The summer season continued its unrelenting barrage of excellence this week, offering far too many good shows for me to keep up with them all. Seriously, I’m not kidding – I’m totally behind on like half the things I’m watching, and should almost certainly have dropped something last week for my own sanity’s sake. Fortunately, it seems like Dr. Stone is already sort of losing its momentum, or at least proving it’s a series better appreciated in manga form – but aside from that, what summer contenders I’ve kept up with remain strong, and I’ve still gotta catch back up with Astra and O Maidens. Let’s break down what I have managed to get to in one more Week in Review!
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Summer 2019 – Week 2 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Week in Review. This summer’s slate of premieres was altogether far too entertaining, and has left me with a completely unsustainable slate of weekly viewing contenders. I’m sure you know what that means: it’s time to get ruthless. I can’t physically keep up with seven to nine weekly anime while also performing all my other anime-related duties, so something’s going to get the chopping block. A few properties are safe from this righteous culling – Vinland Saga is hanging above the fray due its three part premiere (not that I’d be dropping Vinland Saga either way), while Symphogear is probably just going to be watched in some marathon chunk as soon as the fourth season is fulling streaming. But for everything else, my judgement will be swift and merciless, and only the strong will survive. Let’s crack our knuckles and get down to work then, as we enter the Summer 2019 Week in Review Thunderdome!
Summer 2019 – Virtually Every First Episode Retrospective
I’m pretty excited about this season, you guys. By the end of spring, my active anime roster had diminished to basically just JoJo, leaving me wondering whether it was a genuinely weak anime season, or that I had simply lost my capacity for joy. But based on this summer’s fantastic slate of premieres, the problem definitely wasn’t me. Screw you, spring! How dare you make me doubt my sunny disposition!
Anyway. The spring season’s crimes aside, this past week has offered a satisfying array of anime premieres in a wide variety of genres, leaving me with much to watch and much else to recommend. Big shonen titles like Fire Force and Dr. Stone had premieres ranging from solid to transcendent, while high-profile adaptations like Vinland Saga and O Maidens have deftly captured the strengths of their source material. From idol shows to space adventures to cop dramas and beyond, the summer season is brimming with worthy anime – and having marathoned my way through nearly all of them, I’m eager to pass my findings on to you. My work on Anime News Network’s preview guide means I’ve already written extended reviews of basically everything, and it’s time at last to condense those reams of text into a highly reductive and hopefully informative breakdown, starting with the season’s most brightly glimmering gems, and running down to its most odorous piles of garbage. Let’s get to it!
Summer 2019 Season Preview
How the fuck is it already time for another season preview? It was February like three weeks ago, the spring season can’t possibly be ending now. What did I even do this spring? What am I doing with my life?
Yes folks, it’s time again for a season preview, and all the existential dread and recrimination which accompanies it. This season has gone by in a flash, and though our endless secession of days is certainly a cause for concern, we can at least console ourselves with the prospect of new cartoons to enjoy. While the spring season concentrated its highlights into a small number of shows, and was defined mostly by the titanic presence of directors like Shinichiro Watanabe and Kunihiko Ikuhara, the summer is looking to be much more diffuse in its highlights. There are fewer sure hits, but plenty of shows with at least a dull glimmer of potential, giving me a whole bunch to talk about. As usual, I won’t be highlighting or summarizing every single upcoming show – there are plenty of sites you can check for that, and not much for me to add. Instead, I’ll just be emphasizing the shows I’m genuinely looking forward to, as well as my generally staff or source material-related reasons for that excitement. Starting with the season’s brightest prospects, let’s break down the stars of the coming season!