Have you watched Kuroko’s Basket or Kuroko No Basuke? I have and I would recommend to watch a second time, so today’s Friday Flashback will be dedicated to this Sports Anime.
Title: Kuroko’s Basketball (黒子のバスケ, Hepburn: Kuroko no Basuke)
Hello, dearies! ⛹️ I realised recently that I don’t have one for Kuroko no Basuke, which is odd since I really liked this one.
Have you ever heard of or watched this anime? I hadn’t until Crunchyrolland Netflix put it in my face as recommendation because I had watched… I have no idea what. Honestly, I don’t why the algorithm thought it would be good for me to watch, perhaps because I watched Dragon Ball? That could be it.
Anyway, I watched and liked it a lot. It’s fun, more so if you like High School, School Life, and Basketball. And Seinen then you definitely can watch this one.
NANA (Anime) is a friendship/love story that suddenly turns traumatic and unbelievable. The more you watch this anime, the more invested you become in it! It’s now available on Netflix, but you can also watch it on Crunchyroll.
Oh wow… I’m not even remotely ready to talk about this one.
Anime: NANA
Genres: Romance. Josei. Drama. Music. So much drama.
Nana “Hachi” Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock’n’roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties! Anxious to get into a Tokyo groove, both women are on the prowl for a funky and cheap place to live. But inexpensive apartments in Japan’s capital city are hard to find. Thank goodness each Nana has a clique of cool friends willing to help out. Too bad these friends are a little wiggy!
The year is coming to an end. 2024 is around the corner.
What did I watch this year? Surprisingly, I feel like I watched more things this year than the last.
I’ll dive right into it… this one will be short.
What I Watched in 2023
Bubble (Anime Movie)
My year started good with this one.
Wednesday (TV Show)
Alright, I caved and watched Wednesday. And yes, it was good.
THG: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snake (Movie)
I think my expectations were high, even when I knew they shouldn’t be.
Memories of the Alhambra
Always nice to see Park Shin-Hye, she’s pretty.
Fruits Basket (2019)
The amount of time I spent and will spent in the future re-watching Fruits Basket, it’s not normal. I loved the story even when it’s so dramatic and traumatic. And the characters are awesome, too.
Fruits Basket (2001)
I just wanted it to be over. It was a complete disaster, and so different from the Manga, specially how they wrapped it up.
Jujutsu Kaisen
It’s been a ride to watch and continue to watch every week.
Yes, I’m aware this movie is from last year but I hadn’t watched it.
Hocus Pocus 2
Very aware that it took me a year to watch, yes.
Megan
Shingeki No Kyojin
I almost forgot AOT the final episodes, or however it is styled. The final chapters of Attack on Titan. It was very hard to watch, and at the same time very moving.
Honourable Mentions
Mostly because I forgot for a sec…
Buddy Daddies (Anime)
Again My Life (K-drama)
Flower of Evil (K-drama)
My Happy Married Life (Anime)
Re-watched
Charmed
Gilmore Girls
Friends
Horimiya
DGB Super
The Hunger Games Trilogy
And I am positive that I’m missing a bunch of shows and movies, but these are the ones that I remember the most. 😆
Thank you for reading, dearies! And I hope your new year eve and day are great! 🎇😊
Let’s talk Fruits Basket! If you haven’t heard of this anime or manga before, I recommend it. Also known as フルーツバスケット, Furūtsu Basuketto. You can watch it on Crunchyroll and FunimationNow.
Before starting on this one, I’d like to clarify that this is about the anime of 2019 (essentially a reboot). I haven’t watched the original anime (I didn’t know there was one) from 2001, though that one has fewer episodes, and I think they changed the story from the Manga.
Of course, are you the only one living in the past?
If you thought that, then, no need to be so harsh. I started watching this animerecently after reading the description, and though I haven’t finished it, this is how it’s going so far…
Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom—if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks!
Yōkoso Jitsuryoku Shijō Shugi no Kyōshitsu
ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ
(lit. “Welcome to the Classrooms Where Merit is Paramount”)
Season 1 and 2
Author: Shōgo Kinugasa and illustrated by Shunsaku Tomose
Anime directed by Seiji Kish
Genres: Suspense, Psychological, Slice of Life, YA, Drama
I haven’t enjoyed an Anime in a while, but this one had me glued to the screen, and the best was that the second season had just aired this year, so I got to see both in one go, problem now is that I’ll have to wait for season 3. Or I can read the Light Novel and not wait for that, so I bought the first one, it’s waiting on my Kindle.
After saying that, let’s recap on Classroom of the Elite, an anime that makes you doubt everyone and start saying, repeatedly, don’t trust them.
‘Kyoko Hori is a bright and popular high school student, in contrast to her classmate Izumi Miyamura, a gloomy and seemingly nerdy boy.’
ホリミヤ (Horimiya) by Hero, Daisuke Hagiwara (Artist)
A lovely one.
One of the first reviews I start with a one-liner I know already. 😄
Hello, dearies! 💖
Horimiya is one of those that I first watched the anime then read the manga, but it’s alright, you can do it like that as well, there’s not much difference in the story, except for the ending of the Manga, that’s a plus for us readers.
Hello, dearies! I watched Maid Sama! a long time ago, it seems it was ages past but more like ten years ago. It made me want to re-watch it.
After watching it, I was in a frenzy because I wanted to know what else had happened since, as with many anime, you don’t quite know what happens in the end and you don’t get the whole story. There are very few that follow the original story, this is a bookish (readers) problem that we often find the adaptations to be lacking in some way. But with anime, you get a little more excited and can watch calmly.
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