![]() I don’t especially like any of the characters and I find the whole exercise a bit depressing, but I kind of think that’s by design. It’s a fascinating commentary on Japanese history and society, using the veneer of fantasy to enlighten reality. I expect I’ll finish Oooku well before the season is over, as it is indeed very good. I feel like I can see where Haoling Li is going with the plot, and I think he has the chops to pull it off.Ĭomments: Netlfix dump series are always a challenge to cover, as they never have a set time slot where I know I’ll be watching and writing. The pacing has been a bit rushed, the emotional tug a bit lacking – but the underlying DNA remains rock-solid. To say it hasn’t quite achieved the same level of engagement for me is not much of a slight, given how tremendous that first season was. I love the banter between the two leads and the surrealist take on the standard detective series tropes.Ĭomments: Link Click II has been quite different from the first season in many respects. How much of the credit goes to the source material and how much to experienced adapter Takagi Noboru I don’t know, but it doesn’t really matter – the results speak for themselves. Undead Girl Murder Farce is off to a terrific start, and what’s getting it over the line is that the writing stands up to the director’s level. That really remains the key to everything – will Rurouni Kenshin 2023 be around to adapt the material that is elite, especially the heretofore unadapted “Jinchuu” arc? If so, it’s given me no reason to suspect it won’t be spectacular.Ĭomments: Put a great director like Hatakayama Mamoru or Omata Shinichi (spoiler: same guy) in charge of a series and there’s a pretty good chance you’ll get a great anime. They’ve adapted the material pretty flawlessly, the casting seems fine, and there are no signs the pacing is going to be rushed. As it stands I really couldn’t ask anything more of the first three episodes. The series simply isn’t at its best right out of the gate – as is nearly always the case with the giants of shounen. It would effectively be impossible to make a faithful adaptation (as this one clearly strives to be) of Rurouni Kenshin that scored “Elite” in its first three episodes. Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (2023)Ĭomments: In a way this is kind of a deceptive score. If anything, so much of the schedule falls broadly into that “middle” bracket that it was hard to decide what to include for that vote and what to leave out. As it stands there’s nothing in the “Elite’ tier (which happens not infrequently), though the top couple of shows are pretty close.Īs for the Patron Pick, the votes are already coming in, and it could be an interesting race. ![]() ![]() If Zom 100 could fulfill the premise of its superlative premiere that alone could potentially raise Summer 2023 up a notch, but realistically I don’t think that’s very likely. ![]() ![]() A couple shows have overperformed, a couple have disappointed, but I’m roughly where I expected to be. Right now, that would be “about where I expected”. All I can do is just what the title says – a check-in – and an educated guess on where things will end up. The 3-4 weeks of anime that these check-in posts assess is never enough to make a definitive call on that. The question, as always, was whether the reality would conform to the expectations. It’s dominated by LN adaptations and the usual genres, it’s too big for the industry’s production capacity, and there were enough series that seemed to have potential to give you hope. If any season ever looked like a normal, typical modern anime season, it was this one. ![]()
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