Not an especially interesting offering from KyoAni.
Their big project this year, Violet Evergarden, makes Tsurune look so pedestrian by comparison that I can’t even put it into words. It’s not bad, the execution is alright, but it’s not memorable at all, and it’s because I’ve seen this show before. A kid who returns to his sport of choice after being absent due to some kind of mental hangup and is faced with a hostile teammate and a coach with a weird way of teaching?
I’m hardly the first person to say that Kyoto Animation themselves have made this show already, and it also got a third season this year (which I haven’t seen yet, for the record). And in a year with a lot of more interesting sports shows (to name a few, Major 2nd, Umamusume, Harukana Receive, hell, fucking Megalobox) I am feeling a lot less forgiving towards this one just phoning in an easy B-.
I’m also not finishing it, a decision I should have made long before it finished airing (three weeks late, I might add, a decision which baffles me). I’m willing to give it a 6/10, but not more of my time when I have other things I need to finish and it’s the very last Fall show on my list.
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