Obligitory Animes Thread

[Animefreak6969]

So i finished marathoning Amagami SS and went straight from that to Hatsukoi Limited.

Before i say anything else Amagami FAR > Hatsukoi

Amagami does something i like a lot and that's the omnibus method of telling it's story. Telling each girls story as it's own gives you a bunch of different styles and situations you normally wouldn't get and i like that. I also think, in terms of Amagami, they showed you that you could very well tell a decent to good love story in only 4 episodes this way while most take the entire 26 for it's single, yet 6 times as interrupted, story. They even did it while introducing the other characters, showing what they are doing around the same time as when they were the main characters and even made it funny, weird and somewhat crazy. They even answered little questions they brought up in one arc later on with another arc.... great stuff.
The only issue i have with this style is you can start to miss the other characters and their set pieces with the main character. Sure you get small chunks of em in every arc but occasionally you miss weird bellybutton kissing that you know wont happen in your tea ceremonies.
But since there's a season 2 and some of the mangas this show is form is still being written we could have quite a bit of Amagami and that would fix that issue.
Mix that with good animation, quality, decent music and all girls being likable, you got me hooked.

Going straight from that to Hatsukoi had a very cool contrast of the same genre, yet both of these shows don't do the standard thing. Hatsukoi was more... generic haremish, more ecchi and such BUT the lack of that single main character was awesome. Instead of one guy you focused on the group as a whole, each character doing their own thing after their own guy/girl. This leads to numerous family crossovers and weird love "shapes" as i put it and it's funny and weird. Most importantly for me though in this show is you get to see what is normally the side characters, both male and female, flow into their own love stories and see them fleshed out more than you ever would with any other show like this. It ended up being an entertaining experience.
The little OVAs for the show were hilarious too.
That being said...... this show had the Toradora animators and one of the Toradora directors so i can see why i may have taken to it more than i should have. The animation quality was Very High as well. But a lot of the girls and some of the guys were just horrible people or stupid.... like most anime harem characters are, and with no main character to focus on you sorta got a bigger spread of just how bad they can be. Taking that and mixing it in with swift apologies and what looked to me as false forgiveness it just becomes annoying. HOWEVER for the most part i liked the show. It left a lot wide open though..... so like Amagami i wish they'd keep going, but doesn't look like it.

But watching them back to back like that was just fun in general. I need to watch season 2 of Amagami at that and start AnoNatsu at some point..... but i have a WHOLE LOTTA shows to catch up on.

Dayum i love me some anime.

Reminds me that Bakuman has the same character designer as Hatsukoi...... must i watch that now too?

 

[Pocky-Yoshi]

Bakuman is good watched the first season.

Amagami? I finished the extra of Miya's arc. Will I throughly enjoyed the whole thing, but some parts of the arcs really leave me meh. As I mentioned earlier, Kaoru(a favorite girl of mine) deserves better. Rihoko was okay. Tsukasa's seemed to be more lackluster in the Amagami plus compared to the one before. But the arcs that kept me happy imho were Ai's, Haruka's, and surprisingly Nakata's.

I'm not sure whose my favorite heroine now, since I watched them all lol.

 

[acefrost]

Just watched the first episode of Kore Wa Zombie Desuka season two. So damn glad they are doing it.

 

[Animefreak6969]

Bakuman is good watched the first season.

Amagami? I finished the extra of Miya's arc. Will I throughly enjoyed the whole thing, but some parts of the arcs really leave me meh. As I mentioned earlier, Kaoru(a favorite girl of mine) deserves better. Rihoko was okay. Tsukasa's seemed to be more lackluster in the Amagami plus compared to the one before. But the arcs that kept me happy imho were Ai's, Haruka's, and surprisingly Nakata's.

I'm not sure whose my favorite heroine now, since I watched them all lol.

Well that's understandable as any show like this would end up having.

The general opinion i've come across is that Ai's was the best arc. Whether she was your favorite or not, from beginning to end and everything in between that arc was good. While my favorite Rihoko was the most mundane arc and nothing happened really.

For me the arcs go a little something like this for how good they were. Ai, Kaoru/Haruka, Sae, Tasukasa, Rihoko.
Ai's was just the best from pacing to situational comedy to Ai herself, so good.
Kaoru's was fun, weird at times, and had a huge heaping pile of seriousness thrown at you half way that the rest really didn't have.
Harukas was easily the most fun because she's easily the most fun character in the show, it was filled with awkward moments, funny jokes and the whole shebang.
Sae's was good but she was annoyingly shy, like i wouldn't have the patience to deal with her at the beginning level of shy and quiet. But the arc itself was ok, fairly funny throughout and had probably the single best moment of the show with the contest.
Tsukasa...... the TWIST to Tsukasa, especially with her being the last one, was awesome. It changes how you viewed her the rest of the arcs too. But because they introduced this, their lack of explanation of her, the actual love story and other character interactions were limited so much it felt incomplete, maybe even rushed so that when anything happened you just didn't feel it. Especially after all the previous really good arcs.
Rihoko..... my favorite..... it was just the most standard, uneventful arc of the series.

With all that being said, i still enjoyed all of them quite a bit. Even the two extra arcs which were funny as all get out. The Rise arc though was dumb for one reason, but i wont go into it....

Anyway the fact that there's another season could help with the unexplained situations from arcs, the averageness of others and fill your void of wanting the rest so this could all be fine.
Not to mention we could even get MORE AND MORE of it. I want One Piece length in my Amagami.

Oh and the little special episodes were funny too, especially Harukas

 

[Tiamat]

So looks like I'll be watching Fate Zero season 2 and Acchi Kocchi this season. Just saw first episode of both. Fate Zero episode 14 was good, and stuff actually happened unlike most episodes in season 1. Wish they would cut down on the CG but what can ya do. Acchi Kocchi is basically just cute overload but I liked it so yeah.