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Last Topic: 10:48:36am, 03/20/2025
Last Post: 10:18:59pm, 03/23/2025
Winter anime is wrapping up! Thoughts on the ones I've finished so far:
Orb was pretty good. Every arc was compelling in its own way (other than the last one, which didn't really do anything for me), featuring excellent protagonists who got fantastic development. I never expected to like Oczy, but I thought he was fantastic by the end! Rafal, Badeni, Jolenta, Schmit, and even Draka were great too. I really thought the villains spoiled things a lot of the time, though. The prolonged torture seasons, particularly in the middle of the series, sucked. Nowak had way too much screentime. I was always excited when the show was focusing more on the science, and the show could've used more of that.
Sorairo Utility had a quality 10 minute OVA episode a few years back, so I was excited they were turning it into a series... but I didn't care for the series at all. I mean, it wasn't bad. The main cast was all likable. Minami was a solid newcomer protagonist, Haruka was fun as the experienced girl, and Ayaka was a solid balance between the two. Hina added some fun spice later on. But the stories the episodes told just weren't that interesting. I LOVE CGDCT SoL anime, and this one just didn't have the juice. There was nothing special about it. It was just... fine.
Blue Box ended at a bit of an awkward point (especially since they haven't announced an S2). Other than that, it's mostly solid. The animation's great. The romance between Taiki and Chinatsu is a slow, compelling burn. Something happens in every episode. Hina's a great character, but I wasn't that into the love triangle featuring her, especially considering she never had a chance there - just give her her own guy, IMO!
Zenshu mostly did nothing for me. The first few episodes were fairly generic isekai - nothing as bad as the real trash, but nothing as inspired as the gems, either. It got better once Justice showed up with a legit good episode, and the flashback ep was cool too. For me, it really went downhill with the last three or so eps, where everything gets super dark for some reason. None of that hit for me, especially everything with the bird director. Kinda just spoiled the nice atmosphere the show had going on until then, and there was no real thematic throughline to anything that happened. The animation is pretty, but I've been catching up on Solo Leveling, and even S1 of that has way better fight choreography than this.
Spring anime rankings:
- Orb
- Blue Box
- Sorairo Utility
- Zenshu
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