Special Event: Fall 2024 Anime Season / Summer 2024 Wrap-Up
October 6, 2024 6:33 AM - Subscribe
The last few shows for Summer 2024 are wrapping up, so time for the quarterly update post!
Initial impressions, reviews, and
Anticipation and recommendations: First impressions and early reviews: In addition to what we've got on our watchlists from Fall 2024, we can also chat about anything we watched over the summer.
Anticipation and recommendations: First impressions and early reviews: In addition to what we've got on our watchlists from Fall 2024, we can also chat about anything we watched over the summer.
Of last season’s shows, I watched:
This season, I too am watching Dan Da Dan and Ranma 1/2. I’m also watching Blue Box, and 365 Days To The Wedding. The latter seems like a pretty basic fake-dating romance, but at least it has likeable characters, plus it fulfills my desire for more rom-com or slice-of-life shows featuring adults rather than teens. From the backlog, I am watching Skip and Loafer and Usagi Drop.
posted by mbrubeck at 2:43 PM on October 7 [1 favorite]
- Senpai is an Otokonoko. This had a decent mix of serious and lighthearted, and turned out quite different than I expected after the first couple of episodes. It mostly avoided leaning on the typical love triangle tropes. The treatment of gender and sexuality was also more nuanced than I was expecting, though still not perfect.
- Pseudo Harem. Despite the gimmicky premise, this was actually just pure wholesome stress-free romance. Not a ton of substance, but I did like that it followed the characters beyond high school, and that they just had such a healthy, mutually supportive relationship through the whole show. The pacing and structure was a bit weird, probably due to following the original manga too rigidly.
This season, I too am watching Dan Da Dan and Ranma 1/2. I’m also watching Blue Box, and 365 Days To The Wedding. The latter seems like a pretty basic fake-dating romance, but at least it has likeable characters, plus it fulfills my desire for more rom-com or slice-of-life shows featuring adults rather than teens. From the backlog, I am watching Skip and Loafer and Usagi Drop.
posted by mbrubeck at 2:43 PM on October 7 [1 favorite]
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For seasonal shows, I finished Oshi no Ko S2, Losing Heroines, Alya, and VTuber Legend. Oshi no Ko's second season was a strong continuation of the first, less bombastic but it's spinning a suspenseful and interesting story that was my most anticipated show every week. Losing Heroines was an excellent surprise, I didn't start the show until about 3 weeks in after it was getting good reviews and it turned out to be my favorite original of the season. Excellent all around slice of life with charming characters, and lots of emotional moments despite being more of a romance-adjacent show as opposed to being a straightforward romance show.
Alya turned out to be fine. Enjoyable enough but it lost out a bit being in the same general genre as Losing Heroines while just overall not being as interesting. VTuber Legend had some great jokes, and is probably an entertaining watch for anyone that's into VTubers. The lack of an overarching plotline made it the show that I was most okay with skipping a week or two and then catching up, though I always had fun when I did so.
Outside of the seasonal shows, I just overall watched a lot of anime in the past few months. I caught up on some of the heavily recommended 1-cour shows, such as Oddtaxi, Bocchi the Rock, Vivy: Flourite Eyes' Song, and Lycoris Recoil. I enjoyed them all, with LycoReco probably being my favorite. Bocchi's humor didn't always land with me, which knocked it down a couple of points, and Vivy had some cool ideas and concepts but I thought the ending was kind of a mess. Oddtaxi had snappy dialogue and was overall very tightly written, but I'll admit the ending didn't really sit that well with me.
For movies, I watched Look Back, which was excellent. I spent an afternoon doing a watch of Millennium Actress and a rewatch of Perfect Blue, which just reinforced my opinion that Satoshi Kon was taken from us too soon.
Fall 2024, right now I have only two shows on my list, Dan Da Dan and the Ranma 1/2 Remake. I've already watched the first episodes of both shows and they're both off to strong starts.
posted by C^3 at 6:57 AM on October 6