Summer Sun Means Time for Cartoons: The Summer 2012 Anime Thread

phil_ · 06-24-2012, 11:03 AM

We totally skipped the spring season.

This summer is full of sequels! Remember Moyashimon? That one with the agriculture school and a dude who could see microbes who looked like this:

Well, Moyashimon Returns starts July 5.

Also, Yuruyuri, Dog Days, that Horizon show you guys hate, Lagrange is back after a season off, as well as continuations of Space Bros, Sainto Koga, and other stuff I guess. Is Sankarea going for more than twelve episodes? The anime has just finished the introduction, but if it goes much further we'll have main characters who aren't in the theme song...

New stuff that I'm interested in:

Jinrui wa Suitaishimashita (Humanity has Declined): It's about a human ambassador to the fairies who have inherited the Earth after our decline. The first promo opens with talking dead chickens. So, whimsy and weirdness seem to be in order with a pastel color pallet. Maybe I'll be completely wrong about what this show ends up being like I was with Moretsu Pirates, but that turned out ok, anyway.

Uta Koi: It's, like, a period piece loosely based off the Hyakunin Isshu, a.k.a. those poem cards from Cards and Crying (oh, and Chihayafuru has a second season announced, just don't know when). Maybe I just want to watch cartoon people in kimono, but I'm gonna give it a shot.

Blood Lad: A vampire obsessed with Japanese nerd culture (an otaku, if you like) falls in love with a human who dies, and he attempts to resurrect her from a ghost. I figure if writing synopses like that are part of why I watch anime, I may as well watch the shows that let me write them.

As for ~~stuff that's done or finishing or whatever~~ the spring stuff we skipped, Fate/Zero had a sad, sad ending for everyone but Waver and maybe Kiritsugu is you ignore the whole losing his daughter forever thing. Sankarea is still full of male gaze just like the comic, but I like Furuya enough to enjoy it anyway. Korra isn't anime. Sakamichi has nice music and painful highschool romance, plus I was made aware of a seventies student protest movement mirroring the student protest movement in the States. Learning!

And Smile Precure is still the best time of the week. Only three more weeks until Clown Satan is revived. I shouldn't be excited about that; it's a bad thing!

What cartoons are you people excited about?

Ryong · 06-24-2012, 11:16 AM

I think I'll watch Sword Art Online.

And...

That's it I think.

Mr.Bookworm · 06-24-2012, 01:09 PM

Are we too good for gigantic anime posters now?

Noooot actually anything I'm all that interested in, though, except for Berserk.

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Originally Posted by phil_

Fate/Zero had a sad, sad ending for everyone but Waver and maybe Kiritsugu is you ignore the whole losing his daughter forever thing.

Kiritsugu had like the absolute worst ending in the entire story, but you could have probably seen that coming.

Kyanbu The Legend · 06-24-2012, 01:49 PM

Tales of symphonia is getting more OVA, neat. Though I'm currently busy watching the dub of Casshern Sins and Deadman Wonderland.

Ryong · 06-24-2012, 01:56 PM

Saber's ending was the weirdest, how she made Lanselot want to kill because she never tried to solve the situation with herself, Guinevere and Lanselot.

phil_ · 06-24-2012, 09:48 PM

You know what I forgot while I was busting through that opening post? Other than the obligatory chart? Eureka Seven AO is actually really good, especially this last episode. I'm rather happy as a fan of the original series.

Also, I considered Sword Art Online, but it's, like, "The hero is the best videoman in the videos" wish-fulfillment or something. Let me know if it's fun despite that; I might watch it with a recommendation.

Bells · 06-24-2012, 10:12 PM

DO NOT

i repeat... DO NOT watch Nazo no Kanojo X.

The sheer amount of WTF this anime serves is literally a step above what you guys are used to.

Gregness · 06-24-2012, 10:23 PM

Ditto on the Tales thing, and I see a couple of Code Geass spinoff miniseries too, but what's that Kenichi thing? An OVA? Just some extra behind the scenes stuff?

And when is part 3 of rebuild of Evangelion supposed to come out?

And it seems Dakara Boku Wa, H ga Dekinai is trying to be a riff on Ah My Goddess?

Mr.Bookworm · 06-25-2012, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Bells

DO NOT

i repeat... DO NOT watch Nazo no Kanojo X.

The sheer amount of WTF this anime serves is literally a step above what you guys are used to.

Empathic drool fetishes are really not that bizarre.

I give it like a 6 on the weird-o-meter.

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Originally Posted by Gregness

And when is part 3 of rebuild of Evangelion supposed to come out?

This fall, apparently. In Japan, at least, no idea when it'll get subbed.

phil_ · 07-02-2012, 09:54 PM

Fairies are tactless.

Watch Humanity has Declined.

06-24-2012, 11:03 AM	#1
phil_ Just sleeping Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: At home, probably in bed. Posts: 6,482	Summer Sun Means Time for Cartoons: The Summer 2012 Anime Thread We totally skipped the spring season. This summer is full of sequels! Remember Moyashimon? That one with the agriculture school and a dude who could see microbes who looked like this: Well, Moyashimon Returns starts July 5. Also, Yuruyuri, Dog Days, that Horizon show you guys hate, Lagrange is back after a season off, as well as continuations of Space Bros, Sainto Koga, and other stuff I guess. Is Sankarea going for more than twelve episodes? The anime has just finished the introduction, but if it goes much further we'll have main characters who aren't in the theme song... New stuff that I'm interested in: Jinrui wa Suitaishimashita (Humanity has Declined): It's about a human ambassador to the fairies who have inherited the Earth after our decline. The first promo opens with talking dead chickens. So, whimsy and weirdness seem to be in order with a pastel color pallet. Maybe I'll be completely wrong about what this show ends up being like I was with Moretsu Pirates, but that turned out ok, anyway. Uta Koi: It's, like, a period piece loosely based off the Hyakunin Isshu, a.k.a. those poem cards from Cards and Crying (oh, and Chihayafuru has a second season announced, just don't know when). Maybe I just want to watch cartoon people in kimono, but I'm gonna give it a shot. Blood Lad: A vampire obsessed with Japanese nerd culture (an otaku, if you like) falls in love with a human who dies, and he attempts to resurrect her from a ghost. I figure if writing synopses like that are part of why I watch anime, I may as well watch the shows that let me write them. As for ~~stuff that's done or finishing or whatever~~ the spring stuff we skipped, Fate/Zero had a sad, sad ending for everyone but Waver and maybe Kiritsugu is you ignore the whole losing his daughter forever thing. Sankarea is still full of male gaze just like the comic, but I like Furuya enough to enjoy it anyway. Korra isn't anime. Sakamichi has nice music and painful highschool romance, plus I was made aware of a seventies student protest movement mirroring the student protest movement in the States. Learning! And Smile Precure is still the best time of the week. Only three more weeks until Clown Satan is revived. I shouldn't be excited about that; it's a bad thing! What cartoons are you people excited about? __________________ Be T-Rexcellent to each other, tako.

06-24-2012, 01:49 PM	#4
Kyanbu The Legend Local Rookie Indie Dev Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New Jersey Posts: 5,497	Tales of symphonia is getting more OVA, neat. Though I'm currently busy watching the dub of Casshern Sins and Deadman Wonderland. __________________

06-24-2012, 09:48 PM	#6
phil_ Just sleeping Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: At home, probably in bed. Posts: 6,482	You know what I forgot while I was busting through that opening post? Other than the obligatory chart? Eureka Seven AO is actually really good, especially this last episode. I'm rather happy as a fan of the original series. Also, I considered Sword Art Online, but it's, like, "The hero is the best videoman in the videos" wish-fulfillment or something. Let me know if it's fun despite that; I might watch it with a recommendation. __________________ Be T-Rexcellent to each other, tako.

06-24-2012, 10:12 PM	#7
Bells That's so PC of you Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In a Server-sided Dimension where time is meaningless Posts: 10,490	DO NOT i repeat... DO NOT watch Nazo no Kanojo X. The sheer amount of WTF this anime serves is literally a step above what you guys are used to. __________________ *BELLS STORE : Clothes! You wear* them! Free US Shipping Subscription System? WTF?! Zazzle Black!**

06-24-2012, 10:23 PM	#8
Gregness Never give up. Never give in. Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 1,034	Ditto on the Tales thing, and I see a couple of Code Geass spinoff miniseries too, but what's that Kenichi thing? An OVA? Just some extra behind the scenes stuff? And when is part 3 of rebuild of Evangelion supposed to come out? And it seems Dakara Boku Wa, H ga Dekinai is trying to be a riff on Ah My Goddess? __________________ A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert Heinlein

06-24-2012, 11:16 AM	#2
Ryong Professional Threadkiller Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brazil Posts: 3,798	I think I'll watch Sword Art Online. And... That's it I think.

06-24-2012, 01:56 PM	#5
Ryong Professional Threadkiller Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brazil Posts: 3,798	Saber's ending was the weirdest, how she made Lanselot want to kill because she never tried to solve the situation with herself, Guinevere and Lanselot.

07-02-2012, 09:54 PM	#10
phil_ Just sleeping Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: At home, probably in bed. Posts: 6,482	Fairies are tactless. Watch Humanity has Declined. __________________ Be T-Rexcellent to each other, tako.