Heaven Society - Week 66 Anime Poll

[Fred Castellum]

 

It's time to pick week 66's series! As usual the poll will be up for 48-ish hours. 
 
Hibike! Euphonium
Current
 
This series was recommended by @DigitalHermit saying "It's a light one focusing on character development... sort of... The animation is beautiful, but the story leaves a lot to viewer speculation... (may include implied yuri)"
 
Synopsis

After swearing off music due to an incident at the middle school regional brass band competition, euphonist Kumiko Oumae enters high school hoping for a fresh start. As fate would have it, she ends up being surrounded by people with an interest in the high school brass band. Kumiko finds the motivation she needs to make music once more with the help of her bandmates, some of whom are new like novice tubist Hazuki Katou; veteran contrabassist Sapphire Kawashima; and band vice president and fellow euphonist Asuka Tanaka. Others are old friends, like Kumiko's childhood friend and hornist-turned-trombonist Shuuichi Tsukamoto, and trumpeter and bandmate from middle school, Reina Kousaka.

 

However, in the band itself, chaos reigns supreme. Despite their intention to qualify for the national band competition, as they currently are, just competing in the local festival will be a challenge—unless the new band advisor Noboru Taki does something about it.

 

From the studio that animated Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, Kyoto Animation's Hibike! Euphonium is a fresh and musical take on the slice-of-life staple that is the high school student's struggle to deal with their past, find romance, and realize their dreams and aspirations.

 
Read more at MAL
 

 
Kingdom
Recent
 
This series was recommended by @Xsinar saying "The animations are bad, but the story is bad-ass"
 
Synopsis
In the Warring States Period of ancient China (475-221 BCE), Shin and Hyou are war-orphans in the kingdom of Qin. They dream of one day proving themselves on the battlefield. One day, however, Hyou is taken to the palace by a minister. Winding up on the losing side of a power-struggle, Hyou manages to return to the village, barely alive. Shin then meets a boy who closely resembles Hyou, Ei Sei. For now he is the king of Qin; later he will become the emperor Shi Huangdi. 
 
Read more at MAL
 

 
Gurren Lagann
Post-2007
 
This series was recommended by @gastew15 saying "Again, this is one of those anime's that if you haven't seen them I'd be mightily surprised. Gurren Lagann takes place in a far away future in which humans live underground in fear of what lies above. The story follows Simon, Kamina, and a girl with a big gun(and other things) on their journey to defeat the Beast-men and take back control of the surface. To be completely honest this is another of the greats that's just so good and captures you that you almost can't even explain it.. I Give it all of the awards and throw it into the best animes of all time, and if you haven't watched it you need to stop whatever you're doing and watch it right now! (Characters, awesome, Sound Track, awesome, Story, simple, yet amazing at the same time, Everything else, it's Gurren Lagann!)"
 
Synopsis

In a faraway future, mankind lives underground in huge caves, unknowing of a world above with a sky and stars.

 

In the small village of Jiha, Simon, a shy boy who works as a digger discovers a strange glowing object during excavation. The enterprising Kamina, a young man with a pair of rakish sunglasses and the passion of a fiery sun, befriends Simon and forms a small band of brothers, the Gurren Brigade, to escape the village and break through the ceiling of the cave to reach the surface, which few believe exist.

 

The village elder won't hear of such foolishness and punishes the Brigade. However, when disaster strikes from the world above and the entire village is in jeopardy, it's up to Simon, Kamina, a girl with a big gun named Yoko, and the small yet sturdy robot, Lagann, to save the day.

 

The new friends journey to the world above and find that the surface is a harsh battlefield, and it's up to them to fight back against the rampaging Beastmen to turn the tide in the humans' favor! Pierce the heavens, Gurren Lagann!

 

Read more at MAL
 

 
Tactical Roar
Pre-2007
 
This series was recommended by @CatCloud saying "Take Love Hina, ditch the inn and add Warships and other combat machines and you´ll get Tactical Roar! a anime about a female crew on a Battleship with 1 dude with pretty sweet Combat scenes...and twin lolies! YEP. (i havent seen it in years but for whatever reason i cant get it out of my head. its good!"
 
Synopsis
In the near future the world's climate shifted creating in the Western Pacific a perpetual super cyclone: the Grand Roar that altered the earth, flooding most countries. Shipping and navigation became important to nations and following the appearance of ocean pirates, necessisated companies to hire escort cruisers to safeguard their investments. Hyousuke Nagimiya is a system engineer that was comissioned to upgrade the Pascal Magi manned by an entire crew of women with its captain, Misaki Nanaha. Together the crew strives to prove themselves to their detractors that they are no mere 'Alice Brand'. Yet as they go about their mission a larger global conspiracy seems to be working behind the scenes to take advantage of this new world order.

 

Read more at MAL
 

 
Katanagatari
Random
 
This series was recommended by @eelnico09 "Is not your typical action anime for sure, and by that i mean it's better. Good quality dialogue, very good story, each episode is around 40 minutes long so you get really into the episode once you start watching. I didn't notice any cliche, or repetitive situation. You won't see this anime and thing "i've seen this on many other action animes", guaranteed. Beautiful artstyle, amazing story, great characters and character progression, no stupid cliches everyone's seen before. Also, some people liked the ending, some people didn't mind, some people didn't like the ending. I think it's a great anime, is not a masterpiece but you won't regret watching it."
 
Synopsis

Long ago the masterful swordsmith Shikizaki Kiki crafted 1000 blades, though his twelve final works, the legendary deviant blades were prime among the rest. All with uniquely defined traits, these swords are among the greatest in Japan.

 

Leap forward many decades and arrive at an isolated island, where Yasuri Shichika and his older sister Nanami reside.

 

Togame: A woman with long, white hair and the talent as a strategist begins a quest with Shichika in order to collect the twelve blades. They must face the blade wielders in intense battles while they learn more about themselves and their real goals and wishes.

 

Shichika has yet to realize what he really inherits as a Kyoutoryuu sword...

 
Read more at MAL
 

 

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[Fred Castellum]

Vote Away!

[HmmR]

Pokemon?

[Tr3vor]

Man, fuck euphonium. I hate that show and its stupid melodramatic bullshit. I've seen so many people say how it accurately describes band (I guess if your band was full of babies, had a hint of yuri, wasn't a meritocracy(not that schools care about merit anymore anyway)...). Its fucking stupid. Never once in my days in band class was there so much melodrama.

 

Now that I got that off my chest, I see a lot of people saying good things about gurren lagann, so I'd like to see that.

[Gofspar]

bit l8 in the night m8

[Fred Castellum]

Pokemon?

Nope.... not exactly...

 

bit l8 in the night m8

This is the usual time polls are posted. 

[cesrai]

Well Xinar has a great taste so my vote goes to kingdom.

[CatCloud]

bit l8 in the night m8

wat? its 1030 AM kek

 

I was considering the first one until i saw there Feet posture.

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW !?!?!?!?!? ugh i hate that kind of standing posture on Females! its so unbalancing! 

 

[RedSphyxis]

Guys you're better off reading Kingdom rather than watching it it's serious drag all throughout

 

@MyInnerFred the link for Kingdom takes you to ANN's OreShura

 

edit: okay it sometimes takes me to oreshura and sometimes the mal higurashi page

[awildbrysen]

Haven't seen any of these but Gurren Lagann looks awesome so I voted for that one

 

Edit: Gurren Lagann MAL link goes to Another or Cat Planet Cuties on AnimeNewsNetwork

[DigitalHermit]

Norio Wakamoto orders you to vote TTGL

[Phorlorn]

Gurren Lagann is sooo epic, but Katanagatari is even better IMO...

 

Pls win

 

[Fred Castellum]

Haven't seen any of these but Gurren Lagann looks awesome so I voted for that one

Edit: Gurren Lagann MAL link goes to Another or Cat Planet Cuties on AnimeNewsNetwork

This doesn't make sense... I changed all those links already... I'll fix it after work.

[Guest]

I am such a fan of Gurren Lagann I had to get a picture with the English VA of Kamina, so I tracked him down and ...  He proclaimed who the hell he though he was also. 

(Still more of a fan of Konishi's Kamina, but don't tell Kyle that.) 

[TetraSky]

Gonna vote for the obvious choice here. Gurren Lagann.
Though I did also enjoy Katanagatari, it falls short to Gurren Lagann.

 

As for the others, I'm not a fan of the genre (music, historical). I also do not care for anime that seems to be fanservice centered.

 

@MyInnerFred half the "MAL" link either lead to the wrong anime, or just plain wrong with two links in one on it. (One on the M, another one on the AL)

[Fred Castellum]

Gonna vote for the obvious choice here. Gurren Lagann.

Though I did also enjoy Katanagatari, it falls short to Gurren Lagann.

 

As for the others, I'm not a fan of the genre (music, historical). I also do not care for anime that seems to be fanservice centered.

 

@MyInnerFred half the "MAL" link either lead to the wrong anime, or just plain wrong with two links in one on it. (One on the M, another one on the AL)

I could have swore I had it down right this time. I'll fix it after work.

[Avericious]

Katanagatari for sure. Not only did I re-watch Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann a few days ago, there is no question in my mind which I prefer. It is in my top three favorite anime of all time.

[JuztBe]

Vote went to katanagatari. Even if TTGL is awesome, gotta see something new!

[P e r s e p h o n e]

Am I the only one who carefully considers what to vote for but then never watch after the fact?

[Fred Castellum]

Am I the only one who carefully considers what to vote for but then never watch after the fact?

Your definitely not the only one.

[P e r s e p h o n e]

Your definitely not the only one.

Well I think I might be the only one to go for all 64 weeks and not watch.

[Charger]

Your definitely not the only one.

I don't think I have watched anything in months my self

[Fred Castellum]

Well I think I might be the only one to go for all 64 weeks and not watch.

I think you set a new record.

[GloriousPain]

Guren and/or KatanaGatari; Just remember if you can't believe in yourself believe in the me that believes in you!

[Rashy]

Katanagatari seems interesting, 40 min and different style. Could be my refresher for the season