This is not actually about all the anime I watched this year. But my looking back at my first time spending an entire year watching at least some currently airing Seasonal Anime.
Technically I started the year finishing two 2016 shows I followed, Flip Flappers subbed and Izetta The Last Witch’s Simuldub. Both I enjoyed immensely at the time, I’m not sure how they’ll fare looking back.
For the Winter Season I followed 3 shows to completion, all three of them Simuldubbed.
Dragon-Maid is a show of the year contender, it’s like the Sit-Coms I used to enjoy, but with kick @$$ Animation. Apparently some people think the Dub downplayed the Yuri, the Dub I watched seemed pretty full on Yuri to me.
Tanya The Evil was incredible, I feel like it quickly surpassed Izetta as an Anime Alternate History World War premise.
ACCA I also really loved. It’s different from what I usually watch in Anime but reminded me of some of what I used to enjoy in normal nerdy media. A lot for the complaints I’ve seen from people who dropped the show early reminds me a lot of the hate The Phantom Menace got “whah I don’t want taxation disputes and senate scenes in my Star Wars” which only assured me that their opinions don’t matter.
I think as a whole I might have enjoyed the Winter Season the most. The amount of shows I completed never became less, and some shows I watched since may long term stick with me more. But in terms of how it averages out I feel like I had the most fun that season.
Later in the year I watched all of Gabriel Dropout and wished I’d watched it when it aired.
The Spring Season is the only one where I watched more Subbed then I did Dubbed. But it again totals three.
Twin Angel Break was the best show of the Spring season, it was a great fun little Magical Girl show that felt old school and fresh at the same time. I highly recommend it to any Magical Girl fan.
Eromanga-Sensei was a fun guilty pleasure, it's best watched if you also watch Digi and Nate’s podcasts on each episode after viewing it.
The only Spring show I watched dubbed was Attack on Titan season 2. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I did season 1.
For the Summer season I started a number of shows I wound up dropping. But again finished three.
Fate/Apocrypha is two core, I’ve been following it subbed, but also now got to see the first core dubbed. I’ve enjoyed it.
I also followed subbed to completion Princess Principal, which is also a show of the year contender. I recommend it to people who are into Steam Punk, or Pretty Little Liars, or the books published by BlackCoatPress and talked about on CoolFrenchComics.
I watched Dubbed In Another World With my Smartphone. I also really loved it, it got me into Isekai. I watched some stuff that qualified before, like Tanya above and maybe SAO, but this was my first introduction to the proper Isekai formula.
For the Fall Season, I probably won’t be finished with them by the time I post this. Definitely with the Simuldubs, of which after dropping some I’m down to three, Anime Gataris, A Sister’s All You Need and Code:Realize, the last of which I also recommend to BCP fans. I am enjoying all three of those shows.
Fate/Apocrypha’s finale might air on New Year’s Eve, but the fansubs might not be up before the year’s over. No matter how much it’s ending might disappoint, it’s been a fun ride, only those into other Fate/ stuff are likely to get into it, but still a fun ride. If I’m able to see the last episode before the year ends I’ll add an update at the bottom.
Yuki Yuna is a Hero’s prequel series was great. And I’ve seen 3 out of six episodes of season 2 as of writing the first draft of this, it’s also good so far, but I’m on edge to see how it ends due to Madoka Rebellion related fears. It turns out there is a break before the last episode so I definitely won’t be finishing Yuki Yuna before the year ends either. Having seen episode 5, with only 1 episode left, it could still go either way.
It’s an experience I do not regret, and for the most part hasn’t interfered with my ability to also watch old shows, both ones I’d seen already and hadn’t. Maybe when a new season is starting and I’m still watching some shows I wind up dropping later I might feel too busy. But once things settle down I have plenty of time.
I also this year watched SAO for the first time, and Toradora and three Miyazaki films, to name a few. I spent October watching some Halloween relevant Anime and November devoting some more time to magical girls.
And Smartphone again got me into a whole new Genre. And from there I watched No Game No Life, Problem Children, Outbreak Company, the first season of The Familiar of Zero, and Overlord. All of which I enjoyed.
And it was this year I started watching more Gundam then just the 00 series.
And that’s leaving out stuff I watched for the first time this year because it was this year the Dub dropped. As well as re-watching stuff I already liked, if there is anything I found more time for it’s that, but I still did a decent amount.
Update December 31st 2017:
Well, I was able to watch the final episode of Fate/Apocrypha before the year ended. It was a very enjoyable show, but I wouldn't recommend it to people who aren't already into Fate/. I gave it an 8 on MAL.
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