The season of summer... the season of anime as some people call it. And the season that started a small new chapter in my life.
I've had my fair share of anime and manga ever since I was a kid. I used to be the typical kid that went crazy over Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, and Pokemon. As I grew a bit older, I moved on to reading and watching Shaman King, One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach. Having watched and read all these anime and manga focused heavily on fighting, I never expected anime and manga to have such a wide variety of genres (At least, none of the other genres appealed to me). However, I soon grew older to appreciate masterpieces like Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, and Slam Dunk. And for awhile, I stopped reading/watching anything else because I thought I got a good enough glimpse of the best that the anime world had to offer.
I was given a reality check when I started watching a number of amazing anime that I never knew existed, during the summer of 2013.
Ever since the start of summer, I have been powering through several well-known anime series. After watching a fair share of all these amazing anime, I even found out my love for the slice-of-life genre, because slice-of-life anime tends to calm me down after a stressful day of college and extracurricular activities.
By making an account on MAL, I believe I will be able to explore more about anime and grow to love it even more over time. And as my duty as a MAL member, I will spread the love that I feel for anime to other members. If I get at least one person to read my reviews and start watching shows that I loved, that means more to me than being "top voted" or "most helpful."
The reviews that I write are mostly at the spur of the moment, and I try to hash it out within a week after finishing a series. I usually only write the reviews if the anime left such a strong impression that I had to write something about it. This is not to say I'll write about every anime that I give a high score. Some of the high-scoring anime are too well-explored, and others are too faint in my memories for me to write a satisfying review about them.
Feel free to leave any sort of feedback regarding my reviews!
Having said all that, I hope you all enjoy what I have to offer to the MAL community!
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Oh btw, I know who you're but I'm might be wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong.
I'm looking at completing some older anime from early 2000-2011 that I've put on hold such as Dragon Crisis and The Familiar of Zero off the top of my head. I don't seem to ever get around to it though.
And if you ever find a talking stuffed animal, your time will come too haha.
I'm actually worried for the next season as I feel like this season's s2's were a lot better. Then again, non non biyori and working are quite nice so I might take that back. I'll definitely miss kinmoza though.
F/sn has been nice in the sense that it keeps me interested as to how they'll present the story in light of what happened in f/z. Ufotable added quite a bit of stuff compared to the DEEN adaptation and even the green tentacle monster from last week's episode and such keeps me engaged. For example, my favorite part about the episode was probably the conversation after the dolphins with them going on and on about whether it was "successful" which in Japanese the sound of the characters can also mean "sexual intercourse". DEEN adaptation also had Shirou asking the same question but little things like them having Rin go on and on about it made what would otherwise have been a dull episode quite a bit more interesting.
Euphonium's been a love-hate relationship of sorts. Visually it's great (sasuga kyoani). The band drama kind of makes me want to blow my brains out. Some characters are really great while others are absolutely worthless. Interactions between Reina and Kumiko is probably the main reason I'm still watching. I agree Kumiko's a nice character for the same reasons you said, but she alone isn't interesting enough to carry the show with how many dead weights there are, I feel. Natsuki-senpai's ponytail's great too. I actually love that hairstyle so much jesus.
I haven't watched the most recent episode of Plamemo. The romance I would have bought if I had a bit more episodes to see the relationship between the two of them develop. As it is though, it's hard for me to see anything aside from the initial infatuation that the MC started out with. I've always like the premise enough that I would have enjoyed a 2 cour but I guess it's whatever. It could have been worse. I'm somewhat salty but not as much as kumiko losing her ponytail in euphonium.
I kind of agree with ore monogatari. I feel like the content's getting almost repetitive since the first few eps were a lot more progressive in a lot of ways but I'm just afraid it'd ruin what's not exactly broken in its attempt to fix it if it took the drama route.
I somewhat feel the same way with Soma but each ep is enjoyable enough that I don't want some insane plot twist to hit me just yet. They're both 2 cours so I guess I'll find out later.
I still have no clue what the fuck's happening with Kekkai sensen and I'd guess i wouldn't even be watching if it wasn't for the god-tier OP/ED. It's not that it's awful or anything. I just think there was a lot of potential that they missed out on for the sake of keeping things episodic and maintaining the vibe it started out with. There's the overarching plot with the sibling but I think there could have been a lot more to the show.
Arslan Senki feels like it's just dragging on. I don't know personally where the story's going so I guess I'm partially eager to see what will happen but I don't hold insane expectations for it at this point.
Man, stuff's happening in Houkago no Pleiades and I feel like I haven't paid any attention in the previous episodes. This whole show and how bored I was watching it earlier on is a testament to how I'm willing to watch anything with cute 2d grills.
I feel kind of ambivalent about the summer. Are you still going to school? Wait no, you probably mean the anime season.
First off, I have thoroughly enjoyed continuations of shows like Nisekoi, Kinmoza, Sidonia no Kishi and Danna ga etc etc. In fact, I'd say all of those shows have grown me much more than when I watched them in the past. I've also found the newer characters in those shows quite easy to like as well, even if their introduction felt rather abrupt. They don't really have too much substance but are always enjoyable and consistency is quite important.
F/sn has also been better than what I expected it to be based on my experience with the VN where I always felt the content of an individual arc was very weak on their own. It's not perfect by any means and honestly the themes and dialogue feels very long-winded, but at the very least it's probably the best looking show.
Euphonium I was meaning to drop but somehow ended up grudgingly watching on until I reached ep 8 where I felt like the interaction between the characters seemed as though they shaped up to something. In other words, it felt like I was watching something aside from band drama which was honestly quite awful for me personally.
I'm not sure what I expected out of Plamemo in terms of the content but as for the quality, it's about as good as my expectations for it. It feels overbearing on the moe/comedy aspect sometimes and the drama can feel very sudden at times and definitely nothing particular mindblowing, but it also handles the themes well enough that I don't particularly dislike it.
Shokugeki no Soma has been very enjoyable. I'd like to think it's good enough if a show does what it's striving to do well, regardless of whether or not I take it seriously.
In that sense it might be my favorite show this season. Maybe Ore Monogatari would take that spot though just because of how much I like everything about the show even if it's very diabetes-inducing.
I've found Arslan Senki, DanMachi, Yamada-kun7, and kekkai sensen to be a lot more enjoyable than what I gave them credit for on the first viewing. I don't think too much of them but they have their own quirks that I think are actually rather nice.
I'm still kind of watching Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku, Owari no Seraph, Houkago no Pleiades, Disappearance of Nagato and Triage X but I honestly don't know why. I probably shouldn't. I dropped everything else airing this season I think.
All in all, it's actually one of my favorite seasons surprisingly enough. Maybe it has something to do with me not enjoying other things in life as much lately, but I can say without a doubt that I have enjoyed quite a number of these shows.