ANIME: SPRING 2017 (WHAT AM I WATCHING?) PART 1 of 2

Well a new season arrives...
Most of the animes that will be coming in Spring are already on MAL (https://myanimelist.net/anime/season/2017/spring) or Anime Chart  or  Live Chart  https://www.livechart.me/winter-2017/tv


- Some Sequels I am not going to follow up...
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations - A sequel of Naruto. Well it's his son... I didn't watch the first so I am not going to waste my time on it.

Berserk (2017) - Another sequel of anime I didn't watch but plan to watch so.. . probably a no-go for now.


Summary
That's a lot of animes I am going to try... 28 animes plus  the 5 I am already planning to watch... There are some that really interest me... read the below information


a) Definitely Going to Watch (All of them are sequels) (5)
Probably the first anime that comes to our mind, is undoubtly Shingeki no Kyojin Season 2 (Or in English - Attack on Titan) - After four years waiting here it comes... I just recently watched the first season (yeah I know...). This anime will be a direct sequel of the first. They are now starting the war on the Titans with the help of Eren, Mikasa, Armin and Levi.

Next we have Boku no Hero Academia 2nd Season... It's also a sequel of the first (I must say I am currently preparing for it watching the first season). It's also a no-brainer to me.

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Gaiden: Sword Oratoria - What a big title... this is a spinoff of How to pick up girls in a dungeon but it focus on Aiz. This is also a new no brainer to watch.

Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ♭ - A sequel of Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend. It is also a no brainer to watch having watch and enjoy the first season

Nobunaga no Shinobi: Ise Kanegasaki-hen - Second season of Nobunaga no Shinobi. I really am enjoying the first season.


b) Probably going to Watch


Eromanga-sensei 
LYS Really looking forward on this anime. Look different...  Made from   A-1 Pictures, there's nothing to go wrong here... 
Synopsis The "new sibling romantic comedy" revolves around Masamune Izumi, a light novel author in high school. Masamune's little sister is Sagiri, a shut-in girl who hasn't left her room for an entire year. She even forces her brother to make and bring her meals when she stomps the floor. Masamune wants his sister to leave her room, because the two of them are each other's only family.

Masamune's novel illustrator, pen name "Eromanga," draws extremely perverted drawings, and is very reliable. Masamune had never met his illustrator, and figured he was just a disgusting, perverted otaku. However, the truth is revealed... that his "Eromanga-sensei" is his own younger sister! To add to the chaos that erupts between the siblings, a beautiful, female, best-selling shoujo manga creator becomes their rival!




Clockwork Planet
Lys This anime looks weird... But the image is great. Xebec is the company doing it. They made Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 and Pandora Hearts.
Synopsis  One day, a black box suddenly crashed into the house of the high school dropout Naoto Miura. Inside it was a female automaton. The endless cycle of failure and success.


The world that does change and the mankind that does not change. At a time where reality and fantasy are screaming, the encounters of these two make the gears of fate move!






Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai
Lys Look at the damn synopsis... Need I say more?

You, will you be a worshipper of the devil lords? These beautiful lords lead humans to the seven deadly sins: pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust. A revealing fantasy that craves to corruption and happiness starts now.




Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka?
What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?
Lys: Look at that title... Sounds good hey?

Five hundred years have passed since the humans went extinct at the hands of the fearsome and mysterious 'Beasts'. The surviving races now make their homes up on floating islands in the sky, out of reach of all but the most mobile of Beasts.

Only a small group of young girls, the Leprechauns, can wield the ancient weapons needed to fend off invasions from these creatures. Into the girls’ unstable and fleeting lives, where a call to certain death could come at any moment, enters an unlikely character: a young man who lost everything in his final battle five hundred years ago, the last living human awakened from a long, icy slumber.

Unable to fight any longer, Willem becomes the father that the girls never had, caring for and nurturing them even as he struggles to come to terms with his new life, in which he feels the pain of helplessly waiting for his loved ones to return home from battle that his 'Daughter' once felt for him so long ago. Together, Willem and the girls gradually come to understand what family means and what is truly worth protecting.

Fukumenkei Noise
Lys: Damn.. Looks good. Brain's Base has some interesting animes under their belt like Baccano, or even Natsume Yuujinchou Shi

Nino, a girl who likes to sing, experienced two farewells in the past. First, with her first love, Momo, and second, with Yuzu, a boy who composes music. But upon those two farewells, she made a promise with each of them: to continue singing until they find her voice again. Time has passed, and now these three are in high school...?!






c) Going to Give it a Try

Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho
LYS Looks great on "paper". Let us hope it is... White Fox is the studio converting this light novel into anime. They are famous for making Steins;Gate or Akame ga Kill!  or even Re:Zero  -so one thing is for sure, good graphics and good action scenes

Synopsis  Year 526 of the Liturgical Calendar.
The world knew that witches existed, and that they practiced the notorious art of sorcery.
Nevertheless, the world did not know anything about the study of magic.

Our story follows a half-man, half-beast mercenary; humans mockingly call his kind the “fallen beasts”. He always dreamt of becoming a human, but one day, he met a witch who would change his life forever.

“Do you desire a human form? Then be my escort, mercenary!”
The witch introduced herself as “Zero”, and explained that she was searching for a one-of-a-kind magical tome that bandits had stolen from her lair. Entitled “The Book of Zero”, the grimoire supposedly contained valuable magical knowledge that could be used to effortlessly bring the world to its knees.
Thus, in order to realize his dream of becoming a human, the mercenary must accompany Zero on her journey—despite her being one of the witches he so loathed.
This is the story of a haughty sorceress and a kindhearted beast.


Renai Boukun
LYS From a company EMT² which I drop two anime I am not very optimistic but it seems a good plot...  In MAL the best score is Nyanko Days (Which I dropped) with 6.85 The first sentence is a parody to Death Note?

Synopsis A Kiss Note is a powerful notebook that makes anyone who has their name written together will instantly fall in love if they kiss each other regardless of any circumstances. This magical and very familiar item belongs to an angel named Guri whose job as cupid is to create couples. However, she accidentally writes down Aino Seiji, a regular high school student, and unless he kisses someone, Guri will die. She convinces Seiji to go kiss his crush, Hiyama Akane, the school's popular girl who turns out has even stronger feelings for him, bordering on obsessive and psychotic. Eventually Akane and Seiji come together but not before Guri decides that she likes Seiji as well. What seems awesome to most guys becomes hell for Seiji who just wants a normal relationship with girls.


Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records
From LIDENFILMS, the creators of Initial D & Arslan Senki. - Let us hope it's good..

Sistina attends a magical academy to hone her skills in the magical arts, hoping to solve the mystery of the enigmatic Sky Castle. After the retirement of her favorite teacher, the replacement, Glen, turns out to be a tardy, lazy, and seemingly incompetent bastard of an instructor. How is it that Glen was hand-picked by the best magician in the academy?!

Sakurada Reset´
Another interesting story. Let us hope it's good. From the creators of the famous Jojo. The Graphics are not to my liking... but... (Ajin had crappy graphics and I watch it)

Nearly half the population of Sakurada, a small town near the Pacific Ocean, has some sort of unique power. These powers range from being able to enter the mind of a cat, to resetting the world back to a certain point in time in the past. There is a group known as the "Kanrikyoku" that controls and monitors the use of these powers. Asai Kei and Haruki Misora work for their school's club called "Houshi" club, which execute any missions received from the Kanrikyoku. Misora has the ability to reset the world 3 days. This means that all events and any memory of the past 3 days that "could have" happened, never happened. Kei has the ability to "remember" the past. Even after Misora uses her powers to reset the world back 3 days, Kei will retain those 3 days in his memory. Combining their powers, these two solve missions issued by the Kanrikyoku.


Re:Creators
Troyca is the new producer but already under their belt Aldnoah Zero and Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru - Let us hope...

Humans have created many stories. Joy, sadness, anger, deep emotion. Stories shake our emotions, and fascinate us. However, these are only the thoughts of bystanders. But what if the characters in the story have "intentions"? To them, are we god-like existences for bringing their story into the world? Our world is changed. Mete out punishment upon the realm of the gods. In Re:CREATORS, everyone becomes a Creator.

Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism
Lys: This also looks good... the damn title has Machievellianism... What can go wrong?

The Private Aichi Symbiosis Academy was originally a high school for high-class girls. When it became co-ed, the girls, out of fear, asked to be permitted to bring weapons to school. When that was enforced, a five-member vigilante corps-like organization called the "Supreme Five Swords" was also formed.

After many generations, the five swords eventually became a group which corrected problematic students, and the academy started proactively accepting such students in order to correct them.

Nomura Fudou was sent to this school after being part of a huge brawl. What will he do when the only options he has after enrolling are being expelled from that school or being corrected the way the rest of the male students there were...by being forced to dress and act like a girl!

Sakura Quest
This should be a good slice of life anime.. Let us hope is as good as the synopsis says...

In the wake of a nationwide movement during the Bubble economy period, a small town in the countryside has revived its "mini-nation" tourism program; hiring five girls as travel ambassadors. The series will follow a year's time of the five girls as they work in the tourism agency of a small failing town in an effort to reinvigorate it.




Alice to Zouroku
Lys: looks delightful... 

The story centers on a little girl called Sana, who is one of the children that holds the power of "Alice's Dream," an ability that enables her to materialize anything she imagines. After escaping a lab where she was a test subject, Sana ends up in a normal world where she encounters an old man named Zouroku, but will he help her?


Tsugumomo
Lys: No opinion whatsoever...  Made by Zero-G with only four animes under their belt. None with rating superior to 6... no high hopes..

Kazuya Kagami never goes anywhere without the precious "Sakura Obi" his mother gave him. One day a beautiful, kimono-clad girl named Kiriha appeared before him. Kiriha naturally began to live with Kazuya in his room. Then there's Chisato, Kazuya's childhood friend with glasses and a ponytail, who meddles in his affairs. Soon there's also an overprotective older sister who seems to want to take baths with him. Jumble in a huge-chested priestess, a good-looking sorceress named Kokuyoura, beautiful women, and hot girls, and Kazuya's happy, embarrassing, confusing life begins…

Gin no Guardian
This one should looks great in terms of graphic. This studio is chinese... Don't know.. From the creators of To Be Hero or Cheating Craft. So got to watch it.

Lu Shuiyin (Riku Suigin in Japanese) is a master of gaming, a skill only known to his classmate Lu Lian (Riku Lin in Japanese). One day, Shuiyin receives a device from Lu Lian for a tomb raiding online game. While Shuiyin is excited to receive the device, Lian is suddenly kidnapped. Shuiyin touches the device that was left behind, pulling him inside the game and trapping him there. What is the imaginary world inside the device? What will Shuiyin find there?

It is a world where two groups of people fight over the power of the gods, which originates from the tomb the mother goddess Pangu (Bango in Japanese). The two groups are the tomb raiders and the tomb protectors. The device Shuiyin received from Lian is called the Monolith, and it allows a normal gamer to go near the tomb. The tomb raiding group plans its attack by recruiting common people in the name of gaming. Shuiyin, as the final tomb protector, must fight against the raiders in order to save Lian.

Tsuki ga Kirei
Lys: Another slice of life. Looks beautiful... look at this cover man

Kotarou Azumi and Akane Mizuno became third year students at junior high school and are classmates for the first time. These two, along with fellow classmates, Chinatsu Nishio and Takumi Hira, relate to their peers through mutual understandings and feelings. As their final year at junior high school progresses, the group overcome their challenges to mature and become aware of changes in themselves.


Hinako Note
Lys: No opinion.. From the creators of Rokka no Yuusha

Hinako is a shy little girl whom animals are instinctively drawn to. Because of this, Hinako works as a scarecrow to keep said animals away from the crops in her neighbors fields. Thus the tale of the scarecrow girl begins!

Kabukibu!
Lys: No opinion.. From the creators of Rurouni Kenshin or Konosuba. So...

The series revolves around kabuki, a classic style of Japanese dance-drama that combines music, drama, and dance. Kurogo Kurusu, a 15-year-old high school student has a passion for kabuki and hopes to establish a kabuki club at school. Things are not easy as they seem when he realizes that he needs to find students to join him.

Oushitsu Kyoushi Haine
Lys: Interesting story... comedy!

Accepting the post of Royal Tutor at the court of the king of Grannzreich, Heine Wittgenstein is a little professor with a big job ahead! Each of the kingdom's four princes has a rather distinct personality. Does their diminutive new instructor have what it takes to lay down some learning? It's a comedy of educational proportions!

Atom: The Beginning
Lys: Ah... Atom. Astro Boy.

Japan in the near future suffers an unexplained major disaster. Five years later, reconstruction is well underway. Two young researchers at a university are pinning all their hopes on robot development. Now their new interpretation of the eternal hero Astro Boy up until his birth is just about to start!

Quan Zhi Gao Shou
Lys: Another chinese or Korean? Hmm.. Looks good nevertheless

In the multiplayer online game Glory, Ye Xiu is regarded as a textbook and a top-tier pro-player. However, due to a myriad of reasons, he is kicked from the team. After leaving the pro scene, he finds work in an Internet Cafe as a manager. When Glory launches its tenth server, he throws himself in to the game once more. Possessing ten years of experience, the memories of his past, and an incomplete, self-made weapon, his return along the road to the summit begins!

Frame Arms Girl
Based on Kotobukiya's Frame Arms Girl model kit line. The anime will focus on Gourai, the first model released for the line, as well as Stylet and Baselard.

Kenka Banchou Otome: Girl Beats Boys
Kenka Banchou Otome - Girl Beats Boys, Hinako Nakayama has spent all of her life being raised in state-run orphanages, without ever knowing her family. As she's about to enter high school, Hinako is approached by Hikaru, a boy who claims to be her twin brother.

According to Hikaru, Hikaru and Hinako are the children of the head of the powerful Onigashima yakuza family, and Hikaru wants Hinako to switches places with him at Shishiku Academy, an all-boys school overrun with the nation's toughest delinquents. Can Hinako save her brother, find romance, and become the new boss of the school?


Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni...
Lys: Another interesting story to come...

The reunion of Kujo with his old female classmate. He has inherited his parents' temple and became a priest. However, after the two became drunk, he does something unexpected of him to her!

Love Kome: We Love Rice
The project anthropomorphizes rice (kome in Japanese) into schoolboys. At the Kokuritsu Inaho Academy ("Rice Ear Academy," a wordplay on national schools), five new rice-inspired students attempt to supplant bread as the popular grain at the school. The new students form the "Love Rice" unit and challenge themselves to perform at the "Harvest Show" to show the delicious appeal of rice grains. The "heartwarming 'kome'dy with laughs and passion" promises to let audiences rediscover the virtues of rice ("Japan's soul food"). 

Warau salesman New
Each episode follows Fukuzou Moguro, a traveling salesman, and his current customer. Moguro deals in things that give his customers their heart's desire, and once his deals are made and their unhealthy desires are satisfied, Moguro's customers are often left with terrible repercussions, especially if they break the rules of his deals...

Sekai no Yami Zukan
The anime will be in an omnibus short format that will tell stories of the strange and bizarre in our world, including UFOs, cryptids, curses, ancient civilizations, supernatural powers, spiritual experiences, bizarre cases, different dimensions, and urban legends, told in a picture show style. The anime seeks to evoke the retro atmosphere of pulp horror stories that were popular in the 60's and 70's in magazines. 

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