http://anichart.net/spring

and we keep aging.

*BREAKING NEWS* Takeshi Koike to direct next Lupin III movie THIS SUMMER featuring JIGEN so you know the shit is gonna be fly as hell. This is actually just breaking so i have no other info.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/03/21/takeshi-koike-to-direct-lupin-the-iiird-daisuke-jigens-gravestone

ANYWAY

My Pick:
Ping Pong: The Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtiX-rNa0f0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLIOOZSQk3Y

Synopsis
Tsukimoto Makoto (nicknamed Smile) is a quiet high-schooler who's been friend with the loud and energetic Hoshino Yukata (nicknamed Peko). They're both in the table tennis club and are very good at it, though Smile's personality prevents him from winning against Peko. The club teacher however notices Smile's talent and tries to make him gain some sportive tenacity.

Based on Taiyō Matsumoto's fantastic manga and directed Masaaki Yuasa. (if you haven't seen Tatami Galaxy yet, get on it)

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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaiders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ckCTeAfyHc

YES, NIGGA

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Knights of Sidonia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I31QP4SE3Gw

they'll figure out CG eventually

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Captain Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU5BMH5JbpQ

has potential.

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Akuma no Riddle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur1kdBcNOU0

again, potential. maybe non-fanservice lesbians

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Haikyuu!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SfUZ0BaUHs

SPORTS

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Kenzen Robo Daimidaler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkzIdr42JK4

jokes on jokes on jokes

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Marvel Disk Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmvUnYiripg

toys on toys on toys

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i'm a little sick right now so you guys can post more trailers or whatever if you want.

I hope you're still watching Space Dandy. i'm 90% sure everythings gonna wrap up like Champloo.

Kill La Kill still dope.

what else is there? maybe we should do some revisits like The Lesson is doing with The Roots. Maybe an anime of the month deal. We old now tho so idk how much time ya'll got on your hands to sit and watch 26 eps of something. suggestions? it needs to be more lively in here.

I'll give Akuma No Riddle a try too.

man you don't even know how excited i am for this.

one of the few manga series i actually copped a complete set. the other one is Saiyuki.

im gonna be real sad when Gundam Build Fighters and Kill La Kill ends. at least w/ Kuroko you know there's gonna be a 3rd season at some point.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-22/space-dandy-2nd-anime-season-to-air-in-july-in-japan

The staff and cast of the Space Dandy anime confirmed at their AnimeJapan panel on Saturday that the second season will premiere in July in Japan. Although the members had previously indicated that the anime will last longer than a quarter of a year, the anime studio Bones had not officially announced the second season or its timeframe until now.

The story of the anime revolves around Dandy (Junichi Suwabe/Ian Sinclair), an alien-hunter. His job is to seek out new aliens never seen before, and receives a reward whenever he finds a new species. His mission is to find those new species faster than anyone else as he travels the galaxy. Together with the bucket-of-bolts robot QT (Uki Satake (9nine)/Alison Viktorin) and the dimwit alien Meow (Hiroyuki Yoshino/Joel McDonald) he picked up along the way, he comes into contact with new planets and their inhabitants.

Funimation is streaming the series online with Japanese audio, and the company also has home video rights for the series. The anime is premiering first on Adult Swim's Toonami block in the United States with an English dub, before it airs in Japan. Episode 13 is debuting next week.

was not expecting a second season. really happy to hear this

all these shonen fans about to have their minds blown.

i wonder how much they had to bleep out.

Tomino is back with Gundam: Reconguista in G (G Reco) PV 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX_kQZLb64E
http://g-reco.net/

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's revised and updated retelling of the first UC Gundam story gets the Unicorn treatment with a series of OVA's that will be released in theatres as well. Starting with the backstory for the series main antagonist, Char Azanable...
Gundam The Origin 1
http://youtu.be/mzMo9sV_T-c

Shinichiro Watanabe and Yoko Kanno working again is a good thing...
Terror of Resonance
http://youtu.be/6pfSpWquBbk
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-21/cowboy-bebop-director-watanabe-composer-kanno-make-zankyo-no-terror-anime

I'm seriously interested in Origin I joint. which is unusual for me but it looks like its gonna transcend a little


dunno what to think about Terror of Resonance yet. looks a little serious for my taste, but i've only seen 40sec of footage.

Glad Watanabe is staying busy! Love his work

Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xo4zvjspppc

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/03/20/video-studio4cs-torurus-adventure-to-screen-this-spring

After working together on PES: Eco Smile, Toyota and Studio4°C (Mind Game, Tekkon Kinkreet, Genius Party, recent Thundercats and Berserk movies) are back with a new animator's showcase, this time featuring the works of Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Sayo Yamamoto (Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine), Tomoyuki Niho (Birdy the Mighter: Decode), and Takashi Nakamura (Fantastic Children, Tree of Palme).

thoughts?

the 2nd half of the episode made me realize how much i enjoy these motherfuckers

that wrapped up perfectly. the animation was on point

I thoroughly enjoyed myself watching this series.

Kill La Kill kinda reanimated my love for anime.

There were so many "OH SHIT! ! !" moments that had me open with this jawn.

Kagami really Blake Griffin'd that dude for the win. Damn that was hype as shit.

First episode of Mushishi 2 was great, and it felt like the 7 year gap between S1 and S2 didn't exist. I really liked the song they chose for the opening (i.e., Lucy Rose - Shiver), and the music and visuals during the opening just perfectly captured the feel of the series: http://youtu.be/K0DegEdeCLs

most stuff has premiered already right?

the beginning of JoJo pt 3 is just as good as i remember from the books.

Captain Earth feels like Bones is trying to remake E7 and Star Driver in the same show. YMMV if you haven't liked Bones recent stuff but I watched Star Driver a few months ago and I loved it.

Just got finished watching episode 1 of ping pong, LOVE it!

So dope.

Episode 2!
Man im super geeked on this series.

i liked it alot more towards the end of the first ep, and i'm gonna probably keep watching to see where it goes...

Zenigata kinda young but whatevs. i probably aint gonna watch it anyway.

http://kotaku.com/how-do-the-lupin-movie-actors-compare-to-the-original-c-1561210220/+jason-krell

I hope it doesnt turn out to be as fucking stupid as SAO.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nsHxfS2CchQ

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-04-22/hunter-x-hunter-manga-to-resume-in-june

Its about time. hopefully enough chapters will crank out to keep the show going, or at least put it in hiatus instead of ending all together.

This weeks episode was EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gave me a whole new respect for Netero & The King

guess dude finally finished all the Dragon Quest games

1st season was ill.

But I want homey to reach the vault that his Pop's told'eem about 'fore he died. They left way to much room open for a 2nd season.



I'm jonzin'....

i don't think the manga is far enough ahead yet.

david production had to cut corners like shit in S1.

I think I've seen

I've finally seen something that surpassed Goku going Super Sayian for the first time.

I've watched this ep like 3 times already. That was soooo brutal. Lil' Homie lost it!

nm

It is available on Crunchyroll.

It is very good. I am way behind these guys (I'm at about episode 105 of 135).

It interesting definitely. Takes a bit to get going. There are people with magical powers (called Nen), but the anime doesn't really introduce the concept of Nen until until like 30 episodes in. Then the show picks up our main characters train, get their powers and shit starts to pop off.

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like, he's almost Kakarott Tier.

Ping pong is all done.
Went down as one of my favorite animes in a while.
Now waiting for the second season of Space dandy to pop up....

I wish all big shonen properties could be adapted by studios as talented as Madhouse. They took this shit to another level.

Last two episodes had mad feels going on. Really hope he gets his ass busy so we're not left in the dark after this arc.

coming this weekend. Im hype...

http://anichart.net/summer

so far i have

akame ga kill (heard the manga is dope)
dandy s2
zankyou no terror (new watanabe show)
tokyo ghoul (pv looked dope)
aldnoah zero (giving it a shot)

excited.

The depressed Dandy and his crew were absolutely hilarious.

>The depressed Dandy and his crew were absolutely hilarious.

That 100% capture rate crew was frighteningly dope. Would have liked to see a bit more of them before they pulled that string again.

ill
as
fuck!

first episode had me hooked

Yeah, I wasn't expecting it to be like that at all. Nice twist there in the first episode. Interested to see where it goes.

Tokyo Ghoul first ep was cool although the drama was more hilarious than compelling.

Im in!

...it had EVERYTHING i like...

nm

i'm in.

*drops punch bowl*
damn... Damn.... DAMN!




James
*horns*

First ep was ok...set up ep. The ending credits with Kirito fighting with the pistol & light saber looked good!

and loving it more than anything Ghost in the Shell or Cowboy Bebop…

and that includes the original ending, End of Evangelion, and first two Rebuild movies…

after finally watching 3.33, I have to say…that was one of the biggest pieces of shit I've ever seen. the only explanation is that Anno is focused on parodying his own work, trolling the fanbase to extremes I thought unimaginable. fan-service Mari. an eye patch on Asuka just because. so many undecipherable religious totems presented as plot, that even the most optimistic fan could not explain them.

and the capper, Shinji's dumbass nearly destroying the world *again* due to homoerotic tension. that last part is proof Anno has entrenched himself in the internet comments section, taking the widely held complaint that his anti-hero was an insufferable whiner and making sure that every single viewer hates him this time around.

Evangelion is one of my fav series of all time.

I keep hearing 3.33 is some shit, been waiting to cop on blu-ray but the damn thing got pushed back and now I have no idea when it's coming out.

Now I want to just watch the bootleg just because. Scared to do it now because I don't want this to ruin my view of this anime. UGH!

I recently heard some mumbo jumbo about Funimation needing to fix a dub track now...and the US release could be in 2015.

lower your expectations further than you can imagine. it's only worth watching as an completionist act for Eva fans.

I have a serious love for evangelion and I tried to believe that the bad reviews were maybe people who didn't appreciate the series as much as I do.

This breaks my heart, man, for real.

WTF was he thinking by doing this?

I'm honestly scared to download it now
Sitting here looking at the download button like I'm bout to sacrifice a loved one if I hit it.

knowing how much i dislike eva i'd probably end up liking 3.33 lol.

I'm waiting for 4.0 now, where I'm sure he's got a mega middle finger ending ready for all the die-hard fans. which of course, will be a riot to the long-time haters.

I browsed through some 3.33 FAQs afterward and *they* couldn't even explain the majority of shit that happened. Fourth Impact level trolling.

same here

In the first two films, it seems like this new Shinji was stronger, less mopey, and actually somewhat likable than his original counterpart, unfortunately they pretty much took five steps backwards here. He's reverted back to his sorry self and then some. The middle portion of the film is just boring and rehashed all the pathetic Shinjiness that we've all seen plenty of already. I think I still enjoyed it though, the action scenes that bookend the Shinji stuff were quite exciting, even if I've no idea what that double lance shit was all about.

There were two guys on the Misato's ship and they looked quite like Spike & Jet...easter egg?

>then some. The middle portion of the film is just boring and
>rehashed all the pathetic Shinjiness that we've all seen
>plenty of already.

she went backwards to the point where she doesn't even realize she's a clone. and as great as it looks, I thought the action in the second half was much too frantic and hard to follow.

>There were two guys on the Misato's ship and they looked quite
>like Spike & Jet...easter egg?

I'm sure Anno has a secret Eva outfitted with a cigarette and loose tie that one of them will pilot in the finale, where they'll kill an angel with a handgun John-Woo-style.

>she went backwards to the point where she doesn't even realize
>she's a clone.

I guess the Rei in 3.0 is a new clone so she didn't retain the personality of the previous one, which begs the question, WTF happened to the Rei that Shinji saved in 2.0?? And didn't Kaworu stop the 3rd Impact at the end of that one as well? I seriously thought Shinji went to some alternate universe at the start of the movie, like Unit 01 transported him to some bizarro parallel world that Shinji created...

I really liked that last shot of Shinji, Asuka and Rei walking together though.

>I'm sure Anno has a secret Eva outfitted with a cigarette and
>loose tie that one of them will pilot in the finale, where
>they'll kill an angel with a handgun John-Woo-style.

lol, I just hope the finale will be memorable, I'm sure some people will love it and others will hate it. It'll be great to know what transpired in those 14 years, but I wouldn't bet on getting any answers...

i wasn't too impressed with the first trailer but this is alright
http://okaberintarou.co.vu/post/91287595117/english-dubbed-version-of-makos-introduction

http://okaberintarou.co.vu/post/91226392222/satsuki-putting-on-junketsu-in-english

Also one of the few instances where I wasn't completely turned off by the CGI.

2 guys and a girl...reminds me of Champloo.

The whole bomb and bike scenes were really enhanced by the soundtrack.

This show and Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun are probably my favorites. Barakamon is also really enjoyable.

Damn shame if you're not!

Two episodes in and it looks extremely promising. Ep 2 had me on the edge of my seat. This summer season is dropping some great anime on us. Almost wish I was behind so I could binge watch.

I have the deadman wonderland complete series blu-ray on the wy, I always wanted to watch it but just...never did, thought the premise was interesting.

http://card.mygamercard.net/lastgame/rjcc.png

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

Knights is captivating mediocrity.

In terms of contemporary shows, it basically aspires to be Shingeki no Kyojin in Space, so the mortality rate of completely stock anime characters adds enough tension to keep things interesting. But the pacing is pretty shoddy, the main character is basically a void, and combat is generally a mess of hi-speed cuts, tentacles, and people crying.

soo mediocre, kotaku got my hopes up with this

this really should be something like Harlock or Yamato or something. something kinda familiar but extremely hard to get.

or at leas something better than this

Kept me interested enough to watch through the full season. Interesting back story which now that I think about it, is the main reason I watched until the end. The main character doesn't pull you in.

New website is live and it's a whole new generation.

http://gundam-bf.net/

The animation has been stepped up. New main protagonist introduced. This shit looks HYPE.

http://soundcloud.com/djshinobishaw
http://www.rareformnyc.com
http://twitter.com/DJShinobiShaw
https://twitter.com/RareFormNYC
PSN: ShinobiShaw

"Arm Leg Leg Arm How you doin?" (c)T510

i hope it's like this from here on out.

nm

I was surprised at how well the show synthesized its explicit sources (Philip K. Dick, etc...) without feeling burdened by my awareness of whatever was being referenced, and even the philosophical monologues didn't feel unbearably overwrought. The villains were on-point, every protagonist other than the female Enforcer seemed to get a good amount of characterization, and the story always felt like it was making progress.

Excited to see whether they can craft a coherent second season.

that shit damn near got to be a radio drama at times. once they got to the main story it was dope though.

...i tried to watch "No Game No Life" ( i think that's the name), but i wasn't feeling it at all

Psycho Pass is cool, but i've only watched 2 eps...

...i tried to watch Code: Breaker, but it hasn't really pulled me in yet

i really have to catch up on Hunter x Hunter....i'm way behind...i'm still trying to digest the election storyline, which i've read, but don't remember....

been reading the Akame Ga Kill manga, but i haven't been watching the anime...i'll catch up this weekend when i go on mini vacation...love the manga though

....SAO is THAT show!!! man i love this anime....i'm still finishing part one ( i think i've got 4 eps left)...i think the cousin's feelings for the homie are weird, but it's anime so i'm not totally suprised...

lastly, WHY did they stop making Black Lagoon???...it's SOOOO awesome.....


THANKS for this post cause i ended up getting put on to some really cool shows...

and one of the few anime's where the english dub is way better then the original.

Need more gun themed animes

I've only seen the Japanese version.

Crazy psychological, hilariously ecchi & unpredictable.

Anybody else watching it?

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shameless fanservice aside, i loved it.

Thanks for mentioning it above, that's how I checked for it. If you know of any more in this lane, please share.

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I was a little shaky on this show after the first ep. but oddly enough, when the police get introduced and the procedural aspects take over, it really began to grow on me. Mostly because of how the tension between the detectives and the returning genius investigator slowly reveals their personalities and motivations.

As for the main duo of teenagers, getting their backstory gradually over the first four eps. made the introduction of 5 much more intense. Watanabe is determined to do something different at each go around and initial fears that this was just some teen angst drama was quickly washed away.

Was loving it until 5 got introduced.
She took away a bit of these suspense on knowing if the duo were serious with their attacks or not. Still good so I'll stick with it.

Though they may have some ethical foundation that means they would like to avoid unnecessary deaths, it seems pretty clear they accept that people can and will die by their actions.

That said, I do generally agree that the introduction of Five seems like it may be a mistake for the show's tone. She's a bit too much of an histrionic ANIME SUPERVILLAIN plopped into a show that aspired to be something a bit more grounded.

They went through extreme lengths to make sure no one would get hurt.

Along with the flashbacks and the fact that the chief clearly has an idea of who they're really gunning after or at least the program that produced them, there's a lot more story and revelations to be covered.

Especially when you consider that whoever is pulling the strings behind the scenes in the government is more than willing to sacrifice civilians to get them.

>Was loving it until 5 got introduced.
>She took away a bit of these suspense on knowing if the duo
>were serious with their attacks or not. Still good so I'll
>stick with it.

once 5 got introduced. Everything from her design to character type bugs me. A shame especially given how great I thought episode 4 was.

ill story line, strong characters, and they not afraid to kill people off. The mix of anime & CG can be blah at times, but all and all this is a solid show. Shocked its not getting more attention.

my dude got 1 emotion and a million plans. they need to explain why he got so much battle swag

They basically just hit fast-forward and dedicated themselves to crafting the most anticlimactic tragic ending they could.

I guess there's supposed to be a second half? Might have been useful to tell a story that made viewers care what happens next.

out there