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Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars

Posted on November 27, 2016 5:51 pm by Offkorn Comment

Following a mysterious mass disappearance that occurred 12 years prior, Rena just wants to live a quiet everyday life. This is not to be, as the past catches up to fling her and her surrogate family into a conflict over the power of lost gods.

Primarily consisting of action and drama, the show also periodically dips into daily life territory every few episodes as a sort of reprieve. Don’t go into it expecting lighthearted fluff though, as while it’s not full grimdark it still tries to play things seriously more often than not.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Autumn 2016 - Summer Anime Related and tagged Action Anime Original Daisuki Drama Finished Funimation Science Fiction Series Slice of Life Televised
SM Girls – Saber Marionette R

Posted on November 27, 2016 12:34 pm by Offkorn Comment

On a world with no women, populated by clones, androids called Marionettes have been created to both fill that absence and act as soldiers. One night a masked man launches a military coup in the country of Romana, forcing the ruler’s son to flee the capitol city with the help of his two attendant Marionettes. He’s soon joined by a third, and the new quartet must find a way to return to the city in time to save his father from execution.

This OVA series is mostly a dark action/drama lightened with occasional splashes of comedy. Aside from the ecchi aspects, what most stands out about it is the character naming style.

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This entry was posted in 1995 - Spring 1995 - Summer Anime Related and tagged Action Anime Original Comic Relief Drama Ecchi Finished OVA Science Fiction Series SM Girls
LAND LOCK

Posted on November 27, 2016 6:18 am by Offkorn Comment

Ruda is the son of a Wind Master and lives in a small peaceful village. One night that peace is shattered as mechanized forces raze the town and trigger the awakening of a long-dormant power.

Set in a fantasy world featuring wind magic, gods, airships, and mechanized infantry, this movie (originally split into a pair of OVAs) goes in a number of different directions. It’s part RPG plotline, part military-themed actionfest, and part mysticism-heavy mystery.

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This entry was posted in 1996 - Summer Anime Related and tagged Action Drama Fantasy Finished LN Adaptation OVA Series
Zhen Hun Jie

Posted on November 26, 2016 4:34 am by Offkorn Comment

Ling Xia has just graduated and is having trouble finding a job. After a run-in with a suspicious ‘fortune teller’ she finds herself embroiled in the spirit world, her fate entwined with that of a young general who oversees one of the limbo areas for the dead known as requiem streets.

The episodes alternate between a present-day time period focused on Ling’s tribulations (action/drama with a few bits of comedy) and flashing back to Yanbing’s past (mainly drama), showing how he became the area’s guardian. It’s essentially two separate battle shounens packaged as one and ends just as the real journey begins.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Spring 2016 - Summer Anime Related and tagged Action Battle Shounen Comic Adaptation Comic Relief Drama Finished Incomplete Source Science Fiction Series Televised Urban Fantasy
Luger Code 1951

Posted on November 3, 2016 2:48 pm by Offkorn Comment

Set in a world where humans are fighting a war against werewolves, this TV special tells the tale of how a soldier and young linguistics expert try to befriend a captured werewolf in order to break their language code.

Note that this arose from a ‘Create an Anime Scenario’ competition, so do not expect a complete story. It’s a mix of drama and battle shounen with a hint at the end of eventually becoming something altogether different.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Autumn Anime Related and tagged Action Anime Original Drama Finished OVA Urban Fantasy
orange

Posted on October 13, 2016 2:38 pm by Offkorn Comment

A story of regrets and second chances. The protagonist receives a letter from her future self, on the first day of the second year of high school, detailing events that will soon occur and the choices she made at the time which in retrospect feel like mistakes. The letter implores her to not repeat them.

The time travel aspect is essentially just a gimmick, a bit of flair to make the show stand out. For the most part it’s a normal, realism-styled school life drama/romance that takes the uncommon step of dedicating a portion of each episode to showing how its characters (may have) ended up a decade later.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Summer Anime Related and tagged Comic Adaptation Crunchyroll Drama Finished Romance School Life Series Televised
Gekijouban Hibike! Euphonium ~Kitauji Koukou Suisougaku Bu e Youkoso~

Posted on October 11, 2016 11:47 pm by Offkorn Comment

Wanting to try something new after middle school, the protagonist initially wants nothing to do with her high school’s band. Circumstances conspire against her and she ends up joining anyway with her two new friends. Together, along with an old classmate and a childhood friend, they try to improve enough to perform in the national-level competition.

This is an abridged version of 2015’s Hibike! Euphonium. It focuses primarily on the improvement of the music club as a whole, cutting out most of the dramatic subplots and romance aspects.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Spring Anime Related and tagged Alternative Version Comic Relief Drama Finished Hibike! Euphonium Movie Music Novel Adaptation Partial Adaptation School Life
D.Gray-man HALLOW

Posted on October 10, 2016 11:21 am by Offkorn Comment

A continuation of 2006’s D.Gray-man, this series picks up an indeterminable amount of time after the point that one ended. The protagonist(s) get their first chance to visit the Black Order’s new headquarters since being destroyed in the previous series, and Allen finds himself treated like an enemy after learning that he may no longer be alone in his own head.

The show does a decent job explaining the plot for people who may not have seen the earlier 103-episode series, but doesn’t elaborate on or explain the characters’ relationships with one another. So while you can jump right into the story here, treating it as an example of in medias res, you’ll probably not get much out of it since the character behavior/interactions are fairly central.

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This entry was posted in 2016 - Summer Anime Related and tagged Action Comic Adaptation Comic Relief Drama Dropped Fantasy Funimation Incomplete Source Series Televised