#animesummer2014

Here's the master list of all my anime reviews for this season.  Hit me up if you wanna talk about any of them or have some feedback or opinions or whatever.

Akame ga Kill

Aldnoah Zero

Bakumatsu Rock

DRAMAtical Murder

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Majimoji Rurumo

Persona 4 - The Golden Animation

Rail Wars

Re: Hamatora

Shirogane no Ishi Argevollen

Sword Art Online II

Tokyo ESP

Tokyo Ghoul

Zankyou no Terror

I'm doing both anime short series in one post since they're small. Himegoto:

Why am I watching this show?  I have no clue.  I don't understand why I keep watching the new episodes. It's disturbing and yet impossible to turn away from.  Don't start this series.

On the DioWithIt scale: 2 (only because I can't stop, 1 if I could.)

Shin Strange+:

A continuation of Strange+ from a few seasons ago, a short series about a 'detective agency'(?) which really has no plot other than stupid antics.  It's funny and worth watching for a five minute laugh.

I will start off by saying, I'm not a huge fan of the animation style this show uses.  That being said, I can easily overlook that small detail because I'm in love with this story line.  I haven't seen a show that had terrorists as main characters since Death Note (if you think about it).  However, as opposed to Death Note, this show doesn't use any supernatural abilities or objects but instead is just focused on pure terrorism and does a great job.  I'm looking forward to seeing how this show develops.

When I started watching this show I thought I had it all figured out, but as the show went on it took a different turn and for that I'm grateful because I don't like extremely predictable shows.  It's one thing to be able to know what's happening, or how things are going to end up, but it's another to understand the entire progression of the series just from watching a small amount of it.  This show started out appearing like the latter example, but completely blew my mind when it went a different direction.  Not to mention the music for this show is awesome.

This is the second continued show I picked up this season.  We're getting the 3rd and one of the best arcs of Sword Art Online:  the Gun Gale Online arc.  This is where we start seeing some star wars shit, since we're gonna seen someone fighting guns with a light saber.  Sword Art Online is one of those shows that I went and read the source material to.  Though I could give the source material a 5 in my rating, the anime is somewhat lacking in detail, which is inevitable, so it doesn't quite get that high.

If you read my Aldnoah Zero post, you know what I'm talking about when I say generic mecha anime.  If you didn't read it, go read it.  Argevollen is one of those generic mecha plots so far.  While that kind of story has been used again and again, I don't mind watching new ones to see subtle differences, and I'll keep watching them for the action.  With that being said, if you're looking for a mecha anime different from all the rest, this isn't that show.

The continuation from the original Hamatora.  I can't say anything bad about this show other than that the transitions between scenes with that screeching guitar riff should be changed.  I loved the first season of the show, I love the animation, the music, the plot, and the power system.  This is one of the shows I was looking forward to the most this season, and so far it hasn't disappointed.  I'm looking forward to seeing what Art does, and while I can see a lot of what's going to end up happening, I have no idea how it's going to progress there and that's what I love in a show.