2017 was a sequel heavy an interestingly enough for me so just saying yah my faves once again had amazing suivant seasons I thought i'd pay attention to the animé that premiered this an that didn't fall into the continuation section of what I watched. Well the haut, retour au début 3ish of each season for me anyway since i sure did power through/guiltily enjoy a lot of bad stuff and who honestly has the time right?
Winter: AKA i only really watched 3 non sequels
ACCA 13
Acca 13 was a stylish calm animé about Jean going around giving evaluation to each of the sections of the uniquely bird shaped country Dowa he lives on while there's silent whispering about his past and how it connects to the suivant royal coronation and the dissatisfied sections of Dowa. All while they REEEEEEEEALLLY enjoy eating toast... I greatly enjoyed its slow pace and how it just seemed to smoothly integrate plot with Jean's job to give toi a feel of the world and why the politics even matter at all, building up to end with not a bang but with the same calm demeanor it started with. Just a nice watch.
eldlive
I had high hopes for this one being from the same auteur of Hit man reborn, one of my favori series, but the timing, the inappropriate jokes, even the animation at times led to a very stale watch. The characters sometimes showed the glint of likablity i recognize the auteur for and the main character even showed some of that fave material, but be it the odd focus on "attraction" typical of bad harem anime, the pacing, the actual delivery it sits plus on the guilty pleasure animé than a new favori which is a shame because I hear the manga is good and I did want to l’amour this.
Marginal kiss
Er. yeah I happen to be the watcher of Idol and Reverse Harem animé because I just can't help myself?? The weirdest part is that I actually do tend to like the songs in idol shows so i was disappointing that there weren't really any in here. Just a slice of life montrer with idols who don't sing makes it my least favori idol montrer that I've watched. perfectly fine but made plus meh since there weren't songs.
Spring: I watched like 9? but I'll only talk about 3 with an honorable mention
Tsuki Ga Kirei
TGK would be a normal shoujo about two shy cuties getting together but sets itself apart par doing something radical. It cut out a LOT of dialogue. Yet does not feel like a bare Bones shoujo since it has the respect for the audience to understand what the characters are feeling par observing what they do and it just works. Makes it absolutely atmospheric and memorable. I really enjoyed my watch.
Kabukibu
Kinda your basic get the band, er club, together animé that dissatisfied a lot of people who assumed it would follow in the footsteps of another certain animé about old japanese artforms. But I enjoyed myself so MDR that's all I care about. Pretty basic in just about everything and i do have a few nitpicks but liked tuning in for some of the neat moments and even speeches the main made.
Anonymous noise
It was hecka tropey and that's why I loved it. lire the manga i found it's really still tropey but some things that seemed to be paced oddly in the animé are actually not paced so in the manga. In the animé its paced so that toi didn't have time to devour one dramatic reveal to another which to some may have been enough for them to quickly write their dislike of the animé down to bad écriture but I thoroughly enjoyed this as a roller coaster shoujo that played no games about the trope hoops it was jumping through.
Honorable mention: Kado the right answer
Extremely interesting animé about the politics that would come from aliens trying to help us with an attempt at insight into human nature only to really fall on it's face for the last 3 episodes.
Summer:AW YEAH TIME FOR SOME NEWER STUFF.... but like not all of them toi know lol
Made in abyss
An extremely atmospheric and interesting animé about children going on an adventure down a hole in their town only to turn dark but due to warning signs at the beginning so toi really shouldn't be so surprised. I was just in l’amour with it and it really did an amazing job overall. I loved the characters, got swept away in the emotions, am absolutely intrigued par what the heck could possibly happen next, and can't wait for season 2.
Welcome to the ballroom
Loved the manga and was kinda mixed at the first episodes but grew into it even if *le sigh* i was disappointed at the minimal dancing animation (i mean its like a whole lot plus than most animé but grah?the reason to watch the animé over the manga is to finally see plus dance scenes animated and it's not like toi don't get some dance scenes butadslkfnsdajkfn.nitpick) and some of the freaking angles look like horror shots haha? Focused on them ugly af necks haha? But sometimes its beautiful and it has my sun/son Tatara? (one of many I know but ??) but some scenes were taken out and i feel added (i'm looking at toi fanservice shots, like it does have some in the manga but that many? nah.) but still manages to have a flow, enjoyment, interesting characters and some iconic dance scenes/arcs that the manga drew me in with like a 8.9/10 adaptation.
Katsugeki/Touken ranbu
Some people were disappointed in this as an action animé but I just am way plus chill about it for some reason. It was like a calm tune in animé to me? maybe it's because I never expected much storywise since the concept/Hanamaru days animé that came before, to begin with is er chill? slice of lifish with a focus on character so ?? too many (??) because i don't know i liked seeing beautiful action with a few touches on aspects the Hanamaru animé couldn't delve into even if it only was a touch base. idk it still had the cœur, coeur that I like the Touken Ranbu animé for :P
Honorable mention:Knights and magic & Fate/Apocypha
Knights and magic was something i had a decent time tuning into each week.
Fate/Apocrypha did turn out to be ok/decent fun watch but was overwhelming in the first 2 episodes in the amount of characters they wanted toi to know then underwhelming in the following episodes for the first half of the story in terms of theme and sometimes character. Kinda finds its nook in later episodes in a side mission team up anime.
FALL: ALL THE NEW STUFF!!
I had so much i wanted to watch and couldn't due to LIFE but the 3 i definitely DID finish
Infini-t force
Infini t force was that niche animé that i had bookmarked earlier due to adoring Casshern sins and learning that casshern would be in it (even though i have yet to wach the original casshern animé smh). I left the animé ready to watch the original series for all of the main characters. Like grah!!! It was funnily enough a group of 70/80's heros teaching a girl not to be a jerk and learn to empathize with the world she'd grown detached towards. While i wish the écriture for the friendship for the group was smoother there were definitely interesting bonds the main character had to at least two of the heroes, one of them being interesting to the end. The écriture in general could have afforded plus breathing time for bonding moments so we could care they were Friends vs speeches of heroism but i still enjoyed it. Funnily enough I was invested, highly entertained and am excited for the movie. The funniest thing is it felt plus like a reverse harem than "code realize" did and speaking of "code realize"
Code: realize
This is a reverse harem and an ok one? kinda like the i being me enjoyed it due to my bias towards it already. There was lot of really good in it and some that made me wish it's potential was plus realized. Like kudos for a soft main heroine that didn't immediately = pushover like unfortunately the genre does sometimes. It was consistent in its aim to develop Cardia's (m.c) feelings from "should i be allowed to live" to giving the villain a what-for for being an unempathetic jerk. But the while the art was pretty, at times the animation held it back par being just bad ou some of the designs looked cheap due to a disconnect between the color schemes in the foreground vs background. The main couple was cute but not nearly as developed as the ending would have toi to believe and since the bonds between her and anyone else was weak at best it was hard to care even if i might ship a couple of the guys with her plus on theory than how it actually played. The plot was a little boring, as in nice in theory but hard to be invested in, and i wish there was plus camaraderie between the group but global, ensemble I liked it as a pop corn, maïs soufflé anime.
Juuni taisen
So if code realize was a pop corn, maïs soufflé animé mostly due to my own preferences Juuni taisen was THE pop corn, maïs soufflé animé for this season. It's smooth animation to 12 people fighting to death to get a wish was lot of fun for me. I didn't really like the ending but don't hold much of a grudge since i did enjoy my viewing.
Honorable mentions to literally all the animé i didn't get a chance to watch and will catch up with right now/as we speak i am watching and finishing anime
Ancient Magus bride, a manga I know is good that I heard was also a good animé adaptation
Children of whales i heard was also good.
Idolmaster side M, and Tsukipro because i literally admitted earlier that YES i try to keep up with idol animé because don't judge me. (i did drop dynamic chord without trying it because i heard it was baaaaaad)
Grancrest senki and violet evergarden which i heard were airing but are not available on chia animé so I'll wait.
In Conclusion
So yeah my an was decent some animé i enjoyed plus because i was catered to than because it was groundbreakingly amazing but haha i just love!defending my enjoyment of mediocre anime!because it was right up my interests! I kid I kid. There certainly were some standouts and I don't regret being waaaaaay to easy on some animé because as has been my key phrase this whole article I enjoyed myself and at the end of the jour that's all that matters to me :P
Which animé did toi like/watch this year?
Winter: AKA i only really watched 3 non sequels
ACCA 13
Acca 13 was a stylish calm animé about Jean going around giving evaluation to each of the sections of the uniquely bird shaped country Dowa he lives on while there's silent whispering about his past and how it connects to the suivant royal coronation and the dissatisfied sections of Dowa. All while they REEEEEEEEALLLY enjoy eating toast... I greatly enjoyed its slow pace and how it just seemed to smoothly integrate plot with Jean's job to give toi a feel of the world and why the politics even matter at all, building up to end with not a bang but with the same calm demeanor it started with. Just a nice watch.
eldlive
I had high hopes for this one being from the same auteur of Hit man reborn, one of my favori series, but the timing, the inappropriate jokes, even the animation at times led to a very stale watch. The characters sometimes showed the glint of likablity i recognize the auteur for and the main character even showed some of that fave material, but be it the odd focus on "attraction" typical of bad harem anime, the pacing, the actual delivery it sits plus on the guilty pleasure animé than a new favori which is a shame because I hear the manga is good and I did want to l’amour this.
Marginal kiss
Er. yeah I happen to be the watcher of Idol and Reverse Harem animé because I just can't help myself?? The weirdest part is that I actually do tend to like the songs in idol shows so i was disappointing that there weren't really any in here. Just a slice of life montrer with idols who don't sing makes it my least favori idol montrer that I've watched. perfectly fine but made plus meh since there weren't songs.
Spring: I watched like 9? but I'll only talk about 3 with an honorable mention
Tsuki Ga Kirei
TGK would be a normal shoujo about two shy cuties getting together but sets itself apart par doing something radical. It cut out a LOT of dialogue. Yet does not feel like a bare Bones shoujo since it has the respect for the audience to understand what the characters are feeling par observing what they do and it just works. Makes it absolutely atmospheric and memorable. I really enjoyed my watch.
Kabukibu
Kinda your basic get the band, er club, together animé that dissatisfied a lot of people who assumed it would follow in the footsteps of another certain animé about old japanese artforms. But I enjoyed myself so MDR that's all I care about. Pretty basic in just about everything and i do have a few nitpicks but liked tuning in for some of the neat moments and even speeches the main made.
Anonymous noise
It was hecka tropey and that's why I loved it. lire the manga i found it's really still tropey but some things that seemed to be paced oddly in the animé are actually not paced so in the manga. In the animé its paced so that toi didn't have time to devour one dramatic reveal to another which to some may have been enough for them to quickly write their dislike of the animé down to bad écriture but I thoroughly enjoyed this as a roller coaster shoujo that played no games about the trope hoops it was jumping through.
Honorable mention: Kado the right answer
Extremely interesting animé about the politics that would come from aliens trying to help us with an attempt at insight into human nature only to really fall on it's face for the last 3 episodes.
Summer:AW YEAH TIME FOR SOME NEWER STUFF.... but like not all of them toi know lol
Made in abyss
An extremely atmospheric and interesting animé about children going on an adventure down a hole in their town only to turn dark but due to warning signs at the beginning so toi really shouldn't be so surprised. I was just in l’amour with it and it really did an amazing job overall. I loved the characters, got swept away in the emotions, am absolutely intrigued par what the heck could possibly happen next, and can't wait for season 2.
Welcome to the ballroom
Loved the manga and was kinda mixed at the first episodes but grew into it even if *le sigh* i was disappointed at the minimal dancing animation (i mean its like a whole lot plus than most animé but grah?the reason to watch the animé over the manga is to finally see plus dance scenes animated and it's not like toi don't get some dance scenes butadslkfnsdajkfn.nitpick) and some of the freaking angles look like horror shots haha? Focused on them ugly af necks haha? But sometimes its beautiful and it has my sun/son Tatara? (one of many I know but ??) but some scenes were taken out and i feel added (i'm looking at toi fanservice shots, like it does have some in the manga but that many? nah.) but still manages to have a flow, enjoyment, interesting characters and some iconic dance scenes/arcs that the manga drew me in with like a 8.9/10 adaptation.
Katsugeki/Touken ranbu
Some people were disappointed in this as an action animé but I just am way plus chill about it for some reason. It was like a calm tune in animé to me? maybe it's because I never expected much storywise since the concept/Hanamaru days animé that came before, to begin with is er chill? slice of lifish with a focus on character so ?? too many (??) because i don't know i liked seeing beautiful action with a few touches on aspects the Hanamaru animé couldn't delve into even if it only was a touch base. idk it still had the cœur, coeur that I like the Touken Ranbu animé for :P
Honorable mention:Knights and magic & Fate/Apocypha
Knights and magic was something i had a decent time tuning into each week.
Fate/Apocrypha did turn out to be ok/decent fun watch but was overwhelming in the first 2 episodes in the amount of characters they wanted toi to know then underwhelming in the following episodes for the first half of the story in terms of theme and sometimes character. Kinda finds its nook in later episodes in a side mission team up anime.
FALL: ALL THE NEW STUFF!!
I had so much i wanted to watch and couldn't due to LIFE but the 3 i definitely DID finish
Infini-t force
Infini t force was that niche animé that i had bookmarked earlier due to adoring Casshern sins and learning that casshern would be in it (even though i have yet to wach the original casshern animé smh). I left the animé ready to watch the original series for all of the main characters. Like grah!!! It was funnily enough a group of 70/80's heros teaching a girl not to be a jerk and learn to empathize with the world she'd grown detached towards. While i wish the écriture for the friendship for the group was smoother there were definitely interesting bonds the main character had to at least two of the heroes, one of them being interesting to the end. The écriture in general could have afforded plus breathing time for bonding moments so we could care they were Friends vs speeches of heroism but i still enjoyed it. Funnily enough I was invested, highly entertained and am excited for the movie. The funniest thing is it felt plus like a reverse harem than "code realize" did and speaking of "code realize"
Code: realize
This is a reverse harem and an ok one? kinda like the i being me enjoyed it due to my bias towards it already. There was lot of really good in it and some that made me wish it's potential was plus realized. Like kudos for a soft main heroine that didn't immediately = pushover like unfortunately the genre does sometimes. It was consistent in its aim to develop Cardia's (m.c) feelings from "should i be allowed to live" to giving the villain a what-for for being an unempathetic jerk. But the while the art was pretty, at times the animation held it back par being just bad ou some of the designs looked cheap due to a disconnect between the color schemes in the foreground vs background. The main couple was cute but not nearly as developed as the ending would have toi to believe and since the bonds between her and anyone else was weak at best it was hard to care even if i might ship a couple of the guys with her plus on theory than how it actually played. The plot was a little boring, as in nice in theory but hard to be invested in, and i wish there was plus camaraderie between the group but global, ensemble I liked it as a pop corn, maïs soufflé anime.
Juuni taisen
So if code realize was a pop corn, maïs soufflé animé mostly due to my own preferences Juuni taisen was THE pop corn, maïs soufflé animé for this season. It's smooth animation to 12 people fighting to death to get a wish was lot of fun for me. I didn't really like the ending but don't hold much of a grudge since i did enjoy my viewing.
Honorable mentions to literally all the animé i didn't get a chance to watch and will catch up with right now/as we speak i am watching and finishing anime
Ancient Magus bride, a manga I know is good that I heard was also a good animé adaptation
Children of whales i heard was also good.
Idolmaster side M, and Tsukipro because i literally admitted earlier that YES i try to keep up with idol animé because don't judge me. (i did drop dynamic chord without trying it because i heard it was baaaaaad)
Grancrest senki and violet evergarden which i heard were airing but are not available on chia animé so I'll wait.
In Conclusion
So yeah my an was decent some animé i enjoyed plus because i was catered to than because it was groundbreakingly amazing but haha i just love!defending my enjoyment of mediocre anime!because it was right up my interests! I kid I kid. There certainly were some standouts and I don't regret being waaaaaay to easy on some animé because as has been my key phrase this whole article I enjoyed myself and at the end of the jour that's all that matters to me :P
Which animé did toi like/watch this year?