Comment on Spring Anime Season Wrap-Up, Summer Kickoff, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 27]

Endmaker@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

This Season

Watched (or will watch) till completion

Gundam GQuuuuuuX

I see people complaining that the show progresses too quickly. Personally, the breakneck pace means that I didn’t have a chance of grow bored of it.

My only “real” complaint is the

Gundam GQuuuuuuX spoiler

yuri bait with Machu and Nyaan. The studio definitely know what they were doing, given the success of Witch from Mercury at drawing in new fans.

Umamusume: Cinderella Gray

WIP

The Apothecary Diaries season 2

WIP

Notable Drops

Witch Watch

WIP

To Be Hero X

WIP

Plan to watch

I have heard good things about the shows below, so I am planning to try one episode for each of them.

Apocalypse Hotel
Ninja and Assassin under one roof
Rock is a Lady’s Modesty

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nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

One thing I have wondered since season 1 is why its target demographic is seinen. IMO suspense is one of those genres that cater to all age groups and genders.

Hmmm. Shounen publishers might have thought that a political-intrigue-based story with a female lead wouldn’t be popular enough with their demographic, and josei tends so strongly toward mundane modern-day settings with romance that an historical whose romance is very slow burn might have been a hard sell. Shoujo might have fit, but I suspect there weren’t enough flowers, sighs, and bishounen. (Saiunkoku Monogatari, which is the most similar other series I can think of, has a much higher number of pretty young men in the cast and was published as shoujo.)

So it might have ended up seinen by default.

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