So after millions of TBATE memes (ngl i feel sorry to the novel & webcomic fans) 4 weeks of another pretty solid anime season, here are some of my picks (though I have to exclude Cowboy Bebop 2.0 Lazarus until they are available outside Adult Swim):

To Be Hero X. Though it's donghua (Chinese animation), it still involves many Japanese producers—Hiroyuki Sawano produced the music—and Crunchyroll surprisingly are investing in this. It's about superheroes who gain power by increasing people's trust. The series don't have any fixed protagonist, but all the character arcs will be connected to each other. Looking forward to the future of donghua—I can see this thread is getting its title expanded to "Anime & Donghua" in a couple of years.

Kowloon Generic Romance. It's some kind of sci-fi romance anime filled with many interesting mysteries in it. The FMC, Reiko Kujirai, feels like she originally wasn't living as Kujirai, and people who know who Kujirai is also feel she isn't the same Reiko Kujirai they knew

Witch Watch. Definitely just your another samey Weekly Shounen Jump adaptation, but it's currently my favorite new anime so far. Basically, there's a teenage witch girl living with her ogre familiar, but there will be more mythological familiars in the future. It's a comedy supernatural series by the same author of SKET Dance, so it's safe to say there might be lots of other anime, Gintama, and SKET Dance references in the future.

New promotional video for Marin Kitagawa & My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 which is airing this July, featuring its new opening song by Spira Spica (again)!

Award-winning coming-of-age manga One Hundred Views of Awajima (Awajima Hyakkei) is getting an anime adaptation in 2026 under studio Madhouse:

The To Your Eternity (Fumetsu no Anata e) anime has uploaded their first trailer of the upcoming Season 3 this Fall!

Another intriguing series I've yet to start watching ffs. 🤦‍♂️

Second trailer for the anticipated horror series The Summer Hikaru Died (Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu), coming out this Summer, is out now:

One of Boruto animators said that Boruto: Two Blue Vortex will contain no anime originals and fillers.

As an honest Boruto enjoyer, this is a huge disappointment. I've been reading and watching Boruto since its hatred reached its peak, but what Ikemoto has been writing in the manga at the moment is just bad. Bad pacing, bad storyboarding, mid visuals, and just too many plot holes.

The anime, which is now below a 6/10 star rating, handled the filler episodes decently. I love many characters who appeared exclusively in the anime and its spin-offs. I do give Two Blue Vortex manga 8/10, but when they're doing a 1-1 adaptation, it will be no better than the original Boruto anime.

I haven't watched both FMA animes, though (and will probably prefer Brotherhood to 2003), but I'd rather have Boruto going the 2003 route instead of the Brotherhood one because Ikemoto's writing is 3 planets far from Arakawa-sensei.....

They clearly don't learn from Bleach where, from what I heard, the TYBW adaptations contained plenty of anime originals (but yeah, that couldn't be compared since it's beyond Kubo's own supervision).

Edited June 14Jun 14 by CowTzy

Kaguya-sama: Love is War - The Stairs to Adulthood has been announced!

TV Special, according to MAL? Maybe. Haven't continued the first season though, but I knew the plane reference lol.

Oh that's interesting, I thought it had come to a pretty nice conclusion with the end of the 3rd season.

unbelievably funny show and well worth completing so I may actually keep an eye out for that (have not been doing the same for any recent anime releases)