Animu

Being a place for the planning of communal anime viewing. Seasons are named after the relevant anime season; at any given time we may be up to a season "behind" realtime.

Future

Spring 2016 planning:

• Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• The Perfect Insider (Everything Becomes F)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
• Erased (Boku Dake ga Inai Machi)
• Shimoneta
• Snow White with the Red Hair (Akagami no Shirayukihime)

Other possible things:

• Ore Monogatari (25)?
  • I think this has merit (currently have watched 17/25 episodes), though it is the slowish/sentimental sort, so would be improved by careful slot planning. It's nominally romance I suppose, but I'd say "storytelling / character interaction" is a better description of its primary feel. --maxb
• Nodame Cantabile (23+1,11+1,11+1)
• JoJo
• Gundam Unicorn (7) (really awkward to fit in a schedule, but I've heard so much good about it)
• Chihayafuru S2
  • How many of us have seen S1? I support Chihayafuru as a great show, but feel that people watching S2 without having seen S1 would be missing out on a lot. --maxb
• Barakamon (12)
  • Seems promising, based on reading a review. --maxb
• White Album 2
  • The "2" refers to it being the second anime in that setting, but the storyline is entirely independent. The extent of the overlap is that the protagonists like the same pieces of music.
  • Caution: Mild spoilers exist in some episode titles.
  • A difficult show to comment on without spoilers. I watched it after having its soundtrack turn up on Google Play Music, and then seeing it turn up in an "if you liked 'Your Lie in April' you might like". In retrospect I should have thought a little more about why it was there. Let's just say the ending isn't all sunshine and happiness and leave it at that. I really liked some parts, and the bits I didn't like I still found sufficiently compelling that I stayed up way too late watching the second half of the series all the way through to the end. Whilst I'm not happy with the chosen direction of the plot, I admire the narrative craft. In the words of http://kotaku.com/white-album-2-is-one-of-last-season-s-hidden-gems-1541072591 (which, if you read, you really need to obey the instructions to skip sections containing spoilers): "If you need a serious romantic drama in your life, there are few better emotional rollercoasters in recent anime than White Album 2. Just don’t expect to come out of it feeling happy and fulfilled." --maxb
• Punch Line
  • ...suggests Mark
• Is the Order a Rabbit? (ご注文はうさぎですか)
  • I never knew I could have this much fun watching an anime in which basically nothing happens :-) School slice-of-life at its finest. --maxb
  • Both GochiUsa and it's sequel are very good slice of life comedies. - YYY
• Winter 2016 options:
  • Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu
    • Starts powerfully, with a very interesting double-length episode 1. Then proceeds to spend episodes 2 through 12 in one long flashback. Episode 13 finally returns to the present and then leaps forward to years after. It's a good story, but I feel slightly cheated by the chosen format. --maxb
• GATE (24)
  • The pacing of the initial few episodes was a bit slow. However, it really got enjoyable after that, and as we move into the second cour, it's really showing promise. Also, intrigue. Explosions. Dragons. The most hilarious military character ever. I think it's a candidate. --maxb
  • I'm impressed - they actually pulled off a good concluding episode that felt like an appropropriate narrative stopping point, even though their adventures have only just begun. --maxb
• Snow White with the Red Hair (Akagami no Shirayukihime) S2 ?
  • Four Rhythm Across the Blue (蒼の彼方のフォーリズム)
    • This was a show in which the plot was almost entirely constructed from standard anime cliches - and yet I still enjoyed it a lot. It's all about the characters and their emotions. And the art and OP/ED music is good too. --maxb

Special candidates:

• Blood Blockade Battlefront last episode
• Gunbuster
• Girls und Panzer the film (after we've watched the series, assuming it's sufficiently well liked)
• Garakowa: Restore the World - a 1h film from Winter 2016, pretty, good music, and interesting enough, though did leave me questioning why they handled the pacing the way they did. --maxb
• Precure All Stars New Stage 3: Eien no Tomodachi

Precure March Special

• Precure All Stars New Stage: Mirai no Tomodachi
• Precure All Stars New Stage 2: Kokoro no Tomodachi

Winter 2016 Schedule

• Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• Planetes
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
• Fate/Zero
• Girls und Panzer
• Haibane Renmei

New Year 2016 Special

• Shirobako Special: 3rd Girls Fighter Wing
• Short Peace

Advent 2015 Special

• Shirobako Special: Exodus
• Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise

Halloween 2015 Specials

• Expelled from Paradise 楽園追放
• Little Witch Academia 2
• Psycho-Pass Movie

Summer 2015 Schedule

• Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• Planetes
• Fate/Zero
• Gakkou Gurashi
• Shirobako
• Hibike Euphonium

Emergency Holographic Spring 2015 Meeting

• Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica (fancut)
• Battle Programmer Shirase (partial)

Spring 2015 Schedule

• Blood Blockade Battlefront
• Knights of Sidonia
• Unlimited Blade Works
• Fireball
• Shirobako
• Kyousougiga
• Your Lie in April
• Madoka Rebellion (final meeting bonus)

Winter 2015 Schedule

• Rolling☆Girls
• Unlimited Blade Works
• Parasyte
• Yatterman of the Night
• Archer
• Your Lie in April

End of Autumn

• Bahamut 12, Parasyte 12, Mushishi 25-26, Amagami 12-13

New Year 2015 Bonus Meeting

• Macross Frontier: The False Diva
• Macross Frontier: The Wings of Goodbye

Autumn 2014 Schedule

• Shingeki no Bahamut
• Psycho-Pass S2
• Parasyte
• Nobunaga Concerto
• Mushishi
• Amagami Brilliant Park

Start of Autumn 2014 Bonus Meeting

• Time of Eve
• Redline

Summer 2014 Schedule

• Akuma no Riddle
• Knights of Sidonia
• Katanagatari (double length)
• Mushishi
• ToraDora

End of Winter 2014 Specials

• The Garden of Words
• 5 Centimeters per Second

Winter 2014 Schedule

• Noragami
• Space Battleship Yamato 2199
• Samurai Flamenco
• Macross Zero (replacing Samurai Flamenco)
• Archer (last 2 episodes, displacing Mekakucity Actors)
• Mekakucity Actors
• Allison to Lillia
• Toradora
• (Also unofficial Magic Knight Rayearth from time to time)

Autumn 2014 Schedule

• Little Witch Academia (first meeting, displacing Archer)
• Ga-Rei Zero
• Space Battleship Yamato 2199
• Samurai Flamenco
• Archer
• Allison and Lillia
• Twin Angel (filling gap in Archer)
• Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! (S1 + OVA)
• (Also unofficial Magic Knight Rayearth from time to time)

New Year's 2014 Bonus Meeting

• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 2nd A`s
• Macross Plus

Summer 2013 Schedule

• Gatchaman Crowds
• Attack on Titan
• The Sunday Without God
• Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma☆Ilya
• Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music...
• Simoun
• (Also unofficial Kiddy Grade from time to time)

Spring 2013 Schedule

• Psycho-Pass
• Attack on Titan
• Zetsuen no Tempest
• Demon King at Work
• Archer
• Simoun
• (Also unofficial Martian Successor Nadesico from time to time)

New Location

Flat 31, Rosecrest Court, 344 High Road, London N15 4ET. Still 18:45 on Wednesdays.

Moving House 2013 Bonus Meeting

• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st
• Voices of a Distant Star

Winter 2013 Schedule

• Psycho-Pass
• Shinsekai Yori
• Zetsuen no Tempest
• AKB0048
• Archer
• Princess Jellyfish
• (Also unofficial Aquarion EVOL from time to time)

Christmas 2012 Bonus Meeting

• Strike Witches the Movie
• Pale Cocoon

Autumn 2012 Schedule

• Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse
• Shinsekai Yori
• Secret of Cerulean Sand
• Archer
• Accel World
• Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
• DVD-only episodes of Kokoro Connect
• (Also unofficial Grenadier from time to time)

Summer 2012 Schedule

• Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse
• Secret of Cerulean Sand
• Archer
• Accel World
• Space Bros (dropped after episode ~12, displacing Tari Tari)
• Tari Tari
• Kokoro Connect
• (Also unofficial Seirei no Morbito from time to time)

Spring 2012 Schedule

• Jormungand
• Dantalian no Shoka
• AKB0048
• Natsuiro Kiseki
• Space Bros
• Wandering Son
• (Also unofficial Seirei no Morbito from time to time)

Winter 2012 Schedule (disrupted by Japan trip and change of attendees)

• Moretsu Pirates (dropped after epsiode ~14)
• Fate/Zero (dropped after episode ~20)
• Fireball (short)
• Senki Zesshou Symphogear: Meteoroid-falling, Burning, and Disappear, Then...
• Last Exile ~Fam, the Silver Wing~
• Chihayafuru
• Princess Tutu
• Honey & Clover
• (Also unofficial Seirei no Morbito from time to time)

Autumn 2011 Schedule

• Fate/Zero
• Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere
• Last Exile ~Fam, the Silver Wing~
• Chihayafuru
• Princess Tutu
• Honey & Clover

"Squash" 2011

• Read or Die OVA (in accordance with tradition)
• First episode of Fate/Zero

Time/Place

Lmm's (88 Chesterfield Gardens, Finsbury Park), 18:45 on Wednesdays