Summer Anime Season 2016 Thread

[Deftscythe]

Steven Universe Mindful Education

Pretty dark episode. I did like Steven and Connie are fighting their demons. I am glad they finally touched on Steven conflict on what his mother did to Jasper, Bismuth and him to Ruby in Earthling episode. The Takafumi Hori animated scenes were impressive(Style of the show) but no were near his top work and doesn't hold a candle to The Amazing World of Gumball Anime scene.

I'm really interested to see where things go with Steven's feelings about his mother. It seems he's starting to understand that the Gems and Greg's memories about her are being seen through... Rose-colored glasses. (I couldn't stop myself.)

[Olo401]

In the last week or so I've binge watched both Re:Zero and Mob Psycho 100 after initially thinking both were not animes I would enjoy. I enjoyed them. Quite a bit.

Are there any other notable series I'm stupidly avoiding but should watch?

From this season? Here's what I'm still watching (ignore the older stuff in the list heh).

[Elcura]

Kono Bijitsubu is a nice comedy series about art and generally hits above the mark (kinda feels like Working!!).

Love Live Sunshine is surprisingly well animated and has a good cast of characters, but it's an idol show (character focused) so take that as you will.

Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu is surprisingly funny for a 5 min short

Orange is a good drama if you can get over how timid and frigid the main girl is, because everyone else makes up for it.

Saiki Kusuo is probably the funniest thing I've seen this season (and for a few seasons honestly). It airs weirdly though, so I haven't seen all the episodes but what I have seen is hilarious.

91 Days just because the setting is good and the story is fun, prohibition mob anime what the fuck? Boardwalk Empire the anime? Greatness.

Tales of Zestiria because dat animation, Thunderbolt Fantasy because dat puppetry (story is so chinese though, if you like Storm Warriors it kinda feels like that).

Amanchu is cute but that's about it, Amaama to Inazuma is also cute, but a little more touching because single dad taking care of kid. Mostly about food though, and I suppose you could actually learn something about cooking...maybe.

Those are mostly to check out later, except for 91 Days and Kono Bijitsubu

[Ker]

KINGSGLAIVE Final Fantasy XV

I cannot say if the movie is good or not, but I see the movie as the story opening for the game. So if you want to play FFXV, you must watch the movie, so you can understand the big picture. The voice acting is mix bag (average to bad). I can see the lip-sync issues, and editing is pretty bad, but the visuals are fantastic, especially in the final act, and the scenes are well realized that it doesn't detract too much, but I would be surprised if you have a difficult time following the story.

[Vaspinne]

I appreciate the recommendations Olo and Elcura. I've checked out a few of those shows already and some I'm watching every week. But I'll have to give some of the others a shot.

For Tales of Zestiria, I played the game and figured the anime would just be a rehash. Is it more or less the same plot line? Or does it differ enough to warrant watching the series too?

[Elcura]

Aside from the Tales of Berseria episodes nothing the show does for Zestiria should be surprising. The start goes into Alisha a bit and the fights/conflicts are remixed a bit but overall it seems mostly for people who haven't played the game.

The Berseria stuff is interesting and new, but I'm mostly in it for the animation which they do well on. Though I don't remember the last time I saw a hand drawn dragon lol

[Olo401]

I'm assuming the next ep preview scenes is a sample of the game's animation style. If so, the entire series is an incredibly well animated treat if you've played the game. That's ufotable for ya.

[Ker]

mob psycho 100 Ep 8

Absolutely unreal. The dynamism to the action is just completely off the charts.





The God of Action Yutaka Nakamura did this cut and just gave a middle finger to anyone who is copying his impact shots(it turns into a universe shot then to his famous Cubes and an explosion*is also an impact shot*).
https://sakuga.yshi.org/post/show/25...-effects-explo

[Drai]

I started watching Re:Zero last night and am enjoying it quite a lot so far, Without going too into spoilers if anyone is familiar with the source material for it, does it seem like this season will wrap up the story or will there likely require multiple seasons of the anime to complete, I tried to read the chapters of the manga but all I could find was up to chapter 16 translated which is about up to episode 10 of the anime, for referance i've watched up to episode 12 and will likely be caught up by tonight or tomorrow.

The reason I ask is because I keep choosing to watch shows like this, or Hatarakou maou sama, or no game no life, or overlord, which has a lot of source material but haven't seemed to be renewed for second seasons yet, and i'm hoping this series won't be a repeat of those T-T

[Cream Soda]

Not gonna wrap up. There's 2-3 eps left this season and they're on arc 3 out of 6 in the source material at the moment?

[Drai]

Not gonna wrap up. There's 2-3 eps left this season and they're on arc 3 out of 6 in the source material at the moment?

Ahhh ok, thanks for the reply, hopefully they get greenlit for another season to finish it off, those three other series I mentioned left me wanting more, so hopefully it doesn't end up doing the same thing :D

[dasva]

There's an Overlord Ova coming out this season I think?

[DrClout]

Yes

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[Ker]

Thunderbolt Fantasy Ep 9

Jesus....everyone is such an asshole and the serial killer turns out to be the more honest and trustworthy characters in the show(I wish he didn't die but that's Gen Urobuchi for you). also pretty clever that Sheng's was using a blunt sword this whole time and I can't wait for him dish out some payback the asshole thief that played him this whole time.


^
Die you asshole.


^
You will be missed.

[Olo401]

Heh they played that up well too, from the very first episode. I'm not sure whose sword was more dulled - Sheng's or Guts' at the beginning of Berserk.

[Ker]

Re: Zero Ep 23

that ending was great I didn't see it coming. With only 2 episodes left it will be interesting to see how they end this.

[Vaspinne]

It definitely came out of no where lol. I can't see them going through every single event in full detail again, so it'll be interesting how they finish

[Gokulo]

Was that really so unexpected? I thought they've been hinting at this with the Gospel so I wasn't that surprised

[Ker]

The Amazing World of Gumball The Rerun(Part 2)

Amazing episode. I really hope we get more 2 part episodes in the future.




There is going to be another episodes this Week "The Guy". I can't believe they got a Bioman reference(Super Sentai show).

[Tyrath]

Was that really so unexpected? I thought they've been hinting at this with the Gospel so I wasn't that surprised

Yeah wasn't that surprising to me. I just hope the new reset point is at when they meet Ram at the earliest.