Winter 2019 Preview!

The weather outside is frightful, and—oh, enough with the lame lines, there’s seasonally appropriate beverages to consume and this post is overdue anyway. Winter is a time for renewal(?), which is why several venerated franchises are getting new iterations to start off 2019, including the spooky urban legend Boogiepop wa Warawanai and the Tezuka Osamu manga Dororo. Of course there are glorious sequels aplenty, including the inventive and nuanced Mob Psycho 100 II, another season of the gambling addict’s worst nightmare Kakegurui ××, and the kissing-girls-to-save-the-world antics of Date A Live III. Oh, and Kemono Friends 2, with all new staff. Among the adaptations a lot of us are looking at the isekai stylings of Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari, the love competition of Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Ren’ai Zunousen, and the dramatic orphan danger of Yakusoku no Neverland. There are even a few originals to round out the crew, such as the Netflix sci-fi series Revisions, the fluffy hero slice-of-life Endro~!, and the Girls und Panzer of the air in Kouya no Kotobuki Hikoutai. There’s something for everyone, or at least I hope. This is Random Curiosity’s Winter 2019 Preview.

Fall 2018 Schedule

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Fairy Tail (2018)
07:00 TV Tokyo (10/07)
Akanesasu Shoujo
19:30 MBS (10/01)
Tokyo Ghoul:Re (2018)
23:00 MX (10/9)
Ore ga Suki nano wa Imouto Dakedo Imouto ja Nai
22:00 AT-X (10/10)
Han-Gyaku-Sei Million Arthur Bu
22:00 MX (10/11)
Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san
21:00 AT-X (10/05)
Gyakuten Saiban: Sono “Shinjitsu”, Igi Ari! Season 2
17:30 ytv (10/06)
Ulysses: Jeanne d’Arc to Renkin no Kishi
22:00 MX (10/07)
Thunderbolt Fantasy: Touri-ken Yuuki 2
22:00 MX (10/01)
Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru
25:29 Nippon TV (10/02)
Hora, Mimi ga Mieteru yo!
22:24 MX (10/03)
Karakuri Circus
22:30 TBS (10/11)
Yagate Kimi ni Naru
21:30 AT-X (10/05)
Radiant
17:35 NHK-E (10/06)
DOUBLE DECKER! Doug & Kirill
22:30 MX (9/30)
Golden Kamuy 2nd Season
23:00 MX (10/08)
CONCEPTION
25:30 Sun TV (10/9)
Sora to Umi no Aida
24:00 MX (10/03)
Merc Storia: Mukiryoku Shounen to Bin no Naka no Shoujo
22:30 AT-X (10/11)
To Aru Majutsu no Index III
22:00 AT-X (10/05)
Sword Art Online: Alicization
24:00 MX (10/06)
Anima Yell!
23:30 AT-X (10/07)
Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken
24:00 ANIMAX (10/01)
BEATLESS Final Stage
27:00 ANIMAX (9/25)
RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida
24:00 MX (10/03)
Zombieland Saga
23:30 AT-X (10/04)
Hinomaru Zumou
22:00 MX (10/05)
SSSS.GRIDMAN
24:00 WOWOW (10/06)
Tsurune: Kazemai Koukou Kyuudou Bu
24:10 NHK (10/14)
Souten no Ken REGENESIS Season 2
24:30 MX (10/08)
INGRESS THE ANIMATION
24:55 CX (10/17)
Gakuen Basara
25:28 TBS (10/04)
Kitsune no Koe
22:30 MX (10/05)
Goblin Slayer
24:30 AT-X (10/06)
Gaikotsu Shoten’in Honda-san
26:05 BS11 (10/07)
Ken en Ken: Aoki Kagayaki
26:05 TV Tokyo (10/01)
Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume o Minai
26:15 ABC (10/03)
Bakumatsu: Ren’ai Bakumatsu Kareshi Gaiden
TBA TBS (10/04)
Gurazeni Season 2
22:30 BS SKY (10/05)
RELEASE THE SPYCE
26:38 MBS (10/06)
Beelzebub-jou no Oki ni Mesu Mama.
26:50 ABC (10/10)
Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru!
23:00 AT-X (10/05)
Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu.
24:00 MX (10/05)
Senran Kagura: Shinovi Master – Tokyo Youma Hen
24:00 AT-X (10/12)
JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Ougon no Kaze
25:05 MX (10/05)
Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet
25:25 TBS (10/05)
Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara
25:55 TBS (10/05)
Castlevania Season 2
TBA Netflix (10/26)
Legend: 2 1 0 1
2 2 4 Not covering

Now that every show has had several a bunch of episodes to make its case, it’s time to tell you what we’ll be blogging this season. This is Random Curiosity’s Fall 2018 blogging schedule.

As always, this is a tentative overview of our plans for the new season . . . is what we used to say, but with multiple episodes under our belts, we’re pretty confident in our picks. Will some of them flounder down the stretch? It’s happened before. This is what we’re going with for now.