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I want to see a show that basically just takes this trope but cuts out the boy in the relationship and puts said "girlfriend" in the driver's seat of the plot all around it.
Imagine Asuna being the powerhouse player in SAO. Or Inori being the actual lead in Guilty Crown (while Shu doesn't even show up). Or Julis Riessfeld being the main character in a social/political intrigue story called The Asterisk War.
Perhaps I'm watching shows like these, despite them being not what I want them to be, because they give me the chance to dream about rewriting them the way I want.
Why not wait for the Nogi Wakaba wa Yuusha de Aru anime (which is a thing that will definitely happen one day)?
My thoughts on Fall 2016:
Aikatsu Stars! : This seems to be the serious middley part of the show, and every episode has really been hitting it out of the park. I'm glad.
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku : I love this show so much I can't even.
Lostorage incited WIXOSS : I'll admit, this started in a dull place for me, but once the (human) characters started really weaving in and out of each other and the LRIGs came out in full force, I feel like it became a better show for it. Not just for the suffering, even.
Soushin Shoujo Matoi : Matoi is like... the basic magical girl show about stuff, but it hits all the right notes and that's what makes it fun... for the side characters, I still don't really like Matoi that much.
I don't really find it frustrating, honestly. If anything it gives me an additional way to engage with the story, like, an additional thing I can do with it, beyond simply sitting and "enjoying" it passively.
And I wasn't particularly enamored with YuYuYu's setting so I don't feel a special need to get more of it.
Having weird hair color is just a feature correlated with being a Mystical Waif.
also i guess you have the last laugh because its OP is now stuck in my head
i still don't like its key change from verse to refrain though
Also I think I'm hitting another "set" of anime series -- the trilogy of Asterisk War, Hundred, and Absolute Duo, possibly with a "plus one" of Qualidea Code.
Previous "sets", basically series with a similar theme that I watched around the same time:
Kiddy Grade led me to Stratos 4, which began a set of "girls in space" series, including S4, Rocket Girls, and Sky Girls (despite it not going to space), and later Stellvia. (Strain I only watched later.)
Kiddy Grade also should have been a "gímik" set with Uta~Kata, but I watched Uta~Kata so much later. Instead it's become part of a less formal set of "magical girl series that did something unusual, but didn't follow MadoMagi's lineage", consisting of the more famous Nanoha and Mai-HiME and the lesser-known Uta~Kata and Umi Monogatari.
Then there are the three "shows that I picked up while hanging out with fourteenwings and Naas", which are Lagrange, Symphogear, and AKB0048.
Then there are the three "shows with double letters in their names", which is actually more specific than that, since both shows in it are some sort of darker, post-apocalyptic sci-fi. I say both because I can only remember two of them for some reason -- Arpeggio and Coppelion -- while I've never been able to figure out the third, despite it feeling like a trilogy.
And now there's a "knowingly generic battle school harem" set.
These "sets" are distinctive because I typically end up with each series sorta being its own thing.
None of those shows are post Madoka.
Oh, that guy.
I wonder if he and Reitia's voice actors actually sang the 3rd ED. Though TBH I didn't really enjoy that or the 2nd ED either.
Well, yeah. I mentioned that as why that set didn't include MadoMagi or YuYuYu, or Precure for that matter.
I've been watching Shinsekai yori and [there were lots of words here but I've ripped them out]:
[11:55:00]
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[11:55:02]
[11:55:56]
[11:56:05]
[11:56:14]
[11:56:27]
This isn't going to be a list of all my favorites, but just a cross-section of the stuff I really enjoyed and the stuff I thought deserved more attention than it got that I also happened to enjoy.
1. I keep on being left with more questions than answers. (In a good way.)
2. Well, that sounded like the La-Mulana "Mr. Explorer" mix / techno remix of the Endless Song, thrown in with something else. I should not be surprised because I already know it happened in Symphogear, albeit the two songs weren't layered together officially.
I might have been more forgiving if this was made sooner, because 2006 also brought us Eureka Seven and even though that would have appeared at first glance to play into all the stereotypes it made teenage Eureka acting a mother and a mecha pilot work to a ridiculous degree.
Then there's the fact that as an adaptation it's kind of just mediocre, Shinji is even more the worst than usual and then there's Shirou just believing whatever nonsense Shinji says because he's an idiot.
Also Taiga just needs to stop talking.
I'd thought of watching it.
I guess I might as well take it back off my to-watch list.
I added it to my to-watch list hearing that Saber is a great character.
I wonder if I should drop it again.
The UBW anime was really good though.
I'd totally watch this if this weren't also the plot of Shinsekai yori (and for some reason it reminds me of Gargantia too).
For 45 minutes obviously there was not really any character development, but everybody really played their roles in the story in an amazing way and everybody got their moment to shine (particularly the clever gambit the possessed fiance pulls at the end and how that turns out). I was sort of confused as to how the two protagonists never meet during the OVA, but I really liked how that turned out in the end.
But seriously though, for something that randomly came up on MAL yesterday I didn't expect it to be that great.
Faith in animu restored.
And it's even one that's just got a 5.89 on MAL. That means I have to watch it.You just convinced me to add both it and its manga to my plan-to-whatever lists.
Actually Pretty Good, in my opinion.
Started off comparing it to Hundred far too often. Well, they certainly diverged. I'd say this was noticeably more satisfying.