Summer 2015 Anime Season Thread

[Xerlic]

But it ended in a way that it'd be weird they wouldn't do a second season. I don't get it.

That ending basically says if you want to know what happens then buy the LNs. So much anime nowadays is just a glorified advertisement for the source material.

[Scythiroth]

I've mostly converted to just reading manga due to that. It annoys me greatly getting only some of a story animated and maybe ending with some crap anime ending because they don't have enough source material to work with beyond a season or whatever other reason. But yeah, not everything is based off manga and too lazy to read novels/visual novels.

[Avarice]

Charlotte:

[Elcura]

That's fucking great.

Especially the autistic hero and happy ending at all costs (HI CLANNAD).

[Avarice]

I'm more amazed, after seeing this chart, that it was true: Maeda actually put baseball in fucking everything.

[Skai]

When's the next Maeda series? I wanna follow it when it comes out and play that bingo because it's hilarious.

[Avarice]

Just now got around to watching the last Overlord episode. Fucking almost spit my drink at the line below, so completely out of left field, yet in retrospect, not surprising at all.

Spoiler: show

[Gulkeeva]

Just now got around to watching the last Overlord episode. Fucking almost spit my drink at the line below, so completely out of left field, yet in retrospect, not surprising at all.

Spoiler: show

P2Win always wins obviously

[Avarice]

Since it finished airing, I'm quickly running through the whole of Gakkou Gurashi.

Finished it up just now and I really enjoyed it; the last three episodes were really intense and I think they played out well. It'd be nice if it got a second season. My only gripe is that best girl was dead from the very beginning; so salty about that.

[Skai]

Just finished Gakkou Gurashi too and I was not ready for the feels trip. Shovel girl was best imo.

Spoiler: show

So glad she survived.

[Avarice]

Just finished Gakkou Gurashi too and I was not ready for the feels trip. Shovel girl was best imo.

Spoiler: show

So glad she survived.

Yea, I really like Kurumi too. I'm really curious where they'll go from here. I know there's a manga that I'll probably check out, but I'm curious how far it has advanced from where the anime ends. I'd really like more stories following these four as they escapade across the apocalypse-ridden land.

[Avarice]

So I read the available manga chapters and I've noticed some discrepancies, which is normal for an adaption, but there's a pretty big one that worries me.

Spoiler: show

The big thing being, in the anime, while it was open-ended and available to be continued if so-desired and sales of the first season were good, Yuki has regained her senses. That is to say, she's come to terms with Megumi's death and no longer sees hallucinations of her (or anyone else). In the manga, this isn't the case: while yes they "graduated" and left the school in the manga as well, Yuki's condition hasn't improved too much; while she's not quite as delusional as before, she continues to converse with a Megumi who is not really there.

So basically you have a delusion-free Yuki in the anime, versus a still-delusional Yuki in the manga; I'm not sure how they would fix this discrepancy, opr work around it, if they ever were to make a new anime season.

There's also the fact that the magazine that that Gakkou Gurashi is published in is a monthly magazine (versus weekly/bi-weekly), so you're looking at all of twelve chapters per year (for comparison, the current story was about 30 chapters in length, and the manga is up to only Chapter 38, or at least that's all that's currently available for reading).

[Tyrath]

I honestly didn't think they would be doing a season 2 with that ending.

Nor do I really want any more of that lol. The best thing the show had was the 1st episode plot twist and it never quite surpassed that.

[Avarice]

I honestly didn't think they would be doing a season 2 with that ending.

Nor do I really want any more of that lol. The best thing the show had was the 1st episode plot twist and it never quite surpassed that.

Well the manga is trying to expand upon it; it's showing a bit more of how the outbreak has ravaged the city and just how bleak things look.

Spoiler: show

One of the things the anime didn't express that well was just how much of a mental impact the series of events has had on Yuuri; even prior to their graduation and leaving the school, she begins to show signs of breaking down completely. I won't go into too much detail in case you or anyone wants to read it yourselves, but even after leaving the school, a series of interesting and revealing events happens that continue to bring her mental levels into question.

[Odesseiron]

So what was worth watching out of the summer? Gangsta and Overlord? Anything else?

[Tyrath]

Overlord. I can't recommend Gangsta unless they make more. Both of those have more material to do but Gangsta left everything hanging whereas Overlord at least finished the story arc.

[BerenTebogo]

Yeah I still haven't watched the last 2 EP of Gangsta and have no plans to do so unless more is made. Overlord was p. good. GATE was really enjoyable and is continuing.

Baby Steps S2 if you haven't watched is better than anything else that aired in the summer as well by leaps and bounds.

[Tyrath]

Yeah I can't believe I forgot GATE. That was the unexpected hit of the season for me. And theres more to come.

[Odesseiron]

Great, thanks a bunch!

[Not Kuno]

Seconding (thirding?) Overlord and Gate. Overlord was so good I had to read all the light novels afterwards since season 2 is unlikely. It's good shit.