Summer 2016 Anime Series Guide

Orange

Naho Takamiya is a 16-years-old high school student. One day, he received a mysterious letter from her future self, 10 years in the future. The letter recounted every event which Naho experienced on that day, including the arrival of a transfer student to his class named Kakeru Naruse. The letter also told her that 10 years later, Kakeru will leave them forever. To atone for her regret, the future Naho instructs her past self to make decisions that can save Kakeru in the future.

Through the premiere episode, Orange introduces the main characters and it’s unique premise. Naho’s friends with their colorful personality and everyday lives are presented by the anime with a fairly slow tempo, yet relaxed. It’s also strengthened with a catchy music scoring that is able to build the atmosphere of the scene. With it’s gloomy story premise (which is also implied by the use of gloomy color tone in the anime), Orange can be an option for viewers who are looking for an anime series with melodramatic nuanced story. Lastly, those who have watched the live-action version of Orange will be pleased because its ending theme is used to end the anime series. (Tanto Dhaneswara/KAORI Newsline)

Ozmafia

Today is the first day of Scarlet’s new school life in Oz Academy. Despite being his first day at school, but instead he lost in a forest located in that academy. Don’t know where to go, soon the school guard finds him and suspects him as a spy instead. In his first day of school, instead of a normal school life, Scarlet must go through the chase of armed guy who suspects him of being a spy.

This 4 minutes short anime presented some male character with cute and colorful design. The chibi design and their comical expression were some good mix with the gag in this anime. Although it looked like an anime for female audience with its’ cute boy character, but the comedical gag story in this anime might be also entertaining for male audience. Despite being a 4 minutes short anime but the first episode of Ozmafia presented the suitable composition of its’ punchline and the character introduction. (Rafly N/KAORI Newsline)

Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume

Thirty years have passed after the occurrence of a war that nearly led to the extinction of human civilization on Earth. Yumemi Hoshino, a robot who guards a planetarium located on the roof of the abandoned shopping center  patiently waiting for visitors to come to the place. A visitor finally come to her place after almost 30 years of waiting, which is a junker who survive by finding any valuable item from the abandoned civilization.

Through the premiere episode, planetarian introduced two main characters with opposite personalitiy. On the one hand, Yumemi who served as a planetarium guard has a friendly nature to the visitors, while the scavengers who must find valuables item to survive is more indifferent to the surrounding environment. This anime has also managed to build it’s post-apocalyptic atmosphere with well aranged background music. In addition to potentially bring a heartwarming drama set in post-apocalyptic setting, planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume may also be able to make you want to visit the nearby planetarium (Tanto Dhaneswara/KAORI Newsline).

Puzzle and Dragons X

Dragon Caller are those who could use the power of monsters by using Drops. Ace is a boy who can see the Drops wandering around him. One day he find a mysterious egg with a Dragon Caller called Lance. After that, a giant dragon is rampaging around the city in which Ace lives.

Adapted from a kid mobile game the looks of Puzzle and Dragons Cross anime really showed as it supposed for kid demography. Although being a kid show but the action scene in this anime presented really well with some intense fight betwee humans and dragon. For those who ever played the game there were many game related terms in this anime. This anime might be some alternative for you who wanna looked at something different from your usual mature and deep story anime. (Rafly Nugroho/KAORI Newsline)

Qualidea Code

Years ago the world was in a brink of destruction from the great war against the mysterious entity, Unknown. Unable to be detected by any radar and any weapons, Unknown make mankind face their first defeat, the day when the world ended for the first time. Years passed after era of Unknown great war, two siblings who survive from great war, Ichiya Suzaku and Canaria Utara now act as the head and subhead of Tokyo defense unit, member of Tri-City Comittee. Tri-city Comittee is established to gather the teenagers who have power known as World to fight back the Unknown.

The first episode of Qualidea Code opened with an amazing cinematic scene. At the first part there will be some scene from the great war against Unknown with some tense and thrilling atmosphere just like some sci-fi or post apocalyptic movie. But then those tense and thrill suddenly gone because it only occured on the first 5 minutes of this anime. Later this anime showed the more peaceful world years later since the great war and all the thrill swifted with daily lives of some teenagers in a futuristic city. Although this anime had a focus on the fight between human and Unknowns but there also some conflict occured between the three factions. There was nothing special visually from the action scene in this anime, but the background music on the action scene had some catchy trance music. (Rafly Nugroho/KAORI Newsline)

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