winter 2021
Before I start, I just wanna say that this fucking season was proper stacked - with some pretty good originals, and also a shitton of sequels to popular shows, and I was also going through a full breakdown in my personal life, so like, make of that what you will. Completed: Skate Leading Stars For an anime original show without much of a big name behind it, I confess, my expectations for this show were not high. But - you don't need to have a great time to have a good time, and that's what Skate Leading Stars is. Brought to you by a guy who's sort of exclusively done really mediocre projects (Maria the Virgin Witch, Back Arrow, the storyboard for episode 7 of Space Dandy), this show is just about our MC Maeshima Kensei who quits skating and then goes back into a real niche (nonexistent) sport called Skate Leading, which is like, group figure skating, just to defeat this one genius skater called Shinozaki Reo. On the way, Shinozaki's half brother Hayato Sasugai jo...