Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Summer 2016 Anime Season: First Impressions



Summer Seasons First Impressions 2016
As always, for a better look at the summer list go here.
Its time again for my first impressions list of the anime of the season. This season we have the return of my favorite idols, a ton of great sports anime, and even some great food anime. Let’s not waste anime time and get right to it. These are my first impressions of the 2016 summer anime season.

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Final Thoughts: Spring 2015



Final Thoughts Spring 2016
Lets all chill out and talk anime
It’s that time again, time for my final thoughts list! This season had some amazing little shows that I will truly miss, but before we say goodbye let’s look at the shows that will follow us into the summer.

Cardfight!! Vanguard! G: Stride Gate- For a show that once had the characters on the moon and had the whole world be under the control of evil card games, they really know how to make things more crazy then they have made it before. This season we have a man trying to bring beings from the Vanguard home world in order to bring peace to earth by killing the vanguard planet, that same guy dying and uploading his brain into a clone child’s body, and the return of the Cardfight Sentai Vangarangers! Also the characters are going to have to go to space again. Because of course they are. One of the things I am really enjoying is that Chrono is being forced to play a different deck because he doesn’t have access to his favorite cards and win condition. So now he is forced to play something new in the same clan, which is always interesting. It’s like when Aichi was forced to use Gold Paladins instead of Royal Paladins in season 2. I look forward to seeing how they will end up in space and save two planets via the power of cardboard games.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamonds are Unbreakable- I have thoroughly enjoyed the first third of this adaptation. The first main story line of Diamonds are Unbreakable, following the hunt for Red Hot Chili Peppers and the mystical bow and arrow, is a great to start to part 4, and it is only getting better form here. The quintessential episode of the whole arc happens in this first part, at least the most quintessential for me, the Italian food episode. It is a silly episode where Josuke and Okuyasu go eat at a strange Italian restaurant that just opened up, and all hell breaks loose. It is definitely an episode you have to see, even if you’re not watching the show. Coming up in the show we have aliens, rock paper scissors battles, and one of my favorite villains ever written. I know I’ll keep watching, and so should you. 
This was honestly horrifying.