Comment on Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14]
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 6 days ago
For this season, I watched:
- Dr. Stone Science Future: I’m disappointed. On paper, there are lots of fun and exciting moments, but the whole reason for why things are happening is so… vague and weak. It feels like conflict for the sake of conflict and that’s puts a downer on everything for me. It makes me question why all good moments need to happen to begin with and any resolve to the conflict feels meaningless by extension.
- Apothecary Diaries: great. Just as good as season 1. Absolutely love it. Maomao is a joy.
- Overtime Guild Receptionist: such a disappointment. It had a fun concept, but it just turned into a generic fantasy anime with a gimmicky character trait. The serious plot felt very tacked on and didn’t jive with the gimmick at all. The amazing animation of the OP is wasted on the show.
- Bureaucrat Villainess: I haven’t seen the final ep yet, but I had a lot of fun with this one. Kenzaburo as Grace is so fun.
- Sakamoto Days: fine. Enjoyable enough. Fairly typical shounen.
- Ameku M.D.: meh, some fun parts but the latter part in particular became a bit of a drag. Also seemed to be a troubled production with how the quality declined episode by episode.
- Zenshuu: dropped after 4 and a half eps. I was immensely disappointed when it turned out to be an isekai and Natsuko’s powers were just deus ex machinas. Particularly the isekai bait and switch like it’s Madoka Magica really soured my opinion. If it hadn’t done that, maybe I wouldn’t have been as disappointed and would’ve kept watching it.
- Welcome to Japan Miss Elf: just like the manga, I couldn’t bring myself to care. Dropped it around the same moment I dropped the manga (sand monster thingy). The fantasy side of things just wasn’t very interesting, even though it took up the majority of screen time.
- NEET Kunoichi: pretty much dropped from ep 1.
I still want to watch Flower and Asura, I Have A Crush at Work, Re:Zero and Orb.