these anime are good Spring 2018

Submitted by devtesla in anime4unme

MEGALOBOX
It's a boxing show where the boxers wear weird mechanical things on their arms so they can punch better!!! Gritty and intense!! Super cool looking, it gives me watching Cowboy Bebop on DVD nostalgia.

Gegege no Kitarou
It's a spooky kids show based on a classic manga by Shigeru Mizuki, a legit legend. It's about a yokai who saves people from yoaki and is cute and grumbly about it. There's cool gross stuff and it's lively and legit wholesome. The first episode opens with a youtuber doing annoying pranks and getting captured by ghosts. Love it.

Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan
It's a show about a dragon that turns into fighter jet!!!!!!!!!!! It's cute and funny and I love the style they're going for, very unique but also kinda nostalgic. Lots of characters I really like. Two that I don't cause they're creeps but I think that's the point, warning tho lol. Anyway I'm pumped for this good show.

Lupin III: Part V
The story they've cooked up for this season rules, it's extremely Lupin but also extremely 2018, most of what they're talking about wouldn't have made sense two or three years ago. Kinda insightful too. Is good Lupin.

Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online
This show rules and has almost nothing to do with SAO besides being about videogames. It's based on a book by Keiichi Sigsawa, who wrote Kino's Journey, and he basically just uses the setting to dork out about guns and shooter games. MC is a tall girl with a complex about her height so she plays VR games in order to be short and cute. V relatable v good show.

I need to catch up with the new Captain Tsubasa but here are the good shows I'm watching!!

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mm_ wrote

yess thank u i live for these posts

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hitto wrote

Not watching Wotakoi, Golden Kamuy or Layton's Mystery Detective Agency? smh

Also Hakaba Kitaro was the superior Kitaro anime in every way. I think? I don't actually remember anything about it, other than that I watched it back when it aired (has it really been ten years?!) and liked it a lot. And the opening song was really catchy.

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devtesla OP wrote

I should watch Hakaba Kitaro, tho the new one is really good.

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pushbroom wrote

I'm very excited for the next Lupin episode, "Lupin Learns About the Volatility of Bitcoin the Hard Way."

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hollyhoppet wrote (edited )

You forgot the most important show this season

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These
People in space talk about things a lot and shoot spaceships at each other.

It's a little early to tell but it looks like it's going to do justice to the original logh, which is basically a long form space opera that takes a really interesting look at the problems, risks, and benefits of autocracies, democracies, and (to a much smaller extent) oligarchies and how they can be ruined by corruption, apathy, complacency, and other stuff.

It features spectacular characters and it looks like the new one is really nailing them while providing a fresh interpretation. I've based several characters in my tabletop games on logh characters because they have so much depth and interesting motives and flaws and such.

The novels were written in the 70s so they are a bit dated in terms of gender equality, but if you can look past that it's a really good story, and the new series is coming out swinging in terms of providing a faithful adaptation.

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devtesla OP wrote

All I've seen about the new LotGH has been fans of the old series getting mad at it so I've avoided it so far lol

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hollyhoppet wrote (edited )

There are some fans that seem to be going into it intending to tear it apart if it's not perfect but there's a lot of overreaction and such.

One example is in the most recent episode Oberstein, a person with artificial eyes due to a birth defect, mentions that he probably wouldn't have been allowed to live under a past dictator, Goldenbaum's, regime due to a eugenics program. That was the only mention of Goldenbaum's atrocities mentioned in that episode and people were lambasting the episode glossing over them.

But the problem is that those other atrocities were not mentioned in the original series until like episode 40 in a documentary that a character watches during a long space flight.

Aditionally, Oberstein's characterization in the new adaptation is a little more sociable, but I still think they really nailed him, just with a different interpretation than the original anime did. But some people really really seem to hate it? Also he's only had a few minutes of screen time so far so whatever lol.

For me, the only thing the new series has left to prove is how they portray the democracy that's constantly at the risk of turning into fascism (the Free Planets Alliance) and the slimeballs responsible for making it the garbage pile that it is. So far though I've thought it really good and let me tell you I'm a huge fan of the original series and am currently reading through the original novels, which are finally getting professional translation.

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hitto wrote

mostly i just can't handle the new character designs. yang wenli is no longer super cute, what the heck?!?!?!

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hollyhoppet wrote

To be fair in the novels he’s described as pretty plain in terms of looks.

And I still feel like they got his smirk right

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hollyhoppet wrote

Also the animation of the space fights are already so much better lol.

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