Hail the new season: what will YOU be watching?

Copied wholesale from my thread on SBF, which in turn was stolen off ADTRW (SA) since I'm too lazy to compile the links myself.

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02/25 http://www.ergoproxy.com/ Ergo Proxy - Sci-fi dystopian ACTION!
03/02 http://www.momo100100.com/ Shinigami no Ballad/Momo the girl god of death - The "heartwarming story" of a shinigami, with her animal companion.
03/04 http://www.z-gundam.net/ Zeta Gundam Movie III
03/05 http://www.top2.jp/dvd_5th.html Aim for the Top! 2 Diebuster 5
"This is GOVA (Great OVA). High Quality of OVA is exceeded. The battle scenes are drawn with unprecedented 'Ultra Quality' and are a must-see!"
03/11 http://www.hokuto-no-ken.jp/ Fist of the North Star THE MOVIE 2006!
03/11 http://www.kerozoro-movie.net/ Keroro Gunsou ALSO THE MOVIE 2006!
03/18 http://www.punie.jp/ The Great Magic Pass/Dai Mahou Touge - A "black gag manga".
03/19 http://www.at-x.com/program_detail/i...=1949&from=new A Summer-colored Hourglass - SF love comedy involving "random time travel"
03/?? http://www.tbs.co.jp/erico/ erico - If you go the website and click on lesson it's in English and you can try to figure out what this is yourself.
03/?? http://www.trinet-ent.com/baldrforce/ Baldr Force EXE Resolution - Nobody cares.
04/01 http://futagohime.jp/ Fushigoboshi no Futago Hime Gyu! - SDS will explain all about this, I'm sure.
04/01 http://www.waw.ne.jp/bemu/ Youkai Ningen Bem - 1960 remake featuring 1996 website and a character probably named "Not Heat Guy J".
04/02 http://www.ki-ba.com/ Fang/KIBA - Some artwork by Internet superstar "Imperial Boy", so it has beautiful landscapes and I don't know anything else.
04/02 http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/digimon_s/ Digimon
04/02 http://www.tv-osaka.co.jp/mymelo/ Onegai My Melody ~Kurukuru Shuffle~
04/02 http://www.ariacompany.net/ Aria Season 2
04/02 http://www.school-rumble.net/ School Rumble Season 2
04/03 http://www.simoun.tv/ Simoun - Sci-fi alternate world war (drama?).... in a world where people are born female and can change on their 17th birthday
This might be good if they ignore that piece of concept art they have there with the lesbians.
04/04 http://www.office-ao.co.jp/kappa/kappa.html Frakappa - Frakappas love to dance. I think that's meant to be the plot summary.
04/04 http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/gintama/ Silver Spirit/Gintama - What a noisy website.
04/04 http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/airgear/ Air Gear - Shounen rollerskate battling. Unnecessary techniques ahoy
04/04 http://galgame.jp/anime.html Rabuge Chu ~Miracle Seiyuu Hakushou~ - This is dumb, you can skip it.
04/04 http://www.ntv.co.jp/host/ The Ouda High Host Club - Mantastic.
04/05 http://www.soul-link.com/ Soul Link - In the absence of a story page, I will assume this a harem show IN SPACE.
04/05 http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/moe/book...nko/anime.html Shibawanko - Public TV kids' show with a dog.
04/05 http://www.s-nana.com/ Nana - I hear this is the #1 shoujo manga in Japan, so I guess it'll be good.
04/05 http://inukami.jp/ Inukami! - This looks offensively stupid and presumably unrelated to the other Inukami. Those excessively manly fairies in the upper left might mean it's all a prank, though.
04/05 http://www.hack.channel.or.jp/ .hack//Roots
04/06 http://www.zegapain.net/ ZEGAPAIN - What a great name. Sunrise giant robot fights, looks derivative of Eureka Seven, but that's a perfectly good thing to be derivative of.
04/07 http://www.samurai-7.com/ Samurai 7 rebroadcast on NHK?
04/08 http://www.tachiguishi.com/ Tachipami-shi Biographies, a movie by Mamoru Oshii
04/08 http://www.cwfilms.jp/yonna/ Yonna in the Solitary Fortress (movie) - This is fancy-pants animation if I ever saw it.
04/08 http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/media/index.html#tv_a Glowing Cloud Country Tale/Saiun Kuni Monogatari - Based on a line of shoujo novels (bishies ahoy)
04/08 http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/ent/janggeum/ Shoujo Changgeum's Dream - NHK rebroadcasting some Korean animation.
04/12 http://www.himehime.jp/ Himesama de Youjin ("Be careful, Princess?") - What extremely large hats they are wearing.
04/13 http://www.sasami-club.net/ Sasami * The Magical Girl Club - Yes, a Pretty Sammy sequel, just what we need
04/13 http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/fujimi/webage/thethird.html The Third (Blue-eyed Girl) - girls and their swords
04/15 http://www.wowow.co.jp/anime/tokko/ - "Serialized in Kodansha Afternoon" spells quality, even if the author thought Tokko and Tokki were good names for units of the police force. (ANN for the manga)
04/22 http://www.akaitsuki.net/ Makai Senki Disgaea - Will this suffer the fate of all video game anime?

04/??:

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/tsubasa/ Tsubasa Chronicle Season 2
Spring Samurai - no website
Spider Riders - also no website
http://www.tbs.co.jp/holic/ XXXHOLiC - more Clamp
http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/jyu_ohsei/ (Beast King Star?) - Looks more mantastic. This and Ouda are being assisted in some way by BONES.
http://www.tbs.co.jp/megamisama/ Ah! My Goddess Season 2
http://www.witchblade.jp/ Witchblade - Haha, oh Gonzo.
http://ray.tv/ Ray - This is a mediocre manga, but they have a foolproof anime adaption strategy!
It involves adding a mysterious new character with a mysterious haircut who is mysteriously named B.J. and mysteriously voiced by Akio Otsuka.
http://www.utaware.net/ Utawarerumono - Based on a strategy RPG by Leaf? I don't know how this works.
Yume Tsukai If this is really an adaptation of a five-year-old manga then the anime industry is broken. The website looks like harem. (Editor's note: Apparently we are very mistaken about that, but I don't know why)
http://www.magipoka.com/ Alchemy Class 3 まじかる？ぽか〜ん - This sort of indecipherable name can only be given to one of those nonsense moe comedy things so I'll assume it's one of those.
Yoshinaga-san'chi no Gargoyle Tuxedo Mask makes his triumphant return. But he forgot his mask!
http://www.blacklagoon.jp/ Black Lagoon - "it's a group of mercenaries running around being mercenaries also assassin maids"
http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/himawari/ Himawari - Try to understand the story translation if you want. Art by another internet superstar, Okama.
Nishi no Yoki Majo AKA "Good Witch of the West 'Astrea Treatment'" or something. Based on a manga, decent ANN page.
Yoshimune Completely nonfunctional website, but the ANN says it's a Gonzo adaptation of a pachinko game(!). I used to think that Gonzo stuck mostly to young-adult stuff but that's really not the case any more.
Poka Poka Mori no Rascal cutesy animals
Higurashi no Naku koro ni The ANN says: Based on a popular, amateur created murder-mystery computer game. I say: SO MOE! I'M GONNA DIE! But it will have Yukari Tamura, Mai Nakahara, Fumiko Orikasa, and Satsuki Yukino in it.
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu Schoolgirls and a maid sighted
Girls High The possibility of another high school comedy devoid of boys has a certain appeal but my expectations aren't high.
Strawberry Panic! Yuri from Madhouse. Production staff doesn't look too promising.
Princess Princess EVERY CHARACTER IN THIS SHOW IS A MAN, ALL OF THEM
Saru Getchu Ape Escape vs. Disgaea - who will prevail? (Disgaea)
Yougyakumon - no website

So yeah, I'm definitely set on the second seasons of AMG, Aria and School Rumble. Other interesting candidates: Shinigami no Ballad, Ergo Proxy, Soul Link (only because the original game was by the same company that made Shuffle). Oh, and xxxHolic TV.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

At this moment, I'm following a few new anime series which I believe have started recently.

Of this new season which Bigblah has outlined, I definately plan on watching ARIA the ANIMATION 2. I do hope that Crystal Nova will continue with the subbing job as I've liked their work with the first season. It did take some time for them to release the last episode for the first season, but I'm pleased with their quality. As well, I will most likely be picking up on Ah! My Goddess Season 2 and perhaps School Rumble Season 2, seeing as the OVAs did not help at all to advance the story. I personally didn't like the OVAs, even though perhaps their intention was just pure comic relief. Hopefully the second season will help bring back more funnies of Harima and Tenma-chan. Although I pray for the last episode to not be a repeat of the cruel joke played on us as in the ending of the first season. Yeah, I know it could not be conclusive because then there wouldn't need to be a second season, but still.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

School Rumble Season 2 and Tsubasa Chronicle Season 2 are two I'll be seeing. I'm also curious in seeing what Nana will be like. I've read a few chapters of the manga and it seems interesting.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Oh oh oh, definitely School Rumble Season 2; can't wait to see what Harima's next step will be in his fight for Tenma. Possibly Ah! My Goddess Season 2, if my HD can handle it.

And I'll probably check out the first few episodes of .hack//Roots to see what's new with the series.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

As of right now the ones i'll be following are:

School Rumble Season 2
Ah! My Goddess TV Season 2
Shinigami Ballad
JoshiKousei Girls High
Nana
and of course.... Disgaea!

I was speaking idiomatically.

Looking forward to Tsubasa Chronicle 2, School Rumble, Aria and Soul Link. Don't know a single thing about Soul Link, but from the creators of Shuffle!, so I expect it to be nice =)

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

It doesn't look that promising to me, and the only shows I'll probably follow are .Hack (fan of Sign and the games), Ergo Proxy (style~) and Disgaea (played and loved the game). The rest just seems like it's all been done before.

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its not as good as it used to be back then but other than that.. i'll probably check all of them and then let a few go cause i know all of them aren't going to be good anyway. Gintama is on my top list though.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

This season looks like much more promising than the last few have.
I will be keeping up with Egro Proxy, .hack//root, Disgaea for sure. (thats alot more than i have been keeping up with recently, last season, i only kept up with...accualy i dont think i kept up with anything last season) I might look into Kiba, because it looks like it might be intresting....

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My list goes like this:

Ergo Proxy.
Shinigami no Ballad.
Aria season 2.
School Rumble 2.

Black Lagoon looks interesting, but gotta check some episodes first. Baldr Force EXE Resolution's OP is by KOTOKO and Mami Kawada, so this is a must check. Hopefully the series won't be shitty compared to the song.

Also:

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03/19 http://www.at-x.com/program_detail/i...=1949&from=new A Summer-colored Hourglass - SF love comedy involving "random time travel"

Is this Natsuiro no Sunadokei?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Looking forward to Black Lagoon but somewhere deep inside I shudder at the thought that just maybe it will go the way of Black Cat and die........or become really bad.

I will definitely check out the Keroro Gunsou movie. This is a funny title and I just love it! The TV series has gained a new fansub group and I am eagerly awaiting more froggy goodness. (It's what, at episode 98 now in Japan?!)

Hokuto no Ken I have reservations about. A movie sounds interesting and all, but I still remember the crappy OVA series we were subjected to and I don't really expect this to be any better. I guess I will check it out still.


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This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Black Cat
- Currently finishing off this anime

Well, I don't think that Black Cat is "crappy". It just has a different approach than the manga. Still, they have the same story going.

Naruto

School Rumble 2
Ah! My Goddess 2
Tsubasa Chronicle 2
MAJOR 2
Air Gear
Disgea
.hack//ROOTS
xXxHolic
RAY
Yume Tsukai (Dream Tsukai?)
Jyu-Oh-Sei
Zegapain <== I'm a fan of scifi as well
Soul Link
Gintama
KIBA

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Luceid

Is this Natsuiro no Sunadokei?

It is; it's just the original 2-part OVA being broadcast on TV.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Ooh, .Hack//Root. I knew there was a new anime planned to come out along with the release of .Hack//GU (new PS2 game), but I hadn't heard the name of it. I'll definitely be watching that since I'm admittedly a .Hack fanboy.

Makai Senki Disgaea will hopefully be good, since there's already enough hilarity from the game and manga to tap into. One shot I saw of a crowd of Prinnies was a bit worrying since the CG was awful, but all the other shots have looked fine.

Ergo Proxy I haven't seen much on, but everyone who has looked into it seems excited. Then again, I didn't care for Samurai Champloo that much and this is from the same people I heard. Wasn't this already pre-emptively licensed too? If so, I wonder how many subgroups will actually work on it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I'll be catching the new seasons of Tsubasa and Ah My Goddess because season 1 of each was fantastic. And xxxHOLiC in April too? WHEEEEE!!! ^^

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Onegai My Melody

Is this another sequel to Onegai Teacher and Onegai Twins?

FELIPE NO

No, that's actually Hello Kitty.



What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Damn. I was hoping for another Onegai series.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

A NANA animation, it was only a matter of time.

If somehow I manage to find the time and inspiration to watch anime again, .hack//ROOTS, Disgaea, and Ergo Proxy are on my list, where Ergo Proxy is really the only original series that interests me. There haven't been too many good or original series in the past year, which is saddening.

Where are all the masterpieces? Hopefully they'll resurface soon.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by hikarub

Looking forward to Black Lagoon but somewhere deep inside I shudder at the thought that just maybe it will go the way of Black Cat and die........or become really bad.

Black Cat is pretty horrible, imo. Well, it was one of the expectations I had with the manga being nothing special, but I still hoped that they could have made some improvements. the music rocks though. As for Black Lagoon, I've looked through the manga while I was in the store, and it's really not my thing; way too much fan art.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'll give Disgaea, .hack//ROOTS and Ergo Proxy a chance. I might also catch NANA. Nothing else caught my attention. I may check out a few other things if the members here give positive reviews.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Enkidu

. As for Black Lagoon, I've looked through the manga while I was in the store, and it's really not my thing; way too much fan art.

same here.

The first episode of Shinigami no ballad is out right now. i believe its by c1anime . the OP song is alright and the lyrics are pretty deep.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Ultima

Where are all the masterpieces? Hopefully they'll resurface soon.

ARIA the Animation, along with season two, will be more than enough to satisfy the awesomeness quotient for the rest of the year.

(Totally jumped ship there)

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Bigblah

It is; it's just the original 2-part OVA being broadcast on TV.

Again? Then why to bother checking it. =\

If Black Lagoon's gonna be that bad, then I'll stick to my previous choices, but then again, checking the first episode is not bad, I guess.

FELIPE NO

I'll probably be watching School Rumble season 2 (because I finally got around to watching the first season >_<), Tsubasa Chronicle season 2, and Ergo Proxy.

...and whatever else I have time for. (Yes, I've still got catching up to do.)

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

After I'm done with GITS:SAC 2nd GIG, I'll (hopefully) start watching Naruto when the Anime gets to chapter 239. Also I'm currently watching Inuyasha on Adult Swim along with Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Jam it back in, in the dark.