{"id":11966,"date":"2017-01-21T23:27:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T04:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=11966"},"modified":"2017-01-22T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T19:31:55","slug":"winter-2017-anime-early-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2017\/01\/21\/winter-2017-anime-early-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2017 Anime Early Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me state right from the start that the two best anime<\/a> series this season are continuations of existing series.<\/p>\n

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\nShowa Genroku Rakugo Shinju: Descending Stories<\/em><\/strong> (Crunchyroll<\/a>) should wrap up the story that I praised here<\/a> and here<\/a>. This is a sophisticated drama, well worth your time. (If you haven’t seen the first half, be sure to watch it first.)
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\nThis will probably be the final cour<\/a> of March Comes In Like A Lion<\/em><\/strong> (Crunchyroll<\/a>.) This is a smaller-scale story without the grand historical sweep of Showa<\/em> but it’s an effective personal drama that is sometimes chilling but often heartwarming. See my post here<\/a>.
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\nPerhaps the best of the new series is Onihei<\/em><\/strong> (Amazon<\/a>), a gritty police drama set in the Edo period. The writing and production values are great. But be warned: samurai police tactics would make Dirty Harry blanch.
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\nThe much-anticipated Little Witch Academia<\/em><\/strong> (Netflix) is a reboot of the widely-praised 2013 short film from the Anime Mirai Project. The premise doesn’t break any new ground but it’s an engaging slapstick comedy. The animation is not as outstanding as the original movie but it’s still pretty good by TV standards.<\/p>\n

Premise: An enthusiastic but air-headed Japanese girl from a muggle family gets admitted to an exclusive European school for witches. She endures teasing and snobbery and the consequences of her own incompetence but she makes friends with some fellow misfits and everything more or less works out.
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\nGabriel DropOut<\/em><\/strong> (Crunchyroll<\/a>) is the sort of comedy that has a dumb premise but I can’t stop laughing. Some young angels and devils are assigned to attend a Japanese high school so they can learn to help or harm people as the case may be.<\/p>\n