Anime recommendations

[Druzil]

Is Kizumonogatari out (the movie)? Or should I just move on to Monogatari? Having a hard time even finding much on it.  I'm done with Nise/Bake/Neko.

[Hoax]

As far as I know the movie hasn't been released in Japan.

So yes time for Monogatari S2.

[satael]

Akame Ga Kill is a series with a rather different take on the whole fantasy action series for one specific reason (unless the last episode retcons the previous events very drastically)

[Druzil]

Guess I should update with the recommendations that I've watched =)  Thanks for all of them btw, some really good stuff.

Ano Natsu de Matteru - Solid. I like that they wrapped it all up and gave it an ending even though I didn't care too much for the actual ending.  Good watch overall.

Monogatari (et al) - Watched them all back to back, really great.  I love how they pull off the whole main character isn't even in some episodes but the lesser characters still feel like MCs for a few episodes thing.  Really want to see the movie now, so I hope that actually comes out.

Cross Ange - I mean the animation is kinda terrible and it's a bit crude, but the story is pretty interesting and I look forward to the next episodes when they come out.  I do have a sneaking suspicion that this is gonna be a cliff hanger with no real resolution and no next season, but I guess we'll see.  Wish they would do more with the dragons.

Trinity Seven - Eh, I like it.  I mean it's pretty much as advertised magic school harem.

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun - My favorite of the bunch by far.  I love the characters, the animation, the OP, basically amazing overall. 

Mikakunin de Shinkoukei - Not too into this one.  I'm about done with it though and I don't dislike it so I'll watch the last 3 ep.  Didn't catch me though.

Got a bunch more of them in the queue and a few more I'm still looking for.

[satael]

Akame Ga Kill is a series with a rather different take on the whole fantasy action series for one specific reason (unless the last episode retcons the previous events very drastically)

No retcons in the last episode of Akame ga Kill and the resolution was pretty much in the tone of the rest of the series. 

[satael]

Winter 2014/2015 anime chart:
The only thing I'm really looking forward to is Durarara!!x2 but the anime news that made me smile this weekend is Gintama Gets New TV Anime Series in April! (probably my all-time favorite anime) 

[Falconeer]

I am lookimg forward to The Rolling Girls and Kantai Collection. EDIT. Also Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata.

[Rendakor]

DRRR and Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata. Maybe Shinmai Maou no Testament if I need some fanservice in my life.

[PalmTrees]

Looking forward to new seasons of Durara and Aldnoah.

[angry.bob]

This season Assassination Classroom and Death Parade seem watchable. The rest of what I've watched was retreads of the same shit that that I've seen over and over again since the 80's. Assassination Classroom is about some weird yellow tentacled alien/monster that destroyed most of the moon and said he will destroy the earth the same way, but will first give a high school class that he's begun to teach the school year to kill him first. I liked the first two episodes, sort of wacky, hyperviolence stuff. Death Parade is about a bar that people go to after they die and play a bar game while they're judged whether they get reincarnated or cast into the void. There was a one shot earlier called Death Billiards you might have seen.

Virgin Witch Maria might turn out okay, or might turn into jigglecrap. First episode heavily suggests jigglecrap, but the art style was different enough to make it interesting.

Some other show, The Testament of New Sister Devil (?), appears to be jigglecrap and boring enough to not be worth sitting through. Homeless Devil Princess and her loli succubus use mind control to move into a teenage boys house, teenage boy happens to be a member of the Hero Clan Whateverthefuck, forms a master/servant contract with Devil Princess. Of course since it was the succubus magic that made the contract when she disobeys she gets all horny and the hero guy has to relieve her.

Skimmed through Kantai Collection, looked like snoozy moeblob high school shit that's been done a million times before. I'll watch it at length later, but I didn't see more than a couple minutes of combat in the first two episodes. It's like Strike Witches without the aliens, engine leg things, combat, panties, or anything interesting. Or Girls und Panzer without any tanks or tank related elements except random tank parts stuck on them.

Haven't watched Rolling Girls yet though.

[palmer_eldritch]

Not an anime recommendation but this seems like the place to mark the death of Origa, the singer who performed the title tracks of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (ie the first season), GitS: SAC Second Gig and GitS: SAC Solid State Society. She also performed music for other anime and video games, including Final Fantasy XIII-2.

For me, Inner Universe, which is the opening theme song for the first season of Stand Alone Complex, was the perfect song for the show, creating just the right atmosphere. The full-length version of the song became one of the most-played items in my iTunes collection.

I'm not sure if her music was used in the Japanese versions of the show or just for the Western market.

She was 44.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-01-18/ghost-in-the-shell-singer-origa-passes-away/.83416

[satael]

I'm not sure if her music was used in the Japanese versions of the show or just for the Western market.

Inner Universe was written by Yoko Kanno so you can be sure it was also in the Japanese versions.

[satael]

Apart from Gintama nothing really stands out for me this spring. I am kind of hopeful about Lupin III but the chances that it will stand up to the classic episodes is kind of slim (for some reason I didn't like Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna either).

[Rendakor]

I'll probably watch the Haruhi spinoff. Fate/UBW2 too, if I ever get around to watching the first season.

[Teleku]

Not an anime recommendation but this seems like the place to mark the death of Origa, the singer who performed the title tracks of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (ie the first season), GitS: SAC Second Gig and GitS: SAC Solid State Society. She also performed music for other anime and video games, including Final Fantasy XIII-2.

For me, Inner Universe, which is the opening theme song for the first season of Stand Alone Complex, was the perfect song for the show, creating just the right atmosphere. The full-length version of the song became one of the most-played items in my iTunes collection.

I'm not sure if her music was used in the Japanese versions of the show or just for the Western market.

She was 44.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-01-18/ghost-in-the-shell-singer-origa-passes-away/.83416

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!

 

I'm right there with you.  Had that track playing constantly for a time.  She actually did a lot of cool work.  This bums me out way more than I thought something lile this would.  :(  Fucking tragedy at 44....

[Druzil]

So yeah,  Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma.   A battle/food anime where the MC's food is so delicious people clothes explode off when they take a bite.  The first episode was pretty hilarious at least.

Anyone watch anything else interesting on the spring list yet?

[satael]

Gintama is back which is enough to make the spring great for me when it comes to anime. 

[Rendakor]

Denpa Kyoushi is pretty good; it's GTO except the MC is an otaku. I'm also watching the Haruhi spinoff, The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan.

[Raph]

Last time I asked for recommendations here, I got Moribito.

Stuff I like includes Ghibli, Satoshi Kon, Haibane Renmei, Lain, of course Bebop etc... Recent stuff that was acceptable includes Madoka, Your Lie in April (thought this felt overwrought, frankly), Silver Spoon.

Looking at the recent releases, the last six months seems to all suck. Can anyone point me at something I would like?

[Rendakor]

Steins;Gate?

[Lantyssa]

It's a short series, but you might like Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun if you're in the mood for lighter fare.  I'd been out of touch and hadn't realized Ghibili released The Wind Rises a few years ago.  That was also good.

[Raph]

If you didn't know about The Wind Rises, you may have missed Princess Kaguya? It just came out on DVD.

[Chimpy]

Not anime, but related to it. The documentary "The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness" is on Netflix. It's about Ghibli and the making of those two films. Pretty interesting.

[Raph]

I think you need to be a fan, it's relatively slow paced. I mean, slow paced even compared to Ghibli movies. :)

[Ard]

This isn't anime, but if ghibli is your thing, Song of the Sea (and secret of kells)  is definitely along their ball park and just released to video.

[Chimpy]

I think you need to be a fan, it's relatively slow paced. I mean, slow paced even compared to Ghibli movies. :)

I don't think I have ever even seen a Ghibli film, so I wouldn't call myself a fan.  

Of course, I have been on a documentary watching kick lately so the pace I am used to is probably a lit different than your average f13 reader these days.

[Bzalthek]

No, we're all getting old too.  I'm about to order some dentu-grip in bulk.

[Rendakor]

Yuki-chan was great when it was Haruhi-without-Haruhi. Now that they've introduced her I'm afraid she's going to dominate the show, to it's detriment. If I wanted to watch Haruhi boss Kyon around nonstop I'd rewatch the original.

[Fabricated]

For newer shounen manga, My Hero Academia is pretty good. Basically a Japanese shot at a Super Hero Highschool, set about 6-8ish generations after superpowers (called "quirks" in the manga) manifest in something like 90%+ of humanity.

[Druzil]

Started watching Sound! Euphonium which is a SoL/Drama about a high school concert band club.  Not quite Nozaki-kun good but I'm hooked on it.

I need to remember to find Yuki-chan somewhere or the original 

[Rendakor]

If you haven't seen Haruhi, watch that first.

[Pennilenko]

I am not really into slice of life anime, but I gave "Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso" (Your lie in April) a shot. God damn, an anime shouldn't be able to fuck with my emotions like that. That last episode got me in the feels.

I'm not touching another dramatic slice of life show ever again.

[Pennilenko]

Fuckin Angel Beats. I guess I cant help myself.

[Furiously]

Fuckin Angel Beats. I guess I cant help myself.

Yea, that one made me cry.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Fuckin Angel Beats. I guess I cant help myself.

Yea, that one made me cry.

I loved that show.  One of the first I ever watched subbed for a Secret Santa thing a few years ago.