Fruits Basket is a 1998 manga which has already been adapted into an anime series in 2001. I haven’t seen the 2001 version, nor have I read the manga, so I’m going into the 2019 anime completely blind. The story 16-year old Tooru Honda has already had her fair share of tragedy, losing both of her parents. Her grandfather took her in, but due to renovations in his house she is currently left without a place to stay in....
Has it ever happened to you? You start an anime, you have fun with it, but it ends very quickly. So quickly, that you feel as if time has doubled its speed. Was it such an enjoyable episode that you lost your sense of time? But then you realize the episode was actually just 12 minutes long. You started a short anime without knowing it. I guess 12 minutes per episode does count as a short anime, does it?...
I started watching Bungou Stray Dogs right on time to finish the first 2 seasons and the movie before the start of season 3. And while season 1 was already pretty great, the epicness of season 2 almost makes it look weak in comparison. Especially those first 4 episodes which focused on Dazai’s time in Port Mafia through the eyes of a new character Odasaku. I don’t remember a more impactful and memorable set of 4 episodes which were...
Time to start off with the Spring 2019 anime season and the first impressions for the new anime. Some series like Fruits Basket 2019 and Kimetsu no Yaiba have already had screenings of their first episodes, but they are nowhere to be found for streaming. That’s why the first Spring 2019 anime I’ll talk about in more detail is Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO or YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound...
Have you ever started an anime series and realized that you have “accidentally” started watching a sequel? Because that’s exactly what has happened to me with W’z. I went into this completely blind. I didn’t know anything about the studio GoHands. Apparently, the PV for the anime had similarities to Hand Shakers, a title I knew nothing about. The only thing that could possibly imply that this was somehow related to another anime was a single forum thread on...
