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OMG GUYS! 2016 couldn't just get any better!!!!! 

 

Manga 'Orange' Gets TV Anime Adaptation for Summer 2016

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Synopsis
One day, Takamiya Naho receives a letter written to herself from ten years in the future. As Naho reads on, the letter recites the exact events of the day, including the transfer of a new student into her class named Naruse Kakeru.

The Naho from ten years later repeatedly states that she has many regrets, and she wants to fix these by making sure the Naho from the past can make the right decisions—especially regarding Kakeru. What's more shocking is that she discovers that ten years later, Kakeru will no longer be with them. Future Naho asks her to watch over him closely.

 

Staff
Director: Hiroshi Hamasaki (Steins;Gate)
Screenplay: Yuuko Kakihara (Chihayafuru 2)
Character Design: Nobuteru Yuuki (Sakamichi no Apollon)
Studio: TMS EntertainmentTelecom Animation Film

 

If you love ERASED you might like this one. A girl got a letter from the future that one of her friends is going to die. And she tries to avoid that from happening by changing the present. I've only read half way of it and FUCK! I CRIED LIKE A BITCH!!!!!!!! And that more than 3 times!!!!!! I couldn't finish it because it was too sad to read it tbh! Soooo thankgod I waited! 



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LuckyTrouble said:

Whatever description I read on my illicit streaming site of choice. Even then, the stupid thing is plastered with tags like romance and drama even on MAL, but halfway through the season, and all we've gotten is some artifical, low impact "drama" that is being forced to carry the show since the rest of the plot certainly isn't.

And I don't know how much sports anime you've watched, but a good sports anime should focus on the club while still having one or two central characters in the club that we're invested in seeing grow over everybody else. Haikyu and Kuroko no Basket have a pretty identical setup by having the rookie duo, and while the rest of their teams in both shows are certainly noteworthy and get show time for development, it always comes back to that duo. In Yowamushi Pedal, it was about the whole team succeeding sure, but there are two tiers of interest that go above the team. The first is the focus on the three rookie freshman that you're rooting for, and then it heavily focuses on the improvement of the primary MC, Onoda. Hajime no Ippo is boxing, so obviously you're pretty focused on Ippo over the other people at the boxing gym.

Hell, even in Prince of Stride, it may be about the team, but the show has made it clear that the main characters we're meant to be focusing on are the three freshman and especially the aloof dude who's amazing brother is sure to make a pretty relevant story that still involves the whole team, but pulls the focus in. Honestly, it kind of needs to, since Prince of Stride is kind of weak so far. I mean, it isn't bad, but it's definitely leaning towards average.

If something wants to be a sports anime, it needs direction, a focus, and it really needs to be exciting to watch. Kanata fails in all of those respects. So far it has absolutely no direction, with no clear goal for the team or any one person. There is no focus on any particular character, as each episode we bounce to somebody different and are never given proper time to invest ourselves in one character or another. And like I said, it isn't exciting to watch. Matches are short, predictable, and the invented game just doesn't leave much room for interesting animation.

To close my argument, so far the show is rocking less than a seven on MAL. I don't put too much stock in their ratings, but they tend to be pretty in line with my own thoughts and feelings. Unless the show really steps it up in the latter half and figures out what plot is, I'm going to have a hard time rating it higher than a six myself.

I don't think tags on a fan site count as advertising.

As far as competitive anime goes, one of the best, Saki, goes through three seasons and I still don't think it has revealed the exact nature of her problems.  That's because the story takes its time developing other characters and the rivalries themselves.  The second anime isn't even about the character the series is named after.  You're free not to like that but I love it.

Honestly, I have zero problems when an anime strays from stereotypical archtypes.  In fact, I'd rather it do its own thing than follow a template for "sports anime" or anything else.  It was a really nice surprise for me when it did not turn cliche after the first episode.  I was fully expecting the girl with the pink hair to settle into the Romantic Female Lead role and the guy to have a short surly period before he dashed to the rescue and overcame his issues as soon as a little pressure was applied.  As for MAL ratings, I just had a look at those and I'm not very worried.



Versus_Evil said:
Also I decided that instead of a seasonal main pic at the start of the op I would just create something. So here it is, I would be surprised if you didn't know who they all where ^^

Great job Versus, I love it! I know all of them except for the one in sasuke's left. Who is that, does look familiar though.



 

Versus_Evil said:
Shadow8 said:

Great job Versus, I love it! I know all of them except for the one in sasuke's left. Who is that, does look familiar though.

Ty ^^ its Ashitaka from Mononoki-Hime

Ah know I see it, thanks! Great Studio Ghibli film choice btw, it's been a while since I've sent it though.



 

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Versus_Evil said:

Anybody here watch anime RAW? i would love to learn japanese to do so.

I watched the older Ghibli movies raw.  I used fan-translated scripts people posted online.  This was before any of the Ghibli movies other than Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies were released in the west and the average internet conection was really too slow for mass streaming.  A half-Japanese friend sent them to me on VHS.  It was actually a really good experience, though I didn't learn much.  I absolutely fell in love with Whisper of the Heart watching that way and it became my favorite Ghibli movie.  Only Yesterday was also a really nice surprise.



Versus_Evil said:
Shadow8 said:

Ah know I see it, thanks! Great Studio Ghibli film choice btw, it's been a while since I've sent it though.

That and Nausicaa of The Valley of The Wind are my favourite Studio Ghibli films

My favorites are Howls moving Castle and Grave of the fireflies. Really don't think there is 1 Ghibli movie I hate though. They're all so good.



 

Versus_Evil said:

Anybody here watch anime RAW? i would love to learn japanese to do so.

I would like to because I would be able to mulitask while watching it and I don't quite trust the translation of anime.



Yea Digimon!!!

WarGreymon is definetely one of my favorites, but my number 1 favorite is Omnimon.



 

BasilZero said:
Shadow8 said:

Yea Digimon!!!

WarGreymon is definetely one of my favorites, but my number 1 favorite is Omnimon.

 

Yeahhh!


I remember dis too

 

But WarGreyMon was pretty iconic at least to me.

 

Especially during the Dark Masters Saga in Digimon Adventure ^_^.

Oh yea don't get me wrong I love WarGreymon(I agree he was pretty cool in that saga), but Omnimon probably left the biggest impression to me when I saw him for the first time in the fim I absolutely lost it as a kid xD Loved seeing greymon and metalgarurumon fuse, could watch it again and again and never get tired of it. :D