Weiss & Ramblings

These lead-ins are really starting to get tired and forced, so I'll spare you the typical spiel and instead give you some updates. I've started an anime-centric podcast with the help of some of my fellow nerds, @FritschTheRed, @HGF2635, and a rotating cast of other degenerates, called the "Anime Alcoholics Podcast". We strive to have a new episode every other week, which we record live then post to YouTube for later consumption. In an effort to not discriminate, we try to highlight a wide range of anime-related degeneracy (past topics including everything from monster girls to a Fate historical discussion) as well as imbibe as much alcohol as possible throughout the cast. If this sounds even remotely interesting to you, please tune in for our live recordings on Twitch, where you can tell us how wrong we are in chat. Well that's it for that, so let's hop into reviews for Fall shall we? I'm going to skip over the 2-cour shows this time, as adding in ...

It's seasons like this one that make me glad to be a seasonal anime watcher. With a good spread of genres and a generally high overall quality, this summer has been a highly enjoyable anime experience for me. Don't get it twisted though; there's always going to be a few bombs, and I'll always be here to leave a few scathing remarks, but I'm confident in saying that the good (and mediocre) far outweighed the actual "bad" this time. To give you an idea of where I'm coming from, I picked up a whopping total of 17 seasonal shows this season and I'm (strangely) not at all regretting it. I've decided that I'm going to hazard leaving some thoughts about the few two-cour shows I've picked up this season instead of just skipping over them, either leaving my recommendation to check it out or hitting it with a dreaded "skip it". Let's get to it, shall we? ---

I have to say, Spring 2017 was quite an enjoyable ride. Maybe I'm just getting better at identifying shows that suck before they run, or I'm just becoming more accepting of trash. Like most things, it's probably "a little of column A, a little of column B", but unfortunately I'm not here to start a discussion about changing tastes; I'm here to spew my opinions about Chinese cartoons, so let's jump right in. A few shows from this season went two-cour, so as per usual I'm going to omit them from reviews. If I had to drop any opinion about them though, I'd definitely say that Boku no Hero Academia S2 and Re:Creators are definitely worth checking out. --- Zouroku's special form of old man "justice" is always a riot.

As this season comes to a close I find myself looking forward to a yet to the upcoming spring season rather than reveling in this year's "hot and cold" winter season. Overall, shows this season were either pretty damn good or total trash, with only a few "meh"s to speak of. Thankfully, great shows and terrible shows are pretty easy to write about, so strap on in as I run down everything I watched this season, good and bad. I'd say again that I'll try to keep it brief, but we all know that's a bold-faced lie. Insert "rate-within-genre" blurb here, etc... etc... Shows that hold-over into spring will not be rated ( Little Witch Academia ). --- This kind of fight animation from the first episode is the best the show ever looked.

Well, the fall season has finally come to a close. Since I did a "first impressions" post this time around and started watching 18 shows this season, I'm going to keep this one a little more brief than my previous "Season in Review" posts, although that likely isn't going to happen. For the most part, everything played out as expected with only a few surprises and let-downs. Again, i rate everything in-genre, so if something seems a little higher or lower than you'd think, remember that I'm rating against a show's contemporaries and not cross-genre. I'd rant again about the worthlessness of cross-genre ranking but I've done it to death. Anyway, I'm only going to score out stuff that finished this season, so stuff that continued into winter like March Comes In Like a Lion  and Trickster  won't be included. Let's get right into it. ---