 Hey everybody welcome back to the channel Gio here and today we're going to talk anime specifically the 2022 spring season and all the cool shows that are coming out. Sort of a first impression spaces and of course I'm going to recommend to you the five top shows that I think you should be checking out. Now at some point in my life I thought man wouldn't it be cool if I saw every single show that's coming out brand new and I could talk about it with everybody. Sort of boost up the credentials on the old YouTube channel but I quickly realized that's kind of hard to do because of real life and work and other obligations and it's just a whole mess. However I do try each season to watch as many shows as I possibly can. Unfortunately some slip through the cracks others I'm not that super interested and some I just flat out ignore and here we have a lot of shows. I mean look at all this I'm not going to watch every single one but I do have most of some of the good ones. The rising of the shield hero season two the animation started out rather lackluster. The first episode felt like I was watching the middle of a season and not necessarily the start of a new one and I know it's me probably nitpicking but I thought it was a worthy thing to point out because it's anime. You like that crisp fresh nice looking animation and in 2022 when so many other studios are putting top-notch material I kind of wanted that for the season premiere but hey again it's just me nitpicking who knows maybe in this season we're going to get spectacular episodes down the road when it comes to like the big key moments. Next up is Spy Family. Now everybody in the grandmother is excited about this I was really looking forward to seeing that transition from manga to anime and it's done in a collaboration by two of my favorite studios Cloverworks and with studios. The animation is wonderful the voice cast is superb and I think it transitioned pretty well and now everybody gets to find out about Anya and all her crazy shenanigans. Next up is Kaguya-sama's love is war ultra romantic aka the third season of Kaguya-sama. This show each season it gets better and better they really found their footing with season two and just the comedic timing and the beats and the jokes themselves and the characters especially the voice acting get better with each script and each episode in my honest opinion. Here we have Comey can communicate season two if you are a fan of season one it's pretty much the same it's like it never left airwaves if you will it has the same style and flair it's OLM I think they have done a phenomenal job animating the manga and yeah you know it's more of Comey and and her quest to gain as many friends as possible. Next up here we have I'm quitting heroine this is a total surprise I love this episode I thought this was going to be another isekai instead it is based off the light novel of the same name and you have a character in a very interesting twist he defeats the demon lord and he is still resented by the population and the rest of the humans because he's so overpowered they are fearful of him and think he must be even more you know of a threat compared to the demon lord so he's sort of exiled and in his frustration he now has a vintetta against all these people and does the unimaginable I guess for leads in manga and light novels like this he ventures out and seeks the former demon lord and wants to work for her and her kingdom and organization on all that stuff for the most part it has a great cast of characters and a really nice role reversal of what it means to be a main character in a fantasy series so I'm really excited for this one a skeleton knight in another world is an isekai it follows arc this kid he wakes up in another world in a body of his mmo character this skull knight or whatever and right out the gate without any warning whatsoever this is a pretty shocking essay that occurs right from the very first second and there's no warning whatsoever you don't even have time to react as soon as you start the episode it just happens and I thought it was pretty suspicious when I started watching the first uh the first episode and there's a disclaimer I'm like wait I mean isn't this supposed to be a funny wholesome show what what's happening and then we get treated with that which was pretty shocking because I was watching it in a public setting and I immediately turned down the volume so there is that and then arc's reaction when he finds out what's happening to the characters that I'm mentioning is also pretty shocking because I didn't know this was going to be a really macabre violent series arc has major overlord vibes you know with a similar looking design to irons but this is much more comedic in nature so I am excited to check this out because it is funny I just wanted to give you a heads up on the elements of episode one Shikomori is not just a cutie now in this series we follow Shikomori she is this beautiful kind and loving girl and she's dating this guy Izumi and and their love and all that stuff and the actual plot of this and I have to read it off because I just find it fascinating that it literally just says she's a pretty cute and loving girlfriend but when Izumi's in trouble she transforms into a super cool heartthrob girlfriend that's it that's the plot of the thing I mean this is done this is adapted from a manga the studio behind it is Doga Kobo which fun fact not so fun Doga Kobo just shut down because it's basically a COVID hot spot right now so all the best wishes to them hope everybody gets treated and recovers swiftly the first episode I thought looked gorgeous I love the character designs I love Shikomori's hair I'm a sucker for bubblegum pink hair and the plot they're just don't plot here it's just you're following the adventures of these of this couple I should say and the rest of the characters in high school and the main shtick I guess is that the girl she has this other side to her she's confident and a badass and all that stuff which I theorize that since so many anime and manga feature the same type of characters the same type of high schoolers this one comes off as different or somewhat revolutionary because of that trait because the personalities resemble more like real life people where you know it's not all just peaches and cream 24-7 or like super awkward or nerdy this is a little bit more robust in its emotional range when it comes to your main protagonist but that's just me spitballing here I do like the art and the animation but the plot I don't know I'm still gonna watch because it's cute and I like the visuals so we'll see what happens aharon san wa hakarenai like probably butchered that so I do apologize in this story you follow these two characters that you're seeing here on the screen first is reina aharen and raido the two sit next to each other in school and reina is extremely shy and just a really quirky character that with a lot of personality behind her while raido is more stereotypical of a guy in school then all that he's still fascinated by her and wants to learn more about her and a friendship that blossoms there and it's just fun it's a school comedy series and they get into all sorts of hijinks and you get to laugh at the reactions and and all the silly stuff that happens not my favorite of the bunch but still cute enough that I want to continue watching it the executioner and her way of life animated by jc staff this is based off a light novel of the same name this took me by surprise it is an easy guy but it does its tropes right and it flips them on its head it subverts your expectations with what you're thinking of when it comes to easy guy here we have a really cool setting of this other world that is sort of accepting all these travelers from our earth and when they arrive they are treated as harbingers of destruction because of abilities that they now possess and all that stuff so there's this group that's tasked with executing them and that's where our main character comes from and a lot of stuff happens in the first episode that really makes you question what it is that's going to happen in this because it gets pretty brutal fast pretty friggin interesting I love the art the character designs and the renders kind of and I might be might be in the minority here kind of remind me a little bit of like re-zero it has that flair to it at least to me just really cool do check it out if you can ascendance of a bookworm season three one of my all-time favorite easy guy I love this show so much this breaks the mold and makes easy guy fun it's as it should be great world building and characters I cannot recommend ascendance of the bookworm enough here we have love afterworld domination animated by project number nine based off the manga of the same name and this is sort of a play on super sentai and stuff like power rangers it's essentially a power rangers anime but with a romance twist because you have the red ranger or the red gelato because they're like the five gelato squad or whatever and he ends up falling in love with the villain of the show and they form a relationship but they're hiding it from the rest or she's not the main villain but one of the main bad guys and they're hiding it from the rest of the cast for the good guys and the rest of the bad guys so it's it's it's silly it's fun it's a bonkers little story the animation's competent enough and I do recommend it it's it's quirky and I think you'll like it if you give it a shot a tomodachi game is also out if you like stuff like alice in borderland or fricking squid games that psychological game death game thing you're gonna be right at home with this however this one I do find it a little bit more confusing with its rules it's a little bit more convoluted for its own good at least based on the first episode but I've heard nothing but great things about the manga so I'm excited to check this one out and see what happens with this I like the main little boy animatronic thing I it steals the show for me and makes it instantly memorable in my opinion although summertime rendering has not come out as of me making this video I do want to point out that this is being streamed at Disney plus and that is awesome because who would have thunk it 2022 so many streaming outlets embracing and putting out all the anime that they can afford to get that's just awesome I love it what a time to be alive diamond I hope I'm pronouncing this right a recipe for happiness based on the manga of the same name this one is pretty cute it's a slice of life sanen series you have the character of idino returning home when he gets a call that his father is hospitalized turns out it's not so serious and finds out that this young girl she is going to take control or inherit the sweet baking shop and it's sort of like reminds me of barakaman that type of show that type of dynamic now the character idino at the suggestion of his mom is acting sort of like a surrogate type father to the main girl so it's pretty cute and wholesome and I do suspect it will be a nice simple show that everybody can enjoy a bunch of other shows here don't hurt me my healer following one of the sassiest girls in all of anime and all of recent anime I should say Karla the dark elf cleric she will insult you and try to look cute and talk her way out of everything and swindle people I love this character she's a blast she can be annoying but she's pretty funny at the same time and I mean if you watch the first episode you know what you're getting yourself into it's pretty one-dimensional but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing the story is funny enough that I don't really mind and it's a nice break from reality plus I I like the character of Karla so I'm interested to see what adventure she gets herself in in the heart of kunoichi subaki this is pretty interesting similar to don't hurt me my healer this is the type of show it's based off of manga this is animated by clover works this is the type of show where by the premise you already know what you're getting into and I don't think it's going to deviate too much from that path this is about a group of kunoichi on this secluded hidden village or whatever and they are forbidden from contacting men they have a policy or a rule no contact with men of course the main character you know that eventually she is going to make that contact and it's going to change things and it's played to comedic effect sometimes a little bit too repetitive on some of the jokes but the animation from clover works honestly is a lot better than most of the popular ninja themed anime in the past they knocked it out of the park in my opinion next up is heroines run the show I wasn't originally going to check this out but I gave it a shot because I saw the trailer for it and I'm I'm in this is a this is a lot it says here comedy drama bromance school it has a little bit of everything you follow hiyoti she left her hometown to pursue a career in or you know track and field and all that stuff in a prestigious uh Tokyo high school that she enrolls at and in there she finds out that two of her classmates are popular idol members of a group called lip lip and through a series of shenanigans she's placed sort of in the middle of the two of them that are currently behind the scenes not getting along and she's placed in the middle of working as their manager in all the crazy stuff so I am going to check it out I love that it's mixing totally different genres from sports to drama and school life and all that I want to check it out I'm not a fan of idle stuff which is why I didn't want to see the the first episode but I gave it a shot anyways and I was surprised the animations uh serviceable the character designs are awesome I love hiyoti's character design it's instantly recognizable and she's just a bundle of wholesome energy that I can't help but root for and want to see her succeed also the voice cast on this thing is insane every character's voiced by a very famous Japanese actor and that's awesome I love it some of my personal favorites are there which is another reason I'm giving heroines run the show a shot this is a contender for best of the season and quite possibly one of the best shows of the year my early prediction this is Yaboi Konmin you have Konmin famous tactician and military leader from the romance of the three kingdoms of in China in his dying bed he wishes to live in another time of peace and all that stuff so he gets transported to modern day Tokyo and he ends up meeting this amateur musician called Aiko and she is just a really awesome young girl her songs are really good I like that they're in English gives it a little bit of an extra spice some people were saying like oh this is a cool idol show I don't see it that way I just see it as a music drama slash comedy mostly comedy and it's wacky and silly enough where it just works the idea that you have a character from thousands of years in the past and now in modern times with the old clothing and all that stuff is sort of this culture clash of modern technology with somebody that's from ancient times and Aiko she's struggling and now she has this new lease on her professional life thanks to meeting Konmin at first you know the circumstances don't necessarily dictate that that is what's going to happen but that's part of what's fun about this series it doesn't take itself serious and the cast can just have fun you know what you're getting yourself into and the animation is great is from PA works they're one of my favorite studios and I believe this is the second time they're doing a manga adaptation they mostly have done a lot of original work so this is really cool the music is great like I said and the art and all that stuff I highly recommend it just go in and have fun do check it out I guarantee you're gonna have some fun with it okay final four here here we have uh that am I saying this right? Dan Stanzur from Studio Mappa adapting the manga the same name this is a drama series and I think this is a contender for best of the best in my opinion we follow the character of Junpei he loves ballet but circumstances have made him not be able to practice that sport that dancing as in favor of other things you know following cultural things that you know you gotta be manly and being manly means cool so you gotta do sports like soccer or martial arts and stuff like that but his true passion is in ballet yeah he's scared of what the public might think and his fellow students his fellow his fellow classmates and all that but a chance encounter happens when he meets Godai Miyako who happens to have a ballet studio or her mom has one so now he has this opportunity to fully express his love of ballet after you know being denied that will he stick to what society wants him to be or will he break out of that show and become the dancer that he's meant to be this is the type of show that I'm excited for it's awesome I love that in just one episode the beginning you get a lot of character progression I cannot wait to see where the story is headed and if it's just as good as the first one we're looking at one of the best shows in my honest opinion I love the art I'm a big fan of Studio Moppa like many of you however I don't like and I do think this is because they're doing the because it's based off the manga art every character has a half circle in their eye I found it really distracting and I could not unsee it so eventually I got used to it but it's something that I was not too fond of but aside from that everything looks great the animation when these characters are doing their ballet movements and dancing is top-notch obviously Studio Moppa has had experience with this I'm reminded of gymnastic samurai and that how it combined the CG stuff with the drawing and the fluidity of sports and gymnastics it's similar to this where dance dance you have these characters doing complicated twirls and spins and then stretches and all that stuff and I think it looks really freaking good speaking of sports here we have love all play this is extremely generic but really fun and I I do recommend checking it out it's essentially about this kid who gets into this prestigious badminton high school I actually played badminton growing up back in the day so I do like that sport so that's great to see something you love being represented on screen and it has all the cool stuff that you come to love from sports drama you know you get the competitiveness the trials the qualifiers the practices you have the characters getting to know each other there's the rival there's the hot shot player who looks down on the newbies it has all the sports tropes that you come to expect from anime and manga or in this case the original novel but do check it out it's fun and it has a good voice cast and the animation is really nice as well another one for the sports section here is birdie wing golf girls story this is fantastic that you can take the sport of golf which is not everybody's favorite it makes something entertaining out of it its premise is bonkers you have two characters they come from completely different backgrounds and they're playing for various reasons one of the characters is aiming to help some orphans and be able to feed them and all that stuff and when you get the golf play it has sort of that ridiculousness of all the high-end moves and the super detailed stuff that you come to love when they are exaggerating these things so I do like it for that and the art is nice this is by bn pictures I do like it it's not technically the best one of the bunch but it's competent enough that I keep coming back that I want to keep coming back to it for more golf action and finally here we have a fanfare of adolescence this has the wackiest plot of them all because you boy kong meme yeah it's fantastical but this one takes the cake you have the main character who is part of an idol group but his true passion is in the horse racing and he decides to quit and join a prestigious jockey school horse racing and of course the Japanese media don't take too kindly of it so there's that dynamic of paparazzi and press and media and all that stuff and the pressures of it and now you have a character that is getting into a brand new ball game and wanting to learn to be a successful jockey and all that I'll check it out the animation is done by lay deuce and it's all right I do like it it's the character designs are nice and detailed enough the horse animation it's mostly cg I'm not a huge fan of that but it's competent enough that I don't mind it it could be worse I would say so that is that as they say a lot of shows I'm very interested to know which ones you're watching are you watching something that I didn't mention let me know in the comment section down below I've got to go thank you everybody once again thank you for subscribing and being a part of 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