Summer 2011 Anime Season

[Keropi]

Here's the Summer 2011 Anime Chart/Poster:

http://thecartdriver.com/charts/iqbvs-2/

Which anime are you guys looking forward to seeing if any?

For me it's:

Double-J ---------------------------------- maybe
Natsume Yuujin-Chou San
Kamisama Dolls--------------------------- what I little read of the manga seemed decent
Usagi Drop--------------------------------- the story seemed decent in the manga, but I'm likely not going to be able to get into it since it's josei centered. Personally, I like "My Girl" more, but that was because that manga was seinen. Usagi Drop was more true to life however with all of it's real life annoyances and difficulties.

Blood-C ------------------------------------- maybe
Mayo Chiki---------------------------------- I didn't like the manga, but I'll check out the anime
Dantalian no Shoka
Kami-sama no Memo-chou---------------- That premise sounds familiar for some reason.
Ikoku Meiro no Croisee-------------------- The manga looked good, but I never read any of it.
Itsuka Tenma no Kuro-Usagi--------------- what I read of the manga seemed okay. Now THIS one reminded me slightly of Shakugan no Shana unlike Hidan no Aria's manga.
Nurarihyon 2nd season

The other ones I'm less certain of.

[crackpot27]

There's a few that sound good to me this season.

This is the group I'lll definitely at least start:

Dantalion no Shoka
No. 6
Blood C
Natsume Yuujin Cho-San
Heart no Kuni no Alice: so happy to see this one coming

a few I'm kinda interested in:
Utau no Prince-sama
Kami sama no Memo-chou
Sacred Seven
Sengoku Basara: The Last Party: I loved the series but for some reason I'm not AS interested in the movie, I'll probably still watch it though XD
Towa no Quon
Kokuriko-Zaka Kara
Kamisama Dolls
Itsuko Tenma no Kuro-Usagi (I can't decide if this sounds good or not XP)

Overall I'm very much looking forward to this season

[darksuzaku]

mmm, things i'll give a chance:

Double-J
Yuru Yuri -> Not sure about this
Kamisama Dolls
Morita-san wa Mukuchi
Usagi Drop
No.6
Blood C
Mayo Chiki
R-15 -> Not sure about this
Dantalian no Shoka
Ro-Kyu-Bu
Kami-sama no memo
Ikoku meiro no croise
Itsuka tenma mo kuro-usagi

[Keropi]

Random Curiosity has posted their Summer season preview here:

http://randomc.net/2011/06/25/summer-2011-preview/

[Keropi]

I see that ANN posted Biglobe's early poll about Most Disappointing New July Anime:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interes ... july-anime

But judging from "People's Expectations" versus "People's Reactions On Message Boards So Far" I'm pretty sure the winner of that category so far is "Blood-C". Boy...there's some real hatred out there for that anime's first two episodes.

I'm not sure what the voters expected from Idolm@ster because it's similar to the games. Perhaps they were expecting another Idolm@ster mecha anime. I can understand R-15 and Manyuu Hiken-chou being on the list though. Lol

Natsume, Penguindrum, Usagi Drop, Ikoku, Kamisama Dolls, Kamisama no Memochou I can understand being higher on the Liked List:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interes ... ime-so-far

Haven't heard too much about Uta no Prince Sama. Maybe there were a lot of Otome gamers voting?

Dantalian aired last so you figure there would have been fewer people who had seen that.

[crackpot27]

Blood-C doesn't really surprise me a whole lot It's visually pretty don't get me wrong, but so far it's kinda boring I'll keep watching in hopes it gets better, but again I'm not shocked by it's ranking.

I almost dropped Utau no prince sama at the first episode because of the super cheesy intro, but I'm glad I didn't. It's actually kind of a cute story, and the characters do have a little depth (not an ocean, but hey it's a bishie harem so what do you expect ) But that first song (later the ending)...I still find terrible...

Penguindrum shocked the heck outta me, it's so stupid looking...but it's so much fun

And I absolutely loved the first episode of Dantalian no Shoka, so my opinion is that it'll go up once it gets going

Sacred Seven, and Kamisama Dolls I'm straddlin the fence on, there kinda interesting, but they don't hold my interest long enough to have me looking all that much forward to the next episode.

[animeobsessed]

So far I have watched the first episodes of

Nurarihyon 2nd season
No. 6
Usagi Drop
Sacred Seven

Not sure about Sacred Seven yet, but I will continue the other 3 for sure. May check out Dantalian no Shoka.

[Keropi]

Blood-C doesn't really surprise me a whole lot It's visually pretty don't get me wrong, but so far it's kinda boring

The pacing just feels too slow to me. If the series really is only twelve episodes long, I can't believe they spent so much time having the characters talk about random things like the sweets they eat, how they sing, etc.

And I guess I'm alone in liking Sacred Seven. Lol

[Yupa]

I like these anime so far:
No.6
Usagi Drop
Kamisama no Memochou
Mawaru Penguindrum
Ikoku Meiro no Croisée
Dantalian no Shoka

Other than that I'm watching these, but I wouldn't recommend them:
Blood-C
Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni!
Kamisama Dolls
Nekogami Yaoyorozu
Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi
Mayo Chiki!

[Keropi]

I like how they used a 10/11 year old seiyuu to voice Rin in Usagi Drop:

http://myanimelist.net/people/12453/Ayu_Matsuura

You just don't see that very often. I remember when 16 year old Aoi Yuuki voiced Murasaki in Kurenai and all those child actors in Sasami Mahou Shoujo Club, but that was unusual. Well, there was also that ten year old in Cookin Idol Ai Mai Main, but they had to film live action scenes for it.

[animeobsessed]

is it only me or does No. 6 seem to have BL/Yaoi tendencies...especially in the latest episode (# 5). I'm not complaining, but I bet the fanfictions and websites on this series have Sion and Rat as a pairing.

[Keropi]

is it only me or does No. 6 seem to have BL/Yaoi tendencies...especially in the latest episode (# 5). I'm not complaining, but I bet the fanfictions and websites on this series have Sion and Rat as a pairing.

No, it definitely does. I heard that they toned it down from the original source (or at least they did in the first episode).

[theultimatebrucelee]

I'll third it. its gotten bad enough that I decided to drop it at ep 4. just can't stand the yuri unless its balanced out by other genders like glass fleet

[Keropi]

I'll third it. its gotten bad enough that I decided to drop it at ep 4. just can't stand the yuri unless its balanced out by other genders like glass fleet

Yuri or yaoi?

I'll see how it goes. I haven't been keeping up very well with the shows from this season (for various reasons). I hope they don't concentrate too much on the guy's relationship because I'd like to know about the rest of the plot regarding the rest of the show too. At the moment, my average interest spread rating is averaging out to this (on a 5.00 to 5.75 scale):

1. Usagi Drop 5 (decent - 5.51398)
2. Natsume Yuujinchou 3rd season 4 (decent - 5.5075)
3. Nurarihyon no Mago 2nd season 5 (decent - 5.4940)
4. Sacred Seven 5 (decent - 5.47998 )
5. Kamisama no Memochou 2 (decent - 5.47)
6. Ikoku Meiro no Croisse 3 (okay/decent - 5.46)
6. Dantalian no Shoka 3 (okay/decent - 5.46)
8. No. 6 ep 4 (okay/decent - 5.4550)
9. Kamisama Dolls 5 (okay/decent - 5.45202)
10. Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi 3 (okay - 5.44)
11. Mawaru Penguindrum 3 (okay - 5.43)
12. Baka to Test 2nd season 3 (okay - 5.41)
13. The iDOLM@STER 5 (okay - 5.35202)
14. Mayo Chiki 2 (okay - 5.345)
15. Yuru Yuri 5 (okay - 5.32802)
16. Ro-Kyu-Bu 5 (okay - 5.3280)
17. R-15 3 (okay/fair - 5.2567)
18. Manyuu Hikenchou 2 (fair/so-so 5.225)
19. Double-J 3 (so-so - 5.1933)

[theultimatebrucelee]

Yuri or yaoi?

oops...looks like I was thinking about something else while typing

I've been keeping up with Blade which I thought was pretty cool since its action packaged and all. so far out of all the ones I've watched Dantalian no Shoka and Kamisama no Memochou are my favors. can't believe how blood-C's plot is so empty and childish while I was so looking forward to it since I enjoyed the old series they showed on Adult Swim. what a waste of clamp's character design-_- maybe I should check out Usagi Drop.