Summer 2016 Anime Series Guide

Danganronpa 3 : The End of Kibougamine Gakuen – Zetsubou-Hen

Hope’s Peak Academy is a government official school where the students have an original talent be gathered in that school. Besides the students who have an original talent will became students automatically in that school, students who don’t have any original talent can sign up to Hope’s Peak Academy but they must pay high fee to enter that school called “Reserve Course”. Hajime Hinata, one of the students who on “Reserve Course” want to find his talent on there and hope he can know what kind of talent he have.

For you who have played Danganronpa 2 : Goodbye Despair game, you’ll definitely see the characters from that game on Danganronpa 3 : The End of Kibougamine Gakuen – Zetsubo Hen. The Story from this series is where the characters from Danganronpa 2 attend the Hope’s Peak Academy. From beginning episode on this anime series, you’ll see some of characteristic and look difference between from the game and the anime for example like the look of Gundham Tanaka. Also this anime series have some new characters such as Chisa Yukizome who work as their Homeroom Teacher. There aren’t any Danganronpa iconic such as mutual killing or something will happen again on the beginning episode but this series worth followed if you fans of Danganronpa series. (Irfan Dhafirwan/KAORI Newsline)

Days

In his first day at school, Tsukuhi Sakamoto met Jin Kazama. Jin invited Tsukuhi to play futsal with his older friend, and Tsukuhi gladly accepted. Tsukuhi played poorly that day, but after that, Tsukuhi became interested in football, and chose to join his high school’s football club. Unfortunately for him, the team is a strong team in the region and the selection process itself is really tough. Can Tsukuhi reach his dream?

Adapted from a manga that was nominated as best shounen manga in the 39th Kodansha Annual Manga Award, the first episode of Days focused on the two main characters, Jin and Tsukuhi. The script handled the characterization of these characters pretty well. Tsukuhi, whose skill is really bad, never gives up to reach his dream. Jin, whose appearance looks like a delinquent, but still a good person and care about Tsukuhi. The football scenes, while not looking special, still looks good and neat with no overused CG. For those who fear this anime will be full of sweaty male characters, have no worry because Sayurin, Tsukuhi’s childhood friend, is pretty cute. (Dany Muhammad/Indonesian Anime Times)

Fate/Kaleid Liner PRISMA ILLYA 3Rei !

The third season of the anime series Fate/Kaleid Liner PRISMA ILLYA. Tells about the adventures of Illyasviel as a magical girl to collect 7 class card. After problems with the eighth card is completed, new problems arise unexpectedly. The new problem was caused by woman who came from another world to capture Miyu Edelfelt and took her to another world.

Back to the story along with Illyasviel’s friends. This anime is already ensured full of action. Action magic battles between Illyasviel and her friends against enemies from another world. Already it is certain also that the anime is filled with cute girls doing cute things. If you like magical girl and cute things, this anime is an excellent recommendation. (Hafizh Andifaisa/KAORI Newsline)

Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu

Sakaguchi Ryo, is a high-schooler who also a hidden fudanshi, fans of BL comics. Live as a Fudanshi is not really easy for him, it’s really hard for a guy to buy a BL comic, and it’s getting harder when he have to pay it in cashier with all strange perception from people around him. And as a fudanshi he also has a dream, to have more fellow fudanshi friends.

As a three-minutes short anime, Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu showed a light comedy. But instead of usual jokes, this anime also had an interesting theme about the life of a Fudanshi, a boy who likes same sex love story, especially Boys Love comics. In some BL anime or anime which had BL fans as its theme, usually it showed girls and delivered only to girls, especially fujoshi. But this anime had more interesting story about life of a fudanshi. In this first episode there had been some issues which are occured in BL fans realm, from how BL mainly preserved only for girls, how society saw a guy who likes BL, and also some complexity about gender and sexuality in BL fans. With all these BL theme this anime might be fujoshi’s no.1 favorite, but there’s nothing wrong if you are a guy and watch this anime, because, likes some BL didn’t make you loving other guys too, isn’t it? (Rafly Nugroho/KAORI Newsline)

Fukigen na Mononokean

Hanae Ashiya is a teenager who is just about to start his high school life. A day before the entrance ceremony, he find a furball at the street. He thinks that it’s just a stuffed animal so he put it away instead. But suddenly, the furball is alive and it stuck onto Hanae. Lately he know that the furball is a Yokai. Because of that Yokai, he start to feel nausea and sick, which make him fainted in his first day of school. He spent almost the whole first week of his high school life to stay in nurse room due to the Yokai. Once he find out some information about Yokai Exorcism. Then he call the exorcist to get rid of the Yokai which stuck onto him. Soon he meets with Abeno, and his life start to change.

Fukigen na Mononokean is an anime series with supernatural theme, specifically it told the story about traditional Japanese myth, Yokai. In this first episode, showed a character who got a problem from Yokai. Usually, the story about Yokai and some supernatural problems involved around it would be solved by some action scene to fight the Yokai. But this anime told how to solv the problem about Yokai with no violence, instead this first episode showed how to solve the problem about yokai by understanding each other. (Rafly Nugroho/KAORI Newsline)

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