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 Fall 2024 season. Let’s go:
As always, everything is now hyperlinked to their respective MAL page. Click the images below for more info on the shows!
After several years of planning, teasing, and delays: the Junji Ito classic is finally here to grace our swirling eyeballs. Adult Swim/MAX has the honor of hosting the 4-episode miniseries that follows Kirie Goshima and the trials and tribulations that come with her father’s growing concern over the rise of “spirals” appearing around town. This has the tall task of keeping up with Ito’s genius while providing a quality product in a shade over an hour of runtime, but know my butt will be firmly in my seat awaiting Uzumaki episodes as they drop.
The love and care given to anime and the competition of school-run sports is impeccable, and the same can be said for…most of the romance anime of present day outside of your harem-baiting guilty pleasures. Blue Box has been masterfully combining the two with their ongoing 3 years and 16 volumes on Weekly Shōnen Jump and now Taiki Inomata and Chinatsu Kano’s story of ascending to Nationals in their respective sports while also looking to capture each other’s hearts in the process makes it to Netflix. Full stop: have you seen the trailer? The production is gorgeous and is going to be an absolute treat to see in motion.
Gotta get my slice-of-life in, you know this! 365 Days to the Wedding follows coworkers Takuya and Rika, happily single and comfortably introverted, tackling the feat of looking married to the public eye in order to snag a new promising gig in Siberia for their company. This being one of the rare occasions we have a romance anime that’s surrounded by working adults automatically piques my interest and having the manga completed last year should give Ashi Productions (Eureka Seven) plenty of content to work around for hopefully multiple seasons.
Gotta get my potentially emotional-trainwrecks or (please don’t be) jailbait anime disguised as a comedy, you know this! TsumaSho tackles the unspeakable future of losing a loved one in a tragic accident and the focus of life afterward, especially with taking care of your only daughter. Keisuke Niijima has tried to move forward after 10 years but the will to go on is subjugated only by providing living expenses for his daughter. The story then takes a (please-please-please) comedic turn when an elementary school girl appears in front of Keisuke’s house claiming to be the reincarnated soul of his wife, Takae. Consider this my coin-flip of the season as the tackling of emotional trauma and comedy can ride a fine line, but is masterful when handled as such.
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