Anime of the Season

Girls Meets Girl - A story about male MC crushed by an alien spaceship with the alien decided to turn the MC into female as the way to apologize, and then having love triangle with her female childhood friend and the popular girl. Yes it's GL love triangle anime with the MC is formerly male, and I see no problem with it lol. Also serious GL drama is not stranger in the manga, with one of those is 'Yuri is My Job' that just aired in Spring 2023. The manga and the anime here have different ending, although the manga is not fully adapted, so in exchange you may also want to watch the OVA if you want full experience of this. Almost forgot to mention that eufonius did a good job with the opening song.

Magikano - Compared to PCSS, obviously this is not 49 episode magical girl anime even with transformation scene and stuff. Also the MC here is just use as some sort of plot device, although it might be justified seeing that his looks is like Love Hina Keitarou and so the staff decided to have the MC as generic as possible. The anime here is ending up with weird Return to the Past loop, while the manga is not have that plot as much as I recall.

PCSS - Toei did make a neat setting between the Precure and the villain organization, with the Precure is based on Japanese Four Beauty of Nature (Even though initially it only has two Precure) with the cadres are based on Chinese Five Elements, and both sides have goal to search Fountain of Sun in order to do what they wish so (Precure is obviously to protect it, while the villain is to destroy it). Oh yes, the premise is that Precure is summoned because the villain already destroyed 6 out of 7 fountains, and another neat thing is that the fountain are based on the days in Japanese. That said, unfortunately it has flaw, namely that the Precure design resembled FwPC so much Italian thought that Saki and Mai is the future Nagisa and Honoka, so obviously it's quite awkward to watch when it's first broadcasted in 2006. Obviously Toei decided to not have the artist working as the character designer for the next Precure, although he's skilled enough in animation direction so he's still work as Animation Director for several Precure episodes.

Fate Stay Night - While obviously recent fans would prefer newer UBW anime thanks to Ufotable hard work (Which even more successful now that they adapt Demon Slayer) and that UBW has more plot twist compared to Fate, obviously 2006 version here is still decent introduction to Fate franchise, providing that the audience didn't expect Ufotable level of effects. It help that actually it's quite good adaptation for 2006, considering that at that year there's several less faithful VN adaptation with one of the example is Shuffle (At least there's no sudden Rin become the final enemy twist or something like that). That said, it's still quite a debate on which Fate anime version is the best, although at least with Ufotable not made Fate route adaptation yet, Fate 2006 the only way to watch animated Fate route (UBW has the aforementioned anime, and Heaven's Feel has movie trilogy).

Hellsing Ultimate - The OVA is the most faithful adaptation, and thus it's better received on MAL. Of course there's some flaw happen, with the obvious one is that the pacing is rushed compared to the manga, which make sense if we consider that the studio only have 10 episodes to fully adapt the manga even with the extended length. Also yes, with it is not broadcasted on TV, the staff here have more freedom to not reduce the disturbing contents and the fan service, some of which is including on how they make Seras's breast as big like in the manga (Yes it's important to note because it's one of the change that the anime magazine which I read mentioned).

That's all for what I can write in regard of Winter 2006 anime here.

Edited April 21, 2023 by littleshogun