Summer 2013 Anime List (w/ PVs and chart!)

[mirkosp]

By the way, as it turns out, Watamote is by Silver Link and directed by Shin Oonuma. That makes at least two shows he's on this summer, considering there's Illya too (there might be something else which I'm overlooking? I don't think, though). Kinda worried, but not too much.

[Eryl1981]

Just from the brief descriptions, I would most likely watch:

Anime Shows:

Brothers Conflict
Free!
Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist
Chou Jigen Game Neptune The Animation.

Anime Movies:

Hal
Kara no Kyoukai: Fukan Fuukei 3D
Kaze Tachinu.

[Qyot27]

Tiers:
1 - Must-watch
1.5 - Wait-and-see, very likely to cave a couple weeks in and watch anyway
2 - Conditional on watching other entries in the series first; I haven't gotten around to TWGOK S2 even though I watched S1, and Fate stuff gets this treatment because I'm lazy (watching Carnival Phantasm was due to Tsukihime, which didn't suffer from this problem)
3 - Last resort stuff; I'll probably get around to watching it eventually, but I don't know when. Might be compelled to move an entry or two into 1.5, but no way of telling at this point.

Tier 1:
Monogatari Series Second Season
Rozen Maiden
AnoHana Movie
Watamote
High School DxD New

Tier 1.5:
Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi
Gatchaman Crowds

Tier 2:
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya
Fate/Zero Café Movie
The World God Only Knows S3

Tier 3:
Kin-iro Mosaic
Fantasista Doll
Blood Lad
Love Lab



Also, since I found out about this a day or two ago thanks to Wikipedia, one of the Fall season's Tier 1 entries is the second season of Infinite Stratos.

[mirkosp]

Qyot, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya is just a spinoff with only characters in common with the other series, so if the rest of the franchise is what's keeping you, you're good.

[post-it]

... the second season of Infinite Stratos ...

so far, it looks like "The Sultan in Disney's Aladdin II" ... everything is wrong with the situation and the characters are being "forced" into playing-along with a script that doesn't work!

[Qyot27]

Qyot, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya is just a spinoff with only characters in common with the other series, so if the rest of the franchise is what's keeping you, you're good.

It's more that I don't tend to go with spinoffs without being familiar with the main canon first, even if it's only tangentially related. Most of my exposure to Fate is via osmosis, despite having the VN and subsequent properties in the queue for years.