Winter 2024 anime

Here we are, once again

Doesn't look as garbage as most winter seasons

Edited by Hylarn on Dec 17th 2023 at 6:04:30 AM

Absolutelys: Dungeon Meshi, Danger's of my heart, A sign of affection (high quality adaptation of a shoujo that I mostly like!!!), sengoku youko (looks heads and shoulders above the biscuit hammer anime and I wanna see if the anime will make me cry too), The weakest tamer (it's cute)

Maybes: Ishura, witch and the beast (the manga is enjoyable but the anime looks like it'll just be okay at best so far)

Oh I definitely hope Sengoku Youko gets better treatment than Biscuit Hammer did.

Since both Dungeon Meshi and Boku no Kokoro no Yoiba Yatsu where already mentioned, I will point out that I'm planning to watch It's Time for "Torture", Princess and the return of Urusei Yatsura, with decent chance I give Solo Leveling a try.

Considering that I believe both Undead Unluck and Shangri-La Fronteir will extend to the winter season, I would already have 7 series to watch, the same as the current Fall season.

Edited by Shadow-Whisperer on Oct 28th 2023 at 9:25:42 AM

Hunh. I was not aware that Villainess Level 99 was getting an anime adaptation.

I read the first few chapters of Looking Up to Magical Girls back when they came out, before the manga ... uh, revealed the full extent of its degeneracy.

And, I gotta say, the thing I'm most looking forward to this season is the Keijo!!!!!!!!/Uzaki-chan-level shitstorm that's gonna erupt all over social media once it drops.

Really? I'd say it'll only count as a Keijo!!!!!! shitstorm if its an anime that's VERY clear, over the top, and shameless about what it is, but people get angry about it anyway.

Edited by diddyknux on Oct 28th 2023 at 1:14:16 PM

It is, it is, it is, they will, and also the main characters are only 14.

If you have a high tolerance for ecchi trash or have Bile Fascination, and can enjoy the absurd, over the top, utterly degenerate nature of what you're seeing with a cackling smile, then you might enjoy it.

Otherwise ... no bueno.

Edited by WarriorsGate on Oct 28th 2023 at 12:18:03 PM

Oh, I see.. I think I'll pass on this one then. I do have a high tolerance for - even go so far as to say enjoy - ecchi, but even I have my limits...

Edited by diddyknux on Oct 28th 2023 at 2:14:28 PM

Ironically, the only guaranteed show for me is Classroom of Elite S3 as I do want to see the Year 1 finish after the events of S2. There are a few more shows I may try but I am not sure yet. Considering, both Frieren and Apothecary Diaries will continue next season, I will still have things to watch.

I'm here for Blue Exorcist and maybe Mashle.

Huh, Aoi Koga is playing Kiwi in Looking Up to Magical Girls. That's an ... interesting choice for what is definitely a Naomi Ozora role. I know very little about Pretty Cure, aside from the fact she's in the newest one. Given that Looking Up to Magical Girls is basically Pre-ecchi Cure, I wonder if that's an Actor Allusion.

Edited by WarriorsGate on Oct 28th 2023 at 1:59:46 AM

Previous works of note:

• Bravern is the work of legendary director Masami Obari. Also; apparently unrelated to the Brave series
• Bucchigiri is from the director that gave us Free, Banana Fish, and Sk 8
• Chained Soldier is from the Akame ga Kill guy^note He's also done a ton of other stuff, but it's closest to Akame
• Metallic Rouge comes to us from the Carole & Tuesday director
• Sengoku Youko is the work of Satoshi Mizukami, who you may recognize from Planet With and/or Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer. I think it's substantially worse than either, but this doesn't seem to be the most common opinion
• Tales of Wedding Rings' creator also did Dusk maiden of Amnesia and To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts. Closer to the former than the latter
• 'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess has the writer of Senyuu

And, I gotta say, the thing I'm most looking forward to this season is the Keijo!!!!!!!!/Uzaki-chan-level shitstorm that's gonna erupt all over social media once it drops. smile

Eh, the MahoAko anime is being pretty open about what it is, which is usually enough to stave off major controversy

Oh, I see.. I think I'll pass on this one then. I do have a high tolerance for - even go so far as to say enjoy - ecchi, but even I have my limits...

I mean. The manga is quite good for what it is. It's just that what it is is magical girl-themed yuri BDSM smut

Tales of Wedding Rings is one of the few Isekai series I'm actually interested in, so I might be watching it.

Pretty sure BDSM required consent, which IIRC this manga is "it's not sexual assault if your body enjoys it."

Ah, I expected the Unnamed Memory anime this season but that will be for later I guess.

Very curious about Metallic Rouge, that looks pretty rad.

Edited by Lyendith on Oct 28th 2023 at 12:21:17 PM

To be fair, Enormeeta are villains, and they don't pretend to be anything more than evil, self-interested hedonistic perverts. So it's still sexual assault — they just don't care about morality.

And the audience are supposed to be the same as them, since I highly doubt it's about wanting to see them stop and not enjoying seeing the sexual assault.

So we already know what our "Redo of Healer" will be for this couer?

Eh, from what I recall it's not very power fantasy-ish. I think Utena kept getting her ass kicked and turned into a Butt-Monkey like your average magical girl villain, as opposed to becoming some kind of OP isekai protagonist, which makes it seem less "vicarious revenge fantasy" than Redo of Healer.

Just asking, how okay do you think her actions would be if she was a man?

Since audiences are not required to agree to adopt some kind of value system in order to read and laugh at a manga full of purposefully-tasteless ecchi schlock, your question is irrelevant.

No identification with the protagonists' morality is either expressed or implied by the act of enjoying schlock.

I suppose next you'll want to talk about how playing "murder simulators" causes people to become rampage killers, or how playing Dungeons and Dragons leads people to develop dissasociative identity disorder, or any of a number of other failed theories throughout the decades about how "bad" fiction irrevocably warps peoples' minds?

It's smut. The audience is expected to know that you're not supposed to do this in real life, but none of the characters, including the victims, take it seriously. Goofy, pervy fun. With an S&M twist

I fully understand this though? Trying to strawman me by implying I don't understand the difference between fiction and reality is uncalled for. I have personal issues with anime depictions of sexual assault, and saying you laugh at it certainly makes me very uncomfortable.

False equivalence