■ 🕑 1. Winter 2024 Anime │ What anime are you watching this season? │ │ Partial list of new shows here: │ https://myanimelist.net/anime/season │ ├─■ 🕑 2. │ │ 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?! │ │ │ ├─■ 🕑 5. │ │ 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. │ │ ├─■ 🕑 3. │ │ 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 │ │ │ └─■ 🕑 4. │ │ 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. │ │ │ └─■ 🕑 14. │ Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi is, in fact, not kind of good. │ │ Here's hoping my prediction isn't 0 for 2... ( ; ω ; ) │ ├─■ 🕑 6. Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete │ │ 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. │ │ │ ├─■ 🕑 7. │ │ 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. │ │ │ ├─■ 🕑 17. │ │ 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. │ │ │ └─■ 🕑 28. Ep 4 │ 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.... │ ├─■ 🕑 8. Dungeon Meshi │ 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. │ ├─■ 🕑 9. Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijou wa... │ 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. │ ├─■ 🕑 10. Saikyou Tank no Meikyuu Kouryaku │ 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. │ ├─■ 🕑 11. Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha │ │ 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. │ │ │ └─■ 🕑 22. │ e2 was fun, this is going to be a good show I think. │ ├─■ 🕑 12. Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menoi │ 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. │ ├─■ 🕑 13. Oroka na Tenshi wa Akuma to Odoru │ │ *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... │ │ │ └─■ 🕑 25. │ 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.... │ ├─■ 🕑 15. Himesama Goumon no Jikan desu │ 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?" │ ├─■ 🕑 16. Metallic Rouge │ │ 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. │ │ │ └─■ 🕑 24. │ │ 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. │ │ │ └─■ 🕑 27. Metallic Rouge │ 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. │ │ │ ├─■ 🕑 18. 30-sai made Doutei dato Mahoutsukai ni Nareru Rashii │ 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. │ ├─■ 🕑 19. Sengoku Youko │ 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. │ ├─■ 🕑 20. Gekkan Mousou Kagaku │ 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). │ ├─■ 🕑 21. Majo to Yajuu │ 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 │ └─■ 🕑 23. Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern │ 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. │ └─■ 🕑 26. 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.