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Spring 2019 Anime Review
Jul. 10th, 2019 06:35 pmA little late, but as promised, a wrap-up of the spring anime season.
Unfortunately, only a few shows caught my interest, but they were all pretty good.
Fruits Basket – Love, love, love! I'm still over the moon that we're getting a manga-compliant reboot. It's not perfect, but it's pretty darn close. I can't wait until we finally get to the parts not covered in the first anime!
Ao-chan Can't Study – I'm kind of surprised I liked this so much, honestly. I didn't even start watching it until well into the season when I decided to see if there were any interesting shorts (episodes are only about twelve minutes long). Creepy father is creepy, but if you ignore that, it's actually a rather sweet romance. I especially liked Ao's love interest, Kijima, who is genuinely a nice guy who really respects her and her boundaries.
MIX – Mitsuru Adachi really is a master of baseball stories, even if his character designs are all Xerox copies. (Seriously, if you took a random screencap from "Mix" and "Cross Game", you probably wouldn't be able to tell the characters apart.) A little slow at first, but now that the brothers are in high school, I think things are starting to pick up.
Bungo Stray Dogs – Just as good as the previous seasons.
Midnight Occult Civil Servants – This was a bit of a random pick, but I tend to like supernatural anime, and this was a pretty good one. Nothing special, but enjoyable enough. I liked that it included a variety of international mythical beings instead of sticking with just Japanese mythology.
As for next season, there's not that really interests me this time either. Huh. I'm thinking of checking out Dr. Stone and Fire Force, and of course I'll be continuing Fruits Basket and Mix. I'm disappointed that O Maidens In Your Savage Season isn't on Crunchyroll, because that was the one I was most looking forward to, but the past couple of seasons, I've noticed that CR will sometimes start airing shows already picked up other companies a couple of weeks later, so I'm hoping that maybe it'll be one of those late pick-ups for them.
Unfortunately, only a few shows caught my interest, but they were all pretty good.
Fruits Basket – Love, love, love! I'm still over the moon that we're getting a manga-compliant reboot. It's not perfect, but it's pretty darn close. I can't wait until we finally get to the parts not covered in the first anime!
Ao-chan Can't Study – I'm kind of surprised I liked this so much, honestly. I didn't even start watching it until well into the season when I decided to see if there were any interesting shorts (episodes are only about twelve minutes long). Creepy father is creepy, but if you ignore that, it's actually a rather sweet romance. I especially liked Ao's love interest, Kijima, who is genuinely a nice guy who really respects her and her boundaries.
MIX – Mitsuru Adachi really is a master of baseball stories, even if his character designs are all Xerox copies. (Seriously, if you took a random screencap from "Mix" and "Cross Game", you probably wouldn't be able to tell the characters apart.) A little slow at first, but now that the brothers are in high school, I think things are starting to pick up.
Bungo Stray Dogs – Just as good as the previous seasons.
Midnight Occult Civil Servants – This was a bit of a random pick, but I tend to like supernatural anime, and this was a pretty good one. Nothing special, but enjoyable enough. I liked that it included a variety of international mythical beings instead of sticking with just Japanese mythology.
As for next season, there's not that really interests me this time either. Huh. I'm thinking of checking out Dr. Stone and Fire Force, and of course I'll be continuing Fruits Basket and Mix. I'm disappointed that O Maidens In Your Savage Season isn't on Crunchyroll, because that was the one I was most looking forward to, but the past couple of seasons, I've noticed that CR will sometimes start airing shows already picked up other companies a couple of weeks later, so I'm hoping that maybe it'll be one of those late pick-ups for them.
