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Geriatric hedgehog
Thousand Master
Uhhh I suspect you won't like Tonikawa dude. I quite liked it personally and it was very sweet but it's more comedy and slice of life with non existent drama. Just a heads up from what you've mentioned about your preferences heh.
Girls with Guns
Cardcaptor
Yeah, ok, well I do like romance anime, just not with a lot of comedy, or the wrong kind of comedy - for instance, I do have Toradora in my collection. As long as it's not overly done with that panicky yelling type of comedy, I might still like it.
I really liked the story and characters in Kimi no Todoki, but it was so loaded with all that yelling and chibi (which I hate even more) I had to drop it after Volume 1. I was so disappointed they did that to such a good story. I thought I would really like His and Her Circumstance too, but I couldn't get past the second episode with all that yelling crap. One romance anime I do really like right now that's streaming is Horimiya, that one looks to be an instant buy for me. So yeah, it all depends on how much and what type of comedy is in a romcom series that will determine if it will turn me off or not.
I really liked the story and characters in Kimi no Todoki, but it was so loaded with all that yelling and chibi (which I hate even more) I had to drop it after Volume 1. I was so disappointed they did that to such a good story. I thought I would really like His and Her Circumstance too, but I couldn't get past the second episode with all that yelling crap. One romance anime I do really like right now that's streaming is Horimiya, that one looks to be an instant buy for me. So yeah, it all depends on how much and what type of comedy is in a romcom series that will determine if it will turn me off or not.
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Geriatric hedgehog
Thousand Master
Oooh yes, Horimiya is one I really want to watch but no funimation subscription yet, so it's going into my funimation-to watch at some point-list, which is becoming more and more difficult to resist with some recent output. Hmmm maybe you'll like Tonikawa then, I'm sure you'll find out soon enough heh.
Toradora is one of my all-time favourites, absolutely love it but yeah, I put that more in the romance drama category even though it has a lot of humour. It's what made me a fan of Okada's work.
D1tchd1gger
Akatsuki
Just watched the Trash Taste live reaction stream on VOD and was surprised when they got to this award as Kaguya-sama won.
I was surprised when I saw the post because whilst Eizouken had funny moments I wouldn't call it a comedy per se and Kaguya-sama is very popular.
Bumps my results up to 6/18!
JTO
Kiznaiver
3/18 of my favourites won:
Best Animation: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Best Director: Masaaki Yuasa for Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Best Couple: Tonikawa: Over the Moon For You - Nasa Yuzaki and Tsukasa Yuzaki
And I mainly voted for Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
SAHO
Vampire Ninja
Never would've expected a TV series for Koei Tecmo/Gust "Blue Reflection" game. Pretty wild (ㆁωㆁ)
TVアニメ『BLUE REFLECTION RAY/澪』
TVアニメ『BLUE REFLECTION RAY/澪』2021年4月 MBS/TBS/BS-TBS “アニメイズム”枠にて放送
www.bluereflection-ray.com
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SAHO
Vampire Ninja
Caligula Effect back at it again with Round 2. Lord have mercy these characters design are top tier especially Idol "Regret" and the Male/Female Protagonist 
www.cs.furyu.jp
「Caligula2／カリギュラ２」公式サイト
「Caligula -カリギュラ-」シリーズ完全新作が遂に登場！過去の後悔を抱えた仲間たちと、現実への帰宅を目指す学園ジュブナイルRPG。刺激的なシナリオと独自のバトルシステム、有名ボカロPによる楽曲が特徴の「Caligula2」はPS4とNintendo Switchにて2021年6月24日発売！
MD_Prometh
Kiznaiver
Evangelion 3.0+1.0 will be released in Japan on March 8th, just a day after Tokyo's state of emergency is lifted. Also, the film has been confirmed to be 155 mins long, slightly longer than what the Eirin listing stated.
Avoiding spoilers is going to be a challenge. Hopefully conditions in the West will be safe enough to allow for a potential late 2021 English subtitled / dubbed theatrical release. I'm betting on Gkids / AL potentially getting 3.0+1.0.
MD_Prometh
Kiznaiver
Terminator is getting an anime produced by Production I.G. Be cool if they could get Takeshi Koike on board.
A long feature piece about Pokemon on the BBC.
Monsters, mania and the unstoppable march of Pokémon
Several waves of Pokémania have swept the globe, keeping this lucrative franchise relevant for 25 years.
www.bbc.co.uk
Neil.T
Idolm@ster
I would definitely want to see it if Koike was involved.
Yami
Thousand Master
Seems a bit pointless, when it doesn't have a hope in hell.
Dan
Stand User
SAHO
Vampire Ninja
CommanderZx2
Adventurer
The Terminator franchise has basically turned into a choose your own adventure story, where they are constantly rebooting or ignoring previous movies to try to ape off the success of the first two popular ones. The story should have just ended with Terminator 2.
Dai
Thousand Master
It's ironic that a franchise about an insane computer is stuck in a perpetual reboot loop.
I think a TV series is the only hope for Terminator to cover new ground. Almost every Terminator movie has the same opening act, leaving little time to distinguish itself after that. That's one of the reasons why Sarah Connor Chronicles is my favourite entry in the series after the first two movies. It had the breathing room to flesh out the world and characters in ways that the string of wannabe trilogy-starter movies didn't have time for. It's an often overlooked series that I highly recommend. I think some people dismiss it because it has the look of a generic US drama instead of the distinctive atmosphere of the James Cameron movies. Really, its only weakness is that it suffered the fate of so many SF shows and was cancelled, ending on the mother-of-all cliffhangers.
As for the new anime version, I'm concerned that the showrunner had only worked on short films until last year. He wrote The Batman, but we've yet to see how that turned out.
I think a TV series is the only hope for Terminator to cover new ground. Almost every Terminator movie has the same opening act, leaving little time to distinguish itself after that. That's one of the reasons why Sarah Connor Chronicles is my favourite entry in the series after the first two movies. It had the breathing room to flesh out the world and characters in ways that the string of wannabe trilogy-starter movies didn't have time for. It's an often overlooked series that I highly recommend. I think some people dismiss it because it has the look of a generic US drama instead of the distinctive atmosphere of the James Cameron movies. Really, its only weakness is that it suffered the fate of so many SF shows and was cancelled, ending on the mother-of-all cliffhangers.
As for the new anime version, I'm concerned that the showrunner had only worked on short films until last year. He wrote The Batman, but we've yet to see how that turned out.