Looking to spring anime
Mar. 31st, 2024 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellAnime spring is coming! Tomorrow, in fact! If you're looking for an exhaustive list of what's coming, you can choose from ANN's sober list of upcoming releases, Scamp's always entertaining season preview, or this YouTube playlist of trailers which was assembled for a watch party at the Animoo Chat Discord server. (Skip to #2 for the first actual trailer.)
The thing I'm most excited about this time is Train to the End of the World, which combines three things I reliably like: trains, weird low-key post-apocalyptic stories, and Yokote Michiko as head writer.
Next up is Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai (no English title yet because no English-language stream has been announced), about courtly maneuverings in a parallel Heian-era-like world of crow people.
Then there are a whole bunch of things which I think might be good and intend to check out: the Spice & Wolf remake; Wind Breaker, this season's winner for Most Unfortunate Title, which is actually some kind of shonen battler with high school delinquents; Astro Note, which involves an unemployed cook and some aliens undercover as the operators of a boarding house; Tonari no Yōkai-san, which looks like a slice-of-life about rural Japan and the mythological creatures living there; Go, Go, Loser Ranger!, a satire of tokusatsu superhero shows; and Mysterious Disappearances, a contemporary urban fantasy about guess what.
And I'll probably check out Touken Ranbu Kai, even though I don't expect it to be good, just for nostalgia's sake because I watched all of its predecessor back when I was doing the simulcast column for Amazing Stories.
The thing I'm most excited about this time is Train to the End of the World, which combines three things I reliably like: trains, weird low-key post-apocalyptic stories, and Yokote Michiko as head writer.
Next up is Karasu wa Aruji o Erabanai (no English title yet because no English-language stream has been announced), about courtly maneuverings in a parallel Heian-era-like world of crow people.
Then there are a whole bunch of things which I think might be good and intend to check out: the Spice & Wolf remake; Wind Breaker, this season's winner for Most Unfortunate Title, which is actually some kind of shonen battler with high school delinquents; Astro Note, which involves an unemployed cook and some aliens undercover as the operators of a boarding house; Tonari no Yōkai-san, which looks like a slice-of-life about rural Japan and the mythological creatures living there; Go, Go, Loser Ranger!, a satire of tokusatsu superhero shows; and Mysterious Disappearances, a contemporary urban fantasy about guess what.
And I'll probably check out Touken Ranbu Kai, even though I don't expect it to be good, just for nostalgia's sake because I watched all of its predecessor back when I was doing the simulcast column for Amazing Stories.
