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When Stuff Airs: http://countdown.mandragon.info/
List of Legal Anime Streams; Who's streaming What: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-10-09/north-american-stream-list/october-3-9
thanks to haly for the banner~
Reminder: All spoilers need to be tagged or otherwise hidden from a passive reading of this thread. Failure to abide by this will result in a ban.
Shows continuing into this season, from the last
Sket Dance
Idolmaster
Penguindrum
Gintama
Suite Precure
Jewelpet Sunshine
=================================================================
Guilty Crown
http://youtu.be/KLV4PGgm50s
Anime Saving Potential: 98%
Code Geass:
Series Composition:
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Ichiro Okouchi
Screenplay:
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Ichiro Okouchi
Guilty Crown:
Series Composition:
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Ichiro Okouchi
!!!
Clearly, a show for the ages.
Its a two-cour noitaminA show about mecha and revolutions and j-pop internet idols and chicks in revealing dresses and fabulous dudes with magic swords fighting random stuff.
It really cant get any better than this! Cute girls in wheelchairs piloting giant robots pivoting out of slow-mo explosions framed against glittering cityscapes - mildly retarded half-naked chicks whispering things into the protagonists ear as he pulls stuff out of them to fight THE GOVERNMENT- damn, guys, this is going to be brilliant!
Un-Go
http://youtu.be/cvRsOrgDj7I
Anime Saving Potential: 30%
Second of the two noitaminA shows airing this season. Not expecting much. On one hand you have guys who worked on the original FMA and Oh! Edo Rocket working on this, but on the other hand they also did some questionable things like direct Gundam 00 or write Angel Cop and Shikabane Hime.
Chihayafuru
http://youtu.be/zAU2eGJKjxM
Anime Saving Potential: 65%
One of the very few shows this season with a chance to actually be good. Its a fluffyshoujo josei about card games and romance. Morio Asaka is directing.
Mirai Nikki
http://youtu.be/ieoktcpgMqs
Anime Saving Potential: 0%
From the director of Shuffle and the writer of Boku no Pico. Scheduled to run through Fall and Winter. Its based off the popular manga of the same name, which started off as an enjoyable death-game affair featuring a wimply Shinji-esque lead paired off with his extraordinarily capable, murderous, obsessive girlfriend. The good news, especially for fans of the manga, is that with 24+ episodes itll likely cover the entire story. The bad news is that its going to be a bad show.
Maken-Ki
Anime Saving Potential: 0%
Length of the trailer: 90 seconds.
Number of pantyshots: 18
Assuming that the average episode is 23 minutes long, there will be 276 pantyshots every episode. What a deal!
Nonoriri - "Maken-ki: The legendary NTR/ahegao ero-manga and doujinshi author Takeda Hiromitsu brings you a generic fanserivice harem anime.
Hunter x Hunter
http://youtu.be/XNu0mZGX2QM
Crunchyroll simulcast
Anime saving potential: 15%
Its Hunter x Hunter, remade.
Fate/Zero
http://youtu.be/tQLvoubbie4
Anime Saving Potential 25%
Its Type-Moon shit with no Nasu, the writer of Fate/Stay Night, he of the curious mollusk sex fetish.
Instead of Nasu, it has Gen Urobuchi, he of the recent Madoka fame among other things, penning... the series of light novels on which the anime is based. Its reasonable to assume that at the very least, we wont have much in the way of teenage sexcapades with Molluscan allusions; Fate/Zero isnt about horny teenagers, its about manly men doing manly things, like killing each other, or crying. None of the previews weve seen so far have been particularly promising - most of it is just close-ups of floating CG logos with a second here and there of actual animation - but the fans should eat this up. Ei Aoki, coming off of Wandering Son, is directing.
Expect every conversation about this show in the anime thread to go like this:
a: so guys I just watched fate zero and--
b: LOL TYPE MOON
a: and--
b: LOL UFOTABLE
Persona 4: The Animation
http://youtu.be/jOhkqf5qulE
Anime Saving Potential: 0%
Its Persona 4. Fans of the game are going to watch it. People who only watched the Endurance Run are going to watch it in lieu of actually playing the game. People who never played the game are going to watch it because of the hype. It wont be great, but I doubt itll be awful either - decent at best, below-average at worst - ultimately, just another forgettable show made for the fans of the game. And thats fine.
Shakugan no Shana III
http://youtu.be/Fhu7v8XQLwU
Anime Saving Potential: 0%
Its more Shana, the third and final season of this mediocre saga. Expect tsun-tsun, and a JC Staffd ending that will make the fanboys cry.
Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere
http://youtu.be/c9bTjuU-IfE
Anime Saving Potential: 8%
Big boobs, Sunrise, director of Dragonaut, no noses.
Horizon has the dubious honor of being that one show (assuming Guilty Crown doesnt blow up two, three episodes in and takes up the mantle) where people will watch expecting nothing but mediocrity, where mediocrity is in fact the main draw.
Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing
http://youtu.be/YiOYVepzy4M
Anime Saving Potential: 25%
Its more Last Exile, from that bastion of quality, Gonzo. The deck is kinda stacked against this jaunt into the Last Exile universe - its fucking Gonzo, its another outing in a setting that probably didnt need it, and all the art makes it look like a moe-moe (pronounced moh-ay) cash-in on the franchise, just Gonzo flipping through their backlog for a hit. One of the positives is that the director and a few others from the original show is back for another stab at the series, hinting perhaps at motives beyond just simple profit, but the composition is being done by the genius writer of bombshells like A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives, Legend of Legendary Heroes, Linebarrels of Iron, and a few select episodes of Sacred Seven. What a record.
Licensed/Streamed by... (many thanks to Geneijin) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=31486013&postcount=4087
AnimeGAF IRC: What happens in IRC stays in IRC.
When Stuff Airs: http://countdown.mandragon.info/
List of Legal Anime Streams; Who's streaming What: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-10-09/north-american-stream-list/october-3-9
thanks to haly for the banner~
Reminder: All spoilers need to be tagged or otherwise hidden from a passive reading of this thread. Failure to abide by this will result in a ban.
Shows continuing into this season, from the last
Sket Dance
Idolmaster
Penguindrum
Gintama
Suite Precure
Jewelpet Sunshine
=================================================================
Guilty Crown
http://youtu.be/KLV4PGgm50s
Anime Saving Potential: 98%
Code Geass:
Series Composition:
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Ichiro Okouchi
Screenplay:
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Ichiro Okouchi
Guilty Crown:
Series Composition:
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Ichiro Okouchi
!!!
Clearly, a show for the ages.
Its a two-cour noitaminA show about mecha and revolutions and j-pop internet idols and chicks in revealing dresses and fabulous dudes with magic swords fighting random stuff.
When you stop to actually think about how good the show might be you are struck instead by the realization that its probably going to be shit and that to watch this is to witness the incremental demise of an once-quality timeslot, but who cares.
After the outbreak of the unidentified virus "Lost Christmas" in 2029, Japan has been under the control of a multi-nation organization called GHQ. Ohma Shu is a 17 year old boy who has a psychic power in his right hand. He can use the power "Ability of King" to extract tools or weapons from his friends. He has been avoiding making trouble for others but his life changes when he meets a girl named Yuzuriha Inori, a member of a resistance guerrilla group called "Undertaker", whose members pilot mecha weapons to fight against the government.
Un-Go
http://youtu.be/cvRsOrgDj7I
Anime Saving Potential: 30%
Second of the two noitaminA shows airing this season. Not expecting much. On one hand you have guys who worked on the original FMA and Oh! Edo Rocket working on this, but on the other hand they also did some questionable things like direct Gundam 00 or write Angel Cop and Shikabane Hime.
Private detectives have been out of fashion for many years, but that's how Shinjurou Yuuki identifies himself. With his superior deductive powers, Shinjurou solves various challenging cases. Meanwhile, Inga, an attractive young lad, serves as Shinjurou's buddy. But contrary to his cute appearance, he's a sharp, arrogant rogue. Why Inga sticks with Shinjurou is not immediately apparent.
The setting of the story is a post-war Tokyo of the future, one that still bears the scars of war. Ruling the land is Media King Rinroku Kaishou, who has the communications infrastructure under his thumb, giving him great power over both politics and industry. Kaishou is renowned for his use of logic and the massive amount of information at his fingertips to solve a great number of mysteries. But unbeknownst to the public at large, most of those discoveries have been the work of Shinjurou Yuuki, "the Last Great Detective." (The public, in fact, regards Shinjurou as a loser, and gives him the nickname, "Defeated Detective".) Still, Shinjurou, together with Inga, can't help but search for the truth.
Chihayafuru
http://youtu.be/zAU2eGJKjxM
Anime Saving Potential: 65%
One of the very few shows this season with a chance to actually be good. Its a fluffy
All her life, Chihaya's dream was to see her model sister become Japan's best... That is, until a quiet, unassuming transfer student named Arata tells her otherwise. A dream, he explains to her, is something she needs to work at herself.
Arata plays a competitive version of a traditional Japanese card game--known as Hyakunin Isshu--in a way Chihaya has never seen before. After taking Arata's place in a game, Chihaya discovers she has a passion for it. Now Chihaya wants to become number one in the world, the Queen of Karuta.
Mirai Nikki
http://youtu.be/ieoktcpgMqs
Anime Saving Potential: 0%
From the director of Shuffle and the writer of Boku no Pico. Scheduled to run through Fall and Winter. Its based off the popular manga of the same name, which started off as an enjoyable death-game affair featuring a wimply Shinji-esque lead paired off with his extraordinarily capable, murderous, obsessive girlfriend. The good news, especially for fans of the manga, is that with 24+ episodes itll likely cover the entire story. The bad news is that its going to be a bad show.
Yukiteru always rejected any offers to go with friends and just keeps writing a diary on his cell phone. He has what he believes is an imaginary friend called Deus Ex Machina. However, one day Deus asks him to play a survival game along with eleven others. The winner becomes the next Deus Ex Machina. In order to win, the contestants must use their diaries of the future to eliminate one another. For Yukiteru to survive, he must team up with another diary holder, a girl named Yuno.
Maken-Ki
Anime Saving Potential: 0%
Length of the trailer: 90 seconds.
Number of pantyshots: 18
Assuming that the average episode is 23 minutes long, there will be 276 pantyshots every episode. What a deal!
Nonoriri - "Maken-ki: The legendary NTR/ahegao ero-manga and doujinshi author Takeda Hiromitsu brings you a generic fanserivice harem anime.
Takeru Ohyama, a young normal yet perverted minded guy, got accepted and now goes to a school that, unknown to him, was where combat and magic is used. On the first day, he meets again after three years: Haruko Amaya, his childhood friend, Inaho Kushiya, a girl who says she's his fiance, and Kodama Himegami, a blonde who wants to kill him. Finding out that there are many girls there that just don't like him, he is told that everyone there uses a special magic ability while using an item or weapon called a Maken. Later, he finds that no Maken is acceptable for him and doesn't know what to do, since in this school the students get into duels that showcase their magic and combat power, to which he seemingly has none.
Hunter x Hunter
http://youtu.be/XNu0mZGX2QM
Crunchyroll simulcast
Anime saving potential: 15%
Its Hunter x Hunter, remade.
Gon Freecs, a young boy that lives on a small island learns that his father who he doesn't remember is an extremely famous man and has become somewhat of an amazing hunter. Gon takes the hunter exam to seek out his amazing father, but on the way while teaming up with 3 other candidates, Kurapica, Leorio, and Killua, he learns that there is more to becoming a hunter and the challenges that he must face will be beyond his imaginations.
Fate/Zero
http://youtu.be/tQLvoubbie4
Anime Saving Potential 25%
Its Type-Moon shit with no Nasu, the writer of Fate/Stay Night, he of the curious mollusk sex fetish.
Instead of Nasu, it has Gen Urobuchi, he of the recent Madoka fame among other things, penning... the series of light novels on which the anime is based. Its reasonable to assume that at the very least, we wont have much in the way of teenage sexcapades with Molluscan allusions; Fate/Zero isnt about horny teenagers, its about manly men doing manly things, like killing each other, or crying. None of the previews weve seen so far have been particularly promising - most of it is just close-ups of floating CG logos with a second here and there of actual animation - but the fans should eat this up. Ei Aoki, coming off of Wandering Son, is directing.
Expect every conversation about this show in the anime thread to go like this:
a: so guys I just watched fate zero and--
b: LOL TYPE MOON
a: and--
b: LOL UFOTABLE
Fate/zero takes place 10 years prior to the events of Fate/stay night, detailing the events of the 4th Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City. The War of the Holy Grail is a contest in which seven magi summon seven Heroic Spirits to compete to obtain the power of the "Holy Grail," which grants a miracle. After three inconclusive wars for the elusive Holy Grail, the Fourth War commences.
Founded by the Einzbern, Matō, and Tōsaka families centuries ago, the Einzbern family is determined to achieve success after three successive failures, no matter the cost. As a result, they have elected to bring the hated magus killer, Kiritsugu Emiya, into their ranks, despite his methods and reputation as a skilled mercenary and a hitman who employs whatever he can use to accomplish his goals...
Persona 4: The Animation
http://youtu.be/jOhkqf5qulE
Anime Saving Potential: 0%
Its Persona 4. Fans of the game are going to watch it. People who only watched the Endurance Run are going to watch it in lieu of actually playing the game. People who never played the game are going to watch it because of the hype. It wont be great, but I doubt itll be awful either - decent at best, below-average at worst - ultimately, just another forgettable show made for the fans of the game. And thats fine.
Yu arrives in a small town called Inaba, currently undergoing some population renovation via corpse decorations adorning telephone poles. Rumors of a mysterious channel visible only at night abound, where it is said that those who appear on the channel have something happen to them, dunno.
Shakugan no Shana III
http://youtu.be/Fhu7v8XQLwU
Anime Saving Potential: 0%
Its more Shana, the third and final season of this mediocre saga. Expect tsun-tsun, and a JC Staffd ending that will make the fanboys cry.
Sakai Yuuji, a high school student who expected his normal life to last forever, is dead. When he was on his way home he witnessed a shocking view as the world suddenly froze: people were engulfed by blue flames and a monster resembling a large doll swallowed them. Just as the monster prepared to consume Yuuji, a sword-wielding girl in black attire with flaming red eyes and hair that burns like embers saved him from the monster.
Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere
http://youtu.be/c9bTjuU-IfE
Anime Saving Potential: 8%
Big boobs, Sunrise, director of Dragonaut, no noses.
Horizon has the dubious honor of being that one show (assuming Guilty Crown doesnt blow up two, three episodes in and takes up the mantle) where people will watch expecting nothing but mediocrity, where mediocrity is in fact the main draw.
In the very far future, Humans have returned from the skies down to Earth again. In order to be able to reach the skies once more, people have created a history book called Testament, and follow its contents to reproduce events in History. However, the book stops at the year 1648, which means that fate will stop and the world will end at that date. People have mixed emotions as each nation goes on reproducing history while exploring ways to open their future. And so, the world has reached 1648, and therefore, the end of its fate. Some colossal changes are in store .
Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing
http://youtu.be/YiOYVepzy4M
Anime Saving Potential: 25%
Its more Last Exile, from that bastion of quality, Gonzo. The deck is kinda stacked against this jaunt into the Last Exile universe - its fucking Gonzo, its another outing in a setting that probably didnt need it, and all the art makes it look like a moe-moe (pronounced moh-ay) cash-in on the franchise, just Gonzo flipping through their backlog for a hit. One of the positives is that the director and a few others from the original show is back for another stab at the series, hinting perhaps at motives beyond just simple profit, but the composition is being done by the genius writer of bombshells like A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives, Legend of Legendary Heroes, Linebarrels of Iron, and a few select episodes of Sacred Seven. What a record.
Set as a sequel to the original Last Exile that aired in 2003, Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing is a story about great air battles with flying machines, powerful armies, and mysterious organizations. The main character is Fam Fan Fan, a fifteen-year-old girl who gets caught up in a war between two nations. Ades, the antagonist, wants the princess of Turan dead. With the help of Dio Eraclea, Fam and her friend Giselle Collette try to thwart the efforts of Ades.