Winter 2021 is one of the most stacked anime seasons in recent memory, especially compared to the drought that made up much of 2020. You could toss a dart at the season chart and hit any number of hype sequels or worthy newcomers without even trying... well, unless you hit Ex-Arm or Redo of Healer, but we don’t talk about those. Crunchyroll is hosting the simulcasts for many of these fantastic new anime, so let’s take a look at the best ones to watch this season!
In the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, the Zenin family is a highly regarded clan of jujutsu sorcerers that holds considerable power over pretty much every organization related to Curse exorcism. Mai and Maki Zenin, two twin sisters who failed to inherit the Zenin clan’s powerful jujutsu techniques, clawed their way into the sorcery schools anyway and face off against each other during the Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event in episode 17. Their emotionally-charged battle is fueled by their mixed feelings of jealousy and love toward one another, getting right to the heart of what sibling arguments are all about. Let’s take a closer look!
The content sharing website Reddit is known for many things: originating a bevy of popular internet memes, hosting massive Secret Santa exchanges, banding together to bankrupt hedge funds, and having a subreddit for just about every topic imaginable. Today, we’ll be exploring one of our favorite subreddits, r/AreTheStraightsOK, which is a community where LGBTQ+ people and allies poke fun at the toxic heteronormativity that permeates straight culture like cigarette smoke in a bowling alley carpet. Let’s take a closer look!
The Winter 2021 anime season has certainly come out swinging, with outstanding sequels for favorites like The Promised Neverland and Beastars, as well as hot new properties like Horimiya and Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation. One thing that we’ve noticed so far is that these anime are absolutely killing it with their background art, especially three of them in particular: Kemono Jihen, SK8 the Infinity, and Wonder Egg Priority. So, if you’ll allow it, we’d like to gush for a while about the beautiful worlds that the animators of these shows create with their minute attention to detail. Please come join us!
Summer 2018’s Cells at Work is a mostly lighthearted educational anime that uses anthropomorphic personifications of cells to illustrate how the human body functions and how it fights diseases.
Now, Winter 2021 has brought us two new additions to the franchise: the second season of the original, and our subject for today – a much darker spin-off called Cells at Work: Code Black. In this body, unhealthy lifestyle choices like smoking and unsafe sex have made the cells’ jobs unbearably stressful and dangerous, akin to the Japanese concept of a “black company” that works its employees to the bone. Let’s take a closer look at this more mature take on the Cells at Work world!
When Yakusoku no Neverland (The Promised Neverland) first aired in the Winter 2019 season, it was praised for its shockingly dark premise and thrilling prison break storyline. Now, two years later, we pick up where we left off as the Grace Field House orphans try to navigate the outside world after successfully escaping their gilded cage. We’re only a few episodes into the new season so far, but let’s see what our favorite pre-pubescent masterminds are getting up to this time!
