- Now's the winter of our discontent,
but soon it'll be the spring of our brand new content,
specifically content like brand new anime coming our way.
While April showers bring May flowers,
the inextricable march of time brings
a heaping helping of new anime,
but with so many options to choose from,
how should you spend your time?
Well, I'm here to help.
On today's episode of The Dan Cave,
we're running down the best new spring anime
that you need to see.
Attack on Titan Season Two.
Waiting for that dance hall horn,
because it's finally here.
After waiting 19 long years,
or what felt like 19 long years,
we are finally getting a second season of Attack of Titan.
After throwing down with the female titan
you'd expect Eren, Mikasa and the gang
to kick back and relax,
but unfortunately they've got a whole new hoard of
titan to deal with inside their damn walls,
and honestly, they can't be worse than
what I've had to deal with inside my walls,
which is Kyle Hill and Jessica Chobot
constantly trying to steal my snacks.
Just buy your own.
Ask me, and I'll share with you.
I mean, Jesus, come on!
My Hero Academia.
Another fan favorite makes its return with
the second season of My Hero Academia.
I mean, high school sucks enough as it is,
but it sucks even more when those raging hormones
combine with raging super powers.
After proving himself in season one
against the league of villains,
Izuku and his pals are in for a sports festival
for the ages, if you're believing rumors about the manga.
Honestly, I'll watch pretty much anything
if there's a good old-fashioned competition in it,
and if it just so happens to be more My Hero Academia,
then even better.
Granblue Fantasy.
Finally, there's a show that takes the best part of Avatar,
the floating islands in the sky,
and ditches the worst part of Avatar,
the weird USB hair dicks,
to make a show that has no relation to Avatar.
Based on an RPG of the same name,
Granblue Fantasy tells the story of a young dude named Gran
who alongside a flying lizard
and a magical girl with blue hair has to stand against
an evil empire trying to murder everyone.
Basically, it has all the fun of
playing a sprawling fantasy RPG
without the hundred plus hours needed to play it.
Achievement locked.
Berserk.
Guts is back and this time there's no pesky
Mo or Mike O'Malley to ruin it.
There's also no Aggro Crag because this isn't a kids show.
You can't take home a piece of the radical rock.
Rather, it's a dark fantasy saga full of blood,
bone-crunching battle scenes, and spooky skeletons.
Guts, the supernaturally strong mercenary with
a sword the size of a small horse returns this April
to continue the grisly adventures in Berserk.
Sure, the CG might be questionable,
but when the action kicks this much ass,
can you really complain?
Well, considering that we're anime fans,
yes, but you get my point.
Hinako Note.
Now, I'm all for following your passions in life.
I mean, case in point, look what I get to do for a living.
This rules.
But honestly, this seems insane.
In Hinako Note, a shy little girl named Hinaki finds
that she's preternaturally gifted with handling animals,
so rather than becoming a veterinarian
or training service dogs,
she does what any one of us would do.
Starts working as a scarecrow.
You know, that old chestnut.
That old, "They told me I could become anything,"
"So I became a goddamn scarecrow."
Wait, what are you even talking about, chestnut?
Clockwork Planet.
You know what really grinds my gears?
Industrialization.
And the same can be said of Naoto,
the high school dropout/amateur tinkerer
at the heart of Clockwork Planet.
He lives a dull, dreary existence
until one day a box containing a female automaton
crashes into his home and sets off a chain of events
that will finally let him become the hero
he's always wanted to be.
And he'd better rise to the occasion too,
or otherwise the planet is pretty screwed.
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.
Naruto and Harry Potter share a lot in common,
in that they were orphaned under horrible circumstances,
busted their asses at elite academies,
ultimately saved the world,
and have kids with seriously stupid names.
Okay, not as stupid as Scorpius Malfoy,
but you get my point.
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
proves that time is a flat circle
and there will always be a new generation of Shinobi
to get embroiled in a weird ninja world war
and caught up in at least 60 episodes of filler.
Actually, maybe we can just skip that last part.
I mean please, please guys.
There's so much filler.
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Wow, they're just bringing everything back these days, huh?
What's this, the sixth Yu-Gi-Oh series?
And what's coming after this?
Are they bringing back I My Me! Strawberry Eggs?
No? I'm the only person who saw that? Cool.
Anyway, Yu-Gi-Oh returns this spring with
a brand new series starring Yusaku Fujiki,
a student who hates to stand out at his school.
Uh, hot tip, Yusaku,
maybe don't have hair that looks like you motor boated
a unicorn if you don't want to stand out.
Anyway, while we know there's gonna be plenty of
inner monologues and tense card battles,
my biggest question is how is this show
going to be updated for 2017?
You've activated my Trump card.
Blue eyes, alt right dragon.
Oh god, no no no, I'm so sorry, I hope not.
Atom: The Beginning.
What classic story isn't made
infinitely better by a prequel?
The Godfather had Godfather: Part II.
Monsters Inc had Monsters University.
Star Wars had, nevermind.
And now Astro Boy has Atom: The Beginning.
This anime tells the story of two brilliant
young university researchers who work together
to produce a robot dubbed A106.
The real question, though,
is whether he'll become a god or a friend,
but in the immortal words of that little girl
from that TV commercial, why not both?
And those are some of the best new spring anime
you need to put in your eyeballs, but tell me,
which are you most excited to see?
What would you add to this list?
How long will it take for someone to say
Cory in the House or Boku no Pico in the comments?
Let me know in the comments below.
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to prevent a burgeoning bee vampire from
causing the robot apocalypse in The Founderminator.
Until next time, keep on diggin'.
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