, stilgar said:

Yes, because I'm the only one here basing my opinion on a show off of one episode. 

I've seen Ikuhara's other works and while they all have mildly sad endings, they're all incredible animes

 

he's nothing if not consistent

you know what you're getting with him

1. gay

2. mindfuck

3. a bitter sweet ending, but with a lean towards sweetness

[The1gairon]

15 hours ago, stilgar said:

Is that what you think you guys are doing?

Yes! I was discussing the kappas, and that I didn't hear beforehand about how they steal you organs!

[DragonSinger]

On 4/13/2019 at 10:17 AM, stilgar said:

Yes, because I'm the only one here basing my opinion on a show off of one episode. 

Dammit, Stilgar. I was gonna watch that show in your sig later when I'm in the mood for something darker, but heads getting used as a kickball is my weakness.

[stilgar]

1 hour ago, elfie said:

Yes! I was discussing the kappas, and that I didn't hear beforehand about how they steal you organs!

What does that have to do with my conversation again?

[Hidden]

am i the only one who fell a lot more in love with carole & tuesday after ep 2? im loving the aesthetic of it all, and the character interactions are pretty fun.

might make a thread for it if im not lazy. lots of nice small things happening in this one.

[scope]

So far Demon Slayer seems like the best of the season for me.