Best anime of 2017 spring so far
Even the episode titles have a little fun with themselves. The animation is…well, it’s KyoAni, what do you expect? Even though the designs don’t seem as detailed as their other works, it helps to make even more fluent animation to deliver the jokes on perfect timing and delivery. Fanservice is used almost exclusively as an avenue for comedy, of which this anime is a strong provider of. While most would take this in a harem direction, Kobayashi is actually more concerned with how utterly incompetent all her new fantastical visitors are at hiding themselves and she is always at the brunt end of their antics. You can’t really do a whole lot with Tohru, an actual Dragon, who turns into a cute maid to serve her object of infatuation Kobayashi. After all that, I can conclude that Dragon Maid is a fun little comedy with that KyoAni polish to put it a step above the rest. Until I saw that good ol’ KyoAni name attached to the project and proceeded to watch all episodes in a fervor to feed my Animation wiener. That’s what I thought Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid was. So every season obviously has the trashy show with boobles and multiple grils for hikkikomori consumption. Kobayashi-san’s Dragon Maid (Kobayashi-san chi no Maid Dragon) So all in all, I found season 2 of KonoSuba just more of what we all came to expect: Four assholes getting what’s coming to them. If anything at all, the lower quality keys that allow more fluent character expressions and reactions is something I would highly prefer for the sake of comedy. There’s been some critical notices about season 2’s supposed drop in animation, but when I was watching, I hardly noticed anything. Only this time the show doesn’t have the job of introducing the characters, so it starts immediately with what everyone’s come to love about the show. Season 2 brings a lot of what was great in the first and amplifies it. KonoSuba is a brilliantly written show about 4 characters stumbling through an unforgiving fantasy world. I’ve actually already written an article on the comedic Isekai parody, so if you want an in-depth look at the show, click here to read. With that said, let’s send the year off right with a celebration of how fantastic 2017 was to anime! FOR WINTER!īlessings on this Wonderful World! Season 2 (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 2) I wasn’t able to watch every show to come out this year, so I might be skipping a few favorites, and I also won’t be mentioning shows I watched one episode of and dropped. Like last time, I’ll be splitting up the articles between the first half and second half of the year, along with providing short summations of what I liked or disliked about each show. It’s been one hell of a year, and unlike last time, I’ve got a mega favorite for each season. HELLO ALL YOU EAGER MCBEAVERS! It is that time once again, to round up the year of being dweebish and dorkly in the world of animu.