Weekly watching roundup – Autumn 2016 week 12 (final week)

Episodes watched this week:
Joshiraku 8 BACKLOG
Joshiraku 9
Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou 7 BACKLOG
Aggressive Retsuko 38
Kochinpa! Dainiki 4
Gi(a)rlish Number 12 END
Hundred 10
Hundred 11
Hundred 12 END
Joshiraku 10
Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou 8
Joshiraku 11
Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou 9
Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou 10
Yokuwakaru Gendaimahou 11

Autumn 2016 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume
2. Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
3. Nobunaga no Shinobi
4. Hibike! Euphonium
5. Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season
6. Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki
7. Stella no Mahou
8. Kaijuu Girls
9. Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu kara. 2nd Season
10. Teekyuu 8 (up 1)
11. Gi(a)rlish Number (down 1)
12. To Be Hero

Winter 2017 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Kochinpa! Dainiki

Hundred – I’m really not sure what to make of this. In some ways it was awful, but in others it was brilliant. And not in the sense of different sections of the series, but different aspects of the same bits. Emilia is obviously the true hero of the series, though. Far better than that stupid MC in every possible way. When all is said and done, I’m glad I finished it. I doubt I would get the novels in the best of times, though. With a backlog of things I’ve said I’m going to buy, only one order from Japan (and that not a full one) in the last 7 months and little chance of increasing the rate again any time soon? Not a chance.

Gi(a)rlish Number, on the other hand, was a series where it was all to easy to tell which were the good bits and which the bad. I have no real interest in having any more of this. I’m not even sure that I would watch it if more came along. I guess I watched the whole series through though, so in that sense I suppose they could say they won. In that annoying and irresponsible manner.

Next week is the first week of winter. Although I’m not sure how much winter anime I’ll actually start in that time. Lots of blog posts coming up over the next few days though.

Weekly watching roundup – Autumn 2016 week 11

Episodes watched this week:
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku 12 END
Nobunaga no Shinobi 11
Aggressive Retsuko 36
Aggressive Retsuko 37
Hibike! Euphonium 2 9
Joshiraku 5 BACKLOG
Hundred 8 BACKLOG
High School DxD 8 BACKLOG
High School DxD 9
High School DxD 10
High School DxD 11
High School DxD 12 END
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume 12 END
Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season 8
Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season 9
Nobunaga no Shinobi 12
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 2 BACKLOG
Joshiraku 6
To Be Hero 12 END
Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season 10
Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season 11
Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season 12 END
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season 12 END
Kochinpa! Dainiki 3
Teekyuu 8 12 END
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 3
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 4
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 5
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 6
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 7
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 8
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 9
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 10
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 11
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 12
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… 13 END
Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki 12 END
Gi(a)rlish Number 11
Joshiraku 7
Hundred 9

Autumn 2016 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume
2. Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
3. Nobunaga no Shinobi
4. Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season (up 1)
5. Hibike! Euphonium (down 1)
6. Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki
7. Stella no Mahou
8. Kaijuu Girls
9. Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu kara. 2nd Season
10. Gi(a)rlish Number
11. Teekyuu 8
12. To Be Hero

Placed on hold as I’m probably never going to watch the rest:
Idol Memories

A week of endings, both of series from the current season and of a couple of backlog things. Next week will bring more endings still. Including, of course, the ending of the season. Yup, only 12 weeks this time.

Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku – I went into this at the start having forgotten about what I had previously read on the series. Started off thinking how adorably sweet it was, right up to just before the end of the first episode. Then *that* happened, and I remembered. I found the series to be encaptivating from start to finish. There are a couple of things I don’t fully get (like what a certain object actually does) but I’m sure they’re explained in the light novels. Which I will, of course, be buying.

High School DxD – Slightly better than I had expected. I’ll get and watch the second one at some point.

Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume – Honestly, the worst thing about this series is that it ended. And unfortunately I’d be surprised if there was any more of this anime. I looked into the first part of the manga but it seemed to be rather lacking compared to the anime. Might buy the first volume at some point anyway just to try it properly, though.

To Be Hero – They really did give up on it. What a mess of an ending that was.

Bungou Stray Dogs – that all came together rather nicely in the end, didn’t it. Honestly if it weren’t for a single event that proves a rather important plot point for the final episode then I would ask why the series didn’t end there.

MahoIi – I’ve not really read the manga beyond the content of the first season, but I’m really wondering how the two things interact with each other now, given how much the second season builds off content from the first that was pure filler. Oh well, only one way to find out. Filler or not, though, it was a good watch.

Teekyuu 8 – Teekyuu 9 please.

Senki Zesshou Symphogear G: In the Distance, That Day, When the Star Became Music… – One of the most enjoyable series I’ve watched all year. The fact that I had been expecting to watch eps 3-13 over three days and then ended up watching it in one speaks volumes. It had a better conclusion than the first did as well. There’s a third season to watch still and a fourth and fifth to come. The relative lack of info is slightly concerning but the first cour is being reaired in Japan this winter which could lead to us getting more info.

Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki – a fun little series with adorable characters. And some not so adorable characters.

Weekly watching roundup – Autumn 2016 week 10

Episodes watched this week:
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku 11
Hibike! Euphonium 2 8
Joshiraku 4 BACKLOG
High School DxD 1 BACKLOG
High School DxD 2
High School DxD 3
High School DxD 4
High School DxD 5
Kochinpa! Dainiki 2
Kaijuu Girls 12 END
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume 11
To Be Hero 11
High School DxD 6
High School DxD 7
Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki 11
Teekyuu 8 11
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season 11
Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season 7
Gi(a)rlish Number 10

Autumn 2016 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume
2. Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
3. Nobunaga no Shinobi
4. Hibike! Euphonium
5. Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season
6. Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki
7. Stella no Mahou
8. Kaijuu Girls
9. Gi(a)rlish Number
10. Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu kara. 2nd Season (up 1)
11. Teekyuu 8 (up 1)
12. To Be Hero (down 2)
13. Idol Memories

Winter 2017 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Kochinpa! Dainiki

To Be Hero – did the staff just give up on this or something? Or did they forget how to make things funny after a less humourous episode?

And another season begins to draw to a close.

Kaijuu Girls is first to finish. It was one of those fun little series that was well worth watching as a short but really wouldn’t have worked otherwise. Surprisingly, they actually gave something of a story to it. I know nothing about the original game and don’t really care either. All I know, and all I care about, is that this anime was a good experience.

Weekly watching roundup – Autumn 2016 week 9

Episodes watched this week:
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku 10
Joshiraku 1 BACKLOG
To Be Hero 9
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season 9
Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki 9
Teekyuu 8 9
Gi(a)rlish Number 7
Gi(a)rlish Number 8
Joshiraku 2
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume 10
Kaijuu Girls 11
Nobunaga no Shinobi 10
Joshiraku 3
To Be Hero 10
Teekyuu 8 10
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season 10
Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki 10
Gi(a)rlish Number 9
Aggressive Retsuko 33
Aggressive Retsuko 34
Aggressive Retsuko 35
Hundred 7 BACKLOG
Hibike! Euphonium 2 7
Kochinpa! Dainiki 1

Autumn 2016 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume
2. Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
3. Nobunaga no Shinobi
4. Hibike! Euphonium
5. Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season
6. Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki
7. Stella no Mahou (up 1)
8. Kaijuu Girls (down 1)
9. Gi(a)rlish Number (up 2)
10. To Be Hero (down 1)
11. Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu kara. 2nd Season (down 1)
12. Teekyuu 8
13. Idol Memories

Winter 2017 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Kochinpa! Dainiki

Gi(a)rlish Number is a lot better without a certain incompetent character having so much control over things… It gives an idea of what the series could have been, which is kind of sad, come to think of it.

Various catching up, keeping up and watching backlog episodes this week. Hopefully there will be more of all three in the weeks ahead.

And winter has begun. Sort of. 15 seconds of it a week has at any rate.

Weekly watching roundup – Autumn 2016 week 7

Episodes watched this week:
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku 8
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season 7
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume 8
Nobunaga no Shinobi 8
Kaijuu Girls 9
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season 8
Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki 8
Kimi no Na wa. (FILM)
Teekyuu 8 7
Teekyuu 8 8

Autumn 2016 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume
2. Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku (up 1)
3. Nobunaga no Shinobi (down 1)
4. Hibike! Euphonium
5. Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season
6. Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki
7. Kaijuu Girls
8. Stella no Mahou
9. To Be Hero
10. Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu kara. 2nd Season
11. Gi(a)rlish Number
12. Teekyuu 8
13. Idol Memories

So on Thursday evening I went to the cinema for the first time in almost a decade. The film I went to see? Your Name., or 君の名は。 to give it its Japanese title. This experience served both to remind me of the advantages of the cinema experience – there’s no way that watching the film at home would have given anywhere near the effect of the breathtakingly beautiful scenes that the film has to offer – and also of why I generally avoid going to them. Leaving that aside, though, the film itself was beautiful and touching, and I wholeheartedly recommend anyone to go and see it if you have the chance.

Weekly watching roundup – Autumn 2016 week 6

Episodes watched this week:
Hibike! Euphonium 2 6
Gi(a)rlish Number 5
Stella no Mahou 3
Aggressive Retsuko 32
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku 7
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume 7
Kaijuu Girls: Ultra Kaijuu Gijinka Keikaku 6
Working’!! 11 BACKLOG
To Be Hero 7
Nobunaga no Shinobi 7
Working’!! 12
Working’!! 13 END
Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki 7

Autumn 2016 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume
2. Nobunaga no Shinobi
3. Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
4. Hibike! Euphonium
5. Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season
6. Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki
7. Kaijuu Girls
8. Stella no Mahou (up 1)
9. To Be Hero (down 1)
10. Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu kara. 2nd Season
11. Gi(a)rlish Number (up 1)
12. Teekyuu 8 (down 1)
13. Idol Memories

Gi(a)rlish Number – this show has so much cringeworthiness to it that it makes me uncomfortable… Still, that guy with these lines:
“You want to drop it by the start of the OP, right? I saw that on a portal site.”
“the original story is crap too, right? I haven’t read it, but I saw that on a portal site.”
“the voice actors are crap too, right? I haven’t heard them, but I saw that on a portal site.”
reminded me of the attitude I’ve seen of so many anime fans over the years.

Working!! is one of those series that I take really slowly but get through and thoroughly enjoy when I watch it. Still, after taking 5 months on the first one, then 8 months on the second, I wonder how long the third one will take me.

Not-so-weekly watching roundup – Autumn 2016 weeks 2-4

Episodes watched in the past 3 weeks:
Hibike! Euphonium 2 1
To Be Hero 3
Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki 3
Teekyuu 8 3
Kaijuu Girls 3
Nobunaa no Shinobi 3
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume 3
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season 3
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume 4
Nobunaga no Shinobi 4
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season 4
Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki 4
Kaijuu Girls 4
To Be Hero 4
Teekyuu 8 4
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku 3
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku 4
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku 5
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 72
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 73
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 74
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 75
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 76
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 77
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 78
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 79
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 80
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 81
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 82
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 83
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 84
Hibike! Euphonium 2 2
Hibike! Euphonium 2 3
Hibike! Euphonium 2 4
Gi(a)rlish Number 1
Gi(a)rlish Number 2
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume 5
Kamisama no Memochou 1 BACKLOG
Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season 3
Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season 4
To Be Hero 5
Teekyuu 8 5
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season 5
Nobunaga no Shinobi 5
Gi(a)rlish Number 3
Gi(a)rlish Number 4
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 85
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 86
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 87
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 88
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 89
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) 90

Autumn 2016 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume
2. Nobunaga no Shinobi (up 1)
3. Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku (down 1)
4. Hibike! Euphonium (new)
5. Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki (up 3)
6. Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season (down 2)
7. To Be Hero (down 1)
8. Kaijuu Girls (up 1)
9. Stella no Mahou (down 4)
10. Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu kara. 2nd Season (forgot to include last time)
11. Teekyuu 8 (down 4)
12. Gi(a)rlish Number (new)
13. Idol Memories (down 3)

This is turning into the season of shorts. It’s not as though I’m watching all that much that isn’t a short, but I don’t particularly feel the need to either.
That said, Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume, Hibike! Euphonium and Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku are providing a nicely balanced triangle of full length series, supported by a mass of good comedy shorts.
Gi(a)rlish Number is kind of frustrating. I want to like it. It has so much that appeals. But there’s so much frustrating about it as well, that I really don’t know what to make of it.

Of course, there’s Bungou Stray Dogs as well, but given that the episodes of that which I’ve watched so far are effectively a side story that is somewhat separated from the story previously and what appears to be the story continuing forward from the little preview images on CR.

I promise I’ll try to get one of these out again next week.

Weekly watching roundup – Autumn 2016 week 1

Yes I know this covers 2 weeks despite the single week in the title.

Episodes watched the past 2 weeks:
Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls 7
Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls 8
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 64
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 65
Momokuri 13
Momokuri 14
Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin 11
Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin 12
Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin 13 END
Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls 9
Aggressive Retsuko 26
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 66
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 67
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 68
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 1 (backlog)
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 2
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season 1
Momokuri 15
Momokuri 16
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume 1
Amanchu! 8
Amanchu! 9
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 3
Aggressive Retsuko 27
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 4
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 69
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 5
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 6
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 7
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 8
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 9
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 10
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 11
Boku dake ga Inai Machi 12 END
Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls 10
Working’!! 10 (backlog)
Nyanbo! 1 DROP
Nobunaga no Shinobi 1
Idol Memories 1
To Be Hero 1
Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season 1
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku 1
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku 2
Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito 1
Kaijuu Girls: Ultra Kaijuu Gijinka Keikaku 1
Kaijuu Girls: Ultra Kaijuu Gijinka Keikaku 2
Ao Oni The Animation 1 DROP
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume 2
Nobunaga no Shinobi 2
Stella no Mahou 1
Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2nd Season 2
To Be Hero 2
Teekyuu 8 1
Teekyuu 8 2
Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki 1
Sore ga Seiyuu! 9 BACKLOG
Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season 2
Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki 2
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 70
Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan 71
Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls 11
Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls 12 END

Autumn 2016 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume
2. Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku
3. Nobunaga no Shinobi
4. Bungou Stray Dogs 2nd Season
5. Stella no Mahou
6. To Be Hero
7. Teekyuu 8
8. Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki
9. Kaijuu Girls: Ultra Kaijuu Gijinka Keikaku
10. Idol Memories

Dropped:
Nyanbo!
Ao Oni The Animation

Summer 2016 Status:

Series rankings:
1. Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin*
2. Amanchu!
3. New Game!*
4. ReLIFE*
5. Rewrite*
6. Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru*
7. Amaama to Inazuma
8. Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls (up 2)*
9. Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (down 1)
10. Onara Gorou (down 1)*
11. Momokuri (TV) (up 3)
12. Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu (down 1)*
13. Fukigen na Mononokean (down 1)**
14. Orange (down 1)
15. Love Live! Sunshine!!
16. Taboo-Tattoo**
17. Servamp**

*completed
**moved to on hold

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