Just out of interest, how many of you are/have been looking forward to this anime which will officially air in two-weeks time? For anyone who doesn't know, Silver Link is involved in this, the character designs were done by the same person who did the K-On! character designs and also the voice actor of Yui from K-On! has the roll of the main protagonist. Earlier today a pre-air half-segment was aired, for those of you who watched it, how did you find it? Personally I was a little disappointed in the art, I was expecting a lot better; but that may be due to my unrealistic expectations as it was the second-most-looked-forward-to anime for me in the upcoming season. (the first being Sword Art Online)



Seeing as this thread doesn't offer much discussion, I thought it could double up as a future discussion thread about the anime series. Anyways, how did you guys find the pre-air segment?

Yeah, this is what I was thinking, if you have a look at all the scans, I would've expected the animation company to have produced a much higher quality anime, something similar to say Hyouka or Fate/Zero. But maybe it'll get better, the mole on nagase's chin is really annoying me though :3

Yeah, that's true, one reason I was looking forward to this anime so much is because I thought it would be similar to K-On! except with guys. Now I'm not that sure, they might as well be girls with a tough build, not sure if romance will develop or not though. The title could also have various meanings too, at first I thought it was going to represent romance or strong mutual feelings on some aspect; but now it could just be about people swapping bodies. Also, it seems like they've decided to incorporate some ecchi into this anime, I can't say that's unexpected because I decided to stall the light novel series, either way, I really hope the series improves as it goes on; it is an interesting series with a lot of potential. For now, I'll just enjoy Accel World, Hyouka and Acchi Kocchi whilst I wait for the Summer animes to start airing :3

Yuru Yuri and similar genres are not really substituents of mainstreams in my opinion, they don't really have a plot yet they're so enjoyable on so many levels. Anyways, I doubt Sword Art Online would be too similar to Accel World even though they follow the same concepts of virtual/gaming and such. Also, unlike Kokoro Connect, I have confidence that the art will be GREAT, its one of the selling points of the light novel series. I really like the character designs, especially Asuna's, in SWO. The unfortunate thing is that I don't see SAO becoming the next Bleach or something as such. Usually anime adaptions of light novels only last a double season at max.

EDIT: Also, I think UTW are colllaborating with some other subbing group for SAO. I'll probably download off them :3