Your Summer 2018 Anime Guide

19 responses to “Your Summer 2018 Anime Guide”

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   dirtycod

   January 12, 2018 at 2:06 pm

   Devilman Crybaby was really good.

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   stormo

   January 12, 2018 at 2:10 pm

   I’m unashamed to admit that I’m so happy we’re getting new Cardcaptor Sakura. My first experience of being at an anime club was watching badly translated fansubs (back when fansubs meant ‘third-generation copies on VHS tapes’) of the show. It’s still great, too.

   Also, A Place Further Than The Universe is great so far.

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      rock_m

      January 12, 2018 at 2:30 pm

      Whats there to be ashamed of? CCS was one the best series out back when it originally aired and i had a quick look at the new seasons manga and its great to see the cast grown up so to speak!

      … and lol those were the days of “fansubs”. I still remember when the “best” online quality you could get online were those horribly pixelated REAL media files =P Most folks these days are so spoiled for choice =P

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         mrbs

         January 12, 2018 at 3:06 pm

         real files lol, nothing like getting 12 episodes of Ranma 1/2 on one cd-rom 😉 My computer was too slow at the time to run them either :p

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            stormo

            January 12, 2018 at 6:15 pm

            Man, you guys had it easy with your realvideo files and your internets. In my day, we got fansubs by giving $10 to a guy, and then waiting a month for him to get back to us with third-generation VHS dubs of shows recorded off Japanese broadcast TV, sent to some guy in the US who subtitled them with his mate’s Amiga and then sent them here.

            And they often still had the original TV ads in them!

            (Something something Four Yorkshiremen…)

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               philosophyfail

               January 12, 2018 at 9:42 pm

               I caught the end of vhs sharing, but mostly lan parties or downloading 20-30mb eps of dragonball, gundam…shit even sg1 eps off irc bots or in 1 cases someone with a t1 setup an ftp server. I still have the artifact sg1 files just to remind myself of the difference between what I considered acceptable to watch.

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               pylgrim

               January 13, 2018 at 11:34 am

               Haha I do remember those days when the “t1” setups were spoken of in revered ways, the people who could share anime at high speeds in platforms like IRC, FTP and DC++. I also caught the tail end of the VHS subbing. In a dusty box somewhere in my mother’s house there are tapes of Perfect Blue, The End of Evangelion and Slayers Next along with TV recordings of Super Milk-chan and Oh My Mini-Goddess.

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               rock_m

               January 18, 2018 at 10:21 pm

               Haha… actually I was around for the tail end of the good olde HS fansubs as well..

               …prolly the only way we ever got to run screenings for our local anime club before legit licensed imports became viable.

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         pylgrim

         January 13, 2018 at 11:38 am

         Agreed, CCS was monumental.

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   rock_m

   January 12, 2018 at 2:50 pm

   This is gonna be a great season. Im a huge sucker for isekai with overlord 2 and deathmarch out now and Shield Hero in the pipeline along with one pan 2 looks like im going to be getting back anime again this year!

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   bodmaniac

   January 12, 2018 at 4:15 pm

   Death March to The Parallel World Rhapsody
   A 29 year-old programmer finds himself in an RPG, where he’s a 15 year-old hero.Oh God. Not only is that title bizarre, but it’s another “guy gets sucked into fantasy world” anime? Yeah sure, they can be great (Overlord, Log Horizon, No Game No Life, KonoSuba, Re:Zero), but I don’t have high hopes when at 1:19 the protagonist goes full Kirito.

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      stormo

      January 12, 2018 at 6:17 pm

      It’s kind of weird how the old ‘girl/guy sucked into magical fantasy land’ genre has morphed into the ‘girl/guy gets trapped in an MMO somehow’ genre.

      I blame .hack//SIGN.

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         pylgrim

         January 13, 2018 at 11:37 am

         It’s pretty much the evolution of times. The old “sucked into magical fantasy world” series like Escaflowne and El Hazard heavily referenced fantasy books or tabletop RPGs. Kids today get their fantasy from videogames, mostly, so anime is now reflecting that.

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         rock_m

         January 18, 2018 at 10:52 pm

         Lol… I don’t mind most of these Isekai series. At the very least it’s good to see anime move on from the potato head MC since a majority of Isekai leads aren’t completely brain dead stupid. Occasionally boring and lacking in personality but not stupid =P

         If were gonna do this I’d much rather rag on the plague of ecchi-harem post Love Hina. I pretty much stopped watching anime around that time. I think Rosario to Vampire was the only series that caught my attention and even then only season 1 as season 2 was well…. we will not speak of that abomination =P

         And actually being sucked into an MMO/Game world is really just a small portion of the Isekai genre and it’s somewhat different to SAO and its granddaddy .Hack//Sign where in the scenario is the fact that they are still very much in a game where as Death March, Overlord and the like they are sucked into a fantasy world that mirrors the games they used to play with the same game elements but it is very much a “real fantasy world” now. A majority of Isekai stuff usually deals with just suddenly popping in a new fantasy world or being reincarnated into a new world (sometimes not even as humans… I NEED A TENSEI SLIME ANIME IN MY LIFE!)

         Honestly I welcome this golden age of Isekai anime =P Death March is a rather slow burn but I’m hyped for its progress, Overlord 2 is another I’ve been hoping for… and I’m waiting for Shield-Hero series to start! 😀

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   rock_m

   January 12, 2018 at 4:47 pm

   Ive been keeping up with the webnovel and he becomes insanely op….. but he never really shows it off unless were hitting high lvl enemy stuff even then he puts on a costume and mask so he doesnt get detected. Most of the fun is him basically trying to avoid standing out whilst unintentionally geting popular (his cover story at the start is hes just a travelling merchant) and literrally levelling up his harem to broken op levels =P

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      n_k4

      January 12, 2018 at 7:25 pm

      which anime?

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         rock_m

         January 18, 2018 at 10:40 pm

         Oops… this was meant to a response about Death March =P

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   keflor

   January 12, 2018 at 6:58 pm

   Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody is actually available on Crunchyroll

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   pylgrim

   January 13, 2018 at 12:01 pm

   I’m really stoked about the remake of Houshin Engi. I liked the original series more than most (even as I recognised that it was seriously flawed) so seeing it with this superb animation while keeping the old character design is making me super happy. I hope this time around they do the later arcs of the manga.