The BEST Anime of Spring 2024 - Ones to Watch

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“Clearly MAPPA thinks it’s worth their animators’ time.” They have time?

After waiting 15 years I'm so excited to get my economics lessons from Holo again

"WAIT DONT SKIP TO THE NEXT SECTION" I found it absolutely hilarious that he said that right when I was about to skip the baseball one lmao

This kind of video is why I love following the same reviewers over a long period of time. I know the differences between Geoff's tastes and mine. He likes cute girls doing cute things more than I do, and he's infinitely more receptive to sports anime, but conversely, we often share the same opinions on action shows or outright ecchi ones. You can't get that kind of familiarity by reading random review articles from people you've never heard of on sites where columnists are laid off and replaced every other month.

Not me IMMEDIATELY directing my mouse cursor over the timeline to skip the baseball anime only for Geoff to read me for filth for it.

As an Omegaverse fan, the fact that it not only escaped the containment zone of AO3 but now has full-blown anime productions does make my soul leave my body a little bit.

I love how Kaiju #8 is basically Danny Phantom

I've seen some people dismiss Kaiju no 8 as just an Attack on Titan clone, so it's good to see it get recommended here. While there is definitely some influence there, AoT is nihilistic, and Kaiju is optimistic. That shift in world view really changes everything, and creates a very different experience. Plus, that story has some seriously awesome kaiju designs.

Before I watch the video. Note to self. Don't let someone else tell you what you can or can not like. It's okay to like trash.

The first episode of "Train to the End of the World" is WILD... I'm all in for the ride.

when I was in high school, my school had a rule that any club had to have cultural or academic merit in order to justify being school sanctioned, as did other schools in the area. my school and our rival school both justified the existence of anime club by showing episodes of spice and wolf to prove to our respective committees that anime had academic merit— SO excited for another generation to do the same BUT BETTER

The first episode of Jellyfish Can't Swim in The Night actually made me cry. It just cuts so deep for me as an artist.

Part of me is still hoping that Johnny Young Bosch voices someone in Go Go Loser Ranger, a full circle moment of going between sentai and voice acting

Girls Band Cry is getting criminally overlooked because every English streaming service forgot to license it, but it's really good. The characters feel real and fleshed out after two episodes in a way that most anime don't succeed at with twelve, without falling back on anime-trope personality templates or just telling the audience what kind of person they are. The way the story's staying on a very small personal scale while still pulling big emotional moments without needing crazy-high anime stakes or situations is really impressive; the main plot throughline of the fairly emo second episode was the MC needing to install a light fixture for her appartment.

Glad to see you talk about Apothecary Diaries, its an amazing anime, first one to convince me to go read the managa and light novel. Super excited for season 2!

Go Go Loser Ranger (or Ranger Reject as us pesky manga readers prefer to call it) is definitely going to be one of the highlights of the season. I highly recommend it to anyone wondering what to pick up from the season. I hope it gets some traction for sure.

"Wdym you haven't watched critically acclaimed Xmen 97 on Disney + yet!" This season of anime:

"Almost watched 40 new anime in the last two weeks". Sounds like you're not even trying bruh. Need to get em rookie numbers up.

"15 years" is a good enough reason to do some remaking, I'm sure a lot of new anime fans haven't seen Spice and Wolf. I feel so old 💀