Upcoming Anime Season: Fall 2022

[MFauli]

With summer season nearing it's end, it's time to look at what's ahead. Feel welcomed to post your list of candidates that you'll give a closer look in fall season 2022. Here's the link to AniChart.

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Here's what caught my eye:

- Mob Psycho Season 3 (total nonbrainer; I expect some fun scenes and gorgeous animation)
- Boku no Hero Academia Season 6 (yoshi, let's hate watch some more Boku Hero, lol)
- Bleach 2022 (it will be dumb, but I wanna see what Bleach looks like with 2022-animation)
- Fumetsu no Anate e Season 2 (oh wow, had no idea it's being continued Easily my most wanted. I hope some people here start watching season 1 now for a more active thread)
- Golden Kamui Season 4 ... reminds me that I haven' t watched Season 3 and I dunno why. Should catch up.
- Gundam: Mercury Witch (looks fantastic, even though the main heroine's eyebrows are severely distracting lol)
- Yowamushi Season 5 (wtf, this comes outta nowhere. Will absolutely watch. I even thought about rewatching the series recently. Can't wait to return to pacing hell)
- C Danchi (horror? Eh, trailer looked like it wanted to Junji Ito a bit. Will check it out)
- Bokura no Yoake (film, not series, but "drama + scifi" always gets me interested)
- The First Slam Dunk (I've forgotten EVERYTHING about the series, will need to rewatch)

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Already a much better season than the current one, even if I drop some of the above. Very sequel-heavy, though.

Regarding the elephant in the room: I just can't stand what I see in Chainsaw Man's trailer. It's like a total chunnibyou-anime and it makes me cringe nonstop. Depending on how the other shows turn out and how bored I am, I might give it a try nonetheless, but it's not ony my list right now.

Also, Blue Lock has some of most generic, unimaginative character design ever, wow. I'd like to watch every football anime, but this trailer looks so repulsively boring, no thanks.

Mushikaburi-hime I'll keep a distant look, only because I enjoy other book-focused anime lol

[KrayZ33]

Chainsaw Man is probably going to be the best anime of the season.

other than that I'll watch:

SPYxFAMILY
Hero Academia
Shinobi no Ittoki, because it has a hot girl with a face mask in it.



Maybe:

Muv-Luv, because the mechas in that show are pretty cool
Kage no Jitsuryokusha
Sword Isekai
Bocchi the Rock
Farming Simulator 2022
Beast Tamer thingy
Renai Flops
Alchemist thingy
4-nin


+ Sword Art Online movie - although that's probably for next season.
Which, as far as shows I want to watch goes, seems like it will be a pretty good one as well.

[Ryllharu]

Must Watch:
Spy x Family - No brainer given what two arcs it is likely to cover
Urusei Yatsura - I never watched the original and the reboot looks really high quality
Shinobi no Ittoki - Modern ninja original series looks pretty cool
Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute - Unquestionable must watch. Fan of the manga, cast looks phenomenal to match
Gundam: The Witch from Mercury - Really enjoyed the Prologue, loved the soundtrack.
Koukyuu no Karasu - Trailer looks amazing and I'm in the mood for some slow-paced historical drama/intrigue.

Will Try:
Shinmai Renkinjutsushi no Tenpo Keiei - Reminded me of fantasy Soro no Woto
Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman - Gyaru, enough said
Chainsaw Man - I'm not really that hyped about it, but I'll give it a try. Never read it, but my expectations aren't great for the adaptation based on comments to the trailers.
Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita - Come on. It looks incredibly stupid for an isekai turning someone into an inanimate object (the vending machine one was also announced...), but the casting is strong.
Akuyaku Reijou nano de Last Boss wo Kattemimashita - I have a weakness for villainess series.

[shinta|hikari]

@Krayz - I dropped MuvLuv alternative because of the low budget art and crappy animation. Did it get better during climax scenes? I am a huge fan of the VN, so I didn't want it tarnished by a low effort cash grab.

[KrayZ33]

@Krayz - I dropped MuvLuv alternative because of the low budget art and crappy animation. Did it get better during climax scenes? I am a huge fan of the VN, so I didn't want it tarnished by a low effort cash grab.

Depends on what you consider low budget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R319IyfIF8 / it's a bit pixelated from youtube, but still.

this whole scene was completely awesome and most shows are actualy *much* worse.
I think the mecha/combat parts are decent, all the rest - I don't really care for.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-OkTFAJ97k

Dunno, I consider this solid. Even if the quality of the english speaking units is all over the place.

[Ryllharu]

this whole scene was completely awesome and most shows are actualy *much* worse.
I think the mecha/combat parts are decent, all the rest - I don't really care for.

Personally, I would put that clip above Macross Delta (the worst Macross...possibly ever) and maybe the non-standard stuff like Granbelm in terms of action, but we haven't had good mecha in almost 6 years. Schwarzesmarken was better even though the plot was shit. 86 was fine, but it wasn't really the focus.

The biggest problem was that it rushed the entire story the entire way through. I heard it stopped being an absolute garbage fire toward the end and is just mediocre adaptation that makes some very strange plot-compression decisions that will likely backfire on them, but I bought the game and I'll just play that eventually.

[KrayZ33]

I could honestly not name you a better looking mecha vs. mecha anime right now that is not a movie or OVA when it comes to animation quality and just fighting inside these things. I really liked Iron Blooded Orphans for example but the mecha stuff in that show just isn't as good. (The whole show however is like 50 times better than MuvLuv though)

Only "86" would come to mind but that's not really "mecha" in my book.

Most shows just turn into a laser-light mecha-dance show. Macros for example only works for me when they are in flight mode, as soon as they switch to mecha mode it's utter garbage for me.


I'm not a fan of the whole Beta combat scenes in that show either though. Too much.... "Serious Sam" whenever they show up.

[Buffalobiian]

Sequel heavy for me, which makes decisions easy.

Will watch:
Mob Psycho 3
Hero Academia
Spy x Family 2
Gundam

Might check out:
Chainsaw man - seems hyped, I'll check it out.
Yowamushi - Don't know if I can watch more of this but we'll see.
Peter Grill - I vaguely remember this and that it was pretty funny. I'll recap later.
I'll probably pick up a slice of life or two depending on feedback.

The Gundam Prologue episode is out on youtube now as well instead of shitty camrip quality.

[neflight86]

Ton of goodies to peruse coming up.

Chainsaw Man: Trailers looked like the animation is going to be top shelf, but aside from that, having read the manga... yes. Everyone will have a unique take, and the shounen story structure is adequate, but what sets CsM apart is that the scenarios and dialogue are uniquely a singular person's twisted vision. It's hard to explain without spoiling anything, but the phrase that comes to mind is "effortless creativity for the sake of it". You won't be sticking around for the flashy choreographed fights; if those are good, its because the studio overhauled them. It will be for the characters and interactions; this is actually seinen. Sex, violence, and cynicism that somehow doesn't come off as edgy is how I remember it. I fully expect people will be talking about this years from now.

Sequels (SxF, MP100, BnH): Of course I'll be checking them out.

Looking at that list... there are only about 6-7 shows I don't have a desire to check out. Oh well, at least I got to plug Chainsaw Man.

[David75]

Watched the blade reincarnation show.
Pretty bland fast sword level up. Catgirl's part was a tad more interresting.
Blade's eyes, pretty strange, feels like a design for young children. But I guess there's not much to be done considering the pitch.
I question the word reincarnation when your soul gets into an object with no flesh at all.
Will probably watch the show if it's slightly better than boredom.

Watched the tanuki show, Let's see if I can like that take on Rakugo.

[DarthEnderX]

Spy Family, Hero Aca, Bleach, Mob Psycho and Chainsaw Man? Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes please.

[David75]

Tested first ep of Farmer is too OP. Your usual OP anime with comedy since he's far too OP in a strange way.
Discovered I can get new anime for the season even faster as B-Global encodes are available very quickly with subs and a hevc version making it lighter.
Already watched new SpyXFamilly for eample.
NC-Raws to get them on nyaa but other groups use B-Global in the title to find them.
There's also a heavier over a gigabyte version for each ep most of the time.

[Ryllharu]

Koukyuu no Karasu is really interesting. Exactly the kind of court-palace politics and drama it looked like, with a lot of dry wit humor to level it out. The Raven Consort is charismatic and there's a lot of mystery around her, while she has some neat magics as well. The Emperor is a good dude, clever and just, and obviously deeply intrigued by the way she treats him and his requests.

If I had to criticize anything, it's the official subs apparently using the Chinese names. It's always weird watching Japanese pronunciations of Chinese names mismatched with their proper spelling. Just put the Japanese spelling in the subs to match. Erai-raws also has really odd timing on their subs, they're way too fast, and I consider my subs reading skills quite good.

[MFauli]

Wtf, C Danchi isn't currently releasing in Japan and only available with a crappy English dub.

:/

[KrayZ33]

Shinobi no Ittoki, because it has a hot girl with a face mask in it.

Yep, as I said, I'm going to watch it because of the girl with the face mask.
It's a fucking dumb show of the likes I haven't seen in a while. Sometimes I wonder if the VAs have to cringe in their booth when they have to drop lines like MC's mother and be 100% serious about it.

But it has a nice looking girl (Kuudere, maybe from what I could tell in the first episode?) with cool eyes and a cool hair cut... so how can I not watch?



10/10 gg no re - would like to see her in a good show - oyasumi~

[Ryllharu]

Yep, as I said, I'm going to watch it because of the girl with the face mask.
It's a fucking dumb show of the likes I haven't seen in a while. Sometimes I wonder if the VAs have to cringe in their booth when they have to drop lines like MC's mother and be 100% serious about it.

But it has a nice looking girl (Kuudere, maybe from what I could tell in the first episode?) with cool eyes and a cool hair cut... so how can I not watch?

10/10 gg no re - would like to see her in a good show - oyasumi~

Yeah...watching for Kousetsu too. Her verbally sharp dialogues were the bright spot in an otherwise deeply disappointing set up.

The animation is good, the casting is good, the action is good...the plot is...whhhhhhhhhy?

[MFauli]

Ok, is that mask girl-anime any good? Because I'm horny, too, now that I saw the above picture >_>

[DarthEnderX]

You guys arouse easily...that's just a generic schoolgirl in a covid mask...

[KrayZ33]

You guys arouse easily...that's just a generic schoolgirl in a covid mask...

define "arouse"

She is just pretty, never said anything else.
Looks like an idol and is pleasant to the eye. Certainly not generic.

However, It's a ninja mask for her disguised as a covid mask, which is a funny thing actually.

[DarthEnderX]

However, It's a ninja mask for her disguised as a covid mask, which is a funny thing actually.

Or have ninja mask always been covid masks! And that's why ninjas don't get covid!