The Q1-Q2 2006 anime topic.

[SokkaBoSiegel]

I know this is a stupid question, but when you say these shows are "airing", what to they air on?

 

[Space Cadet]

I know this is a stupid question, but when you say these shows are "airing", what to they air on?

Japanese television.

 

[SokkaBoSiegel]

Ok, thanks. I guess it wasnt as stupid as I thought, but Im in the dark on this type info

 

[Ultra8]

I'm most surprised by Witchblade and Ultimate Muscle2(I thought they already showed the episodes from the us run over there?).
Shows that show interest:
Majikano
Kagihime Monogatori Eikyuu Alice Rondo
Fate/Stay Night
Tactical Roar

Lemon Angel Project (should be interesting, I know I've seen at least one eps of the old Cream Lemon series, at least I think it was one.)
Rakugo-Tennyo (got to be the most original concept I've ever heard.)
From Shade to Mamoru
Nerima Daikon Brothers (Blues Brothers anime style )
Kasimasi ~Girl Meets Girl~
REC
Bincho-tan (just so weird you have to watch it)
Momo, The Girl God of Death
Lingerie Soldier Papillon Rose New Season (I heard it was going to be only 6 eps, that's got to be a record for shortest series)

Love Get CHU Miracle Voice Actor
Hime Hime
Soul Link
Demonbane
Girls High
Utawarerumono
Himawaritsu
God Family
Record of War: Disgaea
Magical Pokan
Inukami
Gar-kun

I really wish I knew what half of these sites say about their shows, well atleast they look interesting.

 

[Gary L Thompson]

It seems about every new show coming from Japan nowadays has an ensemble of girls. "From Shade to Mamarou" strikes me as bearing some visual resemblence to the cast of "Sailor Moon" (well, look at it, the girl up front has a distinctive hairstyle, there's a miko, there's a big brownette with ribbonned ponytail and smaller girl with green hair--though from their expressions, ther personalities seem the reverse of Sailor Jupitor and Sailor Mercury), and someone in a boy's school uniform with coke-bottom-lensed glasses).

It looks like they've totally changed the look of "Crash! B-Daman" (cutesy characters give way to more sharp-edged animation, kinda the reverse of what "Beyblade" did from Season 1 to Season 2). "Crash" will now end up on CN at some point, I imagine, now that ABC Family has canceled the first season (just before the final episode--again!) and it's about to start running again on CN this Friday morning (personally, I found the show a bit disappointing, if CN is going to start running ABC Family castoffs, I think a more intelligent management would have pursued "Monster Rancher" or even "Medabots").

I couldn't figure out what "Gar-Kun" was about, but I must admit the characters look intriguing.

What I can't figure out is why nobody has picked up "Precure" yet, with all the episodes the show will have after this newest season. I think it's been well proven that there's an audience out there for that type of series, the difficulty has been finding an outlet that doesn't cut the original to ribbons and destroy what drew viewers to it in the first place.

As far as the latest "Pretty Sammy" series, I do hope the brunet kid in "Sasami Club" is Misao, I found her the truly great Sasami companion in the two "Pretty Sammy" series (no intent to slight Sasami or even Washau, Ryo-oki, et al, it's just that she was by far the real gem of the series). Unless they think Misao already had her star turn in BPS.

Nerima Daikon Brothers? What is this? The Blues Brothers of Japan?

Exactly my reaction. I wonder if the creators noticed one of the brothers is a sister? (Oh, well, in the original "Detective Conan" the Detective Kids Club was actually the Detective Boys, even though two members were girls!) Still, I'd be really interested to see this one.

I really wish I knew what half of these sites say about their shows, well atleast they look interesting.

I totally agree with you, I bet there are others who would love to know the latest out of Japan. "Newtype USA" started out doing a lot of that, but now it's just another "Protoculture Addicts" or "Anime Insider" that costs twice as much.

P.S.--I hope these rumors of the demise of PPGZ are unfounded.

 

[Go-chin]

I'm most surprised by Witchblade and Ultimate Muscle2(I thought they already showed the episodes from the us run over there?).
Shows that show interest:
Majikano
Kagihime Monogatori Eikyuu Alice Rondo
Fate/Stay Night
Tactical Roar

Lemon Angel Project (should be interesting, I know I've seen at least one eps of the old Cream Lemon series, at least I think it was one.)
Rakugo-Tennyo (got to be the most original concept I've ever heard.)
From Shade to Mamoru
Nerima Daikon Brothers (Blues Brothers anime style )
Kasimasi ~Girl Meets Girl~
REC
Bincho-tan (just so weird you have to watch it)
Momo, The Girl God of Death
Lingerie Soldier Papillon Rose New Season (I heard it was going to be only 6 eps, that's got to be a record for shortest series)

Love Get CHU Miracle Voice Actor
Hime Hime
Soul Link
Demonbane
Girls High
Utawarerumono
Himawaritsu
God Family
Record of War: Disgaea
Magical Pokan
Inukami
Gar-kun

I really wish I knew what half of these sites say about their shows, well atleast they look interesting.

Let me share my opinions for the ones I've seen.

Majikano = Generic, but hilarious
Kagihime = Kingdom Hearts, anime style. Good, fanservice, tons of pastels.
F/S Night = Good, as expected.
Tactical Roar = I've never seen so much fanservice in a single episode of a Bandai show, ever. That said, it was interesting.
Lemon Angel project = Horrible voice acting, good music.
Rakugo-Tennyo = generic, but cute.
nerima Daikon Brothers = Best show this season, easily. And it has so much transposed karaoke.

 

[KarlOlson]

P.S.--I hope these rumors of the demise of PPGZ are unfounded.

I wouldn't bring it up without having good reason too. Neither would Wilson.

 

[Rabi~en~Rose]

What I can't figure out is why nobody has picked up "Precure" yet, with all the episodes the show will have after this newest season. I think it's been well proven that there's an audience out there for that type of series, the difficulty has been finding an outlet that doesn't cut the original to ribbons and destroy what drew viewers to it in the first place.

having so many episodes is probably the problem. if they can't get it on TV here that makes long shows to much of a risk to put dvd-only I call it the MMPPP clause

 

[Sketch]

Kasimashi is finally here. I look forward to it and it's abundant amount of awkward situations.

 

[True Noir]

I saw Kashimashi!!! It's so cute and weird but I like it from the beginning...

 

[Rabi~en~Rose]

I saw Kashimashi!!! It's so cute and weird but I like it from the beginning...

for such a funny/weird premise the first episode seemed more dramatic then I would have expected not saying it was bad or anything though

 

[Conan-san]

About Kashimashi: Did anyone notice the rather odd sounding preformances of the Nasa dudes?

In that they sound like your adverage 4k!DS dub?

 

[True Noir]

for such a funny/weird premise the first episode seemed more dramatic then I would have expected not saying it was bad or anything though

Dramatic? You think so? One thing though..I think the funny factor was a bit off but I believe it will get better. The part in which he got hit by the spaceship seemed Abenobashi to me (good thing).

About Kashimashi: Did anyone notice the rather odd sounding preformances of the Nasa dudes?

In that they sound like your adverage 4k!DS dub?

I noticed. I was surprised too. You would expect some Engrish going on there. I wonder who the VA's were for that part....

 

[KarlOlson]

"8*D~" and "D^8" were probably funnier than everything else in the show.

Watched Kasimasi - You know, when you've got good writing, you can sell almost any taboo, atleast on an intellectual level. You can even pull some good emotion out of it. I'm not getting that from this show. At all. The comedy was just a little too generic (outside of the awesome engrish. ALIENS ATTACK YOU SAYYY?.) As was the setting. And character design. And characters. I mean, this season seems like such a throw away to me that at this point I'll give it a shot, but it's really because better options have yet to present themselves.

OTOH, I do have a 20+ DVD backlog. Maybe that should get some attention instead.

Or some one should recommend me something from the new season.

 

[Go-chin]

Watched Kasimasi - You know, when you've got good writing, you can sell almost any taboo, atleast on an intellectual level. You can even pull some good emotion out of it. I'm not getting that from this show. At all. The comedy was just a little too generic (outside of the awesome engrish. ALIENS ATTACK YOU SAYYY?.) As was the setting. And character design. And characters. I mean, this season seems like such a throw away to me that at this point I'll give it a shot, but it's really because better options have yet to present themselves.

OTOH, I do have a 20+ DVD backlog. Maybe that should get some attention instead.

Or some one should recommend me something from the new season.

From the season that just started?
Fate/Stay Night or nerima Daikon brothers.
From last season? noein.

 

[Invader_Spooch]

Fate Stay Night:

Just watched the first episode a week or so ago.

I don't know WHAT to make of it, really.

The art is nice, but NOTHING HAPPENED in that episode.

Maybe it will pick up after that, but I dunno..

 

[KarlOlson]

From the season that just started?
Fate/Stay Night or nerima Daikon brothers.
From last season? noein.

Fate/Stay - Prelicenced, so I'll wait for the discs.
Noein - MediaFactory, so I'll wait for the discs.
Nerima Daikon - I'll give it a shot later.

 

[Sandoz]

I'm really looking forward to the Nana anime. Hopefully it won't have the same failings as the Paradise Kiss adaptation.

 

[KarlOlson]

I'm really looking forward to the Nana anime. Hopefully it won't have the same failings as the Paradise Kiss adaptation.

I wouldn't call the Parakiss adaption a failure by any stretch. I'll say it does play things more seriously than manga (nixing all the forth-wall breaking first an foremost,) but it allowed the show to have a visual style and palette that really resonates well with the high-fashion elements and the dramatic elements of the manga. It's exact same adaptation technique used on Beck, and like with Beck, I think that makes sense when it comes to making a series that looks good and flows naturally on TV - it also really helps ground both shows in a real world context, which is critical because even in their manga forms they are really set in the here and now - they aren't particularly fantasies in any fashion.

If anything, Nana is going to better suited to that kind of adaption because it more realistic in overall tone and setting than Beck and Parakiss. However, I'm not sure who the studio is on the series, so it could be radically different. If Nana's not Madhouse, expect a very different directorial style.

 

[Sandoz]

I wouldn't call the Parakiss adaption a failure by any stretch. I'll say it does play things more seriously than manga (nixing all the forth-wall breaking first an foremost,) but it allowed the show to have a visual style and palette that really resonates well with the high-fashion elements and the dramatic elements of the manga. It's exact same adaptation technique used on Beck, and like with Beck, I think that makes sense when it comes to making a series that looks good and flows naturally on TV - it also really helps ground both shows in a real world context, which is critical because even in their manga forms they are really set in the here and now - they aren't particularly fantasies in any fashion.

Parakiss is indeed visually stunning, but it suffers from terrible pacing. I know people who were turned off by the slow beginning, and so much was crammed into the final episodes that the ending is very rushed and unsatisfactory (especially problematic considering that it presents a final resolution that almost goes against the manga's message). That disappointed me, since the Parakiss manga was completed long before the anime went into production and the staff had to know where the story was going. Since Nana is (unless I'm mistaken) still being serialized, I'd hate it if the storyline suffered from similiar pacing issues.