Wooper: Happy November, everyone! With schools across the country having recently concluded their first quarters, it seemed appropriate for us to issue our own report card, as it were, for the fall anime season. You won’t find any letter grades in this post, however – just Lenlo and I giving our thoughts on a bunch of currently airing shows. We’ve got surprise hits, mediocre manga adaptations, sequels of varying strength, and a potential AOTY candidate lined up for you here, so read on to see which is which!
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II – 2-5
Lenlo: Little girls with guns go pew pew. Seriously though, much like Shangri-La Frontier, Gun Gale Online actually communicates a lot of the fun of playing these sorts of MMOs. Hanging out with your friends, doing stupid stuff with stupid builds, competing, random insane PKers and people making stupid calls. It’s everything that Sword Art Online wishes it could be. And the fact that there’s no world-saving, life-ending threat, means there’s always some tension because our leads are actually allowed to lose. Again, much like Shangri-La, defeat doesn’t mean the end in Gun Gale Online. What I’m trying to say is, Gun Gale Online is a fun, chill action series about a bunch of people running around shooting each other and having fun, knowing that no one is in any actual danger and the only thing at stake is pride inside of a video game. The battle-royale scenario, the closing ring, the CoD style maps, it’s all just… fun. And for me, that makes it worth continuing.