What Anime are you watching now?

[Ceris]

Sneaking in a couple of Shakugan no Shana III episodes a day; currently at 7.

Soo many characters introduced.

And WTF is going on!@#

Remember how they said in S1 that Flame Hazes only work alone because they don't get along?

[ExtraMana]

Anyone watching Comical Phycomatic Medicine

or seen Muv Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse

Thats what I'm watching right now.

Next up on my watch list is Ghost in the Shell Alternative Architecture. I'm waiting for it to be out a while

so I can binge watch, I'm doing the same for MLP:FIM.

:^)

[Nashetania]

I'm currently watching Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun and I am enjoying it a lot~

 

 

[Regenerate]

Rewatched Grisaia no Kajitsu with the brother last night to prepare for the OVA and the new season. Currently plowing through the first VN too. The text are so long I fall asleep through it sometimes, but I still want to make the effort to read all of it. No matter how long it takes. Waiting on Sekai Project to finish their translations on Meikyuu and Rakuen. Then I can die happy.

[Eclipsed]

Shakugan no Shana reminds me of Mass Effect

 

The first one introduces the world, characters and lore >> promising

 

The second one has a particular focus on the characters but story wise kind of meanders >> enjoyable

 

Then the third one throws in this epic global-scale conflict, has little regard for what happened in #1 and #2 instead focusing on this one conflict with everybody temper tantrum doing whatever the hell they want my-way-or-the-highway style with no consulting others whatsoever and it's a long ass marathon of back and forth jumping around humpty-dumpty war explosion shenanigans until the very end in which you're just left with a 'k' expression once everything's all fine and dandy finally resolved thank the lords. >> ???

 

Shana can sum up S3 easily:

Amen.

 

But hey, they finally kissed so 10/10 best animu

 

Oh and all things aside it was still a decent watch. Not as enjoyable as I'd hoped, but not disasterous either.

[Stray Cat]

Durarara Season 2 as it comes out dubbed.  I'm to episode 5 and as you can guess I'm loving it.  Izaya's sisters are great. 

[Fred the Barber]

Marathoned about 10 episodes of Big Windup, and still have one completely-unrelated-to-the-previous-plot episode left (I keep thinking the show is over, since the last big arc ended, and then another teaser for the next episode keeps appearing...). I will reiterate my previous statements that if you enjoy baseball, this is a really great show. If you don't like baseball, you will probably loathe it, though, because they spend ridiculous amounts of time on single games. Still, although I enjoyed it, I'm looking forward to a change of pace after so much baseball... perhaps Accel World season 1 session 2.

[Eclipsed]

Plan on watching Toradora! next

The holy trinity shall be completed

 

Misc. off topic rant: gawd I hate 10bit. My phone can't handle s/w decoding ;-;

[Turnip Sensei]

I just finished Eureka Seven and just woah... The last 10 episodes captivated me completely. I was constantly either grinning, shedding manly tears or going awww, sometimes all at the same time.

It still bugs me that they don't explain some of the terminology they use. 

 

Now the problem is, that after such experience it's hard to start watching something else. 

[Nosebleed]

Shakugan no Shana reminds me of Mass Effect

 

The first one introduces the world, characters and lore >> promising

 

The second one has a particular focus on the characters but story wise kind of meanders >> enjoyable

 

Then the third one throws in this epic global-scale conflict, has little regard for what happened in #1 and #2 instead focusing on this one conflict with everybody temper tantrum doing whatever the hell they want my-way-or-the-highway style with no consulting others whatsoever and it's a long ass marathon of back and forth jumping around humpty-dumpty war explosion shenanigans until the very end in which you're just left with a 'k' expression once everything's all fine and dandy finally resolved thank the lords. >> ???

 

Shana can sum up S3 easily:

Amen.

 

But hey, they finally kissed so 10/10 best animu

 

Oh and all things aside it was still a decent watch. Not as enjoyable as I'd hoped, but not disasterous either.

Well, the ending itself is satisfactory since it's what you've wanted all along.

But the ride until then was very convoluted, it's harder to enjoy, though in the end you still have to watch it if you want a conclusion to the story so I guess you could say it's one of those things you watch and then forget everything about it except the ending.

[Stray Cat]

Plan on watching Toradora! next

The holy trinity shall be completed

 

Misc. off topic rant: gawd I hate 10bit. My phone can't handle s/w decoding ;-;

I can't believe you haven't yet. 

[Kenshin_sama]

I just finished Eureka Seven and just woah... The last 10 episodes captivated me completely. I was constantly either grinning, shedding manly tears or going awww, sometimes all at the same time.

It still bugs me that they don't explain some of the terminology they use. 

 

Now the problem is, that after such experience it's hard to start watching something else. 

I know the feeling. Eureka Seven is one of those spectacular shows that really bogs down just about anything you watch shortly afterwards. It was a very interesting series to follow, and I'd consider it a gem amongst others in the romance genre. So refreshing. Try to avoid the sequel if you can help it though, it wasn't nearly as good. I felt the first series shines for its characters and romance; the sequel had no romance and I had no attachment to the characters. It didn't do anything to fill in the storyline gaps from the original either and is even more convoluted with its own.

[Eclipsed]

I can't believe you haven't yet.

Can u also believe I barely started watching anime starting this Jan

Excluding the childhood pokemon and high skoo FMA/nardo/bleech/rip note, of course.

[Nosebleed]

You sound like me some years ago, the tsundere trilogy were some of my first anime (Zero no Tsukaima being the first and the best) and I was obsessed with anime after that, it's always a good place to start when you're a newbie.

 

I have no doubts if I had watched any of these anime now I'd probably dislike most of them.

[Eclipsed]

Don't pull a Rooke and crush my hopes and dreams NB

[Stray Cat]

I think when I really started getting into anime was around the time of Gurren Lagann and Mirai Nikki.  

 

I've watched enough stuff to say I'm decently informed and I still enjoy almost everything I watch. 

[Nosebleed]

The more anime you watch, the more you realize how recycled everything in the anime industry is and the more likely you are to start disliking popular (and overused) tropes. Things start reeking of genericness and they don't faze you anymore since you've already been exposed to it so many times.

It's a natural process to refine your tastes

 

But it's not to say you still can't enjoy stuff, I still enjoy lots of SoL which is considered meh/bad by many.

 

So really, it all comes down to how  your tastes develop, you may still like stuff like Zero no Tsukaima many years in the future. Nothing wrong with it.

[Stray Cat]

I tend to prefer the darker mystery side to other things, which seem to be more unique than romance and SoL end up being, for now anyway.  

 

Also, I'm the kind of person who can re-watch the same thing 5 times and still enjoy it so that probably helps. 

[Down]

The more you watch anime and the more you're informed about the medium, you do end up disliking a bunch of things like overused cliche or trainwrecks, but you also learn to appreciate anime in different manners.

 

Back when I had watched like 10 anime, if you had told me magical girls and giant robots were fucking awesome I might not have believed you.

Also most people who start watching anime are often young and visually illiterate. As you watch more stuff and understand the production side of things, you get to appreciate good direction and good animation and even watch shows just because of those.

[SanadaShadow]

I know the feeling. Eureka Seven is one of those spectacular shows that really bogs down just about anything you watch shortly afterwards. It was a very interesting series to follow, and I'd consider it a gem amongst others in the romance genre. So refreshing. Try to avoid the sequel if you can help it though, it wasn't nearly as good. I felt the first series shines for its characters and romance; the sequel had no romance and I had no attachment to the characters. It didn't do anything to fill in the storyline gaps from the original either and is even more convoluted with its own.

 

Issat so? I never really felt that way when I watched it. Then again, after episode 10 I kinda put it on hold cuz I really got bored of the whole thing. I've still got a saved link for it, but nothing much really compels me to watch it..

[Turnip Sensei]

Issat so? I never really felt that way when I watched it. Then again, after episode 10 I kinda put it on hold cuz I really got bored of the whole thing. I've still got a saved link for it, but nothing much really compels me to watch it..

 

The first half is't that great, it feels kind of generic. But it's much better after that. The story gets more serious and the relationships between characters are more fleshed out.  

[SanadaShadow]

Oh, so it's like Ichigo 100% then.

[Kenshin_sama]

I did enjoy most of the anime from start to finish, but the later episodes are much, much better than the beginning. Eureka Seven does start off slow, but the atmosphere felt right to me and I didn't have a problem with it. But the plot does get interesting once it makes a certain transition and you'll eventually get to see some really significant development from the characters. I thought Renton was seriously whine-y when the anime first started, but I eventually came to see him as a very respectable guy in the end. It may be a bit to handle for most, but I do feel that the anime is justified with its slow pacing because of how well it fleshes out the characters.

[edwd2]

ubw ep.2 blond brat is back with his floating gtx titans lol

[ExtraMana]

Triage X. I thought it would be bad and it turned out to be the trashiest anime I've ever seen.

No really. I don't know if I made it to the end of ep1.

Its on crunchyroll and I vowed to try it but wow everything that can go wrong went wrong in that anime.