Sunshine was made because of the scandalous nature of the first series involving the VA but not only do they set it in the same universe as the original series but all the do is promote the scandalous character of that VA in Sunshine. What more is the characters of Sunshine are markedly massively inferior to the original cast both in personality and looks. The chuuni is extremely embarrassing to watch instead to being a fun likable character and I never realized how the lack of NicoNicoNi would cause the show to be so unlikable. This series was a failure.

>>27062
>Sunshine was made because of the scandalous nature of the first series involving the VA but not only do they set it in the same universe as the original series but all the do is promote the scandalous character of that VA in Sunshine.
The entire matter is pretty damn fishy, considering the timing. That bomb was dropped just days after old cast's last concert, and a tad before Sushine anime was announced as well, although that was a matter of time anyway. That being said Sunshine project was started a good while before that piece of news went public, so things alligned a little too well to look like nothing but a coincidence.

Love Live never dies!

>>30668
When it comes to sunshine, I wish it would. Third group can't get here soon enough.

Watched the first ep of gdmen and I don't really think it deserves it's own thread (no one else here is going to watch it after all) All I can say is it was kind of bland. Not horrible, but certainly not good. None of the fun or charm of gdgd fairies. Really don't know why it exists, fujoshi pandering I guess? Even so why attach the name when it can just be it's own thing? Whatever the case may be I doubt I'll watch past ep1.

I watched Devilman Crybaby. Before anything, I don't recommend anyone watch this unless you have read and finished the manga, it's not meant for you otherwise. If you haven't proceed with it at your own risk.

Despite having watched and read almost all related content over the years, this was still disgustingly degenerate, brutal, tragic, bleak and even horrifying. Even when knowing what was coming, it still hit me like a truck. Hiring Yuasa (Tamami Galaxy) to direct it along with Okouchi (writer, Code Geass) was a great idea, but in retrospective the partnership with Netflix does seem to have affected certain inclusions, for the worse. Some claim the gratuitous degeneracy was Yuasa's fault, but upon closer inspection seems too loaded to be true.

Being an adaptation, they took some liberties from the manga, and overall it suffered from being rush in parts that needed to be longer and more developed, while it lengthen things that weren't necessary and took turns toward plot points that even feel nonsensical. Anyway, it's a decent anime if you have the stomach for the brutality and 2DPD scenes. If you don't, avoid like the plague.

>>30434
>why attach the name when it can just be it's own thing?
it got you to watch the first ep

>>30634
heh, fair point. I might have watched it anyway as someone who has checked out most of those mmd style anime so far. I can't imagine many others would say the same however.

I was planing on watching this but dropped it 13 seconds into the first ep after it opened with whores talking about the guys they fucked and dumped.

Bit too rappy for my tastes.

>>30247

Generally it takes more than a small detail to do that for me.

>>30254
That's like half the premise and the main reason most people decided to watch it.

>>29322
I"m very shy myself so I relate a lot to Hifumi. I realize how miserable she must be. But she's also super cute, and I love watching her spill her spaghetti.

>>29333
Get back to work, Aoba-chan.

This is pretty brutal. Think about it. This child is surviving in hostile enemy territory by killing the locals, skinning them, and then wearing their skin like a suit to blend in and repeat the process on others.
Rubs the lotion on it's skin much?

That was emotional.

They caught some of that nasty 80s virus that's been going around lately.

Well it's over now and I gotta say, This was a pretty nice anime up till ep8. They covered most of the bases for the fandom, The different sides and branches of it, the kinds of fans you see, and so on. Granted they glossed over or ignored most of the more ugly parts of it, such as the mental disorders, depression, and they didn't really touch on waifus much. It would have been great if they kept things going like that. Then ep8 came along and they started going off the rails, meta, then full retard by the end. I really have no idea what the fuck those last few ep were, It's like it turns into a completely different anime at that point. After that point this anime went to shit and everything about it was horrible, but It was also strangely entertaining. It was like watching a train wreck.

>>30180
and by full retard, I really do mean Full Retard.

>>30164
Yes.

I don't understand how her classmates don't know. It's not like she looks any different on stage. Are they pretending not to know so she can have a normal school life? The way that one group of girls acted when she walked into the classroom makes me think that surely they must know.

>>30205
Live and learn. I think you're exaggerating a bit, but all the same everyone's an idiot when they're young. He'll get over it I'm sure.

>>30211
He better!

>>30211
>Predictions
I'm sure they'll probably introduce the blue haired girl who will fight pink for MC's cock, then the blond girl on the third ep. That's how these things usually go.

It's kind of a shame they did the "parents going overseas" cliche because the parents could have been a good opportunity to have some episodes serious in tone to encourage family values and the return of the arranged marriage.
I'm sure whatever serious episodes they do do will be centered around the red haired succubus girl with the doll. Her name is clever wordplay on succubus, by the way. I was impressed the translators didn't fuck that one up. I watched the hardsub version on nyaa and it was fine.

>>30214
Oh? I've never actually watched an idol anime before.
I hope the slutty teacher is part of the harem, too. She's the cutest imo.

>depressingly realistic.
I can't help but think in the real world this would go one of two ways; A large chunk of the town would visit the shop regularly out of pity/charity, or social services would step in and dump her off in a foster home if they couldn't find a relative to leave her with.

Although I don't think it works that well, I'm glad to see any innovation in an industry that is often so stagnant.
It seems that clearly this show had a very low budget, so it probably would have been downright bad anyway. At least this format allows them to stand out and also save money. As for the content of the show itself, it's better than I expected. The jokes sometimes fall flat but it's not exactly trying to be some revolutionary commentary on the human condition, it's just a light hearted show to watch on your phone while you're on the train going to your depressing office job. Overall, I think it's good that this show exists.

>>30178
I agree. While the format designed for phones doesn't entirely work, it isn't something I've seen before and even though it doesn't entirely work, at least it is trying to do something.

And honestly, while the format isn't great for watching in the way that I watch anime, as a format for as you say
>to watch on your phone while you're on the train going to your depressing office job
it does make a lot of sense to have something like this designed for small screens. It could be a niche product designed for that market in Japan going forward.

I probably won't watch the rest of this myself but it is an interesting development, even though I highly doubt that the concept will go much further if this show flops.

>>30189
I found while watching this that it worked and looked okay on my cell. The thing is I watch a lot of video on my phone and this is why the gimmick is a double edged sword. Sure it's unique and stands out, but it's redundant because -ANY- video can be watched on a smart phone by simply turn the phone on it's side and it'll take up the full screen, meanwhile this video format limits them to mainly just smart phones held in the vertical position. There's tons of anime made for watching on your phone, or in short bursts while waiting on ramen to cook. The reason no one has done this before is because it isn't very practical.

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.

Really is cute.
Picked it up after, I think, seeing the director has done other shows I liked.

>>30187
So I believe she said 'black tea' but the subtitles said 'coffee'.
Not to mentioned it was poured out of a tea-pot.