Winter anime report
Apr. 4th, 2023 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellI wound up watching four series to their ends during winter season.
The Fire Hunter was absolutely the best in terms of story, characters, setting, etc. However it clearly is having production difficulties. The books it's based on are probably great but don't appear to be available in English.
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea is a solid work which did not have production problems. It only suffers by comparison to The Fire Hunter, because they're both works set in a post-apocalyptic, fundamentally changed world, with characters travelling around and slowly starting to uncover the truth of things, and the world of The Fire Hunter is much more complex and weird.
Giant Beasts of Ars was good right up until the last couple episodes, which should have been a whole extra season. The ending winds up severely rushed and winds up dropping loose ends everywhere.
High Card is a fun, stylish fighting show, except when it goes for drama cliches, because it doesn't do mopey drama well, and because they are really, really old cliches. Still, I'll check out season 2 since the rest was good enough, and my favorite character on the team is the only one who didn't get a focus episode in season 1.
The Fire Hunter was absolutely the best in terms of story, characters, setting, etc. However it clearly is having production difficulties. The books it's based on are probably great but don't appear to be available in English.
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea is a solid work which did not have production problems. It only suffers by comparison to The Fire Hunter, because they're both works set in a post-apocalyptic, fundamentally changed world, with characters travelling around and slowly starting to uncover the truth of things, and the world of The Fire Hunter is much more complex and weird.
Giant Beasts of Ars was good right up until the last couple episodes, which should have been a whole extra season. The ending winds up severely rushed and winds up dropping loose ends everywhere.
High Card is a fun, stylish fighting show, except when it goes for drama cliches, because it doesn't do mopey drama well, and because they are really, really old cliches. Still, I'll check out season 2 since the rest was good enough, and my favorite character on the team is the only one who didn't get a focus episode in season 1.
