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Countdown for air times/start dates

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Sunday
CR - Teekyu - 6:50am PDT
CR - Ixion Saga DT - 10:00am PDT
CR - Hiiro no Kakera Season 2 - 11:00am PDT

Monday
TAN - Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb - 8:25am PDT (4 days delayed)
TAN - Busou Shinki - 8:55am PDT (4 days delayed)
CR - My Little Monster (Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun) - 10:30am PDT

Tuesday
CR - From The New World (Shin Sekai Yori) - 12:40pm PDT (4 days delayed)

Wednesday
FN - Code:Breaker - 8:00am PDT (4 days delayed)
CR - Magi: the Labyrinth of Magic - 10:00am PDT (3.5 days delayed)
FN - Kamisama Kiss - 10:00am PDT (2 days delayed)
CR - Hayate no Gotoku: Can't Take My Eyes Off You - 11:00am PDT
CR - The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo) - 12:00pm PDT (2 days delayed)
CR - Girls und Panzer - 8:00pm PDT (2.5 days delayed)

Thursday
TAN - Chuunibyo Demo Koi ga Shitai - 7:30am PDT (1 day delayed)
CR - Gintama - 3:00am PDT
FN - Jormungand Perfect Order - 8:30am PDT (2 days delayed)
FN - Psycho-Pass - 9:45am PDT
CR - Blast of Tempest (Zetsuen no Tempest) - 12:00pm PDT
HL - K - 1:30pm PDT (approximate)
CR - BTOOOM! - 7:00pm PDT
CR - Medaka Box Abnormal - 11:35pm PDT (1.5 days delayed)

Friday
FN - Robotics;Notes - 9:15a PDT (1 day delayed)
FN - OniAi - 9:30am PDT (7 days delayed)

Saturday
TAN - To Love-Ru Darkness - 8:00am PDT (1 day delayed)

Legend:
CR = Crunchyroll
VZ = Viz Anime
FN = Funimation
TAN = The Anime Network

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Thanks to everyone who helped: articalys, cosmicblizzard, duckroll, hitokage, hosannainexcelsis, Joule, Ultimadrago.

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ToLoveRu Darkness

Director: Atsushi Ootsuki
Studio: Xebec
Air Date: 10/05/12
Site: http://www.j-toloveru.com/

Yuki Rito’s dalliances with the constantly growing members of his harem reaches a fevered pitch, as Momo plots to hasten the arrival of the inevitable conclusion. Meanwhile, a mysterious red hair girl named Mea Kurosaki enters Sainan High School with a hidden agenda.

It’s ToLoveRu, that cesspool of manic fanservice, the quagmire of loose morals, stripped of any petty concerns like ‘storytelling’ and ‘quality,’ single-handedly responsible for declining birth-rates in Japan and the mental corruption of males worldwide. ToLoveRu Darkness was the spinoff-cum-sequel of the original manga, deviously born out of both shamelessness and rage, the product of a maddened cuckold furious at having drawn 2-D panties for a living even as another man lowered those of his wife. This is the anime for those without shame, for those who have fallen so low there is no turning back.

This is anime. (Welcome to the Fall 2012 Anime thread, guaranteed to encompass two bans, three threads, and four derailed hype trains.)

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From the New World

Director: Masashi Ishihama
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Air Date: 9/28/2012
Site: http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/shinsekaiyori/
Trailers: PV 2, PV 3 (watch these!)

The story is set in Japan a millennium from now. Five children - Saki, Satoru, Maria, Mamoru, and Shun — have been born and raised in a tranquil town that can be described as a utopia, overflowing with water and green foilage. The world is ruled by people who have the "cursed power" or "gods' power" of telekinesis. After a certain incident, Saki and the others come to realize the true nature of their world. Before long, they learn everything, including the bloody history that brought humanity to this state. The five throw themselves into life-threatening adventure, fighting to protect friends and a world on the brink of collapse.

hosannainexcelsis: Hot stuff. An adaptation of a Nihon SF Taisho Award-winning novel. Intriuging premise set in a unique post-apocalyptic world. Strong visual design and excellent production values. A skilled animator making his full directorial debut and bringing a host of talent along with him. If you check out one show this season, make it this one.

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Magi

Director: Koji Masunari
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Air Date: 10/07/12
Site: http://www.project-magi.com/

A young boy named Aladdin sets out to explore the world with his friend, Ugo, a djinn trapped in a flute. Soon, he discovers that he is one of the Magi, a magician with the power to crown kings.

The manga this is based on is excellent stuff, full of great adventure and comedy. The characters are likable, the action is good, and the world is consistently expanding, all tied together with great pacing and intersticed with Shinobu Ohtaka’s humor. What we’ve seen of it animated has been pretty good (all twenty seconds of it) and the designs are appealing, at least in motion when you can ignore the rice bowl mouths. The director is probably known best for his work on the Read Or Die series; Hiroyuki Yoshino, the master behind Guilty Crown/Qwaser/My-HiME, is handling the writing.

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Gothicmade (movie)

Director: Mamoru Nagano
Release Date: 11/01/12
Site: http://gothicmade.com/

Yes, the same Gothicmade from the noted animator, mecha designer, and author of the minutiae-packed, obsessively detailed Five Star Stories, Mamoru Nagano. It’s been years in the making, announced back in 2006 only to disappear for years at a time, resurfacing now and then to tease, to titillate; a quick search online will show years of posts from forgotten posters on dead forums making the same proclamation, it’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming, a trail of digital echoes reverberating years back into the past. Supposedly it’s coming out at last; the stars have aligned and all we can do now is to wait. Should be lovely, featuring mecha whose designs are fantastically elegant and probably a terrible fucking pain to animate.

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Psycho-Pass

Chief Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro
Director: Naoyoshi Shiotani
Studio: Production IG
Air Date: 10/11/2012
Site: http://psycho-pass.com/

In a future with the technology to scan and analyze the psychology and personality of a person in an instant, the worth of one's soul is measured and recorded as a systemetic set of values - that is a person's 'Psycho-Pass'.

To protect and uphold the illusion of a utopian society, the Ministry of Welfare's Public Safety Bureau employs this system against those who are deemed by the system to have a high criminality coefficient, and locks them away.

To fight actual crime that slips through the cracks, those potential criminals found suitable are offered positions as crime enforcement officers instead - after all it takes a mind capable of understanding a criminal to catch one. Executive intendants are chosen from the elites of society to monitor and lead these officers - the system's leash on these necessary but untrustworthy hounds.

This is the story of the men and women of the Criminal Investigation Department, and their pursuit of justice...

duckroll: Dystopian future scifi police thriller. Gen Urobuchi. Production IG. Is this real life? An actual original scifi anime with adult characters, a potential for solid gun action, cloudy character motivations, and an Orwellian system just waiting to fall apart? Sign me up!

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Robotics;Notes

Director: Kazuya Nomura
Studio: Production I.G.
Air Date: 10/11/12
Site: http://roboticsnotes.tv/

In 2019, Kaito Yashio is a member of his school's robotics club and a fan of fighting games. His classmate Akiho is a world renowned programmer of fighting games. Together they decide to create an actual giant robot and seek help from their friends.

I don’t know much about the VN that it is based on, other than its relations to the other semi;colon abusing series in 5pb’s science adventure lineup. I like the director’s previous efforts, and the designs/production are appealing as well, far moreso than White Fox’s effort on Steins;Gate. It’s set to run through both Fall and Winter on the noitaminA timeslot, along with the other Production I.G. show of the season, Psycho-Pass.

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JoJo's Bizzare Adventure

Director: Kenichi Suzuki (SD Gundam) and Naokatsu Tsuda (Inu x Boku SS)
Studio: David Production
Air Date: 10/06/2012
Site: http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/jojo-animation/

The story of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure centers around the misadventures of the Joestars, a powerful family with English roots. Each member of the bloodline has a star shaped birthmark above their left shoulder blade – Dio Brando, the original nemesis of the Joestar family, and his descendants have this distinguishable mark also, a result from Dio's 'theft' of Jonathan Joestar's body and inheriting the Joestar genes as well. The series spans several generations, with each part featuring a descendent of the Joestars as the main protagonist along with a large cast of characters.

The first series, Phantom Blood stars Jonathan Joestar and the ambitious Dio Brando. It shows how the stone mask was found and how Dio first obtained and utilized his powers. Once Jonathan and Robert E. O. Speedwagon realize Dio's intentions, they must team up with Will A. Zeppeli and learn Ripple (Hamon) to stop Dio.

cosmicblizzard: You guys remember when anime was synonymous with MANLINESS? Well guess what's back! The motherfucking JoJos! The only thing more important to these guys than being manly is being fabulous. You want action? You got it! You want vampires? Screw that Twilight shit, you got that too! You want flamboyant poses from legit threatening characters? That's another check! Come and join the Joestars as they finally get a chance to shine in a 20 years overdue animation.

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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! - or, Regardless of My Adolescent Delusions of Grandeur, I Want a Date!

Director: Ishihara Tatsuya
Studio: Kyoto Animation
Air Date: 10/03/2012
Site: http://www.anime-chu-2.com/

I’ve been forced into a contract with Rikka, another victim of teenage delusions of grandeur, and now she has messed up my life! Stop encouraging my teenage delusions of grandeur!!

Based on a light novel submitted to one of their contests that no one actually wins (but then, I suppose this particular novel won in the end, considering it was published and now it stands some chance at success via association with what will presumably be a popular show), it burned my eyes and now I am clinically blind. I write this with the assistance of a capable seeing-eye dog.

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Nerawareta Gakuen (movie)

Director: Ryosuke Nakamura
Studio: Sunrise
Release Date: 10/19/12
Site: http://www.neragaku.com/

Spring marks the start of another new school year at a junior high school in Kamakura. A new transfer student, Ryoichi Kyogoku joins the 8th grade. Kyogoku has a very special proficiency in telepathy and has been ordered by his father to use this ability to scan other people's minds and take over the school.

He instantly gains popularity at school from his good looks and charisma and he sets about taking control of the school. As people begin to fall under Kyogoku's spell, he covertly manipulates his followers and pushes aside anyone who gets in his way.

With the school almost completely under the control of Kyogoku, only one boy seems unaffected – Seki. Does Seki have what it takes to save everyone from the clutches of mind control?

Ryosuke Nakamura, noted for his work on Mouryou no Hako among others, is helming this ‘new take’ on the children’s novel by Taku Mayumura. It’s apparently a well-known franchise in Japan with several different adaptations of it throughout the past few decades; unfortunately I had never heard of it before the announcement of the anime, and thus is unable to offer any real perspective on just what it might be about, outside of the synopsis provided by the SLA site for its international premiere in Scotland. The premise seems amusing enough and the PVs were promising.

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Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb

Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Studio: SHAFT
Air Date: 10/4/12
Site: http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/hidamari/index-j.html

This series marks the continuing events of the students taking residence in the Hidamari Apartments. Yuno and Miyako are second year students while Sae and Hiro are in their third year at Yamabuki Art High. The two newest residents, Nazuna and Nori, have since become more comfortable with the original foursome.

In this chapter of their lives, more inevitable eating, laughing and light conversing shall ensue (following a daily introspective bath time complete with rubber duck to conclude)! Of course, the amusing adult cast returns, consisting of the eccentric (yet childish) Yoshinoya, the elderly (yet athletically impressive) Principal and others. The day-by-day activities involving them all will present how the girls interact with their environment as friends and growing artists.

Ultimadrago: Hidamari Sketch is a warm slice-of-life series that makes for a relaxing watch no matter how my day is going. The characters are largely simple, but have reflective moments that serve as a thicker dimension for them. The art direction is colorful, charming and at times really neat. For an anime to watch with a snack nearby along with time to ease from daily responsibilities and stressors, Hidamari Sketch's comfortable fluffy arms of "Wideface" is the place to rest.

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Zetsuen no Tempest

Director: Masahiro Ando
Studio: BONES
Air Date: 10/04/2012
Site: http://www.zetsuen.net/

"The time is out of joint. O cursed spite; That ever I was born to set it right!" - Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

The heiress of a powerful and mystical clan finds herself abandoned in a barrel on an uninhabited island. A girl and her parents are killed in a senseless murder, the case goes unsolved. Thus the foundation is laid for a thrilling and bizarre tale of revenge and sorcery, and a battle which goes beyond time and space.

duckroll: Okay, full disclosure - This is based on a manga that is really bad. Not ha-ha bad, but just plain bad. It's convoluted, too "smart" for its own good, and the pacing is terrible. But have no fear, the anime staff will save the day! Maybe! Masahiro Ando, director of Sword of the Stranger and Hanasaku Iroha, reunites with studio BONES to attempt to salvage the source material into something exciting and watchable, aided by Michiru Oshima's (Fullmetal Alchemist, Xam'd) classical score performed by an 80-member strong orchestra. At the very least, this should look and sound great!

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Gintama' Overdrive

Director: Yoichi Fujita
Studio: Sunrise
Air Date: 10/4/2012
Site: http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/gintama/

Sakata Gintoki is a samurai living in an era when samurais are no longer needed. To add to his troubles, oppressive aliens have moved in to invade. Gintoki lives with Kagura and Shinpachi, taking on odd jobs to make the world a better place... and to pay their rent. This airing will include both reruns and new episodes.

hosannainexcelsis: It's back, baby! Expect more delicious trolling and badass loser samurai in the best comedy on television.

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Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun

Director: Hiro Kaburaki
Studio: Brains Base
Air Date: 10/2/2012 (Tuesdays, 1:35 AM)
Site: http://www.tk-anime.info/
Trailer: PV

Shizuku Mizutani has only one thing on her mind: getting good grades so she can get a high-paying job. She has no interest in getting to know any of her classmates, certainly not Haru Yoshida, the boy sitting at the desk next to her who's been absent since the first day of school. But when she is assigned to deliver him handouts, his implusive personality begins to crack open her shell.

hosannainexcelsis: The manga is a fun romantic comedy, with emphasis on the comedy, featuring a cast of lovable, eccentric social misfits. The staff are solid and seem invested in the show, considering they put out a creative, well-produced trailer with all original material. Should be an enjoyable watch.

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Kyousogiga

Director: Rie Matsumoto
Studio:Toei
Air Dates: 8/31, 10/27, 11/10, 12/08, 12/22
Site: http://www.kyousogiga.com/

Three kids are stuck in a strange city causing massive mayhem through the land. They are searching for an atypical rabbit in order to return home. Koto, the eldest of the three, seems to have some sort of connection to this weird place ruled by a monk, a demon, and a priest.

It’s getting released as a series of short episodes online, on the release dates listed above. The original was a fast, flashy, kinetic as fuck piece of animation that also made no fucking sense. Here’s to a bit more coherence.

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Fuse: A Gun Girl’s Detective Story (movie)

Director: Masayaki Miyaji
Studio: TMS Entertainment
Release Date: 10/20/12
Site: fuse-anime.jp

A gun-wielding girl named Hamaji hunts dog-human hybrids, called the Fuse.

I guess it’s some ex Bones staff (Miyaji directed Xam’d, among others here) working on this movie, which even kinda sounds like Xam’d, with the dog-human hybrids and such. I hope the shorter runtime of a movie gives him the kind of restraint needed to tell a story without it falling apart.

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Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo

Director: Atsuko Ishizaka
Studio: J.C. Staff
Air Date: 10/04/12
Site: sakurasou.tv

The school romantic comedy revolves around a second-year high school student named Sorata Kanda who lives in Sakurasou, the dormitory for problem children at Sorata's school. One day, Mashiro Shiina — a cute girl who happens to be also a cosmopolitan, brilliant artist — moves into Sakurasou.

‘The Pet Girl of Sakurasou’ kinda sounds like a porn in the making.

It’s some kinda fanservice anime about a girl who’s kinda not there and the boy who becomes her master. Or something. Mari Okada, the woman who saved noitaminA with her efforts on Ano Hana, is working on this. She’s notable for being pretty fucking terrible at her job, so I’m confident that this will be a good show.

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Btooom!

Director: Kotono Watanabe
Studio: Madhouse
Air Date: 10/04/12
Site: http://btooom.com/

The story centers around Ryūta Sakamoto, a NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) young man and a top-ranked player in the online combat game Btooom! One day, he wakes up on a tropical island without remembering how he got there. He sees a figure in the distance and asks for help. However, the figure responds by throwing something at Ryūta — a "BIM" bomb. In that moment, Ryūta comes to realize two things: one, his own life is in danger, and two, he is now in the world of Btooom!

I remember feeling pretty jelly that Kirito got all the girls with his MMO grinding skills in SAO. It was something I found hard to relate to; I knew my DKP, nowhere near as good as my KDR, would never get me a perfect life partner like Asuna.

Then Btooom! came along, a show for high KDR individuals like me. Now I too can go to sleep while cradling my Asuna pillow.

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Girls und Panzer

Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Studio: Actas
Air Date: 10/08/12
Site: http://girls-und-panzer.jp/

In this world, Sensha-do (戦車&#36947, the art of tank-combat, is a traditional Japanese martial art for girls. Miho, a girl who just transfered into the Ōrai Girls' Academy in Ibaraki Prefecture, has been ordered by the academy's student council chairperson to join the school team and compete in the national Sensha-do championships.

It’s a show about cute girls doing cute things, with a fair bit of tank-related jargon being tossed around. There’s also a bit of tanks doing tank things and explosions and tanks sitting there looking like tanks; some good potential for action, along with the kind of physical comedy that Mr. Mizushima does well with. (See: Blood-C; Joshiraku; Azazel-san; etc) Tank porn and cute girls--can’t go wrong, right?

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Sukitte ii na yo - Say, I Love You

Series Director: Toshimasa Kuroyanagi
Director: Takuya Sato
Studio: ZEXCS
Air Date: 10/06/12
Site: http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/sukinayo/

The story of first love centers around Mei Tachibana, a girl who has never made friends or had a boyfriend in 16 years. One day, she accidentally injures Yamato Kurosawa, the school's most popular boy. For some reason, Yamato becomes interested in Mei and starts a one-sided friendship with her. He even protects her from a stalker — by kissing her.

Just reading the premise is making me want to fall asleep.

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Little Busters

Director: Yoshiki Yamakawa
Studio: J.C. Staff
Air Date: 10/06/12
Site: http://www.litbus-anime.com/

We begin behind the eyes of Naoe Riki, a 2nd year at a boarding high school. He's meek, dependant, and cursed with fainting spells. He's also clever, loyal, and blessed with great friends that together form the centerpiece of this story. This group of friends, the namesake of the story, is the Little Busters. Kyousuke, a 3rd year and the tacit leader of the Little Busters, recruited Riki when they were still small boys, during a time when Riki was depressed and shut-in after the deaths of his parents. Together with two other boys, Masato and Kengo, plus Kyousuke's sister Rin, the 5 Little Busters spent their childhood together having fun and busting evil.

Dead eyes, bad designs, and a story designed to tear at your tragedy loving soul. Or so it probably goes. It’s KEY. (Seriously, look at that dude’s eyes. He’s seen some shit.)

I suppose the fact that Yamakawa is directing could be of some interest to those who liked Hells, as he worked on it. I don’t think it means much considering the difference in studio/premise/lack of Nakazawa, though.

 

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The Mystical Laws (movie)

Director: Isamu Imakake
Studio: Nikkatsu Video, Kofuku no Kagaku Publications
Release Date: 10/05/12 (San Francisco, CA); 10/06/12 (Japan); 10/19/12 (Los Angeles, CA; Honolulu, HI)
Site: http://www.mystical-laws.com/intro/intro.html

The film takes place in 201X, when the newly-formed Empire of Godom is threatening to take over the world by using mysterious technology offered to them by Chan Reika, the mysterious female president of a trading company. The protagonist of the film Shishimaru Shou is the one man who has the mystical technology that can stop the Empire of Godom, but after being hunted down by the Empire, he is saved by mysterious Indians, who tell him about a prophecy about the second coming of a savior.

Japanese cult Happy Science comes out with yet another historically, theologically, and logically challenged movie with unfairly high production values. If the previous five movies are any indication though, this looks to be perfect material for MST3K-style riffing and should prove to be highly entertaining. It'll have space nazis. How could it not?

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K

Series Directors: Hiromitsu Kanazawa, Susumu Kudo
Director: Shingo Suzuki
Studio: GoHands
Air Date: 10/04/12
Site: http://www.facebook.com/starchild.k/app_249257251849625

Ashinaka High School is known for its unique setting: the entire campus is built on an island. Yashiro Isana, aka Shiro, is having lunch with a cat on one of the school rooftops. After his lunch break, Shiro goes on an errand for his classmate Kukuri to prepare for their upcoming school festival, only to be chased by some intimidating-looking men.

All we’ve gotten so far are a series of cryptic PVs featuring pretty boys and booby girls, pandering to both sides of the aisle, it seems, with an ugly, overriding colour palette and a taste for frock coats and katanas. There’s a bunch of fangirl-friendly seiyuu, a character called Neko whose main purpose seems to be to run around half-naked, and the whole fucking thing is supposed to be from this anonymous collective of dudes with a twitter account called GoRa Project , or something. The whole thing stinks of a cash-grab of a very cynical sort (as if any other exist in anime, am I right?), there’s like three fucking directors attached to the project (two of whom are ‘series directors’; one was responsible for Princess Lover, the other for the Mardock movies), and it’s from GoHands.

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Ixion Saga DT

Director: Shinji Takamatsu
Studio: Brain’s Base
Air Date: 10/08/2012
Site: http://ixion-saga-anime.jp/

The show follows the adventures of Kon Hokaze, a boy who embarks on a journey from our world to an alternate world known as Mira, which is full of a mysterious energy known as Alma. After saving Princess Ecarlate from attackers, he soon finds himself in the middle of a struggle around Alma.

At first glance, all I could see were the awful character designs and the underwhelming PVs, just a cash-in project for Brain’s Base as they gear up for Baccano 2. However, the director, Shinji Takamatsu, is most well known for a trifecta of well-received comedies--School Rumble, Gintama, and the Daily Lives of Highschool Boys--and early impressions indicate that the show continues along similar lines.

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Code: Breaker

Director: Yasuhiro Irie (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
Studio: Kinema Citrus
Air Date: 10/07/12
Site: http://www.code-breaker.jp/

Riding the bus one day, Sakura Sakurakouji looks out the window to see people being burned alive with a blue fire as a boy her age remains unharmed and stands over the people. When she goes back to the site the next day, there are no corpses or evidence of any kind of murder, just a small fire. When Sakura goes to class, she discovers the new transfer student is the same boy she saw the day before. Sakura soon learns that he is Rei Ogami, the sixth "Code: Breaker," a special type of assassin with a strange ability and a member of a secret organization that serves the government.

cosmicblizzard: Hey, I got an idea. Let's make a series that's like a combination of Death Note and shounen fighting stuff, but instead of portraying the main character as an unsympathetic bastard that drives the point home he's a villain, we'll completely miss the point and make him seem like an alright redeemable guy despite doing shit that's nine times as evil. I BET EVERYONE WILL LOVE THAT!

Jexhius: The most entertaining show of the season.

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Director: Shinji Takamatsu
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Air Date: 10/02/12
Studio: http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/gyrozetter/

In 21st century Japan, cars with artificial intelligence for increased safety, known as "A.I. cars," have revolutionized the car industry. Special schools teaching children driving A.I. cars have been established. One day, Kakeru Todoroki, a fifth grader of Arcadia Academy, was summoned by the school principal and given an A.I. car "to save the humanity by chosen drivers like you." The car, however, is not just a car but also a transforming robot known as "Gyrozetter."

I guess it’s based on an arcade card game or something. Dai Sato is writing and there’s dudes who worked on Gundam and other stuff (Takamatsu served as a unit director for War in the Pocket, among others).

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Litchi DE Hikari Club

Director: ???
Studio: Kachidoki Studio
Air Date: 10/01/12
Site: http://ameblo.jp/litchi-hikari-club/entry-11321777170.html

The story revolves around nine students at an all-boys school who create a god-like Lychee machine — that runs on lychee fruits — to seek out the beautiful women of the world. However, the machine eventually becomes self-aware "and is soon equally capable of measuring beauty and executing justice."

See, that’s what people are going to tell you it’s about, but all anyone remembers in the end is the time when

Spoiler

they rape a little girl with an iron pipe.

Supposedly a set of comedic shorts based around the premise.

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Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankei Nai yo ne— (“Oniai&#8221

Director: Keichiro Kawaguchi
Studio: Silver Link
Air Date: 10/05/2012
Site: www.oniai.com

The story centers around Akito Himenokōji, a boy who was separated from his twin sister Akiko, but they end up living under the same roof together during high school. Now that they’re living together, she wants to fuck his brains out, and so do a bunch of other girls! How remarkably novel.

We can’t have a new season without the obligatory incest show. If there’s one thing that being a Silver Link production is likely to get you, it’s that it’s probably going to be fucking ugly. Some Mayo Chiki staff working on this.

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Hayate no Gotoku! Can’t take my eyes off you

Director: Yoichi Ueda
Studio: Manglobe
Air Date: 10/03/12
Site: http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/hayate-project/

The story of Hayate Ayasaki working alongside with maid Maria at Nagi Sanzenin's mansion continues.

After working on the financially underwhelming TWGOK, and then the similarly disappointing eroge adaptation Mashiro-iro Symphony, Manglobe is now behind yet another reboot of the popular Hayate the Combat Butler franchise. Of slight interest is the author, Kenjirou Hata’s, increased involvement with the project. Perhaps he finally came to his senses and realized that the true pairing needed to happen in Hayate, hinted above in the choice of image for this entry, and is now working to make it happen.

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Kamisama Kiss

Director: Akitaro Daichi
Studio: TMS Entertainment
Air Date: 10/01/12
Site: http://www.mikagesha.com/

Nanao Momozono suddenly becomes homeless after her dad disappeared and left a huge debt behind, which forced her to leave the apartment. On the street Nanao rescues a strange man from a dog. To thank her, he gives her his house, which proves to be a run-down shrine, inhabited by a hostile fox-eared young man. Confused and tired with no other place to go to, she decides to stay, but this proves to be more difficult than expected...

Daichi is a director well-known for shows such as Kodocha, Now and Then, Here and There, and Gag Manga Biyori among others(the list of shows he’s worked on really is quite varied, ranging from really wacky comedies like GMB and Sexy Commando to shoujo romances to, well, NTHT). I’m not familiar with the manga it’s adapting, but the synopsis and what I’ve read about it indicates there being a pretty average plot--a cute normal girl meets a handsome young man, and they’ll fall in love, one way or the other. The PV was . . . underwhelming.

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Aoi Sekai no Chuushin De

Director: Tetsuya Yanagisawa
Studio: 5th Avenue
Air Date: 10/20/12
Site: http://aoisekai.net/anime.html

In the battle between parodical Segua (Sega) Kingdom and Ninterdo (Nintendo) Empire, the light-footed Gear (Sonic) appeared to defend his kingdom from the threat of Ninterdo's powerful emperor, Marcus (Mario).

A novelty piece whose appeal is predicated around a nerd-friendly piece of satire: console wars as fought by console manufacturer mascots transformed into console warriors. Only other thing of interest is that this isn’t a full series; there will be three episodes, one airing in Fall, the other two airing next year.

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Medaka Box Abnormal

Director: Shouji Saeki
Studio: Gainax
Air Date: 10/10/12
Site: http://medakabox.jp/

Medaka, president of the school, fights dudes you won’t care about.

No one really cared when the first season aired, and I doubt the second season will turn out to be any different. Abnormal will cover some interesting battles as the series continues its shift into a full-on battle shonen, but the point where the manga truly hit its stride--coinciding with the introduction of its most popular character--happens at the end of the arc Medaka Box Abnormal covers. The first season sold so poorly I wouldn’t hold out any hopes for a continuation past this one.

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Jormungand: PERFECT ORDER

Director: Keitaro Motonaga
Studio: White Fox
Air Date: 10/02/12
Site: http://www.jormungand.tv/

The series follows Koko Hekmatyar, a young arms dealer who sells weapons under HCLI, an international shipping corporation that secretly deals in the arms trade. As one of the company's unofficial weapon dealers, she secretly sells weapons in many countries while avoiding the local authorities and law enforcement as most of her work is actually illegal under international law. Traveling with her is her team of bodyguards who are mostly composed of ex-military veterans. Her latest addition to her crew is Jonah, a seemingly emotionless child soldier who is skilled in combat yet ironically hates arms dealers. Jonah joins Koko as he wishes to find the arms dealer responsible for his family's death. What follows is Koko and her crew's escapades around the world.

Not that familiar with the show asides from what I’ve gleaned of the standard complaints about a White Fox show, as in, it’s ugly and bad. That said people still seem drawn by its premise, which would also be typical of a White Fox show: carried by the material it adapts from.

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Bakuman 3

Director: Kenichi Kasai / Noriaki Akitaya
Studio: J.C. Staff
Air Date: 10/06/12

Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi have come a long way since they started making manga in middle school, but trials still await them as they head towards their goal of getting an anime adaption for one of their manga. As they continue to grow as artists and as people, they will be faced with new friends, new rivals, and new hurdles to overcome.

People still watch this?

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Teekyu

Director: Shin Itagaki
Studio: MAPPA
Air Date: 10/07/12
Site: http://te-kyu.com/

The manga centers around a girls' tennis team. (The title is a wordplay on a Japanese term for tennis, teikyū.)

It’s a set of three-minute shorts about a couple of girls in a light music club tennis club who doesn’t actually play much music play much tennis. I guess MAPPA is behind it, which could possibly be somewhat interesting (it’s not); Shin Itagaki is directing, writing, designed the characters, and is possibly ordering food for the staff which consists of himself and unsold stacks of Ben-to BDs retrieved from an Amazon warehouse. It’s all pretty ugly.

More interesting than anything about this junk is the fact that the studio is reportedly working on a movie based on a Fumiyo Kono manga. Which you should be excited by.

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Hiiro no Kakera s2 or, Rape Fantasy: The Reverse Harem Edition

Director: Bob Shirohata
Studio: DEEN
Air Date: hopefully never
Site: http://www.hiironokakera.tv/

Tamaki Kasuga has supposedly gone to live with her grandmother after her parents are transferred overseas. But the real reason for her arrival is that she must continue the role, handed down from her ancestor Princess Tamayori, to seal the sword Onikirimaru. Five young men serve as her guardians against the mysterious Logos.

Why do we call these things ‘reverse-harem’ when the reverse of a harem wouldn’t be a harem at all?

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Initial D Fifth Stage

Director: TBA
Studio: TBA
Air Date: TBA
Site: http://www.perfectchoice-pr.com/initial-d/

Ugly cg cars.

Slated to air half a dozen episodes on a pay-per-view service, with not much else known about it.

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haitai nanafa

Director: that guy who directed Recorder to Randsell, which was about that 5th grade kid who looked like an adult and his older sister who looked five years old, or something. The premise for that one was pretty bad and I have no idea what this one is about and to be honest I don’t really care. It looks fucking awful.

Studio: Passhone
Air Date: hopefully never
Site: why do you want to know

no

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Aikatsu

Director: Ryuichi Kimura
Studio: Sunrise
Air Date: 10/08/12
Site: http://www.aikatsu.net/

A show about idols based on an arcade card game.

It’s a show about idols based on an arcade card game.

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Seitokai no Ichizon (new)

Director: Kenichi Imaizumi
Studio: AIC
Air Date: 10/13/12
Site: http://seitokai-no-ichizon.com/

The series, which is also called Hekiyō Gakuen Seito-kaigi Jiroku (The Records of the Hekiyō Academy Student Council’s Activities), revolves around a private high school whose student council is chosen entirely by popularity vote. Because of this, Ken Sugisaki is the only male representative, in the otherwise all bishōjo student council, that may enter the “sacred sanctuary” of the council’s meeting room. At the behest of Council President Kurimu Sakurano (pictured at right), Sugisaki records the minutes of the council meetings, which devolve into daily conversations about the students’ lives and interests.

The change of studios--from DEEN to AIC--accompanied by a change in staff--is probably a good thing. Probably.

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Asura (movie)

Director: Keiichi Satou
Studio: Toei Animation
Release Date: 09/29/12
Site: http://asura-movie.com/

The director of Tiger & Bunny, working on this cg adaptation of an old George Akiyama manga about a boy struggling in famine-stricken Japan. It looks pretty bad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jzd2Lbmy_M, so I’m sure people here will want to see it when there’s a home release somewhere down the line.



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Monsuno

Studio: LARX Entertainment

Some sort of a collaborative west-and-east toy-ad project between Nicktoons and some other Japanese company.

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Wooser no Sono Higurashi

Studio: Sanzigen

It’s based on a web manga written by one of the members of supercell, or something. Short 3D animated clips airing on October 2nd, with voices by Mamoru Miyano, who will voice every single character including all the girls and the wooser thing. At least, if that happened it’d be somewhat interesting.

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Oshiri Kajiri Mushi

Studio: Kinema Citrus

I guess, kinda like how the whole Black Rock Shooter thing started off a picture by huke that in turn was inspired by a song, this comes from a song called . . . the Butt Biting Insect. Okay.

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Busou Shinki

Studio: 8-bit

Toy ads for toys about manhandling little mecha girls who call you master.

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Cross Fight B-Daman eS

Studio: SynergySP

Toy ads for some marble shooting contraption.

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OADVNAS: http://i.imgur.com/GR7qn.png

Works that might be worth the time:

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Code Geass: Akito the Exiled

The side story takes place in 2017 a.t.b., around the time Lelouch took on the alter-ego “Zero” and built up his “Black Knights” rebellion army. The setting is in Europe, where the Euro Universe (E.U.) allied nations are being invaded by the overwhelming forces of the Holy Britannian Empire. On the verge of defeat, the E.U. army forms a special division known as “W-O″, of which a young pilot named Akito Hyuuga is a member. Layla Malkal , a former Britannian Aristocrat comes to the E.U.'s aid, commanding the “Wyvern” Knightmare corps comprised of Japanese teenagers. They recklessly plunge into a battlefield, where the survival rate is extremely low, at about 5% only. They fight for their freedom, and for a "home" to which they can return.

Kazuki Akane is directing this more serious take on the Code Geass series, with brand-new characters and an original storyline. Duckroll's impression is probably the most comprehensive one so far.

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Arata-naru Sekai

The story follows a "time researcher" and a group of children in a depopulated world that finds itself stuck in time. In order to save humanity, some of the characters are chosen to travel to the future (depicted in the anime), and others to the past (depicted in the manga), while those who are deemed unsuitable for the technology stay in the present (depicted in the novel.)

It’s a multi-media project with different characters for each format (but revolving around the same theme, I suppose). Created by the author of Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko, this particular OVA will be from Madhouse, directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa.

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Usogui

Usogui follows the exploits of Bak Madarame known as The Lie Eater as he gambles against malevolent people who wish to kill him in the ultimate gamble. The games are as depraved as the people who place the bet such as Old Maid, Hangman and Escape the Abandoned Building. Bak's ultimate goal to keep his life and in this process enters Kagerou the third party who oversees and secures these games and gets rid of anyone who interferes with them. Follow Bak as he attempts to out-gamble and get control of Kagerou.

I’m always down for some gambling shows. Not familiar with the manga, and information about the anime--being bundled with the 26th volume of the manga--is scant at best.

 

[Ultimadrago]

I'm looking forward to it!

 

[Articalys]

Lots of shows for everyone this season. Currently I've got Chuunibyo, Magi, Medaka Box, Psycho-Pass, and Robotics;Notes on the list, with adjustments as needed.

 

[Tomat]

Will something drive Duckroll to snap again this season?

Spoiler

Will I actually watch something current and have anything relevant to say?

Watching:
Jormungand

Curious about:
JoJo
Little Busters
Psycho Pass (Solely because everyone else is hyping it up)
Maybe Robotics;Notes
Btoom

 

[dakkumauji]

Can't be any worst than Summer!

 

[Hellsing321]

Anime sucks!

But at least we got Gintama!

 

[Narag]

Bring on the whatever it is I'm watching this season.

 

[madp]

New things to watch.

 

[trejo]

Guys, Hyouka is awesome!

 

[BGBW]

I might take a small break and cut back on the anime this season. Continue with the shows that are not finished and get back into Gintama. Going to be extra picky and not just stick with things to the end.

 

[Mecha]

Jojo, Magi, and Gyrozetter! I have been waiting for this day.

 

[Brazil]

Chuunibyou shall be great.

 

[Envelope]

JoJo, Magi, Tonari no Kaibutsu and TLRD will keep me busy.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Guess Im watching

Zetsuen no Tempest
K
Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter
Bakuman 3
Hiiro No Kakera 2
Little Busters!

Ixion Saga Dt
Psycho Pass
Magi
Code:Breaker

Jormungand: Perfect Order
Medaka Box: Abnormal
Robotics;Notes -
Btooom!
Aoi Sekai no Chuushin de


Shin Sekai Yori (FTNW)
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Bring on the whatever it is I'm watching this season.

I suspect there will be girls.

 

[Branduil]

Will watch:

From the New World

Magi

Gothicmade

Psycho-Pass

Robotics;Notes

Nerawareta Gakuen

Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb

Zetsuen no Tempest

Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun

 

[Envelope]

Oh yeah, and K.

I refuse to watch I'm a pretentious Hipster who Forgot to grow up and I want a date on principle.

 

[Ultimadrago]

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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! - or, Regardless of My Adolescent Delusions of Grandeur, I Want a Date!

Hopefully, it’s not as inconsistent--filled with the dead weight of jokes without punchlines--or polarizing as the last.

Whatever.

 

[firehawk12]

This intolerance shouldn't be tolerated!

When did firehawk become this sexist.

This would actually be a good title for the thread too.

The truth shall set you free!

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Oh yeah, and K.

K will be amazing

 

[darkside31337]

So excited for this season.

Too many shows for me to list to check out.

But theres only one hype train to get on. PSYCHO PASS.

*claiming Akane as waifu, deal with it*

 

[BGBW]

So far I think the only must watches for me are JoJo, new KyoAnus show and Sega Vs Nintendo.

 

[trejo]

I'll be checking out a bunch of stuff but lists are for nerds so...

 

[Narag]

So excited for this season.

Too many shows for me to list to check out.

But theres only one hype train to get on. PSYCHO PASS.

*claiming Akane as waifu, deal with it*

Oh yeah that's the one I was excited for. We'll never get a PV for it though.

 

[duckroll]

Watching:

From the New World

Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun

Gyrozetter

Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai

Zetsuen no Tempest

K

Btooom!

Jojo's Bizarre Adventures

Code:Breaker

Magi

Girls und Panzer

Medaka Box Abnormal

Psycho-Pass

Robotics;Notes


Will probably drop a few in 2 weeks. Lol.

 

[darkside31337]

Oh yeah that's the one I was excited for. We'll never get a PV for it though.

Poor duckroll. Good thing BONES broke him to the point where he forgot theres no PV for this show.

 

[OceanBlue]

Opening this thread and seeing Momo was a pleasant surprise.

I can't wait for Chuunibyou! Sakurasou might be okay too. Also kinda excited for OniAi.

 

[Gouda Jouji]

I have info for Initial D Fifth Stage, don't know if it's confirmed yet though:

Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
Studio: Synergy SP
Air Date: 11/4/12

Spoiler

I don't think the CG is ugly.

 

[Narag]

Poor duckroll. Good thing BONES broke him to the point where he forgot theres no PV for this show.

Does he hate BONES now? Did the malgraph prophecy come to pass?

 

[Regulus Tera]

K-ON >>>>>> Hyouka

 

[Moral Panic]

It only really takes 1 or 2 great shows to make a good season, so this season has promise but tbh I'm not that optimistic. Chuunibyou seems like it's gonna be really really marmite, and when that goes sour the rest of the season will have to do a lot to bring up the average impression as a whole.

 

[darkside31337]

I have info for Initial D Fifth Stage, don't know if it's confirmed yet though:

Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto
Studio: Synergy SP
Air Date: 11/4/12

Spoiler

I don't think the CG is ugly.

Seriously can't wait for more Initial D.

I grew up hitting up the arcade which had a machine by the school every day for years. The anime wasn't great at all but it was a treat to watch. And nothing beats the greatness of the Initial D soundtrack, nothing!

 

[/XX/]

People, seeing something as short as Te-kyū doesn't hurt... and Mr. Itagaki is a cool guy, I swear!

 

[dakkumauji]

Sucks for me I'm still watching last season's boring crap.

Tari Tari 13

Ok end, I guess. Sure, everything just kinda fell into place and all the drama just resolved itself really without a second thought. I guess that's basically how this show has been. Everything just gets resolved and no one really mulls over it and just moves onto the next set of problems or whatever.

Wien is still the best character.

 

[slightconfuse]

a lot of intresting stuff this season

 

[Steroyd]

I shall proceed to watch the first episode of everything and see what type of shit they are.

 

[Kurita]

Jojo, Zetsuen No Tempest and Psycho-Pass are on my watching list.

I'm still watching Space Brothers.

 

[BluWacky]

I'm ready to board the hype train into the post-apocalyptic psychic future tomorrow.

But in the mean time!

La Maison en Petits Cubes

Awful confession time - I don't think of this as "anime". It doesn't fit into the neat visual boxes I think of for anime. That's not to say it's bad - because it really isn't, it's beautiful and enjoyable - but it means it gets upgraded to "animation"...

Visually it's Up by way of The Snowman; content wise it's also Up, but by way of Jeff Lemire's Underwater Welder. But such reduction isn't fair because that suggests it's poor - when it isn't.

Not much else to talk about. It's short, it's sweet, and the visuals and music work together nicely. I have no idea what the competition was for the Oscar that year but it probably deserved it.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Also Wall of Shame:

cajunator	1,129
kayos90	761
Branduil	728
Jexhius	723
duckroll	681
Chet Rippo	546
wonzo	484
Narag	480
Dedication Through Light	473
Mad Pierrot	453
firehawk12	436
cosmicblizzard	387
KO Traveling Hobo	369
Dresden	346
Jarmel	344
hosannainexcelsis	277
Articalys	273
PdotMichael	262
BGBW	247
Ultimadrago	241
Regulus Tera	237
Envelope	236
chickdigger802	234
TurkishEmperor	224
jman2050	198
RurouniZel	198
R_thanatos	192
Watanabe Kazuma	180
dimb	178
Thoraxes	175
dakkumauji	174
fertygo	164
darkside31337	163
icarus-daedelus	162
yn-neko hates a cat	150
Firemind	150
moonspeak	141
BluWacky	140
Uchip	136
amishpriest99	133
trejo	126
Instro	126
Defuser	126
/XX/	124
RyougaSaotome	113
OceanBlue	113
Mandoric	111
Razgriz-Specter	110
Hitokage	101

I can't believe I only started posting here last week and I made it into the Wall of Shame. :/

 

[madp]

People, seeing something as short as Te-kyū doesn't hurt... and Mr. Itagaki is a cool guy, I swear!

It's just too morbid. Can't stand to place my eyes upon the freshly-dead.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Reg-chan, you mention FFXII entirely too often.

FFXII was a great game though.

SQUARE ENIX IS SHITE ANYWAY

 

[Lucentto]

Quite a few shows for me this season, let's see how many end up being shit.

 

[/XX/]

It's just too morbid. Can't stand to place my eyes upon the freshly-dead.

Mad Pierrot, I think I'm slightly confused by that response, man! What do you mean?

 

[Regulus Tera]

It’s ToLoveRu, that cesspool of manic fanservice, the quagmire of loose morals, stripped of any petty concerns like ‘storytelling’ and ‘quality,’ single-handedly responsible for declining birth-rates in Japan and the mental corruption of males worldwide. ToLoveRu Darkness was the spinoff-cum-sequel of the original manga, deviously born out of both shamelessness and rage, the product of a maddened cuckold furious at having drawn 2-D panties for a living even as another man lowered that of his wife. This is the anime for those without shame, for those who have fallen so low there is no turning back.

You make it sound like there's some actual NTR in To-Love-Ru Darkness. Maybe then it wouldn't be so fucking boring.

 

[madp]

Mad Pierrot, I think I'm slightly confused by that response, man! What do you mean?

Implying that it's just too sad to see what MAPPA's been forced to work on after a single series!

 

[Regulus Tera]

"Dude the character development is AWESOME you just gotta sit through 18 episodes before it gets there!"

To be fair, one of my favourite animus ever is Utena and nothing happens in that for the first 34 episodes hyuk hyuk. [/reductionism]

 

[Dresden]

Implying that it's just too sad to see what MAPPA's been forced to work on after a single series!

Doesn't matter, Fumiyo Kono man.

 

[Narag]

I shall proceed to watch the first episode of everything and see what type of shit they are.

Ah, the firehawk challenge.

 

[Brazil]

You make it sound like there's some actual NTR in To-Love-Ru Darkness. Maybe then it wouldn't be so fucking boring.

What are some good NTR shows, anyway?

I need some fresh NTR in my veins right now.