Anime spring season wrap-up
Jul. 2nd, 2023 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellSpring 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.
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.
