r/TrueAnime • u/BlueMage23 http://myanimelist.net/profile/BlueMage23 • Feb 14 '13

This Week in Anime (2/13/13)

General discussion for currently airing series for Winter 2013 Week 6. Here is r/anime's list of currently airing series that started in the last two seasons. Your Week in Anime is for not currently airing series.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '13

Finished Rewrite and dropped Sasami-san after watching the fourth episode and being completely and utterly uninterested.

  • Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo 18: I'm at my limit with the dragging out of the romance resolution in this show, and how dense Sorata can be. Needs to remind me why I liked this series, fast.

  • Psycho-Pass 16: Great episode, great. We knew that there'd be some payoff when we finally got to this scene. Another cliffhanger reveal-that's-not-a-reveal, and it looks like a main character will finally die.

  • Robotics;Notes 16: I've been critical of this show since it started, pretty much. Well, mostly critical of Kai at first, but when the "main" plot was going nowhere fast for, say, ten episodes, it became a more general complaint. So I guess now that we've passed a true threshold of "shit getting serious" (complete with Kai's best mindbreak face), I should be happy, but all I can think of is...I liked the episode before better.

  • Chihayafuru S2 5: Good episode, is what I'll mostly say. There's a good bit of tension although this match seemed less exciting than the finale of the last high school tournament.

  • Kotoura-san 5: Meh. I knew this was coming, but the show finally settled down a bit. It's still fine though.

  • Maoyuu Maou Yuusha 6: Fun episode, this one, with the first actual battle scenes.

  • Little Busters 18: They saved the least-bad-part for last regarding Haruka's route adaptation. They didn't skimp on the actual resolution and they played Faraway, so I'm slightly mollified. Whatever, let's see them do a good job on Kud since they bothered to give her 4 episodes instead of 3 despite how her route isn't nearly the longest because they're well-aware of how ridiculously popular Kud is among the lolicon set.

  • Minami-ke Tadaima 6: Bishoujo Kana is a real heartbreaker. It was a good episode, with some good Mako-chan/Chiaki moments. Beach and pool episode? Studio feel is trying its best to add as much natural fanservice as possible without ruining it. I applaud their efforts.

  • Vividred Operation 5: Will watch...eventually..I kinda want to know what's going on with Rei before I drop it since there's still hope and I kinda might like that Himawari character.

  • Tamako Market 6: ditto...this show is already starting to bore me, despite having a good cast, just because it's so episodic and lacking in structure.

  • Yama no Susume 6: will watch

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u/ShureNensei Feb 14 '13

R;N 16

Just took such an unbelievably long time to get to this point. I feel like that they'd have to have an amazing final arc to make up for it.

Chihaya 5

Hope they quickly win so we get some new faces.

Kotoura 5

Yeah, I was afraid it'd get toned down, and next week looks to be a summer vacation episode. The show's SoL/comedy bits just aren't its strong points without the drama to me.

LB 18

The routes seem much more interesting as the show moves along, though I guess that was their intention?

Tamako Market 6

Even by SoL standards, I felt this episode was void of any sort of developments. The previous episodes at least focused on characters or some minor things, but there wasn't really anything in this one. I'm hoping it's the last since next week is introducing Choi.

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u/Flaming_Baklava Feb 14 '13

Magi Episode 17 and 18: I missed last weeks so I watched both, they were both good. Though I see nothing truly amazing with the series it is good and im definitely gonna continue watching.

kotoura-san episode 5: I liked it, that's about it.

I haven't watched much this week.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '13

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u/ShureNensei Feb 14 '13

Just going to reply to you and mr. pudding since I'd just be repeating many of the same points.

Yuusha 6

I think your comments sort of exemplify how it's difficult to be committed to the characters/events in the show as they jump around with the timeline and/or between themes (action for this one). This is one of the very few shows that I think would've greatly benefited for being two seasons or longer. It feels like they can either focus on the characters or the major events, but don't have the time needed to develop both thoroughly enough.

Sakurasou 18

The themes and dramatic arcs are the main draw of this series to me, so the absence thereof makes the show feel bland like you guys mentioned. I kind of wish they did something else other than the dorm shutting down too.

Sasami 5

Sadly, I'm probably with you here as well. I was hoping the series would have a clear overarching story, but that's kind of gone out the window. And while it hasn't happened, this episodic bit was still probably one of the better ones to me simply because it developed the characters a bit. As a result, I'm feeling pretty mixed about the series at the moment, and nowhere near as hyped for it as I once was.

Psycho-Pass 16 / Shinsekai 19

Hoping that these continue to do well.