Upcoming Spring Anime 2017

Winter season of anime is coming to an end and that means spring is coming. So what's there to watch in spring? I'm going to write some anime that seems interesting and notable. Yes, I changed the format of this, this was my "What I will Watch for (insert season) anime" section but that section has a curse so I'll scrap it. Well then, without further ado, let's get started.

Disclaimer: The season has started when I post this, but in the time I write this, none has aired yet

1. Shingeki no Kyojin S2

I have to mention this one, don't I? This is probably the anime that most people, me excluded, are waiting for. Well, what to say, more spiderman with cutters killing naked huge man. This time, with Eren being more and more useless than ever. Not like he's ever been any of use other than the one who carries the damn boulder. Well, I may or may not watch it, I have read the manga after all.

2. Boku no Hero Academia S2

This is the second one that most people, yet again me excluded, are waiting for. I couldn't care less for it, so that's that.

3. Sword Oratoria

Sword Oratoria is a side story for a series we know and love (or hate), Danmachi. Even if you have no idea what that anime is, if you're in the anime community, you probably have seen Hestia at some point. Gosh, she was a sudden boom in the internet all of the sudden when the anime aired. Back to the point, Sword Oratoria follows not the story of Bell, but the more interesting, Sword Princess, Aiz Wallenstein. If you like danmachi or fantasy in general, you'll probably going to enjoy this. I, myself, am looking forward for this.

Seasonal Anime: Fall 2016

The fall season of anime has ended and with that I'm obliged (not really) to talk about every series that I watched in this season. This took quite a while to make but without further delay, let's get started!

1. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans S2

Gotta love Barbatos Lupus. I got the 1/100 Full Mechanics of it and I love it
Looking forward to building Gundam Vidar

No, this series hasn't ended yet and thank god it hasn't. As we all know, I'm a huge fan of Gundam and Iron-Blooded Orphans is one of the many gundam series I love. Arguably one of the best so far. The series sets of some time after the events from the first season and now Tekkadan has developed into a strong organization with their own branch on earth. Unfortunately (or even fortunately) peace can't last, things happened and war is in the horizon. The first half of the series focuses more with the relation between Tekkadan and McGillis (or chocoman as said by Mika) faction of Gjallarhorn, both of them teaming up to benefit out of each other and definitely not because of any sort of trust or mutual comradely. That's not going to happen, most definitely not. This somewhat unholy alliance is worsening the cracks in every front, the cracks between McGillis faction and Arianrhod, Tekkadan and the rest of Teiwaz. And the build up for the mobile armor which man, it wrecks everything, at least until Barbatos go full badass on it.

Also Gundam IBO has something that I don't see often in anime or in any movie so far, the main character, Mikazuki Augus, is both savage and kind at the same time. Do you know how rare it is for a main character to be perfectly ruthless and will get things done without beating around the bush and shouting like madman? Quite rare. Also Mika starts of the series having his right arm and eye paralyzed and moving further to all of his right body fully paralyzed if he's not connected to Barbatos. How rare for a series to paralyze their character? Hardly ever. As someone for love to see something new, this pleases me a lot. I highly recommend Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans to literally anyone, don't let your hatred and biased opinion towards mecha stops you from watching this series.

If it's not for that brain-dead pilot, this MS is quite nice to have

Seasonal Anime: Summer 2016

This is a short post of my overall thoughts on everything from Summer 2016. I'll try to keep it fairly short and I will probably write in more detail in some later date in my (not so) random anime segments.

1. Re:Zero Kara Hajimaru Isekai Seikatsu

Score: 9.5/10

Yes, I'm well aware that Re:Zero is from last season and span two cours but since it finished in this season, I put it here instead. This series like many popular series gained an amazing quantity of fans alongside with similarly sized haters. Just ignore those haters. Haters gonna hate. I have to say that I really love this series, the story, the world, and the character development are really good. Especially the character development. The dark story and Subaru's suffering just add to my entertainment. Seriously, I highly recommend it to anyone.

That moment when everyone argue who is the best, Emilia or Rem, and you like Felt the best

Seasonal Anime: Winter 2015/2016

The anime I list here is what I watch in this season, which is Winter 2015/2016. This is all from my personal opinion and if it differs from yours, don't rage. Also some anime in this list might be leftovers from the previous season but it ended in this one, it'll still enter the list.
Anyway, this will only be a simple list, score, and I'll talk a bit about it. I'll talk more in depth in a separate post. Hopefully.

- What I watched:

1. Boku Dake ga Inai Machi
Score: 9/10

Boku Dake ga Inai Machi surely is the surprise hit in this season although it did leave a lot of people disappointed in it in the end. For me, this series starts off great and it executed Hinazuki Kayo's arc in a brilliant way. The reveal of the killer is also done great although the killer himself is well, quite obvious, but that doesn't matter much, the execution is just beautiful. My problem with this series that cause my score for it drop from 10 to 9 are: Airi needs more screen time, the last 2 episodes feels somewhat too fast for me (but that's most likely my personal taste in pacing), the cringe moment with the teacher, a huge ship sinks almost instantly with a single lethal strike, and his revival ability doesn't get explained at all (this doesn't really bother me too much actually). Anyway, despite its flaws, this series is still a very good series and I recommend it to anyone seeking for a good series.

I ship them so hard

2. Hai to Gensou no Grimgar
Score: 8/10

At first i planned to give it 7 or 7.5 but that Death Spot scenes are epic so i raise the score up (it should be higher if Death Spot doesn't lose the way it does, but oh well, it's still a good scene). Grimgar is unlike most "stuck in fantasy world" setting since rather than taking the adventure or comedy route, it's taking the slice of life and realistic route. Or maybe rather than slice of life, it's more of a slicing life, goblin's life to be exact. Jokes aside, if you seeks a shounen type battles or adventure, yeah, grimgar isn't the place. Grimgar focuses more on their character interaction and in my opinion, they did it greatly. Speaking of characters, thank god Ranta got some character development since he needs one before the series ends. Also, do i need to mention why i think Yume is the best girl of the series? I don't think i have to, it's obvious. The other thing this series does differently is the art, i simply love the water color background, it's so stunningl beautiful. One complain i have for this is... what's with the insert song, like seriously, some of it feel really out of place. For example and probably the worse case is they put a beatbox music over a bath scene, like what are you thinking?

I'm a huge fan of that beautiful background. Why wouldn't I?

3. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Score: 9.5/10

Barbatos in all of its forms. Well, it's true form and all of his wrecked ones.

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans or IBO for shorts actually aired in the last season but because it's a two cour series, it lasted until this season. And truthfully, IBO is my favourit series for last season and this season. Yes, i'm a big gundam fan but it became my favourite is for its great story, characters, pacing, etc. I can go on and on praising this series for what it did. I don't have any complains for this since they announced the season two for it (25 episodes are only a half gundam series). The characters are also interesting, Mika especially, he's ruthless, probably one of the most ruthless main character that is not evil i've seen so far. Sunrise also being an expert when it comes to mecha genre and also someone who did Gundam since 1979, they know how to make good quality mecha fights. All in all, watch this whether you like mecha or not. Don't let your biased opinions on some genre stopping you from trying new genre, who knows, you might like it.

I really love Barbatos' design. I really do.

4. Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!
Score: 7.5/10

From left to Right:
Masochist Crusader Darkness, Simply Kazuma, Useless Goddess Aqua, Explosion Megumin

Konosuba is a series that is clearly a comedy series and nothing else. If grimgar took the go to fantasy world setting to a serious and realistic view, Konosuba took the other route, the comedy one. Our main protagonist died in a shameful and lame death. In the afterlife, he met an annoying and prideful goddess name Aqua. Basically she talked him to choose reincarnating in a fantasy world with one thing or one talent that he choose. Rather than choosing any overpowered abilities or some game breaking item, he choose the ever so useless Goddess herself. And thus his dreamed life in the fantasy begun or so he thought. Aqua is useless, not entirely useless but is still useless. He got thr lowest class possible. He got party members that are useless in their own way. Megumin, the archmage, can cast a highly destructive spell ONCE per day and afterwards she can't even move her body. Darkness, the Crusader, is a masochistic girl who has probably zero accuracy, yeah, she can't even hit anything and due to her masochistic nature, she won't evade any attacks coming towards her at all. Despite its good comedy, the series has a lot of issues. Clearly the studio that made this doesn't expect it to do well at all. The animation quality is quirky and at times bad, it only has 10 episodes, and they choose some random unknown seiyuu to voice the main cast (which is doing quite well fortunately).

Megumin!

5. Dimension W
Score: 8/10

Dimension W is a series that flew under the radar of many. I almost drop it too since the first few episodes feel a bit like filler episodes but it got really good afterwards. The main concept is also interesting. Humanity found a dimension other than the xyz dimension that we know, dimension W. This dimension w provides an infinite amount of energy and special machine called coils are used to draw energy from it. The story itself is quite interesting especially Kyouma's past, the Beast of Grendels, man, i wish they tell about them more. Also Mira... damn she's cute, one of the cutest robot i've seen so far. Or the cutest piece of junk if we call her as Kyouma call her.

Mira is too cute for this world

6. Gate: Jietai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri
Score: 8.5/10

Gate is one of those anime that i wait eagerly each week to watch the next episode. At first i thought it would be a fun series from the way JSDF massacred the imperial army. Yeah, no knights on horse can defeat a soldier with assault rifles, let alone tanks. But to my surprise the series takes the diplomatic route and tries to go a peaceful way, which leads to some interesting diplomatic problems. But seriously, even though i enjoy watching the diplomacy, the tactics and all of that, nothing beats watching knights getting absolutely wrecked from gunfire. Somehow after witnessing what the JSDF can do, a certain stupid prince still decided to wage war on them and attack their embassy, yeah, stupid decision is stupid. Anyway, this series is one of those anime that i will enjoy no matter how much i rewatch it and i'll be surely to rewatch it someday.

You're so dead

- What I dropped

1. Musaigen no Phantom World
Score: 6/10
Why did I drop this? Because it's mediocre. There's a lot of things that i rather watch than this. So yeah, maybe if it get good somehow, i'll pick it up again, but it it highly unlikely. The art is good though, as expected from KyoAni.

2. Saijyaku Muhai no Bahamut
Score: 5/10
I never even intended to watch this. But i did watch the first episode just to count how many cliche of a magic/sci-fi, school, harem series i could find. And oh my, there's a lot, a lot of it. The main protagonist sees the main heroine naked, he falls to her breast, the main heroine is a tsundere, there's a childhood friend, a cute imouto character, and so on. Also the exoskeleton designs are borderline copyright infringement from infinite stratos.

3. Ajin
Score: (i won't give any score for this since i barely watched it)
I heard that this series is good but well, that full 3D animation just threw me off from this series. I don't usually have too much problems with graphics (i watched a full 43 episodes of an anime that aired in 1979). Don't get me wrong, i have nothing against 3d animation, i watched expelled from paradise, a full 3d anime and i really liked it. It's just 3d animation just doesn't suit this series at all.

4. Dagashi Kashi
Score: 6/10
If i have to summarize this series in one word: weird. Yeah, this series is weird to the point of someone who likes weird ideas like me dropped it. This series or at least the first episode is weird through and through. I might watch it someday though, i might...