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Kadmos1
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I am curious if we could saw that was Karen's first sexual experience. It was not rape nor sexual assault. |
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Gatherum
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All I needed to know. Thanks for the warning. |
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Gatherum
Posts: 773 Location: Aurora CO |
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So it's basically Yuri!!! on Ice but literal? |
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Dragonsandphoenix
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Hanebado! is showing some promise. I'm invested in the main protagonist's struggles. I need more story on the other girl, Ayano, though because I am not a fan of "sports prodigy is jaded and has to get back into the sport" narratives in general. I hope this show ends up being good because there are not enough sports anime with female protagonists who want something real bad and will do anything to achieve it.
As a sidenote, what does Hanebado stand for? I assume "bado" comes from badminton. |
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DamianSalazar
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"Hane" is from Ayano Hanesaki, the main character. |
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Alan45
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Hanebado! appears interesting from a character standpoint. However, with regards to Badminton as a competitive sport I have to agree with Ayano, what is the point?
Of course I feel that way about all sports. 
Concerning Island the first episode has just too many obvious mysteries and the main character is too much of a goof. I also really doubt that opening scene is what it appears to be. I may try one more episode and hope that it improves. |
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Mhora
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Oh boy! I'm 4 min into the first ep of Island and...is this The Lost Village of summer 2018? Give me that hilarious shit again!
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Trendo
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A little sideinfo for everyone about "Island"
Island is a All Ages VN, so yeah....no sexy time, also the author for the vn is the same person that wrote the script for Himawari and Narcissu 3rd But that is not the only the reason why i expect much more from the title, i already finished the vn and there is much more than "your typical moe moe vn adaption" but just my 2 cents |
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Key
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In what way could you possibly compare Island to The Lost Village? At least up front this looks like an old-school, standard-as-they-come moe VN adaptation, and TLV is nothing like that. |
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residentgrigo
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The schedule: https://myanimelist.net/anime/season
First an addendum to last season. Netflix finally delivered an anime worth watching with Aggressive Retsuko. The original series (both have different canons) is slightly superior though, so watch it first. On to the promising shows and more Gintama is fine too, i guess: Angolmois - Genkou Kassenki I haven´t tried the manga and will hold back my expectations due to that but the setting and character designs look neat. Especially if i consider how weirdly rare good chanbara anime became. Attack on Titan S03 explains itself. Banana Fish The manga is now 33 years old and is a gang drama set in 1973. Meaning that no one expected this adaptation to happen. I wonder who the target audience is, yet shows as this are what noitaminA was created for. It´s nice to see the imprint return to it´s roots during the last year. If only their film division could follow suit. The source material is a shoujo manga btw and rarely has a demographic fit less. I lastly advise to stay away if you can´t stand rape. The manga really went all out in that regard and frankly could have used less. FLCL Progressive I wasn´t crazy about the April´s fool premier but it was good enough to go on for one more ep. Unlike the immediately incoherent and joyless FLCL Alternative from last season. All in all a sequel/reboot hybrid i could have done without, unless the team immediately pulls a 180. The 3rd Attack on Titan compilation film and the last Lost Girls OVA are coming to Blu-ray. Rohan from JoJo and Golden Kamuy are further getting an OVA and the forever delayed Terra Formars OVA is also coming out. It´s by the 2nd studio, so i ain´t holding my breath. Especially if i consider the huge story gap this adaptation is about to create. The Death of Superman Part 1 is also scheduled for this month. |
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Gina Szanboti
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The color scheme of the banner looks like the anti-summer Preview Guide. Did someone think this was for Fall? Or for the Fall of civilization?
I gave Island a shot after reading the reviews, and it does look kind of intriguing, but unless this summer turns out to be thin pickings, which I'm not expecting, I'll probably have to pass on it. I'm not much of a fan of the types in his harem, and they would probably drive me up a wall even if the plot is good. I have zero experience with VNs outside of anime adaptations, but even I could tell this was one, just from the girls. 
Hanebado! doesn't quite seem to be the women's sports series I've been waiting for my whole life, but it looks closer than anything I can think of. Maybe that's why they only gave it one exclamation point. I do wonder if they thought the body horror of swapping everyone's faces through the net in the OP was clever. If so, that doesn't bode well... |
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Blankslate
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Island - 1/5 - The most generic visual novel adaptation I've seen in probably 10+ years. Still, there is something about it that makes me vaguely nostalgic and want to continue the series. Maybe I'm just missing "early 2000s bad" after being subjected to "2010s bad" for almost a decade.
Hanebado - 5/5 - This is such a huge improvement over the source material it's not even funny. The manga opens with the glasses girl giving dull exposition about the captain losing her middle school tournament. Then the male advisor/coach sees a rambunctious airhead (the most generic archetype for sports protagonists) climb a tree, which makes him think she'll be a good match for badminton. Then the two characters have their match. Literally everything else about the episode is different including the tone (the manga has a lot more gag moments and is a lot more male gazey). Thank god for that. Seriously, even the framing of who the main character is also completely different. In the manga, the male advisor/coach is the main character (inner monologues, everything told from his point of view) while in the anime, the team captain is framed as the main character. Last edited by Blankslate on Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:51 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
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Hahah, once I was done making it I thought "you know, this is way more of a Fall banner" but that is a shot of a summertime sunset in Osaka and I kinda dug the look. |
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Scalfin
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I'm guessing word of mouth about the source material would have already spoiled this, but the setup for Island sounds like something that would lead up to shit hitting the fan at the very last scene of episode three and then give us some Madoka-emulating craziness for the rest of the season.
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vonPeterhof
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