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Fall 2015 Anime Season

Hacka Doll the Animation

Hacka Doll app delivers a customized feed of news for each user. The user answers some simple questions when launching the app for the first time, and then the app will filter the news that caters to the user's personal interests. With daily use, the app automatically analyzes and learns which news articles the user reads and recommends to further personalize the feed. The anime personifies the app's customization engine as three "Hacka Dolls" — the personal entertainment AI and main navigator Hacka Doll #1, the anime expert Hacka Doll #2, and the knowledgeable otaku Hacka Doll #3.

I can’t help but think if Ah! My Goddess was created today, this is what it would look like.

It’s dumb, but in a kind of funny way. We'll see how it goes...


Heavy Object

"Objects" are powerful, massive weapons that change the course of warfare and are manned by Elite Object pilots. An odd Elite girl named Milinda meets Quenser, a student who aims to become a Object mechanic, with the soldier-in-training Heivia on a snowy battlefield.

In the early 21st century, the world is at war. Japan introduces a new super weapon - the Object - and with it quickly defeats the militaries of the world. In response, the United Nations dissolves and the nations of the world combine into four Megapowers, all of whom build Objects of their own and now wage individual Object-on-Object warfare like gladiators of old.

If you’re a Military Otaku, this show is for you. It’s essentially a visual technical manual with some really awful attempts at comic relief. As for me, I was not impressed so I am not going forward with it.



Kagewani

Mysterious monsters called "UMA" suddenly appear in the present day and attack humans. The scientist Sōsuke Banba pursues the truth with the keyword "Kagewani," a word that literally means "Shadow Crocodile.”

Created and directed by Tomoya Takashima, who did the two Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories series. While the anime studio for this one is new, it is animated in the same kamishibai (a storytelling method using paper scrolls) style that ILCA did Yamishibai. I really enjoyed the first season of Yamishibai, however the second season really dropped the ball so hopefully this one is more like the former.



Lance N' Masques

Yōtarō Hanafusa is a young man who is part of the last remaining order of knights in the 21st century, "Knights of the World." As he fights as the mysterious Knight Lancer, he must hide his identity behind a mask. One day he meets a girl named Makio Kidōin, and when finding that she lives alone, decides to watch over her.

Likely to be popular with loli-cons. As I am not one, I found it mostly mediocre and won’t be continuing. Hard to believe this one is helmed by Kyōhei Ishiguro, who also directed Your Lie in April, though it does have hs visual style. In the end, yet another in a long line of poor adaptions of poor visual novels.


Noragami Argoto

In the second season of Noragami the main focus is on Bishamon, god of combat. She has many shinki due to her being unable to abandon spirits attacked by Ayakashi. She has a large group of shinki with her as leader, causing her trouble as she sometimes cannot tend to all of them properly, especially when one of them gets sick or is in pain. She has a strong hate for Yato, as a dark past binds the two of them.

No worries about this one, as it’s first episode is full of everything that made the first series great.