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Anime year reviews 2023

Spring season 2023


Jigokuraku

Another MAPPA show, so expect good animation and fights, at the very least.



MASHLE

Heavily borrows from Harry Potter, but the protagonist cannot do magic. The show is technically one long repetitive joke that appears in many, many form, yet somehow remains entertaining. Quickly becomes a battle shounen.



Tengoku Daimakyou

Genuinely don't know what to say about this.



Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Bakuen wo!

Unfortunately making a whole show (or LN) out of a single character who's usually the butt of gags unsurprisingly didn't end up being amazing. It's more Konosuba without everything else that made Konosuba such a banger. Rather lukewarm but you'll watch it anyways because it's Megumin.


Skip to Loafer

Cute slice of life (and a sprinkling of romance starting?) where the plain, and "hick" main character ends up being the life of the class. Cute


Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu

Romance series by the Mitsudomoe author. The two main characters are huge dorks in their own way and are pretty cute together. Absolutely not a one trick pony and more or less each episodes actually do feel like they're actually slowly progressing things. A must watch.



Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia

Cute slice of life/romance show about two insomniacs who ends up meeting each others and revive the astrology club.


Dead Mount Death Play

Reverse isekai, gets actually pretty complex quickly as you end up following more than several different groups and characters, all with their own motivations. It sounds complicated but so far, it never really get that messy and hard to follow


Kaminaki Sekai no Kamisama Katsudou

One of the best disaster I've seen. A new director came and used the budget in a very interesting manner. In one episode you'll have the animation shitting itself, but in another you'll get some quality background gags during a long talky exposition. It helped that the whole thing was comedic and seemingly shitpost-y. It was a sight to behold


Ousama Ranking: Yuuki no Takarabako

Disappointing. You get baited thinking it's a sequel, it starts as such, it kinda is, but a lot of it is backstories and side stories and some further explanations. It ends with an absolute bang however.


Yuusha ga Shinda!

Hilarious, but unfortunately low budget and ends early, despite the manga being finished, leaving you wanting more. Despite the budget, it was quite great. Like Meikyuu Black Company and a bunch of others, the gem here is the asshole protagonist that uses his head and meager powers to actually trick opponents


Megami no Café Terrace

DROPPED

It's just so generic, the waifus are generic, the events are generic. There was just nothing to it


Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers

Starts extremely promising, seemed like a big passion project but being as weird as it is, it does the mistake of suddenly attempting to have a plot at the end, which was absolutely shit and completely sank it in the end


EDENS ZERO 2nd Season

Yet to finish it

The first big villain arc was great, but I just simply wasn't feeling the next arc



Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu!


Actually has Yuri elements btw. In the cafe they end up larping as a classic yuri story, hence the title of the show. Obviously, some relationship issues (non-yuri and then yuri) ends ups affecting their work at the café


Edomae Elf

Nice calm slice of life about a reverse isekai'd elf that ended up being worshiped as a god, but is a shut in otaku NEET. Ends up having a lot of facts about the edo era



Rokudou no Onna-tachi

Has a bit of an old school looks and a tad low budget. Way better than shit like Tokyo Revengers, because Rokudou actually manages to have a spine and get into the action. Unfortunately it's a short lived adaptation despite the manga being finished, leaving you a bit unsatisfied.



Kawaisugi Crisis

REALLY weird anime. A tad lower budget, but adequate for the kind of show it is. It would seem repetitive at first, I mean, where could this possibly even go? But it manages to be good until the end somehow. It's a show that is actually very good at what it does.

 


BIRDIE WING: Golf Girls' Story Season 2

Fantastic... until the end at least. I have no idea if it's because the "multimedia project" it might have been failed, which, for example the video game came out in an awful state, apparently it's absolutely awful. But this seems like it got the axe earlier than it could've because it would have needed a whole 3rd season to properly finish what S2 set up. Lots of revelations during the season and it obviously starts speedrunning the show around the end, to unfortunately finish on a clipshow final confrontation. Very disappointing.


THE MARGINAL SERVICE

It starts with a banger as a police story, but then he quickly join this goofy secret organization that capture unruly yokais and all sort of creatures and it stays relatively goofy, but never all that great. It's okay.


THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: U149

Elementary school idols gets their producer assigned because he's a manlet. Each episode focus on a specific idol, with older idols appearing in some eps. Pretty decent



Tokyo Mew Mew New~♡ 2nd Season

Last part of the Tokyo Mew Mew remake.





AOTS


#3 World Dai Star
 

Starts relatively mundane despite the premise, but as it goes it starts getting extremely interesting as the main character progress and increasingly gets into her roles and you actually do feel that sudden change in the voice actress' acting too. This happens around the Aladdin play arc.


#2 Dr. STONE: NEW WORLD

Dr.Stone continues with a banger of a season, whole new challenges and actually getting closer to the show's main mystery.



#1 [Oshi no Ko]

A goddamn movie length premiere that can actually stand on it's own and started as an absolute banger to the series. Ends up being a critic of the Japanese idol and entertainment industry while the protagonist investigate.