Buddy Complex - 01
Story: "On the first day back after summer break, high-school student Aoba is attacked by a giant robot that appears out of the sky. As he's pursued through the city, his classmate Hina appears in a robot of her own. She rescues him, and tells him cryptically that "Dio is waiting for you," before she disappears. This begins Aoba's new life as the pilot of the Free Treaty Alliance against the Great Zogiria Republic."
Genre: Giant robots wars.
Comments: Single linear timeline hypothesis? Looks like sci-fi from the 60ties.
The characters also look somewhat retro.
From an old manga? Mmh... No, supposedly it's an original creation.
Let me see what happens after the time jump.
Kindaichi Case Files R - 01
"Taiki Matsuno plays a high school boy named Hajime Kindaichi who usually seems dull, but when there is a case, he demonstrates remarkable deductive skills inherited from his famous detective grandfather."
High school detective.
Slow exposition, with everybody tagged like in an investigation, even before the crime has even occurred.
Ok, let's see, who is the most unlikely culprit here? Hmmm... Oh! I can see the ending!
Mahouka - 01 (The irregular at magic high school)"
"In 2095, Tatsuya Shiba and his sister Miyuki Shiba are new students enrolling at the Private Magic University Affiliated High School (First High School). Students are ranked according to their test scores: students with the best grades are designated "Bloom" and enrolled in the Course 1 curriculum, while those with poor scores are designated "Weed" and enrolled in Course 2. Miyuki topped the entrance exams and is selected to be the first years' representative, while Tatsuya is placed in Course 2 due to his low practical test score, despite scoring the highest in the written portion of the exams."
Fabulous rivalries.
Whoa, this is heavy, Doc.
Thick hate everywhere. Is this from CLAMP? I saw the girl from Angelic_Layer, and the guy from Reservoir_Chronicle. And at the end of the ED we see two guys flaunting their guns at each other.
Mmmh... No, but it's by Madhouse studio, which has done several CLAMPed thingies.
Why are things so heavy in the future?
Captain Earth - 01
"The story follows second-year high school student Daichi Manatsu suddenly spies a mysterious circular rainbow floating in the skies over Tanegashima island on television, on the evening before summer vacation begins. Moved by intense foreboding, he heads to Tanegashima, the home of Japan's Tanegashima Space Center, by himself..."
Battling living comets.
Not sure yet.
First part was nicely mysterious and interesting, but second part was giant robot technobabble and sleep-inducing.
Quantum leap reviews:
Kamigami no Asobi 01: Zeus throws a girl into a harem of wolfish gods. Wishful otome game.
Seikoku no Dragonar 01: Parry Hotter and his loli dragon. Sex please, we're British.
One Week Friends 01: One-week-reboot girl. Bed hairs dorama.
Haikyuu 01: Shorty wants to play big. Volleyball anime.
Baby Steps 01: Spock-guy analyzes tennis' skirts. Sports anime.
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii - 01 (=The World Is Still Beautiful)
"Nike, the fourth princess of the Rain Dukedom, holds the power to call forth the rain. She travels to the Sun Kingdom to marry Sun King Livius for her country, despite her own reluctance in the matter. She soon discovers that the King, who conquered the world in only three years after his ascendance to the throne, is still a young boy!"
Supergirl "solves" kingdom intrigues.
Ok, in the first episode she wanted to do a secret mission to study the situation. But she fubared her recon.
Then, she brawled with friendlies?
Alas, poor Kingdom!
Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou - 01 (=We Are All Pitiful)
"Kazunari Usa will start living far from his parents in a dormitory near his school just to find out that a pervert he meets earlier and his crush are living in the same dormitory as him."
Maison Ikkoku remake of sorts.
The guy blushes like a girl, his crush is a tomboy... A gender-bendered Maison_Ikkoku? But the Maison_Ikkoku's grandma is now the manager, and the busty babe is still boozing. Maybe more like a homage, then.
Has potential.
Revved up reviews:
Oreca Battle 01: card battles. Kids anime.
Hero Bank 01: card battles. Ka-ching!
Dragon Collection 01: It's about... card battles! And "trapped into a game", on top of it.
Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to 01: Research is hard work, like groping breasts, collecting panties and getting trashed by girls. "The plot needs work", you say? What's a "plot"?
Zip-zapping reviews:
Brynhildr in the Darkness 01: Looking for aliens with a girl from the Matrix. Mind-numbing unlogics.
Mahou Shoujo Taisen 01: Sidekicks are so rude nowadays. But what can a poor magical salaryman girl do?
Black Bullet 01: Battling invaders with meek martial arts, a gun out of bullets, a loli spider and no bubblegum? Just Another Day at the Office.
No Game No Life - 01
"The internet is full of rumors about the Neet and Hikikomori genius gamer siblings Sora and Shiro. The two go as far as to refer to the world as a "shit game", but then one day a young man calling himself "God" summons them to a parallel universe. There, God has forbidden war, and "everything is to be settled with games". Yes, even the national borders."
Multiversal gamers.
Nice.
But, why does the god of another world wants a genius loli who can play chess?
And, what do you mean, "No signal"? You are in a parallel world, you need to dowse for a location with a good magnetic ley line for resonance amplification. Then you can call Mom and say, "I can't go to school tomorrow, I'm in some kind of alternate spacetime!"
Hitsugi no Chaika - 01 (Chaika - The Coffin Princess
"Toru Acura is a 20-year-old retired soldier meandering through life now that the war has ended. He encounters Chaika Trabant, a 14-year-old sorceress carrying a coffin, and follows her in hopes of finding meaning to his life again."
Post-war intrigues.
So far, so good.
Looks interesting, with multiple mysteries.
I'll follow this in the hope of finding what it all means.
Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin - 01 (Nanana's Buried Treasure)
"Disowned by his father, Jugo Yama has run away from home to the island of Nanae. He begins to live by himself, only to discover his room is haunted by the ghost of Nanana Ryugajo. She was murdered ten years ago, and her killer must be found before she can rest in peace. Before her death, Nanana collected things from all over the world and hid them throughout the island."
Treasure hunt.
Nice animation.
But, a ghost... who can eat pudding? ... Oh well.
Who got stabbed in the back... but didn't look at her killer afterwards? ... Oh, well.
Who was very very rich... and no one investigated the one who snatched her fortune? ... Oh. Well!
...I'm guessing this is just the setup, and the real stuff is yet to come up.
Cavorting about reviews:
Fuuun Ishin Dai Shogun 01: Fighting an invasion of big breasted ninja babes who want your male virginity, your foxy loli and your giant robot? Sure, whatever you say, bro.
Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka 01: Mellow coffee shop life. 4-coma.
Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara 01: Guy can see flags on people's heads. Playing with death flags.
Ping Pong the Animation 01: Ping? Pong! Srs business. Sports anime. A nice first ep.
Some Like it Hot reviews:
Akuma no Riddle 01: Girl_A defends girl_B from girls_X who have to kill girl_B just because. Contrived lezzie plot.
Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san 01: Dog_girl lusts for cat_girl just because. Hot & bothered sapho plot, under the thumb of a third, dom_girl.
Mekakucity Actors - 01 (Blindfold-city Actors)
"Shintaro Kisaragi -- a HikiNEET who shut himself inside his room for 2 years -- has been living his life normally until he met a cyber girl named Ene, who appeared in his computer screen when someone anonymously sent him a mysterious e-mail one year ago. One day, Ene messes with Shintaro's computer, which causes the computer to break and forces Shintaro to enter the outside world for first time in two years."
Living in a mechanical clockwork world.
This is fun.
Very nice voice acting, and good animation.
Ok, the end of the episode makes no sense, so this probably has to do with an ability to rewind time, or something. Or to preview several parallel futures.
Next episode, please.
M3 - Sono Kuroki Hagane - 01 (=M3: That Black Steel)
"There is distorted, deep blackness everywhere. That place, in which blackness swallowed everything and carried everything away, has become known as the Avidya Zone. Strange beings that wholly embody the despair and chaos of humanity. They are known by this name: Imashime. An expedition to survey the Avidya Zone which consumes human spirits. In a complex crossing between the present day in which impending disaster looms and the fate of the past, can eight boys and girls, assembled to confront the Imashime, find the bright future that lies before the Avidya Zone?"
Gritty robotic dark metal school.
Hmmh...
Bipedal robots that -have- to be piloted directly? Check.
Schoolyard interactions, filled with hostility? Check.
Most of the episode darker than a Doom corridor? Check.
Evil/mean/stupid adults? Check.
Technobabble, psychobabble, babblingbabble? Check.
Lemme see, what means "Avidya"? "Ignorance of the identity of oneself with Brahman, resulting in imprisonment within the cycle of birth and death."
I think I need more vidya.
Icebreaker reviews
Bakumatsu Rock 01: Electrical guitar rockers gaily bounding in Ancient Edo? Whunky buzz.
Tokyo Ghoul 01: Soylent Green, so tasty... but only for zombies! Munchies City horror.
Locodol 01: Yet Another Clumsy Idol Group, but... erm... now with swimsuits! Woopdedoo.
Argevollen - 01
"The story takes place in a world where two countries, Arandas and Ingelmia, have been warring against each other for a very long time. Tokimune, a young man belonging to the eighth autonomous unit of Arandas, saves a girl named Jamie when she is attacked by enemy forces. In order to survive, he rides the new weapon Argevollen and fights."
Biped bimanous giant robots.
War, war never changes. It's always about putting a clueless young kid into a super-duper giant robot that he stumbles upon on the side of the road accidentally. And then to find the enemy, and then to get jailed for 40 years because he blew up the money racket of the warmongers.
Good luck, young grasshopper!
Movin' Along reviews:
Glasslip 01: Slice of sweet nothingnesses, tempests in a teapot. Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Rail Wars 01: Forcing greenhorns to shoot live bullets around in a room full of people? Getting fired for arresting the bad guys? Too close to the truth.
Putt-putting reviews:
Shounen Hollywood 01: A girlish male idol group, striking cute poses in a world where manly girls stole all the testosterone. Eek!
Sailor Moon Crystal 01: A remake? With the exact, same old story? ... Why??
Aldnoah Zero - 01
"In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission discovered a hypergate to Mars on the surface of the moon. Soon, a war breaks out between Earth and Mars, and Martian soldiers begin to descend from the sky, riding steel giants, intent on exterminating humanity."
Apocalypse Zero Now.
Pretty good.
The casus belli looks like a false-flag operation, typical of war hacks nowadays.
But I suspect the princess is still alive somewhere to--... oh wait, Gen Urobuchi is on this? Then sayonara, sweet princess.
Rail wars looks pretty dull now like a porn for gun crazed freaks. Really dark one.
Entangled reviews
DRAMAtical Murder 01: An unspirited dandy gets trapped in cyberspace. BL swag.
Akame ga Kill 01: Fashionable murderers painting the town red with the blood of the rich. Vigilante "justice".
Barakamon 01: Brushing up in the boonies. A lively first episode.
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun - 01
"Sakura Chiyo confesses her feelings to her schoolmate Nozaki. Due to a misunderstanding, Nozaki thinks Sakura is just a fan. She then discovers Nozaki's other identity; a shoujo manga artist. As she gets closer to Nozaki, she befriends Nozaki's quirky acquaintances who assist him and serve as inspirations for his manga."
No-romance-allowed shoujo comedy.
Anytime the girl wants to go in love-love mode, the guy throws ice-cold water on her dreams.
For the fans of cold showers.
- Tactical reviews -
Ao Haru Ride 01: Reunion of a girl who is now a delinquent and a handsome asshole, due to past misunderstandings. Need for regrouping alliances.
Hanayamata 01: supershy_girl joins the yosakoi dance club, due to american_girl pressures. Friendship politics.
- Clubbing reviews -
Sabagebu 01: Survival games club. So, in survival games, you kill all the others?
Jinsei 01: Newspaper advices column club. Follow their "advices" at your own risk!
Himegoto 01: A guy is forced to join the student council dressed like a girl. Banana flashers.
- Gonadial reviews -
Love Stage 01: Guy has to disguise as a girl for a marriage scene, gets kissed by a guy. Softcore seme/uke plot.
Momo Kyun Sword 01: Peachy babe has to collect all the pink slices of a peach before the horny Oni. Fuuuu...sion... Ha!
Zankyou no Terror - 01 (Terror in Resonance)
"In an alternate iteration of the present, Tokyo has been hit by a terrorist attack that has devastated the city, with the only evidence of the culprits being a confusing video uploaded to the internet, which only spreads paranoia throughout Japan. Unbeknownst to the authorities is that the terrorist masterminds who call themselves "Sphinx" are two teenaged boys, who go by the names Nine and Twelve, who apparently should not exist and have decided to wake up the world with their heinous plans of death and destruction with their fingers on the trigger."
Teddy bear terrists.
A wannabe terror job by two kiddies?
Without a corrupt media, replaying the same images over and over for 10+ years?
Without a complicit administration, hushing away the evidence, and selling out an useless security theater?
Yeah, good luck with that.
Rokujouma no Shinryakusha - 01 (Invaders of the Six-Tatami Mat Room)
"Now that he enters his high school career, Satomi Koutaro begins his life living alone in an apartment that only costs him 5000 yen per month, an extremely cheap deal even for this small apartment. There's a catch: the apartment is apparently haunted by a cute ghost that has driven its prior occupants away. Next thing he knows, not only is there a ghost trying to drive him out of his new home, but magical girls and other unique female characters turn this small apartment into a battleground of sorts."
Cursed room service.
Looks like fun.
I'm amazed the TV was not destroyed by all those blasts. That TV must be either holy or cursed. Or both.
Will more oddities show up? No sure, as there is no OP nor ED yet. Ah! But there were nine colored balls in his dream. So, five girls, four more to go. And then, to the final boss!
- IV drip reviews -
Tokyo ESP 01: Bad ESPers stole the Diet? And good ESPers want to steal it back? What for? Clashing superheroes of the garden variety.
- Milling reviews -
Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance 01: One guy alone against a tsunami of female stereotypes. When the going gets tough, the tough has no choice but to get going.
Majimoji Rurumo 01: School pervert summons shy witch unwittingly. Methinks that club prez is Mephistopheles in disguise, Doctor Faustus.
what an interesting anime with genre comedy....??
- Gory glory reviews -
Terra Formars 01: Get your ass on Mars, Quaid. Marvin the Martian evolved and he's very, very angry!
Karen Senki 01: Living under a post-Skynet world. Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, but no thanks.
Tribe Cool Crew 01: Happiness through dancing. Ya dig hip-hop, brah?
- Flaffy quixotic reviews -
Denki-gai no Honya-san 01: Working! + Comic_Party + "using a computer" = Wotaku version One Zero.
Gundam Reconguista in G - 01-02
"The series takes place in the timeline after Universal Century, called Regild Century (R.C.), in the year R.C. 1014, and follows the story of a young pilot cadet named Bellri Zenam, who is a member of the Capital Guard, an organization charged with protecting the orbital elevator, the Capital Tower. When the Capital Tower was under attack by a band of space pirates called the Pirate Corps, Bellri encounters and captures a highly advanced mobile suit, the G-Self, and its pilot, Aida Surugan."
Overman King Gundam.
Very lively, but I dunno what's going on yet.
Is that a religious pecking order society? An aristocratic order, maybe? Or a military one? But the discipline is very weak. A patriarchal society? But some pilots were female...
Alright, let's see more.
BTW, cool mecha chocobos.
- Reviews, in the flesh -
Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete 01: eromance game adaption, in semi-3D, on a razor-thin budget. Plot may be worth a look.
Madan no Ou to Vanadis 01: very idealistic medieval fantasy. The babes are hot, tho.
Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai 01: chain-smoking OL marries a geek, hilarity ensues. Wait what, where's her smoke?
- Mincing reviews -
Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji 01: weak M_girl meets weak S_boy, dipped in weak shojo sauce. A wolf who cried woof.
Grisaia no Kajitsu 01: Huge empty school, with only 1 guy + 5 girls. No wonder that world is so barren if they are all hitmen/women.
World Trigger 01: Living near a dimensional vortex is bad, but the local school bullies are even worse. What, fighto? Yeah, yeah.
Sora no Method 01: Friends and aliens reunited after a long time apart. Time to shed a tear, or two.
- Boy-meets-boy reviews -
Donten ni Warau 01: Law-enforcer brothers, under the ominous shadow of a nasty prison in the Meiji old days. So bloody bromantic!
Orenchi no Furo Jijou 01: Manly man meets fabulous merman. Bathtub-sharing BL.
Kaitou Joker 01: Phantom thief, with a ninja doing the cooking. Kid stuff.
Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de - 01 (When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace)
"Six months ago, the five-member literature club all awakened superpowers. Unfortunately this has not led to them having anything else interesting happen in their lives, like epic battles or saving the universe. They go about their ordinary lives, just happening to have superpowers, waiting for the call to battle to finally happen - assuming it ever comes at all."
Chuuni club activities.
Ah, this one has good potential.
The first episode was weak ("This universe originated 13.7 billions years ago"? Not even wrong.), but I have great hope. Let's see how it develops.
- Hankering reviews -
Gugure! Kokkuri-san 01: Playful male silver-haired magical fox? Lonely shut-in girl? Wishful shojo, with a large dose of acid humor.
Trinity Seven 01: Rounding up the usual suspects, one smart alec and his seven witches. At the local magic school, of course.
Akatsuki no Yona 01 + Cross Ange 01: Pampered princess. Rotting kingdom. Coup d'etat. Time for a gruesome reality check and... a tomboy haircut!
- Boldly galumphing reviews -
Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girl 01: Sega showroom, reusing old 3DCG moves.
Garo 01: Witch-hunters are demons eating people and shapeshifting into their human forms. Medieval fantasy... or is it?
Parasyte 01: Guy gets a morphing lifeform into his hand instead of his brain. Resigned, the parasite morphs into a symbiote.
Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai 01: Bookworm is not interested in girls, only books. Alas, this is from an erogame, so... But don't worry, there will be no sex scenes!
Nanatsu no Taizai 01: Goku/Meliodas and Bulma/Elizabeth begin their search for the 7 dragonballs/Taizai. Similar artstyle, too.
- Heavy weights reviews -
Amagi Brilliant Park 01: The usual high-quality KyoAni cocktail of same-characters, with no satisfying endings.
Shingeki no Bahamut 01: Card game adaptation, with a generous budget.
- I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream reviews -
Ore Twintail ni Narimasu 01: The world is under great danger, from the invasion of the twintails-stealer aliens! ...Eh, what?
Shirobako 01: How to make an anime: with Initial-D road-racing rage, and lots of donuts!
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso 01: When bullied piano-man meets violin-girl, world became colored again. But when she bullies him, the colors don't fade. Is love a good bully?
- Jejune reviews -
Girl Friend Beta 01: A promo for some dating-sim? The girls were speaking sooo slooowly, I thought it was a practice-your-Japanese lesson. Beta indeed.
Yuki Yuna wa Yusha de Aru - 01:
"Yuna, Mimori, Fu, and Itsuki are all members of the Sanshu Middle School Hero Club, dedicating themselves to helping those that requested. One day, they are suddenly caught in a ray of light and transported to a strange forest, where evil monsters known as Vertex are seeking to destroy Shinju-sama, which would in turn destroy the world. Using a special app to transform into magical girls, Yuna and the others must now become true heroes in order to protect their world."
Magical girls saving the world app.
Wait, if the whole classroom is in zero-time, the heroes shouldn't be able to move either. Unless there was an EM Field around them. Generated by that cellphone's app they all had to download earlier? But then, when they move around, the cell should reactivate the ones who are near the field, like in The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Skyward_Sword. Unless, the app is shaping the EMF to only follow the owner of the cell?
Fancy. Ok, where can I download it?