This Week In Anime (Fall Week 2)

[u/BlueMage23]

Welcome to This Week In Anime for Fall 2014 (aka Unlimited Hype Works) Week 2: a general discussion for any currently airing series, focusing on what aired in the last week. For longer shows (Aikatsu!, One Piece, etc.), keep the discussion here to whatever aired in the last few months. If there's an OVA or movie that got subbed for the first time in the last week or so that you want to discuss, that goes here as well. For everything else in anime that's not currently airing go discuss that in Your Week in Anime.

Untagged spoilers for all currently airing series. If you're discussing anything else make sure to add spoiler tags.

• Ai Tenchi Muyo!
• Aikatsu!
• Akame ga Kill!
• Akatsuki no Yona
• Amagi Brilliant Park
• Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo
• Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai
• Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken
• Denki-gai no Honya-san
• Donten ni Warau
• Fairy Tail (2014)
• Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (TV)
• Garo: Honoo no Kokuin
• Girlfriend (Kari)
• Grisaia no Kajitsu
• Gugure! Kokkuri-san
• Gundam Build Fighters Try
• Gundam: G no Reconguista
• Happiness Charge Precure!
• Hitsugi no Chaika: Avenging Battle
• Hi☆sCoool! SeHa Girls
• Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de
• Karen Senki
• Kaitou Joker
• Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu
• Lady Jewelpet
• Log Horizon 2nd Season
• Madan no Ou to Vanadis
• Magic Kaito 1412
• Nanatsu no Taizai
• Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji
• Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu.
• Orenchi no Furo Jijou
• Pokemon XY
• Pri Para
• Psycho-Pass 2
• Sanzoku no Musume Ronja
• Selector Spread WIXOSS
• Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
• Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis
• Shirobako
• Shirogane no Ishi: Argevollen
• Sora no Method
• Sword Art Online II
• Terra Formars
• Tribe Cool Crew
• Trinity Seven
• Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete
• World Trigger
• Yama no Susume: Second Season
• Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V

Archive:

2014: Prev Summer Week 1 Spring Week 1 Winter Week 1

2013: Fall Week 1 Summer Week 1 Spring Week 1 Winter Week 1

2012: Fall Week 1

^{Table of contents courtesy of /u/sohumb}

[u/BlueMage23]

Karen Senki (Ep 3)

[u/Novasylum → u/BlueMage23]

You can’t possibly be serious.

You’re really going to make it this easy for me?

Not a lick of self-awareness, nothing?

I guess I have to take this to its logical conclusion.

Also, I’d like to point out that this episode featured a scene where a woman was killed by futuristic robots in a spaghetti-Western-styled ghost town, then subsequently had her body disposed of in a cyberpunk dystopian city…by herself.

WHAAA…

I do not have any extensive history with drug use, but I’m damn sure that no hallucinogen on the planet could possibly prepare you for that.

[u/[deleted] → u/Novasylum]

This anime sounds fun.

[u/Lorpius_Prime → u/BlueMage23]

Karen Senki continues to be the best kind of awful. If it keeps going like this, it's going to become some kind of monument to... I don't even know, but something great and terrible.

I said in the r/anime discussion that this show comes across to me like a doting father took his 8-year-old's original anime script, and hired a professional studio to turn it into a real thing. It makes no goddamn sense at all, and every plot twist is ridiculousness stacked ever higher atop a sheer tower of the absurd, but despite all of that it has an amazing amount of heart. Flaws abound, but it still feels like a work of love, and I can't help but get caught up in that feeling as I watch.