WisperG

A complete list of upcoming shows can be found on Live Chart. Alternatively, you can check ANN for English titles, although they still don’t have a comprehensive list yet.

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Here’s my current list of shows I plan to watch:

Must-watch titles:

– Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works Season 2

– Food Wars

– Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon?

– Punch Line (Ever17, 999, Virtue’s Last Reward VN/adventure game writer)

Titles I’ll definitely try out, but aren’t ones I’m super-excited for per-se:

– Blood Blockade Battlefront (Yasuhiro Nightow series. Ai Orikasa has a voice role)

– The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan

– Denpa Kyoshi – He is an Ultimate Teacher

– Ninja Slayer: The Animation (it’s not an original series, but the adaptation is being handled by Trigger)

– Plastic Memories (Steins;Gate VN writer)

– Labyrinth/Eden of Grisaia

Not a priority, but caught my eye for one reason or another. Might end up trying some of them out:

– Digimon Adventure Tri

– Heroic Legend of Arslan (Hiromu Arakawa series)

– Rin-ne (Rumiko Takahashi series)

– Seraph of the End (Premise seems interesting)

– Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

And last but not least, my two continuing simulcasts:

– Assassination Classroom

– Durarara!! x2 (The simul-dub, which is lagging several episodes behind the JP eps)

As always, early reviews from places like ANN’s Preview Guide may sell me on a few more shows (and vice-versa, of course) or get me more excited for the ones I listed as not being a priority right now.

DAY 18

Hmm, hard to say if it’s definitively my favorite ED ever, but I really, really love Negai, AMG Season 1’s first ending.

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DAY19

I haven’t seen a lot of dedicated Shojo anime. I like Sailor Moon well enough, so I’ll go with that. A runner-up would probably be the Pretty Sammy OVA’s, if those count.

DAY 20

I’m not a huge fan of tsunderes. I outright hate violent tsunderes, and most of the rest just tend to annoy me with how much they beat around the bush. Maybe they remind me too much of myself…

Anyways, I’d have to declare this a toss-up between Rin Tohsaka from Fate and Hitagi Senjyogahara from Bakemonogatari. They both pull the tsundere thing off well.

Tohska is sort of like the textbook definition of the perfect tsundere (her enduring popularity can attest to that). Her reactions rarely come off as annoying or ovweblown as is the case with so many other tsunderes.
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Senjyogahara is… a bit different, but also… not really? It’s hard to describe her properly without directing someone to go watch the Monogatari series and gain an understanding of her for themselves. While she typically skews more towards being hard-edged, she walks many fine lines without actually falling into any given category. She’s a very multifaceted character, moreso than most female anime characters I can think of in recent memory.

She’s definitely not the bumbling, blushing tsundere type. Glaring and threatening bodily harm are more her thing, yet she rarely steps far into yandere territory, and she can be surprisingly cute, friendly and compassionate when she wants to. She’s rarely caught off guard and is pretty much always one step ahead of everyone she talks to, letting them see exactly what side of her that she wants them to, which can vary wildly depending on the situation. Her relationship with Araragi is both unorthodox and totally normal at the same time and yet, they’re pretty much perfect for each other.
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If anything I just said piqued someones interest, then go watch Bakemonogatari. It’s so hard to accurately describe her character and personality in a meager two paragraphs. This is one of those things you really need to see to fully grasp.

I’ve been a Pokemon fan for what feels like eons now, so I feel like I may have had a bit of a crush on Clair and/or Officer Jenny at some point. But I don’t exactly remember…

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DAY 10

This… is a really hard question. I love anime and animation in general, but I’m not sure I’ve really been changed as a person by it. Or if I have, maybe I just haven’t noticed. It’s a big part of my life now, but I’ve mostly just viewed it as hobby up until now. So while I don’t know if I can name specific show, being a part of the anime fandom in general has definitely had a positive effect on me, such as helping me find friends at places like Tenchiforum that I can share my interests with. I don’t know many people in real life that are into anime.

DAY 11

Short answer: no. I don’t find that stuff appealing. I can tolerate elements of it or subtext popping up in shows I’m watching or if it’s just played for laughs or something, but I just can’t watch a dedicated yaoi/yuri show that takes itself seriously.

DAY 12

There are a lot of shows that I love the OP/ED of, but if we’re talking full soundtracks in general I’ve gotta go with, surprise, surprise… Evangelion. It’s one of the few anime I actually own a soundtrack CD for.

My 2nd place runner-up would be Fooly Cooly. Gotta love that Pillows music. I really should buy a CD for that sometime.

3rd would be GITS SAC (2nd Gig being another show I own the soundtrack for).

DAY 13

My favorite seiyuu is probably… Joji Nakata. He has such an epic voice. Being mostly a dub guy, I’ve only heard him in a few roles (mostly Type-Moon stuff), but he’s always the highlight of whatever Japanese dub I come across him in. The fact that he had a role in the Japanese version of SWAT Cats also earns him some brownie points from me.

As for English VA’s, Steve Blum, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, and Crispin Freeman are 3 of my personal favorites. They always bring a smile to my face when I hear them in a show I’m watching.

OP1 – Hikaru Nara

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OP2 – Nanairo Symphony

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ED2 – Orange

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