2023 Anime Retrospective (Part 1)

Better late than never, right? It should be a sign of how meh 2023 was for anime. There wasn’t anything terrible that I finished watching. However, there weren’t any surprises. I expected to like and dislike much of the anime before going into them, with a couple of exceptions. Sequels to anime that weren’t as exciting as the previous season. Uneventful would be the perfect word to describe it. So, let’s go by each one by one!

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2022 Anime Retrospective

Yet another year of anime has ended. I can say without hyperbole that 2022 has been one of the most interesting years in anime I have encountered in a while. Would I say it is the best? I don’t know where it would rank, but it would definitely be up there from the past 20 years. For once, there were more good or great shows than bad ones, and I can’t remember the last time that happened as of writing this. Even though there were still bad shows, there weren’t any disaster-level shows that stood out. At worst, they were just painfully boring or forgettable. And honestly, I would prefer it to be the latter than the former.

Now, let’s go through every show I’ve completed alphabetically and then I will reveal what I think to be the best anime of the year.

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