Hola Señors and Señoritas!
Another season is upon us, which means more anime to run through and dabble with in my free time. I’m gonna give you the potential bangers and personal choices I’m feeling in the early moments of the Spring 2024 season. I’m forgoing mentioning Demon Slayer or Reincarnated Slime or Mushoku Tensei or My Hero Academia because you can literally go anywhere else on the Anime Corner of the internet and hear all about those. Lets talk about some lesser known ones, and one not-so-lesser-known one in particular that you’ve probably heard of:
As always, everything is now hyperlinked to their respective MAL page. Click the images below for more info on the shows!
Consider me…intrigued for this season. I was a BIG fan of Seasons 1 and 2 and the Movie, merrily skipping past the cringey fanservice for the gut-busting humor and above average isekai moments in a genre that is doomed to mediocrity. But then the Megumin spinoff, An Explosion on This Wonderful World!, came out and it was…ehh? I got a few episodes in and lost interest (even though it was one of my Anime to Watch back in Spring 2023). I’m hoping having Kazuma and the rest of the gang together brings the series back into the light that I enjoyed because I’d hate to drop another KonoSuba season after the previous endeavors were so, so good.
Music and potential unrequited love are two ingredients in a Girls Love Slice of Life anime that need to be added to taste. Too much music and you may remove yourself from the romantic tendencies people like me gravitate to. Too much unrequited love and you’ll remove the payoff that I’ll wade through 4-5 hours of episodes to reach. So when Himari Kino, a freshman, falls head over heels with Yori Asanagi, an upperclassman who’s band performed for said freshmen at their school’s opening ceremony: the confession-. Wait, hold on. Himari only loves Yori’s music and not her? And now Yori is trying to make Himari love her instead of only her music? Oh. Well. This is actually more interesting than expected! Sign me up regardless.
The premise feels like if you took Coffee Time or VA-11 Hall-A and created an anime with it. The hallowed ground of Eden Hall, operated by Ryuu Sasakura, is home to the best cocktails in the Ginza District, or perhaps anywhere, depending on the cocktail you choose. But with Eden Hall hidden amongst the back alleys of city life, Eden Hall just happens to find you more than you find it. With a premise this wide open, the potential for this show is about as wide as the selection of liquor to indulge in. Consider this a real sleeper hit for this season, but only if it can deliver some interesting plot points and mixtures.
Kano Yamanouchi currently lives out the dream of any anime lover who’s been dying to go to Japan: spending her nights wandering around Shibuya, a city overflowing with identity. When a life-changing encounter comes along to Kano amongst the streets she wanders, her dreams of becoming someone in this world start to slowly turn for the better. With studio Doga Kobo taking helm of the project, fresh off the heels of the widely successful Oshi no Ko, the premise gives the possibility of taking to the nightlife like Call of the Night did in Summer 2022 and really leaning into what makes the Shibuya nightlife so interesting and eventful. Pulling no punches in showing the neon and LED-lit night sky for a city that stays up as long as you can could be a visual sensation that may take people by surprise. Stoked to see what could become of this.
Also think of watching:
(Note: the last two I could not find which American streaming service they were showing on, if they’re showing on one. Best of luck!)
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