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Premieres sometime in 2024. Check out the Crunchyroll article for additional cast/staff information. Synopsis of the first season from AniList:

202X A.D., a future beyond Initial D.

Self-driving cars are in widespread use in Japan, and public roadways are used for auto racing. In such an era, a race called MFG has become popular around the globe. Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini… Participants are invited to race with their fastest cars. One such participant, a British racing school graduate, Kanata Rivington, returns to Japan to achieve his goal.

Season 1 premieres June 22nd followed soon after by season 2 on August 6th. Check out the ANN article for additional cast/staff information. Synopsis from AniList:

A young boy, Gawain, lives in a mountainous, rural area with an incredible love for baseball and making the ball really fly. One day he runs into a visitor to the small area and she introduces him to a sport that can really make a ball take to flight: golf! It just takes one shot and Gawain is hooked. With his grandpa's approval he sets off to Tokyo with this mysterious woman to learn all he can about golf, encountering many colorful characters and obstacles along the way.

She was the main character designer for many of the Tales games, and she worked as an animator, character designer and animation director on several anime titles, including Windaria, Brain Powerd and Future GPX Cyber Formula.

She was the illustrator of the Utsunomiko (written by Keisuke Fujikawa) and The Weathering Continent (written by Sei Takegawa) novels. She worked as an illustrator for Dragon Quest as well.

Premieres in Japan May 10th. The new PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional cast/staff information. Synopsis from AniList:

The novel trapezium depicts the 10 years of a girl who aims to be an idol. Yuu Higashi, a high school girl, aims to be an idol. To achieve her dream, she sets out four rules for herself: she will not be active on social media, she will not have a boyfriend, she will not stand out in school, and she will make friends with beautiful girls across the country from the north, south, east, and west.

Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu 2nd Season, episode 11

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Series premieres in July 2024. Check out the ANN article for additional cast/staff information. Synopsis from AniList:

Film enthusiast Mao Tsuchiya and his lone wolf roommate Hisashi Otomo make three promises:

(1) That Mao will never tell anyone that Hisashi is gay and has a boyfriend, (2) That Hisashi will never approach Mao "in that way," and (3) That they’ll respect each other's "private time."

The second-years' ground rules should ensure a peaceful life together in their dorm, but reality is never as simple as it seems in the movies, and some things are not so easily promised...

Premieres in Japan on August 30th. The new PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional cast/staff information. Synopsis from AniList:

Totsuko is a high-school student who attends a Christian Academy in Nagasaki and can see the hearts of people as colors. Whether they’re happy colors, sad colors, peaceful colors, frightened colors... In order to not darken her friend's and family's “colors,” Totsuko is careful to read the room and stretches the truth to keep them all brightly colored. Totsuko then meets a beautiful girl who radiates very striking colors and a boy who loves music in a used bookstore in the corner of town. The three come together and form a band to make the music of their adolescence.

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• Use this thread to ask for any shows that you would like to see discussion threads for next season.
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In place of the normal weekly general thread this week, I wanted to provide an update about a siginificant change to the community that will be taking place soon. Namely, that episode discussion threads for Spring shows and onward will be bot-created rather than user-created as is currently the case for most Winter shows.

The Dawn of the Age of Machines

To that effect, everybody please welcome the newest member of the moderation team, [email protected], the bot that will take over discussion thread posting duties going forward. If you would like to see what the new discussion threads will look like, you can see one that she already posted here. If you would like more information about how the bot will work and how you can interact with the bot, check out the wiki article I wrote here. If you have any questions or comments, please use this thread to ask me.

Request Spring Show Threads Here

This thread will serve as your initial opportunity to ask for discussion threads to be made for Spring shows. You can see a full list of the Spring season's shows here. Please make a comment in this thread if there are any shows that you plan on watching and would like a discussion thread to be made.

Exception to the Rules

There is currently only one show that I plan on handling in a way different than what is standard operating procedure for rikka, namely, Delicious in Dungeon. Currently, there have been quite active discussion threads for each episode over in [email protected] and I don't want to negatively impact a growing, active community on the fediverse. So, I will defer this show's discussion threads to that community rather than having the bot create separate threads in this community. I will try to make sure that these threads are discoverable from this community though (will be in a pinned discussion index thread similar to the Winter Discussions post currently pinned).

In the future, if there is a series-specific community that is active and wants to run their own discussion threads in a similar way, I am amenable to giving that series a similar treatment. If you currently, or want to moderate a series-specific community for a series that is airing, feel free to reach out to me. I would like to see series-specific communities grow and don't want to contribute to stifling their growth by sucking all the discussion-oxygen out of the proverbial room.

The New Normal

Going forward, expect a thread similar to this each season in which you can make the initial requests for show discussion threads (1-2 weeks prior to season start). The first show that is categorized as a Spring show premieres on March 20th (Sand Land: The Series). So, user-made threads will not be allowed for that series, or any other series categorized as a Spring show (per AniList). User-made threads will be allowed to continue for currently airing Winter shows as the season draws to a close. After the Winter shows have ended, so has the age of user-created episode discussion threads.

Acknowledgements

I just wanted to add a blurb here at the end to recognize the contributions that both shinobu and chaorace (shinobu's maintainer) have made to the anime community within the lemmy-verse. It was chaorace's work on the lemmy fork of the holo project that provided the starting point for the codebase that eventually became rikka. Also, it was the episode discussion threads created by shinobu that served as an entry point for me to get more involved in the greater anime community on lemmy. It is quite plausible that without shinobu/chaorace, anime on lemmy would still be a splintered and disperse community instead of having a critical concentration of active users gathered here. So, I will raise a glass tonight for shinobu and will always remember her fondly.

Also, as always, thanks to hitagi for both being the lead moderator in this community as well as the admin of the instance. They have always been helpful and responsive to my questions and have yet to ~~put a check on my absolute power~~ give me any reason to regret all the time, energy, and donations I have put into the communities and this instance.

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Series premieres March 20th. The new PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional cast/staff information as well as information about its unusual release schedule. Another notable thing about the source manga is that it was done by the recently late Akira Toriyama of Dragonball fame. Synopsis from AniList:

In the far future, war has destroyed the entire Earth, leaving only a barren wasteland where the supply of water is controlled by the greedy king. In search of a long-lost lake, Sheriff Rao asked the king of the demons for help...and got the king's son, Beelzebub, and his assistant, Thief. Together the unlikely trio sets off across the desert, facing dragons, bandits and the deadliest foe of all... the King's army itself!

The first half of the SAND LAND: THE SERIES anime, episodes one to six, are titled “Akuma no Ooji” and is based on the film adaptation with some new footage, it will premiere alongside episode seven, which is the first episode of a brand-new arc titled “Tenshi no Yuusha”.

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No release date for this series yet. Check out the Crunchyroll Article for additional cast/staff information. Synopsis from AniList:

Taiki Inomata is on the boys' badminton team at sports powerhouse Eimei Junior and Senior High. He's in love with basketball player Chinatsu Kano, the older girl he trains alongside every morning in the gym. One Spring day, their relationship takes a sharp turn ... And thus begins this brand-new series of love, sports and youth!

Premieres July 2024. The new PV is here. Check out the ANN article for additional cast/staff information. Synopsis from AniList:

Kazuhiko Nukumizu is a high school boy content to blend in with the background mob, until he witnessed his more popular classmate Anna Yanami get dumped by her childhood friend. He felt like he had to try to comfort Yanami, but this led him to become entangled with other girls who have met defeat at love?

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Series premieres April 7th. Check out the ANN article for additional cast/staff information. Synopsis of the first season from AniList:

Spring in the first year of high school. Kumiko, a member of the brass band in junior high school, visits the high school brass band club with classmates Hazuki and Sapphire. There, she comes across Reina, her former classmate from junior high. Hazuki and Sapphire decide to join the club, but Kumiko can’t make up her mind. She recollects her experience with Reina at a competition in junior high school.

No premiere date announced for the series yet. Check out the ANN article for staff information. Synopsis from AniList:

The slime created by the boy Kotarou can transform into a super beautiful girl! Kotarou is constantly getting pushed around by Puniru's freewheeling antics. It's a joyful and exciting life every day!