Seiren – 02
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「常木耀 第2章 ヤマオク」 (Tsuneki Hikari 2-shou – Yamaoku)
“Tsuneki Hikari Chapter 2 – Deep in the Mountains”
Houston, we have flirting. And fetishes!
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku Wo! 2 – 01
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「この不当な裁判に救援を！」 (Kono Futouna Saiban ni Kyuuen o!)
“Give Me Deliverance from this Judicial Injustice”
Objection! The defendant is too damn funny.
Urara Meirochou – 01
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「少女と占い、時々おなか」 (Shoujo to Uranai, Tokidoki Onaka)
“The Fortune-Teller Girl Sometimes Shows Her Stomach”
It’s all about the characters.
Ao no Exorcist: Kyoto Fujouou-Hen – 01
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「嚆矢濫觴」 (Koushiranshou)
“Small Beginnings”
Back into the fray five years later, and halfway through the previous season. Ao no Exorcist is back.
Winter 2017 Preview!
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Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the anime is so delightful. Or hopefully it is, which is what we’re here to find out. This season features some strong sequels, including the long-awaited return of the exorcist battle anime Ao no Exorcist, another hilarious adventure with the dysfunctional goofballs of Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!, a new generation in Yowamushi Pedal, and a second season of the universally lauded Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu. Not to be outdone, there are new adaptations of several promising properties, including the cop/spy/bureaucratic drama ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka, the Seo Kouji 100% certified ragefest adaptation of Fuuka, the classic salesman-transformed-into-magic-loli war story (haven’t we seen that a million times) Youjo Senki, and a period property you’re probably unfamiliar with, but which Japan has been gobbling up for years in Onihei. There are only a few originals airing this season, but standing tall among them are the first full season (finally!) of Little Witch Academia and the spiritual successor (hopefully) to Amagami SS in Seiren. There’s more where those came from, so let’s get on with it so you can figure out what to watch. This is Random Curiosity’s Winter 2017 Preview!
WWW.Working!! – Love and Peace and Lessons
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Chocolate is a helluva drug. |
It’s easy to see how the source material of WWW.Working!! led to the main WORKING!! series that was so popular. Every mistake the 2002+ Web-ban manga made was corrected for the 2004 serialization. This is an adaptation of that web manga, though, so the mistakes all remain.
ViVid Strike – It’s the Characters, Stupid
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Have fun getting the bugs out of your hair later on. |
While ViVid Strike could have benefited from tighter plotting or a few more script revisions, it never forgot one thing that so many anime do forget: it’s not about the plot. It’s the characters, stupid.
Fall 2016 Schedule
| Legend: | 2 | Takaii | 2 | Guardian Enzo | 0 | Stilts | 1 | Cherrie | ||
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| 0 | Zephyr | 2 | Passerby | 3 | Samu | 3 | Pancakes | Not covering |
Now that every show has aired several episodes—and then a couple more, while I took my sweet time putting the post together—it’s time to tell you what we’ll be blogging this season. This is Random Curiosity’s Fall 2016 blogging schedule.
As always, this is a tentative overview of our plans for the new season . . . is what we used to say, but with multiple episodes under our belts, we’re pretty confident in our picks. Will some of them blow up in our faces? Probably. But this is what we’re going with.
ViVid Strike – 01
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「フーカ・レヴェントン」 (Fuuka Reventon)
“Fuuka Reventon”
It’s like Nanoha ViVid, but . . . it’s basically just like ViVid.