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It's been a while since bones has screwed up a TV scheduling but it's nice to see they're still bones enough to do so.
Summer 2015 Anime
Light Novel Adaptations
Durarara!!x2 Ten - Second half of the popular light novel adaptation’s second season.
GATE: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri - Adapted from a light novel series by an actual honest-to-goodness former defense official, this anime follows the adventures of a young otaku JSDF officer tasked with exploring the other side of a mysterious gate that spews out all sorts of fantastical creatures from other worlds.
Kuusen Maidoushi Kouhosei no Kyoukan - The story of a young man once considered to be the best in his field of insect-monster killing who finds himself in charge of a trio of unruly girls.
Overlord - When a young man with no place in the real world stays logged on as a MMO is shut down he finds himself still able to play in a new, more powerful form. He then resolves to take over this world than only he knows of.
Rokka no Yuusha - A group of prophesized heroes gathers, one larger than prophesized. The group is now forced to weed out the fake whilst also going ahead with their true mission.
Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai - A young man is blackmailed into join an anti-public morals group at his high school in a world where public morals are taken extremely seriously. Is not Syomin Sample, I’m serious, you can check.
Shounen
Aoharu x Kinkanjuu - A manga adaptation about a crossdressing high-school girl who forms a survival games team with a host and an ecchi manga artist.
Chaos Dragon : Sekiryuu Sen’eki - Born from tabletop gaming sessions held by influential figures in the anime industry (including the Urobuchi and the Nasu) this is... Definitely about something. In a world where two countries have waged a war for as long as anybody can remember, when one country loses it’s independence it’s guardian dragon goes mad and then things definitely happen.
Charlotte - In a world where some young people develop powers during puberty, a young guy who uses his powers in secret has his life thrown upside down by a girl who threatens his and the entire world’s way of life.
Classroom☆Crisis - In the future, a Japanese colony on a distant planet hosts a school dedicated to honing the skills of young rocket engineers. When one of their own goes missing, the students decide to rescue their classmate all by themselves.
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 2wei Herz! - An adaptation of the second half of the popular Fate/ series alternate-universe magical girl spinoff manga’s sequel.
GOD EATER - The much anticipated (and often worried about) ufotable adaptation of a giant monster killing series of action RPGs by Bandai Namco by ufotable.
To Love Ru Darkness 2nd - The second season of the popular ecchi battle harem manga adaptation.
Ushio to Tora - A proper anime adaptation of the long-running nineties youkai manga which follows a young boy and his massive youkai friend as they take care of the threat of invading, malevolent youkai.
Seinen
Gangsta. - A manga adaptation about two jacks-of-all-unpleasant-trade in a shady city who find themselves in the middle of a Mafia war when they accept a job from a cop friend of theirs.
Kangoku Gakuen Prison School - When a formerly all-girls school finally begins admitting boys the first five male students find themselves in a new, unexplored and dangerous world.
Monster Musume no Nichijou - In a world where monster girls exist, a young boy is forced into living with one (and then more) to help intergrate her (/them) into society.
Shoujo
Akagami no Shirayuki-hime - The adaptation of a manga about a young fair-skinned woman with red hair who refuses to marry her prince and runs away to a nearby kingdom, where she becomes that kingdom’s medicine woman.
Bishounen
Junjou Romantica 3 - The long awaited third season of the popular boys’ love anime.
Comedy
Gakkou Gurashi! - The story of four girls who find themselves stuck living in school during a zombie apocalypse.
Himouto! Umaru-chan - The story girl who is perfect in every way during school hours who then devolves into a sweets-loving otaku blob at home.
Jitsu wa, Watashi wa - A boy determined to keep his crush’s secret vampire identity a secret, even though he sucks at keeping those.
Sore ga Seiyu! - A manga adaptation featuring the adventures of three young female seiyuu (voice actresses) in the anime industry.
Slice-of-Life
Joukamachi no Dandelion - The exploits of nine super-powered royal family members are broadcast across the nation so the nation can decide which of them is best suited to being their next monarch.
Non Non Biyori Repeat - Second season of the rural school life manga adaptation.
Working!!! - Third season of the popular restaurant work-life manga adaptation.
Idol
The iDOLM@STER : Cinderella Girls 2nd Season - The second half of the popular smartphone card game idol anime.
VENUS PROJECT - Part of a multimedia project, this anime will follow the lives of three girls who participate in the futuristic idol sport of Formula Venus.
Mecha
AQUARION LOGOS - The latest in the (now) mecha franchise follows young people piloting mecha that combine with the forces of emotions in a world where words mean even more than they already do.
Senki Zesshou Symphogear GX - The third season of the joint magical girl anime by Elements Garden and Satelight.
Artsy Stuff
Gatchaman CROWDS Insight - Second season of the modern take on the Gatchaman franchise.
Ranpo Kitan : Game of Laplace - A noitaminA mystery anime inspired by the works of Ranpo Kitan.
Long-Runners
Dragon Ball Chou - An entirely new series that follows Goku’s adventures after the Majin Buu’s demise.
Shorts
Bikini Warriors - In a thing that was bound to happen, a game book series that is even more ecchi than Queen’s Blade was invented. In this series, all adventurers wear armour that is in the shape of bikinis. This will now be animated.
Danchigai - A boy shares a multi-unit apartment with his four sisters.
Kaijuu Sakaba Kanpai! - The monsters of the Ultraman series hang out in a bar and discuss their plans for world domination.
Kurayami Santa - A diminuitive familliar from hell protects the border between hell and Earth.
Makura no Danshi - An anime that gives viewers the experience of sleeping (in the most innocent manner) with various bishounen. Before you pass judgement I direct you once again to the also actually airing Bikini Warriors.
Million Doll - A shut-in who can make any idol popular faces pushback from two popular idols on her new pet project.
Miss Monochrome : The Animation 2 - The second season of this original short anime series based on a character created by Horie Yui sees the android idol continue on her path to stardom.
Okusama ga Seitokaicho! - A young boy is forced into marrying the student body president at his high school due to a promise their inebriated parents made when they were younger.
Q Transformers : Kaettekita Convoy no Nazo 2 - Second season of the Transformers shorts series.
SuzakiNishi The Animation - The latest venture from the two radio show hosting seiyuu involves an anime that tells the story of their (fictional) experience as high school students together.
Tekyuu 5 - The fifth season of the ongoing tennis club short anime.
Wakaba*Girl - An adaptation of a manga by the author of Kin-iro Mosaic involving the adventures of four girls but centered around the slightly-off-centre daughter of a well to do family.
Wakako-Zake - A manga adaptation about a 26 year old office lady who goes out on the town when things at work get out of hand.
Wooser no Sono Higurashi : Mugen-hen - Third season of the manga adaptation that follows Miyano voicing a bear like thing.
I don't know if I should rage at this or be glad that they're taking the time to do this properly.
Anyways, next season has Symphogear and Gatchaman so it's already a winner, even if some of the other shows I plan on watching don't turn out great.
1. I like this song (Fafner's Shangri-La) more than the other song of the same name (Corpse Party's Shangri-La).
2. It appears that she doesn't escape her fate, even in the remake. Hm. Time to dream more of my expy getting revenge.
(version with lyrics and official music video:
I think it worked so well because it was genuinely just a massive episode of AIkatsu! that took "This is when we really say goodbye to Ichigo as our protagonist" to heart. But I also understand why the format of this year's movie will be entirely centered on performances, since it's not a PreCure movie where they can have a standalone series of fight sequences since the episode format of Aikatsu! isn't exactly built for expansion (to make it work there were a lot of threads that came together).
Summer's gonna have me picking up Prison School and Monmusu. I'm kinda dedicated to their manga adaptations, so I'll either be underwhelmed or extremely pleased.
I'm hipster so I'll say that I read Prison School before it was popular. :DDDD It's main selling point is the discrepancy between the really serious (and gorgeous) art style and what's actually going on at that moment. It's hilarious. It's the most well thought out ecchi series that I've read.
For example, instead of having the standard beam of white blocking out the privates of a girl, they'd draw a ridiculously well-drawn Medusa face in its place. The principal, who's one of the most serious looking manga characters out there, spends an entire chapter setting up a very gloomy ceremony for the burning of his pornography.
Though, it's because of the really good art that I think the show will be hard-pressed in matching quality.
Monmusu' on my list because Monster. I've been immersed in the monstergirl world for a while now. Even if it's mindless ecchi, at least it's unique mindless ecchi. :^)
I will say that those
fivethree shows are definitely somewhere in the following list of shows, though -- a list that I threw up because there was some sort of meme on HB about making a list of ten shows you want to watch but haven't yet watched:* Angel Beats
*
Arpeggio of Blue Steel (movie)Akame ga Kill* Atelier Escha & Logy
* Casshern Sins
* Guilty Crown
* Halo Legends
* Heartcatch Pretty Cure
* Solty Rei
* Steins;Gate
* Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero
Now you can pretty safely scratch off Arpeggio of Blue Steel from the list of potential identities of the mystery shows because it doesn't exactly have "episodes". On the other hand, throw in Akame ga Kill, because it actually is something I've already started watching. Alternatively, throw out both that and Yuuki Yuuna because I've actually already listed myself as having seen three and one episode of them, respectively...or maybe they're Mystery Shows C and B respectively? Who knows.
But yeah, the reason for this is because, okay, let's be honest, people have some pretty negative opinions of certain shows on this list. Yes, I'm talking about Guilty Crown, and to a lesser extent Angel Beats and Akame ga Kill. I've found it a little tiring to have my experiences of watching shows very much colored by knowing what other people think of them, which is probably part of the reason I sometimes watch obscure stuff. Though in this case it's a little late for that since, y'know, I already know what people think of Guilty Crown, for example. But maybe it can help a bit to keep people from reminding me of what opinions I "should" have.
On the other hand, though, calling them Mystery Shows for the purpose of keeping a log of my watching for my own future reference (but a log which also publicly visible) has made it very tempting to tease people about what they are. So, yeah, I guess, if you want, I can consider dropping some hints. In fact, I kinda already have, on HB.
And in any case, in what's a very typical result of making a list, I just found myself watching stuff that wasn't on the list a couple nights ago. Was cleaning a computer keyboard, so I started watching random shit, including an episode of Mikagura School Suite, whatever that is.
Also suddenly I feel like watching Spice & Wolf.
I wonder if making a list of anime you're looking forward to that don't have confirmed air dates yet is a thing because I now have one that is over five shows long.
I also started Game of Laplace, which is what I think i've been waiting for Lerche to make ever since I could tell what their style was. I am beyond in love with it.
http://figal-sensei.org/asia212/readings/10saito.pdf
h/t to Iaculus at TV for posting this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=ej0z70xhomm9b7ugbm997emx&page=653#16307
YES YES YES YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
Constantly complaining on the internet does make dreams come true ;-;
now
Accel World 2 when
Truly the Gundam Okada was born to write.
The current local time is half past Cure Marine.
Though actually I say this mostly because of insight, which is a really strong work.
*
Allison & Lillia(this was already scratched out)* Fractale
* Angelic Layer
* Crest/Banner of the Stars
* Fruits Basket
* Last Exile
* Moyashimon
* Spice & Wolf
* Infinite Ryvius
* Nodame Cantabile
* Futari wa Precure
* Taishou Baseball Girls
* Madoka Magica
Time to cross out Fractale, Nodame Cantabile, and Madoka Magica.
So far...
Didn't need the help:
Nanjo Yoshino (Beyond successful recent album release /tries hardest not to say "fripSide-BEST")
Uchida Aya (Funny thing; Nanjo Yoshino's debut album and her second album came out in the same week earlier this year, Yoshino's did slightly better that week and had a massive tail)
Tokui Sora (Though not exactly a sales queen, she's in Milky Holmes and is a Bushiroad music darling as a result)
Mimori Suzuko (Yet more Milky Holmes, and under PonyCan she's been a solo artist longer than any of her fellow μ's)
Doing well:
Iida Riho (One album a few months ago that was "Didn't need help" worthy, even ahead of Tokui Sora, which was pretty great for an apparent re-debut)
Doing well for now:
Nitta Emi (Under Bushiroad Music no less, now that's MC power)
Pile (Successful-ish album release, middling sales sort of)
Ouch:
Kubo Yurika (One album that... erm... good luck with the modelling?)
TBA:
Kusuda Aina (Go Nozomi Go!)
2. I never knew that "eschatology" was pronounced with a "k" sound for the "ch".
3. Escha's tail appears to not be part of her body but actually an accessory attached to her belt. It appears to be an empathically-powered device. Probably another alchemical creation.
4. Interesting, this alchemy practice seems to be a matriarchal tradition. I wonder if the children in this setting take their surnames from their mothers too.
5. If they've been at this for hundreds of years, that's a lot of groundwater they'd have to have pumped into that orchard to keep it going. Either there's a huge reservoir beneath their town or the wasteland just outside it, or it somehow gets recharged (how? I'm not sure). Maybe I could make some basic hydrological guesstimates as to how the water cycle works in this setting if I had a map...
Gladly, the protagonists came up with a much better solution than that.
Also GMH stop making me want to watch it right now ;-;
I really enjoy that while that premise sounds kind of like Uta~Kata it's very much the lighter side of things so it's a lot of cute moments and people being electrocuted with no consequences aside from a visit to the nurse's office. It's also adorable shoujo all the way.
The OP also really reminds me of Uta~Kata's OP, in that it's a more mature voice with a lot of elongated notes (it's performed by the three-person band can/goo, who are apparently sort of still musicians).