Spring Anime 2015 Season (Taiyz's Love Live! hijack thread)

There's always Amazon sonny. Though yeah, NISA is jank as hell with their store.
But yeah if you do manage to get into the series then finally I can talk to someone about it aside DylDawg. It is above all, the superior idol anime, and all other series of the genre are for casual scum.
I just pray you don't go hardcore on SIF.
I hope to find the blu-Ray for S1 at Anime North, though that's wishful thinking. I recently got into it last Nov so I wasn't able to secure an order :c
Also Taiyz, you got Weiss cards??? Do you play?

I've tried getting into Love Live...but I just can't, the art style is a bit much for me : / I do enjoy the Llamas though, that's honestly the best part for me <3 (everyone keeps comparing it to IM@S too and I do actually love IM@S to death T_T)

They're both Good.

Hibiki and Maki best idleness

And Shiv, they're Alpacas.

DylDawg wrote:

And Shiv, they're Alpacas.

Preach.

DylDawg wrote:

Maki best idleness.

That's not how you spell Umi.

Also 1000th post yay

Hibiki is my second fav <3 (Takane is my most fav)

And I really really keep trying to give Love Live a chance, I don't mind the music but the art style, I'm hoping it grows on me someday.

Goddam Alpacas, they're always out to ruin my life

EDIT: 1000 posts Our emotis honestly scare me, nostalgic, but the arms...

Takane is amazing. She's so far the only idol (based from the anime) that doesn't go into too much drama and is cool-io.

I honestly didn't want to go into LL cause it will be a debate between which i like best between it or imas. But to my surprise it's an entertaining idol anime that doesn't have much drama compared to im@s and is just a great and fun ride. And the faces the LL cast makes are hilarious. First episode and im already laughing on how dumb Honoka looks when clapping.

Also Falzy, what happened to Kotori  hah? I know you lole Kotori. Dont deny it.

Darn you man. Idolm@ster is good too. I can take it seriously when i want it. And i prefer the im@s songs.... even though its typical Go Shiina for Chihaya's music lol

The problem I have is more the fact that Idolmaster has a constantly-growing cast due to social gaming but they don't appear much outside of the social games. When you've got a series based around singing and dancing, you generally want to see these characters sing and dance, no matter how totes adorbs they might be.

In terms of anime-game, the arcs are pretty much the same, though Ami nor Mami had nothing near any kind of real interesting story until All For You. Takane is pretty much always a cool cat. Miki pretty much always is very dramatic.

I actually prefer the drama in shows and everyone having mini-arcs, I was kind of bored with the shenanigans at times, but after more of the arcs get done and I got a feel for everyone I really enjoy things like Puchimas which is just their over-the-top personalities. (I really want to play All For You as well because of the character arcs), but from the description it does feel like two distinct things, Love Live just seems to be just an all around chill good time. (SO moe though, so much moe, its the moe I can't get over, its going to kill my liver). I'm probably going to sit down and seriously watch a couple episodes at some point, my friends are really into the mobile game.

Go Shiina going strong in Arcadia, love it though <3

@Taiyz: I enjoy the enormous cast and what they bring but I've never taken them as main idols, I honestly only pay attention to the 765 idols (and Jupiter and Eri's trio), because mobile eww is how I normally go, but I must admit, I'm really happy with some of the DLC editions we've gotten thanks to all those mobile idols. I LOVE Reiko(sp?) so much, and her song, and I can see what you mean about making great things and not really using them. I've actually been hoping they'll start a 3rd vision someday soon and add to the main cast, I like their group dynamic so I wouldn't want it to be overwhelming like Million Live or Cinderella Girls, but a few more to add to group interactions and expand trio/quintuplet options

JESUS CHRIST

NISA just announced an English dub for Love Live. They're doing one final printing without a Weiss Schwarz card (CALLED IT) which is the July reprint I had read about, then doing a dub. So if you buy it now, you're getting shafted twice. This is the kind of nonsense I'm talking about, but at least I got rewarded for waiting.

@Taiyz you are like 3 weeks late man

Cast list was confirmed and everything AGES AGOOOOOO

In all srsness still likely gonna get it

DylDawg wrote:

Also Falzy, what happened to Kotori  hah? I know you lole Kotori. Dont deny it.

Kotori is cool, I just grew onto Umi... a lot. Umi is the best μ's girl . Her voice stands out to me, and love her strict yet sweet personality. She is serious, hard-working and responsible but at the same time she can still do her occasional moe thing and damn is she cute. Umi is love. So is Eli. And Maki. Basically I'm a cheating whore who hops on different girls.

Also START:DASH is best.

I should also note that the dubbed version is supposedly going to be released as a standard addition, so I'm still screwed out of the extras but I really see no reason to double-dip for a CD, artbook and a card.

Sell me your spare copy for a decent price?

That's a tempting offer actually, but considering that they had a premium edition for Tora Dora's dub, I have a feeling they'll come up with something.

I also don't want to order the premium edition if I'm not gonna get the Weiss Schwarz card, on principle.

Edit: My inability to resist collectible trinkets prevailed. '=/
I also found a nifty little independent store that serves anime collectors so I got the complete set for Love Live for only twenty dollars more than what NISA sold it for, and quite frankly the shipping is probably cheaper. Easily saved 30-50 bucks compared to eBay sellers.

Digimon Tri release date Nov. 21

The teachers took a trip down memory lane in this week's Kiniro. Hanako is also now a part of the cast. She was in the episode quite a bit.

You mean Honoka?

More Kushi-chan x senpai was kawaii

But kinpatsu Karen thoooo



Not even my favorite girl but stillllllllll

Alice meido still best

So this is a warning that this thread could possibly turn into a Love Live hijack thread.



And now is the time to ask the important question, let me ask you Tales forum, who is your Love Laifu?

I greatly, highly, musically, and honkingly, approve of this hijack. Just do it already.


Love Laifu is defs Maki. Too cute


But Nozomi and Eli are great too.


Those are my faves, but all 9 of Muse are entertaining and funny. I would say that the funny moments and comedy of Love Live are better than im@s, and I remember more of LL's songs (compared to the anime, since I have no clue about the games).

Though, I will admit, Honoka >>>>>>> Haruka as the "leader". Honks actually made me laugh a lot.

Taiyz wrote:

And now is the time to ask the important question, let me ask you Tales forum, who is your Love Laifu?

Is this even a question?



or insert obligatory UMI-DAH.png

We all know Umi is the only best girl. Anyone that thinks otherwise can enjoy their peasant taste along with their peasant taste buds. I said the same thing about Kotori last month but shhhh

Umi>Maki>Eri=Kotori=Nico>All else

Though the Soldier Game trio is my fave:



aka:



And spamfest:










This shit is so canon.

Still, Umi best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nRWcVlNPsc

MCbrows is called Renka Utsugi. And the anime is going to air on July 5.
Also yes, that red-haired guy is Kota.

What happened to anime?

It used to be entire countries and monsters and epic battles.

Now it's high schools and idols and epic songs.

Slivendiferious wrote:

It used to be entire countries and monsters and epic battles.

Some of it still is, Sliv. Watch Arslan Senki (which is everything minus monsters) or Kekkai Sensen (everything except for entire countries as it's isolated to a single city) this season.

There's also DanMachi though it's got your typical harem thing going on.

Dunno if Sliv is serious or not.

Nothing wrong with animu about HS, idols, and songs that enjoy life and are just having fun. Love Live is a fun and relaxing ride.

BBB/Kekkai Sensen and Oregairu are still my top shows this season.

^ Nothin' wrong with 'em but it does seem that that's all that dominates the market these days.

DylDawg wrote:

Nothing wrong with animu about HS, idols, and songs that enjoy life and are just having fun. Love Live is a fun and relaxing ride.

BBB/Kekkai Sensen and Oregairu are still my top shows this season.

Dawg here knows his stuff.
It's what sells anyways, and its not like the only existing genre out there.

S2s of Kinmoza and Oregairu are legit, and DamMachi is fun so far.