Anime of the Season

Escaflowne- Escaflowne is a classic fantasy and one of the earliest isekai.  Typical of early isekai, the protagonist is obsessed with returning home and virtually helpless despite having a mystic ability.  The real attraction of this is the nominal love interest, a superhuman prince from a backwater kingdom called Van.  

Slayers Next- Arguably the best of the many seasons of Slayers with the most impactful final arc.  Like all of the Slayers' series, it has a lot of slapstick humor, puns, and silliness alongside a surprisingly good story.  

Kodomo no Omocha- A good comedy about a child star's daily life.  I remember laughing a lot and crying a little, though I never went back once I watched it all.

Tenchi Muyou in Love- Easily the single worst Tenchi-related movie/series/episode.  Not really relatable, as it is virtually impossible to figure out where it fits in the labyrinthine series.

Sailor Moon Star - The final season for Sailor Moon anime, and this time they have another controversy with said controversy is in regard of Sailor Starlight who is a man in civilian form and female in transformed form, which to say the mangaka is less than pleasant to see the change because in the manga they just disguised as the male (Without sex change obviously). Other than that, Star here also has some Sailor Moon allies do some extreme thing to defeat the enemy, and obviously some fans can't accept that kind of writing. Oh yes while the anime villain stopped at Sailor Galaxia, in manga there's one more villain to defeat before Sailor Moon ending.

Kodocha - I came across several mention of it from the reviews of my favorite Precure reviewer, and I can only say that the manga will going darker than the anime alone to a degree.

Makibao - I only remember the opening song of it (Never watch the anime even though it's broadcasted in Indonesia), and let's just say that it's quite catchy. As for the titular horse Makibao itself, well let's just say that it's not as strong as usual horse or that it's not as cute and sexy like Uma Musume horses lol (Well the character designer may want to depict on how unusual looking horse can be quite strong in the race).

Lamune 40 - The real sequel of Lamune, and it's more or less like Boruto in that the previous MC son will be the new MC. While obviously there's still some hot blooded moment just like the old Lamune, what I can say is that the ending of the new Lamune here is surprisingly bittersweet with some higher level of casualties compared to the old one, which make sense considering that the premise is already grim enough with the old casts have misfortune to a degree so much that only Da Cider is the one available to accompany the new MC. 

Escaflowne - I did watch the anime of it on Animax, and well I don't understand much of it. From what I can see it's obviously combined both of shoujo and super robot together, although this is not the only isekai that has the same premise because we have Rayearth (Or you can also add Curious Play if we talk about isekai). If anything else, I can say that the song is quite good, and there's a reason behind it with the composer saw the potential in Sakamoto Maaya who was casted as Hiromi (The MC) VA. Long story short, she proved her potential as the singer and then she's become well known as both singer and VA.

Nube - Back when there's the ad in Indonesia, I thought it would be a scary anime. While it's still a scary anime, turned out that it's not as scary as I thought. I also read the manga of it, and let's just say that the manga has more fanservice compared to the anime. Nube itself is about a titular Nube who is a bumbling teacher that has supernatural power, and he'll use the power to save his students. I believe that Nube here is quite well known in Japan, so much that I think that Corpse Party staff made the five main characters based on the five main recurring students in Nube (Hiroshi, Kyoko, Miki, Katsuya, and Makoto), although I have no proof on this.

That's all for what I can comment on Spring 1996 anime.

Edited December 2, 2022 by littleshogun