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Spring 2015 Anime First Impressions Chart

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Navizel
Re-Kan - Unfunny and bland.

Arslan Senki - Really dependent on the following episodes. It could go either horribly bad or great enough. For now, it's kind of generic.
blissfulyoshi
Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku: The lead character is much more annoying than she is funny, but I liked the fight scene. My following of this show will rest on how I feel about the mc and the fights later on in this series.
domSaur
Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku - Much like Kancolle and MCActors, i'll prolly still watch this even if it goes bad.. dat Houkago Stride tho.
Scarlet Devil_old_1
Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu: I did not expect this to become an anime, why did this became an anime? I'm having strong mixed feelings about this... spin-off, it just doesn't feel like what one would expect from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (Then again, KyoAni isn't behind this). It just feels like a romantic comedy that's played out, but that's just from first impressions. The biggest problem I'm seeing is that Nagato isn't Nagato, she even wasn't like this in the movie:
She was more shy and nervous in Disappearance and it feels wrong to fans of Nagato (Like myself). I know Haruhi S3 won't be bad! I'll continue to wait for it... It's never coming, isn't it?
[Superstar]_old

Anderson wrote:

[...]The biggest problem I'm seeing is that Nagato isn't Nagato, she even wasn't like this in the movie[...]
It's a critical hit for your heart if you even slightly are a Nagato fan. I don't get what they expected from this spin-off at all. Did they think if they take one really popular character and make a show centered around her where she acts the polar opposite, people will just eat it and like it? I'm pretty sure the majority of the Haruhi fans see it the same way and have bitten their keyboard out of anger during the first episode.
And it is not even the only problem this has. The animations and character design don't look good, the original Haruhi style looked way better in my opinion despite it being a lot older.
If it were at least a bit funny, it would probably be watchable, but not even that occured to me. Not even Kyons remarks could save it at this point.
Long story short, right now this is just a desaster imo.
Green Platinum
I'm curious to see why it's called "The Disappearance of Yuki Nagato" is it just to keep consistency with the Haruhi universe? or is Yuki going to vanish for 7 or so episodes of the plot? If they keep it as a romantic-comedy a lot more than the hearts of Yuki fans are going to be crushed since it's going to defeat the whole purpose and appeal of the Haruhi franchise.
I really wonder if this was thought through
[Superstar]_old

Green Platinum wrote:

[...]I really wonder if this was thought through
I can't comprehend what they thought at all. Just for the sake of making something with the Haruhi characters involved? It should've been pretty obvious that this doesn't turn out well. I didn't confirm this yet but I don't think any true Haruhi fan out there is able to watch this without getting sick.
DahplA
Hello!! Kiniro Mosaic - Good ol' moe slice of life :)
Good for a casual watch.
[ yogurt ]
Arslan Senki: Fantasy. Hell yeah.

Gintama: BASED.

Houkago no Pleiades: These drive shafts are pretty awesome with their motor sound. I like it so far but I expected the Pleiadians to be more... human?

Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku: Surprisingly not what I thought it would be.

Ore Monogatari: Take is such a big good guy. SHE LIKES YOU YOU DUMBASS. My heart can't take it but from different reasons than Plastic Memories.

Triage X: Didn't even finish the first episode. Just no.
Topic Starter
Kyonko Hizara
Houkago no Pleiades: All the magic and the animation was nice and the magic and stuff with stars and all that is relaxing to me.
Green Platinum
Etotama: No expectations whatsoever. Reminds me of Nekogami Yaoyoruzu and we all know how amazingly successful and popular that is. Hopefully the horse-girl is a good miko since the most recent ones have been extremely lacking.
Navizel
Vampire Holmes - So this is what happened to the Nobunaga + some random stuff huh. Please, enough with the weird combinations already.

Takamiya Nasuno Desu - Good job on rivaling Tatami Galaxy's narration speed. Unfortunately, it is not enough to consider your show good. Unfunny Manzai comedy shorts.

Owari no Seraph - Potentially the best of Spring anime. Surprised to see Urobutcher isn't here but rather in some uninteresting anime. A really great start for the series and Hiroyuki Sawano as an icing on the cake.

Gunslinger Stratos - Hi Urobutcher. First half of the series wasted on a silly quarrel between four characters. Uninteresting story and mediocre animation specially during the fighting scenes at the second half.

Kekkai Sensen - Baccano/Durarara atmosphere. Story was rather generic and bland although the animation and music are great. Average-tier so far.
xxdeathx

Green Platinum wrote:

xxdeathx wrote:

the show itself i don't find living up to the standards of chuunibyou, amagi park, etc.
Are you suggesting those are among the best KyoAni shows?
out of the ones I've seen, damn right son

Punchline: the hell did i just watch
[ yogurt ]
Etotama: Why do they turn chibi? Why are battles full CGI? Why don't I have a Nya-tan?

Punchline: I don't know what I watched but I liked it. I hope getting back to the body isn't a main plot point. It probably is, right?
Green Platinum

YOGURTOVSKY wrote:

[Punchline: I don't know what I watched but I liked it. I hope getting back to the body isn't a main plot point. It probably is, right?
It's either he joins the crime fighting group to get it back, or after they help him get it back. I really hope they explain why there are convenient hidden cameras in his room broadcasting live because it would annoy me otherwise.
Topic Starter
Kyonko Hizara
100 posts hype :U

If you care about the chart then check your names. I think I forgot a couple of posts.
[ yogurt ]
Nisekoi:: Chitoge in love is 2cute. Totally adorable. Advanced from being worst to 2nd best.
Navizel
Etotama - Unfunny jokes combined with annoying characters. Meh.

Nisekoi: - a.k.a shitty waifu wars season 2. Still terrible and plotless.

Houkago no Pleiades - The visuals were great but the characters were average. Story is alright though.
[Superstar]_old
Etotama: Cute... Cute... Oh, did I say cute already? Wasn't that funny but I find it okay so far
Houkago no Pleiades: Not so much of an impact, but I'm interested in the story
Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku: Kind of noisy MC and I don't find it funny
Punchline: The more the episode progressed the weirder it became, but I found it really cool. Its again one of those Animes with a totally strange story where you are wondering whats going on.
Urawa no Usagi-chan: Just a 4 minute short one. After Aiura few seasons ago this is only the second short one I'm watching and I decided to because the cover looked nice xD What I got was just 4 Minute of... nothing. Nono, I really mean: Nothing ^^
Green Platinum
Nisekoi looks stagnant as ever with sparkles for everyone.

Shokugeki no Souma: Food porn continues, shouldn't this be the point he identifies he still has much to still learn, he impressed the notorious food critic or is this series going to be him fighting prejudice rather than becoming a master chef?

DanMachi: Why is the goddess so into him? Even with my pixiv feed getting spammed with this show it still hasn't caught my interest.
Hidden-
Hibike! Euphonium: (content is totally biased) as an ex concert band musician, I find the intro to be quite realistic, but from what I've seen yet, this could be going into something great if they don't messed it up!
Denpa Kyoushi: I don't know what to think really, it's really unstable, some part were awesome in my opinion but some of it were really boring and stale, but if they take a great direction, I think this could be good.
Ore Monogatari: Yo, everyone wants a friend like Takeo, holy crap, he's so freaking nice and everything, I love romance anime, so probably being one of the few non-harem romance anime airing this season(with Nagato but I'm currently disappoint with that one), this one win my bet automatically, probably one of my favorite this season.
Kyoukai no Rinne: I'm finding this one quite boring at the moment, I had problem not falling asleep on it, need to see more to make a more concrete decision.
Nisekoi: Does what it has to do, but so little content in that episode, quite disappointing for an opener, considering it was one of the most awaited fan service this season I think.
piruchan
That was a long catch up session.

Plastic Memories - Onion factory.
Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu - Nagato kinda ticks me off. But I'm halfway from converting to Haruiism, so I'll keep this around.
Kekkai Sensen - Promising, but lacks impact.
Nisekoi: - Get ready for the second world waifu war.
Etotama - The story is not really interesting and Nya-tan is annoying. The pretty CG is the only thing about this show. I'm leaning toward dropping this.
Kyoukai no Rinne - I miss this kind of anime. Cool stuff.
Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku - I was expecting D-Frag! level of chaos, and this one seems to be leaning that way.

Still waiting for Digimon Tri.
blissfulyoshi
Ame-iro Cocoa: The Ginga Bishonen is everywhere I tell, everywhere (Sorry, Miyano Mamoru most momorable role to me was the Ginga Bishonen)... Besides that, a not very funny, but at least decent looking ep with a super abrupt ending. Not going to bother checking what happens next.

Etotama: Nya-tan just makes me angry, and the show is so incredibly low budget until you get to the CG fight, which was really well done. I might come and check future CG fights, but that is it.

Houkago no Pleiades: I really wanted Subaru to turn into a car during that transformation scene..... there is enough Subaru advertising. Okay moving on beyond the car jokes, it wasn't a great ep, but it wasn't terrible. There was some great animation and CG, and there was some lackluster stuff. Jokes seem pretty mellow, and storyline just seems to exist. Oh well, I'm not bored, so going to try some more.
Mogsy
Ore Monogatari!! - Holy hell, this is right up my alley. Silly, sugary, sparkly shoujo that's earnest and wears its heart on its sleeve. Hope it keeps it up, it's charming as heck.

Punchline - Uchikoshi isn't known for comedy, and man, here, he really isn't funny. Lavish animation for an unfunny series of jokes, and it's just all kinda lame.

Owari no Seraph - Good production values and a neat concept don't help the paint-by-numbers story execution, but it's certainly entertaining.

EDIT: Last show I'll watch this season outside of Ninja Slayer and maybe Arslan once more episodes have aired to binge:

Kekkai Sensen (Blood Blockade Battlefront) - Rie Matsumoto direction here is on point! She really understands the interesting material at hand, and plays with multiple kinds of intriguing shots that all flow together into a neatly coherent package. The setting is intriguing and we'll see where the story goes from here, but it already feels like a lively, vibrant world despite its grey colour palette (really capturing the actual feeling of NYC here), and it's animated really well. Clear standout winner for me this season, up there with Plastic Memories in terms of best first episode.
Green Platinum
Owari no Seraph ep2: I was seriously expecting more of Van Helsing kind of feel with the protagonist set in their 30's or so. As soon as I saw the highschool scenes and opening theme my expectations really plummeted. Looks like plenty of things I've seen before.

Denpa Kyoushi ep2: I hope the drop the YD thing soon. voice acting is unimpressive. Not to mention I hate these can do anything with no effort characters.
Rio-
I need to catch-up with some Winter 2015 shows that I haven't finished yet some days before today. So Late impressions:
* also probably rip English, sry

OreGairu Zoku - Yanagi Nagi is <3. The Story impressed me quite a lot. But because of a drastic graphic change, I had to get familiar with this new change. So far a good series...

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka - Beside Hestia's (you know), I found this show is good enough to watch and I probably gonna watch this until the end of season (But still man, Kirito's Voice again?)

Owari no Seraph - Why does I feel like that I watch a combination of Tokyo Ghoul and Attack on Titan. Has Good Story and Magnificent Graphics too. So far I love It...

More to come...
DahplA
Nisekoi: - Nothing out of the ordinary so far. Then again it's only one episode. I'll have to wait for more episodes for futher criticism, but so far it's good.

Edit: I forgot to mention, the opening is funny af. Not too mention, a good song.
Green Platinum
I haven't liked this batch of second episodes except for maybe the Fate/Stay Night. UtaPri's was just creepy.

Edit:Calling bs on a middle schooler running with these times unless they are anime metres and anime seconds. I'm just going with assisted by magic.

Also Rap Time lol
Lanturn
Plastic Memories Yes. I got bored/depressed while watching this. I didn't find the characters appealing enough. Not my show.

Kyoukai no Rinne I still feel like this might be worth watching. Definitely not something that stands out, but let's go anyways.

Houkago no Pleiades I'm a sucker for Mahou Shoujo stuff... Though not the most interesting thing, I'll watch one or two more eps before deciding.

Ore Monogatari!! uhh. I have no idea what to say here.

Yamada-kun to Nananin no Majo This is gonna be as much of a roller coaster ride as I was expecting after reading a few chapters of the manga. This one hit me up with a few good laughs. Definitely going to finish this one since I still haven't read the manga that far.
DakeDekaane
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works 2nd Season: Hell yes.
Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation: Okayish stuff, will keep watching because sci-fi.
Hibike! Euphonium: idk, I liked this one.
Kyoukai no Rinne: Kind of refreshing stuff, still not that interesting or good enough, just the average.
Nisekoi:: Not like I'm expecting much from this, first episode already failed me (not enough Tsugumi).
Ore Monogatari!!: Probably the first time I was attached with a shoujo in the first episode, this is so great, hoping it stays the same or better.
Plastic Memories: Cute robot girls.
[Superstar]_old
Nisekoi:: Nope. During the episode I had a flashback of 20 episodes uninteresting and it wasn't any special either. Maybe it is because I can't seem to build up a good connection to the characters. They don't appeal to me at all, and even Chitoge, I liked her at some point during the first season, is sinking for me. In my opinion, this is only enjoyable when you have the one waifu chosen and get overly excited of her screen time.
Ore Monogatari: This is going to be lovely. Like, when I started the episode I didn't have high expectations at all. I got surprised here.
Yamada-kun and the 7 Witches: Hmh, it's alright, although I think I make the big mistake and keep comparising it to Kokoro Connect in my head even though they are different besides the body changing aspect. Isn't bad at all, but need 1 or 2 more episodes to see if it stays at a medium level or if it is actually good.
Armaggedon25
Nisekoi: Biased because based SHAFT and Nao Touyama
Fate UBW Part 2 : Animation's as great as ever. Not completely sure what just happened in this first episode, but the show's still holding up for me. Close to being a green at the moment.
Gunslinger Stratos: As much as I like the premise of the series, the animation is incredibly meh. Something I'll keep looking at for the time being to see if it improves, but the first episode left a strange taste in my mouth.
Hello! Kiniro Mosaic: Enjoyed it as much as the first series, so it's looking pretty good. And again, Nao Touyama.
Houkago no Pleiades: For some reason, the Drive Shafts having motor noises cracked me up way more than they should have. Animation is great, but for a first episode it is fairly confusing. In green territory, but hovering very close to blue.
NicoNicoNiii
Wow I'm a bit late.

Punchline
Dunno what to say about it actually, it has some really experienced voice actors (Watched only to hear Kotobuki Minako) but other staff are a bit inexperienced. Jokes were mostly lame and it doesnt have anything to keep me watch it.

Urawa no Usagi-chan
I like watching shorts on small breaks from games. You dont need to devote too much time and they are usually really simple. This first one was like a pv to an anime, showing the characters and giving a glimpse of what this will evolve to. It didnt have any content whatsoever but its so short that I didnt feel negative about it.

Houkago no Pleiades
At first i was like "Madoka too much?" When it went on it decreased a bit but cant help thinking about madoka while watching this. Also was 3d really necessary on the flying scenes? This season has too much unnecessary 3d :roll: .It's not particularly bad I guess. Car sounds were funny..
Green Platinum
Grisaia no Meikyuu: Drama and then tragedy and then abuse and then incest and then rape and then suicide and then pedophilia and then child soldiers and then and then. The episodes composition was horrible and seemed more preoccupied with with getting the series an adult only rating than making the content enjoyable or interesting to watch.

Yamada-kun and the 7 Witches: I really have trouble grasping how this series could go several episodes down the line. Similar position to Superstar
xxdeathx
Nisekoi S2 - Just as good as I remember it.

The Labyrinth of Grisaia - This special had some real fucked up shit, but it handled everything well. I'm really impressed with the storytelling as they showed everything he had to go through after losing his sister (the best sister

Yamada-kun and the 7 Witches - Wow, so far this is the greatest show I am watching this season. Every bit of it has been really well written and funny. This whole episode kept me laughing.
Green Platinum

xxdeathx wrote:

The Labyrinth of Grisaia - This special had some real fucked up shit, but it handled everything well. I'm really impressed with the storytelling as they showed everything he had to go through after losing his sister (the best sister
Calling you out on this. The episode literally ran like an infant talking about their vacation, plenty of Then this happened, then this happened then this happened, but I guess that that is all you can really do when your protagonist has as much emotional depth as concrete. The director really seems to think you can go "look at this atrocity, now treat us like a grown-up-anime" but really it just seems childish focusing on the event exclusively and ignoring it's implications. It is really 'macabre for kids' or whatever equivalent you want to draw since these events probably wont even mean anything except fanservice to the story that will unfold except maybe the child soldiers bit. Now this "best sister" you claim is completely hilarious as she really is one of the worst anime character archetypes, the "I can do anything amazingly because I am a prodigy or just because" and history shows these characters rarely ever undergo any kind of development and really exist for some kind of power fantasy. From Grisaia no Kajitsu we even know this to be true.
[Superstar]_old
The Labyrinth of Grisaia: I liked it. Was nice to get to know more about Yuuji's past and what he had to go through. Nicely portrayed, and I especially love the relationship he had with his sister. Overall really good content for the 48 minutes this special had. Looking forward to Rakuen.
By the way, the kiss scene was so <3
Lanturn
I enjoyed Grisaia as well. Looking forward to see what else this show will offer.


Also gonna change Yahari ore love comedy to Green
Green Platinum

[Superstar] wrote:

I especially love the relationship he had with his sister.
As heartwarming as a priest and an altar boy.
xxdeathx
I feel kind of sorry that you had no fun with it, since it was clearly the best so far.
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