Spring time Saturdays #1 – It’s all about the opening

Coming into this season there seemed to be varying views on what was on offer. Fans of existing shows were being spoilt while those looking for something new felt a little left out. General spring observations aside, it just so happened that a lot of what I’m watching (including Winter leftovers) air on a Saturday – and let’s not beat around the bush, any opportunity for a good alliterative feature title should not be passed up, so welcome to Spring time Saturdays! Appearing on Sundays or Mondays, this’ll be a condensed version of the famous(ish) episode focus thing I do (every so) often. But let’s not drag things out, week 1 starts here.

My Hero Academia Season 3 (episode 1)

Is this the anime of 2018? Will it be as popular as season 2? Maybe to both of those questions, but season 3 of 2017’s biggest anime started off pretty well. While we don’t see any new character development or any big hero-villain face offs, we did see the classic humour that we’ve come to love in the first pool episode of the shows run (this is a long running shounen, we can expect something similar again).

Assessing anime at the start of 2018

*cough* I still write here *cough* Please let me back in *cough*

Winter 2018 is fast coming to it’s conclusion and while it is tempting to write a post like this everything is done, Spring is looking like a monster and my time for posting is (in case you didn’t notice), limited right now.

As with every season I don’t have the time (or inclination in many cases) to watch every show, but if I’ve missed something good then let me know down in the comments!

The Ancient Magus Bride (episode 23/24)

Starting with my only bit of Fall leftovers – The Ancient Magus Bride. I’ve been through a wide range of emotions when faced with this show even before it started airing. The three prequel episodes that aired in the year leading up to the start of the main series showed off the potential of the series and in some ways it never really got back up to those heights.

While I see Elias is a complex character I’ve never been comfortable with him (and I appreciate that that is possibly the point) – though in recent episodes I’ve come to appreciate his relationship with Chise more as they support each other equally.

First Impressions: Beatless

So it’s February already – dreary January has gone by, and I have to say so has my apathy towards the Winter season of anime. Even if Violet Evergarden continues to be lacklustre, Darling in the FranXX was a pleasantly surprising and a couple of other shows have appeared on my radar that I’m going to give a go. I also listened to a great podcast featuring some fellow bloggers today, so if you’re looking for some anime banter to chill with, then go and check it out!

But right now I want to talk about Beatless. Last time I wrote about this show was in my first thoughts on the season and I was very cautious after seeing the first episode – Red Juice’s character designs that I was so looking forward to seeing have been tempered by Diomedea’s average art adaptation, but after three episodes I’m actually quite intrigued to see where things are going.