We’ve got another busy season here, so let’s get right into it.
I won’t be covering Attack on Titan Season 3 or Overlord Season 3, because I haven’t seen either of those shows’ previous seasons, and I also won’t be covering Free! Dive to the Future even though I want to, because Funimation still has yet to release the prequel movie that sets up this third season and I want to go in with full context to something as surprisingly intelligent as this franchise is.
I also won’t cover Sirius the Jaeger, High Score Girl or Back Street Girls because they’ve been doomed by Netflix to not be cared about by people who watch seasonal shows. (This hurts, I was really excited for Sirius.) Zoids Wild went completely unlicensed, but considering the previous show aired on Toonami a thousand years ago, I’ll be keeping an eye on it.
My favorite premiere of the season was Planet With, because pretty much anything that reminds me of Punch Line is probably gonna get a pass in my book, and this brand of weirdness that just keeps me guessing right from moment one is right up my alley.
To recap, I also made it past the first episodes of:
* Angels of Death
* Cells at Work!
* Grand Blue Dreaming
* Hanebado!
* Banana Fish
* Seven Senses of the Re’Union (!)
* Happy Sugar Life
* Chio’s School Road (!)
* Harukana Receive
* Holmes of Kyoto (!)
* Angolmois: Record of Mongol Invasion
* Phantom in the Twilight (!)
* Revue Starlight
Anything with an (!) next to it is more or less on probation. If it hasn’t either maintained its quality or hooked me completely in 3 episodes (as is tradition), I’ll be dropping them. I’m also watching Master of Ragnarok and the Blesser of Einherjar, but explicitly not recommending it. We’ll see if I can make it through the whole thing.
We also have several holdovers from last season that are finishing up:
* Major 2nd
* Lupin III Part 5
* Steins;Gate 0
* My Hero Academia Season 3
The last show was Persona 5 the Animation but I’m now officially dropping that one because I don’t really see a need to go back to it, the conversation around it pretty much stuck with “you don’t need to watch it if you’ve played the game” and that’s exactly the impression I got.
Speaking of dropping, I put down Asobi Asobase and Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs for simply not being my thing, but the shows that I truly didn’t consider to be worth my or anyone else’s time were:
* Island
* Dropkick on My Devil!
* Lord of Vermilion: The Crimson King
* Music Girls
* The Thousand Noble Musketeers
The worst premiere I saw this season was far and away How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord!, where I didn’t even last five minutes because the show jumped directly off a cliff into the bounds of tasteless, shameless, and really specific pandering. Why it’s the fourth most popular show of the season (above every single show I kept aside from Angels of Death) I do not understand.
Overall, this is looking like another promising season. To those wondering, I haven’t totally finished spring shows yet, so those reviews should be coming soon. Keep an eye out. I’m also going to make another attempt at weekly coverage for Revue Starlight and Angels of Death (the least and most popular shows in my list), so the next thing you see should be my review of episode 2 of Angels. See you soon!
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