Weekly Anime Roundup – Summer 2015 Weeks 6 & 7

Rather more reading than watching in the last two weeks. That’ll probably be the other way around for the next couple.

Episodes watched in the past 2 weeks:
Suzakinishi the Animation 3 DROPPED
Rokka no Yuusha 5
Rokka no Yuusha 6
Non Non Biyori Repeat 3
Non Non Biyori Repeat 4
Non Non Biyori Repeat 5
Non Non Biyori Repeat 6
Aoharu x Kikanjuu 2 DROPPED
Arslan Senki 14
Himouto! Umaru-chan 6
Non Non Biyori 7
Himouto! Umaru-chan’S 6
Working!! 1 (backlog)
Working!! 2
Working!! 3
Working!! 4
Working!! 5
Himouto! Umaru-chan 7
Danchigai 6
Teekyuu 5 6
Teekyuu 5 7
Rokka no Yuusha 7
Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri 7
Danchigai 7
Million Doll 6
Prison School 1 DROPPED
Gakkou Gurashi! 6
Gakkou Gurashi! 7

Summer 2015 Status:

Series rankings at present:
1. Gakkou Gurashi!
2. Non Non Biyori Repeat
3. Rokka no Yuusha (up 1)
4. Himouto! Umaru-chan (up 1)
5. Sore ga Seiyuu (down 2)
6. Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri (up 1)
7. Wakaba*Girl (down 1)
8. Danchigai (up 4)
9. Teekyuu 5 (down 1)
10. Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace (down 1)
11. Million Doll (down 1)
12. Charlotte (down 1)
13. Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai
14. Bikini Warriors
15. Gangsta.

Dropped:
Suzakinishi the Animation
Aoharu x Kikanjuu
Prison School

Not yet watched:
Akagami no Shirayuki-hime
God Eater
Jitsu wa Watashi wa
Joukamachi no Dandelion
Kuusen Madoushi Kouhosei no Kyoukan
Overlord

What a feast this season is turning out to be. Non Non, Rokka no Yuusha, Gakkou Gurashi, Himouto and Gate are all series that I’ve kept or caught up with over the past couple of weeks, and all are series that I’ve been thoroughly enjoying. I wonder if there are more out there that I haven’t got into yet that will reach similar levels.

Apparently the manga version of Gate is a gorefest? If anyone knows whether or not the light novels are the same I’d be interested to hear. If not, I’ll probably look into it myself. I’d rather not buy something like that, but I want to buy this series…

The other series I mentioned above are all definite to-gets.

Danchigai is becoming thoroughly enjoyable, too. This is largely thanks to Satsuki, who is a definite candidate for best character of the season.

I’ve been going through and enjoying Working!! as well, but I don’t think I’ll catch up to the currently airing one before it finishes.

For every upside, though, there is also a down.

Suzakinishi… Yeah. It was never anything much. And it never got anything more.

Aoharu x Kikanjuu was probably as much a case of me not feeling like watching it at the time than anything else, although I wasn’t particularly enjoying it anyway.

Prison School was… uncomfortable. I couldn’t even make it to the start of the main story. Disliked the characters and the setting and the way things were going. That’s as far as it goes, though – just dislike rather than outright loathing which it could have been.