After a lackluster Spring season, the Summer 2019 shows promise of heating up with several action-packed shows and new entries into already-existing series. I decided to avoid all suggestion lists and investigate into these upcoming shows to hammer down what I'll be watching and why.
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The consumption and discussion of seasonal anime is a core facet of the modern anime-loving community. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that a fan has to keep up with seasonal shows if they want to interact in a meaningful way with the online anime fandom. Hubs of self-proclaimed otaku like r/Anime, MAL, Twitter, and Anilist are filled to the brim with seasonal memes and discourse that makes the majority of content creators are putting out incomprehensible to anyone that hasn't been keeping up with actively airing anime. There's still plenty of classic-focused memeage, but seasonal content is the obvious victor in a battle of prevalence. When most content being put out is a one-off adaptation that you have to be vigilant to catch amidst a torrent of other identically-unique content, the seasonal-watching schedule is an obvious and necessary adaptation the fandom had to make. Thanks to the advent of streaming services, it is easier than ever to keep up with anime's atypical airing schedule. Anime fans were bombarded with high quality content throughout 2018 and the winter season of 2019, and the content on online, anime-focused communities reflected that. We've gotten multiple golden memes from this period such as Zero Twosday, the Chika dance, and all kinds of Raphtalia content.
Spring 2019's lack of an overwhelmingly popular meme teaches us a few things. Every now and then, an anime comes out centered around a niche and unique "gimmick" of sorts. I consider Kakegurui, an anime centered around a high school in which the students jostle for social position via a series of high stakes gambles, to be one such anime. I noticed that the title had made it to Netflix, and I recalled it had quite a bit of discussion surrounding it as it was airing in 2017. I had skipped it because I was wary of a particular scene with a gun and the excessive amount of fan service I had seen in gifs, but I decided it was finally time to take the plunge.
Biology has been and always will be one of the most entertaining subjects in school. What other class lets you cut up dead stuff and draw squares to find out things about your genetics? Certainly not English or Geology, buddy. Hataraku Saibou, or Cells at Work, takes the everyday processes of the human body and turns them into a lively "monster of the week" series. For this review, I've watched exactly 38% of the anime in order to get a good feel with its style and characters.
The scene: Vietnam. 1970s. An American soldier loses his mind and fires on his own squad, killing several and wounding many others. A squad mate retaliates, shooting him in the legs to stop his rampage. The squad mate looks at the carnage brought on to his team by one within it and asks the man "Why?" His answer?
"Banana Fish". Love Nikki is an anime-styled dress up game that is so much more than just a kawaii paper dollhouse. Google tracks my weeaboo searches across my Chrome browser on the computer and on mobile and constantly flashes anime related ads at me. I ignore the majority of them, but one night when my inhibitions had been considerably lowered by that goofy ganja, I clicked the link that a Love Nikki ad flashed at me and downloaded it.
I had no idea I had popped the top on a month-long addiction can. |
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