Summer 2015 Series of Interest?

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Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou/Everyday Monster Girl and Ushio and Tora are 2 promising ones (I'm actually planning to catch up to the scanlations we have of the former, since it's only about 30+ chapters at this point, though Japan probably has many more chapters in serialization).

Ushio and Tora was originally adapted in the 90s, but is considered a bad attempt by fans. 39 episodes for 33 volumes does have some people concerned.

Other popular series I'm looking forward to include Okusama ga Seito Kaichou (roughly My Wife is the Student President), which will be a miniseries, not the full 20 minute variety, Prison School (which will probably be popular for all the wrong reasons or have a generally mixed reception considering the general content), Dragon Ball Super (even though I've technically not seen the entirety of the original series or read the original manga much) and Overlord (though we've had MMO based series on and off for the last 5 years practically, like Log Horizon and Sword Art Online).

Charlotte seems interesting, though it might be original compared to many of these adapting manga or light novels, but the premise seems a bit...vague to me.

Any others I haven't listed that you've heard about or are prioritizing? To Love Ru Darkness is one I'd like to watch, but even though I've read the manga, I feel like I should watch the full anime from the start to really appreciate the series instead of jumping in so late.
 

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Dragon Ball Super looks interesting, as does Uchio to Tora. I like 1990's style art. For example, I've been watching "Your'e Under Arrest", which is in that style.

I looked into Monster Musume but it was waaaaay too inappropriate contentographic. Same for Prison School.
 
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Dragon Ball Super seems to be re adapting Battle of Gods into a series, which I like, since the movie was a bit too fast paced with that plot point. Makes me want to actually binge watched Dragon Ball all the way through. I actually remember binge watching about a 1/3 of Dragon Ball back in the day, but didn't get beyond the 1st part of the Red Ribbon Army Saga

Ushio and Tora started in roughly 1990, which means it preceded Inuyasha and Yu Yu Hakusho, among other well known series, like Sailor Moon. And it was roughly...5 years or so after Dragon Ball started serialization. It's going to have a weird schedule: 26 episodes and then we wait until Spring of 2016 for the last 13 episodes
 
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Some other surprisingly interesting series are listed below: I think many of these would be fun to watch, especially since most of them are going to be just 1 cour (12-13 episodes)

Rokka no Yuusha: even though it's a bit stereotypical at first with 6 warriors chosen by a goddess to stop the evil Demon Lord, the characters all seem unique in their own ways so far.

Gakkou Gurashi is being compared to Madoka Magica with how sweet and innocent it seems at first, but how dark it becomes at the end of the first episode.

Joukamachi no Dandelion is simple, though the idea of a kingdom where it's still in what appears to be modern day Japan has a fun juxtaposition to it. Plus the royal family all have special powers, so it adds an element of the fantastic to an otherwise simple story of a young girl coming into her own as a person.

And God Eater, which I was almost going to drop because it felt too overhyped, has a nice Attack on Titan/World Trigger vibe with people tasked to defend the last bastion of humanity against monsters.

GATE (the full name is fairly long), is a surprising concept, since it's similar to something from a few years ago called Outbreak Company. The use of the JSDF in a military situation is an interesting loophole, since they're not technically supposed to do aggressive warfare, only defensive, and they're working within that limitation.
 
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Overlord's MC is human, it's more that his outward appearance is nonhuman, same as all the other characters. That was the requirement of their guild.

I'm pretty sure you can say all the personalities of the characters are human. Their outward appearances shouldn't be the determinant of whether you relate to them or not, since I'm pretty sure I don't have white hair and yet I relate to white haired characters in many series (including one in Kyoukai no Rinne that hasn't come up yet)

Charlotte's by the same studio that did Angel Beats: have you watched that?
 
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