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Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru

Posted on December 21, 2016 12:32 pm by Offkorn Comment

Around 200 years in the future an organization called The Historical Revisionists labors to change history through the use of a time-traveling army of monsters. To prevent their meddling, warriors created from the spirits of various famous swords are sent back in time to fight them.

In reality this show mostly consists of daily life scenes focused on the swords’ antics around the citadel compound and their reminiscence of past events as weapons. The action aspects, when they show up at all, are relegated to a 5-minute or so mission segment toward the end of each episode.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Autumn Anime Related and tagged Action Crunchyroll Dropped Fantasy Game Adaptation History Science Fiction Series Slice of Life Televised
Soul Buster: Jiang Xing Luan

Posted on December 21, 2016 7:43 am by Offkorn Comment

An ordinary high school boy finds himself awakening from a strange dream with an unexplained cut on his palm, while a second dream shortly after gifts him with a card that he swears to protect with his life. This card is able to summon a hero from the past to battle on his behalf in a death game to decide China’s fate.

The show starts out using a standard proxy-battle setup and features a pronounced manga-style texture filter; a visual choice that may make it difficult to watch. Each episode runs ~10 minutes and it ends as the story continues to evolve.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Autumn Anime Related and tagged Action Comic Adaptation Crunchyroll Dropped Incomplete Source Series Televised Urban Fantasy
Show By Rock!!#

Posted on December 21, 2016 6:15 am by Offkorn Comment

Some time after the events of the first series, a new enemy has launched a surprise attack on Sound Planet and caused mass destruction. With it already being too late to fight back, a trio of ninja resort to time travel to warn the populace and hopefully prevent the impending tragedy.

While you don’t have to watch the prequel to follow the new storyline, that is where most of the characters and their quirks are introduced and it may be a bit overwhelming to have them all appear at once. The two seasons aren’t much different, having the same style of comedy (situational) and a similar mix of music, everyday cheerful situations, and bursts of personal/relationship-based drama.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Autumn Anime Related and tagged Comedy Crunchyroll Dramatic Support Finished Game Adaptation Music Science Fiction Series Televised
Shuumatsu no Izetta

Posted on December 20, 2016 3:26 pm by Offkorn Comment

The kingdom of Germania has just invaded the small duchy of Eylstadt, whose princess is in a neutral territory lobbying for the assistance of Britannia and its allies. Captured by enemy soldiers and on the verge of sacrificing herself she encounters a most unlikely ally from her past: Izetta, the world’s last magic user.

A sort of alternate history, this show re-tells the early events of World War II with the twist of enlisting the aid of a powerful sorceress against Germany before the USA got involved. While for the most part a war drama with occasional daily life interludes, it concludes as something of a sci-fi/fantasy spectacle.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Autumn Anime Related and tagged Action Anime Original Crunchyroll Drama Finished History Science Fiction Series Televised Urban Fantasy
Bloodivores

Posted on December 18, 2016 12:29 pm by Offkorn Comment

Framed for murders he didn’t commit, Liu Mi finds himself and his three accomplices sentenced to death. Before the sentence can be carried out, the prisoners are abducted by unknown assailants and forced to participate in a death match against giant monsters.

The show has a straight-forward closed-area survival setup accented with a hint of mystery/conspiracy that’s ever so slowly elaborated on. It also ends right in the middle of a scene.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Autumn Anime Related and tagged Action Comic Adaptation Crunchyroll Finished Incomplete Source Science Fiction Series Televised
Bungo Stray Dogs

Posted on December 18, 2016 9:57 am by Offkorn Comment

The private investigators of the Armed Detective Agency handle cases the police and military cannot, thanks to the unique powers at their disposal. They’re not the only ones with supernatural powers though and often find themselves facing off against those who direct their abilities toward more nefarious ends.

An action-comedy featuring a mix of character deformation and reaction-based humor peppered with periodic bursts of drama and mystery. It starts off slightly episodic, with each episode being focused on either a single case or a particular part of an ongoing case, eventually becoming plot driven with a greater focus on drama.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Autumn 2016 - Spring 2017 - Summer 2019 - Spring Anime Related and tagged Action Bungo Stray Dogs Comedy Comic Adaptation Comic Relief Crunchyroll Drama Finished Incomplete Source OVA Series Televised Urban Fantasy
Thunderbolt Fantasy: Touri-ken Yuuki

Posted on December 1, 2016 4:56 pm by Offkorn Comment

While on the run from an evil sword collector who desires the piece of a legendary blade she holds, Fei Dan meets and acquires the assistance of a mysterious white-haired man. Together they set off on a journey to gather enough allies to bring the fight to him.

Turns out this is not an Anime; it’s a live-action puppet show that at times bears a remarkable resemblance to a tokusatsu series. It contains a large amount of expository dialog along with a moderate number of frenetic CGI-enhanced action scenes.

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This entry was posted in Movie & TV Related and tagged Action Anime Original Crunchyroll Fantasy Finished Series Televised
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata

Posted on November 30, 2016 5:01 pm by Offkorn Comment

Tomoya Aki is a well known otaku blogger who covers Anime, LNs, and VNs. One day he’s struck by the sight of a girl on a hill and becomes obsessed with the idea of creating his own VN based on that experience. He lacks the skills to do it on his own though and so sets out to recruit two old acquaintances (a doujin artist and a novelist), running into the mystery girl from before in the process. Can the four of them work together to create a game?

A fully self-aware romantic comedy whose first episode, labeled “Episode 0”, takes place at the very end of the series. Unlike many harem comedies this one focuses primarily on reaction and dialog-based humor instead of ecchi comedy. It does still have a notable amount of ecchi however.

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This entry was posted in 2015 - Winter Anime Related and tagged Amazon Prime Comedy Crunchyroll Ecchi Finished Harem LN Adaptation Partial Adaptation Romance Saekano Series Televised
orange

Posted on October 13, 2016 2:38 pm by Offkorn Comment

A story of regrets and second chances. The protagonist receives a letter from her future self, on the first day of the second year of high school, detailing events that will soon occur and the choices she made at the time which in retrospect feel like mistakes. The letter implores her to not repeat them.

The time travel aspect is essentially just a gimmick, a bit of flair to make the show stand out. For the most part it’s a normal, realism-styled school life drama/romance that takes the uncommon step of dedicating a portion of each episode to showing how its characters (may have) ended up a decade later.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Summer Anime Related and tagged Comic Adaptation Crunchyroll Drama Finished Romance School Life Series Televised