Just cleaning up my loose ends at the moment…

As said above the cut, I’ve got a bunch of anime from yesteryear on tap as I clean up Helck and wrap up Undead Murder Farce. Bold is Crunchyroll, underline is HiDive, plain text aside from italics is elsewhere or not claimed by any English-language streaming services yet (as of the time of writing).

I’m going to go easy on myself and just get around to what I want to watch (which is…probably just the top few entries, if anything at all), but if I have enough time and/or in the future although this list seems like more than enough for now, I’d also be willing to take on new debuts that aren’t in this list, so long as I can access them and I don’t need to watch other anime (e.g. previous seasons) to make them happen.

• HypMic: Rhyme Anima+: Find out more about what I think about this anime here.
• Spy x Family Season 2
• SHY: Superhero things? Hot off my watching of Across the Spiderverse (…yes, I watched that)? Hell yeah, give it to me!
• Frieren: I’ve heard good things – read: sad things, along the lines of the initial buzz of To Your Eternity – about this manga, so the jump to anime, its longer debut episode and its earlier debut on September 29th definitely make it one to watch.
• Kusuriya no Hitorigoto/Apothecary Diaries: The most significant memory I have of this is one of my fellow Master’s students proposing research around this series, in the same way I proposed Hypnosis Mic research. That aside, it does also look pretty good by its own merits.
• Tearmoon Empire: I have the first volume from a Bookwalker sale a while ago. I…haven’t read it (yet), but nonetheless expect good things from this series.
• Paradox Live: Yes, call me “blasphemous” for putting it this high (and above established entry Helck, to boot). As a HypMic fan, of course I would’ve heard of its most direct competitor – I know it has some hot guys on the Buraikan side and I’ve listened to one song from both the Cat’s Whiskers (the jazz group) and Akan Yatsura, but my knowledge going into this is actually extremely limited, so I’m tempering my expectations accordingly.
• Migi and Dali: A mystery series by the creator of Sakamoto Desu Ga/Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto? I’d say “hell yeah”, but now Nami Sano’s passed away, I wonder what’s going to happen to it…
• Helck: Continuing into the fall 2023 season, which I guess I should’ve expected from how it seems to be taking its sweet time (I’m saying this from where I am, having only finished 4 episodes at the time of writing). As said in the preview post, Helck is…okay. It’s not laugh-out-loud funny all the time, but I’ve been watching a lot of non-anime comedy lately and that tends to build humour up gradually, so I don’t expect it to be.
• Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri/Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions: I did follow this series up until a point and I have finished Reborn!, but I jumped ship early on Eldlive. It’s pretty fun as a mystery series, but frequently nonsensical in a Reborn! or Eldlive type of way.
• Hametsu no Oukoku/Kingdom of Ruins: …eh. It sounds okay.
• Ragna Crimson: I’ve seen the manga around, but…eh, it sounds okay x2.
• Ojou to Banken-kun/A Girl and Her Guard Dog: Ume…that is all, otherwise I’ll just say “eh, it sounds okay x3”.
• Under Ninja: Ninjas are not enough by themselves to catch my interest. Eh, it sounds okay x4.