Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5290

Bittenfeld

I thought they actually did a decent job at ending this. I know it's kind of frustrating since there is so much to come but considering that they ended on a good note and gave a nice idea of the plans coming up next. As an advertisement for the LN it definitely succeeded imho. I think a 2 cour would have been better but oh well, maybe a second season somewhere down the line.

Watched:

- Gangsta. (4/10): Ok, this was a mess. It had a strong start with an intriguing setting but it lost momentum pretty fast and went from good to ok'ish to meh to downright shit in the end. I felt like they didn't know where to go with the story. In the beginning they tried to develop some kind of backround story behind the main characters while serving episodic pieces for the present plot. Then they tried to do...some kind of present plot? Only that it was full of unexplained things until the very end. You never got to know who the enemy really was, what their history was, why they would attack now, connections between characters were hinted at but there was nothing to follow it up, a lot of random events occurred. And then the final episode just ended in the middle of everything. In the end I'm just unable to comprehend what they were trying to achieve with it or what story they wanted to tell.
- Gate (5/10): This got praised all over the place but I found it to be very...pointless. I despised how they gloryfied the army. The setting had a lot of potential but the story went over some pointless events instead and included tons of otaku pandering stuff. So yeah, while the characters were generally likeable gave a nice atmosphere it's highly unlikely that I'm going to watch s2.
- Overlord (6/10): I glad I didn't drop this. The rating is mostly because the first half was so damn slow and downright bad for the most part. But the world building and encounters became much more interesting in the second half. If the was a second season with the same quality as the second half I would definitely be looking forward to it.
- Ushio to Tora (7,5/10): Currently on the verge of being a really good anime for me. I really like the main duo as well as the superficial borrowing of old japanese ghost/demon tales. Now that the episodic stuff seems to be over for the most part, I'm looking forward to what they will do with the story in the second cour.

Watched with a friend via skype:

- Bikini Warriors (1/10): Poor excuse for a hentai short. I must admit that the RPG references were somewhat hilarious though. Quality in writing, animation and just about everything was absolute garbage though.
- Gakkou Gurashi! (7/10): Personal surprise of the season. I didn't really like most of the SoL parts but those that served a purpose in the character development. The horror was really well done imho and it's rare to see that imho. I had this on a 7,5/10 before the last episode and put it down to 7 because I was rather disappointed by the way it played out in the end. Could have been a lot better. Still a very good and unique experience.
- Himouto! Umaru-chan (1/10): Gets an award for being the most annoying show I have ever watched to date. Despite watching this together we both almost couldn't bear it. A horror sister with shit attitude disguised as a cute flawless girl, yeah right. I wished she would just die already every episode. But this wasn't nearly enough to justify the 1. The anime was poorly executed on all ends. The art was ok to extremly lazy, animation was horse shit, it was almost a full slide-show for certain episodes. I also can't comprehend how someone could seriously write a script like that and want to earn money on a serious basis (even more sad is that it apperently works...). Like randomly jumping from event to event (eating, eating more, slide show of shopping, eating again) and then they realise that there are 4 minutes left to fill the episode and just do a recap of ep1 in the end of ep10, which wasn't even relevant in the slightest.
- Jitsu wa Watashi wa (7/10): I usually hate harems but I thought this one was rather well done. It didn't focus too much on the harem aspects and the main duo was pretty obivous for everyone but the couple itself... I also loved the crazy humour, I'm a sucker for that. So in the end I bumped this up to a seven.
- Kuusen Madoushi Kouhosei no Kyoukan (2/10): To be perfectly honest, everything from the characters, their intercation to the story to the animation, art and sound effects was so trashy it was hilarious. We both agreed that this was the most successful choice for our "shit list" as it was so bad neither of us had watched it alone but together we just had sooo much fun. Prediciting cheesy lines, coming up with ridiculous plot points, it was just too good. So this one definitely got a bump for the high entertainment value.
- Makura no Danshi (1/10): Never again. This was creepy as fuck. Like every second guy was watching you asleep before you knew him. I also don't know this show was supposed to heal someone.To me it was rather disturbing how some S&M brothers told me how I would be their slave or how a child tried to flirt with me... I also think that the phrases were done by one guy within an hour with the request to keep it as simple as possible.
- Shimoneta (4/10): Nice idea but poor execution. Characters, especially villains were underdeveloped and it tried to ride on the same jokes again and again - e.g. the student council president, a problem that was never resolved in the end whatsoever. I also don't know why the story ended with ep11 and then they did a random filler as ep12 instead of a wrap-up. All in all there were still enjoyable parts and we had some good laughs while watching it together.

Dropped:

- God Eater
- Ranpo Kitan
- Venus Project