All tagged spring 2020
We do these lists four times a year, but it’s always a joy to experience the fantastic new music that comes from each season’s anime OPs. For Spring 2020, we have some jazz-influenced tunes, cutesy bubblegum, wacky up-tempo rock, and even straight-up K-pop. Let’s put on our headphones and jump right in, shall we?
The Spring 2020 anime season is packed with amazing shows, from big hits like Kaguya-sama and Tower of God to lesser-known but just as great titles like Appare Ranman and Woodpecker Detective’s Office. We encourage you to watch all of those shows, but if you have an abundance of free time for no particular pandemic-related reason, why not dig deeper and check out some anime that you might have missed from the past few seasons? We’ve got five fantastic recommendations for you right here!
Appare-Ranman is an original anime by P.A. Works that has a lot of promise—it takes the premise of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run, the main character of Dr. Stone, the steampunk technology of Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, and the pure chaos of that old Hanna-Barbera cartoon Wacky Races and ties them together with a distinctive style all its own. Fittingly, the story takes place in the early days of the Meiji era (1868 – 1912), which was characterized by an upheaval of traditional Japanese society and the integration of foreign concepts that would rapidly modernize and change the country for good. Let’s have a closer look at Appare-Ranman’s unique take on the Meiji era!
Spring 2020’s big breakout hit, Tower of God, has an unusual backstory. Instead of being adapted from a manga, light novel, game, or other Japanese media, it’s actually based on a Korean webcomic hosted on the platform Webtoon. We’ve seen the occasional French or Canadian co-production and Chinese animation studios regularly adapt their country’s most popular comics, but how did this peculiar arrangement happen? Let’s delve into Tower of God’s unlikely journey to become an anime!
