Winter Anime 2019 Season

[bomaye]

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We're about 2 weeks out of the first series of the new season starting. As always, I will attempt to control and shrink my watching habits and likely fail at it. Here's my list so far, it's mostly things that are continuing or getting a second season. I'm going to probably sample most things at least

EndlessA. Pokemon
EB. One Piece

Continuing 1. Gegege no Kitaro
C2. Captain Tsubasa 2018
C3. Layton Mystery Detective Agency

1. Black Clover
2. Ace Attorney Season 2
3. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind
4. Morose Mononokean/Fukigen on Mononokean
5. Kakegurui xx
6. Mob Psycho 100
7. Yakusoku no Neverland/The Promised Neverland
8. Hinomaru Sumo
9. Karakuri Circus
10. Sword Art Online: Alicization
FuckIalreadyfailed 11. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime

List is already buckling under horrific pressure. Gegege has probably overstayed its welcome for me at this point (last season focused more on western demons and mythological creatures instead of Yokai), the Morose Mononokean is chill but maybe not chill enough to keep in such a packed season. The Layton Mystery Detective Agency is cute as fuck (Katrielle Layton is 2D-waifu as fuck) but it's also somewhat overstayed its welcome and at this point the Professor Layton/Luke storyline is the one I'm most interested in. Ace Attorney too has been stretching out adapting the third game by inserting anime-only filler in the middle. I may just watch specific Ace Attorney and/or Layton episodes to make room on the list (he says as he's watching Lady Layton)

The only one of those that isn't a continuation is The Promised Neverland, which I am interested as fuck in that one. Black Clover was basically cooked up in a lab of tropes to replace Naruto in Shonen Jump (and doesn't do a bad job of it at all), The Promised Neverland organically became one of the best-selling manga in that magazine (e-zine?). I don't really know what it's about but I'm hype for it.

Boogiepop and Dororo have my first-blush interest.

[Enail]

Hmm, there's a fair number that look fine but I'm not super-excited about anything other than there's a Golden Kamuy OAV, so I'm not sure if I'll land up watching anything or not.

Revisions is probably the one that looks most interesting to me, but I can be iffy on mecha, it depends on what the fighting's like. Boogiepop looks fairly interesting in spite of the dumb name and hat. Promised Neverland concept looks great but I haaaate the character designs/art style enough that I'm not sure I'd be able to get over it.

[bomaye]

First new animes starting to trickle in. Arigato for the new years break, anime, it let me catch up on some things

[bomaye]

Boogiepop was like... they were telling a supernatural story, but they removed all the exciting parts and you just saw things from the point of view of a side-character who never saw anything happen.

The Cost of Smiles was okay, generic mecha anime, buuuuut the ending was pretty good

Spoiler:

[Enail]

Boogiepop was like... they were telling a supernatural story, but they removed all the exciting parts and you just saw things from the point of view of a side-character who never saw anything happen.

I guess you can't trust that a creator who thinks that hat is awesome can tell what's awesome

[bomaye]

God damn, this week's episode of Gegege no Kitaro

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[bomaye]

Oh MAN, fucking Dororo. I've always heard the name but didn't know what it was.

Right up my fucking alley

[bomaye]

The Promised Neverland 1

"... When's episode 2 coming out?"

[bomaye]

Revisions dropped all at once netflix style. It was okay but didn't really blow me away either. The 3D anime style has really improved since Ajin and that was maybe the most impressive part of it.

If you're gonna keep up with it but just watch it weekly, I will too. I may still watch it anyways but I think it's one I could easily drop too.

[Enail]

I probably won't bother if you didn't think it was that great. Maybe I'll try an ep of The Promised Neverland and see if I can get over the character designs.

[bomaye]

re: Neverland, so far it definitely feels like Episode 2 or 3 is when things will get going/it will round into what it's supposed to be, Episode 1 was very much about setting the stage.

[bomaye]

Cost of Smiles/Egao no Daika is something I think I'll continue with. Solid mecha anime that had two really good plot twists at the ending of the first two episodes

Also Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka because holy shit

[Enail]

Really @Magical Girl Spec-ops Asuka? The trailer looked like it was going to be playing it serious!

[bomaye]

It's violently serious, but with anime girls wearing frilly magical girl outfits fighting cutesy stuffed animals... and then experiencing PTSD over them.

[Enail]

T-that doesn't sound funny

[bomaye]

Not when you look at it and go "Who seriously thought up this idea? "

[Enail]

The Promised Neverland 1 - I hate the character style soo much, those cutesy overly squat faces with the features all squished together in the middle like they're 4-yr-olds. But it was bearable enough to finish. Characters didn't especially grab me, and I found the setting-establishing that took up most of the episode pretty boring and mostly unnecessary, but that ending! It does seem like it'll get going now, and the premise is really promising, so I think I'll keep watching a bit at least.

I was curious enough about hilariously serious stuffed animal-based PTSD that I checked it out too, the character introductions were totally stock and lazy, but it does sort of grab you, the trauma and brutality that they're playing straight with the totally incongruous cutesiness of the magical girl stuff.

[bomaye]

Yep. I don't know if they can maintain it going forward, but it was sort of like Magical Girl Raising Project or a bit like Madoka where the contrast between cutesy Magical-Girlness and the quite serious subject matter makes it interesting to see.

[bomaye]

Neverland 2

Spoiler:

[Enail]

Yakusoku no Neverland 2

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[bomaye]

Dororo ep 3 = MAN, this is kind of Berserk but with an eastern flavour (and in the 1960s so it probably influenced Berserk)

[bomaye]

HOKAY, so I think my list has been rounded out to around this

EndlessA. Pokemon
EB. One Piece

Continuing 1. Gegege no Kitaro
C2. Captain Tsubasa 2018
C3. Layton Mystery Detective Agency

1. Black Clover
2. Ace Attorney Season 2
3. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind
4. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime
5. Kakegurui xx
6. Mob Psycho 100
7. Yakusoku no Neverland/The Promised Neverland
8. Hinomaru Sumo
9. Karakuri Circus
10. Sword Art Online: Alicization
11. Dororo

I'm also collecting Spec-Ops Asuka and Boogiepop for a stray Thursday or a late-season run to see if it's interesting, and Fairy Tail Final Season, Boruto and St Seiya Shou for whenever I get around to those.

[Enail]

Magical Girl Spec-ops Asuka 2

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After another episode, I'm feeling unenthused, there's something in it that's got a real energy, but it's smothered in so much anime trope-ness and cardboard characters, and my tolerance for that is limited, so I'd rather use it on on Neverland or more SAO unless I have reason to think otherwise. Also the cheesiness is a lot.

[bomaye]

Yeah, it's something I might've kept watching if I have nothing else to do, but I do have other things to do <_<

Neverland 3

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[Enail]

Neverland 3

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