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I had to do some digging to figure out how the OVA, TV series, and moves relate to each other.
Apparently the OVA introduces the characters, setting, and storyline, but is actually separate from the TV series, plot-wise. Still can be useful to watch it first to get to know some of the characters.
There is a trilogy of movies, and a TV series, which apparently tell the same story -- with the TV series basically being the movies broken up into 20-minute episodes with OP and ED added to them. The characters are largely (but not all) the same as in the OVA but the story is different.
Only the TV series has an English dub.
This Season
Last Period ~Owarinaki Rasen no Monogatari~: This show, man, this show. It was great. It was fun, it was clever and it cared. I can't get over how much it actually put it's characters ahead of any comedy or commentary, which made for a much fuller experience.
The hero managed to have a dark side without it ever getting too heavy, Gajeru was allowed to be both the weird idol guy and his own genuine character, and Liza was just... Liza was great, like no questions about it. Choco is probably one of my new favorite characters of the year.
But in terms of favorite characters of all time? That's easy, Iona, she was the. worst. but never so much so that she became full of herself. Her easygoing attitude as she ripped everybody off was the most endearing version of modern capitalism I've ever seen.
The villains were wonderfully effective and all very endearing, and Campanella was really hilarious too (both in her focus episode and outside of it).
The side characters as a whole were brilliant, like, I genuinely just loved seeing them interact with each other and the main characters every week. The characters also traveled the length and breadth of their world, which is one of my favorite sorts of series.
There was so much to love about this show and so much that was done right, I don't think I've enjoyed a comedy this much in a while.
Lostorage conflated WIXOSS: It appears WIXOSS has come to an end... for now. I have to admit, the key visual for this series really put me off. WIXOSS All Stars was not the sequel I had envisioned for my dear Lostorage characters, whether anybody else liked them or not.
The first quarter of the show had it's merits, but it also had a lot of flaws. I'd practically dropped it by episode four, but something kept pulling me back; not least the need to find out how it all ends.
Kiyoi was a good main character; never too hyped up but always ready to take what life threw at her. Suzuko managed to shine in the screentime she was given, and her motivations were in line with how she managed herself as protagonist in inflated, which was a major concern of mine. Declaration; Hanna existed, conclusion? the show was good.
It had it's "moments" (two in particular that come to mind are the demise of the Lostorage series villain and the two episodes that focused on Akira and Remember, which tried to be selector but ended up just being confusing) but it was solid overall. When that final Catharsis came, I cried.
Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu HAPPY KISS!: I want to be mad at this show, because it was terrible, but I can't be and i don't really know why.
It had terrible pacing and zero direction. It outlined it's characters and then left them hanging for barely-there episode plots. The main character was completely useless and his schtick isn't very interesting. Maybe this was how the original LOVE! was, but LOVE! LOVE! upped the game with a plot that really, really spoke to me.
But I won't claim I expected too much, because the show failed to deliver even the most basic things until the very end. I mean, some of the contrivances do suffer from being endearing anime conventions, but I really don't want to excuse them.
The most painful thing is that basically nobody will get any closure, and that it'll probably be successful enough for yet another season I will feel obligated to watch. All I can do is start building up my willpower now.
Long Runners
Aikatsu Friends!: Extremely impressed with the opening of this series. I don't think anything will ever open stronger than Aikatsu Stars!, so I did pare my expectations back a little.
I like the changes they've made to the usual Aikatsu! conventions, like the top idols not attending their school at all. I also like that after the very solo-focused Stars! where units where a rarity, we have a series that manages to balance being a solo idol with a commitment to a unit. Each girl grows as an individual and as part of her Friends unit, and their performances reflect that as well.
I love Aine and her "DONTE KOI" attitude, but Mio as a character really speaks to me. I think everybody has had times when they were unable to fully express themselves, and Mio overcoming her fears and coming out to say what she means when she needs to is an arc that's very enjoyable to watch.
Then there's Maika, who is just literally all the puns (her catchphrase is "Maa ika!" for goodness sakes!) and Ema, who totally has great characteristics but mainly a lacrosse uniform that is literally the best thing of all time.
I really can't wait to see what's next for the new idols of Aidoru Katsudou!
Suddenly it makes sense that Symphogear is the most influential non-kiddie mahou shoujo.
I cannot even describe how excited I am for this. I wonder who they'll get for the vocal theme.
(warning: article contains spoilers for the series)
I like this reviewer's observation that Chain Chronicle doesn't attempt to be "fantasy, but something else". It largely stays within the idea of a classic high fantasy setting, without trying to be a subversion of something or playing off some trope. Even though its one-cour length isn't really able to properly portray its epic scope, one can certainly still feel that scope and appreciate that classic fantasy feel.
Some may call this cliche, but others, such as myself, can appreciate it as a satisfying grandeur.
And none of the approaches in the middle of that are bad either, as long as they're all good.
High Score Girl is really the show about playing video games in a semi-rural area I didn't even know I was looking for.
Dragonar Academy, less so.
(previous thread, now locked) https://www.anime-planet.com/forum/threads/anime-without-a-gay-prota.330592/
that feel when can't get a point across
The way I see it, OP is looking for an anime that is (at least purportedly) realistic, with a male (heterosexual) protagonists who lusts after the female characters, acts on it, is not a pervert, the work revolves around this, and is not porn. It's no wonder that you're all hard-pressed to come up with examples OP would find fitting.
All I can say is that I can count two non-BL anime ever at all with protagonists who self-identify as gay (Sakura Trick and Saiyuuki, neither of which I've seen). I haven't watched more than the first episode of Yuri on ICE!!! but that had Yuri imagining coming home to the girl who worked at the local ice rink but she was already married with three kids so I have no idea what exactly happens after that.
I'd like to believe it portrayed bisexuality with like a hint of sense but a) It was Yuri on ICE!!! ie spent the majority of it's runtime on skating competitions, b) it was an anime and c) it's way too popular to have had depressing scenes of Yuri figuring himself out.
Oh this reminds me Paradise Kiss had a bisexual character and a trans character so that's something.
I'm quite sad because the premise sounds danged fun, and I just wish he could like apologize. Problem is he did... then he backtracked and started posting more trolley stuff.
I don't know why, but lately I've been kind of meh on Planet With. I liked the first episode well enough and the second episode was really good, but the third had a weak first half and then used that as a basis for the rest of the episode. Maybe I'll get over it and it'll get better, but my trigger finger is itching and I'm like this close to dropping it.
you idiots
that's ren karas and you know it
...actually, wait, you probably actually don't know it
Made for a thread on anime-planet.
I have no idea who right down 3 and 4 are.
I should do this sometime.
And I totally want to see yours.
Here's the template.
https://forums.tapas.io/uploads/default/original/3X/0/3/03ffee476247d957ba2a3ac020f69b37461171a6.jpg
Right, then down. It goes Rocket Girls one, Homura, [?????], [?????] and v2 Lumiere.
There are, in fact, four entire Eureka Seven series characters on this.
Homura Akemi, MadoMagi
Wilhelm Schultz, Allison & Lillia
Fuu Hououji, Magic Knight Rayearth
Pfeilspitze (a.k.a. Mercredi), Kiddy Grade (i.e. not Lumière)
as for yours:
one of the main characters in Aikatsu
I-401 "Iona"
that one little girl who keeps on berating her partner for not being elegant enough
?
? (looks like Taiga but cuter)
Chieri
Chieri GirlCharles Beams
?
?
Sorey, the Shepherd (I seriously wonder if the messianic analogy was intentional)
?
some character named "Free Space" apparently
Anemone
Solty Revant
?
from E7 AO?
Ichika Tachibana
from a *monogatari series?
?
i feel like i've seen him but i can't place him
from Magical Girl Raising Project? (or maybe Battle Girl High School)
this looks vaguely like Gilles de Rais from Jeanne d'Arc but I know it isn't
?
actually wait she looks like an E7 character too
I'm quite sure that's neither unless it's fanart drawn rather unlike the source material.
or that one series you keep showing me with not-Homura
Fukai Ao - Eureka Seven AO
Kanzaki Mizuki - Aikatsu!
Iona
Lumiere
Cordelia Clauca - Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
Amatsuka Mao - GJ-bu
Sono Chieri
Charles Beams
Kaishou Rinroku - UN-GO
Art - Hamatora series
Sorey - I'm pretty sure the messianic implications were intended
Sasaki Junya - DREAM FESTIVAL!
Free Space, from the super-obscure short series fRee sPace
Anemone
Solty Revant
Arisugawa Nino - Fukumenkei Noise
Yamato Alexander - KING of PRISM series (I did actually consider putting Pippo from Eureka Seven AO somewhere though)
Tachibana Ichika
Inuzuka Shino - Hakkenden (Does this really look like SHAFT-ed Monogatari art?)
Aizawa Sho - Figure 17
Hashiba - Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace
Koharu - NORN9 Norn+Nonet (that guess is waaaaaaaaay off)
Dantalian - Makai Ouji: devils and realist (this series does also have a Gille de Rais and a Jeanne D'Arc)
Saotome Ako - Aikatsu Stars!
Elena Peoples - Eureka Seven AO
I was 100% sure that was one of the sixty four versions of Lumiere, but I guess I haven't seen Kiddy Grade in forever.
I don't know what series that is but I'm curious about it now.
Yuri "Yurippe" Nakamura, Angel Beats
Ange, Cross Ange
Linca, Atelier Escha & Logy
Yukari Morita, Rocket Girls
Tapris Sugarbell Chisaki, Gabriel DropOut
Alisha Diphda, Tales of Zestiria the X
Nanoha Takamachi, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Homura Akemi, Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Ally Connolly, Element Hunters
Gabriel Tenma White, Gabriel DropOut
Free Space, Free Space
Fate Testarossa, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Wilhelm Schultz, Allison & Lillia
Asuka Langley Soryu, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Laffinty "Lan" Fin E Ld Si, Rinne no Lagrange
Akira Hayami, .hack//
Setsuna Higashi, Fresh Pretty Cure
Fuu Hououji, Magic Knight Rayearth
Chihaya Kisaragi, The iDOLM@STER
Teana Lanster, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
Rei Kuroki, Vividred Operation
Sinon, Sword Art Online II
Pfeilspitze, Kiddy Grade
I have a feeling this is something @fourteenwings is watching
I tend to ignore shows where you can't narrow down the main characters to less than three people.