As one bunch of series starts to wrap up, more shows are about to begin, and it’s time for me to have a look at what I’m planning to watch in the coming season. I’ll only mention series which have caught my attention, for a more complete preview, you can look at Livechart or Anichart. I also may end up checking out episodes of shows not on this list, either based on the interest of others, or just from idle curiosity. I’ll probably end up watching a lot of first episodes to be honest, but these are series which I’m pretty sure I’d like to watch in their entirety if they are available.
Frame Arms Girl
A girl named Ao receives a package one day which contains Gourai; a Frame Arms Girl and they start a new life together. It’s obviously a tie-in for model kits, but it seems like it will have both slice-of-life and mecha aspects to the story, which I enjoy. It’s also the only series this season which my husband and I have identified as being something we’d probably both like enough to watch together.
Hinako Note
Hinako is from the country and moves to Tokyo for high school because she wants to be able to talk to people more easily. It’s another cute girls doing cute things series, I honestly can’t get enough of these, and the character designs look gorgeous.
Kabukibu
Cute boys form a kabuki club. While I like cute girls doing cute things, this seems to be the season of more cute boys doing cute things. Cute boys are fine too, I’m really in it for the cute things. I don’t know a lot about Kabuki, so hopefully this will be a chance for me to pick up some more information and have a few giggles.
Love Kome – We Love Rice
Described as a “heartwarming ‘kome’dy”, this is a series of shorts which has been confirmed to contain both rice and puns. It follows 5 boys who are anthropomorphic depictions of rice brands at their school’s harvest festival. Occasionally people get the feeling that a series has been tailored for them, and this is how I feel about Love Kome. I would have preferred it a bit more if it had cute girls, but cute boys is fine too. I’m really excited to watch this!
Sequels
I’ve already watched the first season of these so I have some idea what they’re like. My readers also probably know if they’d enjoy these or not from experience with prior seasons.
Boku no Hero Academia
I rather enjoyed the first season as a pretty strong example of the shounen genre done well, so I’m somewhat optimistic about this second season. I’m not sure if I’ll watch this as it airs or if I’ll wait until the end of the season and watch the entire season in one go, as I find I enjoy action-oriented series more if I have less wait time between the episodes.
Nobunaga no Shinobi: Ise Kanegasaki-Hen
As it follows directly on from the currently airing Nobunaga no Shinobi (Ninja Girl and Samurai Master), it’s pretty much a continuation but the airing time is changing, making it a new season. I’m looking forward to more Sengoku antics; my husband assures me there’s plenty of Sengoku history left to be adapted.
Room Mate: One Room Side M
Another series where ‘you are the protagonist’, but this time the characters you spend time with are male instead of female. I have to know if this is as awkward and terrible as One Room. I have to know. I probably enjoy poorly produced and weird shorts too much for my own good.
It’s not long now until the season starts. It’s kind of exciting having most of the shows I’m watching finishing up and being able to try some new things! I’m trying to take things easy as unfortunately my energy levels are still pretty low, but I will hopefully create some form of first impressions post, and also a post reflecting on the shows which have just finished up (with more dumb awards).
Plain Pasta and Plain Rice 
Seems like you’re juggling less shows this season, which is good?
I can’t believe they thought a spin-off to One Room was needed. I eagerly await your thoughts on the show.
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I’m time rich and will probably end up picking up more things (like most of the TV shorts which get simulcast by Crunchyroll, except probably not the one which has a plot synopsis like a Mills & Boon novel), but I’m trying to not pressure myself too much with too many shows to start with. Being a bit sicker than normal has meant I’ve had to reevaluate what I’m doing and try and not put myself into situations where I’ll stress myself out. Also there’s way less cute girls doing cute things shows this season; it seems like we only get Hinako Note.
It’s probably going to be just as dumb and poorly put together as the original One Room, but my curiosity demands that I find out about Room Mate. I guess they’re going for the female audience this time? I’m yet to find a ‘you are the protagonist’ series where the camera angles would reasonably allow for you being the protagonist, and this is a source of deep disappointment. It’s a dumb gimmick, but I’d still love to see it executed in a convincing manner.
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Mmm fair enough. Best to not bite off more than you can chew and all. I’m sorry to hear you’re still more fatigues than usual.
Only getting Hinako Note is a disappointment, but we were blessed with a wide selection of CGDCT shows in 2016. We’ll somehow get through these 3 months.
You’re definitely right in every count. Unless they wanted to go for a yaoi situation.
The dream lives on despite killing us with each failed attempt!
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There’s heaps of older shows (both of the cute girls and not cute girls variety) that I’d also like to see, so I definitely won’t be bored! There’s so much anime out there.
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I’m only tentatively looking forward to Boku no Hero Academia… The first season was so very good – despite it’s awful pacing problems. And as long as we get at least one CGDCT this season I’m good. (Hopefully it doesn’t suck!)
Gotta get my list out soon…
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I know one of my problems with the shounen genre is many series start out really strong but start to lose their way a part way through. Who knows how Hero Academia will turn out? I’m just hoping that we spend enough time with the class to get to know them a bit better. Having that huge class and less than 13 episodes to get to know them was a bit dizzying.
CGDCT is what I live for as well. I hope Hinako Note delivers!
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