I am very excited about the next two anime seasons.
First, the second season of Durarara!! begins this Saturday, January 10. I confess that I rewatched the final two episodes of the first season the other day, since for some reason I couldn't remember how it ended. So now I'm refreshed and ready to return to that wild and woolly ward of Tokyo - Ikebukuro!
And to acquaint myself again with that funny mismatched couple...
... What? You didn't think I meant Celty and Shinra, did you? XD
This second season of Durarara will be played out in three cours. The series starting this Saturday is only the first cour. The final cour will air in winter 2016. So basically - it's an entire year of Durarara in store for us all.
As of this moment, Crunchyroll still hasn't announced their license for the biggest dog of the winter 2015 season:
I'm not getting nervous exactly, but let's just say I'll be glad when Crunchyroll finally announces that they got Kuroko's Basketball S3. =D
Of course I will always try out animes that feature bishonen samurai.
Samurai Warriors fits that bill nicely.
Finally, there was an anime called Death Billiards a while back. From the same team now comes Death Parade, a supernatural story set in a bar.
I'm honestly not sure what to expect from Death Parade, but it sounds intriguing enough to try out.
So I have two obvious choices, Durarara S2 and Kuroko's Basketball S3, and two new ones - Samurai Warriors and Death Parade - on my winter 2015 watchlist.
It's about all I can fit in - because I've got four series carrying over from fall season: Sailor Moon Crystal, Shirobako, Parasyte and of course Naruto Shippuuden.
A brief recap of fall 2014 for me - I was busy with work and other obligations, so I couldn't pick up as many series as I wanted to. I did finish the following series though.
Psycho-Pass S2 was good, but it didn't live up to the brilliance of the first season. It was a case of following the patterns of the original season too closely and not innovating or giving the audience any new surprises. The world and setting of Psycho-Pass is dark and deeply atmospheric, and like the anime it's most often compared to - Ghost in the Shell - its heavy stylization is almost another character in the story.
All the acting was excellent and Tsunemori the main character showed a lot of development. But somehow this second season was predictable right up to the ending, and the team that produces this series should've done better than that.
Well - there was always a bishonen merman I could watch instead...
Thirteen episodes later and I still don't know what Orenchi no Furo Jijo was supposed to be about, though one could argue with four minute-long episodes should it really matter?? A young man comes home one day and finds a beautiful merman in his bathtub. Soon, an attractive octopus and a tiny green-haired bishonen in a mollusk shell come to join them. That's it.
The main attraction of Orenchi for its fans was another series altogether - Free. The seiyuu who played Haruka and Makoto in Free play the young man and the octopus in Orenchi, so each week at Crunchyroll the comments were full of, Did you see Haruka stroking Makoto's tentacles? and Makoto and Haruka just belong in water, don't they? Squee!
... Yeah. Moving along to the final one:
The delightful I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying was entertaining all the way to the end, and a second season has been announced for spring 2015.
I Can't Understand was a surprise find and much fun to watch. I'm looking past winter to the spring season not only for it, but for an anime that has been gone for too too long...
Yes! Yes! A thousand times Yes! The mighty Gintama will return for another season starting this spring. I've been waiting for what feels like forever for Gintoki and his friends to come back and give us another round of Meiji Era insanity.
The big dogs of anime are out in force this winter and spring. All hail the big dogs!
