Now that the season's pretty much over, we can all agree on this.

Where lives Makoto. I want to marry her.
I've got a nice garden, so she can grow her vegetables, i've got cats, nice hause in a countryside. It would be perfect.

>>143401174
Winter: Rakugo
Spring: Flying Witch

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>>143401174
Summer: Amanchu
Fall (from what's known/announced so far): either Euphonium 2, 3-gatsu or Brave Witches

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>>143401269
>Rakugo
I'm getting really sick of this meme.

>>143401174
Pandora was fucking awful what the hell
Not every show with cute girls in it is automatically AOTS

>>143401284

Summer will certainly be Amanchu or New Game. I hope Amanchu isn't a disappointing adaptation. I know New Game won't be disappointing as it's Doga Kobo.

>>143401319
Maybe go watch Rakugo so you can understand the meme.

Winter Rakugo
Spring Macross Delta.

>>143401330

It was cute and heartwarming as fuck in a terrible season. Its only real drawback was QUALITY.

>Not every show with cute girls in it is automatically AOTS

True, but AOTS is automatically a show with cute girls in it.

>>143401174
I actually agree with this.

>>143401174
>Flying Witch
>Literally nothing happens: The anime
>Still entertaining as fuck
How is this even possible

KonoSuba
Concrete Revolutio S2

>>143401359
I tried. It bored me to death.

>>143401408

Skilled, subtle production. The anime manages to say a lot through carefully crafted depictions of the mundane.

>>143401408
Magic.

>>143401408
I ask this myself every episode.

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Winter was so shit I actually had to bring up the chart of shows just to remember which ones were actually halfway decent, and upon doing so, I cannot even bring myself to pick an AOTS from among them, because all of the shows I enjoyed were truly mediocre at best, especially when compared to Spring.

>>143401383
>It was cute and heartwarming
pls stop

>>143401771

Winter 2016 was the worst season in recent memory by a long shot. The previous two winters were also terrible, but at least 2015 had the second cour of Shirobako and 2014 had Mikakunin.

>>143401319
>opinions are memes
Try therapy.

>>143401844

Why? Those are objectively good things.

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>>143401936
Many people on 4chan believe meme means "things I don't like", for some reason.

>>143401174
>muh all female cast shows are what define anime best

Fucking Christ. Look, anime girls get me hard but that doesn't give everything a pass.

>>143401277
This is AOTS runner-up.

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>>143402058
Neither of those shows have all-female casts.

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>>143401174

>>143401174

Spring was Tanaka-kun, come on.

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>>143402210

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>>143402245

2013 was such a great fucking year.

>>143402058
>all female cast
How about watching them before you come here and post?
>>143402210
2015 was a bad year.

>>143402210
>>143402245
>>143402284
why you always baiting?

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>>143402229
Tanaka-kun was special. I'm going to miss it a lot.

>>143402288
2014 was a lot worse (Shirobako didn't get really good until the second cour).
>in b4 someone says an anime that looks like I drew it with my asshole while coming down off heroin was good

>>143402210
These all look alike.

>>143402210
>>143402245
>>143402284
COMFY COMFY COMFY
THAT IS ALL

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>>143402381

Troll thread, move along.

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>>143401174
WHY /a/ has a bias of always choosing slice of life shows? I'm not even going to mention that they all usually have at least 3 cute girls on the main cast, I'm just asking why it is always slice of life.

>>143402449

Multi-episode anime plots are nearly universally shit. Slice of life shows avoid this pitfall altogether by replacing multi-episode anime plots with episodic miniplots which are a lot easier to produce without leading to Charlotte or Glasslip-level plot fuckups. This is why the slice of life genre is the most consistently excellent anime genre.

>>143402245
>>143402210
Which year was Shirobako? Some fag changed it, I remember seeing it on one of these.

>>143402546
Looks like someone is using an opinion as it was a fact.

The only thing right is the it is easier to writte if you barely have any continuity or ongoing story/character development.

>>143402449
Well anon it goes like this:
If it has action it's either shonenshit or edgy seinen shit, both of which are looked down upon by elitist fags.
If it has fantasy or mystery it is immediately going to be generic or a trainwreck.
SOL are the safe bet all in all since they don't have an overarching plot and are episodic so the show wouldn't get ruined midway by some plottwist or some bullshit that would get anons assblasted.

>>143402449
SoL anime don't try and fail
Other genres sometimes try very hard and fail

/a/ chooses the one that it most relates to

>>143402449
It's a meme. Some of these opinions are legitimate, NNB was probably the most popular anime of its season. But Pandora? There were only like fifty people on /a/ watching that show.

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They're waiting for you.

>>143401408
It was filled with little cock teases

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I sincerely hope this is a bait thread because this taste, it's just so much fucking shit. Besides hibike none of the shows posted are even worth watching.
>not konosuba for winter
>not macross delta for spring
fuck off

>>143401174
>Pandora
That shit was disapointing as fuck.

>>143402739
Flying Witch was better than macross though

>>143402748
it's bait

either that or OP really has shitty taste

>>143402806
It was boring. I dropped after six episodes because fucking nothing happened. Macross had a solid plot, a solid cast, great music, and great dogfights. Nothing else really came close.

>>143402622
>The only thing right is the it is easier to writte if you barely have any continuity or ongoing story/character development.
But SoLs rely on continuity. The characters and their environment have to be consistent, and if they do change, they show their work. Otherwise there's no illusion of life to be sliced.

>>143402449
Most shows that try to have some actual plot/design to them fail enragingly badly. For example Mayoiga , Kiznaiver and Kabaneri this season, also Haifuri turning out way less exciting than they could have been. Hype originals are when /a/ is at its best no doubt, but originals also often suck dick like they did this season. I've sat through at least 40 seasons of being let down over and over and over and over and over again in such fashion; often by the end of a season the shows that I actually like still incidentally are all moe SoL/comedies because they do not have plots to botch or asses to pull. Their simplicity makes them immune to the same fucking pitfalls fucking talentless, ball-less nips never seem to learn from.

That is not to say all SoL/moe is automatic gold; there definitely is a hierarchy to them and they definitely can be badly done too. For example Kitakubu, Acchi Kocchi, A-channel etc? Ok shows, but not remotely as good as Non Non or Yuyushiki. Kinmoza would also be a very inferior show if it wasn't for Karen existing (to me at least). Even so none of these shows have any of the shit that starts to drive you fucking nuts about anime. So I still like all those shows more than any of the garbage originals and forgettable harem-magic-school LNs we usually get.

That is also not to say "all SoL are automatic win" is always right, for example Ping Pong, Jinrui and Shirobako easily beat any SoLs airing those seasons. It's just most of the time promising shows fall to shit while SoLs truck on as consistently great every week. This season is a stark example of that with so much squandered potential. Even Luluco which seemed great for most of the season also shit the bed for a bit with a couple eps wasted on meta Trigger rehash.

Winter: Osomatsu-san
Spring: Super Lovers

>>143402449
They don't want to look like /v/ or reddit by liking flawed but really enjoyable anime, and so go for the one that is flawless because it has no substance at all to be flawed.

>>143401447
Breaking news: Pleb with shit taste bored by best anime of the year. Details at 11.

>>143402582

Shirobako aired during Fall 2014 and Winter 2015. Its second cour was much better than its first cour. Shirobako is 2014 AOTY, yet not Fall 2014 AOTS because of this, since we traditionally categorize anime here by the year they began airing in.

>>143403068
>man was bored by a boring show. more news at 11
seriously though, slice of life is so boring. the reason I watch anime is to ESCAPE this daily slog, not to emulate it.

>>143402715
Who the fuck places a noose right above a bed?

>>143402367
>>143402959

>in after someone says an anime that looks like I drew it with my asshole while coming down off heroin was good

>Most shows that try to have some actual plot/design to them fail enragingly badly. For example Mayoiga , Kiznaiver and Kabaneri this season
Re:Zero too.

>>143402367
ping pong was good

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I thought AOTS was Luluco. What happened, /a/?

>>143403189
Shorts can't be AOTS unless they're at least half-length.

>>143403189
Apparently people were let down by the filler season. A shame though, every single episode after that was gold.

>>143403108
>seriously though, slice of life is so boring. the reason I watch anime is to ESCAPE this daily slog, not to emulate it.
Are you 12yo?
Is action shit the only thing that can entertain you?
Grow up

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>>143402959
>actual plot
>Mayoiga
I know haters like to shit on Flying Witch for "nothing happening," but Mayoiga was literally nothing happened: the anime.

>>143402959
But Haifuri never tried to have a serious plot.

>>143403189
Meme studios get ignored.

>>143402995
All responses that I got on this thread seems to point that you are right.

People go for what play safe with the storyline and the least ambitious shows.

I can see why someone might like it.

But in my opinion looks like people are accepting mediocrity because they fear to br desapointed with some fault that a show might have. I wouldn't really be able to live with that weird standart, but it is again, just my opinion and is fine for you too guys to don't think the same. The show about the whitches was actually pretty good on the art direction and color palette too tho.

I wonder what profissional critics on Japan say, and if their opinion os similar or different from most of /a/.

>>143403316
First 2-3 eps it was one of the most hype shows on /a/. After hamsters though interest dropped off fast. It wasn't a bad show, just felt like a bit of a bait and switch and/or the staff wasn't 100% positive what kind of show they wanted it to be.

>>143403383
>SoL
>not ambitious
You try making something with no plot entertaining. It's harder than you think, yet sometimes Japan manages to get it done.

>>143403276
>actual adults whatch cute girls doing cute things

Kek only if it is on 3d.

>>143403276
No, fuck you. I really don't enjoy life and I wish it was more exciting. I may be immature for feeling like that, but it's the way I am. I get it, most people would think an ideal life one of worldly success and having a nice wife and family to live a peaceful life with. But that just doesn't appeal to me, and watching a show about people just doing everyday tasks is boring as fuck.

Maybe for some people here, they hate their life because they wanted something out of this life that they couldn't get because they were denied it, but I hate my life because what I want doesn't exist in this world at all.

>>143403189
It is for some people. People have different tastes. Mayoiga was actually some peoples anime of the season. For some it was BnHA, or that gay ass show about the spies that all look the same.

>>143403432
Most of western animation is self contained episodes mate.

As the others said, it is harder and more complex to have a story grow and develop with the plot that reach a lot foi episodes. One mistake and people will bitch about it.

>>143403432
It isn't entertaining, unless you find everyday antic entertaining, in which case you have it's fucking nothing: the taste

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>>143403445
Ok kid go watch Naruto or something, that's up your alley.

>>143401174
Looks good OP.

>>143403445
>what I want doesn't exist in this world at all
Yeah I know buddy, but maybe one day they will genetically engineer cat girls

>>143403445
You're not special for feeling that way, anon. Being dissatisfied with your life doesn't preclude you from watching good anime.

>>143403432
This. Mikakunin was so fucking shit because they didn't know how to make something out of nothing, the same goes to the first half of Lucky Star and Tamayura.

>>143403532
It's just as difficult to make any single episode as emotionally powerful as, say, episodes 4 and 10 of either season of Non Non Biyori, as it is to skillfully craft a long plot.

>>143403539
he's gay not retarded

>>143403469
>Mayoiga was actually some people's anime of the season

As long as those people stay far away from me, that's fine.

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Check it out party peeps, real AOTS coming through.

Where the fuck are the last two episodes of witch?

>>143403616
B-b-but it doesn't have anime eyes!!!

>>143403445
tfw Rakugo wasn't SOL in the first place and anon dumped his shitty shit on the floor for no reason

>>143403535
SoLs aren't remotely like your actual every day experience unless you are a teenage Japanese girl. Or actually no, if you are a teenage Japanese girl your day to day life is probably nothing at all like YuruYuri or some such.

>>143402229
Yeah it was

>>143403619
they have been out anon I watched them Saturday

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>>143403616
>Rakugo
>Konosuba
>Sakamoto
>Tonkatsu DJ

How does DEEN do it?

>>143403616

Oily-san is my wife.

>>143403619
On HS.
>in b4 he fell for the fansubs are better meme

Just because it's fucking SoL and CGDCT doesn't automatically make it AOTS nor AOTY retards.

>>143403726
They take source material good enough that even they can't fuck it up?

>>143403445
>life can't be exciting unless there are dragons and shit flying around
What a sad mentality.

>>143403770
>Pandora
>SoL
>Flying Witch (one of its main characters is male)
>CGDCT

>>143401174
>hipster garbage no one watched
>flying turd
>AOTS
Tips fedora

>>143403770
Nobody said it was. There are plenty of SoL and cute girl shows that are shit. Shit, there was some even this season.

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>>143402449
/a/ for the most part is home to some very damaged individuals who use anime as a form of escapism. SoL provides a sense of healing and lets people forget about reality for a short while; meaning in retrospect the memories associated with said show are almost always positive.

>>143403823
>there was some even this season.
Good thing it was a short

>>143403445
>I hate my life because what I want doesn't exist in this world at all
There are a lot of gay orgies anon you just have to go look for them

>>143403108
That's funny. Slice of life is precisely for escapism.

>>143403606
What's your address anon?

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That sounds about right, though Rakugo and Anne Happy also deserve high spots

>>143403875
I also like them because plot focused anime can get really shitty. Taking it easy never fails in that regard.

>>143401771
>Winter was so shit
>In a season where there's a kyoani show in it

>>143403898
123 Fake St
Anytown, USA 45678

>>143403093
Fuck off, cancer. Shirobako isn't any year's AOTY. Seek help.

>>143403539
>>143403569
>>143403573
>>143403680
>>143403796
look, I get it's immature, but I can't help the fact that most things aren't interesting to me. Probably because I'm an autist and most things in life that are supposed to be interesting are interesting because they involve people. Other people don't interest me.

>>143403589
Wait, now if you are talking about how an episode make you FEEL you are using the most subjective argument possible. People feel different things over the small things.

But as I said, I'm fine with people that don't share my taste different from a lot of people on this board. I'm more of the type that can stand a boring charpter of a book if the entire book pay off at the end.

holy fuck moefags everywhere

>>143403982
You're still talking like you're some special snowflake.

>>143403888
>i'm gay because I'm not interested by little girls doing absolutely nothing
I prefer to watch developed girl fighting

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>>143401174
>Koukaku no Pandora
>good

No. It was terrible. And I think most of /a/ agrees.

Name one "serious and mature" anime that was better than random above average SoL in the last few years.
Protip: you can't. Most of the anime "writers" just can't into plot and serious themes

>>143403982
do you by chance make drawings and comics of an original sonic the hedgehog character?

>>143404009
>>>/v/
You don't belong here

>>143404022
>You're still talking like you're some special snowflake
I'm not trying to be a special fucking snowflake, I'm just trying to explain why the shows you guys posted aren't interesting to me. If anything I'm not very special because most people would tend to be more interested in action shows than SOLs anyway.

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>>143403982
Why the fuck are you even here if you don't like people?

>>143404049
This
If you want a good plot read a book or something. Anime is best when the focus is cute girls and taking it easy.

>>143404069
Thank god

>>143404049
Who said anything about "serious and mature"?

Geez man, people can not enjoy a genre very much, you are sperging.

>>143404056
>>143404092
Oh great, now i'm edgy apparently because I can't into relationships and other people. I never said I didn't like other people, but people just aren't that interesting to me if they aren't doing something interesting.

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>>143403875
Is that what this place is about? Then why am i even here for? Everyone here is a fucking retard.

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>>143404160
Nobody called you edgy. You are not edgy at all. We are just mocking you for being such a fucking weirdo.

>>143404034
God, i loved those dorks, wish the show had more budget, a lot of QUALITY in some eps.

>>143404160
Answer my question. Do you have an original sonic character?

>>143403961
Hope you enjoy the pizza i'm sending you, faggot

>>143404160
Seious question, how old are you?

>>143401174
I haven't read the thread but I'm alredy disgusted at all the /V/ posts disagreeing with OP.

Fuck the state of this board.

>>143404225
>We are just mocking you for being such a fucking weirdo.
Even here I'm a reject, outcast, and laughing stock
>>143404274
No, of course not

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>>143401174
This is correct, however for a more objective consensus about the AOTS we must contemplate another option.

I suggest Sansha Sanyou or Anne Happy, or even for a riskier change maybe Tanaka-Kun.

Other options are of course, invalid.

http://www.strawpoll.me/10606961

not even going to give a (You) to the shitty bait above me

>>143404362
Same

>>143404290
I'm turning 27 in december

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>>143404049
Define "better".
Seriously, because without a definition and a clear view of who is the judge this doesn't make sense. I could say an anime that I like because I find it hilarious for example, and you could just say "its not better because I don't like it".

And also what I said here still stands >>143404141 I don't care if it is "serious or mature" or whatever buzzword you have to mock people who don't do your favorite gente.

I only care about what entertain me and makes me have more fun.

And as I said on previous posts, I'm mature enough to accept that not everyone might enjoy the same things or have the same experiences while whatching something, and so should you.

>>143404353
Are you the gay that made all the polls for that stupid Mayoiga website? The one filled with black penises?

>>143404353
>tanaka-kun
>considering fujo/hetshit in the first place

What THE fuck.

>>143404328
>Even here

What are you talking about? You think this place have accounts where we can see your post history?

>>143403736
Did they come out since friday?

>>143403810
>flying turd XD
hows about you fucking end your shit life already

>>143404391
I'm sorry

>>143404353
They're all SoL

>>143404421
you know what I mean

>>143404391
I feel really bad for you dude. Could you maybe leave though? I mean you kind of bring down the mood and nobody wants you here.

>>143404445
Don't be. Everybody hates 14 year old teenagers like you.

>>143404328
You are pretty lame.

>>143404492
No thanks, I don't have anywhere else to go, and sometimes we have decent threads.

This isn't one of them though.

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>>143404420
It's fundamental to give value to the efforts of good characters, to set the show into the right way.


>>143404470
Yes anon, at least you get that correctly.

>>143401174
Is there anything more transparently crossboard/normalfag/summerfag than unironically disliking SoL?

>>143401174
>Shows with less than 50 unique posters per thread
>we can all agree on this.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, nicely memed.

>>143404534
>the literal autist grandpa thinks his opinion on what constitutes a good thread means anything

>>143404534
Maybe you can find what you are looking for at the bottom of a bottle of drain cleaner?

>>143404541
You look insecure.

>>143401440
Konosuba was fun and my dick liked it a lot, but AotS? Not even close.

>>143403445
>hates Rakugo
>only watches action/shonen shit because "boohoo life's unfair"
jesus christ how can one person have such shit taste? It really is summer.

>>143404593
you look crossboard/normalfag/summerfag

>>143403897
>That's funny. Slice of life is precisely for escapism.
>escapism
>not for selling figs

>>143404541
You can't let them ruin your hugbox, this is the only place that you have people who share your taste and you should protect it from outsiders or people who share different subjective opinions. Because otherwise it would be new and scary.

>>143404593
Hit the nail on the head I'm guessing.

>>143401174
But Luluco was aots

>>143404662
>/a/
>a hugbox
that's a funny joke

90% of the problem on /a/ would be solved if everyone on this thread would just die.

>>143403445
tl;dr
But can you kill yourself please?

BnHA was my AotS. You guys come across as pedos.

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>>143404558
Yet those threads were the most civilized, the amount of shitposting was minimal, if not non-existent, and of course it's the most logical thing not counting the opinion of anon from other boards, after all, this is /a/'s AOTS; not /co/, not /v/, etc.

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Reminder that anyone who believed NNB was aoty should be euthanized.

>>143404722
No

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>>143404009

>>143404621
Because we share different views on which genre we enjoy? Can you tell me who is the judge and who put him in charge? And under which autority or argument? Poor /a/non most of your taste and what is discussed here is not really better than what you see as normalfag or whatever.

>>143404716
Do you really think you are 90% of the problem?

>>143404738
The first season was but that year was especially bad.

>>143404753
Yeah cool nice autism now fuck off

>>143401174
Nooooooooooooooope

Spring: Rakugo
Summer: Luluco

Pandora was decent but it wasn't even near AOTS. Flying witch bored the fuck out of me, poor man's Tanaka-kun

Fuck off /v/ FUCK OFF

>>143401174
Kabaneri, depending on if this last episode is as based as the preview makes it seem.

>>143404716
t. the butthurt 27 year old autist with shit taste
ow the edge

>>143404712
Its literally a place where people come for escapism and to find people who share their taste, that most places don't like.

The fact that we can call each other a faggot don't change this, you can see by how the board react to what he see as an "outsider". There is something that might be preserved and I ask why?

>>143404791
>Luluco
13 episodes of Trigger jacking off in the mirror

>>143404836
Really anon? SnK on trains with a final fantasy villain was your AOTS? Is that all you watched?

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>>143404788

>>143404750
outdated for years
kinda wish I had saved the one someone did a couple years ago, though if trends continued, /a/ should be 25-30 and mostly male now

>>143404580
>>143404569
Aren't you the ones calling him edgy because he doesn't like SoL?

>>143403445
What are your favorite shows this season?

>>143404791
>josei
>AOTS
>on /a/

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>>143404791
Shorts can only take honorable mention anon, because it's necessary to take into account that the show wouldn't be the same if given the normal amount of time on air, could be worse, could be better; doesn't matter, they aren't competing in equal terms.

>>143404846
May I ask why a subhuman ESL crossboarding summerfag thinks I'd give him the time of day let alone humour his asinine opinions?

>>143404838
I'm not that guy, stop being so paranoid. You could both die together for all i care.

>>143404902
Nobody called him edgy. Jesus do you know what that even means? Are you going by /b/'s usage?

>>143404887
Literally case and point. Congratulations.

>>143404895
>things /a/ likes
>moe
This part is not outdated. Take a look at the catalog at any given moment. Make a mental note of how many of the images contain "moe" stylized girls.

Fuck oof /v/.

>>143404314
>/V/
and I'm disgusted by how unfamiliar you are with this website

has the board really changed that much in the 2 months you've been here?

>>143404904
Boku no Hero Academia, Kabaneri and Macross

>>143404838
It's not me. I don't think your shows are bad, they just aren't enjoyable for me.

>>143404940
Yeah, I misread his post as a response. He just called himself edgy.

>>143401174
>moeshit
>AOTS

no...

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>>143405042
>...

>>143404917
Because you care enough to continue giving me (you).

Because you try really hard to show that you don't care while still continuing.

It yeah, you are right. Who the hell would take a conversation here seriously? This is just interesting and fun. You should look for something fun to do.

not me>>143405006
>>143404904
Macross, that's basically it

Cute girls, great songs, and space top gun

everything else managed to be a disappointment even when I expected nothing from them.

>>143405082
yeah nice one man still waiting for you to blow your brains out

>>143405059
>anime meme image
0/10

>>143401341
Kono Bijutsubu is much better

>>143404916
Short as it may be, it was still better than all the other anime this season. I looked forwards to every single episode, and that gainax ending was fucking perfect. I guess my vote goes to Sakamoto Desu Ga if the best anime this season is ruled out for being too short.

>>143405139
>romcom shit
>better
"no"

>>143403189
It's AOTS for me

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>>143405139
>two of four main characters are male

Summer: Amaama to Inazuma
Fall: Natsume 5 or Hibike 2

>not a single person has called Re:Zero AOTS yet

I am so fucking proud of you right now, /a/. Bra-fucking-vo.

Also, if you could choose a single cancerous word to be an autoban on /a/, what would it be and why is it "moeshit?"

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>>143403616
excellent taste

>>143405281
it would be probably have to be "shit"

then people would have to actually explain why a show is bad instead of resorting to buzzwords

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>>143405132
Clearly you're not from here, from the bottom of my heart I ask you to please leave. Anons get enough frantic between themselves to deal with someone from reddit, tumblr, or wherever you came from.

>>143405281
Because it clearly shows the mentality of an outsider, and the problem isn't that they aren't regulars from the board, but the fact that they expect others to deal with their whining and their shitposting.

>>143405311
We could still call anything remotely deep "pretentious," anything with action "for /v/" and anything cute "for pedos."

>>143405281
RE:Zero is popular with the younger people I think. My little brother and his friends love it.

>>143405311
What the fuck? You may as well ban bad or awful or any general derogatory adjective you total retard.

>>143405120
Seriously tho, I work with the study of human behavior and the creation of groups (and how they lrotect thwir territory and create boundaries) and I always found /a/ elitism something very interesting to analize. As I said right there on the beggining >>143402449 I just wanted to know why /a/ has such a preference for this particular genre, and I think that I got plenty of good answers here. Again, I have no problem with the genre itself even if it isn't my favorite, because I must admit that even I liked the show with the whitches, but thanks it was interesting.

you can insult me now if you wish.

>>143405378
sorry you don't like being forced to actually come up with an argument

>>143405391
Are you from India or something?

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>>143405391
>and I always found /a/ elitism something very interesting to analize
(Insert something about the word analize and your mum here)

When will /v/ fuck off ofrever?

>>143405427
Prague.

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>>143403957
It was a battle harem LN adaptation though. Godani magic is only so effective.

>>143405448
So when is /a/ becoming subscription based

>>143405391
>I work with the study of human behavior and the creation of groups
>doesn't understand why people like SoLs
The uni you study in must really suck.

>>143405496
>people who only like moe and SQL and never stop complaining about everything would have to pay to subscribe to their board
>while the rest of us with better taste and that can apreciatte more than one genre on the medium get a free board.

Put me in, sounds great.

>>143405371
>popular with the younger people
Action anime usually are.

>>143405281
Re:Zero is entertaining, but not at all AOTS worthy. The premise and setting is generic (which is excusable), and the protag is obnoxious as fuck. Now even if him being obnoxious as fuck is building up to him redeeming himself or some shit which it actually seems to be doing, we still have 12 fucking episodes of MC being an obnoxious little shit

>>143405626
The rules on the job and discipline say that you have always to interview the native, and not put words on their mouths. Its always better when you see people describing their experience.

I could say for example why I liked a show, but I can't say FOR YOU why you liked said show without asking you.

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>>143405391
You're an idiot indeed for stating such an stupid reason to inquire into the collective opinion, you couldn't show a less serious posture about your studies; rethink what you just said.

As for what you want to know, is not that complex. It's elitism indeed, but it's one that simply gathers the roots of the culture of a group and tries to maintain them into a relevant position, in this case the preferable genre and aspects of the show, and other things.

You learn to like these aspects of the culture to coexist in harmony,they aren't necessary your favorites, but it's expected from people to rationalize the intention.
So whenever someone comes and whines about what /a/ likes, it's basically someone going against the culture, and to make matter worse; in an irrational way.

>tl;dr

People that go against what /a/ is, usually lack appeal in their complaints; showing how irrational and disturbing they are.

>>143405448
When you stop making AOTS threads and putting shows that aren't MAL-tier in there. For some reason seeing people like a show that they don't makes them extremely angry, and I have no idea how you all haven't noticed this happen in every single AOTS thread.

>>143405627
Do you honestly think that people who like SoL and moe don't like other genres? Are you fucking dense? The problem arises when the float-in shits think they're edgy and manly for disliking muh moeshit XD

>>143401174

How many years are you gonna keep making the same bait thread over and over again?

>>143405391

Honestly, I think a lot of people here strongly hype/defend "moe" anime because of a perception that "normalfags" don't like it, and out of a desire to chase "normalfags" away from /a/, thinking they'll leave if they perceive /a/ as a haven for "moefags" and/or "pedos."

/a/ is a very unique anime community which is vastly different from MAL, Reddit, etc., and I think a substantial portion of /a/ would like to keep it that way.

There are, of course, a ton of people on /a/ who sincerely love "moe" anime, as well, but I think many of them exaggerate their love of "moe" anime and "moe" anime shows for the reason described above.

>>143405763
>You're an idiot indeed for stating such an stupid reason to inquire into the collective opinion, you couldn't show a less serious posture about your studies; rethink what you just said.

Nigga, this isn't an acadenic work, its fir fun.


>You learn to like these aspects of the culture to coexist in harmony

This isn't technically conected to me but I believe that you are wrong in this aspect. You don't need to LIKE the aspects of a culture to coexist in harmony, people can have different opinions on a subject and still coexist. It what happens on /a/, wanting it or not. But I know what you are saying, its basically a small scale of what some call "Interethnic conflict", well, without the "ethnic" part at least. You ave how groups created their frontiers and boundaries so they can separate who really is into it and who is out. This is how they delimit themselves and how they react to outsiders to protect their culture.

>>143406053

To elaborate a little on this, the most popular anime outside of /a/ are usually battleshonen. "Moe" anime are pretty much the stylistic opposite to battleshonen anime, so this is why I think it's essentially a meme at this point (and has been for a long time; >>143404750 is a fairly old image) to make it appear as if /a/ is all about the "moe" in order to keep "normalfags" away.

/a/ IS ACTUALLY all about the "moe," just probably not exactly to the degree some make it appear for the purpose of keeping the normies out.

>>143406272
Geez man, I was actually going to compete my last post whith basically what you said right now.

Pretty much it, and you will notice that /a/ is constantly building its own identity in a symbiotic relationship with "nornalfags", this is why they reception of a show or manga becoming mainstream abruptly change how it is received here, /a/ has to reconfigure its own views to acomodate it.

But obviously /a/ is not a single person and there is when coexistence with different ideas or tastes shows up.

Well, this was a great talk mate. Thanks.

>>143401277

This year doesn't have any A-grade waifus yet, but Futaba and dat voice is a B+ and GOTY so far.

>>143406478

The last time I remember /a/ really going apeshit over (as in liking it for the most part) a "normalfag" anime was KLK. That was a while ago. Every now and then /a/ mivehinds with the normies. (I get the impression a lot of the OPM hype was IRC falseflagging)

>>143405281
ReZero was my AOTS but then the last episode of macross was everything I watch macross for and now it has that spot.

>>143406582
That was /v/, not /a/.

>>143406582

Also, now that I think of it, there's no way /a/ would have liked KLK as much as it did if the MC wasn't female and if it didn't have Mako's moe. I guess that's what a battleshonen anime needs to have true /a/-Reddit crossover appeal: a female MC who is moe or has a moe sidekick.

>>143406607

I wouldn't know about /v/ as I don't go there but KLK was pretty well-loved here while it was airing. Hate for it here has grown over time due to its enduring popularity outside of /a/.

>>143404540
Once I couldn't unsee those small creepy pupils this show just wasn't the same anymore

>>143406929
>It's not even about quality anymore you guys just disregard everything else and pick arbitrarily out of the SoL shit that airs every season.
If this was true then Sakura Trick, which was fucking terrible, would have won AOTS instead of Mikakunin, which had a connecting plotline between all of the episodes.

>>143406929
What was your AOTS anon-senpai?

Where is the person that usually posts how many threads each show got? I think the winner for most threads is likely Mayoiga, Haifuri or Re:Zero, all the rest mainly had threads that lasted maybe one day or 2 past airing.

>>143406929

How /a/'s Official and Objective AOTS is chosen:

>put all of the shows with primarily cute, female casts, and without a focus on action, in a pool
>choose the one that sucks the least

It's not necessarily about SoL and it's not arbitrary with regards to quality.

>>143407096
Haifuri didn't have threads during the week.

>>143401174
No.
Winter: Bahamut
Spring: Anne happy.

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>>143401174

nope, Tanaka is better than Flying Witch

>>143407281
Fuck off fujo.

>>143407051
So a show about a dancing loli is better than a show about literal lesbians? What point are you making here?

>>143407052
Still a week left and have yet to decide. There's a lot of good stuff this season definitely not just SoL to pick from

>>143407214
>put all of the shows with primarily cute, female casts, and without a focus on action, in a pool
That's exactly what most SoL just happen to be though, so it's as if they are the same thing. Might be in the minority here but shit that has an immobile or little to no story or meaningful interaction between characters couldn't even be considered good. It's just pandering shit

>>143402210
>>143402245
>>143402284
Proofs that /a/ has shit taste

>>143407377
You need to watch a lot more anime if you can't tell the difference in quality between Mikakunin and Sakura Trick.

>>143403108
You need to be 18+ to post here anon

>>143407446
I can only handle a couple moe yuri bait shows a season so it shouldn't be a surprise I wouldn't know much about something I haven't bothered watching. Just going on what I see from threads

>>143407627
So what you're saying is that you were willingly and knowingly spouting an ignorant, uninformed opinion about a show or shows you didn't even watch?

>>143402245
I actually agree with this one

Winter: Rakugo
Spring: Macross Delta, but Flying Witch a strong second

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figsd*

>>143407096
Mayoiga had nonstop threads most of it's run. Most of them were just gay shipping.

>>143407684
It's more like if a show gives off such an impression to someone at first glance it's difficult to give it a chance rather than just automatically dropping it

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>ctrl+f Concrete Revolutio
>1 result
What a sad state of affairs

>>143407808
No, actually, it's more like you were willingly and knowingly spouting an ignorant, uninformed opinion about a show or shows you didn't even watch.

>>143407377
This. Flying Witch had too much vapidity and the character interactions that they were banking on were bland even for SoL standards. It could have been due to the weak voice acting but the overall package was really forgettable.

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>>143403108
>Rakugo
>slice of life

Drama and slice of life aren't the same thing.

>>143408105
What reason would I have to watch something that I determined to be something I have no interest in and dropped? If you don't like something do you keep doing it even if you can stop at any moment?

>>143407404
>falling for such blatant falseflagging bait

Winter: Konosuba
Spring: The first half of Kuromukuro. If only counting 1-cour series, NetYome.

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Can I ask why /a/ has such a boner for rural settings? Flying Witch is pretty average but you guys seem to praise it just because it's setting is in the sticks. Is it because it emulates escapism much more that normal SoL shows? I lived in the bumfuck of nowhere for a while and it was a dreadful time so it doesn't really appeal to me all that much.

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>>143408586
Tl;dr: desolate places seem appealing to introverts.

>>143408586
/a/ has a boner for iyashikei, not rural settings. It's just that a lot of iyashikei are in rural settings.

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>>143401174
AOTS IS DEFINITELY ANNE HAPPY.
IT GIVES ME A LITTLE HAPPINESS IN THIS SHITTY LIFE. AT LEAST I POSTPONE MY PLANNED SUICIDE THIS SPRING.
THANK YOU SILVER LINK.

AOTS
O
T
S

>>143408586
Humans like trees, animals and time to relax.

Winter:Rakugo
Spring:Anne happy/Joker game

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>>143402381
proof that comfy conquers all without one explosion, fight or massive amounts of cussing. Why is comfy so powerful guys?

>>143406512
Machi is good waifu material

I mean, as long as all you want is a fucking adorable loli that will be embarrassed doing absolutely everything. Which I could not understand anyone not wanting

Also Galko

>Winter
>not KonoSuba
>Spring
Well okay, honestly this was a pretty solid season so anything goes. It's Kuma Miko for me. I don't even give a shit about the ending, I had no connection to any overarching plot. I just treated it like rural Watamote and it delivered hard.

>>143407300
He's got 3 girls lusting over him, it's not Fujo

>>143402546
this. and the fact that over time you get tired of the same shonen and mecha animes over and over again. Its nice to watch something that doesn't rack the brain and cause your adrenaline to overflow

>>143402650
Pandora was terrible. I could barely read the manga, it was so boring with the half assed cyborg yuri ecchi garbage

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>>143409028
>3
Shiraishi, Rino, and whom exactly?

>>143402806
yes it is in some ways. Macross had some great moments. but to be honest i truly looked forward to every episode of Flying Witch more then Delta.

>>143407377
newshittery the literal post

>>143409094
The yankee.

>>143407377
I like how you won't even comment on what you like because you've seen 10 shows total. Could you be anymore transparent if you tried?

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>>143409141
She likes Ohta. Did you not watch the festival episode?

>>143402715
put flying witch in there and i'll put the noose around my neck in a skinny second!

>>143408313
And yet you continue to comment on an entire genre in broad strokes that you have literally admitted to knowing next to nothing about. You probably kill yourself immediately.

>>143408586
Yeah wouldn't be surprised if most of those comfyfags are urbanites who find escapism in rural settings. I didn't see much appeal in the setting either and it was unfortunately the show's strongest selling point.

>>143409094
Shishou!

>>143409164
She is a three-timing whore.

>>143409204
I find it pretty ironic that you label these types of shows as escapism when they're literally the closest thing to reality of any genre. What exactly is not escapism in your mind?

>>143403810
>>143403810
fuck you you shonen loving faggot!

>>143404956
>case and point
>>and
congratulations, you are retarded

>>143409250
There's nothing wrong with escapism m8. Literally all of anime nowadays serves as a way to entertain ourselves and the most common way to do so is to adopt an escapist attitude to enter their world. You can't tell me that watching the lives of cute girls who can do magic that you will never see in not-2D land is not a form of escapism, can you?

I just so happen to not appreciate that type of escapism because I know the reality of living in rural areas. Thus, I made an educated guess that those who did buy into it are likely to be urbanites. Nothing wrong with that either.

>>143409397
>only argument is to pick on a typing error
congratulations, you're a fucking half wit

>>143409397
Irregardless its the same difference and i literally could care less for all intensive purposes so you're point is mute per say

>>143409418
Fair enough. I incorrectly assumed you were trying to make the argument that comfyfag stuff was escapism whereas other genres weren't.

>>143406478
>Pretty much it, and you will notice that /a/ is constantly building its own identity in a symbiotic relationship with "nornalfags", this is why they reception of a show or manga becoming mainstream abruptly change how it is received here, /a/ has to reconfigure its own views to acomodate it.

I saw this happen hardcore with OPM.

>>143406478
Except that's not even close to true. /a/ has never had a problem with openly liking shows that are also liked by normalfags if people, you know, genuinely fucking like it. You're making your newness pretty fucking apparent, my man.

>>143409197
Could say the same about yourself who consistently resorts to name calling rather than trying to give potential reasons or counterargument as to why someone should potentially give a certain show or genre a second look. It's not like I'm giving a blanket shit marking to every SoL or mainly cute girl focused shows just stated that I don't watch many because they don't really provide anything of interest outside of what the look like from the outside. I've seen enough to have a fair opinion on the genre and still watch a few every season that might be worth it. I don't believe there's anything within these types of shows that would be worth valuing high enough to consider as AOTS when there are many others in most seasons that stand out more obviously.

>>143409477
me to, i am sorry four picking on that guy, their clearly rite
>>143409419
>makes blatant error in language that would be clear to a first grader
>calls it a typing error when it obviously isn't
>thinks everyone who replies to him is the first guy he was arguing with
Jesus.

>>143409613
>me to, i am sorry four picking on that guy, their clearly rite
epic response

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>>143404391
hey man let me explain something to you.

I am 38 years old. I was watching anime before you were even thought of. Explosions, mecha, violence, sexy girls, etc, etc, etc. And the same on American TV for decades. I have watched it all, and i hated the moe and CGDCT shows with a passion.

But the mechas, and shonen animes soon became boring. I could easily read the plot from a mile away and tell you what was going to happen next each and every episode.

But then came Flying Witch. I had never watched a SoL anime before Flying Witch, and the next thing i know i'm also watching Dog Days and Natsume Yuuji. The shows just made me feel great and I just enjoyed watching them. It was the first time i had watched a anime just for the sheer joy instead of wanting to see the next part of the plot. No explosions, no violence just simple existential fun, that reflected a good decent life, and that you didn't need super powers, giant robots, explosions, or some existential, all consuming drama to be happy or have fun.

For me SoL anime is a chance to relax and enjoy just being you for a moment and watch a character who is just as normal as you have a normal day in the life.

>>143401174
Pretty sure it's objectively more artful to create something intriguing out of "lel literally nothing" than it is out of some other kind of grand premise with inherent scale and impact.

Winter is KonoSuba and no others even come close

Spring is Flying Witch by a maargin of not fuck up itself in the end.

I still think Luluco is AOTS

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>>143409788
>no others even come close
Already been said, but Rakugo blows it out of the winter. Both by Deen though - they had a good year.

>Flying Witch
is this a meme
I even went and read the manga and it was a lot better, christ the anime is the embodiment of "nothing happens".

>>143409837
Me too. It was really the only 10/10 this season.

>>143410014
>the embodiment of "nothing happens"
That's the point. It's iyashikei.

>>143410014
>nothing happens XD
epic

>>143410286
>I'll repeat their words and add an emote!
>That'll show em!
kill yourself

>>143410301
>I'll repeat the exact same argument that other people have said a million times like it's new and original
likewise

>>143410364
>I'll repeat the exact same argument that other people have said a million times like it's new and original
Sorry I don't come to these threads 24/7 to know what all the hot memes are.

It's a boring anime with a mediocre opening.

The manga's pretty good though.

>>143410226
Please don't make iyashikei into the next "comfy", Flying Witch wasn't healing at all however nice it was.

>>143410473
what makes something healing in your eyes

>>143410514
It doesn't matter what it is in my eyes.

1.
tending to heal; therapeutic.
"a healing experience"
synonyms: alleviate, assuage, palliate, relieve, ameliorate, ease, help, soften, lessen, mitigate, attenuate, allay, salve

FW was none of those.

>>143410286
>XD
>epic
nice rebuttal ;)

>>143401174
moeshit sucks

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>>143402284
>these were all three years ago

>>143410835
You mean it's your opinion that FW was none of those things.

>>143410473

It was peaceful and heartwarming. That's healing to me. Anyone familiar with anime and iyashikei should be able to identify Flying Witch as an anime which intentionally attempted to be iyashikei.

>>143410835
>It doesn't matter what it is in my eyes
>states that the fact that FW was none of some arbitrary list of definitions in your eyes means that it isn't a certain genre
nani

>>143410473
>Please don't make iyashikei into the next "comfy"

Well it's too fucking late now, isn't it.

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>>143410959

>Azumanga Daioh was 14 years ago

>>143401277
This desuwa

Winter: Konosuba
Spring: Luluco

What the fuck is OP on?

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>>143411556

>>143411589
The only people who care and make shit like the OP are moefags or people who for the first time saw SoL like >>143409715

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Winter: Divine Gate
Spring: Endride
Summer: Berserk
Fall: Trickster

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>>143411786
You silly willy

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Winter: Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara.
Spring: Kuma Miko

>>143411718
hey anon what's your AOTS?

>>143412001
Re:Zero

>>143412073
bait

>>143411315
They did a really shitty job of that then.

>>143411054
>>143411365
I don't know what kind of drugs you're taking to think all the magic shit was healing but I want in.

>>143412360
How does magic preclude healing? Like I still don't understand what constitutes iyashikei for you and >>143412277

Flying witch is good but I prefer Anne Happy. Good message and a very good motivator for positive thinking especially if you unironically have a 2D waifu like one of the character.
Spring has gotta be konosuba. Very comfy ED and probably one of the better comedy this year.

>>143401174

Who fucking cares

>>143412001
Boku no Hero was probably AOTS if we disclude luluco

>>143412632
Boku was great. Too bad the most powerful moments were all in the first 4 episodes.

>>143401174
Why are people replying to a bait/troll thread? Is like seriously replying to an Umaru in the front page thread. Report and move along.
Also, I told you already that you are doing the meme wrong, Pandora have no fucking place in that chart, if you liked it, good for you, but this chart isn't suppose to be about good shows or shows we liked.

Nigga, did you even WATCH Boku no Hero Academia?