The Fall 2023 anime season has a lot of anime. Like, a lot. For someone who has seen every detail of it, I felt tired of it at first. However, while the number of anime leads to an above-average number of spin-off series, there are actually a lot of good series as well. To be honest, at first glance there was more to it than I expected.
If you’re looking to see what’s worth watching in that Fall 2023 anime season, check out below.
Best anime fall 2023
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
After defeating the Demon King, the victorious hero’s party returned home. After dispersing, the elf mage Frieren continued his journey to satisfy his hobby of collecting spells. However, as a long-lived elf, fifty years passed in the blink of an eye for her. Now, she finds her old friends and acquaintances slowly passing away with age.
Before he died, cleric Heiter attempted to place his young protégé, Fern, into Frieren as her apprentice mage. Together, they travel to collect talismans, but after visiting many of the locations that Frieren once visited with the group of heroes, she begins to reflect on the missed opportunity to form a deep bond. closer to her dead comrades and appreciates the new opportunities she has with the present.
Why is it worth watching?
When it comes to seasonal favorites, I can see the appeal and I admit that they are always good anime. However, Frieren is one of those seasonal anime that was hyped before the season started that I watched without even knowing that I can say that it is actually a great anime.
It takes a familiar plot in a world oversaturated with the fantasy anime genre – slaying the demon lord – and turns it into a legitimately new and unique spin. By focusing on post-adventure, it gives you insight into a lot of concepts that are often overlooked in the fantasy genre, such as what it’s like for elves to have human companions. theirs died.
However, while I am at it as someone who is very passionate about “feeling anime” that targets emotional responses with a laser beam with heartwarming stories, Frieren is more than just an emotional anime. It’s also a fun action adventure in its own right, ultimately packing in fun and beautifully animated battles that are just as exciting as the emotional moments. Honestly, getting emotionally invested in the characters before the action actually makes watching the battles more enjoyable. Shounen warriors should keep a few things in mind.
Undead Unluck
All Fuko wants is a passionate romance like in her shoujo manga. However, she has the annoying ability Unluck to cause anyone she touches to have an accident – the severity of which depends on her feelings for them. After accidentally killing her parents in a plane crash, Fuko was paralyzed by the fear that she might accidentally touch someone during her years of seclusion.
With her favorite manga now over, Fuko is about to take her own life when a man who claims to be unable to die rushes in and saves her. Excited about her ability to finally kill him for good, this man whom she nicknames Andy declares that he will make her fall in love with him so she will give him a blow. The most deadly bad luck possible.
Teaming up and joining an organization that hunts people with potentially dangerous abilities like theirs, the pair tackle some unique enemies.
Why is the movie worth watching?
Undead Unluck got a major shake-up when it became a Hulu exclusive, meaning it got less attention than when it aired on one of the actual anime streaming services (in, anyway). The West). But even if it means I have to visit a completely different streaming platform every week, it still makes it fun.
The interesting thing that sets Undead Unluck apart from “just another shounen fighter” is that it dares to go big. At first, it’s surprising to see how much each scene can outdo itself. However, it knows that you can only get over yourself for so long before it becomes untenable, but when it gets a grip on it, you’re hooked.
In each episode of Undead Unluck, you will be treated to an incredibly confident yet surprisingly kind Undead who does not back down from any challenge that could even remotely lead to death. He is supported and accompanied by Unluck, who plays a funny woman in all kinds of silly comedy situations.
In short, Undead Unluck makes shounen silly and fun without relying on crippling animation or the eye-rolling power of friendship. It makes shounen combat feel as exciting as the first time you watched it.
Pharmacy diary
Learning to be a pharmacist from her father, Maomao honed her skills in the brothels of her town. However, one day, she was kidnapped and forced to work as a servant in the back area of the Imperial Palace, the residence of the emperor’s concubines.
While trying to stay hidden until her contract expired, Maomao caught the attention of the emperor’s favorite consort when her apothecary skills finally saved the life of her young daughter. of the emperor.
This action resulted in her being considered a maid and tasting the emperor’s food thanks to Maomao’s extensive knowledge of both medicine and poison.
Why is the movie worth watching?
Like Frieren, there’s a distinct bit of hype in the air for this series being adapted as well. As usual, it’s pretty assured even though this series is a bit like The Tale of Saiunkoku, The Inner Court Crow and Red-Haired Snow White had a threesome and this slipped out in the middle of the movie. (But like, in a good way.)
Apothecary’s Diary creates likable characters. It has the typical rivalry between concubines, but the main character, interested only in food and medicine, does not interfere in the plot. So she didn’t dive headfirst into every palace plot, but somehow managed to save the world. She’s as fresh as a shoujo protagonist you’ve ever seen. Furthermore, the story actively pushes back against developing into a romance story because romance tends to take over shoujo plots like a creeping creeper. And yet, the potential for romance still dangles there, tying the lover along for the ride.
100 girlfriends who really, really, really, really, really love you
Throughout his high school career, Rentaro Aijo confessed to – and was rejected by – 100 girls. After his 100th confession, he visited a temple and prayed to the gods that he would have better luck in high school.
Suddenly, Cupid appeared and announced to him that in high school he would meet 100 soul mates. His destiny is to date!
However, the catch is that once he meets these soulmates, the two must go on a date or the girl will die. Can Rentaro make it through high school with 100 girlfriends!?
Why is it worth watching?
Harem anime where the main character dates all the girls – or harem anime in general – usually never comes close to peaking what I like in a season. I can see the appeal of fantasy to its demographic, but its demographic isn’t me. However, 100 Girlfriends was an experience and not as bad an experience as I thought it would be.
By making the main character a waffle rather than the usual crudely confident, eye-rolling harem male lead, it makes the fact that 100 girls instantly fall in love with him less jarring. What makes the series legitimately good, however, is the humor–both the meta jokes and the intensity of the girls’ humor. It also uses its already over-the-top concept to parody the entire harem genre and runs with it to its comedic best whenever possible.
Tearmoon Empire
When the people rebelled against the royal line leading to famine and suffering, the first princess Karen Luna Tearmoon was imprisoned and eventually publicly executed. After her death, Karen woke up several years ago when she was still just a child.
At first, she thought it was all just a terrible dream until she found the bloodstained diary she kept in the cell next to hers. Using her knowledge of the future, Karen seeks to escape her fate by preventing impending mismanagement and economic strife. However, tireless efforts are not something this pampered princess is used to or particularly good at.
Why is the movie worth watching?
While it’s always weird that going back in time to redo your previous evil deeds so as not to die is limited to the realm of otome game villains and the occasional NEET, Tearmoon Empire puts set a complicated precedent. You know what anime is like. Once they know we like something, it just keeps growing. That’s why we have so many isekai. Are “Regressors” the next trend?
Anyway, part of what makes Tearmoon Empire good is that it follows an anime story about a villain but doesn’t dare set it in an otome game. The real fun, though, is seeing a character who is still rotten inside but is making smart choices that make her seem good to others. In doing so, their positive reception of her begins to change the character that years of privilege have forged.
Migi and Dali
Falling in love with him at first sight, Sonoyama and his wife happily welcome home their new adopted child, Hitori.
While they realize their son is the perfect child, he harbors a secret. Hitori is actually an identical twin named Migi and Dali who are pretending to be a boy.
Migi and Dali worked hard to seduce the Sonoyamas to take them home to Origon Village, the village where they were born and the village where their mother died. Together, the boys continue their charade to discover who murdered their mother in this village many years ago.
Why is the movie worth watching?
Calling Migi and Dali one of the best anime of the season is certainly what you’d call a “hot take.” However, this makes you enjoy it. I started thinking of it like Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure – more specifically Jojo Part 4 – where it’s all weird comedy from weird people all over town and no “ora ora” action. while investigating a mysterious murder.
Although at first Migi and Dali seems to be about two strange twins pretending to be one person, it reveals a truly sinister plot as they do so to find out who murdered their mother in the town. that town many years ago. The deeper you go into the rabbit hole of this murder mystery, the weirder it becomes. However, that strangeness still does not take away from the sinister menace that radiates from certain characters and situations.
It’s unique and weird in the best way. I like anime that do both, but that’s probably because I’ve watched so much at this point that maybe the new stuff interests me too much.
What do you like about Fall 2023? Let fans know in the comments below.