Cool. Well I ended up dropping Spiritpact, mainly because it was just too homosexualized for me to enjoy. It didn't start that way, but the more the show progressed the more it pushed at the main the male leads being something akin to lovers, as if they were dating. And I am not really into that sorta thing. That said, the rest of the shows I was watching last season were pretty good and I hope that a few of them at least get second seasons.
Now here we are in a new season of shows and I have to say, there's a lot of interesting good stuff this season.
Kyoukai no Rinne 3rd season - I'm not into the show but maybe I'll get back into it sometime. I stopped watching during the first season, but Baj I know you like this show.
Seikaisuru Kado (KADO: The Right Answer) - Looks interesting, I forgot to watch the second episode but this show looked cool. Modern Japan, some gigantic strange alien cube thing shows up and lands on an airport runway with the only "casualties" being a plane that it landed on and appeared to absorb the plane and passengers in entirety. I'm not sure what else will go on, the first episode was mainly the JP government figuring out what to do about this alien cube only to discover at the very end of the episode what looks to be a leader from within the cube appearing at the top along with one of the passengers from the plane who is some kind of big deal to some people. Like I said, I'm interested. Artwork is great.
Beserk (2017) - A direct followup to last year's Beserk series. Continues the story of Guts, this time we finally have the reemergence of Griffith who will presumably try to rule the world or something.
ID-0 - Sci-Fi/Mecha anime set in space. There's an extremely valuable mineral mined from asteroids call Oricult (I may have misspelled it) and people use these machines in which they send their consciousness into the machine and pilot it as if it is their own body, their actual bodies are in some kind of spherical device used to send the consciousness to the machine. Definitely an interesting show so far. The main female academy student finds herself in the company of a band of pirates after a mining explosion and betrayal by her professor and colleague. The pirate actually save her and take her in as one of their own. In fact I guess this girl was super smart because the pirates were actually intending on taking her anyway from the beginning. That's about it so far.
Clockwork Planet - This anime is here to fulfill all your steampunk needs. The planet is made of gears, there's a backstory to this briefly explained in the beginning, but who cares, gear planet. Story goes like this, boy who is really a genius when it comes to clockworks and repairs, finds a coffin come crashing down into his place/workshop one evening. Curiously he opens the coffin to find a beautiful girl in a sort of sleeping state. Boy realizes this is a clockwork doll of some kind but that something is off about it. Boy preceeds to repair the doll and she comes alive. Turns out Doll girl is super secret ancient clockwork doll with badass abilities, and she precedes to call the boy her master for having repaired her and they stay together. The government seems split into two factions, military/police and a group of clockworkers/scientist, which in turn brings us to two additional main characters: sassy little girl genius member of the clockworker/scientists and her bodyguard an older suit/shades wearing male clockwork doll who is also a badass. If I write any more about the premise of what's going on in the first few episodes it's gonna take a while, needless to say the police faction is corrupt and seem to be the badguys here.
Renai Boukun (Love Tyrant) - Comedy/Supernatural/Romance anime. Comedy first and foremost. An angel who dresses like a reaper because it's a hobby of hers appears at the residence of the main boy character one day. Yada Yada, introduces this plot device ripped from Death Note, only it's called the Kiss Note. You write peoples names in it: name x name style and those two people fall in love. Angel-girl has to write names in it or else .....I think it was she dies or something. She ends up killing the main boy accidentally but revives him by kissing him and therefor granting him some of her angel powers, like immortality, but now the boy has to help with her goofy Kiss Note endeavors and to make things worse, the Angel wrote both their names down in the Kiss Note. Angel x Boy. But wait there's more. Boy has a girl he has always had a crush on, but it turns out she always liked him too, to the point of being Yandere against anyone who would come between her and the boy or anyone who harms him. Angel writes her into the equation because why not: Angel x Boy x Yandere. And no, it's not stopping there. I have to say, I have found the show to be pretty funny so far.
Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Gaiden: Sword Princess - No, it's not a second season to 'Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a Dungeon'. It's a side story based on the girl Aiz, the 'Sword Princess" and her familia. First episode ties into the main story directly and by the end of the episode you see the scene where she meets Bell for the first time, having killed a minotaur and drenched herself in blood and preventing it from killing Bell, and then Bell runs off in terror. This is kind of what happened concerning Aiz, since let's be honest, we don't see a lot of Aiz until much later in the original series. This tells her tale.
Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai (Seven Mortal Sins) - Ecchi/Fantasy and I want to state that I am not going to be watching this until I can find it without the ridiculous heavy censorship because, what good is a well drawn ecchi anime if it's censored. None!
Boku no Hero Academia 2nd Season - I'm very excited to see more of this anime! Loved the first season and I can't wait to see this show in it's entirety. It's so good! Super hero shonen anime. Yus!
Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul (Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul) - New series, but I suppose you might be able to consider it a second season in a sense. I think this series takes place 5 or so years in the future from the end of the original Rage of Bahamut. Familiar characters do return since it's only been 5 or so years after all. This show focuses on a new main character, a young teen female who is of a dragon clan. So she can take human form, and is exceptionally strong (because she's a freaking dragon). She works in the main city to make money to send back to her clan. A lot of shit went down in those 5 or so years though. The humans, now lead by some new king who brought them the power to defeat demons and angels, basically laid waste to the angels and now enslave demons. Azazel who was basically the main demon badguy in season one, if memory serves me right, is now kind of a good guy, if you can think of it that way. He fights against the humans who enslave and torture demonkind during the night as a vigilante or sorts while running the gladitorial pit during the day for the king's and rest of the human's amusement. The first anime was amazing and I feel this one is going to be rather amazing too. Already enjoying the hell out of it.
Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan Season 2 - About goddamn time. Needless to say, looking forward to this show.
Granblue Fantasy The Animation - Well, sorta. Episode 3 came out, though the first two episodes came out at the end of January. I'm hoping I don't have to wait months for the next episode, but who knows. Good fantasy anime, based off of an RPG of the same name I believe. Not sure if it's available outside of Japan. The show is good though, full of fun and interesting characters and quite well drawn.
Re:Creators - Ever wonder what it would be like if suddenly characters from different anime, manga and video games suddenly were real and in our world but still had all of their powers. Well that's this anime, and so far it's pretty freaking amazing. Obviously for some of the characters it's quite unnerving to suddenly find out there are pictures of yourself all over the place and that intimate knowledge of yourself that only you knew is out there for everyone to know. Good stuff here.\
Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho (Grimoire of Zero) - This is an amazing little action/fantasy anime that I am sure to fall in love with. I don't even want to spoil it, it's just really cool and, oh hell, the main character is a beastman of sorts, part white tiger with a humanoid body. It seems like it's gonna be really good.
Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records (Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor) - I've been enjoying this show. It's a mix of several sub genre, ultimately I would say fantasy/action/school/magic with a dash of fan service. Enter a lazy substitute teacher who doesn't really want to teach but is being forced into the position, immediately the kids at this magic academy dislike him and the feeling is relatively mutual. One female student challenges him to a magic dual and summarily beats him down which further makes him appear like he's terrible at magic and the kids look down on him even more so. That is until he explains that the way they are taught is boring and actually uses techniques they didn't think were possible, then all of a sudden everyone is interested in his teaching and he starts to kinda like what he's doing. Turns out he's kind of a badass but with a terrible personality. Looking forward to more of the show.
WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? - Yes that is the actual title. A Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Romance/Drama. I've only seen the first episode so far, but it was enough to pique my interest and I want to see more of the show.
Oushitsu Kyoushi Haine (The Royal Tutor) - Comedy anime reminiscent of Ouran High School Host Club, at least I kinda get that vibe from it, but different. A new royal tutor goes to the royal palace to attempt to school the 4 younger royal princes which have driven out every tutor they have ever had. Each prince has a very different personality, yet, these personality tropes will be nothing new to those of us who watch a lot of anime. Still, the show is pretty amusing and funny so far and I do find myself really enjoying it.
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations - I don't know how to feel about the show. Right off the bat they allude that at sometime in the future Naruto appears to have been killed. That alone kinda pisses me off when you think of what all Naruto has done for anime and even in his actual world how vastly important a character he is. The show does manage to still intrigue me, as Boruto himself appears to have some kind of unknown and unique ability that he isn't even aware of once the show returns to him being a kid.
Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism (Armed Girl's Machiavellism) - All girls school becomes co-ed, and to prevent males from thinking they can do whatever they want at some point an armed faction was created that began "Running" the school and keeping order. All males that now attend dress like girls and try their best to behave feminine so they aren't targeted by these armed girls, it's become the only way they can "survive", by adapting. Enter new male transfer student who doesn't give a crap about any of that. He just want's to go to school and do whatever he wants and isn't going to back down from these armed girls. The leaders of the armed divisions take notice, and one of them who wears an ogre mask and wields a katana, decides to teach him a lesson. They fight, and it turns out this new guy is pretty badass, he's dodging all her strikes and unarmed parrying her blade with slaps and kicks. It's definitely a cool action anime and I'm looking forward to the rest of it.
Sakurada Reset (Sagrada Reset) - Mystery/Super Power/Drama/Romance - A bit of a different anime. There's this one city in Japan where people are born with super abilities, but if they ever leave the city, they lose their abilities and forget they ever had them. The story centers around some high school kids. One girl, who's ability is to find people she's looking for, arranges for a boy, who's ability is to remember things, even if someone with a memory wipe or reset ability uses their ability and he can share those memories with other people, to meet another girl, who's ability is that she can reset a 24 hour period of time from a save point she chooses yet the ability works on her as well so she never remembers having used her ability. After talking these two decide to try and use their collective powers to help people and "erase the sadness" from other people's lives. It's a bit of a philosophical story at times, definitely a moral story. Should you or shouldn't you use your ability if it might help someone. But then something unexpected happens.
Still airing anime that I am also watching:
Little Witch Academia - I am so glad this show didn't end at 12 episodes, there is so much more to tell and the story was just then really developing, so I am so glad to see it continue even more so now that the plot is more in the front of the anime now.
Dragon Ball Super - They are ramping up the start of this multi universal Tournament of Power arc. The last episode had Android 17 reappearing, because he's been there this whole time. Interesting to see that he actually has a family with a wife and two children. Also to take away from that episode a very important tidbit, Uub is in the DBS universe! They didn't straight up say his name, but the did mention there was a very powerful young boy and that he was the reincarnation of Kid Buu and that Goku should train him after the Tournament of Power, if they survive, which of course they will, duh. Also surprising was that Android 17 is somehow strong enough to hold his own against SSJ Blue Goku. How??? Eh, it doesn't matter lol.
