 1D21, we have got some inconsistent rumors online and we feel that your take on the subject will put at rest any doubt as to whether these shows are worth watching or skipping. As always, should you or any of your YouTube contacts speak this device, we'll self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck to you. Well, that sounds pretty reasonable. I think in five seconds that's a lifetime for me to actually get the thing. So, you know, I mean that's one, two, three, oh my god. This is the nerdiest mission impossible ever. Hey everybody, welcome back to Wicked Geekdom, Geo here. And yeah, my favorite type of video on this channel, aside from hauls and all that fun stuff, is actually talking about all the seasonal anime that I've been watching. I really enjoy going week by week with my different shows instead of binging and all that nonsense. I like the thrill of new shows and discovering hidden gems, possible failures and just outstanding A-plus material. But nonetheless, we're here to discuss the winter 2021 anime season, which was jam-packed. Usually you get like five stellar shows and the rest is just okay. Here, I mean, I didn't even watch everything. There were a lot of shows to choose from and I had to skip on some like Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2, which I'd love that show, but I am actively reading, collecting the manga, so I'm doing it that route instead of watching the show. But eventually I'll come back and watch it and see how closely it resembles its light novel and manga counterparts. But yeah, we're here to talk about all the shows that I've been watching. I believe the final tally is 25 different shows, which is a lot for me. A lot of shows had very strong beginnings and they just sort of lost their way, midpoint, and ended kind of, meh, if that is a proper way to describe it. And also, we had a lot of cool shows debuting at the same time from stuff like Attack on Titan Final Season Part 1, or Beastar Season 2, Slime Season 2, The Promised Neverland Season 2. You catch on. There were a lot of sequels to shows that a lot of people were heavily anticipating. So let's get started. Also, quick notice. I have my laptop here, so you'll have to forgive me if I'm looking to the side here with all the info. But nonetheless, for real, let's get started. In the end days, I started off streaming Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies move to a starter town? That is the name of the show. It's based on a light novel and a manga. And it tells the story of a young, wholesome kid named Lloyd Belladonna, who is, his only goal is to get stronger. He wants to be a stronger kid. He's really nice and the quirk about this show is that he is part of a, what main people consider sort of like this mythical town that may not really exist, this dungeon town that's on the last frontier of the map, if you will. The catch here is that everybody living in that town is extremely strong and overpowered. It's sort of like villagers on the final level of an RPG, stuff like that. So Lloyd is extremely powerful. He moves to the main city where all the other main characters are going to meet him, and they're just surprised and in shock at how powerful he is. And he doesn't, he's not aware, he's a very humble kid. He's not, you know, he doesn't notice the difference in strength between him and like the royal military and all that stuff, and how much of a gap there is. And overall, it has a very strong premise, especially that long ass name, but it relies heavily on it being sort of a parody of Isekai tropes without actually being an Isekai. You know, you have all these characters, the main character being distinct compared to everybody else, and he gets into this new place, this new world, if you will, but it's actually the same place, just a different town basically, and that is played for comedic relief. The story itself is nothing too groundbreaking, aside from a couple of interesting characters like Marie, which I hope I'm pronouncing right, voiced by Aikai Yano. She's one of my favorite voice actresses. She's just amazing in every comedic role that she does, and to me, she saved this show from being okay to being like, alright, I'm into this. Unfortunately, the rest of the cast, there are some very trope-heavy characters that don't really do much. This show is done, and I believe I'm saying the name right. Litten Films, they animated this adaptation, and you're gonna be hearing about them a lot throughout this video because they are doing a lot of shows in 2021, and for the most part, I guess they were trying to replicate the art style from, or the illustrations from the light novel and the manga, but for the most part, the art was just kind of okay. Some of the episodes really look nice with a nice palette cleansing backdrop and all that stuff because it's a fantastical town and all that, but most of the episodes just really dip in quality where I was just scratching my head thinking, I kind of want to watch something else, and that is a theme throughout this video as well because this series starts out cute and funny, and midway, I just kind of lost interest and wanted to watch all the other shows that I was streaming. But yeah, nonetheless, if you want to watch something a little bit more lighthearted, maybe an isekai for beginners, that type of scenario, suppose a kid from the last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town might be the show for you. Next up from Litten Films, they also adapted the series Other Side Picnic. This is another show that had a lot of potential and somewhere along the way, maybe like episode six or something, I really lost interest in everything that was happening. This is sort of a, it's based off a manga, Ura Sekai Picnic, and it follows two girls that are able to access this alternate plane of existence that is around us, but it doesn't interact with us. I think like the movie and book annihilation, how they're able to process area where it's not an alternate dimension, it's the same Earth just on a different side view plane, if that makes any sense. You have the character of Sorao, and she is saved by Toriko, and the relationship between these two girls is fundamental to the whole show. It's very cute, and I loved their relationship and how it grows throughout the series, but it has such a really nice premise that they can find this alternate plane, if you will, and a lot of Japanese urban legends and stuff that you would find online and stuff from folklore and all that is inhabiting this world of monsters, like spirited away type creatures, and they don't explore that to the extent that I would have wanted to, instead they just focus on select things that happen, like Lady Hakushu, I think I said that right, with her huge hab, tall, creepy, scary lady, stuff like that, I would have wanted a deeper exploration into that realm. There's a mystery, because Toriko's friend has been missing, so that's why she's there looking for her. Meanwhile, Sorao sort of just wanted to end everything and abandon all, and she was basically almost lost in that place until she was saved, and out of that, this relationship blossoms. I don't know. It has a very interesting visual key, but the animation just flip-flops throughout the entire episode, where one episode it looks nice and the premise is pretty interesting, then the other is just all heartedly disappointing. So it's very different from what Linen Films was doing with the Boonies anime. This one looks a lot better, but it's still very inconsistent, in my opinion. Finally, Black Clover ended. I have been loving Black Clover. The story's phenomenal. I love that manga, I love that anime. It's a little bittersweet to see it end, because it's a long-running shounen. I've been watching the show since, I want to say early 2019, is when I first started watching Black Clover. Art inconsistencies made it kind of notorious online, compared to other shounen, jump properties that got the anime treatment, like Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, etc. But that sort of stayed all throughout the series. And while, yes, the final 16 episodes that aired did a wonderful job of adapting easily the best part of the manga so far, or my favorite part so far, there were some stills that they, uh, oh man. Nonetheless, the actual story itself is awesome. I love the whole demon arc and all that, and Asta's progression and finding, finally, tapping into the source of his power with the anti-magic stuff, is the storyline that we've been waiting for. If you've been reading or watching Black Clover, it's just unfortunate that Studio PRO decided to end the series adaptation. I'm pretty sure what they're gonna do is they're gonna wait a while for more manga chapters and do smaller batches of episodes, smaller arcs, so it's better adapted. Now you don't have an excuse, because if you come back and you just do one little season of 12 episodes, it better look really bitchin', you know? Unlike what we've had before, I think what, it was 170 episodes, and I would say 85% of them looked solid. The 16 episodes, phenomenal, really cool stuff, some huge inconsistencies here and there with the art, but nonetheless, I enjoyed it, and I am gonna miss it, because watching something becomes sort of your routine, you know, day by day, and each Tuesday, watching a new episode of Black Clover was something I was looking forward to on that particular day, and now it's not there, so it's kinda just something that's missing. Next up is Wonder Egg Priority. In my honest opinion, this will definitely make my list of top anime of 2021. It should be on everybody's list. It is a phenomenal, beautiful, just amazingly done series that came out of nowhere from Cloverworks. It's an original anime, it's not based on a manga. It is very hard to describe. I'm gonna do my best. Essentially, you follow this character of I, an introverted girl. She's a wholesome young girl. She's an introvert, so there's some dilemmas there, some psychological issues that get explored throughout. The main plot of it all is that she is given or finds this mysterious Wonder Egg that essentially blends into her dreams and she's able to go into this alternate plane of existence and help out other young girls that unfortunately committed suicide and help them pass on or save them. We're not explicitly told it's their soul but it's inferred or at least that's how I saw it and this show it's... I'm having a tough time describing it to everybody watching this video but it's such a beautifully crafted show because very rarely do we get this type of production. The animation on it is beautiful. At times it feels like I'm watching a movie instead of a 12 episode series. Now unfortunately, Wonder Egg suffered a small high jinks. One of the episodes was delayed so they did a recap episode. That's why the finale was suspended and it's airing in the summer of 2021 as a special edition episode to conclude the series. That should have been episode 12. Instead it's the 13th episode if you will. But still, the story is great. The relationship between I and the different girls that show up, the other three main girls, they're all beautiful characters. They have wonderful backstories. Very tragic in the case of all four and to see them develop and form this friendship while also trying to complete their goals and motivations by saving the other girls and very specific individuals that they want to save because the providers of these eggs are promising them that if they do these tasks that they can save a particular someone that they hold dear to them that was lost and tragically ended their lives or something like that. But yeah, there's a lot of interesting themes. There's backstories to why these caretakers are giving out these eggs. Their back story is particularly haunting and I cannot praise this show enough. Excellent story. I'd love when you take kooky concepts like this and you're able to just immerse yourself into this world and you're wondering what the heck am I watching but at the same time yes, give me more. This is sort of the nightmarish version of a magical girl show mixed with the creativeness of a Satoshi Kahn movie if that makes any sense. I really enjoyed Wonder Egg Priority and hopefully you can watch it. Next up is Season 2 Part 2. We finally have the conclusion. I loved Part 1. It was one of my favorite shows from 2020 and this time we go back. Unfortunately, there were a couple things at the beginning where I wasn't entirely on board because such a wide gap happened I believe it was because of the pandemic and all that stuff but I kind of just forgot about ReZero and when I came back to it I'm like oh we're back at the Sanctuary so yeah the story is fantastic but it takes a while. Again it's 24 episodes of these characters contained in this one spot. Occasionally we do see other places like the Roswell mansion and stuff like that but for the most part it's just them and the Sanctuary going back and forth with the loops and all that stuff and Subaru, nonetheless if you like ReZero you are going to love Season 2 so much is explored to every single character so much development for Subaru, for Emilia for everybody. It's a wonderful wrap up to Season 2. I loved it. It was one of my favorite things and it will probably make my list of 2021 and I genuinely loved this part of the story. Next up is B-Stars Season 2. Alright so what did I think of B-Stars? I love the manga. It's one of my current ongoing well you know it ended in Japan but it's ongoing for me because the volumes are still coming out in the US. It's one of my favorite current manga that I'm reading and I've watched Season 1 when it came out and then I went back and started reading the manga and at the time I remember mentioning to people how the manga has its own unique art style which is beautiful. I love that art. Paruitagaki is just a genius. I'd love her use her skills at drawing the animals and the expressions and how disproportionate they can be sometimes with their eyes and stuff but the anime is done by Oran Studio it's you know they're known for their heavy usage of CGI and all that stuff and it's really really different the two of them but you can enjoy them separately. If you watch the anime it doesn't bother you that much but when you compare to the manga you're like oh I can see how the manga is superior. I'm not I'm not somebody like that I have no problem whatsoever watching anime of something I've read it's the same as watching a live action movie out of a comic book. I want to see that because it's fun. So it's the same thing with anime and manga watch it. I'm not this elitist that thinks like oh the original is always better. What's better is what you choose it to be and what you watch. That's what's better. But in the case of Beastars having watched season 1 I've been reading the manga and then I go back and watch season 2. I'm like yeah this animation is kind of like it's missing so much flair and gusto from Padui Tekaki's art style that the story is fine. The story is fantastic it has some really wonderful moments and character works from Legoshi and all the other animals but going back and watching the anime after reading the manga is a little jarring to say the least. And they do omit certain scenes from the manga which was a little bit weird. Some I do get because here's another overused, overrated word pacing for pacing issues you do omit certain scenes from the manga to do a tighter narrative and all that stuff but sometimes they would just scramble plot points around where something would happen here where it's supposed to go over here and you mix it all up and then you put a scene in the middle that goes after the stuff I was just talking about with my hand movements my awesome ninja movements stuff like that where I went like oh okay that's kind of weird I remembered it differently in the manga and but none the less if you loved season 1 you're going to love season 2 but if you can maybe read the manga because that art style is just beautiful but none the less it's a worthy sequel to season 1 they go into some really heavy stuff with the nature of again carnivores and carnivores and the meaning of life and all these characters and what does it mean to take a life in the case of Hintem, you know he was murdered in season 1 so a lot of heavy philosophical topics are explored but not in a way where you get bogged down by it it's fairly entertaining and of course Legoshi's wonderful transformation into this amazing character continues throughout season 2 when they cry or Higurashi go the final batch of episodes I think 14 to 24 something like that if you don't watch the original which I have right here the original series or play the original visual novel you're going to be lost because the later half of Higurashi go is a jumbled mess I liked it but it's a mess as a standalone series I don't recommend it in the larger context with the games and the previous shows previous three seasons you get enjoyment out of it and even then some things I had a tough time following because it's been so long since I've seen Higurashi that yeah I remembered like it's technically a reboot because you can go in blind and be okay for the most part but some of the things that happen after episode 13 or so or even earlier I was lost I had no idea what was happening and I just went along with it the finale the final arc it rounds things up and you understand what's happening and what is going to go forward because at the end they do reveal another series coming the sequel in the summer of 2021 and you get it you understand what's happening now all that stuff but there is the middle portion especially with the military police and all that stuff where it was just a mess and sort of the creepy unsettling vibes from the opening scenes of the show and the visual novels to me that got lost in this show was great for the most part but that sort of just went away and I was watching a nice cutesy show with occasional bouts of violence sprinkled throughout next is probably one of the biggest disappointment in anime in quite some time it is The Promised Neverland season 2 a fan favorite show from I believe 2019 if I remember correctly we laid multiple times because of the pandemic now we actually saw the thing and holy smokes what the heck happened Clover works seriously I mean I understand that you saved your budget for Hori Nia and Wonder Egg priority but what the actual heck happened with The Promised Neverland where you have characters not making any sense time skips creators not taking credit for the work that was done I was just baffled the first two episodes of the series are actually or the season are actually really fricking great I love them and I'm like alright I'm in after all the crazy shit that's happening around me I was ready for The Promised Neverland because I loved season 1 so much and I've been meaning to read the manga I just haven't had time so I was really excited after that I started hearing the mangaka wanted to use the anime sort of to create a new what if scenario which I don't mind I don't mind it at all because the original will always be there and I can always go back and read it but he makes that statement or they make that statement and I started hearing a lot of people upset because by episode 3 or 4 certain characters and huge chunks of plot is missing they skip through all of that apparently just wonderful characters that everybody wanted to see are absent and it just moves forward in time and we get this very generic revenge plot and trying to I don't know humanize the demons which makes no sense when season 1 you didn't even really see them and now in season 2 you've barely you haven't had time to see things from the other perspective to gain some sort of empathy or possible to you know plant seeds of redemption for later episodes none of that work is there it's just so abrupt the change between the two shows between the two seasons sorry I was just baffled by it the art is it's ok it's very mediocre by what was done in season 1 I remember the first episodes of season 1 were so beautifully drawn and the sort of became like this thing on the internet right showing people the first two episodes the first episode and filming their reaction but with this it was just really mediocre in my opinion just middle of the road the writing makes no sense the characters make no sense they make some really dumb choices and by the end of it in backward silly fashion previous villains now come back and they're good for some reason and then the end you showed a whole season's worth of material in 3 or 5 minutes of a slideshow and called it a day and ended the freaking series I understand it's a business and anime and manga are so linked together that one remotes the other and I think they were upset that the manga was ending or it had ended when production started so they couldn't promote the manga and all that stuff so they decided to wrap things up and finish it which is fine at least do a good job at adapting a story that a lot of people were looking forward to this is a terrible disaster that I cannot recommend to anybody please do not watch the promise neverland unless you want to be disappointed at how bad it is and instead just read the manga go ahead get the shonen jump app for 2 bucks a month and read the whole thing in a month I don't know, just do that instead what I was watching on Thursdays was selzer work code black the original selzer work I watched season 1 I didn't really have a desire to go back to season 2 which also premiered because it's fine but I'd rather keep watching code black because the drama is there whereas the other one is a little bit too clean if that makes any sense everybody is so cheery and it's all good but with code black an unhealthy body just the toughest of luck all the bad things that you can think of coming to this person and seeing the body react and the blood cells and the organs and all that stuff and the drama that happens and goes inside of your body really reflects and makes you reflect on life and all the choices that you're making and it makes for a much more interesting dramatic show I just liked it so much and it's by linen films they did boonies other side picnic which looked kind of fantastic compared to this this was finally crafted I think their a team of animators went to work on selzer work code black instead of the other shows next up of course is a doctor stone stone wars or season 2 continuing one of my favorite shows from recent memory one of my favorite manga from shonen jump which gets a bad rap from the manga tubers out there and nana tubers or however you say it I love doctor stone I have no problem admitting that and hey you like what you like right but in the case of this adaptation I think they really did a good job not I didn't love it as much as the first season but it's still wonderful the stone wars segment of the manga they adapted it really freaking well and of course we finally had the best character show one of my favorite in doctor stone the awesome niki I really enjoy her and she's awesome and the rest of the story is just great and seeing how you know the clash between you know the the kingdom of science and Tsukasa's beast physical muscle kingdom if you will how they go about it this clash of ideologies and the story that booms from there is going to lead on to bigger things we get the tease at the end with season 3 which is one of my favorite things about the manga I love it so much all the pirate outfits and all that stuff I'm not spoiling anything don't worry about it I'm really excited to see some of the other amazing characters in this series but yeah I just it was just a really solid adaptation wonderful music and cast of characters and all that stuff continued the same level of production from the previous one obviously being shorter I think was 11 episodes made for a tighter narrative you could you know really frame everything well and it really did the manga justice in my opinion really looking forward to more animated doctor stone after that I jumped on late back camp season 2 one of the most wholesome shows of all time I remember loving season 1 when I watched that I think shoot I think early 2019 is when I watched season 1 I think this just continues that charming cute story and gets even cuter and nicer with just beautiful characters just living their lives and just enjoying every minute of it I absolutely loved late back camp season 2 wholeheartedly recommended the original shorts I can't remember room camp I think it was called or something like that I didn't like that as much because it was only like 5 minute digest episodes but this is much more flushed out there's a plot involved and most of the episodes center around a couple of things whereas the other one just introduced the first season introduced a lot of elements this one is a lot closer you know the narrative with everybody coming together for a specific goal at the end of the show and then camping out in the beautiful settings and the backgrounds in the show are just expertly drawn you want to go there and whenever they go to a new restaurant or a new camping site or something you are visually intrigued and you want to jump into the screen I thought yes please take me out of this and I want to go there and just camp out and have fun and live life to the fullest Fridays I would continue watching Jujutsu Kaisen which is a phenomenal series that a lot of people are into and it's just this hot new show that exploded ever since episode 1 the hype around Jujutsu Kaisen is intense go to go to twitter or specifically go to TikTok and you are going to see so many TikToks from anime fans about Jujutsu Kaisen it's insane I thought it was great not I got to be completely honest not my favorite out of everything that I watched but Studio Mappa is one of my favorites they absolutely killed it with the adaptation of the manga I've only read the first 3 or 4 volumes of the manga keep that in mind what I saw from the anime was just beautiful everything was awesome the choreography with the fights and the abilities and the story everything is top notch it's just the story I don't know I guess I was expecting a little bit more out of what I got but it's still solid it's still fun you have a really wonderful cast of characters doing some really cool things and I'm going to search real time because I cannot remember the name of a character that I'm looking for a few moments later Kazumi Miwa she's a goofball and I love her so much probably my favorite character of the show I'm not joking I know a lot of people are going to go with the main trio in this Yu Yu Hakusho Naruto Bleach inspired series but Kazumi Miwa I had loved that character she was such an eccentric goofball that I enjoyed her scene especially with the final fight in the clash of the tournament thing that they were doing with the schools and then the baseball game I really enjoyed that especially that baseball episode next up is So I'm a Spider So what? Like with slime there's always a stick when it comes to Isekai there's something that sets one series apart from everything else and for I'm a Spider it's the fact that this whole class of kids get reincarnated or get transported into another world this fantasy setting world and they are reborn as different characters some were male students now they're female students others are like teachers and then some characters are reborn as creatures the protagonist is reincarnated as a spider this type of spider has the ability to be super powerful and throughout the first 12 episodes it's her getting used to her new body and surroundings in this cave where she's born from a huge mother spider and the first thing she witnesses is all the different or all her brothers and sisters cannibalizing on each other trying to survive and it's a brutal world it reminded me of that time I got reincarnated as a slime because you're taking you're taking that approach where you have a character come back as something insignificant but she's rather or has the potential to be powerful and significant compared to everybody else the main problem I would say with the series so far is that sometimes I'm more interested in watching our main character instead of the humans and whatever the heck they're dealing with this incoming invasion of demon lords and all that nonsense I just want to go back with some spider goodness if that makes sense but yeah wonderfully animated hilariously voiced I loved this series and I'm currently watching the rest of the first season and it's so awesome to see the CGI takes them getting used to but it doesn't bother you that much because you know it's contained to the labyrinth dungeon the human characters are traditionally animated with their attacks and sword fights and magic all that stuff so it's an interesting mix plus the animation for the actual spider body looks pretty interesting sometimes it's a nice blend of CG and 2D animation that I really enjoyed continuing from the fall 2020 season we have Yasha Hime which is a sequel to Yasha I really wanted to love this it's okay I mean the story is intriguing enough it's a lot more convoluted than it needs to be I think it could have been streamlined a lot better at some points characters are introduced I was either not paying attention or I frankly didn't care that much but some things are introduced where they make such a huge fuzz over it where you have the original cast you find out why they're not there kind of tropey in my opinion I would have wanted something completely different but again the show is just focusing on the trio of girls specifically Sechevres daughters and I mean this is an original production and I would say a quarter of the series feels like filler content and that's not good that means the story is really simple and you're just patting it out with needless filler I was not a fan of that because some of the episodes were just plain boring in my opinion and when you finally touched the central plot of the show it happens for one episode and then you go back to them recreating a famous fight to please the princess of a lord stuff like that that's not necessarily the most exciting thing in my opinion the animation is okay and when you see the older characters you get a real kick out of that you remember fondly you know Kagami and Yasha all these characters but then they go away and it's like what am I going to do now the three girls are fantastic I think they are really well written and their interactions are really cute and funny it's just it's a very thinly drawn out show that could have been better if it was just 12 episodes not filled with nonsense in my opinion following that my personal favorite show of 2020 is Dragon Quest Adventures of Die actually it's on Fridays but I tend to watch it on Saturdays it's my Saturday morning show if that makes sense to you guys for all you old school animation fans Dragon Quest Adventures of Die is such an amazing adaptation of the manga and a reboot of the anime I love it so much Die is such a great character he is aloof on certain topics for the most part he's got your back and he's awesome and he's strong-willed and he will defend you and I like that he's not this dim-witted protagonist he has some smarts he doesn't know everything but he catches on quick and he's very quick to protect his loved ones and friends so I really appreciate that also the story is very epic sword and sandal style where you've seen it before in different RPGs and all that stuff it's nothing new but I think where it excels is elevating that story and presenting the dangers of what could happen when you have the overlord villain taking over and the heroes coming to the rescue and saving the kingdom and the magic and the creature elements and of course having Todiyama's distinct character designs present really make it a vibrant fun show expertly drawn by toy animation might I add this is just a fantastic series firing and also when there's I absolutely love it and I look forward to it every week on my schedule I love Dragon Quest and I'm so happy that they decided to animate it all the way to the end so right now we're on episode 20A29 something like that and I'm just I love it so much Saturdays were made for HodyMia a fantastic romantic comedy about these two kids with a lot of insecurities in a very realistic fashion getting together forming a beautiful loving relation and at the same time exploring the different aspects of their lives and supporting cast with all the schoolmates in high school and all that just a really nice show that similar to Promise Neverland really omitted a lot of material from what I read online they skipped several volumes of manga content and basically adapted a good solid portion of the main plot and the side stories for these characters and the final look of the story it's a little bittersweet because you could easily have made a season 2 and continue the relationship and to see how it strengthens and all the adversities and all that stuff but I think what we got was really solid the animation is gorgeous I love the character designs and the art style I love it so much and I really dug that everybody had different colored hairstyles made it fairly easy to remember the characters which is kind of the point actually but also one of the, probably one of the negatives when it comes to Horimia is the fact that you solved the main plot of the show early so you had a couple of episodes just focusing on the side characters and they're interesting but you're leaving out the main attraction they're outside of the what you're watching in the show and I don't know it sort of lost its way I would have liked to have seen it in a more traditional fashion where you have the plot sprinkled throughout the 12 episodes or 13 instead it just got the main dilemma got solved really early on and what was left was like watching an extended epilogue and the relationship between the side characters and their budding romances and all that stuff and then by the end we finally go back to our main duo and I was like okay thank you again I would have preferred that the show would have spaced it out a little bit more throughout the season if that makes sense next up is Skate Infinity an original anime about skateboarding it stars Reki a high school sophomore and skater and is addicted to S a highly secret and dangerous downhill skateboarding race that takes place in an abandoned mine he meets up with Langa a transfer student returning to Japan after studying abroad to the mine and this relationship forms with Reki finding a new friend and somebody to share his passion with about skateboarding and teaching him and it's a really wholesome relationship that forms out of that it's I would say 90% realistic in its interpretation of skateboarding and I say 90% because some of the characters pull off some really crazy moves that are obviously not doable in real life but you still have fun either way and the relationship between the main two guys in this series their friendship is so wholesome that bromance was so strong I actually wanted them to be a friggin couple and I was denied that still it's a very fun lighthearted show it has some really dramatic points near the end and a nice way to explore depression from the view of a teenager at you know high school era and all that stuff and the way he snaps back and realizes some things that were missing some self realizations and all that stuff I thought was actually kind of nice the way they handled it couldn't have been better yeah sure but what we got I kind of liked it a lot I think this is a wonderful show beautifully animated the whole anatomy of them doing their moves and skating and all that stuff is really well done it looks fresh dynamic and really vivid and that's really important when you're doing a sports themed show because that's the main appeal of it aside from the characters interacting with each other yada yada you go in for the skateboarding if you're a skateboarding fan you want to watch it for the skateboarding and it's actually really well done in my opinion finally on Saturdays I ended up my adventure with Digimon B20 Reboot which is still ongoing it's like going to be close to 70 episodes total so yeah I'm still watching it but it's been so much fun the animation took a nose dive because I guess Toei is doing you know they're working on Dragon Quest and One Piece and Digimon just it's over there in the corner but nonetheless the stories I love Digimon so much it's one of my favorite franchises of all time and to see it back in the way that they did is really exciting there are some really kick ass moments that I was in shock at what I was watching the reintroduction of certain Digimon was fascinating what they do with Devimon was astounding I loved it so much and it led to some really goosebumps inducing moments I loved it so much I'm referring to Greymon and Tai man if you've watched it if you know what I'm hinting at that was some really badass stuff just A plus material I do like that they're taking their time with the story not rushing anything I'm just having fun with it and taking the original story and just rebooting it in a different way it's almost the same story beats but we're seeing different elements sprinkled throughout different Digimon that weren't there in the original different types of evolutions different modes and the end game is going to be really different from what I'm watching it's going to be really different from the original that is awesome that is exciting because if it was just a plain old reboot I wouldn't have been interested but with this I'm all in it looks really awesome guys next up on Sundays which typically I kind of hate Sundays but nonetheless easily one of the underrated shows one that I hyped up the most and wholeheartedly recommend it stars Kohaji Inugame this detective who's sent to investigate sort of these grisly phenomenon that's occurring in a remote Japanese village where animal corpses are popping up and as he's investigating he meets a strange boy who agrees to help him with what he's doing with the case and all that stuff and they discover that supernatural forces are at work and the kid may be at the heart of it but not entirely this is a really fun show it takes characters that are insecure of themselves and you have Inugame who is this trickster that I don't want to spoil because I want you to be surprised to find out who he really is but he takes these kids in at his office to investigate supernatural stuff and the kids have a lot of insecurities and most of the episodes revolve around solving their origin or their back stories some are missing parents, others are missing siblings others just want to find out who they actually are stuff like that the main character in this is Kabane Kusaka I hope I said that right this strange wholesome young kid he's very blunt he doesn't really know how to socially interact with anybody so his reactions are very genuine and part of the comedy in this series is him trying to react to the other kids who are more modern and all that stuff him and you know Kabane is just this rural hick kid trying his best but there's this element of Japanese folklore there that is really awesome and I hope we get a season 2 to further explore these themes because I really loved it the animation is nice, crisp and clean and just a really breath of fresh air in my opinion Attack on Titan final season everybody thought oh this is it the final 16 episodes as we watched the episodes you knew it wasn't going to be 16 episodes nobody knew they could adapt what was it like 6 to 10 volumes of manga in 16 episodes there's a lot to cover I will say the hype around it was awesome and I really enjoyed that aspect it reminded me of other of other popular shows when they were ending and sort of that hype whenever a new episode arrived and then after it aired everybody commenting on it and then reacting and all that stuff I really enjoyed that I missed that that's why I like watching week to week shows you get that hype whereas just binging a whole season it's kind of boring in my opinion but with Attack on Titan there's this huge time skip from season 3 and yeah I'm not going to spoil everything you got to know that Studio Moppa took over and a lot of people were concerned because you're so used to with studio signature style but Moppa just crushed it man the Titans the CGI on them is noticeable but it doesn't distract you from the story and you have fun with it in my opinion the characters are great and seeing them much older this is a much more serious portion of the story whereas the other one was more fantastical and action packed this goes into the whole political play and that war that chess war if you will of nations trying to do each other now that the main characters are in the global scale with everybody else super interesting and I'm really excited I figured when as soon as they announced that final season I always said alright they're going to split it into two like they've been doing in the past with season 3 everybody will say no season the final season 16 episodes and then they were upset when we left off with that epic cliffhanger on episode 16 we're going to have to wait next year and watch the conclusion but they'll have more time to do everything right and all that fun stuff finally I ended my Sundays with Mushu Gotense jobless free incarnation the granddaddy of isekai the one that started a whole bunch of the trobes that were now annoyed by or accustomed to depends on your point of view for me accustomed to I would say because I like isekai for the most part some of them are really nice other are pretty generic but some of the trobes started with Mushu Gotense and not a lot of people are going to be excited about it if you are sensitive to that stuff but you have the character of Rudius Greyrat he was originally this 34 year old in our world that didn't amount to anything he was just a slob and neat character that didn't do much in life and was pretty disgusting and a sort of a perv the one time he actually does something he gets run over by a bus and is transported he is reincarnated as this young baby Rudius Greyrat so you have him this 34 year old in the mind of a newborn and he's growing up in this fantastical place with magic warring states and political intrigue and animal humanoid characters can I just say and what's the name of the people that animated this thing Studio Bind Studio Bind was created for this specific reason of animating Mushu Gotense that's some power flexing right there you create a whole division to animate a long running manga based on a long running light novel series you're going to get results the animation on this thing is crispy clean so tight and well put together everything about it is just awesome yeah there's the whole aspect of Rudius being a perv because of his original self and there are a lot of pervy situations that happen it's sort of a older teen kind of jumping into the NC 17 area type of show especially the beginning episodes but you get such a wonderful world you're watching it through Rudius's eyes he is allowing us to learn about this place and all the world building aspects and the lore and the characters and all that stuff that is super fascinating to me that's the type of show I like to watch where you have sort of this open canvas of creatures elements, religion, war all this stuff that you're going to learn about and the main character he finally gets a second chance to better himself and be somebody of use because there was that moment where at the end of his previous life where he did want to better his circumstances and now he has the chance to do it and you get a whole cast of characters from Roxy which a lot of people are fans of she even has her own spinoff manga to of course one of my favorite characters that is Eris, I love that character so much she was my favorite and yeah, I'm really looking forward to Season 2 which should be in the summer of this year really excited easily one of my favorite shows that I've watched of 2021 so far highly recommend Mushigotense Jobless Reincarnation next up on my list are a couple of shows that are just kind of out there I didn't watch them in any specific way, format, date I learned about them as I was closing out the other shows and I tried to watch them one of them is Heavens Design Team which is based on the manga of the same name and it also includes an ONA which is an original net animation basically a digital only episode Heavens Design Team is basically God outsourcing the animal creation to a design team which is great it's a very wholesome lighthearted show, really funny if you love animals, if you love biology trivia and science and all that stuff, you are going to love this series, beautifully drawn wonderful cast of characters and the way they go about creating those of the world, of Earth is really awesome and getting to see all the trivia behind it and how they are constructed just a fantastically just a fantastically written show even the bonus 13th episode was really cute I loved it, the opening song for Heavens Design Team is awesome, it's so catchy, I loved it next up is Keio in Kyoto from the Mako House this is strange, this is a monthly anime so I've only watched two episodes the third one is airing a couple days from now it's a very weird approach to a show, I thought it was going to be when I saw the first episode I thought okay, so this is like a preview because we've seen that before you show an episode and then you have to wait a month to start the series no, episode 2 came I watched it and I realized oh, this is a monthly thing as of April 2021 I've only seen two episodes with the third one incoming in a couple of days but essentially we are following the story of Keio and her friend Sumire Sumire wants to be a Mako I hope I said that right essentially a Geisha in training and Keio isn't quite a Mako material but she is a really wholesome young girl and she becomes the chef cook of the Mako House of all these Geisha in training and seeing their day-to-day lives activities and all that stuff in the presence of Keio cooking all of these delicious meals is actually refreshing and a wonderful palette cleanser compared to everything else that I've talked so far they have a nice use of CG when the characters are doing heavy labor and stuff that otherwise would be kind of arduous to animate it's done really well in this show where it blends in with the art style and sometimes you don't even notice it the other series that I watched is Vlamp Love from The Legendary Mamoru Oshi this is an original anime where you have Mitsugu Bamba a high school girl who is crazy about donating blood and just trust me she's obsessed with one she finds out that one of the girls at the local blood bank is a vampire so she becomes obsessed with her befriends her and what soon follows is this wacky I saw it in a comment on the internet it's essentially a kill-the-kill style comedy about vampires there's a little bit of fan servicey stuff here and there but for the most part it's just random bizarre humor that I enjoyed I love the animation for it every episode is all the different adventures that these characters get themselves into is really funny and interesting to see in my opinion also to wrap up this video which has gone on for way too long is High Rise Invasion based on the manga of the same name and it is essentially I love this description it's not an accurate one because there's a lot more to it but if the purge was in an alternate reality with skyscrapers and bridges and high school girls you would get High Rise Invasion not necessarily my favorite thing the animation kind of goes back and forth between I like it it's alright but yeah you have these characters who find themselves lost in this what was it called an abnormal space where skyscrapers are connected by suspension bridges and you have these people with masks who want to be gods of this place and they're out killing all the people that are being thrown into this world and our main girl she's in high school and she's trying to figure out what the heck's going on she's going to try and escape but killing people is something that will happen so this series has a lot of violence sexual content, nudity, fan service and a lot of gore but it's a very B-movie type story and if you're into that sort of thing sort of like Robert Rodriguez Quentin Tarantino-esque B-movie stuff you're gonna like High Rise Invasion not necessarily one of my favorite things but I enjoyed it the full series is out there on Netflix you can stream all 12 episodes of the first hopefully the first season I want to see these shows continue with more episodes but yeah really interesting High Rise Invasion I don't know what do you guys think did you like all these shows that I talked about did you watch any of them let me know in the comments section below very interested in finding out as for me I've talked for way too long this is a super long video thank you everybody for tuning in God bless, stay safe out there I will catch all of you on our next video