Top 10 Anime of Mid-2014, According to NewType
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 15, 2014 21:46 JST
- Tags: Akuma no Riddle, Hitsugi no Chaika, Koukou Rettousei, NewType, Rankings
Newtype’s ever so hotly contested anime rankings have returned for the month of July, showcasing the most esteemed anime and the most universally coveted characters of the season – and with the likes of Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei and Akuma no Riddle establishing clear dominance, it seems that simultaneous blends of service and action are a plausible means to success.
A top 10 ranking of the most popular male characters for July:
1. Tatsuya Shiba (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei)
2. Kirito (Sword Art Online)
3. Kira Yamato (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED)
4. Jotaro Kujo (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusader)
5. Raku Ichijo (Nisekoi)
6. Koyomi Araragi (Monogatari series)
7. Lelouch Vi Britannia (Code Geass)
8. Rentarou Satomi (Black Bullet)
9. Tooru Acura (Hitsugi no Chaika)
10. Hase Yuuki (One Week Friends)
A ranking for the top 10 female characters:
1. Tokaku Azuma (Akuma no Riddle)
2. Chaika Trabant (Hitsugi no Chaika)
3. Saber (Fate series)
4. Lacus Clyne (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED)
5. Miyuki Shiba (Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei)
6. Kosaki Onodera (Nisekoi)
7. Mikasa Ackerman (Shingeki no Kyojin)
8. Nico Yazawa (Love Live!)
9. Tohka Yatogami (Date A Live)
10. Chitoge Kirisaki (Nisekoi)
Another ranking for the most popular anime of the season:
1. Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
2. Akuma no Riddle
3. Mobile Suit Gundam UC
4. Love Live!
5. Hitsugi no Chaika
6. Knights of Sidonia
7. Mekaku City Actors
8. One Week Friends
9. Captain Earth
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Not gonna lie, for the first time in a few season I'm always wishing for another episode of Mahouka every week.
Mahouka is an example of terrible writing and shit character design. It's the reason people can't have nice things.
your mother is the reason we cant have nice things, she didn't abort you.
lol good one.
as goes for your father unless if he is Darth Vader,you'll be the envy in all galaxy far,far away.
its the epitome of marty stu in a main character. he puts kirito of SAO to shame.
watched now 2 eps after saw this list does it really get even decent at least?
I'm looking forward to No Game No Life the most every week. Started out Mahouka too as I read the first few volumes of the manga, but it's beginning to feel like it's a showcase of a certain "rettousei"'s ego trip. Though I am still following, not as keen anymore.
mahouka would be perfect if only tatsuya a bit more bad ass
Mahouka would of been perfect if there was a massive penalty for using his powers. ATM there are none besides "you can't use military scale spells".
And then he would be the same as all shounen crap heroes? No, thx.
Mahouka is good, cause they skipped all that power-up/training bullshit, that takes 4/5 of all serial. And they concentrated on that world mechanics/magic/etc.
yeah , it is the same reason i like it too. The only thing i have of this work is that Tatsuya is always the only one to explain stuff like others were retards . Author should work a little more on that .
Well, if you try to turn matter into energy (Material Burst) at close range you'd get dissintegrated, so I think that's good enough penalty, since it's a absurdly large range only spell... Flash Cast only works with spells he already knows and that have few processes... And Regrowth makes him sense the same pain as the target felt when injured but compressed in miliseconds, so that should count as a penalty too...
The only things "without penalty" in a true sense would be basic dismantling spells (like the ones he already used for dismantling guns), Elemental Sight, and Mist Dispersal. But since the true penalty of all those together is "unable to use any other kind of magic" and his penalty for being able to use other magic even if he sucks at it is almost absolute lack of emotion so... I think he has plenty of penalties for his overpowered status
Brosuke & Imouto are the top of the season. They've got me pumped too!
woah, 3 lists
but it's xmas
Haha, its not a newtype list without kira or lacus.
They seriously picked the gary stu and followed it up with another gary stu? what the fuck is wrong with japan's taste?
the problem is that most anime is basically twilight level of wish fulfillment. you might find a couple titles that actually have some sense of artistic integrity, but most of it is to give the viewer a power trip and escape from their sad lives.
Since anime is made for teenagers and looney otakus, it's hardly very surprising. The market for powertrip Gary Sue daydreams is pretty huge in both of those two groups...
Burn this list with fire
Sounds more like you need to get some taste.
Hooray for Chaika the Coffin Princess!!
Give it more coffin power for this season!
Chaika?
Hm Yes, Chaika
I find the lack of Ping Pong disturbing...
true, ping pong is getting to a masterpiece level in the last episode.
to be fair it started quite slow though and majority of people doesn't watch it any further if the first episode doesn't interest them too, so...
as much as the anime and its adaption is interesting dont think it is worth that much, though it is still way better of six of the anime on the list.
Ping Pong is for gay shit
I consider Chaika-the Coffin Princess the best pure fantasy anime since The Slayers.
Why is love live on the list, yet No Game No Life isn't...
alright, who revived the SHEED zombies? come here let me introduce you to my knee.
LOL Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei sucks.
Wait till next season, we are gonna have 2 GARY STUS HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME can't wait for the bitchfest to start on /a/
WTF is Gary Stu?
Some people use that as a term for a male Mary Sue.
This just raises the question wtf a Mary Sue is.
Mary Sues are absolutely "perfect" and invincible character.
It's a classic rookie mistake to make when you're not all that experienced at creating a story (ie. a book, fanfic, comic, role-playing session, movie, etc).
You make the hero be perfect in every single way imaginable, with no faults or weaknesses whatsoever.
He's the Man everyone loves, the men respect him and the ladies just want to line up outside his bedroom door. He beats all his enemies with the flick of his wrist, and he's also a genius so smart he won a Nobel Prize when he was 15.
He's the Superman with no kryptonite. He's the powertrip daydream of a 14 year old... and he's utterly, UTTERLY boring as a story.
...
and that's kinda where Mahouka is atm.
>> Mary Sues are absolutely "perfect"
>> and invincible character.
Dunno about you, but I like those type of characters. A lot. I absolutely hate it when the protagonists are equally matched with the antagonists. That's boring. Seen it a million times.
Now having someone kicking everyone's asses, THAT I call good entertainment.
Like:
Onizuka (GTO)
Yagami Light (Death Note, first Arc anyway)
Kirito (SAO)
Lelouch (Code Geass)
Conan Edogawa (Meitantei Conan)
Alucard (Hellsing)
Kirika (Noir)
Rushuna (Grenadier)
Midou Ban (GetBackers)
Hei (Darker Than Black)
Yagami Kazuma (Kaze no Stigma)
Kenshi (Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari)
Sakamaki Izayoi (Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo?)
.
.
.
GARY STU >>>>>>> Useless MC
nah, it's not perfect but with the recent episode it keeps getting better.
Buncha crappy TOP 10 lists. It's impressive how stupid people are, and that's why we have so many actual good manga that never get animated - because things like Love Live and Mahouka take their place.
Comparing Love Live with Maohuka is like comparing K-on! with Code Geass...
In my opinion, Chaika - the Coffin Princess is the best pure fantasy anime since The Slayers
BS as usual...
The Mahouka adaptation's got some pacing issues, but it's runs rings around NGNL. The amount of love that show gets in American fan circles utterly baffles me. I'm more than happy to see Mahouka, Love Live, and Chaika dominate these lists.
Mahouka is utterly boring can't see how anybody can stay awake, watching it is about as entertaining as watching paint dry not to mention how bad the writing is and how dull most of the characters are.
NGNL while nothing new is at least fun to watch.
the writing for NGNL is utter shit. The suspension of disbelief can only take so much before it comes crashing down crying 'bullshit!'
At least the Blank siblings win their battles by the edge of their breath, unlike Tatsuya who just steamrolls everything without any effort. You do realize the entire setting of Mahouka has been constructed to be a giant collection of trash mobs that Tatsuya can butt-fuck without any effort? That's the whole point of the show, and it's lame.
NGNL is at least half just comedy, and esp. a humoristic piss-take on all the fanservice of modern anime.
The writers of NGNL also understand the crucial point that to make a story interesting, the main chars have to struggle to win. They have one weapon, their brains, fighting opponents that are stronger and are playing with a stacked deck.
The whole premise of the show is about how the main chars manage to outwit their enemy and wins.
In Mahouka, the main char is James Bond, Superman and Artemis Fowl combined. At an age of 17, he's a military trained assassin powerful enough to annihilate anyone he wishes, he's a famous genius level engineer who invents a way to fly in his spare time, and pretty much half the ladies he's met so far have fallen for him.
and that's the whole show. There's no comedy, no interesting character stories, and not even a equally powerful rival to make things interesting. The whole show is just Shiba Tatsuya, demigod, walking around among ants.
The whole show is a 14 year old boy's powertrip daydream, and nothing else.
Definitely!! The chess episode was so much fun and by episode 5 of Mahouka I AM STILL FUCKING WAITING FOR THE EPIC SCENES.
Newtype's lists are always biased because of the demographics of their core readers.
This is why I stopped buying Newtype magazines.