Upcoming Anime: Spring 2011

[masamuneehs]

this actually looks like a season with some potential.

i never saw the original Appleseed, but i'll try this thing out if it's not a direct sequel.

mariaholic2 because the first was quite entertaining. and i love traps.

i'll try Showa Era Story just because it seems to be different. and with all these new rules about what's socially acceptable in anime and in manga, shows like these might become more plentiful as the politics restricts semen slurping lolis.

i couldn't get into Deadman Wonderland as a manga. it had some nice elements, and I can see it being a good anime production, but it was pretty shounen to me. violent and set in prison, but a shounen.


C and Stein's Gate interest me.

The one about tea could be good, if it isn't too filled with obscure historical references or is too mindbogglingly dull.

[Marik]

Some information about C, since there isn't any on the chart...

The story is set during the 21st century when the economic future of Japan is in doubt.

Kenji Nakamura (Ayakashi, Mononoke, Kūchū Buranko) is directing the anime at Tatsunoko Production. Noboru Takagi (Durarara!!, Baccano!, Koi Kaze) is supervising and writing the scripts, and mebae (Sugar Dark: Umerareta Yami to Shōjo illustrator, Black Rock Shooter animator, Cencoroll contributor) is designing the characters. Keiichi Satou (The Big O, Junkers Come Here) is the conceptual designer. C will premiere in April.

There's a demo movie being streamed on the official site, but you have to sit through a long intro. Here's a YouTube link instead...C Trailer.

[shinta|hikari]

Steins Gate~

Since it is a visual novel by nitroplus, it is definitely going to be dark and mysterious (and for better or worse, confusing).

I don't really know much about it other than that (and the fact that Makise is so delish).

[Marik]

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[RyougaZell]

My series list expands a bit with this new list. The OAV list is quite long this time around.

Series:

Definite:
- Kami Nomi Shiru no Sekai S2
- Stein's Gate
- Kampfer fur die Liebe

Maybe:
- Moshidora
- Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko
- Stein's Gate

OAV:
- Gundam UC #3
- Koe de Oshigoto #2
- .hack//QUANTUM #1, #2, #3
- Fairy Tail - Fairy Hills
- Amagami SS - Miya Episode
- High School of the Dead OAV
- Senjou no Valkyria 3: Dare ga Tame non Juusou

[RyougaZell]

RandomC's Preview

My Updated watch list:

- Hanasaku Iroha
- STEINS;GATE
- Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai II
- Seikon no Qwaser II (if censored will wait for DVD/Bluray rip)
- C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control

Also it seems Kampfer is an OVA series and not a new season.

[shinta|hikari]

Finally, Kurisu is coming! Been waiting for ages.

Aside from that, I'm gonna see most of the sequels of the shows I've seen (excluding Kampfer). I never thought they would make a sequel to Kaiji, but I'm ecstatic that they decided to do so.

[Dark Dragon]

Definite:
Toriko: Everything about it is generic. I freaking love this series though due to all randomness and the author is actually very creative when it comes to world design. The creatures and plants are very unique and some border on grotesque. One of the main reason that i love Hunter X Hunter was because of the unique world and i'll probably die of old age before Togashi finish HxH, so this will have to do.

Deadman Wonderland: Just as Masa said, this series is very shounen. It's a very violent and dark shounen that's different from your usual fare and that's something i haven't seen in quite a while.

Sket Dance: I enjoyed the manga. It's pretty funny and some of the cases does get serious later on so this should be a pretty good show.

TWGOK 2: This season is going to cover some of my favorite part of manga.

Fireball Charming: Recently sat through the first season and it was pretty funny. Beside, at 2 min per episode it's not like i'd lose much watching it.

Moshidora: I've been wanting to watch this ever since it showed up in the Winter 10 preview list.

C: Story revolving around business transactions and a collapsing economy. From the people who adapted Baccano and Duradura? I'm so in.

Trying out:

Appleseed: I'm a bit split about this series. The Appleseed movie was very plain and boring despite being amazing looking. However, there's really a general lack of scifi in anime and IT IS created by Shirow Masamune.

Stein:Gate: I enjoyed chaos head despite it being kind of all over the place. This is also 24 episodes so if it turn out to be good, i'll have something long to watch.

Dog Days: It's from Nanoha creator so there's potential that it'll break the mold. Also, we ended up with something pretty damn good when there was a protagonist thrown into a world full of animal people.

Dororon Enma Kun: From the creator of Devilman and Mazinger. This seems like it has a lot of potential but the story just doesn't seem to be that interesting.

[MFauli]

Whoever doesnt watch Kaiji 2nd season is a lesser person. In other words: Only must-see anime of that season, and maybe the first must-see anime in a long, loooong time of sub-par sh*t. Finally, an anime that i´ll actively look forward to each week, just like the old days, when Monster, Death Note, Eureka Seven or Claymore were being shown for the first time.

[shinta|hikari]

You missed out on a lot if you think that Kaiji is the only must watch anime of recent.

[Atheist]

Whoever doesnt watch Kaiji 2nd season is a lesser person. In other words: Only must-see anime of that season, and maybe the first must-see anime in a long, loooong time of sub-par sh*t. Finally, an anime that i´ll actively look forward to each week, just like the old days, when Monster, Death Note, Eureka Seven or Claymore were being shown for the first time.

I am totally with you! Gonna check out Eureka Seven right now, it seems we have got the taste in anime! :-)

[MFauli]

You missed out on a lot if you think that Kaiji is the only must watch anime of recent.

I fear you´re wrong. How about naming at least 1-2 "must see"-anime that "I" missed?

[shinta|hikari]

I don't really know what you watched so I can't write down just what you missed, but if you saw these and thought they are sub-par shit, you need to reconsider your tastes. BTW, Claymore ended so badly, I don't even know why you wrote it down.

Of course, must see stuff will depend a bit on personal taste, but here are a few off the top of my head that a lot of people (as do I) agree are must see shows:

Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
Tatami Galaxy
Katanagatari
Bakemonogatari
Shiki
Durarara
Evangelion 2.0
Time of Eve

[MFauli]

I´ve seen about half of those and the only one of these I´d call "must-see" is the Evangelion...because it´s Evangelion!
"sub-par shit" is, obviously, hyperbole, so I didn´t want to imply that anyone who liked one of those shows that I dont consider "must-see" is an idiot or whatever.
But let´s take Durarara for example. It has a nice quality to it, but at the same time, it has such an annoying, off-putting structure to how the story is laid out, that I could never tell someone "you HAVE to watch this!". That one and others that you mentiond are anime that go with "if you´re into *insert genre or specific content*, then you might like this." When I talk about must-sees, it´s rather a "if you like anime, you´ll like this." Death Note was such a show. Claymore was such a show (except for the last 2 episodes, ok). Eureka Seven was one of these, high-quality, super long adventure-anime (those dont even exist anymore nowadays...). FFS, the first part of the Naruto-anime is a must-see, best shounen-action of all times.

But you cannot seriously claim that we´ve seen much of such shows in the last few years. That´s why Kaiji 2 looks like a pleasant revival of "must-see" anime. My opinion, of course.

[shinta|hikari]

What you admit yet seem to forget when you claim that Death Note and Claymore are must watch shows is that it depends on preference. I know quite a few people who dislike Death Note for example, and no they don't have bad taste, but there are numerous reasons for it, be it an issue with the genre or dislike of the shows over analysis, etc.

If Claymore or Death Note is a must watch for you, a lot of recent shows have been must watches for a lot of people. I for one think Mitsudomoe is a must watch if you like comedy.

[MFauli]

Well, it certainly sounds very elitist, but: I think there are certain shows, a very small amount, that get all three parts of what makes a great anime: 1.) Visual Quality, 2.) Exciting Presentation, 3.) Uniqueness. A lot of anime get the first one right. Some of them get the second one right, too. But most fail to combine all three, especially the uniqueness factor.

Of course, NO anime is an ultimate "must-see" for every person on earth, but I dont think it´s wrong to recognize that there indeed are shows that have a certain "objective" quality to them. Those anime are super-rare though, now even moreso than during the high-time of anime.

[shinta|hikari]

I agree with you, but we disagree on the titles that we include in that list.

I am a bit more forgiving for criterion 1 though, because some really good shows are pretty old (i.e. Seikai no Monshou).

[Kraco]

This is Spring 2011 thread, not a "must see anime of the past" thread. Stay on topic!

[shinta|hikari]

Sorry. We kinda got caught up in it and I completely forgot the thread topic.

I reread the list (since I just scanned it a bit the first time) and here are some of the interesting ones I will definitely try out:

C - The girl in the pic looks cute.
Hen Zemi - I watched the 1st episode that was release a while ago. Adult comedy, much like Genshiken, only tons more perverted.

[Belial]

Looks like I'll try out Deadman Wonderland, Hyouge Mono, C: ... and Ao no Exorcist this season, witch is a lot more then the last few seasons surprisingly

If these do not prove to be good might check out Toriko and STEINS;GATE for the hell of it