Spring 2020 Anime Coverage & First Episode Awards

Mario: Well, with all the premieres are out (and couples of them delayed infinitely), it’s time for our usual blogging schedule for the next 3 months and our First Episode Awards. It might be an unpopular opinion but I still eager to follow what this Spring season has to offer. The current pandemic has sadly halted many projects (most of them are sequels, for reasons I am yet to comprehend), and I suspect in the next two seasons, we’re going to hear more sad news regarding the medium. That’s the reason why my current attitude is that I am happy with what we currently have. This Spring season has couples of stylish Detective shows, new trend of isekai a protagonist who came back as someone younger (or I call it New-AGE isekai), and many promising seinen titles. Unlike last season where Eizouken and Dorohedoro dominated our list, this season we have no clear “Best Premiere”, in fact there was a heated discussion between staffs to agree on the winners.

As for this season’s coverage, there are some good news: Armitage is back in full force with Arte and new manga column (I wish her all the best), and hat’s off to Wooper for blogging full time (3 shows) this season. Amun won’t be blogging any show, but he will be regular in Weekly Summary post. Here’s the full coverage for Spring 2020 season:

SPRING 2020 BLOGGING SCHEDULE

Mario: Kakushigoto, Oregairu 3 (If it ever happens)

Lenlo: Tower of God, Fugou Keiji: Balance:UNLIMITED, Princess Tutu (Thursday Throwback)

Wooper: Kaguya-sama 2, BNA, Yesterday wo Utatte

Amun: Weekly summary contributions

Armitage: Arte, Manga Musing on Mondays

FIRST EPISODE AWARDS

Best First Episode
(The Death Note Award)

KAGUYA-SAMA

Likely Spent All Their Efforts on the First Episode
(The Kyoukai No Kanata Award)

LISTENERS

Best Animation
(The Samurai Champloo Award)

BNA


Season Sleeper
(The Gargantia Award)

YESTERDAY WO UTATTE

Worst First Episode
(The Bleach Award)

ARGONAVIS FROM BANG DREAM!

Exceeded Expectations
(The Hyouka Award)

OTOME ISEKAI


Most Disappointing First Episode
(The Berserk Award)

APPARE-RANMAN

Best Continuation
(The Natsume Book of Friends Award)

KAGUYA-SAMA

Best Background Art
(Made in Abyss Award)

OTOME ISEKAI

2 thoughts on “Spring 2020 Anime Coverage & First Episode Awards

  1. I can’t tell you how tempted I was to replace that stupid Dino image from that stupid show that trolled me into watching a wack live drama with an old dude who dies or something? I can’t even.

    1. but he’s the cutest thing everrrrrrr. I mean, who doesn’t want a pet dino who makes dumb cute face like that.

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