The Anime Society 5: Tentacles For All!

Started watching Spice and Wolf, seems like it could be a good series. Also I've apparently watched 5 days of anime now, feels like a waste when it's put like that.

Ive been continueing with last years secret santa series. .Holo/Horo is quite endearing.

Hello all, I've recently joined and love anime

I'm currently watching fullmetal alchemist (original) as-well as some other anime from this season

It's great isn't it?! It's much too soon for me to rewatch it but I'm quite tempted haha.



I really enjoyed FMA, I watched that before brotherhood, have you seen brotherhood yet?

I finish hunter x hunter and i am looking for something new right now. I like a story with strategic or philosophical development. other series I like was baby steps (very cool anime about strategic tennis) death note, yu yu hakusho, fate/zero, evangelion, etc.

great comments here, i have fun reading you guys.

Welcome to the society!

Monster springs to mind immediately, it's a fantastic mystery series with possibly the best story and characters I've ever seen in anime... pacing is a little on the slow side, but the time taken to build things up and tell the story from multiple different angles pays off in the end IMO.

Zetsuen no Tempest is another show I'd recommend highly, though the first half is admittedly a lot better than the second half. Worth it for the battle of wits, though!

Finally, if you're interested in another strategy-based sports anime, One Outs' protagonist ensures that it stands out from other baseball series.

Hope something there takes your interest!

I'm planning on watching it after the original, but I'm definitely going to watch it that's for sure

Anyone here watch Nodame Cantabile?

Decided to use Anime-Planet's personal manga recommendation system to choose my next series - despite my excitement when they announced the feature a few months ago, I continued using Manga Updates since it could do things like differentiate between licensed/unlicensed series, or list only series that were fully scanlated etc, which A-P doesn't do.

Anyway, out of all the suggestions, I ended up going with Ibitsu. Sounds like it'll be fun.

Also is there a way you can go through the story without reading the whole manga again to get to the part, like a short summary of all the chapters?

If it's a relatively popular series, the Wiki for the series will have summaries of chapters/story arcs that you can skim over to remind yourself of what happened.

Just finished Tokyo Ghoul though, amazing animation and good anime. Started from chapter 1 from the manga, because people say it's better .
Anyone else watched Tokyo Ghoul?

Seem pretty good, based on the picture lol. I love horror/gorey anime/manga like elfen lied and stuff, can you give me some recommendations like that? As posted, just finished tokyo ghoul, so I am in that mood for these sort of ones.

I also have a dilemma, I always read lots of manga but ALWAYS forget the chapter I am on. I then end up coming back like after 1 year to finish it and forget where to start, how'd you guys keep tabs on it all? Use anime-planet? Also is there a way you can go through the story without reading the whole manga again to get to the part, like a short summary of all the chapters?

Yep, and I'm greatly looking forward to next season's sequel! The final episode was fantastic in its own way, but it left the series on quite the cliffhanger.



Well I've now read the first volume of Ibitsu, which was fantastically creepy. I'd recommend it on that basis, and just hope it ends well.

As for other horror manga that I've read before, Hideout's a good singe volume story, Franken Fran is brilliant if you like body horror, and The Drifting Classroom is a classic.

Anime-wise, I'd suggest Shin Sekai Yori, Blue Gender, and definitely Higurashi no Naku Koro ni if you've not already seen that.



For manga, I read full volumes either as paperbacks or on Kindle, so I've never had to worry about that (apart from when bookmarks fall out ). Anime-Planet does have a manga chapter count function though, so it might be worth trying it out. I've definitely found the episode counter useful when coming back to anime series after a long time!

Wow thanks for all the links. Higurashi has a Visual novel, I think? If it does, I will read that. I just enjoy them more.

I tried to download some onto the kindle paper white, but was far too much hassle than just reading it on my macbook or manga rock app on android.

I tried to buy some but they are priced so stupidly, it's not even worth it.
It's like comics, so expensive here. Many haven't even been translated yet.

I will defo use that. Thanks.

Yeah, Higurashi started off as a visual novel. I've honestly never read/played one of those before, might have to give one a go sometime.

I use the Kindle Comic Converter for Paperwhite; no doubt there are easier ways of reading manga on the go, but I'm quite happy with the device.

As for buying manga, I've certainly saved money since I ran out of shelf space and went digital. I was paying ~£50 for single volumes of some out of print and hard to find series, but it's my only real hobby, and it always felt good whenever I completed a series.