Summer Anime 2008

I use KM Player http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php
Uses only its built-in codecs, so much* better performance on Hi-def .mkv files that are so popular lately compared to VLC, my previous player.

Geass, Macross, Soul Eater, Strike Witches, Sekirei, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu were on my watch list this season. Looking forward to Gundam 00, and Nodame.

Code Geass, Macross Frontier and Daughter of 20 Faces were my fave picks for the summer. On windows I use the CCCP codec pack and my personal favorite Media Player Classic. If this combo can't play it, it doesn't exist. Now I got Nodame, Clannad, Gundam 00 and few OAVs to look forward to.

i use windows media player...
those .MKV files i torrented, the quality were ugly, so ugly that i can't even watch the show (lags on those squary squary stuff)
all my torrent are in .avi format

I've been watching Zero no Tsukaima and Tetsuwan Birdy, but that's about it. Tried watching World Destruction for a while, but the male protagonist had as much personality as a cardboard box. I've been getting Zero no Tsukaima and Tetsuwan Birdy streamed on Veoh.com or torrented from isohunt.com and animesuki.com.

I too use VLC. It plays stuff Media Player and Quicktime won't touch, including some partially broken files. And insanely enough, somebody was thoughtful enough to make it compatible with the iMac remote.

I use Media Player Classic with all of CCCP running.
For me it started out with Strike Witches, Code Geass R2, Macross Frontier, Hidamari Sketch x365, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, Koihime Musou, Birdy. It quickly went down to Strike Witches, Macross F, Hidamari Sketch.
Lowest point of the season by far was Geass R2 which was plagued with terrible writing.

Fall season there's 14 series I want to watch but in the end I'll probably only end up sticking with 3 or 4. Ones I'm dieing to see are Ef Tale of Melodies, Casshern SINS, and Tytania.

I use Media Player Classic most of the time.

VLC it's my favorite.

QuickTime (with help from Perian) plays everything for me. If there is something weird in the encoding, then I use VLC.

Use VLC and Flip4Mac which plays .wmv on Quicktime

I use GOM Player, which I quite like.
I haven't watched much this season, only watching Geass R2 consistently. Got Nogizaka Haruka and Zero no Tsukaima sitting around on my HDD. Really looking forward to Ef, Kemeko (read the first few chapters of the manga <3) and GUNDAM 00!!

Mplayer OS X is far superior to VLC on the Mac. I use it all the time. It even has the GUI conforming to the layout like the rest of the system. Just gotta set the parameters right and you're all set. Funny thing is just before I came here I was looking at Sanya at Gelbooru haha.

I ditched VLC for Zoom Player. VLC is purely used for screenshots.

I've been trying to keep up on Nogizaka Haruka and Zero no Tsukaima. Nogizaka is a bit bland, but interesting enough to see what happens next.

Where can I get that Haruka oppai mousepad?? I can't seem to find it online anywhere >_<

Same with Danny that I'm looking forward to Kemeko DX and Nodame, although I need to finish the first season of Nodame first >_>

I use media player classic.

for me.. my picks for this summer has to be...
Macross F, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu and Kyouran Kazoku Nikki.

You guys look forward to WAY to few stuff... I'm looking forward to Kemeko DX, Rosario no Vampire 2, Jigoku Shoujo Season 3, ToraDora, Clannad: After Story. I mean, so many of them look interesting... There are at least 35 plus animes being released. How can one keep up with them all???

For me:

Zero no Tsukaima 3, Tetsuwan Birdy, Strike Witches, Sekirei, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, and Koihime Musou.
Also been continuing Code Geass R2, Soul Eater, Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, ToLoveRu, and a bunch of other animes.

Looking forward to Rosario+Vampire 2, Toradora, Lucky Star OVA, Kemeko, and Hyakko.

(Patiently) waiting for the eventual arrival of Suzumiya Haruhi season 2, Shina Dark, Higurashi season 3, and Nanoha Movie.

VLC here too (on Windoze)

Found a site to preorder the oppai pad but its all in japanese! It does ship overseas though.

On Windows (Vista & XP) I use CCCP, a great hassle-free codec pack that plays everything flawlessly and includes Zoomplayer & MPC.

On Mandriva (2008.1) I'm still trying to get playing videos to work actually... >_<

I think next time I may get an Apple... T_T

use media player classic all the time

Finding time to watch Sekirei and Koihime Musou for the summer and waiting for Rosario+Vampire season 2 and Shina Dark...

I switch between MPC and VLC, trying to stay consistent with MPC since it does better with subtitles than VLC...

I've enjoyed Sekieri, Macross, Geass, Birdy, Haruka Nogizaka, and Eve no Jikan (1 episode so far)

I use Windows media player and media player classic, rarely divx player

Windows Media player -.-

Waiting for Clannad After Story ;) !

Windows Media Player LOL

I like CCCP (combined community codec pack) it's definitely non-invasive and it plays everything I throw at it with precision. I have VLC just in case, but the playback isn't as accurate sometimes - it depends.

I've mostly been watching older series such as Da Capo and Sola. I'm keeping up with Zero no Tsukaima and Nogizaka Haruka though.

For me, I'm using Windows Media Player and K-Lite codec pack (used this for over a year now). I've had zero issues with this setup and so far it's played everything I've thrown at it (except one time when I gave it an .mkv file with FLAC audio).

The fall season for anime is going to be insane.

Media Player Classic to play HD mkv files.. :3

KoiHime Musou and Strike Witches only for now.. :3

Another Media Player Classic user who dl'd it with CCCP. Only maintenance I need to do is a simple uninstall and reinstall when encoders move on to something new every few years. VLC's some degree of crap compared to MPC.

Only watching Geass this summer after dropping all the other series I was following early on (Macross, Koihime, ToLoveRu, Slayers, World Destruction, and some others), but I'll probably marathon the ones that get highly recommended. Quite looking forward to the Lucky Star OVA later this month.

VLC works perfectly fine on windows aswell, its a good player.

strike witches, was deninitly the best one this summer !

Been watching only Code Geass R2 and Macross Frontier for the summer. Both had great start but stories got really lame towards the end... So just waiting for the last episode and see how the ending for both series will turn out to be.

Also watched some Sekirey, Slayers Revolution and Birdy the Mighty but only like about 2-3 episodes. I want to catch up later if possible.

Only series I'm looking forward for fall is Mobile Suit Gundam OO Season 2. I hope it does not end up like Code Geass R2 -_-

Media Player Classic is the only way to go.

I watched Code Geass and Daughter of Twenty Faces this summer, not as much anime as I had hoped but was busy with work, so I'll catch up once I'm off college for Christmas.

I use the Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP) with Zoom Player. So far it's the best codec pack for fansub playback because VLC is not able to render Advanced Styled Subs properly and those subs are used a lot nowadays.

As for the shows, my highlights are so far Macross Frontier, Code Geass R2 and Soul Eater. I liked Allison to Lillia and Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora too but the fansubs are far behind the aired episodes unfortunately.

ZoomPlayer, Media Player Classic or VLC.
But ZoomPlayer mostly... I like the interface and customize everything.
For codecs, CCCP.

I'm following Strike Witches and Hidamari Sketch 365 so far...

I uses zoom player with CCCP and sometimes winamp for avi files, I have no fate with VLC, it keeps "playing lag" on me ;_;

my summer fall picks are Code Geass, Macross Frontier, Sekirei, Natsume Yuujincho, Strike Witches, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu and World Destruction (im only watching for Toppi the kuma lol) ^^

サーニャは俺の嫁！！

Media Classic is my player of choice. Zoom is the backup.

I dont want Strike Witches to end!!! Only one ep left!!! :sob: But still 3 more of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu!! And I can continue to watch Xam'd if I want...

I normally use MPC with CCCP, as that plays almost everything. I only use windows media for retarded streams, and VLC for large wmv's as that's the only thing MPC doesn't play efficiently.

Strike witches and Haruka for me this season.

This summer Strike Witches, Kamen no Maid Guy, Xam`d: Lost Memories, Soul Eater and The Daughter of Twenty Faces were the anime I enjoyed the most.

I use K-Lite Codec Pack Full (http://codecguide.com/about_kl.htm) with Media Player Classic for watching my anime and VLC for DVDs. :)

As long as the fall anime don't wind up being a disappointment like Zettai Karen Children (I can't stand that show, and I hate the manga even more), although I won't be watching Kyou no Go no Ni (I prefer the OVA), and Stitch! (since I hate Disney)

On OS X I use MPlayer for most stuff and VLC for the rest... VLC usually gets the work done if everything else fails but VLC is terrible with softsubs, at first you most likely wont mind how VLC does them but when you see how the subs should be done you will absolutely hate VLC :P

On Windows I use zoomplayer and cccp codec pack, cant fail with those.

My anime summer was a bit quiet... spent summer in Austria so had much more to do besides sitting in front of computer, watched some old animes this summer though, like Kimagure Orange Road.

Been watching ToLoveRu, Code Geass R2, Zero No Tsukaima Princess No Rondo and watched a couple eps of Strike Witches. For the fall season Jigoku Shoujo 3 and Clannad: After Story are getting top priority.

Soul Eater, Code Geass, Wagaya no Oinarisama and Hakura's Secret, the summer anime I like.

summer animes that are watching and ending soon :(

Nijuu mensou no musume, Code Geass R2, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, To Love-Ru, Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu no koto: Natsu no Sora, Chi's Sweet Home, Tetsuwan Birdy, Blade of the Immortal.

CCCP with Media player Classic + "open source" CoreAVC, my computer is veeery old and standard ffdshow filter fails when it comes to watch stuff in HD resolutions. As for the shows there are quite a few surprisingly, Sekirei (some eps are even uncensored - oppai banzai !!!) Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, The Daughter of Twenty Faces, Zettai Karen Children, Code Geass R2, Zero no Tsukaima S3 but still my favourite ones are those who started quite a long time ago - One Piece, D.Gray Man and 4th Season of Major. I'm dying to see new Nodame no Cantabile, I simply adore this series in all it's forms ^_^.

I use VLC too, though it crashes every once in a while. Usually works fine.

Spent the summer watching: more Daughter of Twenty Faces, Chocolate Underground, Itazura na Kiss, Mahou Tsukai...Natsu no Sora, Natsume Yuujinchou, Nogizaka Haruka, Special A, and Ryoko's Case File. I've got Birdy, Telepathy Shojo, World Destruction and Antique Bakery still waiting to be watched (or deleted).

20 Faces is still one of my favorites. Chocolate Underground was really cute. Natsume Yuujinchou is really sweet and charming. Nogizaka is adorable. Ryoko's Case File is really interesting. The rest of it is kinda...meh...

use Vista Codec Pack together with Media Player Classic. No problems so far. Summer for me was Code Geass, Macross Frontier, Zero no Tsukaima, Nogizaka Haruka and Sekirei. Can't wait for Nodame as well! XD

VLC all the way

VLC+Quicktime+MPlayer....
yea, I use all three...

I use Mplayer for the mac, and sometimes VLC.
For my PC I use SMplayer and sometimes VLC.

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

most of my animes are in .mkv so it's Windows Media Player Classic.
VLC display horrible subtitle fonts when playing .mkv videos so i only use VLC when i want to take screenshots.

I use Media Player Classic at home then use FFDShow for decoding... (I prefer to tweak the codecs myself). in the office, as we're not allowed to install non-work related stuff, I just use MPlayer...
btw, is KMPlayer really that great?

Most of the stuff I watched/watching is like, popular. Code Geass and Macross are two of those.

Some others I watched based on storyline, like Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu and Kyaoran Kazoku Nikki!

Oh, CCCP for Windows, SMPlayer for Ubuntu!

VLC is crap...
MPC or Zoom + CCCP is all ill ever need

I've been catching up on older series this summer- I'm working my way through Armored Trooper VOTOMS and GaoGaiGar at the moment, and just finished up the original Patlabor OVAs. Of the new series, I'm only really watching Slayers REVOLUTION, and it's been a bit slow to start. It gets better after episode 8 or so, and they say that they'll make more episodes in a few months.

KM player for me alongside CCCP for codecs.

Highlights for this season were Macross Frontier, Daughter of 20 faces and Bounen no X'amd
Lowlights were Code Geass R2 and Sekirei (god, the voices annoy me). Nogizaki Haruka started off good, but then went bland. Noto Mamiko was also totally miscast!!!

Next season, the shows I will be watching with a microscope is Kurogane no Linebarrel (sexiest mechas this side of the Five star stories) and Toradora (meet the ultimate tsundere)!!!
Will be watching Kemeko DX as well.

I've been using VLC for Windows for ages, so when I got a Mac I just put VLC on there to save the hassle. Might check out Zoomplayer/CCCP for Windows and MPlayer for Mac after reading some of the comments though.

As for me, I don't watch things until the whole season's over, so I'm eagerly anticipating Summer season anime and not Fall. ^^; Which, in this case, would be Nogizaki Haruka, Code Geass R2, Zero no Tsukaima, and Strike Witches in particular.

I switched from VLC to MPC+CCCP codec awhile back. VLC is versatile, but it had its problems. I still use VLC to capture screens though.
And I didnt watch any summer anime. Im usually a season behind, so i read reviews of which animes were good, and I go back and watch them :P Better than sampling a whole bunch, time is precious :P

I use VLC but I sometimes get annoyed when subtitles overlap each other so I can read them @_@ I always wondered if there's something I can do about it.....

I used MPlayer on Windows and using MPlayer OSX on Mac as well, plays everything and fast. Only in very few situations it may happen that it doesn't play, only then will I fall back to VLC.

As for the summer season: it's been Macross Frontier, (the original) Macross, Sekirei, Birdy DECODE, Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo, Hidamari Sketch x365, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu.

Best show for me this summer was Macross Frontier. I've also enjoyed Golgo 13 and Itazura na Kiss.

Sekirei was just mindless giant flappy boob nonsense so I gave up after the first episode. Even as a guy I found the sexism in it insulting. There are too many shows now which are nothing but fanservice. Whatever happened to storylines?

As for how I watch anime, I watch it all on my PS3 connected to my 50" plasma. XVID stuff just works as is and MKVs are transcoded using XVID4PSP or MKV2VOB.

CCCP. Fall includes 00 S2 right?

CCCP ftw.

I use Media Player Classic + K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. If the first fails, then VLC player will help:)
About anime, the ones I most liked were probably: Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, Gundam 00, Yakushiji Ryoko No Kaiki Jikenbo, Slayers Revolution, Macross Frontier and Special A. Of course there were other anime on my watchlist too (like Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 and Kyouran Kazoku Nikki).

I switch between Media player Classic and KM Player...

I use Media Player Classic. Then again I didn't really have an issues with VLC when I used to use that as my main, just felt like a change and MPC offered an easier load on my ram & cpu.

The highlights of my summer were Sekirei, Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion R2, Zero no Tsukaima Princess no Rondo, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, Zettai Karen Children, World Destruction, Wagayo no Oinari-sama, Skullman & Soul Eater.

dude dany stay with VLC its the best thing that hapend in Media Players .

Code Geass and Nijuumensou no Musume are the only ones I watched this season. The latter surprised me bcoz I didn't see much love for this one. It's quite good really and the main character is really likeable. And Aya Hirano does the voice for this but I found out about that 5 episodes in to the show. lol

me too danny!!! i cant wait for kemeko XD MM is so kawaii!!!

萌える展開になってますねXD

I use the KL-codec player aka Classic Windows Media pLayer hahah