Fall anime
Oct. 16th, 2026 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellI only checked out three premieres, but two of them led to shows that are really engaging my brain.
One is The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom. Despite its laid-back fairytale vibe, it's actually been able to throw a lot of information into the first couple episodes without feeling infodumpy. Two of the seven brothers have complicated romances going on, the backstory owes a lot to the Year Without a Summer, and the ED is trying to commmunicate big spoilers about the giant squirrel.
This is also the sort of show where, when one of the knights tells his brothers that he thinks he's developed a crush on a eunuch (I said it was complicated), the part that weirds everyone out is he's attempting to form a relationship outside of his own social class.
The other is Tetsuryo! Meet With Tetsudo Musume, which is based on a line of toy figures but you would never guess that from the show so far. It's about a young woman starting college and winding up in the Railway Travel Club, leading to excursions and lots of interesting train facts. (This week: a visit to the easternmost train line on Honshu, which uses physical tokens in place of an interlock mechanism!) I would not recommend this show to anyone who isn't a fan of either trains or the chill travel genre, but I'm having a blast.
The other show I checked out was #I'm Looking for a Zombie. The kids are nice enough but it had too many ogling camera angles and as-you-know-Bob dialogue for my taste.
One is The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom. Despite its laid-back fairytale vibe, it's actually been able to throw a lot of information into the first couple episodes without feeling infodumpy. Two of the seven brothers have complicated romances going on, the backstory owes a lot to the Year Without a Summer, and the ED is trying to commmunicate big spoilers about the giant squirrel.
This is also the sort of show where, when one of the knights tells his brothers that he thinks he's developed a crush on a eunuch (I said it was complicated), the part that weirds everyone out is he's attempting to form a relationship outside of his own social class.
The other is Tetsuryo! Meet With Tetsudo Musume, which is based on a line of toy figures but you would never guess that from the show so far. It's about a young woman starting college and winding up in the Railway Travel Club, leading to excursions and lots of interesting train facts. (This week: a visit to the easternmost train line on Honshu, which uses physical tokens in place of an interlock mechanism!) I would not recommend this show to anyone who isn't a fan of either trains or the chill travel genre, but I'm having a blast.
The other show I checked out was #I'm Looking for a Zombie. The kids are nice enough but it had too many ogling camera angles and as-you-know-Bob dialogue for my taste.
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Date: 2026-10-17 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-10-18 12:01 am (UTC)I wonder if that's the line my friend from Japan told me about. I told her that in computer science, token passing is a technique inspired by the original, physical-world version.
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Date: 2026-10-18 03:14 am (UTC)