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I wonder if I should bother listing anime I start to follow each season anymore? These days I tend to flake out on at least half of what I watch, even when the shows I flake out on aren't necessarily bad. (Makes it all the more incredible that I kept with six series all the way through in the Autumn 2018 season!)
What hasn't helped this time is that I felt like I made bad choices with what I have watched all the way through for Winter 2019.
Price of Smiles turned out to be a complete waste of time. It showed some promise early on, but looking back, it was totally using the shock value of killing off a seemingly major character to keep viewers' eyeballs on the screen; then the pacing always felt off, and most of the characters weren't as well-developed as they could've been, and the animation got increasingly terrible to the point of narm, and by the end it just didn't adequately deliver on anything, even things it was setting up early on that should've had way more impact than they ultimately had. In short, I wish I'd never bothered.
Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka at least had a protagonist I loved -- Asuka's emotional issues made her very compelling and she's a little different from most protags for dark magical girl shows -- and I ended up... well, I still don't know if I fully liked Kurumi, but I certainly appreciated her as a character once it was made fully clear how messed up she really was. I think they deserved a better canon, though -- or at least one that was more committed to seriously exploring the girls' psychological problems and so on instead of wanting to have its torture pr0n cake and eat it. I might-or-might-not check out the original manga at some point?
Might go back and catch up on Boogiepop and Promised Neverland eventually, too. I certainly wish I kept up with those instead of bloody Price of Smiles!
I think another problem with seasonal anime for me lately is that I can pick up an older, completed show and get way more invested in it than in what's currently airing? That felt like the case when I watched DenYuuDen, anyway...
Having said all of this, here's a tentative list of what I might watch for Spring 2019:
*Fruits Basket
*Kono Oto Tomare!
*Fairy Gone
*Sarazanmai
While I mention Sarazanmai in particular, I've been intending to try and finally watch Yuri Kuma Arashi beforehand, but so far I just haven't been able to make myself do it. So much of what I've heard about it puts me right off, no matter how much I tell myself things like "it might not be that bad" and "if I watch it and really end up not liking it then at least I can say I tried". It doesn't help that I'm wary of Sarazanmai's premise as it is... needless to say, I don't have much trust in Ikuhara these days. =/
What hasn't helped this time is that I felt like I made bad choices with what I have watched all the way through for Winter 2019.
Price of Smiles turned out to be a complete waste of time. It showed some promise early on, but looking back, it was totally using the shock value of killing off a seemingly major character to keep viewers' eyeballs on the screen; then the pacing always felt off, and most of the characters weren't as well-developed as they could've been, and the animation got increasingly terrible to the point of narm, and by the end it just didn't adequately deliver on anything, even things it was setting up early on that should've had way more impact than they ultimately had. In short, I wish I'd never bothered.
Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka at least had a protagonist I loved -- Asuka's emotional issues made her very compelling and she's a little different from most protags for dark magical girl shows -- and I ended up... well, I still don't know if I fully liked Kurumi, but I certainly appreciated her as a character once it was made fully clear how messed up she really was. I think they deserved a better canon, though -- or at least one that was more committed to seriously exploring the girls' psychological problems and so on instead of wanting to have its torture pr0n cake and eat it. I might-or-might-not check out the original manga at some point?
Might go back and catch up on Boogiepop and Promised Neverland eventually, too. I certainly wish I kept up with those instead of bloody Price of Smiles!
I think another problem with seasonal anime for me lately is that I can pick up an older, completed show and get way more invested in it than in what's currently airing? That felt like the case when I watched DenYuuDen, anyway...
Having said all of this, here's a tentative list of what I might watch for Spring 2019:
*Fruits Basket
*Kono Oto Tomare!
*Fairy Gone
*Sarazanmai
While I mention Sarazanmai in particular, I've been intending to try and finally watch Yuri Kuma Arashi beforehand, but so far I just haven't been able to make myself do it. So much of what I've heard about it puts me right off, no matter how much I tell myself things like "it might not be that bad" and "if I watch it and really end up not liking it then at least I can say I tried". It doesn't help that I'm wary of Sarazanmai's premise as it is... needless to say, I don't have much trust in Ikuhara these days. =/
