This is the sort of thing I live for.

2 cute 4 me

I have a hard time figuring out what to make of this anime. It started out as being very high in quality, cute, and generally wholesome. The quality then dropped after ep3 and they started using these really bizarre and oddly perverted eyecatchs at the ends of the eps. As if that wasn't enough they started sticking in some really random bits of awkward fanservice, like out of nowhere focusing in on character's panties while they talk, but it's so seldom done you can't call this a fan service style anime, and instead it simply feels weird. One amusing aspect of this anime is the premises is about creating a stage group and acting, yet that gets sidelined and basically used as an excuse to show the characters in cute outfits. I mean don't get me wrong, I love that sort of thing, but the way it's done here makes me almost feel guilty about it. The anime feels very shallow, deceptive, and I almost want to say exploitative in how it handles this. It reminds me of those old 80s movies that have bare bones plots to justify the director being a massive pervert with the actresses mixed with mindless action/explosions for the brain dead fans, But with cute girls doing cute or semi-lewd things instead.
I don't know how to properly describe it other than to say this anime is just really strange. It's like buying a strawberry shortcake from an adorable little shop run by nice friendly cute girls. Maybe you don't even want cake buy just buy it there anyway to see those girls in their cute uniforms or whatever. But then you take that cake home, look at it, see something that isn't right, and start to realize that's semen you're looking at on one of the strawberry. You start to wonder if it is then how did it get there, why it's there, if the girls at the shop are trying to tell you something, and if you should toss the cake out because of it and never go to that shop again.

This anime in a nutshell.

>>28929
I hated Diana in the first season, but now I love her so much! I could talk to her for hours and feel comforted.

oh my

Nuclear Launch Detected.

Well that could have gone better...
yikes..

That was a pretty great ending. You know, I was really on the fence about this anime with it being too western feeling, but I started to enjoy it by the second half when the plot finally kicked in. That said, the second half could have used a lot more sucy.

Canvas 2
Shuffle
Suzuka
Kakyuusei 2
H2O: Footprints in the Sand
Ef

Fruits Basket

I think Sola is also worth mentioning.

>>29005
>maybe even Clannad
Did you watch Afterstory, which is a tearjerker masterpiece?

You could also check Princess Tutu.

I second, given your parmeters, Fruits Basket and Sola.

>>26905
I couldn't agree more anon.

When they befriend kanaria

>>26905
thats in träumend, not in the original RM (as stated in OP). Sorry to be a stickler about these things (not on your account, but on account of that ep, which I agree is very good), but that post shouldn't be in this thread, it should be in the träumend thread

>>29029
>Kanaria
Träumend

fukkin plebs u can't hang with me - i'm getting out of this thread

>>29029
Kanaria is a great character.

>This is absolutely great.
No, this is just another generic moelove. If Japan had any sense at all they would stop making these shitty moe anime and start producing something good instead.

>>29048
I forgot moe**shit** is changed to "moelove" here.

>>29048
japs like cute, Americans don't, and japs don't care what Americans like or don't like. That should be common sense.

>>29048
At this point posts like these honestly seem to be delibrate just to stir some sort of conversation.

due to the season gap i got motivated enough to go find the hozuki no reistsu ovas i hadn't seen yet, very worth doing and good

fukkin season gap again

I had a bad habit of slowly falling behind with anime and end with a few ep left after the anime finishes, so this isn't so bad for me.

>>29019
regardless that, i still demand that you sympathize with my cause

I'd complain this season looks like ass, but last time I did people here tossed a fit about me saying so...
Anyways! I'm just going to watch whatever looks cute and take some wild shots in the dark with a few others that look/sound half way interesting. So far what I'll be checking out is Tenshi no 3p!, New game!!, Hina logi, Knight's & magic, Isekai Shokudou, 18if, Made in abyss, Fate/Apocrypha, Nora to Oujo, teekyuu.

>>29001
i know, this is the first season without proper charts available since the start of the chart era, which was a long time ago (several years).

I really enjoyed the Centaur no Nayami manga, so I'll pick that up. I'm not sure if I'll watch anything else, but I'll see what kinds of threads go up here for anything else that could be worth watching.

>>29004
They're outdated and a lot of work to make. It' s way easier to just have it as a webpage. Something like a wiki style would be even better, so more people can update the information. /tohnochart/ when?

How is https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/ for news?

Upcoming Anime http://anichart.net/

Opinion about Aldnoah.Zero
http://blogsuki.com/archives/2016/12/10/7227/
(that I agree with)

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-03-12/kino-journey-light-novels-get-new-tv-anime/.113323

More Kino coming our way!

>>28973
I've been watching it and while it hasn't really smacked me in the face and made me think 'wow, I really want to hit up TC and talk about this', it's certainly been a surprisingly good ride.

Collest bird that I've seen in a while.

>>28974

the animation quality and art style alone had me sold from ep 1. It's a shame the animation quality took a nose dive in eps 11 and 12, but they made up for that in the beach epilogue.

The story not being garbage was certainly a plus, but wouldn't have really stopped me from watching it.

>>28988
For me the artstyle wasn't particularly notable. I feel like I've seen it a few times before, though I couldn't tell you where, I'm a bit under the weather at present so my recall is not as I'd like it to be. I liked the backgrounds and the colours though. That's what stood out to me about it. You make very valid points though, I think that the reason KF did knock my socks off while this was 'solid but not amazing' to me was that I was expecting KF to be rubbish while Granblue Fantasy started off with decent visuals and didn't appear to be a cheap, crappy adaptation.