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

Days when host is away on holiday

• 2016-07-06
• 2016-09-07
• 2016-09-14

Possible things

• Ore Monogatari (24)
  • An unconventional romance, with lots of storytelling to do along the way, and some comedy moments. Though the subject matter is completely different, the viewing experience feels a bit like Shirayuki-hime - there is a continuity, but it's very episodic. --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
  • I feel that there are probably things which can outdo it for a schedule slot, but if you're in the mood for an anime which is mostly wacky/ludicrous style entertainment, yet does manage to wrap up with one of those rare things in anime - a strong conclusion - it could be one to watch. --maxb
• 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
• 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 appropriate narrative stopping point, even though their adventures have only just begun. --maxb
• High School Fleet
  • Similar in many ways to Girls und Panzer, but so far without a tournament arc, the characters are more competent, and doesn't seem to be a comedy. The plot so far is extremely well paced (as of 4 episodes) -- AIM
  • Personally, I think episodes 1 and 2 were very good indeed, but I wouldn't call episode 3 well paced at all. Over the course of 4 and 5, the series seems to have pulled itself back to going somewhere interesting, though I feel that, so far at least, the character development is lacking. --maxb
• Re: Zero - Starting Life in another world
  • Guy gets shunted off to another world, where the only thing he's got going for him is that he keeps re-incarnating in the past every time he dies, and a cup of instant noodles. He has yet to find a use for the instant noodles.
  • Starts off a bit slow for the first episode or two, but the theme seems to be that he builds on his failures every time he dies, so the later episodes (as of episode 4) seem to be getting pretty good. Main character is a bit unlikeable, but maybe that's deliberate -- AIM
• Koutetsujou no Kabaneri (a.k.a. the one with Trains and Zombies)
  • I investigated on Mark's suggestion. I'm impressed. Even though it's outside my usual genres of preference, I'm already convinced I'll be watching the whole series, and I'd suggest it's a strong contender for the schedule. --maxb
  • Seconded. My amusing summary for this one is "'Attack on Titan' meets 'Mad Max: Fury Road'" -- AIM

YYY Comedy Suggestions

• Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
  • Funniest comedy I've watched. May need to be familiar with Full Metal Panic to fully appreciate though. -YYY
  • I didn't manage to make it through the first season of Full Metal Panic -- AIM
  • I don't find this as funny as /a/ et al seem to. Not an outright veto but I'm anti. --lmm
• Seto no Hanayome
  • High school romance comedy involving mermaids. Ranks second funniest I've watched. -YYY
  • I watched episode 1. I liked the (very short) segments where the two main characters get to talk to each other, but most of the episode seemed to consist of what I assume was comedy that I did not find funny. --maxb
• Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san
  • Another comedy involving mermaids. 13 min episodes. -YYY
  • I've seen this. It's amusing, though somewhat un-complex. --maxb
• Sabagebu!
  • Comedy about high school survival game club. -YYY
• Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
  • Comedy about magical girl detectives who lose their powers. -YYY
  • I enjoyed this, I guess I could stand to watch it again. It is very dumb on every level though. --lmm

Summer 2016 Draft Schedule

• Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• ??? (sci-fi; perhaps Ghost in the Shell: Arise?)
• Macross Δ?
• Re: Zero? (slower or experimental show, or sports)
• Archer? (comedy)
• Snow White with the Red Hair S2? (romance/drama)

Special candidates

• Blood Blockade Battlefront last episode
• Gunbuster
• Girls und Panzer the film
• 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
• Initial D the New Movie (a reboot/retelling of the start of the story with better animation)

Spring 2016 Schedule

• 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)

Precure Easter Special

• Precure All Stars New Stage: Mirai no Tomodachi
• Precure All Stars New Stage 2: Kokoro no Tomodachi
• Precure All Stars New Stage 3: Eien no Tomodachi (technically shown in a regular meeting)

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)

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