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The best stuff this spring is all second seasons.
Not only do we have Hero Academia, but Shingeki no Bahamut S2 is also a thing that's happening. If you haven't already seen S1, you should. Same goes for Uchoten Kazoku S2 and the spinoff for DanMachi.
I'll probably see AoT S2 at some point as well, though it's not something I'm particularly hyped about and I'll probably binge it when it's done rather than keep up week to week. Will also check out Boruto in manga form down the line, but don't care about the anime version.
Zero Kara also looks interesting. It's been getting some good press. Clockwork has some decent buzz surrounding it as well. Will probably give Sakurada Reset an episode or two to catch my attention just because the premise is mildly interesting, if not terribly original.
A couple of decent OVAs. Amanchu is getting one as well as one that goes with the new season of Ao no Exorcist.
Spring movies are meh. The most interesting ones are Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome, which is from the Tatami Galaxy crew, and Yuuki Yuuna. I'm more interested in Yuuki Yuuna when that shows up as a part of the fall season. The 'movies' are just the first half of S2 and will be aired on television broken up into six episodes along with six new episodes making up the latter half of the season.
Not only do we have Hero Academia, but Shingeki no Bahamut S2 is also a thing that's happening. If you haven't already seen S1, you should. Same goes for Uchoten Kazoku S2 and the spinoff for DanMachi.
I'll probably see AoT S2 at some point as well, though it's not something I'm particularly hyped about and I'll probably binge it when it's done rather than keep up week to week. Will also check out Boruto in manga form down the line, but don't care about the anime version.
Zero Kara also looks interesting. It's been getting some good press. Clockwork has some decent buzz surrounding it as well. Will probably give Sakurada Reset an episode or two to catch my attention just because the premise is mildly interesting, if not terribly original.
A couple of decent OVAs. Amanchu is getting one as well as one that goes with the new season of Ao no Exorcist.
Spring movies are meh. The most interesting ones are Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome, which is from the Tatami Galaxy crew, and Yuuki Yuuna. I'm more interested in Yuuki Yuuna when that shows up as a part of the fall season. The 'movies' are just the first half of S2 and will be aired on television broken up into six episodes along with six new episodes making up the latter half of the season.
That's kind of a dumb question...
I've actually heard good things about recent seasons of Yu Gi Oh, particularly the dub.
They supposedly no longer have any fucks to give and the show has somehow become better because of it. It's supposedly near Ghost Stories levels of not caring anymore and just going with it.
I've actually heard good things about recent seasons of Yu Gi Oh, particularly the dub.
They supposedly no longer have any fucks to give and the show has somehow become better because of it. It's supposedly near Ghost Stories levels of not caring anymore and just going with it.
Sword of Oratoria - I sort of hope they cover the first five novels, like they did in DanMachi season 1, mostly because I want to see that junior team up animated.
Post eclipse Berserk S2 - The Klang Returns should be fun.
Attack on Titans S2 - I will watch this for WWE Giants league fights, thought the inbetween interactions can be viewed as the out of fight attention keeping verbal fights between teams. I hope they keep to the partially german opening songs and the decent hype music they had in the first season.
Shingeki no Bahamut - Virgin Soul - I am hoping for another screaming OP and shenanigans between the two fun guys, I don't expect anything else out of it, it can throw it's hillariously good or bad surprises at me for days I will take them in good fun.
Thunderbolt S2 - Now this, this should be good, though they marginalized the awesome escape scene as a few still shots at the ending of the first season >.>. But, they might yet surprise us with that bit of violence out of nowhere, maybe.
For the rest I will just check out some of them to see if they are interesting, if not, I'll just have to rewatch some old stuff for the nth time.
Post eclipse Berserk S2 - The Klang Returns should be fun.
Attack on Titans S2 - I will watch this for WWE Giants league fights, thought the inbetween interactions can be viewed as the out of fight attention keeping verbal fights between teams. I hope they keep to the partially german opening songs and the decent hype music they had in the first season.
Shingeki no Bahamut - Virgin Soul - I am hoping for another screaming OP and shenanigans between the two fun guys, I don't expect anything else out of it, it can throw it's hillariously good or bad surprises at me for days I will take them in good fun.
Thunderbolt S2 - Now this, this should be good, though they marginalized the awesome escape scene as a few still shots at the ending of the first season >.>. But, they might yet surprise us with that bit of violence out of nowhere, maybe.
For the rest I will just check out some of them to see if they are interesting, if not, I'll just have to rewatch some old stuff for the nth time.
Crunchyroll is streaming the Ao Oni: The Animation feature film
That was fast, considering the film just opened in Japanese theaters...
That was fast, considering the film just opened in Japanese theaters...
Sentai Filmworks to release The Big O on Blu-ray in June
School-Live! and Chivalry of a Failed Knight to be released that month as well, with English dubs.
School-Live! and Chivalry of a Failed Knight to be released that month as well, with English dubs.
The Big O?! I loved that show when I was a kid! I can't wait to watch it all again as an adult so I can figure out just what the heck the actual plot was... all I really remember is Japanese Batman with a hilariously sarcastic robot girl sidekick, who piloted a giant robot and always ended up wrecking half the city and pissing off the useless police chief.
Reports indicate Funimation.com may have been data-breached last July.
The compromised information purportedly includes usernames, dates of birth, email addresses, and passwords.
Crunchyroll is adding the Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans dub, as well as Gakuen Alice and A Town Where You Live.
Crunchyroll will add five new dubbed episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans every Tuesday at 10:00 p.m. EST starting on February 28.
The compromised information purportedly includes usernames, dates of birth, email addresses, and passwords.
Crunchyroll is adding the Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans dub, as well as Gakuen Alice and A Town Where You Live.
Crunchyroll will add five new dubbed episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans every Tuesday at 10:00 p.m. EST starting on February 28.
Akame ga Kill! looks to be getting a spin-off sequel manga titled Hinowa ga Yuku!. It's not outright confirmed to be a sequel or set in the same setting, however, the title of the story bears the same thematic design, as it translates into "Hinowa Conquers!", much like how the previous manga translates into "Akame Kills!"
Oh, and it also helps that Akame herself is appearing in it.
This time around Takahiro will be partnering with Strelka as the artist.
Oh, and it also helps that Akame herself is appearing in it.
This time around Takahiro will be partnering with Strelka as the artist.
Define "Proper".
Far as I know, that's exactly what Negima! and its OVAs plus the movie is. While not the best adaption ever, few anime are. It's a decent adaption and does have an ending, even if it isn't the best one. The 2011 movie is the ending for the show and isn't bad considering the manga wasn't complete at the time.
My understanding is that Negima ended the way it did because Akamatsu was protecting himself from getting screwed over by a newly proposed copyright law in Japan. He ended the manga, pulled all his materials from the publisher, and basically gave them the finger on the way out the door.
This probably had an impact on the movie as well.
Akamatsu has actually been quite outspoken in regard to copyright law in Japan, opposing TPP which included "Neighboring Cppyrights" legislation that was basically a massive power grab by Publishers.
I've got a lot of respect for him looking out for fan publications and standing up to the Publishers and Legislation the way he has.
He's probably a fan of Trump for backing out of TPP, because that effectively killed it. Honestly, pretty much single handedly killing TPP is probably the best thing Trump has or will ever do.
Far as I know, that's exactly what Negima! and its OVAs plus the movie is. While not the best adaption ever, few anime are. It's a decent adaption and does have an ending, even if it isn't the best one. The 2011 movie is the ending for the show and isn't bad considering the manga wasn't complete at the time.
My understanding is that Negima ended the way it did because Akamatsu was protecting himself from getting screwed over by a newly proposed copyright law in Japan. He ended the manga, pulled all his materials from the publisher, and basically gave them the finger on the way out the door.
This probably had an impact on the movie as well.
Akamatsu has actually been quite outspoken in regard to copyright law in Japan, opposing TPP which included "Neighboring Cppyrights" legislation that was basically a massive power grab by Publishers.
I've got a lot of respect for him looking out for fan publications and standing up to the Publishers and Legislation the way he has.
He's probably a fan of Trump for backing out of TPP, because that effectively killed it. Honestly, pretty much single handedly killing TPP is probably the best thing Trump has or will ever do.
Proper as in a faithful adaptation of the entire manga in standard episode format, even if the beginning's boring and the ending was weak. I never bothered to watch the anime that it actually gad since I knew it wasn't what I was looking for. I'd had faint hopes that it might get something like the FMA: Brotherhood/HunterxHunter 2011 treatment.
That would make sense considering how the tournament is covered with multiple character arcs, a single cour would be way too short for it.
Hopefully it doesn't end up having 2 separate cours.
On the other hand, some kind of (bad) surprise about a new project based on Toaru author should come up soon. In before it's not Index S3 but something else *again*.
Hopefully it doesn't end up having 2 separate cours.
On the other hand, some kind of (bad) surprise about a new project based on Toaru author should come up soon. In before it's not Index S3 but something else *again*.
