Winter 2024 Anime

2024-01-03T12:43:04+00:00

What anime are you watching this season?

Partial list of new shows here:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/season

Reply to thread

2024-01-03T12:46:19+00:00

Thought I'd cast a broad net this season and just put a TON of shows on
my watchlist. Fully expecting a bunch of them to be shit, but at least
a few ought to be gems...

(sorted by start date)

- Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete
- Dungeon Meshi
- Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijo wa...
- Saikyou Tank no Meikyuu Kouryaku
- Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha
- High Card s2
- Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi
- Oroka na Tenshi wa Akuma to Odoru
- Himesama "Goumon" no Jikan desu
- 30-sai made Doutei dato Mahoutsukai
- Gekkan Mousou Kagaku
- Sengoku Youko
- Metallic Rouge
- Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern
- Majo to Yajuu
- Bucchigiri?!

Reply to thread

2024-01-03T12:50:49+00:00

Nothing at the moment. Not much into watching shows on a season
or release schedule. Maybe this will give me a chance to keep up
with what's new, though

Reply to thread

2024-01-03T13:01:38+00:00

I can't say I honestly have high hopes for anything on my watch list,
but just to grab one randomly, Majo to Yajuu sounds kind of interesting:

> Guideau: a feral girl with long fangs and the eyes of a beast.
> Ashaf: a soft-spoken man with delicate features and a coffin strapped
> to his back. This ominous pair appears one day in a town that's in
> thrall to a witch, who has convinced the townsfolk she's their hero.
>
> But Ashaf and Guideau know better. They have scores to settle, and
> they won't hesitate to remove anyone in their way...

Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi might be kind of good, too?

> High school boy Tsubasa moves to Kitami City up in Hokkaido where he
> meets a "gal" at a bus stop. The sight of her standing alone against
> the white snowscape, bare-legged despite the freezing cold, captures
> his heart.

Reply to thread

2024-01-03T14:35:18+00:00

lol this one sounds absolutely batshit:

> 30-sai made Doutei dato Mahoutsukai ni Nareru Rashii

> Office worker Kiyoshi Adachi has gone 30 years of life without ever
> having his cherry popped. Due to this profound accomplishment, he
> becomes a wizard with the ability to read minds through physical
> contact. However, he thinks his newly attained skill is hopelessly
> lame and has caused him to dislike crowded places.

> On the way to his work, Adachi runs into his attractive and well-liked
> coworker, Yuuichi Kurosawa. Piqued by his personality, he furtively
> touches Kurosawa and takes a peek at his heart, only to find out that
> the man holds romantic dreams for a colleague at their office. Adachi
> attempts to connect the dots, but soon, Kurosawa's fantasies are laid
> bare—his coworker's perverted thoughts are meant for him! Despite
> doing his best to concentrate, he can now hardly remain focused with
> Kurosawa around.

Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete

2024-01-03T16:55:29+00:00

Just streamed episode 1 of Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete on gikopoi, some
initial thoughts... the premise is that the main character is a derpy
loser girl who becomes a magical girl, but as a SHOCKING TWIST is
that she is actually an evil magical girl.

- Huh, it's a magical girl anime. Hope this isn't just same shit again.
- Whoa! Ass and titties! Uncensored!
- Tentacles...?!
- This isn't GOOD, but ...
- it's still different from other magical girl shows
- Okay, now I'm curious for how this show plays out.

Reply to thread

2024-01-04T06:49:40+00:00

Nice girl who gets corrupted by cat and has to be evil does have
... some plot possibilities.

But it's kind of like the japonese are some distributed AI.
The AI throws-up all possible plot combinations
Then enslaves artists to make anime of it.

I enjoyed the colors and panties though.

Dungeon Meshi

2024-01-05T07:34:45+00:00

Fairly generic fantasy dungeon explorer anime is mixed with a fairly
generic cooking anime. Neither of them would be worth watching on their
own merits, but this combination seems promising.

Art is nice, setting is fine enough (but again, generic). Character
designs are nothing to write home about. The attention paid to the
ecosystem of the dungeon and anatomy of the monsters is pretty unique.
This seems more promising than the magical girl ecchi.

For people who are fans of fantasy settings, I think Made in Abyss is a
more interesting current franchise, and at large, Record of Lodoss War
is the best LotR/DnD-inspired story.

Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa...

2024-01-08T05:35:03+00:00

As much as I hate time loop anime, I felt like giving this one a chance.
A beautiful girl has her engagement broken with a duke, lives her life
for 5 years, then dies. This happens 6 times in a row; in each life, she
devotes herself fully to different skills and arts and becomes
incredibly gifted in many fields. Now, in her 7th loop, it seems the
looping is done and we'll see how her 7th life plays out.

The world seems pretty charming and the art and music are nice. This
seems like it'll be a better "Tolkien-esque" series than some of the
other fantasy animes this season.

Saikyou Tank no Meikyuu Kouryaku

2024-01-08T05:39:15+00:00

A team of adventurers go out questing. One of them, the tank, is
absurdly powerful, but kind of careless -- his party kicks him out and
now he needs to find a new party.

It turns out his adventuring rank is pretty low for whatever reason,
but due to his old party's reputation, he gets adopted quickly by a
rookie adventuring team and manages to nail his first fight together
with them.

Like Dungeon Meshi, the fantasy world here feels incredibly generic. I
don't know why light novel adaptations are so dull. It would be better
if anime went back to adapting manga and VN instead of trash like this.
But I'm going to keep watching. I'm an otaku NEET, so this is basically
my job.

Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

2024-01-08T14:02:46+00:00

Another DnD/LotR-esque fantasy anime this season.
(why are there so many?)

Premise: adventurer dies in the dungeon, but doesn't completely die.
He's reborn as a skeleton! Obviously, he can't just go back to the
village and ask for help -- people will confuse him for a monster and
kill him. So what's a guy to do?

He realizes that he can kill monsters to gain experience, grow stronger,
and even evolve into better and stronger monsters with enough
experience.

The first ep was pretty good. It reminds me a bit of Dungeon Meshi in
that there's a special focus on the dungeon's geography and critters.
I'm excited for more eps of this to come out.

Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menoi

2024-01-09T03:10:43+00:00

Shy, boring boy gets picked up by an aggressive and goofy girl who
is absurdly beautiful. He's too shy to pick up on her advances but
sticks around.

Yawn, how many shows like this have already came out in the past five
years?

At least there are some nice shots of Hokkaido in winter time.

Oroka na Tenshi wa Akuma to Odoru

2024-01-09T04:57:08+00:00

*sigh* Yet another romance anime with a dominant female and submissive
male. The twist here is that the guy is a demon (but still kind of a
nice guy?) while the girl is an angel (and sadistic and cruel).

Nice art, kind of funny, but the basic conceit is really... basic...

Reply to thread

2024-01-09T05:01:10+00:00

Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi is, in fact, not kind of good.

Here's hoping my prediction isn't 0 for 2... ( ; ω ; )

Himesama Goumon no Jikan desu

2024-01-09T05:43:40+00:00

Another fantasy world with war between humans and demons. The princess
has been captured by the forces of evil. In order to extract
intelligence from her, the devils are willing to stoop to torture...
what kind of torture, you may ask?

They tempt her with delicious food!

Kind of interesting for there to be two fantasy animes about food this
season. Good production here. But how long can they keep the show going
with the premise of "hey, look at this food porn?"

Metallic Rouge

2024-01-11T14:58:59+00:00

It's cool to see a sci-fi show amongst all the fantasy stuff airing
this season! There's big robots and they fight each other on Mars.

I didn't really like the "vibe" of this show -- it feels like there's a
lot of pieces that would be good on their own, but they just don't quite
seem to click together right. Hopefully fight scenes continue to be well
done.

Reply to thread

2024-01-11T15:01:27+00:00

Episode 2 was decent, but it feels like this show is more concerned
about pandering to people who want to see teenagers subjected to BDSM
scenarios than it is about exploring plot.

There were some funny bits but I'm close to dropping it.

30-sai made Doutei dato Mahoutsukai ni Nareru Rashii

2024-01-11T16:18:17+00:00

Never seen any BL anime before. As far as romance shows airing this
season go, this one seems to have the best writing. The premise is fun
too. The main character has a lot of room for growth, and it feels like
this show will actually let him develop.

Sengoku Youko

2024-01-11T18:08:03+00:00

Maybe the best fantasy anime of the season? Set in medieval Japan,
evil monsters trouble humans. However, for some reason, a brother and
sister pair of semi-monsters (catgirl and catboy?) go around killing
these monsters.

Gekkan Mousou Kagaku

2024-01-11T18:46:39+00:00

Schizophrenics write a magazine about schizo topics... except, they're
not actual looney tunes, they have access to true and deep secret
topics? And now a shadowy group is chasing them down for artifacts from
a lost continent?!

Comedy anime, silly fun, the big downer note is that the secret power
people get from the secret artifacts is that they become anthro furry
monsters (gross).

Majo to Yajuu

2024-01-12T13:13:05+00:00

Action fantasy set in ?1800s Europe? about a weird couple who go around
killing witches. Better than the other anime about witches this season.
This first ep was really well-made; this is probably going to be a
really good show

Reply to thread

2024-01-12T21:46:28+00:00

e2 was fun, this is going to be a good show I think.

Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern

2024-01-13T14:31:36+00:00

This season's mecha anime. Initially, I wasn't that into it, but when
the twist came in the middle of episode one, I couldn't help but crack a
grin and get excited. This one's going to be a lot of silly fun I think,
feels like a classic mecha show.

Crunchyroll is going to be late on translating this -- props to /m/ bros
for releasing fansubs this week.

Reply to thread

2024-01-19T15:02:04+00:00

Good fights, big explosions in ep2, more lore exposed, pretty fun.
I liked when the robot main character threw the big evil robot at the
other big evil robot and they exploded.

Reply to thread

2024-01-19T15:03:23+00:00

I dropped Kaguya-sama: Love Is War pretty early on, but is this show
just going to be that, but with devils and angels? Yawn....

Reply to thread

2024-01-19T17:43:08+00:00

ep 2. why is this so good. just goofy, over-the-top, hammy fun.

Big robots. Big fights! The Earth is in peril!
So much emotion! Passion! What energy!
This is what giant robots are supposed to be about.

Metallic Rouge

2024-01-24T04:08:52+00:00

Unfortunately for me the show hasn't started cooking yet.
This episode felt like filler,
nothing really happening with the plot or characters.
I hope it picks up, but I have no expectations for it to be better
than Bones' past mecha originals.

Ep 4

2024-01-24T19:40:02+00:00

An interesting episode for a few reasons:

- a magical girl starts to doubt if the "villains" are really so evil
- another magical girl is grumpy and cynical
- the magical girls' cat friend (twin of evil girls' cat friend) is
revealed

I think it's possible that the lines of good and evil will keep getting
blurred as time goes on. There's even a chance that the villains turn
out to be the good girls at the end of the day?

Story aside, plenty of smut this episode, if that's what you're looking
for....