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Finally finished watching all the stuff I was watching for the Winter season (that ended in Winter too).

So there was...

Gabriel DroOut. All in all, a pretty standard anime comedy. Not bad, pretty funny at times, but not too exciting for the most part. All things being equal, I'd give it about a 6/10 overall. But it did have one breakout character in the great archdemon Kuromizawa Satanichia McDowell. She was an inordinately entertaining character and really upped the humor and quality of the show quite a bit. Rather enjoyed it.

Nobunaga no Shinobi ended. I'm not gonna watch the second season.

ACCA was pretty cool, and had a satisfying finale, but I never really got too into it. I think it was probably a show that would have been better served by being watched after it was completed rather than week-to-week. It had an interesting setting, but not too much room to breathe in just 12 episodes, and with how much the plot had characters moving around, it was hard to keep track of everything at times.

Youjo Senki was really good. The military+magic theme was well done, the protagonist was extremely well realized, and the whole thing was very fun to watch. I still find the character design questionable, but that's about it.

Chaos;Child was like...definitely something. Not sure what exactly. Didn't enjoy it as much as any of the other science adventure shows I've watched. I'm not sure what exactly about it didn't jive with me...the art style and voice acting was often a source of irritation, and the story was way too crammed into the 12 episode format, but...I guess that may just be it. Last episode was kind of confusing in a couple different ways too.

Kinda want to play the game now though.

Classicaloid ended, at long fucking last. I'd rather shoot myself in the ears than watch the second season they're apparently making for some unimaginable reason. Honestly, I'd probably say this show was more aggressively mediocre than bad, but being so utterly uninteresting and largely unenjoyable for 25 episodes straight should be some sort of crime. Honestly found basically nothing to like in it.

And lastly, Kobayashi-san Chi no MaiDragon. AOTS. 3-gatsu may, possibly, be better deserving of that position, but it was a holdover from Fall. MaiDragon is definitely my favorite show of the Winter season, and I'm almost mortified I wasn't even planning on watching it in the first place. The series had a couple of problems (both attached to Lucoa), but putting that shit aside (thankfully, it wasn't that big a part of the show), I really struggle to find anything to dislike about it. It was a comfortable, funny, heartwarming little show that I'm honestly really sad to see go. Beautiful visuals, great music, great animation, great performances from the vas...I enjoyed this anime on basically every level.

Every level except the one Lucoa was on, anyway. I really wish she wasn't in this show. Easy 10/10 otherwise, at least for me. The last episode was a subtle assault on the place I keep all my feelings, and a very successful one too.

All in all, this Winter season was actually pretty good for me. The only shows I didn't really enjoy were all holdovers from the previous season. Somehow the gods allowed me to not pick any duds this time around, save maybe for Chaos;Child which was less me picking it and it just being a sequel to a show I'd seen.

In comparison to Winter my Spring is looking pretty light. Gonna keep watching Applimonsters and Little Witch Academia...other than that it's just Shingeki no Kyojin and Cinderella Girls Gekijou, and I'm planning on giving Fukumenkei Noise and Sakurada Reset a try. That's about it. Haven't started any of them yet though. Got some other stuff to do first...