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Jul. 19th, 2017 05:53 pm
summer 2017 anime recs
So, I'm one for making lists and such, and I also like anime, so I figured it'd might be worth my time to list my anime recommendations for this season. [In my personal opinion], I think there are a lot of better hits this season than the last couple. And maybe there's more that I'm personally not interested in watching. So many people work hard to produce anime, so there should be appreciation for most of them. c:
Anyway, based on my notes, here's a list of five different anime that you can watch.
1. Princess Principal While the character designs did not strike me as anything out of the ordinary at first, The surrounding background and details within the characters makes up for their average anime faces. This is about four girl spies who double lives as ordinary noble students and spies in a Victorian-age AU. If you watch to the second episode, there's a plot twist that's very cool in noting. Despite the girls' young age (around high school to 20), there's no fanservice, either. I think this might be one of the dark horses this season that turns into something really cool.
2. A Centaur's Worries It's based on a manga and it's a pretty chill slice of life of humans who range from centaurs to angels to merfolk. There's some fanservice here and there, but two episodes in and it's one of the least gross anime of the monster genre that I've seen spike in popularity in the last few years. All of the characters are super-cute, too, and it's an anime you can watch with a beer after work or school.
3. Made in Abyss One of two current anime recommended to me by a friend. The animation style's cute, with almost chibilike designs for the characters, but there's a dark undertone to the plot beyond the surface. Think of orphaned kid miners who scavenge for relics to keep up their orphanage. But there are two things that stand out. The first is the discovery of a kid robot who's lost his memory, and the other is that there's this giant pit [the abyss, ba-dumtzz] where if you mine too deep, you risk your life and your humanity. The opening/ending and other music used is also pretty solid.
4. Vatican Kiseki Chousaken Miraclebusting priests? Miraclebusting priests. I actually couldn't take the first couple of episodes seriously, nor could I say it's gonna be a box-office classic. It might be partly because I'm not Christian (I'm agnostic), but it's just so over-the-top serious with a splash of murder that I'm gonna have at least a field day watching. There's also this image in the first episode of a nun eating a hot dog. You're welcome.
5. Kakegurui The other anime that I was recommended to by my friend. I also heard about it being mentioned by another friend. You can sum it up as sadistic rich girl gamblers, but that's underrating it a little because the spin with these sadistic rich girl gamblers is a lot more interesting than it first sounds. Again, while the art's I suppose average with the animation, some of the facial expressions they make are flawless. They really capture the dark, twisted side of a person.
I might keep up the list-making thing a lot more frequently because I really, really enjoy thinking about lists, but I haven't been doing too much of it lately for reasons. At any rate I hope all of these anime meet my expectations. More on that may come in the future.
Anyway, based on my notes, here's a list of five different anime that you can watch.
1. Princess Principal While the character designs did not strike me as anything out of the ordinary at first, The surrounding background and details within the characters makes up for their average anime faces. This is about four girl spies who double lives as ordinary noble students and spies in a Victorian-age AU. If you watch to the second episode, there's a plot twist that's very cool in noting. Despite the girls' young age (around high school to 20), there's no fanservice, either. I think this might be one of the dark horses this season that turns into something really cool.
2. A Centaur's Worries It's based on a manga and it's a pretty chill slice of life of humans who range from centaurs to angels to merfolk. There's some fanservice here and there, but two episodes in and it's one of the least gross anime of the monster genre that I've seen spike in popularity in the last few years. All of the characters are super-cute, too, and it's an anime you can watch with a beer after work or school.
3. Made in Abyss One of two current anime recommended to me by a friend. The animation style's cute, with almost chibilike designs for the characters, but there's a dark undertone to the plot beyond the surface. Think of orphaned kid miners who scavenge for relics to keep up their orphanage. But there are two things that stand out. The first is the discovery of a kid robot who's lost his memory, and the other is that there's this giant pit [the abyss, ba-dumtzz] where if you mine too deep, you risk your life and your humanity. The opening/ending and other music used is also pretty solid.
4. Vatican Kiseki Chousaken Miraclebusting priests? Miraclebusting priests. I actually couldn't take the first couple of episodes seriously, nor could I say it's gonna be a box-office classic. It might be partly because I'm not Christian (I'm agnostic), but it's just so over-the-top serious with a splash of murder that I'm gonna have at least a field day watching. There's also this image in the first episode of a nun eating a hot dog. You're welcome.
5. Kakegurui The other anime that I was recommended to by my friend. I also heard about it being mentioned by another friend. You can sum it up as sadistic rich girl gamblers, but that's underrating it a little because the spin with these sadistic rich girl gamblers is a lot more interesting than it first sounds. Again, while the art's I suppose average with the animation, some of the facial expressions they make are flawless. They really capture the dark, twisted side of a person.
I might keep up the list-making thing a lot more frequently because I really, really enjoy thinking about lists, but I haven't been doing too much of it lately for reasons. At any rate I hope all of these anime meet my expectations. More on that may come in the future.
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