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? GitS: Arise?
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
• Erased (Boku Dake ga Inai Machi)
• Rick and Morty?
• Mysterious Girlfriend X? Ore Monogatari?

Notes thereon:

• すべてがFになる (11)
  • I can't understand your moon language
    • Everything Becomes F (The Perfect Insider)
• GitS: Arise (10?)
• 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
• Rick and Morty?
  • Does not sound promising --maxb
    • I watched the start of episode 1. IMO, it's dreadful :-( --maxb
      • I believe the claim was that one should skip the first episode, but eh.
        • I managed to watch 3m40s of episode 2 before I dropped it. --maxb
• The show from Adult Swim?
  • Yes
• Mysterious Girlfriend X?
  • (AIM) - I've added this to my Crunchyroll queue after reading a rather eloquent review.
  • This show is weird. --maxb
    • Well, I finished episode 1. It felt awkward in multiple ways. I read http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=1508 - whilst technically a 4/5 review, there were quite a few things said (in the "The show is far from perfect though ..." paragraph) which left me lacking hope that it can rise above awkwardly weird. --maxb
• Erased (Boku Dake ga Inai Machi)
  • (AIM) - I've seen the first 3 episodes, and considered it schedule-worthy.

Other possible things:

• Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu
  • I've only seen the 1st (double-length) episode so far, but I'm already considering it schedule-worthy --maxb
  • Now five episodes in, I still rate this very highly. --maxb
• Nodame Cantabile (23+1,11+1,11+1)
• JoJo
• Panty and Stocking?
  • Does not sound promising --maxb
• Shimoneta?
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  • (AIM) A movie that rather convincingly explores what a schoolgirl would use time-travel for. Contains neither fighting nor world-shaking outcomes.
• I didn't like that very much --Lmm
• Serial Experiments Lain
  • I've heard enough bad things about this --Lmm
• 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
• Black Lagoon
  • This is good but me and Mark have already seen it --Lmm
• Utawarerumono (the first series)
  • (AIM) - A solid action show with ignorable harem elements. Leadership. Statesmanship. Lots of villages get burned.
    • I'm fairly sure the second season solely exists to troll the people who watched the first season.
• I don't remember much about this show but I do remember dropping it --Lmm
• Akagami no Shirayuki-hime (12)
  • (AIM) - A somewhat simplistic romance show. Warm feelings instead of angst. Which is probably why I liked it.
  • Season 2 incoming this Winter
  • I've now seen four episodes and really like it. Alasdair is drastically underselling it with the "somewhat simplistic romance" comment, as IMO that's not really the point of the show - to me it's more like a story about town and palace life that happens to contain romance elements as part of its framing. --maxb
• 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.

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 paxcing the way they did.

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