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This scene was awesome.
Autumn 2012 so far: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (1-4) > Smile Precure! (34-36) > Sword Art Online (15-17) > GIRLS und PANZER (1-3) > Medaka Box Abnormal (1-3) > Busou Shinki (1-4) > Aikatsu! (1-3) > Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! (1-4) > Little Busters! (1-4).
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Posted in Aikatsu!, AYAKO DOCTRINE, BEST GIRL, Busou Shinki, Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!, GIRLS und PANZER, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Little Busters!, Medaka Box Abnormal, Smile Precure!, Sword Art Online | Tags: Autumn 2012, AYAKO DOCTRINE, baseball, Fan Service, Gainax, Haruka Tomatsu, Key, Kyoto Animation, Mahou Shoujo, Mamikore, Mecha Musume, Plying Girls, Retard Moe, SHAFT, Shounen Jive, Spoilers, Superlovely Character Designs, war, War Is All Hell, Yui Horie | Permanent Link

It turns out you can bully a girl into seizing the reins of destiny.
I knew that GIRLS und PANZER was going to be good, but I certainly wasn't expecting it to be so popular. As others have pointed out, GIRLS und PANZER sets the new standard for anime catering to military otaku. This is largely due to its extensive attention to detail, but it also doesn't forget to remain accessible to general audiences. You don't need to catch a Sergeant Oddball reference to appreciate Yukari infiltrating the Not American school in a Sunkus uniform. Sadly, GIRLS und PANZER may have been a bit ambitious in its planning and production. The show's finest moment is unavailable to Western audiences (officially, anyway) due to copyright and licensing issues. Its final two episodes have also been pushed until spring 2013. Personally, I'm glad studio Actas decided to work to standard and not to time, so I'm all right with the delay.
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Posted in Aikatsu!, AYAKO DOCTRINE, BEST GIRL, Busou Shinki, Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!, GIRLS und PANZER, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Little Busters!, Manga, Medaka Box Abnormal, Smile Precure!, Sword Art Online | Tags: Autumn 2012, AYAKO DOCTRINE, baseball, Dropped Shows, Fan Service, Gainax, J.C. Staff, Mahou Shoujo, Product Placement, Season Conclusion, Shounen Jive, Spoilers | Permanent Link

Akari here is my go-to meteorologist. True story.
I may have made a terrible mistake dropping Aikatsu! back in 2012. Its start didn't impress me very much, but I've seen some pretty radical screenshots over the past three years and now I'm 150 episodes behind.
Posted in Aikatsu! | Tags: Autumn 2012, Dropped Shows, Idols | Permanent Link

Idol activities are no joke.
Following up on this entry, I've started watching Aikatsu! again, starting over from the initial 2012 episodes but also jumping ahead to the current new season. Aikatsu! is a children's show about girls at some sort of magic middle school for idols. One significant characteristic of Aikatsu! that distinguishes it from, say, THE iDOLM@STER, Love Live! School Idol Project, AKB0048, or Wake Up, Girls! is that the show is nearly always incredibly upbeat and everyone seems to have a fantastic time doing idol activities. I can easily imagine 6-year-old girls watching these episodes every week and thinking, "Aww, I wish I were an idol." Hell, I can easily imagine 36-year-old salarymen watching these episodes every week and thinking, "Fuuuck, I wish I were an idol."
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Posted in Aikatsu! | Tags: Autumn 2012, Autumn 2015, Idols, Legs that go up to her neck, Season Introduction | Permanent Link

Who's ready for more BBK/BRNK faces?
There are a surprising number of shows I'm interested in scheduled for autumn 2016. Most of these are sequels of some sort, but there are a few new properties that have caught my eye. Notably, I've yet to do any concerted investigating into the upcoming season, so the following only include titles that I noticed at some point and deemed worthy of preemptively annotating in my anime spreadsheet.
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Posted in 3-Gatsu no Lion, Aikatsu! Stars, Anitore! XX, Brave Witches, Bubuki Buranki: Hoshi no Kyojin, ClassicaLoid, Detective Conan, Fune no Amu, Hibike! Euphonium 2, Keijo!!!!!!!!, Koneko no Chi Ponponra Daibouken, Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku, Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara., Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desukara. 2, Mahou Tsukai Precure!, Nazotokine, Nyanbo!, Shūmatsu no Izetta, To Be HERO, ViVid Strike! | Tags: 3D, Air Power, Autumn 2016, CATS, Classical Music, Fan Service, Fat Anime Characters, Girls With Guns, Kyoto Animation, Mahou Shoujo, Music, noitaminA, of the year, Season Introduction, Sequels, SHAFT, Short Shows, Sunrise, war, Yotsuba | Permanent Link

Go on, Shizuka, curse the bitch out.
I started watching Idol Jihen (Idol Incidents) because Ueda Reina is in it. Unfortunately, she's not in it much, although the OP suggests there will be more to her character later. The show itself is all right, but just barely. It frankly plays out like a rejected Aikatsu! arc, which is fine for a few episodes, but maybe not enough for a whole season. I was also expecting the entire Diet to consist of idols, but instead the idol parliamentarians are just various members of fractured idol-based opposition parties trying to challenge The Establishment comprised of old, unpleasant, corrupt politicians and uncaring corporate assholes.

Rocket Nerd promotes her vision to her hallucination.
Idol Jihen has its moments, but through seven episodes there's only been one episode I fully liked (the one with the gosurori ghostbuster), but that was mostly due to execution. I am a bit tired of the constant struggles against Old People. The show falls flat when it tries to present these battles in a semi-serious fashion involving such weapons as Children's Feelings. The show is much better off when Old People instead get swayed by idols doing idol things and everyone realizes how much better off the world can be after their idol epiphanies. Well, at least the OP and ED are catchy.
Posted in Aikatsu!, Idol Jihen | Tags: Idols, OP ED, Season Introduction, Tiv, Ueda Reina, Winter 2017 | Permanent Link
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