In a joint statement to the press, the anime community at large has collectively decided to pick up no new airing shows this season. After giving dozens of anime the 3-episode rule, the entire anime community decided that none of the anime this season interested them enough to watch any further.
Many anime viewers cited that they didn’t feel the need to watch shows whose entire premise was in their title, like Gamers!, In Another World With My Smartphone, Knights & Magic, and Battle Girl High School. Reasons also cited were being burned out on sports anime, bummed out by Made in Abyss manga spoilers, and having enough ongoing anime carried over from last season to tide them over.
Additionally, legal streaming viewers also said their decision was influenced by Amazon taking most of the somewhat decent shows, Netflix locking away Kakegurui and Fate/Aprocrypha, and not wanting to have to figure out what the hell HiDive is.
We consulted anime historian Micky O’Toole regarding this decision, who said that it was uncommon, but not unheard of. “Back in Winter 2009 the biggest non-sequels were Maria Holic, Akikan! and Chrome Shelled Regios, so no one watched any anime that season either. Sometimes we just get an off season, Japan can’t be expected to put out a single passable anime all of the time.”
The anime community promised that they would use these next few months to catch up on their backlogs, and maybe even get their lives together, fully knowing that neither of those things would actually happen.
Well, this season I’m liking “Restaurant to Another World” but that’s just because it’s a fantasy animé and I’m hoping to use some of the ideas and concepts for my Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. Other than that, nothing is really hooking my interest at the moment…it’s a bit of a dry season thus far…
?? ??? Animes have seasons ??? ??
They mean
Summer Season
Winter Season
Fall Season
And Spring Season
(The Actual Seasons)
This isn’t even satire, because the community sits out every season after spending 30 seconds on Anichart determining that this season, like all the ones before it, is trash. Look, this one has female characters–must be some of that moeshit again. Pass. This other one has male characters? Fujobait. Pass.
Nobody watches anything, so nobody knows anything. That’s why, for example, it’s considered common sense that every isekai anime is a copy of SAO. Yes, even Isekai Shokudo.
He’s not wrong though, Crunchyroll didn’t get anything you haven’t seen before this season, and I’m lucky enough to have an Amazon Prime membership to be able to watch Made in Abyss. The two shows I was most looking forward to both got nabbed by shitty Netflix, so I guess I won’t be watching either of those for 2 months.
i think people just get bored with “different titles, same ideas”. Made in Abyss is an exception though.
I was one of those people who found most seasons shitty, and I’m actually watching more this season than I have in a couple years. This article is pure snobbery.
That said, there is definitely an issue of anime being really boring in recent years. The premises have largely gotten worse but there’s some fun stuff this season, and the Abyss excuse is bullshit. It’s still good no matter what you accidentally stumbled across and is probably this seasons gem. Princess Principal, Abyss (obviously), a couple shorts like Netsuzou Trap and Tsurezure. There’s some good shows that took me by surprise like 18if and the aforementioned 2, but even then there’s still decent/acceptable shows that aren’t unfun to watch, New Game!! already had a good standard set and of course Fate. Isekai Smartphone is probably the worst of the ones I’m watching but I do kind of like the 2009ish vibes I’m getting from it.
Anime was better before it went mainstream, I don’t really like to admit that, but it was a lot more fun when our only methods were torrents and it wasn’t being trashed by shitty consumerism. The culture around it was a lot more close knit and we actually had a good time. Watching it become what it is today is probably the same as watching a game get a shitty sequel made and letting you down tremendously after decades of waiting. Amazon, Fakku, CR etc should have never existed, but I guess money is more important, naturally.
You mean the community isn’t kicking it old school with UTW fansubs for Fate/Apocrypha?
SAD!
Luckily Symphogear is here to save Summer.