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Anime finales and premieres
Oct. 11th, 2022 08:20 pmI didn't wind up with a summer show that I want to encourage everyone to watch. Yurei Deco stayed enjoyable but not a masterpiece. Lycoris Recoil wound up doing a 180 from the idea that child soldiers were a bad idea. Shadows House season 2 was okay, but the main mystery of this arc was undercut by an end credits sequence clearly pointing out who was behind it all.
So, to the premieres:
My Master Has No Tail and Raven of the Inner Court are middling, but since I'm a sucker for fantastical costume dramas, as I said before, all they had to do was avoid being terrible to keep me watching, and they've managed that.
I gave Bibliophile Princess a chance, but generic fantasy world plus a sense that the author has no idea how any of it really works means it failed.
Chainsaw Man, the most-hyped show of the season, is a bunch of dystopian gore not balanced out by any redeeming qualities such as likeable characters or especially good writing. Oh, and the cute dog dies. It sure has a big production budget, though.
Mob Psycho 100 and Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun! are back and delivering exactly what you were hoping for if you've watched their previous seasons. (If you haven't watched the previous seasons, I enthusiastically endorse both.)
Spy×Family is more of the same too, which is to say that Anita is the best but too much of it is not about her.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury has decided to translate Revolutionary Girl Utena to the Gundam AU setting. If you are a big fan of either Utena or Gundam, presumably you will eat this up!
And then there's Human Crazy University, which I didn't have in my list because there was zero information about it at the time. But it's a scientific mystery, about a guy who should have died several times over but somehow stays alive. After surviving being executed for a double murder, he finds himself in the clutches of a scientist who would like to study this phenomenon.
Human Crazy University has extremely limited, low-budget animation, and the premiere consists almost entirely of talking. But it's one of the most interesting shows on offer this season. Also you will learn a ton about how the death penalty is carried out in Japan, which may be a pro or con, depending.
So, to the premieres:
My Master Has No Tail and Raven of the Inner Court are middling, but since I'm a sucker for fantastical costume dramas, as I said before, all they had to do was avoid being terrible to keep me watching, and they've managed that.
I gave Bibliophile Princess a chance, but generic fantasy world plus a sense that the author has no idea how any of it really works means it failed.
Chainsaw Man, the most-hyped show of the season, is a bunch of dystopian gore not balanced out by any redeeming qualities such as likeable characters or especially good writing. Oh, and the cute dog dies. It sure has a big production budget, though.
Mob Psycho 100 and Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun! are back and delivering exactly what you were hoping for if you've watched their previous seasons. (If you haven't watched the previous seasons, I enthusiastically endorse both.)
Spy×Family is more of the same too, which is to say that Anita is the best but too much of it is not about her.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury has decided to translate Revolutionary Girl Utena to the Gundam AU setting. If you are a big fan of either Utena or Gundam, presumably you will eat this up!
And then there's Human Crazy University, which I didn't have in my list because there was zero information about it at the time. But it's a scientific mystery, about a guy who should have died several times over but somehow stays alive. After surviving being executed for a double murder, he finds himself in the clutches of a scientist who would like to study this phenomenon.
Human Crazy University has extremely limited, low-budget animation, and the premiere consists almost entirely of talking. But it's one of the most interesting shows on offer this season. Also you will learn a ton about how the death penalty is carried out in Japan, which may be a pro or con, depending.
