Alright, finally putting together my winter anime run-down. If you don't like gifs, leave now! Or scroll down. Or something. I'll give some space before they start.
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Winter 2018 Anime Summary
Best Guy: Villar Constance (Grancrest Senki)
Best Guy (runner-up): Rei Kiriyama (Sangatsu no Lion - Season 2)
Best Girl: Hinata Kawamoto (Sangatsu no Lion - Season 2)
Best Girl (runner-up): Siluca Methes (Grancrest Senki)
Best Villain: Milza Kuces (Grancrest Senki)
Kinda wins by default here
Best Ship: Yuzu/Mei (Citrus)
Best Ship (runner-up): Nishikata/Takagi (Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san)
Best Bout: The Fall of Castle Unicorn (Grancrest Senki) - Basically any part of episode 11, can't find a specific video on it
Best Comedy: Yuru Camp
Couldn't decide on one gif. Gomen gomen.
Best Studio: Shaft
Best OP: Azalea - nano.RIPE (Citrus)
Best ED: Torikago - XX:me (Darling in the Franxx)
AOTS: Sangatsu no Lion - Season 2
AOTS (runner-up): Karakai Jouzo no Takagi-San
Overall Thoughts: While Sangatsu no Lion is a continuation, and I hype it to hell and back to anyone caught in the same room as me on accident, I still feel it's the strongest show I've watched this season. Excellent drama, great comedy, very realistic characters, it's definitely the anime I looked forward to the most every week, and feel bummed it's over. Hopefully a season 3 is announced, I'm sure there's more content to adapt and this anime really deserves it.
Most of my other anime were as good as I was expecting, save a few. DarFranxx has a fallen a bit for me, I mentioned it before but I honestly don't care much for the teen drama, which seems hard to ignore given it's tied closely with the premise. Still an interesting watch, and I look forward to learning more about this world, but I'm reminded so much of Kiznaiver I can't help but feel a bit skeptical this will satisfy me in the end.
Grancrest Senki might be my biggest surprise overall. Not necessarily good or bad in this case. Was expecting an okay light novel type plot with a fantasy war setting, and the generic JRPG backdrop wasn't all that impressive, but eh, the main ship and girl seemed nice. Really wasn't expecting it to get so..gruesome and dark. The deaths of Count Villar and his red waifu, and Marrine letting Milza have sex with her in exchange for military favor in a psuedo-NTR scene, definitely weren't plot points I was expecting going into this. Kinda feels like I started Fairy Tail and ended with Game of Thrones...or I started Fire Emblem Awakening and ended with Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. It's...interesting. Not sure if I could say it's great yet, but I'm interested in continuing it, for what it's worth.
Most Hyped for Next Season: Shokugeki no Souma: Hokkaido Arc (More Erina hype!)
I'll update the poll sometime this week to something related to next season. Not tonight though, I'm too tired. *yawns*
Last edited by Super_Boom - on 01 April 2018
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