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The Spring 2015 Anime Preview Guide

Shippoyasha wrote:

Considering the Zero Escape writer, I'm sure it'll have its share of crazy plot twists. I love the fanservice but I can see why it can irk many. It's even bolder with the pantyshots than some other fanservice shows out there.

I think this is the dilemma with the show. It's visually creative, the fanservice is gonna be hit-or-miss depending on your taste, but even "I go crazy for panties!" will eventually get old. I really hope this doesn't end up a one-note show about panties, hopefully there's something more going on here. The fact that the Zero Escape writer is writing this, is further blowing my mind. Maybe he's pulling a Masamune Shirow here, aka going from sci-fi to hentai.

I would also point out that there are only three cases this season where a series with multiple reviews has an average score from our reviewers which is substantially out of line with what the general public's score is: Food Wars, Gunslinger Stratos, and Mikagura School Suite. (I am here defining "substantially" as "higher than our highest score and a full point or more above our average.") Only 3 out of 22 like that does not suggest a major problem to me, especially since I think all three of those shows could be put into the "entertaining despite not being very good" category.

If some people thought Punch-Line was to FLCL what Rolling Girls was to Kill la Kill, that's how I felt with this one to the other three shows I mentioned. I'll give it one or two episodes to see if I can dig it, but this didn't work for me. 2,5 / 5.

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I think it's worth noting that it's a lot easier to marathon a manga than marathon an anime series. It took Jason fifty-six hours to marathon the Naruto manga. But to actually watch the Naruto anime would take over two hundred hours, and the show isn't even finished yet.

I have some writers for One Piece and Fairy Tail that I need to finish the interview process with, I've just been very very busy and it's a low priority. I'll have time in a week or two for it.

CrowLia wrote:

Also watched Shokugeki no Some ep.2 [expletive] pile of sexist garbage I don't event. Maybe I'm the only one who got this meanspirited "look at this haughty bitch, let our MC show her where she belongs with the power of his dick food, but she'll act like she didn't love MC's f*cking cooking 'coz she's a full'o'herself bitch, but don't worry, our MC will make her orfood-gasm so hard she'll have to submit to him" overall feeling from the episode's story, I just hated it. Dropped, dropped, dropped.

Thanks for this. I mean that sincerely. I was on the fence about watching this series after the reveiws on episode 1, but this decided me. Not. For. Me.

That's a shame. I remember reading the beginning of the manga, and I thought it was actually pretty fun, if empty calories. I liked seeing Soma triumph under severely adverse conditions and against tremendous egos.

^ Unless I missed one, so far only females have eaten his cooking. All of them have had their foodgasms wreathed in shame, which gives off that misogynistic vibe you're feeling. I think I'll stick this out just to see if he ever feeds any males, and how that's going to be presented. If it's as tame as the men his father fed in this episode, then they've really got no excuse (I'm not sure they have one anyway).

The gif you show has this guy having his foodgasm and enjoying it.

What about shows whose public average scores are a full point or more below the professional average scores? Or are there none this season?

I'm actually surprised Plastic Memories is not one of them. Looking at the reaction some people have to that show on this thread, you'd think this was a 2-star or 1-star show.

But maybe it's guilt over the realization that she and her bandmates never took their program seriously enough to aim for the top, betraying people like Kumiko along the way. But regardless, it takes Kumiko an entire episode to decide to join the band.

Her past appears to be following her, though; her new friends want to join the concert band, and are wooed inside by the lovely (and magic!) Asuka, but Hazuki has a serious reservation: it turns out Kousaka chose this school as well, and is already in the band. Also important: the band sucks. Big time.

That's disappointing to hear. I knew Soma was SJ's newest hit manga; I liked the character designs and I thought it would be a sports-like cooking competition anime.

Nope, not a single show this season meets those criteria. And yeah, for all of the vocal complaining about PM, it's still firmly maintaining a 4.2 score average from the public.