SPRING 2017 UPDATE/ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ON WORLDS END (SUKASUKA)

2017 UPDATE and Worlds End first impressions!

Feel free to skip to the indented 1. if you're only here for the first impression, the pretext is a context update for this blog.
2017 and it's been a long time, I've both grown as a person and not grown in many ways. Some say I should be doing my dissertation right now, they would be right. However I felt like coming back to my old anime blog as there is a lot of good stuff this season and it is helpful for my work ethic.

This was originally going to be a Spring 2017 anime first impressions article but after how much I wrote for the first entry I decided I just wanted to get a piece out and it would pull too much time from my pressing university work. But anyway I've decided to restart my blog (again) but I am changing it up a little. If one thing university has taught me is that people like different things in many ways so I'm going to be releasing a mix of shorter quick read articles and anime/gaming content and more longer pieces. I'd like to be able to reach out to people and casting the net wide is a good way to start so I'm not limiting myself to a specific niche. Having different size content also will help the relaunch be successful giving me flexible time limits for pieces and keeping my content fresh for me to write rather than endless churning out long reads.

If there's one thing I've noticed as well these days, it's that people love short articles, especially dare I say it list articles. There are lot of reasons as to why, such as ease of reading, easier skimming in a fast internet age, simpler to keep track of etc. So I'm going to try to cater to that audience as well, though I will keep longer pieces up and pray they get views also.

So onto the anime, here's a show I'm looking forward too and hyped myself up for pretty highly.

1.  Worlds End: What will you at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka?(SAKUSAKU)                                                                           Of all the shows that are airing this is probably the one I'm looking forward to the most. Some are saying it's the "Re:Zero" of this season, though I think that title goes over to "The grimoire of Zero" (no relation based on name I promise). The show is set in a fantasy setting similar to Re:Zero/Sword art online, our MC is a man who presumably survives the battle where humanity is wiped out and the other races retreats to sky islands where they are mainly safe from the beasts that wiped out humans. He gets a job offer to be a caretaker for a weapons cache after a short run in with a blue haired girl. The exposition of their encounter is similar to that of Grimgar of fantasy and ash in that it has a music focus and shows story and interaction rather than telling it directly (a medium that I personally enjoy but it is not for everyone and if every show did it would become repetitive very fast). Slight fast forward and when he arrives surprise surprise he meets the blue haired girl again and the warehouse is more like a homely board house for many children rather then a weapons warehouse like he was told, (I'll let you guess what that implies, it's pretty obvious).                                                                                                                                                                   So the predominant theme in this anime is coming to terms with family and loss. The MC used to be a fighter and his family would worry about him coming home alive and well and now the roles are reversed as he takes on a guardian figure for the children and they do the fighting with some pretty grim world realities based on their power source. The show starts off pretty slow, allowing you to pick up things about the setting just by observation, a hope I have for the show is that it is 24 episodes as if they take too long doing world building something later down the line will suffer either character relationships or surged plot that seems abrupt. It does start out with what appears to be a future part of the story that promises lots of action and development almost as if it's saying "you'll get your action, but first let me set up a world for you to care about"                                                                                                                                                                                                           A quick final things I like in this show, it has fan-service but it's not OTT, the kids are cute in a "P L E D G E  - T O - P R O T E C T" kind of way and I'm sure they'll grow on me as the series progresses.
   
   The music is calming and has good tempo relative to the events and the world seems to have a lot of possible detail that gets gradually shown. The animation is pleasing enough to the eye and once we get the battle sequences with them translucent wings I imagine we're in for an aesthetic treat. And of course there's an ogre in a maid costume who seems to want to eat the MC in a sexually indicative way but that's another matter.  High hopes for this show, watch out for pacing and feels.     

And as always, 
Thanks for reading :)
Russ

All images © Lantis , Kadowkawa and Satelight, used under fair use for the purpose of review.




P.S The show also has a non trap Ferris 

               

Haruhi Marathon!!! End of exams and a recap from England's number one Self proclaimed not a weeb, weeb

So this article will be made in a few sections so feel free to skip to whatever section you're actually interested in reading.

Blog Recap

So I decided to go back and read all my old blog posts to discern how my tastes may or may not have changed and my actual writing is now compared to then. What did I learn? Well my blog sucks or used to anyway, the articles were sort of short compared to what I feel like I am capable of writing now though this just could be so people are not bored with huge chunks of text and I actually gave this blog very little time and effort. Yeah there was like a bit of context and some opinions and full of pictures but when I started I didn't really think I'd do much with it and I haven't to be honest. After getting my new keyboard I realised how much I actually enjoyed writing for this blog and even wrote something while I should have been studying for exams. Anyway I'm going to overhaul this blog, redesign it to something a bit more plain, simple and easy to read and have my articles cover a little more variety rather than just impressions and opinions and put  a bit more time and thought into
them.

TL;DR My older articles were pretty poor and I am going to put more effort into my new content even if there's not many or even no people reading this.

End of exams

This will be a lot shorter than the last wall of text but hey I learned how to ramble from the best, a kind of person who you can be on the phone with for 30 mins and only say hello, yes, ok and see you and that would be my only input into the conversation and it would still last that long but I digress.
I have finished my first semester of University exams and it has been an experience to say the least, by regularly updating my blog I'm going to hope to learn how to manage my time better to plan better for the next semester as well as balancing all the things I'm doing in life.
Didn't I say this wouldn't be a long section?

TL;DR EXAMS ARE OVER TIME TO PARTY. WATCH ANIME, GET FAT AND WRITE ON THE INTERNET

Haruhi Marathon!!!
Yeah that deserves three exclamation marks right? right? okay maybe just one.
So to celebrate end of exams and because I've been neglecting anime a little bit since moving for University I'm going to marathon all the  Haruhi content then maybe write a little something about it. Why Haruhi even when I've already watched it all?

1.  It is an anime classic 
2. I hope to be moved my more Yuki feels after discovering her song Yasashii Boukyaku (Tender Oblivion) from the credits of the film (It sort of gives a bit more insight into her character especially after endless eight and the film)
3. Gotta weeb out on something even though I'm not a weeb.

Wow I actually made a small-ish section, nice.

Sauce on picture

Well that's all for now thanks for reading!

Have a nice day (If you want)

Russ :)

EDIT: This edit is to inform that I've edited the Date a live article as it seems to be the most popular with a bit of extra content. Guess I can just improve my old articles as well as making the new ones of a better quality

Also changed the colour scheme to make it more easy to read

Squid Teacher Assassin anime!

So it's been a while since I last made a post cause of lack of motivation, exams, new life at university and other stuff that had a higher priority, but recently (today actually) I bought a mechanical keyboard and I'm just looking for an excuse to type with it so here I am writing to YOU!

TLDR; New keyboard =  Surge of willpower to write (Corsair K65 w/cherry reds)

With that out the way this post will be a little different as it will be a first impressions review then as it continues to come out I'll update it with how the series is going, that way If it gets better worse or anything else happens I can add it here, also it gives me something to come back to if I don't know what I want to write about, and when it's all over I can add a conclusion too (as well as a season 2 FUNimation plz)


So what's this anime I hear you cry?! Well to put it simply it's an anime about a class of "bad" students who have the job of assassinating an alien squid who can move at a max speed of Mach 20 (around 15,000 mph) who is also their teacher (and a bloody good one at that too). Ansatsu Kyoushitsu or "Assassination Classroom" starts off with the class getting ready to kill him (with air-softing guns with anti alien ammo) as he dodges them all while casually taking the class register, the show then explains that he blew up the part of the moon (somehow) and that he will destroy the Earth in a year, but until then he will teach this class of lower achieving students until then (for reasons I imagine that will be explained in the plot). The anime is shown with one of the students in the class as the main focus who serves as the Intel gatherer, observing the very bubbly and seemingly random and well travelled teacher to find a weakness (it took me quite a lot of time to realise he was a boy fucking Japan with their traps and reverse traps).

After only watching the first two episodes this is definitely one to keep a close eye on throughout this season maybe even best of this season so far, personally Winter 2015 is a bit of a slow season (roll on Spring 2015 that has Nisekoi season 2 and Oregairu/My romantic comedy is wrong as expected season 2) this and Absolute Duo are the shining lights in this season. It's one of those animes that seem to go quick but you feel satisfied and want more after to see the next one just to see the next thing that happens, The teacher is really inspiring in the way he teaches and looks out for the students while mainlining a slight boastfulness that they won't be able to kill him. In every episode he seems to pop to new countries and gathers exotic foods during breaks and the class try to devise some way of killing him while bonding as a group.

After watching the first two episodes I read that there was an OVA that aired before this became a TV series so I watched that as I was hungry for more of this series and it was just as good as the TV series even if the art style was a little different, (MC still reverse trapping over here).

So for a short impressions conclusion I like this show (a lot) and would recommend it (and already have) to anyone reading this. It's a anime you can feel happy to watch as the class of "bad" students bond in their goal of killing their teacher who also supports and encourages these students who are shunned in their school for being poor achievers in a prestigious school and you can feel happy as they overcome whatever was troubling them. The anime has an interesting premise and is definitely something that's a little bit different to watch, I mean I'm intently watching it and I generally stick to romance shit. .... I thought this was a conclusion but I seem to be rambling

Still come back later to see this post updated if you liked it :)

Here's  a picture of the teacher too

And as always
Have a nice day

Russ :^)

Edit 1: Pretty sure Nagisa (the MC's name) is a girls name. He sounds like one too, and the voice acting for the teacher is pretty great too, I mean it's no Crispin Freemans Kyon but it suits it well.

The Comic Artist And His Assistants (Mangaka-san to Assistant-san) Thoughts in retrospect

Well it's been a pretty unpleasant exam period but hey that's over now so back to doing things I enjoy!
So now that the Spring Season 2014 is in it's closing stages the next posts will be about those ones mainly.
So to start off with we have Mangaka-san to Assistant-san.

So the main character is a manga artist it's about the life of him and his (3) assistants and editor. He is devoted to his work and many times stays up for multiple nights to finish his manuscripts, that being said I'd say hes also equally devoted to women's pants. Yeah he's one of those characters, but that aside I still quite liked this anime cause of it's humor and how he gets shot down by everyone..... all the time
Constantly.

As far as the "story" goes there is no main over arching plot as each episode is split into around 3 scenes (similar to GJ BU!) that are centered around slice of that days events ends with a (mainly exasperated) quote from one of the characters and is a nice way of closing each one.
The characters are enjoyable if slightly generic but all have interesting developments or history flashbacks apart from her....

Don't get me wrong shes a nice enough copy pasted moe blob but I don't recall any development of her at all apart from a bunny outfit which I wouldn't really call plot development, though I guess it's "plot" development. I honestly think a frilly fluffy animal could have taken her place and it wouldn't make a big difference to the series.


To recover from that (slight) tangent this is about Aito the main character. While watching this show I found his extent of being a pervert both funny and harmless but at the same time rather eye brow raising, there are a few times when even I was slightly WTF. *Cough* elevator scene *Cough*
Still those things aside I still find him both funny and an appropriate main character for this series as someone more normal would probably be either boring or so cliche harem it could be on par with Shuffle.
Still there's a TSUNnami of characters lot of characters in this series who are tsundere though shown in different ways.

Like this one...

Or this one....







A wave of them
Or her (kinda)




With episodes only 15 minutes long this has been a nice watch if you don't have lots of time to spare as they are short and you can jump back into the world whenever as there's nothing of note going on, just a dose of situational comedy and cute things. I was sort of surprised with the character that got the most story development nearer the end but found it quite fitting as normally the first girl in a series gets all the romance driven plot but it was fairly appropriate for her not too.
But hey, it's funny short and was one of the releases I was always happy to see having been subbed, I've really enjoyed it and who knows you might too!
Should you watch Mangaka-san to Assistant-san?
Yes totally, unless all the shouting about panties makes you think wtf is this guy doing then I guess not.
Okay the tsunnami pun was bad

Thanks for reading and have a nice day.
Russ


**TL NOTE**(Tsun meaning cold personality type) (nami meaning wave) (Tsunami is a large harbor wave) so TSUNnami meaning wave of cold characters

On hold till Middle Of June

So I have exams so the blog is on hold for now untill around 20th June
Have a nice day!
Russ

League of Legends Rito Disclaimer

So I play League of Legends and like a lot of people who play I've probably spent a bit too much time on it for how long I've owned the game. But hey I'd like to think I'm fairly experienced at League so here's a slightly serious disclaimer Rito should make to the buttons to warn people of what they are getting into:
Match me with teammates: ***WARNING*** You may experience the following during play:

1. Flamming premades
2. Apparent Diamond/Platinum Smurfs
3. Afks/Feeders
4. Role Playing Jungle Clans
5. People copying things they see in streams/youtube and feeding, [1] [2] [3]
6. Junglers who stay in the jungle exclusively
7. Insta-locking
8. People who "won't/cant" support
9. Asshole adc's
10. People who troll to punish trolls
11. A complete loss of the outdoors
12. 100% Self Life Steal 
13. "I only lost cause you didn't gank"
14. OMG THIS JUNGLER IS NOOB HE DIDN'T GIVE ME BLUE
15. OMG THIS MIDLANER IS NOOB HE LOST THE BLUE
16. Duo-Top Laners
17. Nidalee Support
18. People who want to surrender to early
19. People who won't surrender a clearly lost game
20. People who take wraiths after an ace
21. Teemo
22. X is a noob champion
23. "This lag....."
24. People who flash in the spawn
25. A 100% rise in blood pressure and irritability
26. Actual Server Lag [EUW]
27. French Summoners (Just Kidding ^.^)
28. AP riven
29. "OMFG NO SS"
30. Reported

I will invite my own teammates: ***WARNING*** You may experience the following during play:

1. Irritation and flamming premade syndrome
2. People mad because you're only ganking for your premade
3. People mad cause you're stopping the surrender vote
4. People mad cause you're bringing your bronze friend into a Gold ranked game
5. People mad cause you're pushing bot when they're taking mid inhibitor

Oh yeah and 

1.  Ranked League Games

But All that aside League is a fun game that I would recommend trying at least.
[Here's a link if you want to sign up to League]

Average Day In a Draft Que

Have a nice day summoners
Russ

Gj-Bu Season 2!!! EDIT: OVA

So a little late on this but hey the first series was really great so I'm just really glad that they are making a season 2!!! The official website for your reference (click me).
But yeah season 2, I've read some of the light novel chapters here and there but not all of it, that being said I didn't expect a season 2 because of how the first season ends, I was sad to see it go but it seemed appropriate due to the ending (which I won't spoil). But then the website talks about a "continuation" of the series which technically doesn't mean season 2. but we can all hope!!!
If you have no idea what Gj-Bu is it's an anime based off the light novel series of the same name, the light novels (click here for a look at vol 1) are split into chapters that are shorts about events that happen in the club, it's defiantly a light refreshing anime to watch as there's no real story to it just a lot of cute entertaining antics. It's sort of a harem but not really a harem as it's more focused on comedy (and hair brushing, and twirling) with everyone sort of being Rei-cloney at times.

It's got a cutesy look going on about it and is worth a watch If you're looking for something pretty easygoing, you can watch it in between weekly release episodes of other series' as it's just differing things that happen in the club, I wouldn't recommend this if the anime you watch has to have fighting/action/story as it is a slice of life comedy that has slight fringes of romance here and there.

Have a Gj-day
Russ






So turns out its a 45 min OVA not a film....
Oooops
Defiantly worth a watch