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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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  • Crank@ani.socialEnglish
    8·
    12 hours ago

    Sequels:

    • Re:ZERO Season 4 - I liked S1 and S2 but S3 left me somewhat disappointed. I hope this one will be better.
    • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 - Yay! More meetings! (please, don’t)
    • Classroom of the Elite IV - I don’t remember much about it. I’m gonna need a recap
    • Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 4 - Aside from season 1, this was rather underwhelming, but hopefully the change of the studio will bring some improvements. The trailer looked promising.

    Definitely watching:

    • Witch Hat Atelier - The trailer was beautiful and everyone hypes this as something of the caliber of Frieren. I’m a sucker for some good fantasy, so inject it into my veins
    • Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring - by the author of Violet Evergarden + studio WIT. Definitely worth a shot.
    • Scenes from Awajima - Drama, I love drama. Trailer looks awesome, I heard good things about it
    • Daemons of the Shadow Realm - Made by studio Bones, by the author of FMA. Probably I don’t need to say more, even though I wasn’t a big fan of FMA. Worth a shot
    • The Ramparts of Ice - it’s the earlier work of the same author that made You And I Are Polar Opposites, so I’m definitely watching this, because Polar Opposites is 🔥
    • Marriagetoxin - action show by Bones, trailer looks great, worth a try
    • Akane-banashi - after seeing Showa Genroku Rakugo I’m curious what others can bring to the table when it comes to Rakugo. I’ve heard good things about it
    • Eren the Southpaw - adult cast, performing arts, premise looks interesting
    • Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy - looks fun, and has Kaguya’s VA as MC
    • Nippon Sangoku: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun - interesting art style, interesting premise, the director did The Ancient Magus’ Bride before, which I liked
    • Kirio Fanclub - trailer looks fun
    • Goddess: “What do you want to be in your next life in another world?” Me: “The ribs of the Hero” - the title and the synopsis make it sound like an absolute trash, but the trailer looks like a fever dream, mixing different art styles, so it may actually turn out to be some wacky comedy
    • Dandelion - adaptation of one-shot by Gintama’s creator
    • Mononoke Movie 3: Hebigami - A single movie on my list. I’ve watched the series and the two previous movies. They were all great, very unique art style, great direction, stacked cast. Part 2 would be my movie of the year if not for the 100 meters. Looking forward to this one (although I probably won’t see it for a year, because it’s a movie, duh)

    I’ll try them out but I expect to drop them, unless they surprise me:

    • Mao - I like the style, but I liked the style of Ass Stats too and it turned out to be trash. Let’s see what Sunrise is cooking this time, but I don’t have high hopes.
    • The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King - It looks rather rough and synopsis suggest it’s slop, but I probably decided to give it a try after reading some comments from manga readers (I know I’m gonna regret this)
    • I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class - My gut tells me it’s gonna be trash but it has nice character designs. I hope I’m wrong.
    • Liar Game - looks very rough, but has an adult cast and it’s not yet another isekai or romcom, so at least I gotta try
    • Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk - I can sense trash from miles away, but let’s see, maybe it’s fun
    • An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess - I have no idea how this made onto my list, but I guess there must have been some reason
    • Rottcodd@ani.socialEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring - by the author of Violet Evergarden

      Hmm? That’s interesting, and promising.

      Akane-banashi

      I recognized the name, but that was it. And I only made it about halfway through the synopsis before I lost interest, so I didn’t know it was centered on rakugo specifically. That’s sort of intriguing, since the only exposure I’ve had to it so far is through Joshiraku, which is only sort of peripherally about rakugo and more about… whatever happens to catch their attention at any given moment.

      The ribs of the Hero

      From the description, I thought it just sounded awful - the combination of animation and live-action put me in mind of the awful tinted live action backgrounds studios use as a cheap substitute for complex scenes and the awful rotoscoping in Aku no Hana. But after reading that, I watched the trailer, and… yeah. It’s nothing like that, or at least doesn’t appear to be, because there are so many different things all going on at the same time. It could still be awful, but there’s a chance that it isn’t, and how cool would it be if it wasn’t?

      • Crank@ani.socialEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I forgot to mention that Agents of the Four Seasons will have Kensuke Ushio doing the music, so there’s another reason to try it

        • Rottcodd@ani.socialEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          I actually pay only scant attention to soundtracks (anime, movie, game, whatever). Generally, so long as they’re serving their purpose well, I just don’t really notice.

          A sort of nice side effect of that though is that when they are especially good, I do notice. So while I didn’t recognize the name Kensuke Ushio, a quick google showed that that’s a hell of a recommendation, since among the notably good soundtracks I’ve noticed at one time or another are Ikoku Nikki, Dandadan, Heike Monogatari, Boogiepop wa Warawanai, Tengoku Daimakyou and Kimi no Iru.