{"id":82827,"date":"2025-02-11T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anime\/winter-2024-anime-season-preview-the-cart-driver\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T22:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:51:16","slug":"winter-2024-anime-season-preview-the-cart-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=82827","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2024 Anime Season Preview \u2013 The Cart Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>They\u2019re making another Madoka Magica sequel movie. In the year of our lord Madoka 2024. Honestly? Fine, I\u2019ll take it. Yeah Magia Rising didn\u2019t work for me, but it failed because the writing and story were too busy and unfocused. The visual style and themes still worked. It showed to me that another Madoka anime can still be special if done right. <\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s that? An early season preview? Yes! It\u2019s Day with The Cart Driver\u2019s oh so famous Anime Season Preview, this time for the winter 2024 season. It\u2019s early because I\u2019m travelling for Christmas and won\u2019t have a good place to bitch about how anime going downhill and it\u2019s infested with moecrap and\u2026.wait, sorry, that\u2019s my script from 13 years ago, let me find the one for 2024\u2026.here it is. Yes, anime is going downhill and it\u2019s infested with isekai crap. Or as I like to call it: Isekrap! God I\u2019m a genius. Let\u2019s begin.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Metallic Rouge<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/metallic-rouge.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4350\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300c\u30e1\u30bf\u30ea\u30c3\u30af\u30eb\u30fc\u30b8\u30e5\u300d\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3PV\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3GvzeHi8puU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Bones<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Metallic Rouge<\/em>\u00a0takes place in a a world where humans and androids coexist. The story follows Rouge, an android girl, who is on a mission on Mars with her partner Naomi. The mission is to murder nine artificial humans who are hostile to the government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Boy do I ever want this one to be good. It\u2019s an anime original property by studio Bones with mechs. OK they\u2019re mecha musume rather than big phat mechanical mechs, but it\u2019s still mecha in my book. You get surprisingly few of these types of anime nowadays, and certainly not one that appears to be as ambitious as this one. I just wish I could get excited for the show itself. The director\u2019s main roles in the past have been Carole and Tuesday and Super Crooks. I haven\u2019t seen Super Crooks, but it got fairly mediocre reviews, although it did create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W_cPu5VuAu8\">that amazing meme of the guy dancing<\/a>. Meanwhile Carole and Tuesday I watched the entire thing and have incredibly large issues with, especially with the ending. I won\u2019t spoil, but you know the bit during the Covid lockdown where all the celebrities sang Imagine and the worldwide reaction was \u201cshut up you fucks\u201d? Well it was basically that. It also has the creator of RahXephon on it, which was another ambitious anime-original property from way back that didn\u2019t quite do it for me.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, I\u2019m setting myself up for failure by being excited for this. But goddamnit let me have this one!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bucchigiri!?!<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/bucchigiri.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4336\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BUCCHIGIRI?! | OFFICIAL TRAILER 2\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v4qkLAquNoA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Mappa<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The story of\u00a0<em>BUCCHIGIRI?!!<\/em>\u00a0follows Aladdin Tomobishi, a young man who becomes embroiled in a battle to see who is strongest after he reunites with his former best friend, Matakara Asamine. Meanwhile, the shadow of a giant genie looms over them\u2026?!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I originally had this towards the bottom of the season preview because I thought it was an adaptation of an ancient delinquent manga, since there is a delinquent manga from ages ago with the same name. But no, this is an anime original property by Mappa, by the director of Free, Banana Fish, and Sk8 the Infinity. It even has a very good script writer too with the person who worked on Haikyuu, Blue Lock, Burn the Witch, Ranking of Kings, and a lot more. Mappa are a good studio too, even if the intro of Zom 100 might as well have been an autobiography depicting their infamously terrible working conditions due to overworking their animators (the fact Zom 100 got delayed because they couldn\u2019t get it all done in time is such a cruel irony). I\u2019m not sure if will actually like Bucchigiri. It\u2019s clearly going for yaoi shipping fangirl audience, and I haven\u2019t liked the director\u2019s previous anime. But it\u2019s a shockingly stacked staff list and an anime original project, so I do have to give it a go.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Sign of Affection<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/sign-of-affection.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4349\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u3086\u3073\u3055\u304d\u3068\u604b\u3005\u300f\u7b2c2\u5f3e PV\uff5c2024\u5e741\u67086\u65e5\u653e\u9001\u958b\u59cb\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hJd9FxYWzL0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Ajiado<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>With these hands, I want to tell you that I love you\u2026<\/em>\u00a0Yuki, a deaf college student, is struggling one day when an upperclassman from her school, Itsuomi, helps her out. Itsuomi isn\u2019t put off at all by her lack of hearing and interacts with her naturally. As he gradually opens up a new world to her, Yuki begins to develop feelings for Itsuomi\u2026 Thus begins the pure love story of Yuki, a deaf college girl, and Itsuomi, her upperclassman who travels the world with her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A rare shoujo manga adaptation, and it\u2019s not a generic highschool romance! Instead it\u2019s a generic college students romance. Except not really, because the twist is the main girl is deaf \u2013 or at the very least mostly deaf since she wears an earpiece. I thought the manga was quite sweet when I read it, with the main character\u2019s deafness being enough to set it apart from the rest. I\u2019d probably get bored of it within 5-6 episodes as usually happens, but if it passes my first chapter test, then it will undoubtedly be a big hit amongst people who normally do like these sorts of anime. That\u2019s how its been in the past: If I liked the first episodes, then it will be a big hit amongst regular shoujo anime fans regardless of how I feel about the anime towards the end. <\/p>\n<p>Ajiado are a decent enough studio, and it\u2019s got some regulars from that studio working on it. Nothing stellar, but the likes of Revenger, Kakushigoto and Kemono Jihen were all well made for what they were (Ascendance of a Bookworm, despite being my favourite anime they\u2019ve made, isn\u2019t actually well animated at all, but we\u2019ll skip over it for now). Trailer makes it look very standard fluffy flower bishie shoujo so I\u2019m probably not going to stick with it long term, but I can recognise when something is fulfilling what its audience wants. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Witch and the Beast<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/witch-and-the-beast.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4322\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Witch and the Beast | OFFICIAL TRAILER\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w36P9FuDAMI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Yokohama Animation Lab<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It all started with the 17 \u201cOrigins,\u201d whose powers were passed down to individuals who still exist around the world today. A man carrying a coffin and a girl with the eyes of a beast appear in a town. The girl was once cursed by a witch and now searches for her in order to undo the curse. Is the witch who appears before them the quarry they\u2019ve been searching for? And how can the curse be undone? This quest for revenge against an evil witch begins rolling when the beast captures the witch. This magnificent and intense dark fantasy begins now!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I was going to make comparisons to Witch Hunter Robin, but then I realised it\u2019s almost 2024 and nobody has talked about Witch Hunter Robin in at least 10 years, and nobody has watched Witch Hunter Robin in 15 years. So instead I\u2019ll just say it\u2019s a gritty semi-modern or at least mid 20th century series about goths hunting witches. It\u2019s quite stylish but it was hard to get much of a grasp on the story or writing from what I read. Generally I do have a soft spot for gothic urban fantasy, but it has to hard commit to the bit. It\u2019s all in the execution, like Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust goddamnit why are all my reference points 20 years old? Look, go watch Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, it\u2019s fantastic. Unfortunately the trailer looked a bit drab and Yokohama Animation Lab are uninspiring to say the least. I can\u2019t wait to see what the studio behind Miru Tights does with an urban fantasy setting!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solo Leveling<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/bx151807-m1gX3iwfIsLu.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4319\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Solo Leveling | OFFICIAL TRAILER 4\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HkIKAnwLZCw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: A1-Pictures<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It\u2019s been over a decade since the sudden appearance of the \u201cgates\u201d\u2014the paths that connect our world with a different dimension. Since then, certain humans have awakened to supernatural powers. We call these individuals \u201chunters.\u201d Hunters make their living by using their powers to conquer dungeons inside the gates. In this world of tough customers, the low-ranked hunter Shun Mizushino is known as \u201cthe weakest hunter of all mankind.\u201d One day, Shun gets fatally injured when he runs into high-rank double dungeons hidden within a low-rank dungeon. Just then, a mysterious quest window appears in front of him. On the verge of death, Shun decides to accept the quest and starts leveling up\u2026 while the others aren\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s perhaps no phrase that triggers an instant skepticism more than \u201cpopular Korean webtoon\u201d. I\u2019ve certainly tried my fair share, but they\u2019re all so bland with boring art, lackluster writing, and more than anything else, unoriginal. It feels odd to look back at Tower of God, a series I ultimately didn\u2019t think was that good, and realise its more unique setting and art made it the highpoint of webtoon adaptations. Solo Levelling is one of the blandest ones I\u2019ve read, and that\u2019s saying something. It\u2019s a power fantasy with video game dungeon rules in which a weak person gets a cheat skill to become stupidly powerful. The characters are bland, the setting is boring. I went to read reviews to try figure out what people liked about this, and I kept seeing people praise the art. Like\u2026yeah, sure, if all you read are webtoons? It doesn\u2019t have the same literal stock images that other webtoons use, so it\u2019s good in the same way someone who has eaten nothing but literal mud all their lives would love a soggy day-old McDonalds burger.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure there are better webtoons with more original ideas, settings, with better writing and actually charismatic characters, but the ones that rise to the top feel like I\u2019m reading someone\u2019s self-insert fanfiction for a series I haven\u2019t read before. No, it\u2019s worse. It\u2019s someone\u2019s self-insert fanfiction for a video game I haven\u2019t played before. An MMORPG video game at that. Frustratingly the trailer has some good animation in it, and it even has Sawano doing the music. I\u2019m just tired of all these anime set in RPG worlds using video game logic. That\u2019s the real thing dragging down so many modern anime for me. It\u2019s not even the isekai stuff. You can have an isekai setup but in an interesting world. I\u2019m tired of talking about them too. In fact, let\u2019s just slap them all together into one big category I\u2019m calling\u2026<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anime Set in a Medieval Fantasy RPG World That is Probably an Isekai but Doesn\u2019t Have to Be<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/download.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4352\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Let\u2019s go through these one by one:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic<\/strong> has a funny idea at its core. Using healing magic not to heal your teammates, but to constantly heal yourself through pain. But then it slaps that idea in the blandest isekai story and I fall asleep.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Unwanted Undead Adventurer<\/strong> isn\u2019t actually an isekai, but one of those where if someone told you it was an isekai, you would believe them instantly. Medieval RPG world with adventurers taking quests to go to dungeons to fight increasingly strong monsters from slimes to skeletons and eventually to dragons. The \u201ctwist\u201d is that he becomes a skeleton, but as far as I can tell it\u2019s just a \u201ccheat skill\u201d story, making it a less interesting I\u2019m a Spider So What. At least in that being a spider was kinda unique, and her character was fun.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Strongest Tank\u2019s Labyrinth Raids -A Tank with a Rare 9999 Resistance Skill Got Kicked from the Hero\u2019s Party-<\/strong> is also not an isekai, but again with the adventurers forming parties to take quests from taverns to fight monsters in dungeons and argh argh please no. This one gets bonus points for being literally just Shield Hero, right down to the incongruity between acting like someone\u2019s specialisation is weak and shit because it involves shields but is actually some overpowered cheat skill.<\/li>\n<li><strong>My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me<\/strong> at least gets that it\u2019s a comedy to get a cheat skill, much like One Punch Man did. But from what I read, the comedy was awful, as was the writing. Or to bring up another example from the same author, you know how in Mob Psycho the tension is not from whether Mob can win a fight, but from whether he has the self-confidence to get over how nervous he is? In this story meanwhile, the tension appears to be whether the main character can be arsed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fluffy Paradise <\/strong>is an isekai about being reborn into a fantasy RPG world with magical monsters, with the twist being that the monsters are fluffy and you get to cuddle them. Which I guess is enough for a lot of people. It\u2019s just another Slow Life In Another World story, where they go farming or whatever, except instead of a big titty slave girl next to you, it\u2019s a fluffy hippogriff or whatever.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tales of Wedding Rings<\/strong> technically ticks all the right boxes. It\u2019s an isekai in which a guy goes to another world and it\u2019s a medieval fantasy world where he gets a harem of hot fantasy babes. Yet it feels tonally different, like it\u2019s from another era before isekai fantasy became the dominant genre. Possibly because the manga started in 2014 so it doesn\u2019t feel like it knows its treading a well-worn path so does the same things without the glossing over of details. Which ironically makes it more interesting. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s good. Absolutely not. But the girls look hot so like how bad could it be. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Sasaki and Peeps<\/strong> also feels like a slightly odd fit at first. Salaryman buys budgie. Budgie turns out to be mystical princess from another realm. Can now travel back and forth from his world to that one. It\u2019s just another story about guy in depressing low-wage salary job getting whisked to another world, akin to that one about saving gold in one world to transport to another, which is exactly what he plans to do in this one. The budgie part did make me laugh though, so it\u2019s got something.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash<\/strong> is another isekai transported to medieval fantasy world with magic and monsters and blah de blah. It wasn\u2019t as bad as many of the others I read. The first chapter was all misery porn of everyone being mean to the main girl as she is forced to run away from home to prevent being killed, but she starts to pick herself up by chapter 2. It shows that there\u2019s something to be said for making your lead character genuinely weak to get us to root for them, sorta like Ascendance of a Bookworm. Watch them really work themselves up from the bottom. Don\u2019t give them a cheat skill and oh did this slime she befriended turn out to have some mysterious cheat skill? I don\u2019t actually know if it does, I just read the first two chapters, but I\u2019m going out on a limb and saying yes it probably does.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Delicious in Dungeon<\/strong> belongs here too. I don\u2019t care that it\u2019s your favourite manga. It\u2019s a story about adventurers taking quests to go to a dungeon with a party including a mage, an elf, a dwarf, a knight, etc, where they fight monsters like slimes and dragons. It\u2019s an incredibly popular manga and the adaptation is being done by Trigger so I\u2019m definitely going to watch it (although it\u2019s not Imaishi doing the directing so I\u2019m not getting too excited). But I wanted to include it here too to make a point about it having a boring world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I recognise I\u2019m fighting a losing battle here. But I continue to be frustrated that so many stories take the design of their world for granted. Like if they can just slap in fantasy shorthand, they can gloss over world design. It means that every moment the story spends on the world itself is boring, because it\u2019s the world-building equivalent of stock footage. Delicious in Dungeon doesn\u2019t<em> have <\/em>to be a RPG dungeon for the story to work. If they set it in their own unique world, something akin to Made in Abyss, I\u2019d find every moment they spend discussing the world itself that much more interesting. Same with Frieren. I struggle to get into the character\u2019s journey because they use fantasy shorthand.<\/p>\n<p>Yes these stories are about their characters, but the world itself is a character \u2013 and arguably the most important one. How a character interacts with the world, their reactions to things, is as much part of their character as anything else. If what they\u2019re reacting to is fantasy shorthand RPG world, it\u2019s not as interesting. The sheer popularity of these  stories shows it\u2019s a battle I\u2019ve lost, but I shall continue to rail against these RPG fantasy worlds as long as they keep making nine of them per season.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tis Time for \u201cTorture\u201d Princess<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/time-for-torture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4337\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u59eb\u69d8\u201c\u62f7\u554f\u201d\u306e\u6642\u9593\u3067\u3059\u300f\u7b2c1\u5f3ePV\u25022024\u5e741\u6708\u653e\u9001\u6c7a\u5b9a\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XdhtX20qqSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Pine Jam<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The princess who\u2019s been held captive by the Demon Lord\u2019s army is scheduled to be executed by the Demon Lord\u2019s relentless torture!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Enough bitching, time to get excited about something: Demon ladies in office clothing! Tis Time for Torture Princess is pretty silly as a premise. Princess gets tortured for secrets about the king\u2019s realm by the demon lord\u2019s servants (I can\u2019t escape the trappings of copypaste fantasy worlds even here), with the twist being the torture in question is tempting her with delicious food. It\u2019s a silly premise that works, but I doubt its long term capabilities as a premise. It has 12 volumes so they kept it running somehow, but plenty of series have continued running long past the point where they ran out of good ideas. Sometimes within the first volume. It\u2019s got weirdly decent staff with the director of Ancient Magus Bride and some Attack on Titan episodes working on it, and Pine Jam, while not exactly an amazing studio, have been looking up a little after some creative work on stuff like Do It Yourself. <\/p>\n<p>I also know I will inevitably watch far more of this than I should because it has a demon lady in office wear. Because I am hopeless like that.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/foolish-angel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4327\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil | OFFICIAL TRAILER\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KC1Hz-4L1yY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Children\u2019s Playground Entertainment<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Masatora Akutsu, a demon on a recruitment mission in a human high school, is drafting allies for Hell against the heavenly angels. But when seated beside the captivating Lily Amane, he\u2019s in for a devilishly hilarious celestial surprise!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can\u2019t believe the trailer did this. So that shot at the end of the trailer of her with a sparkler and him lying on the floor? In the manga I read, that was her sitting on the side of a bed smoking a cigarette while he lay in the bed with his top off. It was a follow-on from him, a devil, being forced by the angel into a subservient contract, followed by some very obvious BDSM roleplay. It was a sex joke, and they ruined the sex joke! Which ties into a second trailer that showed they were trying to take this sex comedy and turn it into a romance. No! Goddamnit don\u2019t do this! I thought the manga at least had good degenerate comedy energy. Staff isn\u2019t great and the studio is the terribly named Children\u2019s Playground Entertainment who have made practically nothing in the past. Oh right, they did The Fruit of Evolution. Yay!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sengoku Youko<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/sengoku-youko.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4346\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sengoku Youko | OFFICIAL TRAILER\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mt7VlvpjEnU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: White Fox<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The world is divided into two factions: humans and monsters called katawara. Despite being a katawara, Tama loves humans and vows to protect them from evil, even if it means fighting her own kind. Her brother Jinka, however, hates humans, despite mostly being one. The siblings are joined by a cowardly swordsman named Shinsuke, who wants to learn how to become strong. When the group uncovers a plot to experiment on humans and transform them into monsters, they vow to defeat whoever is behind it\u2026 Even if it means battling an entire army of warriors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Never let it be said that I hold grudges. Wait, I said that wrong. Let it be said that I hold grudges against every piece of entertainment that has ever wronged me. I am a being that lives off spite. If you haven\u2019t realised that this far into the season preview, then allow me to continue to disappoint you. I was decently interested in Sengoku Youko. It gets points for not just being a fantasy isekai RPG world naturally, but I found the characters interesting based off the one chapter I read. White Fox are an OK studio and the trailer looked all right, plus it\u2019s already confirmed for three cours. However then I spot the author is the same guy who wrote Biscuit Hammer. <\/p>\n<p>Now some of you reading this might go \u201che\u2019s got the wrong impression based off the awful Biscuit Hammer anime from a few years ago\u201d. Nope, I read Biscuit Hammer about 10 years ago. It might be the biggest disconnect between the way people talk about a series versus my experience reading it that I\u2019ve ever had. I legitimately thought I had accidentally read the wrong manga. Surely this bland magical girlfriend manga with a potato lead and pantyshots galore was not the one people were calling their favourite manga of all time? I\u2019ve held that grudge for years. But as I said, it\u2019s been 10 years. Maybe I\u2019m able to look past those indiscretions and be ready to love once more.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chained Soldier<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/chained-soldier.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4317\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u9b54\u90fd\u7cbe\u5175\u306e\u30b9\u30ec\u30a4\u30d6\u300f\u7b2c1\u5f3ePV\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NdWFitNUsMw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Seven Arcs<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The demon-filled dimension known as \u201cMato\u201d has opened to threaten humanity, and a type of \u201cpeach\u201d tree that grows there yields fruit that confers special powers to those who eat it, giving humanity a fighting chance, but this only works for women. As such, as protectors of humanity, women rise in social status while men are relegated to second-class citizens scraping for basic occupation and acknowledgment. Cue Yuuki Wakura, a domestically crafty and laborious high school senior whose older sister was taken during a Mato event 5 years before; while lamenting the hardships of the life ahead of him, an event opens before him, and while being rescued from demons by Captain Kyouka of the Anti-Demon Corps, she confers his powers as her \u201cslave\u201d and turns him into a mighty beast mount that mows down the demons. However, there is a surprising price to pay for being her \u201cslave\u201d\u2026 and it\u2019s not him who has to pay it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This one is incredibly trashy. It\u2019s by the author of Akame ga Kill, but this one is more trashy in the porny way than the edgy way. The entire setup is basically an excuse for dominatrix fetish. The title in English might say Chained Soldier, but the original title was Mato Seihei no Slave. I think the English publisher passed on the word that the word \u201cslave\u201d in the title wouldn\u2019t go over well. Now as I always say, let he who is without a dominatrix fetish cast the first stone, yes that is what I always say haven\u2019t you been paying attention. But Seven Arcs are a pretty garbage studio. Tonikawa, their best known anime, isn\u2019t well animated at all. Meanwhile I watched and enjoyed all of Blue Period in spite of its terrible animation. If you have a dominatrix fetish, but it\u2019s because you want to be the dominatrix, then boy do I have the anime for you.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gushing Over Magical Girls<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/gushing-over-magical-girls.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4330\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300c\u9b54\u6cd5\u5c11\u5973\u306b\u3042\u3053\u304c\u308c\u3066\u300d\u30e1\u30a4\u30f3PV\u7b2c2\u5f3e\u30102024\u5e741\u6708\u653e\u9001\u958b\u59cb\u3011\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hOgF0D8Pcjs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Asahi Production<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Hi, I\u2019m Hiiragi Utena. I\u2019m a normal magical-girl-loving middle school girl\u2014or at least I was, but then some talking mascot showed up out of the blue and cast a spell on me! Now\u2019s my chance to join my beloved magical girls as\u2026a villain? Hang on, something\u2019s wrong with my outfit! This can\u2019t be happening!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the one hand, Gushing Over Magical Girls is a coming of age story. It\u2019s about discovering your sexuality, especially your own homosexuality, and being confused, scared, and yet excited about these new discoveries you make about yourself. You wonder why these feelings you have over the characters you see on TV make you feel so weird. You are scared of the sex beast that lives inside you that you feel you have no control over, and worry about your place in society if you ever admit to these feelings. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it\u2019s an anime made for folks to perv over middle school anime girls getting molested. Does this qualify as a villainess anime? Well, no because villainess anime in our modern understanding require reincarnation and to be set in a vaguely European 18th Century upper class society. I wonder if there are many of those this season?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anime About Reincarnated Villainesses Set in Vaguely European 18th Century Upper Class Society<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Untitled-design-1-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4366\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s not quite at the same level of isekai fantasy RPG worlds, but the number of reincarnated villainess in an otome-game world anime has risen to the point of being a problem. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I\u2019m Not the Demon Lord <\/strong>is the blandest of them all. I believe she\u2019s literally in an otome game rather than just a world that is indistinguishable from an otome game. Anyway blah de blah overpowered protagonist blah de blah.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp<\/strong> is a double reincarnation isekai. She\u2019s a villainess who gets reincarnated into IRL, then gets reincarnated once again back into the fantasy world as a doctor. This isn\u2019t quite as generic, but it\u2019s also a webtoon which means bad art and terrible writing, as I have long since come to expect from webtoons. <\/li>\n<li><strong>7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy<\/strong> was the most interesting of the ones I read. Which isn\u2019t saying much, but 7 time loops where she lives a new exciting life each time is at least a more unique setup. Except instead on focusing on the timeline where she\u2019s an adventurer disguised as a male knight, they instead go for the timeline where she gets married to a sexy villain. It\u2019s like they specifically grabbed the timeline that was the least interesting! I know this is missing the point of the story, like complaining about Frieren being about <em>after<\/em> the epic adventure happened. On the other hand, what they chose to focus on is so goddamn samey villainess romance shite that urgh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unlike isekai, I\u2019ve yet to find the version of this villainess story that I actually enjoy. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a court drama that I could enjoy, or perhaps one about overthrowing royalty, but they all tend to get bogged down in genre trappings with bad writing. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mr. Villain\u2019s Day Off<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/villains-day-off.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4333\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300c\u4f11\u65e5\u306e\u308f\u308b\u3082\u306e\u3055\u3093\u300d\u4e3b\u984c\u6b4c\u5165\u308aPV\ud83d\udc3c1\/7(\u65e5)\u3088\u308a\u653e\u9001\u958b\u59cb\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lXhOIAoTnXw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Shin-Ei Animation<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>An Evil Organization from another planet is trying to take over Earth. An extraterrestrial from that organization named the \u201cGeneral\u201d tirelessly fights against Earth\u2019s defenders every single day in a battle of life and death! However, today is his day off.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Enough villainesses, time to go to villains! Villains are sexy after all, and this villain is being cute on his day off, so obviously it\u2019s perfect content. I was going to mock the studio for exclusively doing children\u2019s anime about talking ice creams, but then I actually looked into them and realised they did stuff like Takagi-san and Dangers in My Heart which are decently well animated and directed so I take it back. They even did peak anime that was Pui Pui Molcar so honestly maybe this is anime of the season.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/hokkaido-gals.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4321\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u9053\u7523\u5b50\u30ae\u30e3\u30eb\u306f\u306a\u307e\u3089\u3081\u3093\u3053\u3044\u300f\u7b2c2\u5f3ePV\uff5c2024\u5e741\u67088\u65e5\u653e\u9001\u958b\u59cb\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Slv7WZ_4vS8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Blade, Silver Link<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>High school boy Tsubasa moves to Kitami City up in Hokkaido, where he meets a \u201cgal\u201d at a bus stop. The sight of her standing alone against the white snowscape, bare-legged despite the freezing cold, captures his heart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As much as I rail against the fantasy RPG isekai and reincarnated villainesses, there is not a moment of my life where I wish we went back 15 years during the height of the moeboom. Thank you universe for alligning itself in such a way that the new hotness are kogals. If I was conspiracy minded, I\u2019d say the rise of romance stories for dudes involving female love interests who are sexually active and more confident and commanding a presence, over the infantalised moeblobs of years past, are actually a government plot to increase the birth rate. You see, if teen boys are taught that the ideal woman is not some infantalised 8 year old or submissive traditional housewife, but instead a lady who wants the fuck, Japanese men of the future may be more open to older more confident women with their own jobs and lives. Now we just need more seinen harem romances about immigrants from places like Thailand and Vietnam who struggle with the language but are excited to meet new people and learn more about Japanese culture. Then truly Japan\u2019s population timebomb will be solved!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ishura<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ishura.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4334\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u7570\u4fee\u7f85\u300f\u30c6\u30a3\u30b6\u30fcPV\u7b2c2\u5f3e\u30102024\u5e741\u6708\u653e\u9001\u30fb\u914d\u4fe1\u6c7a\u5b9a\u3011\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6YF46W0xpuI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Passione<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In a world where the Demon King has died, a host of demigods capable of felling him have inherited the world: a master fencer who can figure out how to take out their opponent with a single glance; a lancer so swift they can break the sound barrier; a wyvern rogue who fights with three legendary weapons at once; an all-powerful wizard who can speak thoughts into being; and an angelic assassin who deals instant death. Eager to attain the title of \u201cOne True Hero,\u201d these champions each pursue challenges against formidable foes and spark conflicts themselves. The battle to determine the mightiest of the mighty begins.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is your token Dark Fantasy of the season. I could have tossed it in with the other medieval fantasies from earlier, what with the Demon King and Heroes and all that nonsense, but it doesn\u2019t have that same RPG rules that makes so many other anime so bland. I am pretty sure it\u2019s an isekai though, judging by the first chapter had a guy talking about Japanese and wearing a t-shirt. Once again I had to catch myself from mocking the studio. Yes Passione have mostly done porn-adjacent stuff in the past, like Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World (which had an actual porn OVA), and Interspecies Reviewers, which skirts the line of what is porn so close that it feels like it should be in a separate category of its own. At the same time, Interspecies Reviewers is supposedly quite good for what it is, being well-animated and sex-positive in a way that\u2019s weirdly refreshing. Yuri is My Job, another Passione anime that\u2019s pretty trashy, is well animated too. I want Passione to be good because they\u2019ve got their hands on the Spice and Wolf remake and I will cry if they don\u2019t do Holo justice. Anyway, Ishura. I didn\u2019t really like what I read of the manga, but I\u2019m curious at least. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pon no Michi<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pon-no-michi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4338\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30aa\u30ea\u30b8\u30ca\u30ebTV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300c\u307d\u3093\u306e\u307f\u3061\u300d\u7b2c1\u5f3ePV\uff5c2024\u5e741\u6708\u653e\u9001\u958b\u59cb\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x88rp_tg_j4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: OLM<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The anime is set in Hiroshima Prefecture\u2019s Onomichi City, where a high school student Nashiko Jippensha was kicked out of her house. Without a place to play with her friends, she learns that the mahjong parlor that her father used to run is now vacant. She fixes the mahjong parlor and turns it into a place where she and her friends can have fun, cook, have tea, and sometimes play mahjong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is your designated \u201ccute girls do hobby\u201d anime of the season, for there must always be one. This time it\u2019s the exciting new hobby of\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>*spins wheel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mahjong? Pah, we\u2019ve done Mahjong many times before. This is boring. It has annoyingly good staff with the director of Fire Force (bad anime, well directed) and Wave Listen to Me (well I thought it was good, even if nobody else watched it). OLM are a surprisingly good studio too ever since they started branching out from doing more than just every season of Pokemon. Despite the character designs looking like they\u2019re from a harem anime where they ripped out the harem protagonist, it actually runs in a shoujo manga of all things. Well sorta, it\u2019s  an original anime that is getting a manga version as well. I couldn\u2019t find a translated version but I did find the Japanese version and boy did they make them way bustier for the anime. So who\u2019s your audience for this? I find this all a bit odd and confused altogether. Now watch it be the Bocchi the Rock of the season and be the shock hit. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Demon Prince of Momochi House<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/demon-prince.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4340\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Demon Prince of Momochi House | OFFICIAL TRAILER 3\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-8IGXQJiltk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Drive<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On her sixteenth birthday, orphan Himari Momochi inherits her ancestral estate that she\u2019s never seen. Momochi House exists on the barrier between the human and spiritual realms, and Himari is meant to act as guardian between the two worlds. But on the day she moves in, she finds three handsome squatters already living in the house, and one seems to have already taken over her role!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I always find the reverse harem versions of regular harem setups way funnier than I should due to how much they mirror the original then slap on the standard bishie archetypes. This is just Love Hina. She even walks in on the dude naked. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/30-year-wizard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4342\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3010\u30c1\u30a7\u30ea\u307e\u307b\u3011TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300c30\u6b73\u307e\u3067\u7ae5\u8c9e\u3060\u3068\u9b54\u6cd5\u4f7f\u3044\u306b\u306a\u308c\u308b\u3089\u3057\u3044\u300d\u30c6\u30a3\u30b6\u30fcPV\u30102024\u5e741\u6708\u30c6\u30ec\u30d3\u6771\u4eac\u307b\u304b\u306b\u3066\u653e\u9001\u6c7a\u5b9a\uff01\u3011\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E62nxjNhDK0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: Satelight<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Adachi, a thirty-year-old virgin, has developed the power to read people\u2019s minds by touching them. After a brush with his very handsome colleague, Adachi realizes the guy has a raging crush on none other than Adachi himself!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, some good yaoi. Yes I\u2019m never going to watch this. But Satelight studio with some genuinely good staff working on it, like folks who worked on Nodame Cantabile, Haikyuu and Durarara? Fuck me, I wish the anime I wanted to be good had this staff on it.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Delusional Monthly Magazine<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/delusional-magazine.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4344\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Delusional Monthly Magazine | OFFICIAL TRAILER\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nu0W-pcv4gs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Studio: OLM<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The story takes place in the town of Most City in a certain country. On the second floor of an old building is a publishing company that puts out a periodical called Delusional Monthly Magazine, a science magazine featuring articles about shocking, bizarre events and inexplicable phenomena that make even scientists throw up their hands in defeat. Its staff consists only of a beautiful editor-in-chief and her one editor, Tarou J. Suzuki, who are joined by grade-school-aged assistant Jirou Tanaka and his dog, Saburou. The editorial department is always empty, and Tarou, Jirou, and Saburou are usually hanging out in Rock, a coffee shop on the first floor. One day, the scientist Gorou Satou visits them for a consultation, and therein lies the beginning of an outlandish new story\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What are you doing OLM? I find your choices this season a bit odd. From Odd Taxi, Apothecary Diaries, Dark Gathering, Komi Can\u2019t Communicate, Summer Time Rendering, and now to this and Pon no Michi? Maybe they know something I don\u2019t. Anime of the season incoming. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Sequels<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/madoka_newmovie_teaservisual-scaled-e1619348077370.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4369\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Sequel time. There\u2019s not as many as previous seasons, and unfortunately the two I\u2019m personally interested in are movies so know who knows when they\u2019re going to be available. Covering sequels is pretty boring since you already know if you\u2019re interested in them, so here they all are in a big phat list.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Classroom of the Elite Season 3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- Season 2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Haikyuu!! Battle at the Garbage Dump<\/strong> <em>(I think they\u2019re just doing movies for the rest of the Haikyuu series? That might be better honestly, since sometimes shounens can get a little bogged down with pacing)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mashle: Magic and Muscle 2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- <em>(<\/em><\/strong><em>How in the name of fuck have I gone this long without watching the first Madoka movie? It got mixed reactions when it came out originally, but enough people like it that I really should have checked it out given what a huge fan of the original I am)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki 2nd Stage<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dangers in My Heart Season 2<\/strong> (<em>The Animoo Chat discord server I run seemed to think this show was a real highlight of the season it came out, so I\u2019ve been considering going back to it. <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/qqSPdZMkjU\">Join the discord<\/a> if you haven\u2019t already!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Urusei Yatsura (2022) 2nd Season<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fire Hunter 2nd Season<\/strong> <em>(what a trainwreck of an anime this ended up being)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>SYNDUALITY Noir Part 2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED Freedom<\/strong><em> (Quick! We\u2019ve managed to get a newer generation of anime fans into fandom thanks to Witch from Mercury. Let\u2019s fart out some SEED sequel to capitalise off its success oh no my brain fell out again I\u2019m a Sunrise executive)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that\u2019s it for the season\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Wait, what\u2019s that? A savior of anime is incoming?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BURN THE WITCH #0.8<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daywith.thecartdriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-18-151738-1024x676.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4372\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300eBURN THE WITCH #0.8\u300f\u672cPV\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pThbfsCt97c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Peak anime is back! More of the best named characters in anime history. More Bruno Bangknife. More Ninny Spankhole. Yes I know it\u2019s going to be nothing more than a single episode special. But that original OVA from a few years back was cool and stylish as hell and I\u2019ve been wanting a full series ever since. This isn\u2019t that, but maybe it\u2019s better to get these random one-shots every few years. Bleach taught me that Kubo Tite might have the eye for style but can\u2019t write a story for shit. But I shall continue to dream nevertheless. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019re making another Madoka Magica sequel movie. In the year of our lord Madoka 2024. Honestly? Fine, I\u2019ll take it. Yeah Magia Rising didn\u2019t work for me, but it failed because the writing and story were too busy and unfocused. The visual style and themes still worked. 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