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Anime logjam
Dec. 15th, 2020 07:52 pmAround the middle of the last month of the anime season, I start looking up upcoming shows, and boy howdy are we getting a ton of things in January. I've seen people expressing hope that the pandemic might lead to a permanent slowdown in the anime industry, meaning fewer shows but more reasonable working conditions, and instead it seems to have gotten even more frenetic.
The end of the current season stacks up like this for me:
...so that's five shows already which I've followed for at least a season at some point. And I count 13 brand-new shows that I'd be watching the premieres of, and you never know, one or two of those might be good.
Higurashi and Attack on Titan have spots reserved on my 2022 Hugo ballot already, unless Attack on Titan does the split-season thing again and somehow manages not to finish up by the end of the year, so those definitely stay. Dr. Stone is only a step behind them in quality, and of the other two, sunk costs argue for keeping Re:ZERO.
So that leaves Jujutsu Kaisen on the bubble, and I feel comfortable with that. If it does get bumped, I'll probably keep watching it on the side so that I'd be able to pick it up again in a future season.
The end of the current season stacks up like this for me:
- Talentless Nana and Akudama Drive end this month
- Higurashi and Jujutsu Kaisen continue into next year
- So does Yashahime, but I'm planning to drop it
- So does Attack on Titan, which just started up again at a weird time but is definitely going back in the lineup in January
- Dr. Stone and Re:ZERO both return in January
...so that's five shows already which I've followed for at least a season at some point. And I count 13 brand-new shows that I'd be watching the premieres of, and you never know, one or two of those might be good.
Higurashi and Attack on Titan have spots reserved on my 2022 Hugo ballot already, unless Attack on Titan does the split-season thing again and somehow manages not to finish up by the end of the year, so those definitely stay. Dr. Stone is only a step behind them in quality, and of the other two, sunk costs argue for keeping Re:ZERO.
So that leaves Jujutsu Kaisen on the bubble, and I feel comfortable with that. If it does get bumped, I'll probably keep watching it on the side so that I'd be able to pick it up again in a future season.
