 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Gio here. It's been a minute. I am fully aware that this is a super late video. Probably all of you have moved on to other stuff, but I wanted to cover the spring 2022 anime season. I made sort of a first impressions and which shows you should watch a couple months back, like five months back, I don't know, but I decided, you know, I got to cover it. I got to talk about it. So let's get started. I think there was a total of either 42 to 46 shows. I said, you know what, there's a lot of good stuff coming out. I think I want to cover as much as humanly possible. And I had to stop at 20, I think it's 26 different shows. It got too chaotic. I don't know how some of the more popular any tubers, is that the proper term? I don't know how they do it. I was losing my mind with so many different shows, plus paying attention to the books I'm reading and streaming that I'm doing on other channels and stuff like that. But nonetheless, here we are talking about some good old anime. Healer Girl. I believe this was done by Studio 3 Hertz. I didn't know about the studio. I didn't know about the series, but I liked the poster for it and the premise was interesting enough. Also, quick side note, I'm running things off of what I remember of these shows, which I think will be funnier for you because I don't know if I'm going to be able to fully describe all the different shows that I have listed here, but we're going to try. So back to Healer. I really enjoyed the premise of it. It is essentially this alternate reality where we have a new branch of medicine and that is music. You heal through music. It's a really weird, but yet really interesting concept. The idea that in real life they say music can heal the soul and it's good for you to listen to certain frequencies and people always say stuff like that. So this series takes that to an extreme and actually has people singing and using music to heal, to help heal and it works in conjunction with the other types of medicine and all that stuff. I thought that was a really fascinating topic and you have three main characters, three young girls who want to be professional healers and they're starting out as apprentices or rookies or whatever and throughout the series they get better and better and get go through exams and stuff to get licensed and just like a regular medical professional would do and all that stuff. I thought the music was absolutely captivating and beautiful. At times I got a little misty eyed. There was something very emotional and raw about the performances and this show essentially turned out to be a musical which I didn't think I was going to be a fan of. I didn't think I was going to go down that road of watching a musical anime but Healer Girl I thought was pretty cool. It's only, I think it was only 12 episodes and out of the 12 half was devoted to what I actually wanted to see which was the healing aspect and with the surgeries and all that most of the episodes are dedicated to the girls, the three girls on their journey in school and camping out and stuff like that which is it's fine but when you have such an interesting concept and you're playing around with the concept of music in the medical field I kind of want to see more of that. Still animation was solid, characters were good, the concept was interesting as hell so I definitely would recommend it plus the frickin music and singing expertly done. Ascendance of a bookworm season three. Finally my favorite isekai returns. I am so happy about it. I love the series so much. Now we have new adventures as mine is working towards her goal of printing books and there are of course a lot of people that are against that because they would rather rule through fear and people not being educated and stuff like that. Of course there's the whole magic aspect to it. The ending of this season really paves the way for some epic storytelling in the upcoming seasons. Hopefully it does get renewed for a fourth one. I haven't read the manga I've only seen the show but I am super excited to see what happens next. There's a huge twist towards the end that I did not expect. The season started out pretty tame. I mean mine is fighting off these nobles and merchants that don't really want her to succeed and when I say fighting I mean more like a political play not actual fighting. So that was interesting. Then there are subplots of an orphan kid that shows up a baby at the orphanage and what happens to that kid? Mine herself. There's stuff that happens. She is being targeted by assassins and kidnappers and stuff like that and it all leads to a pretty awesome confrontation at the end that really shakes the status quo for all the characters in this series. Tomodachi game. I don't know what I was expecting. This is a series that really surprised me because I thought it was so well regarded at least the manga. I thought I was really going to enjoy the anime and like several aspects of it. Essentially you have these kids and they get involved in this deadly survival game where their friendship is put to the test and they have to rely on their trust and knowledge and companionship to get through the games. They have some money debt on their heads and if they lose the more debt they get or they can pass it along so it's a strategic game. The concept is interesting but I did not like the animation whatsoever and I really disliked 90% of the cast of this show including the main character and I get that's sort of the point. You're not going to have a lovable protagonist that's fine but everybody was just so edgy and I hate using that because it's an overused word these days to describe characters but it was a really edgy show and a lot of edgy characters saying really edgy things. Have I said edgy enough? Probably not. I mean if the show would have gone in different direction maybe I would have liked it but each episode just kept escalating on the craziness with really random plot twists and having the whole confusing rules per game just I don't know it was the least exciting death game survival show that I've seen. I was mostly interested just to see what the hell was going to happen next in terms of the overall plot. I'm quitting heroing is super unexpected I didn't think I was going to like it as much. You have this character that has a lot of secrets to him he is sort of this chosen hero type character the savior of the world and he suddenly decides to turn his back on humanity after many years and tries to recruit himself as a lackey for the villains that he used to find this demon lord dragon princess and a lot of comedic things happen because of it. I won't go into details but there's a twist when you find out the character's origin that I was not expecting and it really elevated what should have been a mediocre fantasy comedy series action comedy into something a little bit more special. The characters are really fun the animations not that great but I enjoyed the plot and the twists and turns that I do recommend it just on that alone give it a shot if you're interested birdie wing what the hell did I think of birdie wing it's it's a bad show but it's so bad that it's freaking great and I loved it it's this wonderful gay mafia golf sports anime that I cannot recommend enough it is so absurd you have some of the craziest characters in sports anime history the whole fact that it's golf of all the sports that you can represent in anime form you picked golf you have a main character playing to support friends and family and then it transforms midway into like a regular sports series as the character you know finds a rival friendship and enrolls in the school by the end so we get a promise of a season two and I am so excited I also watched the pokemon he's swinging snow I hope I said that right it's essentially a three episode digital thing that the pokemon company uploaded to their youtube channel that you can watch and subbed or dubbed or whatever and it's based off the pokemon arceus game really simple story but beautifully animated if memory serves you right it is studio mappa which they do amazing work and yeah I don't know I mean I'm so tired sorry of the pokemon stuff with ash and all that I've always wanted to see the original games adapted in anime form not just like ona's or ova's or like a movie I want a full flip series or maybe an adaptation of the pokemon adventures manga stuff like that instead of the ash stories shield hero season two I was so hyped that shield hero finally returned but if you go back to my first impressions video I quickly made note that the animation really suffered like the first two episodes that I saw when I made that video looked like I was watching the middle of a season and it was sort of like filler content and I was a little bit worried about that and oh boy I was pretty much right because this season was all over the place I mean from what I've gathered for from the manga side of things people weren't super excited because the whole turtle deity thing isn't the most exciting thing and they said oh wait until that's over because the next stuff is pretty exciting so I was doing that because honestly the whole turtle stuff could have easily been solved in like a films worth running time like a good 90 minutes you could have knocked that story out but instead they dragged it out I think they did six or seven episodes and that led into the team of naufumian gang crossing into another dimension and you meet a whole bunch of characters over there it's an isekai within an isekai and that stuff was really exciting but it was so rushed it was six episodes of a story arc that could have easily filled out the whole entirety of the season it was it was all over the place poor pacing rushed the characters just looked bad and overall just really disappointed by it I am looking forward to season three because it has some new characters that people are hyped for I'm looking forward to that hopefully the animation improves and we get a better show as a result day I'm on recipe for happiness this is sort of a slice of life with this girl that runs away from her father I think and she starts working at a bakery the that's a like a mom and pop shop and the family there they have the mom and dad they have a son who comes back he was this failed indie artist I don't know if I'm saying it right I don't know if he was successful or not I don't remember the thing is he was a musician now he's going back into the whole bakery thing sort of you know he defied his parents and wanted to do his own thing which I think a lot of people can relate to and he forms a bond with the girl and essentially sort of becoming her father figure it's a really nice wholesome series however in the midst of all the chaos that was happening in my life during these three months I was barely paying any attention to day one but most of the episodes were nice fluffy wholesome shows that I highly recommend if you just want to lay back and get a really nice drama slash comedy I thought it was worth it maybe on a rewatch one day I'll get more out of it but overall just a nice middle of the road beautifully written show komi can't communicate season two or part two whatever you want to call it it's more the same komi getting new friends new adventures eventually we got to a point where the last or like episodes out of the 12 episodes 9 10 and 11 just looked really off like they got the C team over there to work on it I was really concerned I even tweeted about it because I thought it was just so random that we got some really really rough animation for komi can't communicate but overall more the same take it or leave it I thought it was fine just a nice slice of life adventure with these cast of characters going through school life and komi of course getting over her social anxieties and meeting new people and friends and new experiences which is always great miss shah I'm going to watch for this miss chiku and the little baby ghost if you take miss kobiashi's dragonmaid take out all the ecchi stuff and the dragons and replace it with an overworked girl working at this office in japan and switch out the dragons with yudei or ghost that's sort of what you get in this series the ghosts are absolutely adorable some of the cutest characters to have ever graced tv screens and the entirety of human history it is that absurdly cute just a nice comedic slice of life series they get into several hijinks it's a pretty easy going show nothing too major when it comes to the plot but just the dynamic of having the little ghost girl she's so adorable and just wants the main character to rest and not overwork herself to death it's pretty sad that we have to have a show like that because that stuff happens in real life but nonetheless I'm glad that this exists because it is such a funny wholesome little series that I would look forward to to sort of relieve the of my stress of hectic week I think it aired on Thursdays so I really enjoy watching it they get into more adventures with other characters there is a cat spirit that is super adorable and stuff like that so if you're into the whole yokai paranormal stuff and the cute sea chibi stuff when it comes to anime I think you'll be right at home with this one skeleton knight in another world it's another isekai this character this man gets trapped into or young adult whatever gets trapped in this fantasy world as his favorite character happens to be sort of this skeleton looking dude and he's trying to figure out what to do he eventually befriends this voluptuous looking elf girl sorry I have to make up parentheses but I that's one of my favorite tropes in anime I do love me some elves yay so they go on adventure she's trying to help them cure the curse as he puts it but that's not really what's happening he's just there in this skeleton body and eventually through some hijinks he ends up helping her to free the other elf girls that have been enslaved in this kingdom that's very medieval-esque with a lot of douchey rulers and conspiracies all that stuff it's pretty freaking standard and it kind of borrows heavily from other shows and other hell even the character designs right to have a skeleton person you immediately think of irons from overlord so not necessarily the most original of the bunch but it was so funny enough and I did like that even though they were using cg to animate the the big fights and all that stuff it didn't look weird it wasn't as intrusive as other series it it felt kind of nice yaboi kong meme I hope I said that right I think this is one of my favorites and it's probably gonna be on the list for favorite shows of 2022 I thought it was fantastic music series you have a girl aiko she wants to be the top singer and you have kong meme who is a historical figure from the romance of three kingdoms and he ends up dying in his time period and gets reborn in modern Tokyo it's that type of series displaced characters and him figuring out how things work falling in love with aiko's music and promising after befriending her and all that stuff promising to be her agent and take her to new heights of course he has that strategy in mind from wartime in china so he's going to utilize that those strategies to make her the top artist in japan with her edm and acapella and acoustic songs her english songs if you love music if you want to celebrate life and through music and artistry I think this is the show for you I loved it it's by progressive animation works they're one of my favorite studios and they're adapting the manga obviously I think they did a fantastic job adapting it really worth your time I highly recommend yaboi kong meme only 12 episodes I think you're gonna love it heroines run of the show basically an idol series I'm not a fan of idol shows I typically avoid them not my thing so with this one you have a wonderful girl and she is she gets involved with two popular idols that are going to the same school as her this high school in tokyo or whatever she went there because she wants to be a track star running and marathoning and all that stuff and she enrolls in that school and gets caught in high jinks with the idols eventually she keeps a secret that they went through some things and one thing led to another and she ends up getting a job as a in-training manager for the two boys she doesn't really know anything she's sort of a country girl if you will but she starts learning about them and why people love idols so much and all that it relies heavily with idol tropes and the fandom and the craziness of that stuff which is pretty insane in real life so I think they captured it pretty well the ending of the series is super weak compared to the start I didn't like the resolution for it some of the main conflicts towards the end just were super rushed and just really weird the way the final conflict got resolved I didn't think they were gonna go down that route and everything would be resolved just like that when in reality if that were to happen in you know in real life you'd be looking at jail time you'd be looking at lawsuits it'd be pretty interesting but the main character steals the show and I would recommend watching it just for her and the voice actors I think she did a phenomenal job and easily the highlight of that series summertime rendering this easily is on my list for best show of the year I'm absolutely in love with this series where you don't really understand what's happening it turns out to be one of these series that they go into time loops and this mystery keeps repeating itself day after day you have this character that is arriving to his hometown coastal islands in Japan and one of his friends passed away and there's a mystery behind it because they think she was murdered so he starts investigating and finds out there's a conspiracy in the island sort of these urban legends with shadows replacing people it gets crazy it gets weird and the whole thing is that when crap hits the fan and the character bites it he loops back to the start when he arrived at the island so now he gets another shot to solve things and that mystery keeps intensifying and more and more crazy stuff happens I highly recommend it the manga got published recently by udon comics and the show is stuck in disney plus jail but nonetheless I do recommend it it is done by olm one of my other favorite studios just wonderful beautiful animation character designs look really crisp almost movie-like I really recommend it I think it'll be worth your time and if you can't watch the show get the manga love after domination this really surprised me and this is one of my favorite comedies of recent memory you have this parody of the super sentai genre you got the was it the gelato team of five rangers they're all gelato themed with the same colors that you would expect you know red blue green pink and yellow and they fight the gecko army this evil army of bad guys that want to take over the world and destroy everything the plot twist is that the red ranger or the red gelato he is in love with one of the high lieutenants from the gecko bad guy society or whatever and they're in love and they're trying to hide it from their respective camps and that leads to many comedic hijinks I really enjoyed this it's a very sweet funny series that if you like monsters kaiju max sentai super sentai stuff you're really going to enjoy it I thought the comedy was cute and pretty well paced and it's the type of show that you can tune in and have some fun switch your brain off and just enjoy it for the craziness and move on with your day satisfied kawi asama season three or ultra romantic I wasn't huge into the first season it took me a bit to fall in love with it I thought season two was much better and improved on everything from season one the jokes were better the comedic timing the character performances of the voice actors and all that stuff so with this now it's a well crafted oiled machine the characters are fantastic there's more lengthy arts of stories instead of like the previous seasons where it was heavily episodic with mini adventures now we have long chunks of story playing out through several episodes all culminating in the school festival where something major happens could we see the confession that we've all been anticipating well I don't want to spoil it but you're gonna have to watch to find out I didn't like that the finale was an hour long that was great the animations just as good as the other seasons and by now all these actors they just know their roles perfectly and you're just gonna love it it's wonderful I highly recommend it if you've never seen it definitely give season one a shot I think you're gonna be a fan pretty quickly the executioner and her way of life this took me by surprise I didn't know I was going to be liking an isekai yuri heavy series that plays with the tropes and plays with the notion of being an isekai series being off world and how it literally is the foundation for the entire series you see this is a world where people they get isekai into and this sort of alternate earth where it's heavily on magic and spells and all that stuff they feed off the energy that these kids have and it builds into the society of it there's a quick spoiler that I'm going to reveal but at the I think it was like episode three or two you find out that everybody in this town aside from their original language they know Japanese thanks to all the isekai characters all the boys and girls that are being thrown into this new world and their knowledge of Japan and their technology has influenced this new world and sort of become like a cult or a religious affection towards these kids and this other place in you know in our area our world however the overabundance of this and the energy and all that it gets pretty technical and convoluted it sort of reminded me of like the magical girl stuff like the the new magical girl stuff that goes dark with its themes and all that it's sort of reminded me of that plus the fate series so all this excess magic and the influence from these isekai kids led to some calamities that cost the lives of many thousands of inhabitants in this world so now this part of the church they seek these kids and they want to take them out and kill them with the ruse that they're going to send them back to their original world but they're actually executing them the main character here is tasked with doing that with another character i don't want to reveal it but let's just say that as the series progresses there's a lot of exposition and world building so keep attention to what you're watching it isn't like the other shows that i mentioned i did like it some people were not 100 on board but i did love the character designs and i did like the whole concept of you know the fact that it's an off-world series and isekai and that being the basis for everything sort of the the glue that binds this world that world together i thought that was pretty cool and it made me a fan so i am looking forward to a season two or maybe i am looking forward to reading the manga we'll see i'm gonna put you this one i hope i said that right pretty simple story romantic comedy kind of bizarre comedy at first of these two characters one she is super tiny cute and pretty hilarious with her deadpan humor and then you have the guy in this equation who's kind of a klutzy buffoon at first but you get to fall in love with these two characters as they become friends and get into some hilarious situations there are a lot of cutaway gags and references to other stuff from shonen jump and other anime and stuff like that so if you're into that type of comedy you'll be right at home with it it doesn't get too serious maybe a little bit towards the end but it's more on the emotional side really fun characters that you want to root for just a silly good time in my honest opinion dance dance dance sir i think i probably said that wrong i didn't think i was going to fall in love with a ballet themed anime but again this might be one of my favorite shows of the year i absolutely loved it you have this kid that he's he's always wanted to get into ballet but social norms dictate that you can't do that because that's for girls and that's kind of weird and you want to get into that so his father gets him to try out i think it was taekwondo or karate or some martial arts sadly his father dies early in his life and that sort of stunts his potential growth and he's sort of stuck in this place of wanting to please the other boys by participating in every club like the sports club music martial arts and not really fulfilling his passion which is dance and ballet he gets an opportunity when he meets this girl that her mom has the studio and in that studio she has a cousin the girl who is this introverted young kid who has gone through some really heavy stuff there's some really heavy subject matter in this but i think it's a worthwhile story it's a great emotional story of growth of the main character to see him at the start not really take it seriously and have this sort of epiphany and awakening that this is what he was meant to do and go through all the motions of finding out that oh i am talented but there are people that are better than me so i gotta work at my craft i gotta understand that i'm jumping into this new territory people are gonna look at me weird it doesn't really matter i'm just gonna keep moving forward and doing my thing that type of show beautifully crafted i i yeah the proportions of the characters you know they're based off the manga a little bit weird with the long necks and the eyes circles the rings inside the eyes it was just a little bit off putting it first but i got used to it pretty quickly i do recommend it wonderfully animated a beautiful story i'm really excited for a season two this was one of my favorite shows of the year love all play i'll be honest with you this is one of my least favorite shows of 2022 i think it's just okay you have this character that wants to get into this prestigious school and try out bat minton he loves the sport and fun fact i do too i actually played it back in the day really fun so he gets he goes into the school and plays the sport and you have all the usual tropings when it comes to tropings is that the word whatever all the usual tropes when it comes to sports anime with the drama of meeting new teammates forming those bonds of course there are the students that want to put their rookies through hell they get into the first tournament together singles and doubles practicing people get injured this there's drama involved with certain characters you've all seen this before it's a beautifully crafted show and the voice cast is great and it's it's a component middle of the road sports drama unfortunately i didn't stick with it i watched the first half the first 13 episodes it's still airing as of this video i didn't go back to it i didn't go back to it because i had other shows to watch but if you want a nice solid dramatic sports theme show love all play could be it speaking of odd sports fanfare of adolescence this was an original anime and this is based off of jockeys and horse racing you have a main character who is this former idol he quits and he wants to pursue his passion which is horse racing of course the agents and the fans don't take it too well there's controversy he enlists in this private school for jockies and you meet all the other characters and they all have big dramatic stories and all that stuff and you go around the series examining each one a lot of heavy stuff happens in dramatic moments and the whole learning how to race and connecting with the horses it was really interesting and the music was absolutely special because of course um uh savano is working on it which is always great one of my favorite music composers but overall i just didn't find it super interesting that i wanted to keep going i did finish the whole series but it wasn't something that i was looking forward to the premise was interesting but the pacing and direction was a little bit all over the place there were a couple interesting stories and a couple interesting things that happened but the overall cohesiveness of it wasn't as enticing as i would have liked in the heart of kunoichi zubaki this is another silly series that i kind of really enjoyed and i do recommend watching essentially you have this tribe of kunoichi female ninjas they've never stepped foot outside the the their land and they don't know what men are like and they've never met a member of the opposite sex zubaki she's a wonderful character i really enjoyed her arc and her story and the way she interacts with the other ninjas the animation is probably the best thing about the show it is fantastic and i really enjoyed watching high ninja moves that i've seen on like freaking naruto or whatever just expertly drawn and animated really cool stuff that i wish other ninja shows would emulate and and had that sophistication like throwing a like a fireball jutsu or substitution or a clone jutsu all looked really solid granted this was only 13 episodes whereas other ninja shows are like hundreds of episodes but you know what i mean the series has some jokes because they don't know what men are like and they kind of repeat the same jokes all throughout and most of the series is just dedicated to examining all them the many squads within the tribe uh the three men the three women squads i should say and they're all fun funny wholesome characters some are crazy others are just plain weird but overall it's just a fun simple series spy family finally it aired just a wholesome series Anya is one of the best characters in manga and now she's one of the best characters in anime just a really nice twist on the whole spy genre and having characters come together to form a family they're all fantastic the series is expertly drawn i believe it was cloverworks and wood studios if i remember correctly expertly drawn and great characters solid adaptation of a very popular manga that i've read i'm not up to date with it but i've read a small chunk of it and i thought they did a really good job of bringing spy family to life in animation form and obviously the highlight the the show stealer is Anya with her crazy kooky eccentric nature and her abilities and all the crazy stuff that she gets involved with and just how damn cute and wholesome she is as well as her parents spy family easily one of the best shows of the year highly recommended it's a show that everybody can watch and enjoy together i highly recommended for non anime fans wanting to watch something more recent instead of the usual stuff that people like to recommend try spy family out you'll love it shikimori is not just a cutie i remember doing the first impressions and i was not that impressed it's essentially a story based on a feeling towards your boyfriend or girlfriend and that's it you have these two characters that love each other shikimori she's cool she's a badass and that's it that's the whole premise of the show just them getting to know each other i guess getting to know each other a little bit more forming deeper relationships with each other and of course the other kids in the high school or middle school or whatever it's that and they go on episodic adventures in school and like dates and all that it's great but there's not much of a substance there with the plot other than characters deepening their bonds with each other i guess i don't know it did lead to some wholesome scenes but overall it was just a really fluffy type of show which i'm not opposed to i love watching every type of anime every type of show out there i just thought it was funny that the plot is just based of a feeling a feeling towards your loved one and not like this happened so now they're gonna do this and force stuff to happen because of plot reasons no it's just a chill time with kids in high school going about their daily lives and loving each other and being friends and all that stuff the final one on this list don't hurt me my healer i really enjoyed this it's essentially this parody of like souls games for example this rpg element with the medieval aspect and souls aspect to it with the creatures and the magic effects and the healers and the elves and all that you have karla possibly one of the smartest cunning and overall annoying characters of all time and i absolutely loved it she is one of my favorite characters from the shows that i talked about on this episode love the series so much the main character alvin he is a wimp he sucks he's a horrible rookie adventurer but he gets tangled up with karla this elf and she is such a smartass that you can't help but love she will annoy you at first but just go with it because i think that's the charm of the series and how she just twists everything all the narratives to suit her and how how much of a smartass she is it's super annoying but really funny at the same time and i just fell in love with the series and i loved every single episode it was really funny animation is nothing to write home about it's just perfectly okay but her relationship with alvin and the other members of a party that forms is really funny so if you're into rpgs and souls like content or video games and you like a comedy i think you'll be right at home but don't hurt me my healer oh jesus i'm done okay so that was the episode it was super long thank you so much for hanging in there i know i know you'd rather see the voiceover stuff with like overlays and trailers and all that stuff but i was super late making this it's been a rough couple of weeks for me to create content on the platform and it really i really struggled and suffered because of it but i'm sort of back and i will be making more videos frequently i'm just hopping on that training and getting my groove back on uh so thank you so much if you want to see more stuff like this uh reviews and first impressions talking about anime and manga subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell a week and get them is this channel's name geo here signing off thank you so much god bless stay safe out there i will catch all of you on our next episode