Anime spring season wrap-up

Spring season overran a bit due to the now nearly standard production delays; the last show I watched all of just ended yesterday.

I couldn't finish Dr Stone: New World. I care less and less about most of the characters, and for a show so enthusiastically about SCIENCE! the anthropology has some awfully big holes in it.

Oshi no Ko is a very hard show to sum up, but a very good one. I mean, there's all the reincarnation and murder and mystery stuff in the background, but from week to week it's mostly about the quirks of the Japanese entertainment industry. Anyway, it'll probably be one of my picks for best of the year. Highly recommended (or check out the manga if that's more your thing).

Hell's Paradise followed up the best premiere with the dumbest second episode I saw this season, but it steadied itself and has wound up as a good solid shonen adventure with a highly original setting. If you aren't into shonen adventure shows, be aware that power levels and personal energy types and other shonen trappings will eventually turn up.

And then there's Heavenly Delusion, which has fallen so far in my estimation that now I'm glad Disney+/Hulu made it hard to find. There's some great intricate plotting, but every teenage girl in it is there there to suffer and die; every adult woman is evil, clueless, or both; the background characters are like 99% male for no discernable reason; and the primary female-presenting character gets assaulted twice, once for laughs and then, just a couple episodes later, for shock value. Let this molder in obscurity.

Summer anime lineup

So it's a new season and there's not a lot of enthusiasm out there. In the sf world, we get to choose from:

History but not as you know it: Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Undead Murder Farce
Contemporary supernatural: Dark Gathering, Ayaka: A Story of Bonds and Wounds
High-concept dark horse: The Gene of AI
Cat: The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today
Zombie apocalypse as an improvement on modern work: Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
Video game tie-ins: Synduality: Noir, Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout
Magic school: Reign of the Seven Spellblades, Classroom For Heroes
Down and out in Demon Land: Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero, Helck
Standard isekai: My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1, Am I Actually the Strongest?
Isekai might be running out of ideas: Sweet Reincarnation, The Great Cleric, The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen, Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon

Ōoku would be at the absolute top of my viewing list, except it's on Netflix and this is currently a Hulu household. Zom 100 sounds really interesting even though I'm generally sick of zombies, and likewise Undead Murder Farce, whose original title incidentally is Undead Girl Murder Farce, and really, with a title like that, how can I not check it out.

7/2/2023 Question of the day

I Forgot Day: Are you forgetful? Do you have trouble remembering holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, doctors' appointments, etc.? Do you have any tricks or aids to help you remember important dates?

Holidays, aniversaries, and birthdays I have no trouble remembering. For everything else, I can set reminders in a personal computing device.