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Definitely interested in Attack and Gargantia (Urobuchi seems to be doing something different here, or we're about to get trolled yet again, either of which I'm down for). Valve I want to check out simply because it looks like the same character designer from Linebarrels of Iron did the characters here, but past that, I don't know, seems to "samey."

Edit: I just watched the first 3 episodes of Attack and I kind of get the feeling we could be in for a real treat with this one. And I can already tell what Urobochi is going to do after two episodes... ugh, he's already put into play so much shit to hit the fan with.
 
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Getting into 'The Devil is a Part-Timer!'. I might check out Titan it looked pretty interesting, I watched a preview for it.

The first episode's for The Devil is a Part-Timer! started out completely awesome and then.. it became something I wasn't expecting, yet was expecting due to the title of the anime. So far it seems decent enough and I'd like to see how the story progresses.

Also watching Date A Live, Red Data Girl, and Karneval, for the heck of it.
 
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So I've checked out everything now save for RDG, Karneval, Devil Survivor (my hatred for all things ATLUS may keep me away from this, as well, all of the Persona related anime sucking doesn't help either), and the Demon King Part-Timer. Going to get to RDG tonight for sure, the others, eh, whenever as they aren't too appealing from just their descriptions but I tend to give everything a shot.

I can't decide which Rom-Com is going to be the best since Toradora! between HENNEKO and SNAFU. If it turns out to be SNAFU, it may even be better than Toradora!, I see that as a possibility right now. I'm quite shocked by this since the genre has been ridiculously littered with trash since Toradora! blew it up.

Attack on Titans (which I've gone through the 3 episodes twice now to confirm) is leaving me with the impression that this could be a classic in the future. I may be wrong, and to be honest, I haven't seen enough to believe it myself, but I get the same feeling from it I did when watching Claymore and Berserk ever how many years ago.

Suisei no Garugantia, how it got such an ugly English title I'll never understand, now that I've thought about it, is Urobuchi finally no longer trolling us. Instead of setting up a plot full of candy, roses, and friendship, he has already shown us how everyone, from the main character to the friggin' flyin' rat, could die/"be taken over" so if he's trolling this time, it's in reverse - in that, it'll end in candy, roses, and friendship. I'm calling it now, Red's "people" are so going to make a shit sandwich out of making Earth their own.

Flowers of Evil, like the manga, is (thus far) brilliant. I was wondering how they were going to top the manga in how unique and interesting something in such a same-same media spectrum could be anymore, but they've gone and done that by doing something utterly atrocious, ridiculous, yet some-how awesome animation style. I was a bit put off by this in when revealed, in the previews, and even in the first episode, but I feel certain now that nothing could make the main antagonist (of now) and "protagonist" come off as sadistic, crazy, and all-around off-putting as this art style.

Valvrave I get the feeling I've already seen before, but I'm not quite sure what it was. So far, I'm just watching to see how many more tropes they can throw in to make me throw-up. I mean, so far we've got a ditzy/outspoken love-interest, a puss-puss lead (is it really so bad being a "monster"?), a cold/collected Sasgay, an OP mech with a beginner pilot... I could go on all night, it's the single biggest collage of all things shit, shonen anime into one glorious roll.

The guilty pleasures of the season are probably going to be Mushibugyo (how about that title, a title the "professional" English translators fail to "get"), YUYUSHIKI, and The Severing... you know what, I can't even finish that awful title. The first two are just fun to watch, and the latter - I can't explain, but if it turns out like I think it will (a lighter Mirai Nikki) I may be glad I watched, that said, it's definitely going to be the first cut of the season if it doesn't shape up in the next two weeks.

Then I have the continuation of Oreimo, Nyarko, and Chihayafuru. Now to kick this addiction to Warframe and Monster Hunter because this is the first season in a while with so much stuff worth watching. I just can't keep up with both this and gaming - the friggin' horror of days only lasting 24 hours. I also have to finish up everything from last season, aside from Pet Girl... so much mediocrity but after watching 6-7 episodes I feel a sort of duty to finish them at that point.
 
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Finally got around to catching up on RDG, Karnevale, and Hataraku Maou-sama!.

RDG is exactly as I expected it to be; interesting and mysterious as hell. I kind of missed the boat on the Light Novels so this is my first foray into the series. If it keeps up with its current patch, they'll be an expensive book-run at the end I'm sure.

Karnevale those borderline boys love anime always keep me saving them for the end, but I always end up generally finding something in them to make it worth the slight homo involved. This is definitely the weakest in a while, especially hard following K last season, but it has a bit of promise so long as they grow up the seemingly main protagonist to not be such a twit.

Hataraku Maou-sama! surprised the living shit out of me. It's ridiculously fun to watch (some of those faces are ridiculously hilarious) and a really nice breath of fresh air for the genre. What I'm curious of now - we've had two seasons of anime with a show saying, "hey, maybe demon kings aren't so bad" and I wonder if we're not on to a new fad, regardless, so far the shows of this style are 2/2 in being aces. Glad I picked this up sooner rather than later.
 
Attack on Titan episode 5 update: holy shit.

Spoiler:
They just ate the main character, and he's lost an arm and a leg at this point. I'm curious if Armin is going to be the new main character, or the Genius chick who likes Eren, or they're somehow going to bring him back.
 
Like I said, I've been keeping up with 'RDG', 'Karneval', 'Data-A-Live', and 'The Devil is a Part-Timer!'.

So far I've been thoroughly enjoying all of them quite a bit. Karneval is interesting, but so far it's only one of the bunch that hasn't overly impressed with the story. It's not bad, but so far nothings really wowed me yet. I'm really enjoying RDG and The Devil is a Part-Timer! a lot. Man, that last episode of "Devil" was just awesome, and still highly amusing.
 
I need to pick up RDG, it sounds good, I just haven't figured out where to download it yet.
 
I managed to find it. The main reason I hadn't found it was due more to laziness than not being able to find it. That and I'm still playing monster hunter every chance I get. Thank you though.
 
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Attack on Titan episode 5 update: holy shit.

Spoiler:
They just ate the main character, and he's lost an arm and a leg at this point. I'm curious if Armin is going to be the new main character, or the Genius chick who likes Eren, or they're somehow going to bring him back.
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I know it has been a while and you have probably figured this out, but just in the case you have not and are curious [without spoiling anything but more-so reminding you of something]:

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Ever so briefly near the front of episode 3, iirc, Eren has a terrible "dream". It's one of those things from the manga that is clear, but for the anime they chose to showcase it in mystery. The actual wording and playing around it, is just that, that it was a bad dream. In actuality it is a flashback to a time after the death of his mother and being back with his father. Anyway, that "dream" is a very important part of the puzzle here. While the story is a tragedy, it still has those typical Shonen manga tropes so it's not quite going to be Urobuchi style.
 
Yeah, based on last week's episode, I have an idea of what might have happened. I can't wait for tonight's to see how the story goes. I didn't remember that scene you're talking about at all, but I looked at the Manga and I found it.
 
He was asleep under a tree at the beginning of the episode I was referencing and Mikasa woke him up and asked why/if [I forget exactly] he was crying; something like that. It's pretty cool though, what's up with him.
 
<3 Shingeki no Kyojin. I can't wait for the new manga chapter. And gonna be fun to learn the mystery of the Titans whenever it finally gets to that (prolly gonna be a year >.>)
 
Whee, more Sword Art Online coming.

Oh, and go watch Kyoukai no Kanata. Right now.
 
I need more Magi:The Kingdom of Magic, and I need it now! Like a freaking coke addict!

Also, for shits and giggles I decided to give Queen's Blade a second chance and watched it in Japanese with subtitles. This has definitely made a huge difference so far, it's actually tolerable now where as it's dubbed counterpart is fucking god awful; and I am normally a fan of dubs... good dubs anyway. (Funi dubs, etc.)
 
How bad is the fan service is Queen's Blade? I had to stop watching Maken-Ki because the fan service got too annoying.
 
There's something other than fanservice in Queen's Blade?
 
Uh.. yeah. There is fan service overload in Queen's Blade, to the detriment of the story really because it practically takes a backseat to boobs and ass. Which is kind of a shame, because it seems like if they wanted to really explore it, there's a whole lot to this world of Queen's Blade. The main character has for pretty much the entire series so far been completely useless and kind of annoying. Thankfully there are plenty of side characters, and NONE of them are male except one woman's son... a woman whose character and body defies the laws of physics in many many ways..... many ways. But eh, it's fantasy and anime so physics pretty much come non-existent anyway.

But yeah, it's definitely tolerable in Japanese though. The uh.. dub.. yeah, it's like they hired retired porno stars to do voice acting (and probably did, I don't care to check).. kinda like what you might expect from a hentia dub from like 10-15 years ago. That bad. (I haven't seen any of those dubs in that long, doubt they've stepped up the voice work though 'cause you know.. it's anime porno).
 
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So I hear Cowboy Bebop creator has a new anime coming out called Space Dandy :D anyone checked it out? Wonder if it's good.
 
I've seen whatever you want to call the 15 minutes of animation I saw on it. Maybe an intro? I hope... because 15 minutes is way too short for an episode. Wasn't bad, was definitely humorous and entertaining. Very colorful. And boobs, no seriously, boobs.

Edit: Apparently it's not even 15 minutes like I thought, was just under 10. Oye, I hope it is just this first one that is so short. If they are all like this, then... kind of a let down unless they are planning on doing 24-48 of them, which I doubt is the case.
 
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