With so many anime pitched at us each season, it can be easy to miss out on some enjoyable series. Here are seven currently airing anime that you might be missing out on!
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Are These Anime Series Worth Watching? Let’s Ask Other J-List Customers!
It sucks when a good anime comes along, but for one reason or another, we miss it. Maybe the name struck us as uninteresting, or we didn’t hear enough buzz about it to check it out. Perhaps other anime titles offering sexy fan service stole all the oxygen in whatever anime communities we’re a part of, causing us to miss a good anime series. I asked J-List customers to share the shows they’re watching, which most other fans haven’t discovered. Here are their recommendations!
Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!
Considering that JAST USA and J-List released the most legendary BL game in history, I don’t have a lot of BL fans on my social media, so this pitch might not land with many of my readers. Cherry Magic! is the story of a company employee named Adachi who never managed to lose his virginity. His 30th birthday is coming up, and he wonders if the urban legend that men become wizards on their 30th birthday is true.
When the day arrives, he gains the ability to use magic in the form of reading the mind of anyone he touches. This is depressing to him at first — he can hear the thoughts of women who think he’s disgusting. Then he happens to touch his handsome and popular coworker Kurosawa in an elevator, only to discover that Kurosawa has romantic feelings for him. The awkward office relationship that develops between the two men from this point is hilarious and cute!
Sasaki and Peeps
Another anime you might have missed is the “business isekai comedy,” Sasaki and Peeps. It’s about a good-hearted Japanese salaryman who buys a pet bird…and ends up living a wholesome life in another world. While we’re all a little tired of the isekai genre, this show goes way beyond the usual offerings and gives up a clever and humorous story of a businessman who sets up the perfect life in a fantasy world, with the help of his starmage bird sidekick.
Who should watch Sasaki and Peeps? Anyone who appreciates anime tropes but is tired of watching characters 1/2 or 1/3 our age discussing what to do for the upcoming school culture festival.
Read my blog post about this show here!
Bucchigiri?!
An original anime from Mappa, it’s the story of a boy named Arajin (Aladdin) who dreams of finding a girlfriend at his new school, but to his chagrin, he finds his school is filled with delinquent boys. He reunites with his childhood friend Matakara then finds himself embroiled in a mini gang war. Things turn more interesting when Arajin acquires a flamboyant genie named Senya.
Who should watch Bucchigiri? If you like “testosterone-heavy” shounen genre shows like Tokyo Revengers or already have an affinity for the passion Mappa brings to any project they work on, you should give this a watch!
Metallic Rouge
A hardcore SF anime from Studio Bones that looks amazing. We’re shown a world where humans coexist with androids known as Neans, with plenty of social friction between both groups. A powerful android named Rouge and her human partner are on a mission to hunt down nine rogue androids who are rebelling against the human government on Mars. If you’re getting a Blade Runner vibe, you’re not alone.
The show is visually pleasing to look at and has some amazing world-building. I’m extremely happy to see the animators avoiding the overuse of CGI…even the battles are properly animated by hand, which is great!
Who should watch Metallic Rouge? Anyone who loves the classic sci-fi shows of the 1980s.
Hime-sama “Goumon” no Jikan Desu Yo
We sure have a lot of sadistic anime titles these days, don’t we? ‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess is an anime in which a princess named Hime has been taken prisoner and is being subjected to various forms of “torture.” These involve things like eating delicious ramen, playing video games with friends, and obsessing over pouring the perfect glass of ice-cold beer. The ridiculous setups and character reactions make every episode a lot of fun.
Who should watch this anime? I’d say anyone who appreciates the humor of Konosuba.
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Fluffy Paradise
With a title like Isekai de Mofumofu Nadenade suru Tame ni Ganbattemasu, you know you’re in for some fluffy cuteness. Based on a novel series that sold 190,000 copies, this is the story of an OL named Midori who works herself to death. Happily, she gets reincarnated as a young princess in another world, where she gets to pet all the fluffy animals. Mofu mofu!
Who should watch this show? Anyone who wants to escape to a soothing world of cuddly animals.
Bonus Anime You’re Not Watching: 16Bit Sensation: Another Layer
Okay, this show is from the previous season, but I recently finished it and wanted to include it here.
Hentai artist Konoha is working at a third-rate eroge company, but she yearns to make an amazing bishoujo game like the classic works she grew up with. A chance encounter allows her to “time-slip” to 1992, during the golden age of Japanese dating-sim games. Now she can make all the amazing visual novels she always wanted to make…as long as she doesn’t mind learning how to do it on ancient pre-Photoshop technology. She realizes her dream of making the best bishoujo game ever, but ends up changing the timeline and destroying the Akihabara she loves so much. Can she and young programmer Makoto fix things?
I hoped 16Bit Sensation could go down as one of the great anime works that defined what it was to be an otaku, like Otaku no Video, Shirobako and Steins;Gate. But alas, the show failed to catch on big with fans. But if you’ve loved classic eroge titles like Comic Party, Kanon or the first-ever JAST game, you will probably appreciate this show.
Read my review of this fun anime here!
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