Back in November 2023, I wrote a joke article about having the good foresight to review the first season of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, which had aired in the winter 2023 season, before a second season was announced that fall. While my actual review of the show did surge in views with the announcement, it was eventually overtaken by the joke article (that was not by design) so much so that by the end of 2024, the joke article was my 3rd most-visited article of the year while my serious review was 16th. The joke article just completed its best-ever week in terms of page views (albeit not good enough to overcome my review of Kaori After Story for the number-one spot this past week), and it is showing no signs of slowing down. I wondered what gives. Perhaps it was the release of a teaser image pertaining for the upcoming second season (note: no release date yet).
Tag: the angel next door spoils me rotten
First Anime I Watched in 2024
Or if you haven’t watched any yet in 2024, I guess what anime will you start with? Surely anyone reading this has watched something though, right?
Yomu at the Umai Yomu Anime Blog asked readers to answer the following question: What anime did you start the new year with? The first anime I watched in 2024 was actually a 2023 series: BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!!!!! Two factors came together to make that 2023 musical melodrama my first anime of the new year.
First, I had started working on my long 2023 anime year-in-review article for The New Leaf Journal in late December. My year-in-review features a list of my top-six series of the previous year. I had considered publishing it in late December, but I had multiple projects in the works so I delayed it until the first week of January. I then became sick in late December and my ill health trickled into the first few days of 2024. Being sick and not having work assignments, I had little to do. I had read some positive reviews of BanG Dream! It’s MyGo!!!!! and, after confirming that familiarity with the BanG Dream! franchise was not a prerequisite to entry (I had no prior familiarity), I decided to spend some of my sick hours watching the series to see what the fuss was about and make sure that I covered all the bases I wanted to cover for my 2023 anime review article. While it is far from perfect, it impressed me enough to earn the fourth spot on my final anime of the year ranking, which made me delete a section that I had written for (former) sixth place The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (that one still has its full-length review, however).