Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu – Overview

Natsuki Subari is a just a normal shut-in NEET. One day, as Natsuki Subaru leaves the convenience store, he was unexpectedly transported into another fantasy world. By playing RPGs, he had good expectations for the world that he transported in, but things weren’t looking good for him.

Not long after he has been transported, he has been attacked by thugs; the only thing he has with him is a bag of groceries and his cell phone. Luckily, a peculiar beauty arrived before him. Satella, who was chasing after a thief that stole her insignia happens to see Subaru in his troublesome state and managed to save him from the thugs. Subaru then offered to help her search for her insignia as a way of saying thanks to the kind hearted girl.

They soon found where the insignia is located and quickly went to the location. But unknown to them is a dark force that lurks in the shadows that watches the two. Not so long after locating the insignia, Subaru and Satella were savagely murdered by the mysterious dark force.

However, Subaru awakens in a familiar scene – which was when he encountered the thugs. History repeated itself and he met Satella again. He later then found out that he has the ability to time leap when he is put to death, in which he later called it as “Return by De-”.

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PROS

+ Unique story and has an original plot.

+ It went from 0 – 100 really quick.

+ The personality of the MC is good and a lot can relate to him.

+ Really dark, I mean a really really dark story.

+ RPG kind of vibe.

CONS

– The personality of the MC seems to not appeal to everyone.

– The community keeps on fighting on who is the best girl.

Kokoro Connect – Overview

Student Cultural Society – or StuCS for short, is a proposed club at Yamaboshi Academy that is intended for five students that have no clubs to join or fit in. This club includes these members: Taichi Yaegashi – who is apparently a hardcore wrestling fan; Himeko Inaba – a calm computer geek; Iori Nagase – a vague person who always thinks positive in life; Yui Kiriyama – a rather dainty girl who is a karate professional; and Yoshifumi Aoki – the one who likes to make jokes among the members.

One day, Yui and Aoki experience a rather strange phenomena, they switched bodies for a short period of time without them even knowing. This paranormal incident then later started to occur randomly amongst the five members of the club. The friends then soon discovered each of their hidden secrets and emotional things that have happened to them in the past because of the supernatural incidents that is happening. In which that it may tear their friendship apart.

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PROS

+ Feels.

+ More Feels.

+ It has comedy in it but it is also mixed with drama.

CONS

– (I can’t think of a CON for this anime).

Mirai Nikki – Overview

Amano Yukiteru is a boy in his 2^nd year of middle school. He has trouble making friends and he’s often alone and have no one to talk to, except his imaginary friend, Deus Ex Machina. He always write down everything that he see in his cell phone, like a diary of some sort.

Little did he know that his imaginary friend is apparently the Lord of Time and Space. He was talking to a powerful being without even knowing it. Deus Ex Machina, after seeing Amano Yukiteru’s sorrowful life, decided to give him a new power or ability. His cell phone diary now possesses the power to record events that will happen to him in the future. Though, not all good things will happen to him in the future. There is a chance that he will get a DEAD END, which is his death flag.

After having the ability, he is forced to participate in a so called “Survival Game” whose winner will decide in who will become Deus Ex Machina’s inheritor.

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PROS

+ Great fighting scenes.

+ Dark story.

+ Survival game.

+ Has a lot of plot twists.

CONS

– You may not like the character development of the MC.

– Yuuukkiiii (Wait, is this a con? Maybe, because it annoyed the heck out of me).

Akame ga Kill – Overview

 

Night Raid – a group of assassins that is formed to dethrone Prime Minister Honest, who uses the child emperor’s inexperience for his own advantages and for power and bringing corruption to the nation. Though, the Night Raid members include experienced killers, taking the lives of people brings a high risk of punishment. Thus, their relentless way of helping the nation holds dangerous consequences that has a possibility of threatening their lives.

Tatsumi  is a boy from a remote village who embarked on a journey to the nation to help his hometown. Unexpectedly, Tatsumi became a member of Night Raid. He later then learned the corruption of the government and vowed to make everything right. Facing powerful opponents, powerful assassins, and powerful weapons, he strives to do the very best he can do to become what is truly known to be an assassin.

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PROS

+ Great fighting scenes.

+ Gives an RPG kind of vibe.

+ Swords, weapons, and more weapons.

CONS

– You may not like the ending.

– The story/ending is different from the manga (based from a friend of mine who read the manga).

Date A Live – Overview

Spacequake – an unexplainable natural disaster that ravaged East Asia and took the lives of 150 million people thirty years ago. Now in the future, a Spacequake is now a common happening. Shidou Itsuka is a high school second year that lives alone along with his little sister.

While at school, a Spacequake suddenly emerges. Shidou ignored the Spacequake warning and rushed to save his sister. He got caught in the explosion and finds himself an odd-looking girl. This girl was in fact a Spirit – a powerful being from another world that causes Spacequakes when they arrive from this world. Luckily, Shidou was rescued by the Anti-Spirit Strike Team.

This task force’s purpose is to exterminate the Spirits. Shidou then discovered another way to counteract the Spirits in a more peaceful way: to make them fall in love. Now, Shidou holds the responsibility to date the Spirits in order to save the world from getting destroyed.

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PROS

+ Superb animation.

+ Ecchi (Really?).

+ Soundtracks are great.

+ Moe characters.

CONS

– Some of you may or may not like ecchi fan services.

– The plot is kinda lame.

Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou- Overview

Kazunari Usa is a high school freshman who decided to live alone in a new boarding house due to his parents work. Kawai Complex – the new boarding house that he’s going to stay in. Excited for being finally alone and free, he then later discovered that the boarding house that he’s going to stay in is full of weird people.

The residents of Kawai Complex are quite extraordinary. Kazunari Usa unexpectedly became roommates with the pervert that he met earlier before going to the boarding house. Shirosaki is known to be a pervert and a masochist. Various weird residents are also living in the Kawai Complex. Mayumi Nishikino, an office lady who drinks a lot and hates couples because of her unlucky connection with men. Sayaka Watanabe, a college student who likes to trick men and lead men on.

Kazunari Usa decided to leave the residence because of the strange residents. As he was about to leave, he ran into his senior student Ritsu Kawai. He immediately got attached to Kawai Ritsu. Knowing that his senpai stays in the Kawai Complex, he decided to stay in the boarding house.

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PROS

+ If you liked Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo.

+ It has slight ecchi. (Wait, is that a pro?)

+ Comedy and good for the laughs.

CONS

– Slow romance development.

Shirobako – Overview

Aoi Miyamori, Ema Yasuhara, Midori Imai, Shizuka Sakaki, Misa Toudo, the five members of the Kaminoyama High School Animation Club made their very first amateur animation and showed it to an audience at a culture festival. Their work turned out to be a success and they later turned what they did into their dream – to get jobs in the anime industry and create astonishing things.

Two and a half years later, Aoi Miyamori and Ema Yasuhara, two members of the club, have made their dreams into a reality. Now they have a job at a known production company called Musashino Animation. Working at an animation industry may seem really easy at first, but the girls later discovered that the animation industry is a tough job to have. The dream of working in the anime industry turns out to be one of the hardest and stressful jobs that you can ever think of.

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PROS

+ Depicts how the anime industry works.

+ You will watch an anime in an anime.

+ You’ll learn how an anime is produced or created.

 

CONS

– Some episodes can get boring sometimes.

Oregairu Creator’s Gi(a)rlish Number Novel Gets TV Anime Adaptation

A television anime adaptation of Girlish Number, a novel project by writer Wataru Watari (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) and artist QP:flapper (MM!, Celestial Method), has been green-lit. The story follows the lives of Chitose Karasuma, a college student who aspires to be an idol voice actress, and other young women in the industry.

The March issue of Kadokawa’s Dengeki G’s Magazine will launch the illustrated novel’s serialization (pictured below) on January 30. It will also publish a feature on the project with comments by Watari and QP:flapper, and it will announce the artist who will draw the manga adaptation.

The “Game no Dengeki Kanshasai 2016 & Dengeki Bunko Haru no Saiten 2016 & Dengeki Comic Matsuri 2016” festival will have a stage event with Watari on March 13. The event will announce the main cast.

(Source: Anime News Network)

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Another work of Watari, Wataru, the creator of Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. I have no idea on the story of this anime adaptation of Gi(a)rlish number. I haven’t read it, but I plan to read the manga because the art got me really interested in it. I always get interested in something if there’s moe involved (I know, I’m really weird).

So, the story focuses on Chitose Karasuma, a college student who wants to become an idol voice actress. Basically, the story would much likely focus on the seiyuu industry.

If I would get really lazy, I would just wait for the anime, but if I got really interested I would certainly and happily read it. So, I’m actually hyped for this because I pretty much enjoyed one of Watari, Wataru’s works, Oregairu. Seriously, that show was really good. One of the best I would say.

Death Note – Overview

Death Note – a notebook capable of killing a person just by being able to see the victim’s face and writing their name on the notebook. Ryuk, a god of death, got bored in the shinigami realm and in his interest he decided to drop a Death Note into the human realm.

At class, Light Yagami saw the falling notebook to the ground. He decided to pick it up and believed the Death Note was some sort of joke or a  prank made by people. At home, he tests the notebook by writing a criminal’s name that is shown in the television. To his surprise, the notebook truly has the capability of killing a person with just a simple writing of a name.

Light then decides to rid of all the criminals using the deadly notebook. He dreams of a world where crime doesn’t exist and he will reign over that world as the new god. However, Light faces an enemy, the police. More specifically, a detective known as L will try to solve the mysterious deaths of the criminals.

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PROS

+ Has a great story.

+ The soundtracks are superb and really capture the mood.

+ Awesome and epic writing scenes.

+ Potato chips.

CONS

– The art is normal and it’s usually the classic style of art.

– The puzzles can get you confused sometimes.

God Eater (Anime) – Overview

Year 2071, Humanity is in the brink of extinction because of the appearance of the so called man-eating monsters, the “Aragami”. These beasts cannot be damaged through the use of normal weaponries, instead an organization named Fenrir developed a way to counter the beasts and save humanity. There are special humans called “God Eaters” – these humans are infused with Oracle Cells allowing these type of humans to wield weapons that are capable of killing an Aragami, the “God Arc”.

A New-Type God Eater who is capable of having his God Arc take the form of both a gun and a blade joins Fenrir, Lenka Utsugi. Now, being a weapon for the Aragami, Lenka Utsugi desires to wipe out all the Aragami once and for all. The beasts continue to spawn and the only way to annihilate them is by using the greatest weapon known to kill Aragami, the God Eaters.

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PROS

+ Awesome animation and battle scenes.

+ Very detailed sceneries.

+ The soundtrack is epic and truly gives you the hype.

CONS

– The animation style is not like any other anime. It has a different art style.

– The story flow is rather different from the game (God Eater Burst).

– It only has 13 episodes and ends with a cliffhanger, for me.