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Spring season is rapidly approaching! It’s time to start looking ahead to the next season and thinking about what is worth watching vs. what isn’t. This is also the official thread where I will watch for shows that you mention and will enable threads for those shows to be made by our resident bot, @rikka@ani.social.

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  • wietach@ani.socialEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

    Spring Season

    Definitely Watching

    • Dorohedoro Season 2 - I❤Hole.
    • Witch Hat Atelier - excited to relive the beginning of the story in a different format this time. I hope the adaptation does justice to Kamome Shirahama’s gorgeous art. My only concern for now is that I didn’t imagine Qifrey and Olruggio sounding like Natsuki Hanae and Yuuichi Nakamura; I’ll get used to it eventually.
    • Ace of Diamond Act II Season 2 - I don’t get enough baseball in my anime these days.
    • Go For It, Nakamura! - I like its art style. May Chiaki Kobayashi continue voicing black-haired queer boys.
    • Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 4 - more Myne is always a good idea; I’ve missed her.
    • Daemons of the Shadow Realm - Hiromu Arakawa’s story and Bones adapting it. The soundtrack already sounds epic.
    • Dandelion - can’t miss it as a Gintama fan.
    • Dr. Stone: Science Future Part 3 - I hope this season doesn’t make me regret not dropping it after the first one like Fire Force did.

    Interested In

    • Scenes from Awajima - may be a good drama; I have hopes for this one.
    • Nippon Sangoku - the synopsis didn’t sound like something I’d enjoy and I was pondering if I should watch it just because it’s visually interesting, but then the latest PV introduced a fascinating guy voiced by Jun Fukuyama, so I feel like watching it now.
    • The Ramparts of Ice - from the creator of You and I Are Polar Opposites, which has a nice ensemble cast. The PV did pique my interest.
    • Akane-banashi - the source material readers hyped this up, and I like anime about traditional art. However, the demographic is shounen, which doesn’t make it very exciting for me.
    • Kirio Fanclub - there are two girls, who are friends AND rivals in love. And the love interest in question doesn’t even have eyes, like he isn’t actually important to their dynamic at all. How very fascinating. Yuri potential.
    • Tadaima, Ojamasaremasu! - an adult cast and otaku culture? Sign me up. Based on the synopsis and the PV, though, I can tell it’s going to be very silly.
    • Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? - What is this creature?
    • Agents of the Four Seasons - moderately interested in it. It will be either a surprise or a disappointment.

    All in all spring looks promising in the fantasy and slice-of-life departments, but I’m once again devastated by the sheer lack of originals. If I’m not mistaken, winter had none. Spring has just one, it seems.