What anime are you watching?

[mdmrn]

Working on finishing Trigun & also watching: Your Lie in April, Aldnoah.Zero

[Cat96]

Gurren Lagann episode 21 SPOILER: Highlight text to read: I was not expecting Yoko to become a teacher, but man was she awesome when she fought those gunman. Also, I can't wait to see the next episode. I had seen it yesterday on Toonami, and now I can finally understand what's going on.

[courtliza]

Kaze no Stigma episode 5

[CinniScrib]

Kamisama Hajimemashita season 2 episode 6

Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight Episode 21-27

Finally finished that series. There were parts of the original I like better, though apparently CotHK follows the source material more closely. Either way I like some of the character designs better in RoLW OVA. This wins for better opening song however.

[Cat96]

Yona of the Dawn episode 18

Finished Gurren Lagann

[CinniScrib]

Akatsuki no Yona episode 19

[skreyola]

Akatsuki no Yona ep 18 - Yaerg!!! I have to wait a week for the next episode. :'(

[Cat96]

Akatsuki no Yona ep 18 - Yaerg!!! I have to wait a week for the next episode. :'(

ikr? The wait nearly kills me. SPOILER: Highlight text to read: The Green Dragon is hilarious though. I can't figure out of he just really likes beautiful things/people, or if he's gay (he has said some stuff to Hak that can be taken the wrong way). Poor Hak. xD Poor Shin-ah, not being able to go to town. And that captain lady had to take his mask off. xD I felt so bad for him. Seriously, the comedy and drama are so well blended that its amazing.

One Piece episode 62

[skreyola]

Akatsuki no Yona ep 18 - Yaerg!!! I have to wait a week for the next episode. :'(

ikr? The wait nearly kills me. SPOILER: Highlight text to read: The Green Dragon is hilarious though. I can't figure out of he just really likes beautiful things/people, or if he's gay (he has said some stuff to Hak that can be taken the wrong way). Poor Hak. xD Poor Shin-ah, not being able to go to town. And that captain lady had to take his mask off. xD I felt so bad for him. Seriously, the comedy and drama are so well blended that its amazing.

Personally, I think he's not. He just SPOILER: Highlight text to read: says things without thinking about how they sound. In the previous episode, he made it pretty clear he was thinking only of having this awesome fighter by his side. But what I don't get is why Yona didn't say, "I'm okay with the bow."

Sabagebu ep. 3 - I'm not sure how much more of this I will watch. It has its moments, but the show overall is pretty uninspired.

[NekoNinja16]

One Week Friends, I just saw episode 9.

[artisticDreamer]

Finished Lucky Star
Serial Experiments Lain ep. 6
Ouran High School Host Club ep. 10-11
Death Note ep. 17
Black Butler ep. 1-7 *maniacal laughter*

[NekoNinja16]

I have now finished One Week Friends. (Isshuukan Friends) It was very sweet. <3

[Nocturnalux]

Sket Dance episodes-47-49
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: For being a comedy, Sket Dance really knows how to deliver really intense drama, especially with the backstories of our leads. Himeko's case is a great example and Switch's may go down in history as one of the most impressive tragedy pasts, ever, surpassing many, many serious anime out there. So now it is Bossun's turn, our main character who also turns out to have a true sob story for a background. Except this time it may be a bit too much. I am fine with 'everyone has a sad background' but Bossun's is a series of really unlikely events all combining to turn him into an orphan whose parents die in the same day but in completely different circumstances: the father is run over by a car while trying to save a little kid and the mother dies while giving birth to him so thatupon turning 15 he finds out that he was adopted. And then the series almost jumps the shark by adding a twin brother to Bossum in...Tsubaki. How that came about is a tad strange and really, really unlikely. I have a feeling the mangaka was not planning on pushing for this development until the very last moment and it shows.
With that said, Bossun's arc is still very well handled and shows what his motivation was for starting Sket Dance in the first place.

Over Drive episode 24
SPOILER: Highlight text to read: The race is over, Yousuke wins. But more important were the introspective with each character reflecting on what riding a bike means to them. That might have been the highlight of the entire series so far and this could very well have been the final episode but there are still two more to go. I actually like how Shinozaki barely finished the race and does so a long time after the winner and leading pack. In most sports anime the main character has sudden bursts of energy that either allow him to win or come very, very close even if they are absolute beginners. But Over Drive has enough sense to know that anyone who only learned how to ride a bike a month prior is simply not ready to handle a 186 kms race. The insane length of the race is a bit strange, too. It's a citizen event not even aimed at professionals, Hyoudou is actually the only pro in the entire thing. There are a few teams but even our heroes' team of 4 does not follow typical cycling protocol of 6 members.
Shinozaki has his mental bubble before collapsing right after crossing the goal line and it really develops his character. Yamato (I get it, he's a climber but needs his name be Yamato? Then again...Onoda Sakamichi takes the cake) is revealed to hate his cyclist father for apparently being the absent parent who did not even care for his wife as she was sick, unnamed disase kills mother trope.

[artisticDreamer]

Black Butler ep. 8-10
Ouran High School Host Club ep 12
Serial Experiment Lain ep 7

[CinniScrib]

Shirobako ep 19

Sanzoku no Ronja ep 20

[ClaecElric4God]

I have now finished One Week Friends. (Isshuukan Friends) It was very sweet. <3

Ooooh, I forgot about this one! I really need to get back to it.

[Wolfsong]

Pandora Hearts: Ep. 7 - This is fun. That is all XD

Avatar the last Airbender: book Fire - this is a fun, tense, and amazing finale to the series. Of course, the mangas go on, along with the following series, but when are they gonna animate the stories of like, say The Search?

Kaichou wa Maid-sama: Ep 20 - this...is funny. I really have no words to describe these shenanigans...

[Thunderscream872]

Beyond the Boundary episode 6.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood episode 21 - Mustang is seriously becoming one of my favorite anime characters of all time.

[Lilac#18]

Sailor Moon Crystal episode 14, 15 and 16.

Naruto Shippuden episode 263

[CinniScrib]

Nanatsu no Taizai episode 19

[Rolarin]

Currently making my way through Hikaru no Go. I can't believe it's taking me this long to get around to watching it Haha.

[Mullet Death]

Been watching How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend as it airs. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone else due to some occasional fits of fan service and sexually suggestive stuff, but the potential romances are cute. It has some interesting things to say about the creative process regarding games, anime, or anything else. It hits me really close to home every time it says something about never actually putting any work into creation rather than just being a consumer of art and putting half-hearted, poorly implemented works out when you do actually "try."

[Zeke365]

1.CLAMP School Detectives (dub)
2.Little Busters! (Dub)
3.Red Data Girl (dub) just finished
4.One Piece (fumation dub)
5.Aria the Origination
6.Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
7.Ikoku Meiro no Croisée
8.Seitokai no Ichizon
9.Shugo Chara
10.Tokimeki Memorial Only Love
11.Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru

that what I have been watching

[Cat96]

Yona of the Dawn episode 19

[skreyola]

Log Horizon ep. 4 - There's just one thing I wanna know. SPOILER: Highlight text to read: Is Serara gonna ding from killing that Lvl 90? I know... probably don't get XP for PKs, but he dropped loot, so maybe PKs give XP, too.

[CinniScrib]

Sanzoku no Musume Ronja episode 21

Akatsuki no Yona episode 20

Kamisama Hajimemashita season 2 episode 7

[skreyola]

Log Horizon ep. 10 - Another great episode. I wonder if SPOILER: Highlight text to read: the ring gates are actually not shut down but, since nobody has visited two different gates since the Apocalypse, are not yet available to anyone. That would be an interesting discovery. If you know the answer, you can spoil it with just yes or no, but please don't say more than that.

[CinniScrib]

Shirobako ep 20

[MangaRocks!]

Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled From Paradise movie (sub):

I enjoyed this immensely.

That said, before I get into what I loved about it, I do have to give a content warning note that there is a bit of detailed female nudity in this, split between two scenes in the beginning (it ends up being maybe less than two minutes total onscreen?)-- first while Angela is flying through a section of the digital dataspace, and then also when she's growing a physical body for herself to use to SPOILER: Highlight text to read: track down the hacker on Earth-- and there's some fanservice with her outfits/etc., too. Also, while the cel-shaded 3DCG that this movie was made with was beautifully designed in terms of art, its actual animation in motion is more than a bit awkward-looking when it comes to the human characters' movements; however, you do kinda get used to it after a while, and one big upside is that it certainly enables the action scenes to be very dynamic indeed (...and totally fantastic, IMO).

And now that the caveats are out of the way, let's get on to the good stuff: The aforementioned awesome action scenes make up one great point; and making up another are the interactions/conversations/growth between the MC's, which is what actually drives most of the movie. Indeed, that aspect is so good, it can make just about any scene interesting, no matter what any of them are (or are not) doing. (One, of many, examples: Even though it was completely obvious that SPOILER: Highlight text to read: 'Frontier Setter' was going to turn out to be SPOILER: Highlight text to read: a sentient AI, the reactions of/interactions with the other MC's after the 'reveal' were completely adorable, and I wasn't originally expecting that. <3 ) (...Basically, pretty much all of this.)

To sum it up: The unfortunate minute-or-two of nudity (and Angela's outfits ) aside, this was really good-- in fact, it's pretty much a perfect little sci-fi film-- and it's one I'll certainly be rewatching.

[skreyola]

Shirobako ep. 19 - The SPOILER: Highlight text to read: trip to Musashino Pictures was beautiful. I love how this show gives love to the old ways without, to paraphrase someone on another forum, wallowing in them or dismissing the new methods This show continually delivers a compelling story with interesting information about the world of animation production. If you aren't watching this yet, you should put it at the top of your what-to-watch-next list.