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i exist
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I'm actually watching Mirai Nikki now lol. It's pretty cool.
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Lord Geo
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Unfortunately, the answer to that is "Yes", at least for 95% of any anime that gets made, at least. I was recommended to watch Kill Me Baby for an Anime Secret Santa program a couple of years ago, for example, and I wound up really enjoying it. However, I'm not shocked at all that it's likely become forgotten since it first aired in early 2012/Winter 2012. Thermae Romae got some recent buzz because it was re-released by Discotek with a new English dub, but I imagine that it, too, will fade back into obscurity soon enough. The Berserk Golden Age movie trilogy also got started during this time, as the first movie debuted in Japan back in February 2012, but I imagine the more recent anime has made most people forget all about this (& it was admittedly already a bit of a black sheep to start with, since it had to compare to the classic 1997 series). I also absolutely love the Gyo OVA, which seriously feels like the closest thing to a Roger Corman-produced anime out there, but I can also fully see why others hate it, especially when compared to the original Junji Ito manga. Finally, who actually saw Ozma, that 6-episode short series based on a concept by Leiji Matsumoto? That debuted right at the tail end of 2012, but it looks to have been taken down now, at least via Crunchyroll. |
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Neko-sensei
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I remember Winter 2012 like it was yesterday! I have to say, even if you can't cover everything, there are some major omissions I'd like to correct:
Kill Me Baby parlayed its initial lack of success into brilliantly memetastic success, turning the infamously low sales of its first BD volume (they sold 686 units) into a gloriously self-referential sales pitch (they responded by releasing 686 custom icons to their Twitter followers). Guilty Crown was in its second half, and say what you will about the wild flailings of its ultramelodramatic plot, the soundtrack was incredible and the ride was tons of fun. Daily Lives of High School Boys, which should not have been forgotten, was grossly making me laugh out loud every single episode. I still have nightmares about accidentally shaving off my nipple. Waiting in the Summer was filling a weird space between pure rom-com and AnoHana-style melodrama, and I think it's well deserving of re-evaluation. Zero no Tsukaima was airing its final season, admittedly too late for most people to care, but it still represented the conclusion of a seminal isekai property. Natsume Yuujinchou was on the air, and continues intermittently to this day. It's always worthwhile to take a moment to clear out your tear ducts with Natsume. Aquarion Evol was starting, occupying much the same relationship with its progenitor as Fam with Last Exile but enjoying (I believe) a bit more popularity. DONUTS! Phi Brain was in its second cours of mind-meltingly stupid puzzling. I loved that dumb show. Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne was introducing the "'Woof' was a lie" meme to the Internet and serving up gloriously colorful arial robot action in its (superior) first season. The ending song's "HELLO!" is still stuck in my head. Thermae Romae aired its three glorious episodes and paved the way for later megahits like Extra Olympia Kyklos (one of my favorite shows). BLACK★ROCK SHOOTER was huge before it actually aired, teaching all its viewers a lesson about the importance of managing their expectations. I'd consider any of the above more historically important than Persona 4 the Animation or Mirai Nikki—although I heartily agree that people still need to be watching Bodacious Space Pirates and Chihayafuru! |
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Spastic Minnow
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This was just after the peak of my anime watching, from 2008-2011 I watched "everything"- giving my torrent program a regular workout, that was until Deadman Wonderland made me realize that I did not need to watch grimdark stuff I wasn't enjoying. Yet, I still gave most everything at least a try. So, I think I got through the first cour of Future Diary before ditching it.
Looking at my 2012 list, top ten (for the entire year) was... 1. Mysterious Girlfriend X 2. Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine 3. Kids on the Slope 4. Nisemonogatari (running in the winter) 5. Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! 6. Natsume's Book of Friends (4) (running in the winter) 7. Chihayafuru (running in the winter) (running in the winter) 8. Sket Dance (running in the winter) 9. tsuritama 10. Sankarea: Undying Love Honorable mention: Polar Bear's Café (#7 in 2013) In retrospect, Daily Lives of High School Boys (running in the winter) would now rate a place in the list. I was 2 years into Detective Conan in 2012 and possibly caught up by that point. I'm currently considering a restart watch of all manga based episodes. Last edited by Spastic Minnow on Wed Feb 09, 2022 10:26 am; edited 1 time in total |
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njprogfan
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Shout out to Last Exile and Chihayafuru, two phenomenal series and I'm the same, I haven't caught Last Exile's sequel Silver Wing and that's something I have to remedy.
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Dark Mac
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You can check here if you want to see the shows that started that season (change the filter if you want to see ongoing stuff):
https://www.livechart.me/winter-2012/tv?ongoing=none It wasn't the best season, but it did give us the amazing second season of Milky Holmes, which took the dumbness of S1 and put it into overdrive. Highlights include the first episode, where the main characters all forget they're detectives and become farmers instead. |
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meiam
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Sadly you really don't, there's a reason silver wing is completely forgotten. Think of it like the eureka seven sequel, it felt like no one producing the sequel even bother to watch the original to even figure out what made them good. If the list given by Neko sensei is correct, then yeah that article missed almost all the good one. Kill me baby was a great comedy/SoL show on a low budget and Daily live of high school boys is one of the most hilarious comedy out there. Guilty crow is fun to watch, it's like watching money burn on screen (it does have a really great soundtrack, but it peak too early with the first OP being the best song in the show). I remember finding bodacious space pirate okay, but it really needed to be 12/13 episodes, it tended to drag like crazy. Mirai Nikki is hot trash that I'm 90% sure the author realize is hot trash, so that's kinda interesting. |
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gsilver
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I remember being rather disappointed by Another, after loving Shiki the previous season.
Camp has its place, but genuine horror done well is usually preferable to me, and I didn't realize how campy Another would be going in. Future Diary was an *excellent* hate-watch. It was so bad that I just couldn't look away. My friends would tell me how bad it was, and I told them that that was the point. You don't get anime like that too often. Last edited by gsilver on Wed Feb 09, 2022 11:24 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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John Thacker
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Another vote for Daily Lives of Highschool Boys as your biggest omission there. Pf course not every comedy works for everyone, but I think it is one of the best of that season.
2012 was well into the transition of shows to late night (amazing that shows like Evangelion and Utena ran during normal people hours), but in the middle of the transition from 25 or 26 episodes being more common to everything being 12 or 13. Part of the same thing; longer episode counts at once work better for things aimed at normal people. |
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dm
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Fam of the Silver Wing would have been an okay adventure series if it weren't a sequel to Last Exile -- but, being a sequel, anything less than genius would have been disappointing.
Fam and her friend Giselle just aren't Claus and Lavie, for one thing. Going to Wikipedia, I see there's a manga that told the story a lot of us probably hoped Fam of the Silver Wing would be --- after the exiles return to Earth, but before Fam took place. Oh: 2012 had the overstuffed-to-the-gills Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, a series crippled by outrageous character-designs and the need to watch it several times to catch everything that was going on. Still waiting for the many additional sequels this series deserves. Also, ef - A tale of memories, very good despite being a game adaptation. Lots of SHAFT visual style, though I think mostly by osmosis? And, the ONA version of Kyousogiga streamed in 2012, preparing the ground for 2013's TV series. Last edited by dm on Wed Feb 09, 2022 11:40 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Beltane70
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I remember quite a few of those shows from 2012. It doesn’t feel like 2012 was already ten years ago!
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saber721
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Seeing this list is another reminder of how old I’m getting.
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yuna49
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Looked at my MAL list for 2012. The only show I gave a nine to was Chihayafuru, with eights for Shinsekai yori, Uchuu Kyoudai, Tsuritama, Sakamichi no Apollon, AKB0048, Kamisama Hajimemashita, Psycho-Pass, and Mine Fujiko. All in all not an especially strong year for anime.
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louis6578
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I've seen all of these and hoped to get new recommendations from the year that I might've missed.
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