MetaVerse Episode 32: No Matter How I Look At It, It’s You Guys’ Fault This Podcast Is So Long!
Summer ’13 impressions, fandom discussion and music on this big MetaVerse episode!
Hello everybody indeed, a MetaVerse is here for you to listen to! Woo! Glad to be back, and I really need to keep this thing consistent. Since we’ve been away a while, we’ve got a jampacked show for you this time. Take breaks between segments, eat a meal during a segment and I hope you enjoy this episode of MetaVerse.
Yup, it’s a long episode alright. Once I get back into the groove and release eps on a more frequent basis, we’ll keep it on the slim next time folks. Certainly much closer to 1 hour than 2.
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SHOW NOTES:
Intro Theme: “Rage On” by OLDCODEX from Free!
00:00 – 02:14 – Welcome w/ Jrow
Theme: “Vivid” by May’n from Blood Lad
02:31 – 15:44 – Segment 1A: Summer 2013 – The Bad
Theme: “If” by Megumi Nakajima from Moshidora
16:13 – 45:07 – MetaASK w/ Foshizzel & lvlln
- Guest: Aeroblip
- Desu ex Machina
- Friday Anime Podcast
- At the end, we talk about Asterios Polyp.
Theme: “Prism Sympathy” by StylipS from Fate/Kaleid Liner Prism Illya
45:22 – 1:21:12 – Segment 1B: Summer 2013 – The Good
Theme: “Kimi no Iru Machi” by Hosoya Yoshimasa from Kimi no Iru Machi
1:21:25 – 1:31:56 – A.M.P. – Anime Music Player w/ Jrow
- Topic: Anime theme songs played by English bands
Theme: “Dimension Tripper” by nao from Choujien Game Neptune the Animation
1:32:13 – 1:50:40 – Segment 1C: Summer 2013 – Favorite Characters
1:50:55 – 1:52:00 – Goodbye w/ Jrow
Outro: “a shadow’s love song” by devils and realist from Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist
Thanks for listening (Haruka)!
About Meta Cast
The team behind Metanorn's Podcast, MetaVerse. Our aniblogging experience gives us the expertise to dish out detailed opinions on which series to watch and ones to drop. And remember, we take fangirling seriously!
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
yay its up! Thanks Jrow for all the smooth editing bro~
POWUH: 1000-1099 and Pirate King with 1048 comments
This one had a lot of pieces to it, and then I had to re-upload the file a couple of times, but I like how it came out.
On to the next episode!
POWUH: and Vampire Lover with 11746 comments
Summer 2013 in my opinion is split three ways. There are those that are great, not so great but still entertaining and those that are just flat. As expected, it’s one of the weaker seasons of the year despite a few exceptional shows. I’m just waiting for Fall to get here.
I pretty much agree with everyone on Inu to Hasami. It tries to be funny but fails in the process, almost pathetic. My only reason to watch it would be to see the sadistic female lead Kirihime. How did Love Lab get in the bad section? That was surprising.
Here’s how I classified what I think of the shows for Summer. You could read it as excellent and going down.
Full Attention (Excellent):
Monogatari Series: Second Season
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G
Danganronpa: The Animation
High School DxD New
Gatchaman Crowds
Stella Jogakuin Koutouka C3-Bu
Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou
Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi
Moderate (Good):
Free!
Fantasista Doll
Blood Lad
The World God Only Knows – Goddesses Arc
Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya
Love Lab
Servant x Service
Average (Bad):
Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou
Rozen Maiden
Choujigen Game Neptune: The Animation
Tamayura: More Aggressive
Silver Spoon
Watamote
Uchouten Kazoku
Favorite Characters:
Kyouko (Danganronpa)
Celestia (Danganronpa)
Shinobu (Monogatari Series)
Hajime (Gatchaman Crowds)
Kirihime (Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou)
Hibiki (Senki Zesshou Symphogear G)
Chris (Senki Zesshou Symphogear G)
POWUH: 1000-1099 and Pirate King with 1048 comments
Your 3-way split concept is what I think this will be the case for most people (much moreso than before) in future seasons, especially when we have over 30 series premiering each season. Man… it seems like every week a new anime is announced for Fall, most recently Little Busters! Refrain.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
My show rankings are always kind of in flux, but would be about this order:
Best shows:
Stella C3
Love Lab
DxD New
Uchouten Kazoku
Rozen Maiden
Great but not quite Best shows:
WataMote (made quite the push with the last sequence of ep 4, tho)
Silver Spoon
Gatchaman Crowds
Servant x Service
Tamayura ~more aggressive~ (always makes me cry in a good way)
Good shows that aren’t up to the previous levels, but are still a fun watch:
Day Break Illusion
Kamisama Inai Nichiyoubi
Fantasista Dolls
Prism Illya
Monogatari
Inu to Hasami (I like the style enough and love Inoue Marina)
TWGOK
Kiniro Mosaic (unfortunately the series isn’t nearly as good as that first episode)
Free! (A nearly perfect gender reversal of usual moe club anime)
Genshiken Nidaime
Blood Lad (almost falls down into the next category)
Shows that I can’t say are good, but I’m watching anyway:
Brothers Conflict (and that horrible ED, I can’t not watch (and listen to) it!)
Neptunia (The plot is for 6 year olds, but the fanservice isn’t…)
Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku (CONSTANTLY BEING YELLED AT IS UNCOMFORTABLE)
Shows I’ve outright dropped:
Danganronpa (Sadistic Bear’s sadism – really the main concept of the show – turns me off)
Kimi no Iru Machi (I love romance, but I hate wheel spinning)
POWUH: 1000-1099 and Pirate King with 1048 comments
I was cool with Danganronpa through 3 episodes, then 4 happened and I put the drop on it. I haven’t even watched Kimi no Iru Machi and never planned to based off the first part of Sumairii’s post.
POWUH: 600-699 with 691 comments
Show’s i’ve dropped:
-Genei wo kakeru Taiyou(felt wrong…really wrong)
-Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku(why you no stop talking woman!)
the bad:
-inu to hasami(it makes no sense…it’s bad, but i’m seeing anyway, the dog…that woman is really mean!)
-free(a swimming anime really? just not my type)
-watamote(No…just no!)
-kimi no iru Machi(i read the manga once…didn’t get as a fan…)
-Brothers conflict(Gah! THAT ED!it kills me…the show’s my kind either)
-Devil and Realist(ACCEPT REALITY ALREADY!THEY EXIST!)
Bad, but not that bad(i’m watching still):
-Neptunia(the plot is not really good…okay it sucks, there’s the reality shock…but the weapons and the style is cool…the fanservice…only vert(she’s a gamer!)!the rest is a trap…I still want to open that poring! the pedomonster was great!Best episode ever!XD)
-ServantXService(it’s not bad…but it’s not good)
-Kamisama(it’s likeable…i can watch and not suffer)
-kiniro Mosaic(the only one on this list i stopped watching…the first episode was memorable, but the rest not so much)
-Tamayura(like SXS it’s not bad…but not good either!)
-Prism Illya(Magical girl Fate…Nah,i’m only watching for remembering Fate/zero)
-Genshiken Nidaime(i found it plain compared to some other shows, but it’s watchable)
-Day Break(it’s a, Meh! Kind of show, but i have hope for it!maybe re-watching form the start it will make it good)
Surprises(show that i thought would suck, but are good):
-SilverSpoon(i totally thought would suck…but i was wrong it’s good!it’s a very good show!)
-Gachaman(another surprise, i had a bad vibe with it, but it turmed out a good show.)
-Blood Lad(this show conquered me with tenacity!THAT SKULL)
-Danganronpa(THAT BEAR!)
-Fantasista Dolls(the protagonist sucks, it’s silly, but sometimes sylly is good)
Best Shows:
-DxD New(Akeno-chan*0*9…and there’s Issei, i’m liking his character more…the crazy priest is awesome, i love that guy XXD)
-Love Lab(good comedy is good comedy!there’s talent on that show!)
-Monogatari(somethings scare the crap out of me…THAT PERSON!but it’s a great show!)
-TWGOK(Keima is an ass…but that’s why i like the both the manga and the show, even though i didn’t get an Yui arc, just some flashback)
-Uchuten Kazoku(i would put in the surprises section, but i really liked the show!Tanuki’s are awesome)
-Symphogear G(it’s Musical!Don’t know why i liked, but i just did!)
-Gifu Doudou(It’s manly…some people are going to understand)
-Rozen Maiden(it has charm…and tea!)
-Stella C3(it’s smooth to watch…)
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
I gotta point out that Gen’ei wo Kakeru Taiyou and Day Break Illusion are the same show.
And I said it above, but it can’t be said enough: The ED for Brothers Conflict is so bad it’s almost painful, but I can’t stop listening to it. It like a song by Leonard Nimoy!
POWUH: 600-699 with 691 comments
i know…i preserve a sense of hope…maybe it will become better if i watch again all episodes in marathon, that’s why i put it a differentiated name and comments, a lot of people liked…
and
you know, the entire show is painful…BUT, that ED
POWUH: 1000-1099 and Pirate King with 1048 comments
Oh man, I would’ve put Gifu Doudou in the Bad list had I contributed one myself. It’s manly most certainly and you’re cool with it, but for me it was bland.
It’s interesting to see Watamote appear on a couple bad/average lists in the comments after a couple folks on the cast talked about how much they liked it. I watched episode 2 and just didn’t feel anything from it; I get the points those guys and gal made, but I’m more aligned with you and BlackBriar on that show.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
From what I’m seeing here and elsewhere, WataMote is a pretty polarizing show. And people come at it from a lot of different angles, with both opinions. I can see where it could make one uncomfortable, even if it doesn’t really make me uncomfortable. And that’s as someone who *hates* to watch people self-destruct in TV shows. I will skip ahead in movies that I have never seen before to get past the part where the person makes the huge mistake that gets them in all the trouble. And I love redemptions, and people improving, and even that’s not happening in WataMote. But I think what really draws me into the show is that the people around Tomoko are almost unfailingly kind, whether it’s the kindness you’d show strangers, or the kindness you’d show family. And also that Tomoko realizes the things that she does are not really going to help her, but she does them anyway (seriously, walking through the shopping district holding a BL game and a massager…), because that’s who she is. I can really relate to that.
POWUH: 600-699 with 691 comments
it’s a show that goes to extremes…both good and bad, in my opinion, i get the humor, it’s pretty well made, but, still makes too uncomfortable to watch and like, just like mirai nikki…THAT GIRL!
POWUH: 1000-1099 and Pirate King with 1048 comments
9:39 – Overcooled talked about Gatchaman and she said that it isn’t a one-note show. Nice pun even if unintended OC! :p
POWUH: Meta Team and The Mad Scientist with 5525 comments
Totally unintentional…but let’s pretend I did it on purpose to be witty!
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
It was awesome xD