{"id":151423,"date":"2024-12-16T00:31:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T00:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starcrossedanime.com\/?p=56420"},"modified":"2024-12-16T00:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T00:31:11","slug":"mid-season-check-in-3-fall-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/mid-season-check-in-3-fall-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Season Check-In #3 \u2014 Fall 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wooper:<\/b><\/span> It\u2019s just me on Mid-Season Check-In duty this month, I\u2019m sorry to say. Lenlo has continued to watch all the shows he covered in the first of our fall posts, and I\u2019m sure Amun is still over the moon about the new seasons of Natsume Yuujinchou and DanMachi, but you\u2019ll just have to wait and see whether they can shoehorn those series into the AOTY conversation next year. My December round-up here won\u2019t be our last post of 2024 – that\u2019ll be the Winter Preview, which ought to pop up in about a week – but I hope you savor it all the same. Stay warm out there (or cool, as your hemispheric situation dictates)!<\/p>\n

POKETOON S2<\/h2>\n

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The first season of the Poketoon anthology premiered as a series of monthly YouTube uploads in 2021, and it had a couple of standout episodes, which I briefly wrote about for my \u201cIn Praise of Short Anime\u201d column that year. Fall 2024 saw the return of the series, only this time it alternated between one minute shorts (which were cross-posted to other social media sites) and longer installments. It\u2019s two of those nearly full-length episodes that I want to shout out here: \u201cChildhood Friend Charcadet\u201d and \u201cChansey Safari Tag,\u201d the first and third videos in [this playlist<\/span><\/a>]. The former is a tale of two wild Charcadet whose paths diverge after one of them leaves to accompany a trainer; it boasts stylish battle scenes and an effective, if predictable, tale of separation and reunion. The latter is probably the best of the lot, centering on an untameable Chansey whose attempts to help maintain its home Safari Zone are misunderstood by the park\u2019s warden. Scenes of the Chansey fleeing trainers\u2019 Poke Balls and emerging from tiny hiding spaces after using Minimize (a move whose aftereffects I\u2019d never seen animated before) are tons of fun, and there\u2019s a feel-good resolution to the story\u2019s human-Pokemon conflict. This franchise has gotten a sharp-looking side project every year of the 2020s so far, a trend which these two episodes (plus the Primeape-themed one, if you\u2019re feeling generous) managed to keep alive.<\/p>\n

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NegaPosi Angler – 8-11<\/h2>\n

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As this is our final fall check-in before the holidays, I won\u2019t have an opportunity to write about NegaPosi Angler\u2019s finale, but I\u2019m satisfied with what the show had to offer in these past four episodes. The pivotal one, number 10, brought Hiro\u2019s fears about mortality back to the surface, then put him on a collision course with Takaaki, who we learned had cut contact with his family after experiencing the pain of his brother\u2019s passing. As Hiro\u2019s own prognosis is terminal, he reacted poorly to the news that his friend had failed to process a loved one\u2019s death, and the animation in episode 10 really stepped up during their argument and Hiro\u2019s subsequent room-wrecking outburst after Takaaki fled their apartment. The follow-up was thankfully a casual one, giving Hiro the chance to work on himself, his health, and his quest to catch a sea bass, rather than rushing the boys\u2019 reconciliation (which ought to arrive in the last episode). Compared to these two installments, 8 and 9 feel somewhat small in retrospect, but both were worthy additions to the show\u2019s menu, following manager Machida-san as he attempted to connect with his estranged son over fishing, then observing the good vibes in the EveryMart break room, even as the employees were trapped there during a typhoon. I was particularly impressed with the show\u2019s dialogue-heavy script in the latter story, which went off without a hitch. Looking forward to the show\u2019s conclusion next week!<\/p>\n

Garden of Remembrance<\/h2>\n

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Garden of Remembrance isn\u2019t a fall, or even a 2024, production – it premiered two years ago at the Scotland Loves Anime film festival – but it did get subtitled just recently by the good folks over at [Orphan]. All they had to translate were the lyrics to a single song (plus a few cell phone notifications), since there\u2019s no dialogue for the entirety of Garden\u2019s 17 minute runtime. It offers few details about its characters, and its plot is feather light, but the visuals on offer here are incredible – as you might expect from a short film by Naoko Yamada. She\u2019s known to use flower language across all of her works, and the central flower in this one, the anemone, can represent both the death of a loved one and the arrival of spring – the latter of which is represented by the gentle movement of the protagonist\u2019s curtains after an intricately drawn exterior shot that descends on her home from above. The movie\u2019s multiple phases begin slowly and with cooler tones, but once the death at the heart of the story becomes evident, the presentation explodes with riotous guitar-driven rock and beautiful primary colors, celebrating the love that the central duo shared rather than staying trapped in the limbo of the repetitive first phase. There\u2019s meditative, joyous commentary here on grief, memory, and healing – made all the more potent by the film\u2019s total reliance on music and animation. One of my favorite anime of the year.<\/p>\n

Hyakushou Kizoku – 23-25<\/h2>\n

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I\u2019m a major admirer of the Silver Spoon anime adaptation, so the bits of Hyakushou Kizoku that revolve around Arakawa\u2019s experience at her agricultural boarding school are my favorites. Episode 24 contained some such bits, including her inability to join the art club due to its nonexistence; instead, she joined the karate club and honed her drawing abilities with detailed animal diagrams for her schoolwork. Not being an artist myself, I\u2019m always fascinated by their origin stories and practice habits – I remember an earlier episode where Arakawa spoke about her sketching of heffers\u2019 distinguishing spots as part of her farm work, so this was a nice addition to that early detail. Elsewhere in these three episodes, we got a gripe session about the lack of a \u2018one size fits all\u2019 pest deterrent – as the techniques that repel racoons, foxes, deer, and bears are all wildly different – and a history lesson on the settlement of Obihiro (a city in Hokkaido), which was beset by frost damage, flooding, and three consecutive summers of locust swarms. The endurance of those 19th century pioneers far eclipses the efforts of modern, machine-assisted farmers, but I feel there\u2019s a similar spirit at work in all those who choose to till the earth.<\/p>\n

Ranma \u00bd (2024) – 9-11<\/h2>\n

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I was ready to drop this show after finishing episode 9 and realizing that the martial arts ice skating plot, which had already begun in the previous episode, would extend into a third straight installment. More ridiculous special moves, more on-ice squabbling between tsundere teenagers, more of Mamoru Miyano\u2019s hammy performance as the ladies\u2019 man Mikado? Get me out of here, I thought. Still, I knew that Shampoo\u2019s introduction had to be just around the corner, so I waited a week, booted up episode 10, and was rewarded with a scene of her busting through a wall in her first appearance, as if to mark the obliteration of everything that came before her. The \u2018Kiss of Death\u2019 concept that comes with her character is really smart, since it applies differently to Ranma\u2019s two halves; for his female form, the kiss is deadly in the literal sense, but for his male form, it\u2019s \u201cdeadly\u201d in that Shampoo\u2019s obsession means he won\u2019t have a moment\u2019s peace. I have to agree with a commenter from the previous check-in post about the strength of the remake\u2019s animation, especially now that this lethal newcomer has to be drawn swinging her chu\u00ed around. We even got some choice cuts of Akane beating up a Ranma-clad training dummy in episode 11, before a clash with Shampoo left her with a classic case of anime-nesia. It\u2019s a silly development, but I much prefer it to the show\u2019s recent dips into martial arts tomfoolery, so we\u2019ll see where it leads.<\/p>\n

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