Winter season is rapidly approaching! It’s time to start looking ahead to the next season and thinking about what is worth watching vs. what isn’t. This is also the official thread where I will watch for shows that you mention and will enable threads for those shows to be made by our resident bot, @rikka@ani.social.
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Things I’m excited for this season, in descending order:
So why the wide gap? I liked the beginnings of those last three shows quite a lot, but I’ve read the manga for all of them and IMO they all go downhill as they go on. Frieren begins to feel more like a generic battle shounen. Jujutsu Kaisen focuses too much on the fights and the magic system and not enough on the characters. Oshi no Ko’s author is really good at writing fun characters and character moments but kinda bad at writing the serious drama he seems to want to write. Also, Medalist really is just that good. It’s a great story with a decent adaptation and I’ll take that over a decent story with a great adaptation any day. And who knows, maybe Season 2 will fix some of the minor issues Season 1 had - in particular I’d appreciate it if they could make the spins look better. Guess we’ll find out!