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Spring 2016 Anime First Impressions

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blissfulyoshi
Well like always, here is the general thread to share your impressions about the early episodes of the season. However, since I'm really not in the mood this season, I am not making gdocs or charts. If anyone wants to take over for that stuff, I'm more than willing to share what I have on the back end so you can copy. Personally, I wanted to make some changes to make the charts show more interesting information, but never fully worked that out in my head. Whether or not I'll make charts next season is yet to be decided.
xxdeathx
Asterisk War - not enough kirin 0/10, also i don't anticipate that many people trying to map the new opening. the battle was fun though.

My Hero Academia! Up to you! - Feels like One Punch Man except that the main character's situation is kinda the opposite. I feel like I've seen movies before with an almost identical premise so I guess it's up to this one to prove itself.

Girl meets Love Bear - pedobear xd
actually turned out to be quite funny and entertaining. Machi is moe which is a plus and there were some lewd jokes at the end.
Lanturn
Oh right... I should actually try and watch some of these this season.

SPOILER
Uma Musume: It has a little of everything. Two sports (Horse Racing and Ice Skating) Idols, Slice of Life, and loads of comedy. Definitely going to be the best anime this season. Definitely a little strange seeing girls with horse features (ears/tail) instead of like Centorea from monster musume.

Macross Delta: so uh... how to explain this. It has every single trope and cliche you can think of. But the music, especially the last song was pretty good. The fight scenes were also not bad.

Ace Attorney: did a surprisingly good job of adapting the game. It has all the Humor as well, and so on. It is an exact copy of the game, so if you've played it, you'l know what to expect.

Brotherhood Final Fantasy: more video game animes. This was alright as an introduction, and it'll kill time before the game comes out.

More to come....
xxdeathx
Re:Zero asdfasdfsadf - fck I accidentally watched the second part first and now I"m stuck finishing part 1 when I should be asleep rip

actually it's really fun so far and I love hearing Megumin's voice in Satella. really brings out the explosive nature of the part 2.
Athrun
Ace Attorney: Considering how I love the games, i'm pretty hyped!

Gakusen Toshi Asterisk Season 2: Interesting, I hope they will go a bit further :3333333
Navizel
I've only seen Diamond is not Crash and it's already my AOTY. I recommend watching it in 240p Duwang subs.
Kyonko Hizara
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable: Not gonna lie, my view on this is definitely bias for loving the anime so far and being a fan of the series in general. Part 3 was over 70 episodes and did cover the original content very well, however part 4 is longer so I hope that they do not decide to cut out anything since one of the smaller characters arcs in particular is my favorite. It's Yukako btw

Ace Attorney: Considering it is adapted from a game, the job was done quite well. The character dialogue was also presented better than I expected it to be.

Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2: Kinda just watching this out of obligation for finishing the last season. I heard there is something interesting that is coming up so probably I will keep watching for that.

Macross Delta: Forever I will be a sucker for the singing in the Macross series. However what is putting this as neutral for me is that the characters do not seem that interesting.

Kuma Miko: Cute and funny without being annoying.
Lanturn
Sailor Moon Crystal S3: They completely ditched the CG transformation scenes so a big thumbs up from me. It definitely seems like an improvement from the previous seasons as they definitely feel more life-like this time.

Kuma Miko: what xxdeathx said. It was actually pretty good!

That feeling that we might actually be getting a good season after Fall and Winters fails.

The motorcycle one: Fell asleep, couldn't make it past 15 mins. Boring imo.

Hundred: Seasonal Battle School with magic powers anime. I fell asleep on this one as well :(
Justykanna
Was actually gonna throw you a message to see if you were gonna create a thread, Blissfulyoshi.

Plan to check out a few anime this season and will post here when I'm done. =)
chaee
shit shit shit shit shit shit
-Atri-
Mayoiga : i can't tell is it good or not, maybe i should wait for next episode...

The asterisk war: less loli scenes, but still exciting to watch
xxdeathx
💯 - ❌ ❌❌ ❌❌ ❌👎👎 👎 🚫 👎
-Atri-
Phoenix wright: tbh, it's slightly interesting, just i never played the game
a1l2d3r4e5d6
Mayoiga - Pretty basic start. The character design reminded me of the KanColle anime. (much to my surprise, it's the same person who did do the KanColle anime character design.) Not sure where this is heading. I am expecting something decent since it's the same director who directed some of the anime that I enjoyed, (Girls und Panzer, Prison School, Shirobako...) Only the story will tell.

Kagewani: Shou - A continuation to the shorts that I watched a few seasons back. Moar monsters, moar of the same 'animation' style. Will it keep me interested for another 12 episodes? I don't know.

Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd season. - I'll just treat this the same as how I did with the first season, since it is a 24 episode adaptation split into two separate cours. I get to see more of the tournament, so that's good.

Terra Formars Revenge - Hmm, more or less a different team in charge of the sequel. The last one kinda left a close to negative impression on me, so I'm eager to see if this one is any better.

Boku no Hero Academia - I'm coming at this blindly without prior knowledge from the manga. So far, it's captured my attention, so I'll keep it. :v

Pan de Peace! - I'm always up for any 4-koma adaptations, but this seems like it's not for me. I can take it atm, but only because an episode is 3 minutes. The original creator seems more versed in the art of Hentai.

Kuma Miko - Seinen and Comedy. This is bound to make me laugh, and it did. "Sexual harassment" "Don't touch me!", little girl.
A high-climber in my current list, that's for sure. It did set a high bar at the start, imo. I wonder if it can keep up with itself. I don't want it to be another Plastic Memories. :c
lol

chaee wrote:

shit shit shit shit shit shit
ignore chaee she's being edgy considering she hasn't watched a single episode yet
Meah
Hundred I only like this one. Resembles IS and Emile waifu material
xxdeathx
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney - it would've been more fun if I ignored how ridiculous the burden was on the lawyer to prove that the clock was 2 hours behind at the time of the murder in order to disprove the witness's testimony, despite already having poked some huge holes in it. It's almost like if he couldn't answer that last bit they'd still believe the witness and rule guilty. Hope they do more realistic cases.
piruchan
Kuma Miko - TALKING BEAR. SEXUAL HARASSMENT. DON'T TOUCH ME.
Ace Attorney - Boring. This episode feels like unrolling a blank piece of paper.
Joker Game - Well, the ending got me interested. Probably going to be good.
Mayoiga - Some of the cast should just die. This line shows exactly how I feel about the show.
a1l2d3r4e5d6
Bakuon!! - My initial thought was "OMG K-ON!, but with motorcycles." Airhead main character with a little sister, someone had Mugi eyebrows. I was convinced. Talking bike. It made me 'laugh in a bad way' with the random boob grab moments.I get the feeling that some real world companies had a hand in making this, after seeing both a Simpson and a cou le of Arai helmets. Also, The Stig's motorcycle neice. xD

Hundred - The start of the OP made me cringe. Some scenes had high animation details, which is nice, but I just wish that they could keep it up throughout the rest of the series. Typical OP protagonist behaviour, it seems, and a hospitalised littlesister(who looks like Ayu, nano-desu) to boot.
Not sure if it's the fansub, but "Holler if you can hear us," "I'm going to ride you hard"? So many of the seasonal clichés popping up. I can see this become really tiring for me to try to finish.

Joker Game - Definitely left me begging for more. Kept me interested throughout the first episode.
xxdeathx
Twin Star Exorcists - Feels like a typical shounen anime, not good not bad, maybe a tad cliche.
Lanturn
twin star exo: it was alright, not my style really, but I did like that ending theme... and the dubstep that played during that middle fight.

Cerberus: animation was pretty bad, and I didn't really care for any of the characters.

hero academy: eh. could be good... was alright.

Bishoujo Yuugi Unit Crane Game Girls: AOTS! On Bikini Warriors level of amazing! (minus anything ecchi)
Yohanes
Bakuon!! Boring. it filled by pretty heavy jokes, totally didn't expect that. Also, this show is more like a series of commercial lol

Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd Season resuming what first cour left off, I won't expect too much from this show. Actually, the girls are the only reason why I still watching this

Hundred your seasonal harem/ecchi anime, I don't even know why I'm still watching this

Kuma Miko I originally thought that this anime would be boring and plain. My opinion changed after Machi shows up. She is soooo cuteeee, If I'm the bear I would totally d.............

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Definitelythe one to watch this season. Hopefully it continue to get even better in the next 24 episodes

Seisen Cerberus: Ryuukoku no Fatalités man, it's awful
a1l2d3r4e5d6
Seisen Cerberus - Somewhat reminds me of a game that I play. ('protagonist bound to a dragon in a way' story) It hasn't really captured me in the first 20 minutes. The main character makes me want to punch his face with all that "I'm great, lel" attitude.

Onigiri - I have no idea what happened in the 3 minutes I was shown. Opening was filled with terrible jiggle-physics and it felt too fast for something too short. I blinked once and I missed quite a few parts.

Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV - Yay! More FFXV stuff. Complemented my experience with the exclusive demo that was bundled with FF Type-0 PS4 day one edition. Added a bit to the backstory, I suppose, that the aforementioned demo picked up on. It wasn't really that remarkable. The fight scene was decent. I guess this is just more fuel for the hype train. Director's the one who directed Hitsugi no Chaika, eh? Noct with Chaika face maybe..?
Justykanna
Endride: I really thought I'd be interested in this one but I was pretty bored throughout the entire thing. Boy falls into new world, which is what he imagined, with powers and doesn't know how to use them. He also goes out of his way to be as annoying about this as possible too. It looks alright, but I can just see this dragging on in a tale of exploring for one guy and revenge for the other. So I'm dropping this one.

Hundred: Infinite Stratos 3.0? I've been interested in this sorta thing for a while and this looks promising. It's reasonably pretty and the main character isn't even one of those annoying types... yet. The designs of the first few suits are pretty cool and they even have classifications. OP song was nice too. Doesn't really feel like there's a real story other than the whole "going to school to learn" but if this even close to what Infinite Stratos (Season 1) was, at it's best, then it's a keeper. Emile's a bit of an oddball... I don't even know how to describe him. I feel like he's one I'll either strongly like or dislike. We'll see how this shapes out, I'm looking forward to this one though.

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: There's a lot to like here. It looks really nice and music sounds really good so far. I'm really curious how this story will go and that's probably my only worry with how this could go in twelve episodes. Feels like an Attack on Titan type thing with zombies so it's a bit of a repeat of a different series. I'll be watching this one for sure.

Kuromukuro: I'm very cautiously optimistic about this one. The show started off as boring as I've ever seen but the second half was fantastic with some really awesome music to add. It looks fantastic and if the focus on this one is sword-play, which is what I'm seeing, this could be a nice change from the normal "guns" thing we see in so many other mecha shows. Where am I worried then? It's the story. Yukina doesn't seem like anything special and she could very well turn out to be some clueless teenager that magically grows in a short time. That or she could be another annoying main character. Lots of thoughts on this one. Let's see where it goes.

Twin Star Exorcists: I struggled to get through this. Not one, but both main characters seem really annoying to me. The enemies look really bland and the colouring of the "other world" looks so weird in relation to everything else. Not continuing with this one.
Lanturn
Anne Happy Cute, and funny at times. Worth a watch if you like those all female cast shows.
Pawsu
Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu: Really confused so far, and it seems to have a similar plot like many other animes, but I have hopes it gets better. My opinion is so-so right now. Also the one girl is cute so I set her as my avatar =w=
xxdeathx
And you thought there is never a girl online? - I've missed those anime adaptations of LN series with ridiculously long titles where the characters are part of some group/club and every episode is about them going out and doing fun stuff without much a plot, so this kinda brings back the nostalgia of Oreimo, Saekano, Haganai, and other similar shows. Really been hyping this one since I heard it got an anime 3 months ago, and it's as good as I had hoped. Although judging by the summary, I didn't expect everyone else in his guild to be female irl, only the main one Ako.

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress - zombie shows are scary as hell, but damn this one had me hooked from start to finish. unfortunately I feel like the next few episodes probably won't be as intense as this one.

Anne Happy - Don't like it. All of the characters except Ruri really annoy me, and she's just generic too. Wait she fell in love with a construction sign...what...
BigEarsMau
My Hero Academia - So far, the only anime I hyped for this season. Watched the first episode during the night and loved it instantly. The art style is beautiful, the animation is fluid, most of the comedy are pretty funny, the voice actors matches perfectly with the characters (Bakugou's voice is so badass, and the fact that his VA also voices Genos from OPM and Niizuma from Bakuman), and ass-quaintance (>ω^). I also liked Porno Graffiti's OP I hope it get mapped. Brian the Sun's ED is ok I guess. Can't wait for episode 2 and hopefully Ochako is in it cuz she is best girl pls don't fight on me. 9/10

Onigiri - I kinda interested with the game, so I'm planning to watch this one

Twin Star Exorcists - Looks interesting. Also planning to watch it
a1l2d3r4e5d6
12-sai.: Chicchana Mune no Tokimeki - Oh, an adaptation of an adaptation short that I watched a while ago. Episode 1 is more or less just a refresher for me. It's like some of those shoujo romance anime that I enjoyed watching, but set in a younger setting (i.e. In elementary school instead of the high school and college setting that I've seen.). Pretty standard stuff. Expecting some of the things that I've seen in other shoujo-romance stories. (e.g. that one bitch girl who likes the main hero and detests the main heroine for being close to he hero, etc.)
I think I'll enjoy guessing the voices in this one. :v

Sousei no Omnyouji - Ermahegrd! Wagakki Band for theme song performances! o: It got me interested for long enough. Animation seem consistent, but lackluster. I'll keep it rolling.

Unhappy♪/Anne Happy♪/Unhappy Go Lucky!/♪♪♪/Whatever-ppy♪ - Moeblob anime? It entertains by using misfortune, it seems. I'm expecting a few chuckles as it's the director of Baka to Test leading the team. A few moments and some visual aspects have already reminded me of the aforementioned anime. :p

Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja nai to Omotta? - lol, a wallet warrior. xD Not really expecting anything out of this. It's a matter of whether I can take it or not. Another video game setting story to my collection. It seemed promising - a band of friends playing a common mmo.
It was going so nice for me, until they met in real life. Harem tagged!
Ako's irl appearance looks so nice! If only she wasn't that busty. :/ Mistook the theme song at the end for a ClariS song...
Well, it's not annoyed me so far. I've grown tired of shows like this. It doesn't seem hard to consume for me, as it stands now.
Navizel
Pan de Peace - it's ok

Mayoiga - Spraying shit with perfume won't make it smell good. The only likable one is the driver. The rest are so edgy. Starting a new life my ass.

Bakuon - horrible and boring and basically nothing happens.

Space Patrol Luluco - Another shit

Boku no Hero Academia - I like the ass girl. I think that's it so far.

Bungou Stray Dogs - It's alright. Nothing special so far. I'll probably drop it just like Noragami and Kekkai Sensen but whatever
xxdeathx
Sakamoto desu ga - not my cup of tea at all....
a1l2d3r4e5d6
Koutetsujou no Kabaneri - Why did I decide to watch this? Oh right, EGOIST. It's like a re-skinned Shingeki no Kyojin. I was hoping that I at least never hear Eren's voice in this, but I was quickly disappointed.

Kuromukuro - Not breaking my trend of watching every P.A. Works' produced series. I'm not really a fan of mecha. I'll keep it around and see where it leads.
Kyonko Hizara
Kuromukuro: I'm going to give this one a couple more episodes because I am not sure yet what to think of it. So far for a mech anime it doesn't seem to be as poorly executed as most of the genre, but I wouldn't be surprised if that falls off quickly.

Koutetsujou no Kabaneri: I watched maybe 5 minutes of this before I lost interest completely.
DakeDekaane
Ace Attorney/Gyakuten Saiban: PV looked quite promising compare with what we got in the real deal. Some awkward CGI being thrown randomly. Animation looked choppy sometimes, too. That'd be my complains about this. It's going through the good way though.

My Hero Academia: The animation here is really good. Introduces the world in a proper way to understand what happens. Goofy but strong-willed MC. I haven't read the manga, so I hope there's a good development.

Mayoiga: Bus driver best character. Nothing interesting, nothing really bad, just an average show.

Terra Formars Revenge: Our favourite bugmen can glow now, cool.

Kyoukai no Rinne: Cool OP and ED songs. I somewhat liked the first season, so I'll stick with this too.

Bungo Stray Dogs: For a moment I thought this was going to be a serious thing, but comedy gives it some kind of refreshing air. The animation also looks really good.

Sakamoto desu ga?: This is probably one of the most random shows I've watched. Could've worked better as a short anime, I don't know.
xxdeathx
Haifuri - I was pretty hyped for this one cause the visuals and lineup looked good. For most of the episode I thought it felt too much like Kancolle (which wasn't really good), but maybe the ending might change that.

Flying Witch - Boring as hell and the characters look like they're from shoujo anime

Kiznaiver - Too dark, edgy, and uninteresting. I thought this was supposed to be a hype show so I found it rather underwhelming.
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