https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-what-were-2015s-best-broadcast-anime/ Anime News & More! Fri, 08 Jan 2016 03:58:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-what-were-2015s-best-broadcast-anime/comment-page-1/#comment-186590 Fri, 08 Jan 2016 03:58:41 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=35895#comment-186590 I’ve still only watched 7 out of 12 episodes of Gakkou Gurashi, but the very fact that I still haven’t finished it is evidence of my opinion of it. As much as it’s cute, it also feels very forced. A lot of the directorial decisions in the show feel like the first priority is artificially extending the intrigue instead of making characterization or the narrative the first priority.

]]> https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-what-were-2015s-best-broadcast-anime/comment-page-1/#comment-186587 Thu, 07 Jan 2016 19:03:00 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=35895#comment-186587 Surprised that School-Live! (???????! Gakk? Gurashi! didn’t make your list. Guess I will have to take a look at the second season of Gatchman Crowds. The failure of first season’s final episode turned me off a bit.

]]> https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-what-were-2015s-best-broadcast-anime/comment-page-1/#comment-186564 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:13:58 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=35895#comment-186564 I arrived at the same thematic pairing with Insight & YKA; both approaching the same issue, the evil of riding the cultural zeitgeist, but from different angles (national-political and cultural, respectively). Their protagonists struggle to interrupt the runaway cycle.

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