Best of Anime 2023

With 2023 officially over, now comes the moment that many of you have been waiting for. It’s time for our annual foray into annoying everyone with our questionable opinions, the Best of Anime 2023 post! Continuing in 2022’s wake this will be a collaboration between writers. That would be me (Pancakes), Choya, FJ Freeman, and Princess Usagi. We didn’t quite manage all the shows this year, but we heavily focused on watching entries that made a serious clamour within the anime community. This is a fourth time for us, and we’ll inevitably get things wrong. So please feel free to be brutally honest while giving us constructive feedback. And if we picked something you disagree with don’t hesitate to voice your opinion – best of posts are always subjective!

RandomC Podcast #15: The Autumn Edition

Fall calls for comfy trips into the great beyond

Surprise surprise: another wild podcast makes an appearance! Although as much an act of spontaneity as planning, I cannot say a few of us finding the time to sit down and chat over literally a day (timezones are funny like that) was a problem in the slightest, particularly given it’s been a few years since our last.

Main kudos definitely must go to Cybersteel for organizing this one alongside Guardian Enzo and Princess Usagi for having the time to chat on the medium bringing us together. Considering how ridiculous this season is in particular it’s a very fitting roundtable, with our topics ranging from Fall 2023’s good, bad, and overall place within this year’s anime rankings. Hopefully our banter can both provide some additional insights on what we’re digging (and not so much) this season and give some decent distraction from what the world seems determined to keep throwing our way.

Fall 2023 Schedule

Friday

Nanatsu no Taizai: Mokushiroku no Yonkishi
16:30 CBC (10/06)

Sousou no Frieren
21:00 Nippon TV (09/29)

Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 3
21:00 AT-X (10/06)

GOBLIN SLAYER II
22:00 AT-X (10/06)

Keikenzumi na Kimi to, Keiken Zero na Ore ga, Otsukiai suru Hanashi.
22:30 AT-X (10/06)

HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima+
24:00 TOKYO MX (10/06)

Arknights: Perish in Frost
25:23 TV Tokyo (10/06)

UNDEAD UNLUCK
25:23 MBS・TBS (10/06)

Hametsu no Oukoku
25:53 MBS/TBS (10/06)

Kanojo mo Kanojo Season 2
26:23 MBS/TBS (10/06)

Saturday

Megumi no Daigo: Kyuukoku no Orange
17:30 Nippon TV (09/30)

Kibo no Chikara ~Otona Precure 23~
18:25 NHK E (10/07)

Saihate no Paladin: Tetsusabi no Yama no Ou
22:00 TOKYO MX (10/07)

Hikikomari Kyuuketsuki no Monmon
22:30 TOKYO MX (10/07)

SPY x FAMILY Season 2
23:00 TV Osaka (10/07)

Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen
23:30 TOKYO MX (10/07)

Kikansha no Mahou wa Tokubetsu desu
24:00 TOKYO MX (10/07)

Buta no Liver wa Kanetsu Shiro
24:30 TOKYO MX (10/07)

Ragna Crimson
25:00 TOKYO MX (09/30)

Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari: Dantoudai kara Hajimaru, Hime no Tensei Gyakuten Story
25:00 TOKYO MX (10/07)

Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
25:05 Nippon TV (10/21)

Bokura no Ame-iro Protocol
25:30 ABC (10/07)

Potion-danomi de Ikinobimasu!
26:00 ABC (10/07)

Legend:

 Not Covering

Now that every show has had a few episodes to make its case, it’s time to tell you what we’ll be blogging this season. This is Random Curiosity’s Fall 2023 blogging schedule.

As per illustrious tradition, this is a tentative overview of our plans for the new season . . . or would be, but with multiple episodes under our belts, we’re pretty confident in our picks. Will some of them fall flat in the home stretch? Probably. This is what we’ll stick with for now, barring any unforeseen changes in the near future.

Summer 2023 Schedule

Saturday

Level 1 dakedo Unique Skill de Saikyou desu
22:00 TOKYO MX (07/08)

Liar, Liar
22:30 Abema (07/08)

Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen – Ketsubetsu-tan
23:00 TV Aichi (07/08)

Horimiya -piece-
23:30 TOKYO MX (07/01)

Ryza no Atelier: Tokoyami no Joou to Himitsu no Kakurega
24:00 TOKYO MX (07/01)

Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha II
24:30 AT-X (07/08)

AYAKA
25:00 TOKYO MX (07/01)

Temple
25:30 TOKYO MX (07/08)

Uchi no Kaisha no Chiisai Senpai no Hanashi
25:30 TV Asahi (07/01)

Jitsu wa Ore, Saikyou deshita?
26:00 ABC (07/01)

Legend:

 Not Covering

Now that every show has had a few episodes to make its case, it’s time to tell you what we’ll be blogging this season. This is Random Curiosity’s Summer 2023 blogging schedule.

As per illustrious tradition, this is a tentative overview of our plans for the new season . . . or would be, but with multiple episodes under our belts, we’re pretty confident in our picks. Will some of them fall flat in the home stretch? Probably. This is what we’ll stick with for now, barring any unforeseen changes in the near future.