Welcome to round one of the Iyashikei Tournament! Matchups were chosen randomly, and are listed below! Best of luck to all of our contestants, the polls will be up within a day or two!
Tanaka-kun is Always Listless vs Tamako Market
Hakumei and Mikochi vs Barakamon
Gakuen Babysitters vs Sweetness and Lightning
Yama no Susume vs My Roommate is a Cat
Kino's Journey vs Yokohama Shopping Log
Flying Witch vs Natsume's Book of Friends
Nekogami Yaoyorozu vs Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar
Kobato vs Let's Make a Mug, too!
A Place Further than the Universe vs The Morose Mononokean
broadly speaking there are 3 types of original anime: competent, over-ambitious, and indulgent
competent stuff is the kind of shows that have people begging for more anime original stories, think odd taxi, vivy, a place further than the universe, basically every big anime movie
over-ambitious stuff starts out with people begging for more anime original storoes but it becomes clear that the creators were in over their heads to some degree. the most infamous examples of this are kado and wonder egg, but classroom crisis, akiba maid war, and angel beats to a much lesser degree are also probably closer to this category than the former
indulgent shows aren't over ambitious really, they usually do have a lot of ideas shoved into them and aren't super well realised, but you can tell that the creators weren't really trying to do much besides have fun, and this makes them loads of fun when you don't take them too seriously, think robihachi, bucchigiri, and samurai flamenco
Context: hi! I realized my anime watch list was 100 anime long and, I need to get on that! And I can't choose where to start, so I'm leaving it up to Tumblr!
Rules: Top 2 from each of these 5 polls will go to the finals! I'll watch the winner of that
The tag to find all the polls will be 100 anime poll!
aroace people today I come to recommand you an anime : A place further than the universe.
It focuses on the friendship between a group of girls who all want to go to Antarctica for various reasons. It’s a wonderful story with no romance whatsoever and it’s really moving.
Just for fun since my friends convinced me to make a MAL and I had to think about what shows are actually my favorite.
Starting from top left:
A Place Further than the Universe, Cardcaptor Sakura, Bakemonogatari (and series), Revolutionary Girl Utena, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sonny Boy, Millennium Actress, Kaguya-Sama Love is War, Perfect Blue
crazy take: aside from actual lesbian romance stories, obviously, nothing passes the bechdel test better than moe "cute girls doing cute things" anime. its always just a group of girls, few to no named male characters, boys and dating are hardly ever brought up beyond the abstract, if at all. like we're focusing on the girls hanging out rn, we dont need to worry abt that shit. mugi just ate mio's strawberry.
a cute story of girls trying to and getting to go to antarctica. it's really sweet, and very power of friendship, and appreciation for the world around us