Japan Realizes That Rehashed Moe Shit is Still Shit

I can only assume that yesterday’s trifecta of awesome anime news– a new season of Slayers, news on the long-in-development Trigun movie, and an anime adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga’s phenomenal 1999 character study Antique Bakery –is the sign of GOOD THINGS TO COME.

Namely, that perhaps Japanese companies are realizing that they really need to stop populating every season with a half-dozen or so shounen romance/moe drama series.

Relatively few of these shows are actually what I’d call *bad*. But after a while, shows like KimiKiss, sola, KimiAru, True Tears, H2O, Nagasarete Airantou, Seto no Hanayome, Umisho, Sumomomo Momomo, Happiness!, OtoBoku, etc…they just tend to all blur together. (And for the record, I’ve enjoyed a handful of those shows, so don’t think I’m just picking on the genre as a whole.)

Obviously it would be better if Japanese companies were coming up with more new and original stuff, but a return to some awesome shows– especially the fourth Slayers season and the Trigun movie, both of which are fulfilling promises made to fans about a decade ago –isn’t a bad way to go, especially for the US where moe shows don’t sell as easily as they do in Japan.

So, I for one think that all three of these pieces of news are a Good Sign. We don’t have to ditch moe entirely, we just need to be a little pickier about how many get anime’d. Ya?