During the past anime season, Summer 2016, I watched a total of 7 new shows.
5 - Season Ones
2 - Anime Shorts
1 - Abandoned Show
All seven shows are listed below in rank order from my favorite watch of the season, Fukigen na Mononokean, to Ozmafia!!, which I enjoyed least.
Fukigen na Mononokean, The Morose Mononokean
5/5 Stars
Summer 2016 Season
Episodes: 13
Genres: Supernatural, Comedy, School
Studio: Pierrot Plus
In this otherworldly, satire, cut of life, two secondary school young men work to exorcize Yokai to the black market. The show is exceptionally long winded with just a couple significant plot focuses going through the entire season. The greater part of the scenes were happy and inspiring.
Yokai can't be seen by most people, so to exist on the human plane as a Yokai is to live in segregation. Thusly, it is the desire of most Yokai to go to the black market.
Ashiya, whose quality originates from his sympathy, becomes involved with the universe of Yokai when he see's one interestingly lying limp on the walkway. This Yokai winds up hooking onto him, making him debilitated to the point that he looks for an expulsion. This conveys him to Abeno.
Abeno is the Master of the Mononokean, giving him the capacity to open a way to the black market, through which he can send Yokai to a superior home. He likewise happens to be Ashiya's schoolmate.
The arrangement takes after these two, and three other real characters. As the story advances you get a feeling that Abeno is dreadful of turning out to be excessively connected, making it impossible to any Yokai, or to his role as the Master.
This lack of approachability is extremely inquisitive, and substantial driving component for the show. I was exceptionally put resources into making sense of why Abeno was so tainted, and regardless of whether Ashiya's help would help or hurt him.
I NEED another season of this.
** Side note: I have not watched any other yokai anime series (Like Mushishi or Natsume Yuujinchou) but my assumption is that this show is much more lighthearted, and funnier.
Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu, The Highschool Life of a Fudanshi
5/5 Stars
Summer 2016 Season
Episodes: Short Series, 12
Genres: Comedy, School, Slice of Life
Studio: EMT2
This is an anime short arrangement with each of the scenes being just 3 minutes in length. Scenes for the most part happen in school and encompass the fundamental character Ryou, and the different circumstances he keeps running into in light of the fact that he is a fudanshi.
For instance, his trouble purchasing BL at the book shop. His companion expecting that he enjoyed folks. Also, what happens when he associates with a kindred fudanshi, all things considered.
I loved the characters in this short arrangement and felt they could have bolstered a standard 12 scene season. Particularly after that insight of potential sentiment between two characters!
New Game!
5/5 Stars
Summer 2016 Season
Episodes: 12
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life, Moe
Studio: Doga Kobo
New Game! is a super charming parody, cut of life, set in the workplace of an all female gaming organization. The fundamental character Aoba has recently moved on from secondary school and go ahead board the character configuration group.
The whole show takes after this office as they complete their most recent diversion, Fairies Story 3, a super charming dream RPG that looks very like Fantasy Life or Popolocrois for the Nintendo 3DS.
This is a character centered anime, so watchers ought to center their consideration around the character relations and should basically overlook the way that the depiction of how one starts functioning in a diversion configuration organization is a greatly remiss translation of reality.
Aoba, being new, needs to discover her place in the organization. She needs to demonstrate her aptitudes, while learning as much as she can about character outline, and her colleagues.
I feel awful conceding this, yet for me, this show was to a great extent forgettable. On the off chance that I didn't track my anime on Animetrakr I may have overlooked I was watching it by any stretch of the imagination. So while I enjoyed it each time I sat down to watch another group of scenes, I am anxious about the possibility that that this show won't not stay with me long haul.
I think the reason for this was the lack of memorable music, or scenes that really struck an emotional chord for me.
Amaama to Inazuma, Sweetness and Lightning
5/5 Stars
Summer 2016 Season
Episodes: 12
Genres: Comedy, Food, Slice of Life
Studio: TMS Entertainment
Sweetness and Lightning is a tale about a widower with a youthful little girl who has an epiphany one night that it is time he figured out how to cook. Kohei needs to ensure his little girl Tsumugi eats accurately, however you can advise that he is additionally prepared to make new family customs and recollections now that his better half has been dead for almost a year.
As the consequence of this choice, Kohei and Tsumugi make a far-fetched fellowship with one of his understudies, Kotori, who is regularly taken off alone by her VIP culinary specialist mother. After a bit of pushing from Kototi, them three consent to figure out how to cook together.
This show was ease back to begin for me. To start with the characters are so considerate to each other that it practically made the show exhausting. By then the diversion sources were just the young lady, Tsumugi, doing senseless things, and the sustenance looking super inviting. In any case, in case you're anything like me, you will require more than that.
What's more, you get more in the second half. The characters have developed natural by the second 50% of the show and have come to truly esteem their time together. The story lines likewise get all the more substantial in the passionate office.
What's more, it was by then that I cast two ships out to sea...and I am not typically a major shipper. By one means or another, this show makes them trust that both the understudy Kotori, and her instructor Kohei, discover satisfaction together. And also, their two blonde haired companions, Shinobu and Yusuke.
Yes! You read correctly, I am greedily Captaining both of these ships!
Hatsukoi Monster, First Love Monster
2/5 Stars
Summer 2016 Season
Episodes: 12
Genres: Comedy, Shoujo, Romance, School
Studio: Studio Deen
I have an entire first reaction post for Hatsuko Monster.
This must be one of the most irregular anime I have ever tried to wrap up. Before, I would have deserted this arrangement, yet this time I was so inquisitive to check whether it could pull a 180 and wind up being awesome. It didn't. By and large, I was expecting more spoof of the sentiment kind, and less dick jokes.
There is no arrangement came to toward the finish of this arrangement. I had trusted that no less than one of the silly characters would achieve the purpose of having had enough and tell whatever is left of them that they were insane. Something to identify with the sentiments ingrained in me as the watcher. And keeping in mind that Kaho does in the long run have an agreeable upheaval, regardless she has affections for the man-tyke at the end...and I just can't...
I'm certain it is vain to expect reason from such an unusual story, however I accept unequivocally that including a sensible clarification for Kaho's sentiments would have improved this story, not more terrible. The absence of reason destroyed my happiness, since I continued sitting tight for a unimaginably shrewd clarification that never came. Toward the end I was left considering, "Hold up, that is truly it?"
Ozmafia!!
2/5 Stars
Summer 2016 Season
Episodes: Short Series, 12
Genres: Visual Novel, Harem, Romance, Shoujo
Studio: Creators in Pact
This short anime takes after a young man who has recently enlisted in another school. The educators are approximately based off of the characters from the Wizard of Oz.
The things that occur in every scene are totally arbitrary. For instance, one scene accounts what the cafeteria resembles and in another adversaries of the school assault it in hard and fast fighting. Every scene incorporates an a short time later, after the credits, which presents the characters of the visual novel amusement.
I assume that the only point of this show was to introduce the characters of the game.
Kono Kijutsubu ni wa Monodai ga Aru! This Art Club has a Problem!
Abandoned
Summer 2016 Season
Episodes: 12
Genres: Comedy, Romance, School
Studio: feel.
I wound up relinquishing this show after the fifth scene. It encompasses a little craftsmanship club where one of the individuals is intense about workmanship and another part is recently inspired by drawing himself two dimensional waifus. From what I saw, I loved that the leader of the club was totally pointless and that the primary young lady needed to both develop the club and pick up the consideration of the uninterested kid, however I rapidly lost enthusiasm for the plot.
It may be an extremely adorable show, with charming characters, yet I have different shows I would rather commit my opportunity to (I jettisoned it to watch both periods of Hakuoki 2010 and Chihayafuru 2011).
Until the next one!
Thanks for reading!
Amanda