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Sun 20 May 2012
Anime Power Rankings: Spring 2012 Week 7
Posted by Aeroblip under Anime, Anime Power Rankings
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| Rank | Anime (First Place Votes) | Studio | Episode | Change |
| 1 | Tsuritama (11) | A-1 Pictures | 6 | 2  |
| 2 | Fate/Zero (5) | ufotable | 20 | – |
| 3 | Sakamichi no Apollon (4) | Tezuka Productions | 6 | 2  |
| 4 | Uchuu Kyoudai (4) | A-1 Pictures | 7 | 1 |
| 5 | Eureka Seven AO (2) | Bones | 6 | 7 |
| 5 | Hyouka (3) | Kyoto Animation | 4 | 6 |
On the cusp: Jormungand, Shirokuma Cafe, Lupin the Third, Haiyore! Nyaruko-san.
Last week’s results, about the Anime Power Rankings
Last week had quite the uneventful rankings, but this week’s definitely changes things up a bit. While the Top 3 shows remain the same, Tsuritama takes the top spot with a large margin.
Tsuritama is strange beast. A plot is finally starting to form and connect all the loose dots that have been scattered around so far, and most people will probably be happy about that. Yet, strangely, I’m not. That’s not a complaint by any means, I’d just actually rather have the dots left completely disconnected so I can continue watching the guys fish and goof around. I’m actually worried about a plot taking this away. Hell, even shows like Baccano have a character-driven plot to keep things moving. But nope, I just want to see the Tsuritama guys hang out, and not because I find them “SO KAWAII UGUU”. It doesn’t make the show better nor worse, just different.
Riyoga (Riyoga’s Ramblings)
Like every week so far, Fate/Zero still sits comfortably in second place. This is the first week Sakamichi no Apollon does not claim the top spot. Honestly, I enjoy Kids on a Slope, but the lack of relationship developments lately has been dragging the show downhill in my opinion. Perhaps I’m impatient.
Just could not forgive F/Z for having two flashback episodes in a row; one that was good, and one that wasn’t so good, and then giving us an episode where nearly nothing happened until the end of the episode. Sakamichi’s a good enough show but it’s turned into a boring love triangle. I’m not really having fun watching it as much as before. So I voted this week in terms what shows I have the most fun watching.
In addition, we have an unusual tie this week as Hyouka and Eureka Seven AO both claim the fifth place spot. Personally, I am quite pleased to see Hyouka break into the Top 5 at least once.
Hyouka dropped for me this week because of apprehension. I still like how it approaches mysteries, but I worry about how the show will progress with the “main” mystery seemingly so far along in its progress. Yes, it’s still unsolved, but it seems like one or two more clues and the whole thing is solved. I question how the show will decide to continue for the full 21 episodes.
Marth Aurion (Marth’s Anime Blog)
Tasogare Otome x Amnesia played with the idea of Herd mentality in a horror story context, and man, it was delivered in such a powerful manner. It is interesting to see how it is not necessary the horror stories, or the spiritual roam, that horrifying, but the humans that are affected by such stories are. Kinda ironic that in the end, that the person that hated horror stories were helped by a horror story figure
FNZNA (Fnzna Side Dish)
Phi Brain cruelly overlooked yet again.
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marthaurion Reply:
May 20th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
I voted for it last time and I wanted to vote for it this week, but I hadn’t watched it yet.
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Polar Bear making a human buy him bondage clothing. How can people NOT vote for that as the best anime of the week? 7th place is 8 places too low.
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Huh. Thought Hyouka Ep 4 was pretty good. Didn’t think it would still make the Top 5. Also, no Sankarea in the Top Ten huh? Well, at least Uchuu Kyoudai’s in the rankings…
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Eureka Seven AO = PWND!
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So 2 of the 3 worst episodes I watched last week end up in the top 5. I knew I was out of step, but come on. Everyone filling out troll ballots (and Fate/Zero) just makes this too hard to predict.
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(kinda OT)
me and my bad grammar…
I really need to proofread my stuff more OTL
…o and…I don’t own Marth’s Anime Blog (though it links to the correct page)
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While the Top 3 shows remain the same, Tsuritama takes the top spot with a large margin.
Fate/Zero almost had me switching my vote, I’m not sure if there are a lot of shows like Tsuritama that can successfully tie together a coming of age story with mythology, mild science fiction AND fishing. It’s kind of neat and hilarious at the same time.
I was kind of okay with Apollon this week, it hasn’t reached the level of excellence it did on the first episode but it’s still pretty good.
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Apollon’s finally been taken off the top spot eh. Weird though since the latest episode was actually pretty good.
This is the first time I’ve put Tsuritama on my Top 5 so seeing it take the top spot must really mean a lot of people shared the same sentiment on how good the recent episode was.
Also, no ranking for MGX this week
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Damn it, wish I’d remembered to vote this week … maybe then Lupin wouldn’t have unjustly fell out of the top five. Come on, people! Goemon stopped the Cuban Missile Crisis by slicing missiles!
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kadian1364 Reply:
May 21st, 2012 at 12:45 pm
Magneto did it better.
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Justin Reply:
May 21st, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Hey, I did my part
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Not enough love for Kimi to Boku 2, which was the best this week. Not any for Hunter x Hunter either, sadly
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Good to see some mixup in the Anime Power Rankings, finally! once I can’t wait to jump back into this season once I get back home.
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