A Quick Look at the Spring 2014 Anime Season

With pretty much all of the simulcast shows I am watching coming to an end in the next 2 weeks it’s time to really take a look at what’s coming up I want to watch in the all important Spring season kick off.

    Keroro – Most shows don’t start until the beginning of April but the flash animated reboot of the Keroro Gunsou franchise kicked off March 22^nd with the first of its 3 minute installments.  I like it but I don’t like it.  The series has updated animation but is crammed into 3 minute bursts instead of having 2 parts spread over a 20 minute episode.  Either way it’s great to see Keroro return.  If only it found a wider audience in North America.

    Mushi-shi Zoku-sho – This fantastic and ambient series about a wandering spirit master returns almost 9 years after the original broadcast in Japan.  This return to the story was ushered in early January 2014 by an hour long special.  I have seen reports that it will be split between the spring and the fall, taking a break over the summer.  Can’t wait!!

    Isshukan Friends – This is a slice of life series dealing with a girl who loses her memories every Monday.  This may be a good follow up to the amnesia driven plot of Golden Time.

    Mekaku City Actors – Not sure of the idea behind the series but it deals with a Hikikomori who is coxed out of his room for the first time in 2 years.

    Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to – No idea what it about beyond a slice of life story about a manga-ka and his assistant.

    Kokukoku no Brynhuildr – This deals with a boy who is obsessed with aliens, leading him and a girl to a serious accident when children.  Now years later he is still obsessed with probing their existence but his past still haunts him as what appears to be a doppelganger of the girl arrives.

    Black Bullet – typical sci-fi action series, could either be bad or good…depends on the animation, level of fanservice and creativity in the story.

    Soul Eater Not! – This is supposed to be a follow up series that parallels the original Soul Eater dealing with a different group of technicians and weapons to battle souls.   I still need to finish the original…

 

    Knights of Sidonia – This looks like the most promising of the mech action shows that are coming out…seems to be dark and mysterious…time will tell.