I’m reposting this huge forum post I wrote here ’cause I thought it was pretty good.
\nApparently these days everyone is looking at some guy’s chart instead. But I read it and his plot summaries are longer than the actual shows’ plots. What’s with that?
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12\/04<\/b> Weiss Survive R<\/a> 12\/27<\/b> Yume wo Kanaeru Zou<\/a> (The Elephant That Grants Dreams)<\/i> 01\/02<\/b> Cobra The Animation: The Six Heroes<\/a><\/b> (Cobra the Animation: Rokuden no Yuushi)<\/i> 01\/03<\/b> Haruka na Toki no Naka de 3 – Owarinaki Unmei<\/a> 01\/04<\/b> Chuu-Bra!!<\/a> 01\/04<\/b> So ra no Wo to<\/a> (Sounds of the Skies)<\/i> 01\/04<\/b> Stigmatic Qwaser<\/a> (Seikon no Qwaser)<\/i> 01\/04<\/b> Gag Manga Biyori+<\/a> (A Good Day for Gag Manga Plus)<\/i> 01\/05<\/b> Ladies vs Butlers!<\/a> (Redii vs Bato)<\/i> 01\/06<\/b> Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu<\/a> (The Idiot, the Test, and the Summoned Creature)<\/i> 01\/06<\/b> Omamori Himari<\/a> (Guardian Himari)<\/i> 01\/06<\/b> Dance in the Vampire Bund<\/a> 01\/07<\/b> Dulalala!!<\/a><\/b> (not “Durarara!!”)<\/i> 01\/07<\/b> Hidamari Sketch ☆☆☆<\/a><\/b> (Hidamari Sketch Mitsuboshi)<\/i> 01\/07<\/b> Ookamikakushi<\/a><\/b> (Abducted by Wolves)<\/i> 01\/09<\/b> The Phantom Thief Reinya<\/a> (Kaitou Reinya)<\/i> 01\/10<\/b> Hanamaru Kindergarten<\/a> (Hanamaru Youchien)<\/i> 01\/14<\/b> Nodame Cantabile Finale<\/a> 01\/24<\/b> Katanagatari<\/a> 02\/–<\/b> Heart Catch Pretty Cure!<\/a> Movies<\/b><\/p>\n These are theatrical release dates, which don’t mean anything if you’re outside Japan.<\/p>\n 12\/12<\/b> Space Battleship Yamato – The Revival<\/a> (Uchuu Senkan Yamato Fukkatsu-hen)<\/i> 12\/12<\/b> One Piece – Strong World<\/a> 12\/19<\/b> Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva<\/a> 01\/23<\/b> Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st<\/a> 01\/23<\/b> Fate\/stay night – Unlimited Blade Works<\/a> 02\/26<\/b> The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya<\/a> (Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu)<\/i> OVA<\/b><\/p>\n 12\/04<\/b> Denpa-teki na Kanojo #2<\/a>
\nOriginally by Bushiroad, script by Takao Yoshioka, directed by Kenji Satou, produced by Studio Hibari<\/i>
\nSecond season of a moe card-battle advertisement anime. Someone tell me what Bushiroad has to do with Gainax’s canceled project Bushilord.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Keiya Mizuno, script and direction by Akitarou Daiichi, produced by Studio DEEN<\/i>
\nAnime version of this drama series<\/a> about Ganesha squatting in people’s apartments and helping them find the meaning of love.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Buichi Terasawa, script and direction by Osamu Dezaki, produced by Magic Bus<\/i>
\nNew Space Adventure Cobra TV series, combining classic pulp SF, terrible CG, and Terasawa’s love of women’s asses.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Koei, script by Kouji Takamura, directed by Shigeru Kimiya, produced by Yumeta<\/i>
\nA reverse harem series that you don’t care about.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Yumi Nakata, script by Reiko Yoshida, directed by Yukina Hiiro, “lingerie design” by Takahiro Yasuda, produced by ZEXCS<\/i>
\n“middle school girls x underwear = slightly H girls comedy”<\/p>\n
\nWritten by Hiroyuki Yoshino, directed by Kanbe Mamoru, produced by A-1 Pictures & Aniplex<\/i>
\nAn original anime project by Aniplex about five girls in a military unit guarding a fortess nobody lives in or, apparently, cares about. They learn how to play music instead.
\nThe trailer wants you to know that the world is full of sad things, but also has happy things, and doesn’t say or show anything about the plot.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Hiroyuki Yoshino and Ken’etsu Satou, script by Makoto Uezu, directed by Hiraku Kaneko, produced by Fuzz Entertainment<\/i>
\nFanservice-based chemistry fighting show. Brought to you by Champion Red Ichigo, the manga magazine dedicated to selling porn to minors.<\/p>\n
\nFourth season of a comedy anime which is apparently pretty good, when anyone manages to translate it.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Tsukasa Koudzuki, script by Tamai Tsuyoshi, directed by Atsushi Ootsuki, produced by XEBEC<\/i>
\nANN: “The school romantic comedy revolves around Akiharu Hino (Kazuyuki Okitsu), an ordinary high school student who unfortunately looks like a juvenile delinquent. He enrolls into an academy that was once a school for upper-class ladies, and he is placed in the school’s newly established servant training department. The students there are raised to be either maids or butlers, and Akiharu finds himself in the middle of the bickering cliques.”<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Kenji Inoue, script by Katsuhiko Takayama, directed by Shin Oonuma, produced by Silver Link<\/i>
\nANN: “The story centers around Akihisa Yoshii, the “baka” of the title. His academy rigidly divides up the student body into classes based on the results of tests. The prodigies are in the A class with reclining seats complete with air conditioning, but Akihisa is in F class, the lowest rung of the school ladder which is furnished only with low, decrepit tables and worn-out straw tatami mats. The school happens to have developed experiments to summon fantasy creatures, and Akihisa decides to rally F class to take on the higher-tiered classes and seize their perks. The F class uses the summoned creatures in an all-out battle for school supremacy.”
\nMade by the SHAFT B-team, which is why it kind of looks like Pani Poni Dash.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Matra Milan, script by Katsumi Hasegawa, directed by Shinji Ushiro, produced by ZEXCS<\/i>
\nANN: “The slapstick romantic comedy centers around an ordinary 16-year-old high school boy named Yūto Amakawa who is protected by a spirit \u00e2\u20ac\u201d specifically, a beautiful, sword-wielding cat spirit named Himari. Yūto is descended from a family that has subjugated demons since time immemorial. The charm that once protected him is now impotent, but fortunately, at that same moment, Himari appears before him as his new guardian.”<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Nozomu Tamaki, script by Hiroyuki Yoshino, directed by Akiyuki Shinbo & Masahiro Sonoda, produced by SHAFT<\/i>
\nA loli vampire princess buys an island in Tokyo Bay to start a new country (“bund”) for vampires on, and various people try to kill her. Hiroyuki Yoshino sure gets around!<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Ryougo Narita, script by Noboru Takagi, directed by Takahiro Oomori, produced by Brains Base<\/i>
\nAnother “random people running into each other” action series by the author of Baccano, this time about a motorcycle-riding dullahan<\/a> named Celtie. Some info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Ume Aoki, script by Naoko Hasegawa & Natsue Yoguchi, directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, produced by SHAFT<\/i>
\nThird season of SHINBOxSHAFT laid-back art student adventure.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Konami & Ryuukishi07, script by Touko Machida, directed by Norihiro Takamoto, produced by AIC<\/i>
\nA mystery story about secrets in “the old part of town”. Set in the same year as Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, maybe just because the author likes it.
\nRyuukishi07 has somewhat bad luck with anime adaptions, but his stories are interesting.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Up-Front Style, script by Kenichi Kanemaki, directed by Takahiro Yoshimatsu, produced by Stingray<\/i>
\nStar vehicle for the Morning Musume member Reina Tanaka.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Hayato in Young Gangan, script by Yuichiro Oguro, directed by Seiji Mizushima, produced by GAINAX<\/i>
\nSlice-of-life comedy about a kindergarten class. Isn’t this staff kind of overkill?<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Tomoko Ninomiya, script by Kazuki Nakajima, directed by Chiaki Kon, produced by JC Staff<\/i>
\nThe third and last season of classical music series Nodame Cantabile<\/a>, about a man who wants to be a world-famous conductor and his pianist girlfriend.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by NisiOisin, script by Makoto Uezu, directed by Keitaro Motonaga, produced by WHITE FOX<\/i>
\nAnime version of Nisioisin’s 12-volume series, released once a month, about a samurai from the No-Sword School sent on a quest for 12 swords – he is the only one who wouldn’t want them for himself.
\nThe novels have some bad reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nMore magical girls. No info yet.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Yoshinobu Nishizaki, script by Buryuu Ishihara & Yoshinobu Nishizaki, directed by Yoshinobu Nishizaki, produced by Yamato Studio<\/i>
\nThe Nish needs more drug money.<\/p>\n
\nWritten by Eiichiro Oda & Hirohiko Kamisaka, directed by Munehisa Sakai, produced by Toei Animation<\/i>
\nThe 10th (and best?) One Piece movie.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Level-5, script by Aya Matsui, directed by Masagazu Hashimoto, produced by PA Works<\/i><\/p>\n
\nWritten by Maki\/Masaki Tsudzuki, directed by Keizou Kusakawa, produced by Seven Arcs<\/i>
\nAdaption of the first season of the anime, this time with more explosions. Nanoha’s eyes are getting really big.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by TYPE-MOON, script by Takuya Satou, directed by Yuuji Yamaguchi, produced by Studio DEEN<\/i>
\nAdaption of the last route of Fate\/Stay Night. Unfortunately by the generally-disappointing DEEN, so it might turn out badly.<\/p>\n
\nOriginally by Nagaru Tanigawa, script by Fumihiko Shimo, directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto, produced by Kyoto Animation<\/i>
\nThe more interesting story that was left out of the second TV season.<\/p>\n
\n12\/23<\/b> Utawarerumono #2<\/a>
\n12\/23<\/b> Hellsing #7<\/a>
\n01\/22<\/b> Quiz Magic Academy #2<\/a>
\n01\/27<\/b> Darker than Black Extra Episode #1<\/a>
\nA side story for the first show included on the second DVD\/BD for DTB2.<\/p>\n