100 Days of Anime: Day Twenty – Spring Turns to Summer

Spring turns to summer, and now most of the anime I started watching back in May have wrapped up. We’re a fifth of the way through this challenge and beginning to pick up some steam. Now I’m plotting out my anime viewing for the summer season, and the shows I pick up now will carry on until this challenge is over.

Thanks to the Internet and streaming (preferably of the above-board kind), there’s a paralyzing amount of choices. The available back catalog is more than I could watch in a lifetime, and the spring season as displayed on Anichart offered 56 series (though many were new seasons of existing shows).

Plotting my course for summer, I pulled up the 2018 summer season on Anichart and was greeted with no less than 42 options. If episodes of each of those shows run for the average 24 minutes that most anime seem to hit, that’s about 17 hours of anime a week. That’s a part-time job worth of anime, and that’s not counting series like My Hero Academia and Steins;Gate 0, which are continuing from the spring season, shorts, specials and movies.

So I narrowed my list down to 23 shows that I was definitely interested in at least checking out. That’s still a lot, but I had to narrow it down a little further still when I took a look at what would be available on the streaming platforms I have access to (Crunchyroll, Funimation and Amazon Prime). This still left me with 11 shows, but I doubt I’ll go to distance with all of these. I’d rather watch a good older show than try to keep up with something that I’m not enjoying.

Crunchyroll had this handy article with a list of what they’ll be offering this summer, but for Amazon Prime I had to do some research. I found this forum post on Funimation’s website. Now here’s what I’m planning to try:

Crunchyroll

1. Mr. Tonegawa Middle Management Blues (24 episodes) Manga
2. The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar Light novel
3. Hanebado! (13 episodes) Manga
4. Harukana Receive Manga
5. Cells at Work! Manga
6. Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs Manga
7. Chio’s School Road (12 episodes) Manga
8. How Not to Summon a Demon Lord Light novel
9. ISLAND (12 episodes) Visual novel

Amazon Prime

1. Dropkick on my Devil! Manga
2. Grand Blue Manga

If you weren’t keeping score, there are eight shows based on manga, two based on light novels and one based on a visual novel. I’m absolutely flabbergasted, bewildered and astonished that both the light novels are isekai stories about a dude getting transplanted into another world where there are lots of attractive women.

Prominent anime not on that list are the third season of Attack on Titan and FLCL Alternative. I’m not up to speed in either franchise. AoT lost my interest early on, but I may give it a second chance. I will definitely be watching FLCL Alternative at some point.

P.S. I’m also looking forward to Non Non Biyori: Vacation, a movie addition to the series. In addition to being more of a series I already really enjoy, it provided today’s post image because everything else made me look like a pervert. Being an anime fan is hard sometimes.