Anime in 2024

 There was less new Anime I watched in 2024 then 2023, but regardless I watched plenty that was good.

I started the year still finishing Fall 2023 as usual, including one show I didn’t watch any of till Winter 2024 because it was a HIDIVE Dub.

The biggest Winter show in my mind anyway was Gushing Over Magical Girls.  Delicious in Dungeon was a show I enjoyed but I’m not as impressed with it as many others.  Metallic Rouge was pretty neat.  The Witch and The Beast was neat, felt like the kind of Fantasy Anime you could have gotten in the 2000s or early 2010s before Gamer Isekai took over everything.  But of Isekai in Winter I did enjoy The Weakest Tamer and My Instant Death Ability is Overpowered as well as the sequel to Tsukimichi.  

Other Sequels I enjoyed early in the year were Classroom of The Elite season 3 and the rest of Jobless Reincarnation season 2.

For Spring the only TV Anime original to that season worth noting are the three Girls in Bands shows.  

However on Netflix The Grimm Variation was pretty cool. On Hulu I watched Suicide Squad Isekai and Code Geass Roze of The Recapture, both were good but not as great as I’d hoped.

In Summer Shy season 2 carried on from season 1 well but I think season 3 is where this franchise will really take off. Quality Assurance in Another World was the basic Gamer Anime of the season and it was decent. The return of the Tower of God I’m reserving judgment for. Nokotan in my view lived up to its Memeable Hype, it’s just a rare example of one where I don’t recommend the Dub.

The big stand outs for Summer were its Romance Anime, some I didn’t even watch but the big two of Makine and Alya were awesome. 

For Fall it’s mostly shows I won’t be able to finish till early next year.  The two Subs I followed were Acro Trip and TsumaSho (If My Wife Became an Elementary School Student) which were both great in different ways.

Arifureta I didn’t watch at all till this season and I’m glad I did, bingeing it helped me breeze through the early awkwardness. Re:Zero season 3 is shaping up to be awesome, and SAO Alternative is fun so far. 

I’ll be a Villainess who Goes Down in History might be the best specifically Reincarnated as a Villainess Anime, but the best of the Villainess Genre broadly speaking is still I’m In Love With The Villainess.

[Update: I wound up stumbling upon Demon Lord 2099 and I have to say it's a pretty cool way to combine High Fantasy with Cyber Punk.]

Leaving Seasonals aside, I enjoyed the early episodes of Wonderful Pretty Cure but wasn’t able to keep following it.  For Detective Conan I’m pretty sure I watched every episode of the series that wasn’t Anime Original plus some others, and The Million Dollar Pentagram movies early in December.

And I got an early start on 2025 with the first episode of Fate/Strange Fake when it’s Dub dropped early on YouTube.

I was not expecting to be able to see War of the Rohirrm before 2024 was over, but then it was announced to drop on steaming on the 27th.  The movie is very good, I may have more nuanced opinion to express later but for now I highly recommend it.

As far as stuff that I watched this year that technically came out before.  The Sailor Moon Cosmos movies dropped which I got some enjoyment from but like the Eternal films felt rushed and like they should have been a Series.  I liked Maboroshi which I watched on Netflix early in the year.

It was during this year that on MAL I finally cropped 1000 Completed Anime and 10,000 Episodes.

Notable examples of older shows I finally watched are Nana, Mai Hime and Mai Otome, Durarara, Baccano, more than half of Tokyo Mew Mew and 4 episodes of D. N. Angel.  And I made some progress on other long shows on my On Hold list like Cardcaptor Sakura, Corrector Yui and Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne.

But I probably don’t remember all of them off the top of my head right now.  Though some recent additions are Gotta be The Twin Tail and Log Horizon.

And I watched .Hack//Sign before Christmas, it was pretty good and I may say more about it elsewhere.

I watched Pantheon on Netflix which isn’t officially Anime but it felt Anime enough to keep me engaged.

Update: I've spent a good of time on the last few days of the year watching more .Hack and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.