This article is part of a directory: Anime Fall 2022 – Complete Guide
Previews
Previews Arknights: Prelude To Dawn Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Blue Lock Chainsaw Man Housing Complex C Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Mob Psycho 100 III My Hero Academia Season 6 Suzume’s Door-Locking Sword Art Online: Progressive – Scherzo of Deep Night That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie – Scarlet Bond To Your Eternity Season 2 Urusei Yatsura
Reviews
Reviews
Arknights: Prelude to Dawn
Arknights: Prelude to Dawn Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 (Finale) Season Review
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 Episode 13 (Finale)
Blue Lock
Blue Lock Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 Episode 13
Bocchi The Rock!
Bocchi The Rock! Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 (Finale)
Chainsaw Man
Chainsaw Man Episode 1 Episode 1 (English DUB) Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 (Finale) Season 1 English Dub
Housing Complex C
Housing Complex C Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 (Finale)
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 (Finale)
Mob Psycho 100 III
Mob Psycho 100 III Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 (Finale)
My Hero Academia Season 6
My Hero Academia Season 6 Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 Episode 13
Spy x Family Part 2
Spy x Family Part 2 Episode 22 Episode 23 Episode 24 Episode 25
To Your Eternity Season 2
To Your Eternity Season 2 Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10
Urusei Yatsura
Urusei Yatsura Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12
Uzaki-Chan Wants To Hang Out! Season 2
Uzaki-Chan Wants To Hang Out! Season 2 Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 Episode 13 (Finale)
Lore Guides, Characters, & Discussions
Lore Guides, Characters, & Discussions
Chainsaw Man
Chainsaw Man
Season 1
Season 1 What to Expect From Season 1 The Anime’s Staff Everything Newcomers Need To Know References In The Anime’s Intro Chainsaw Man’s Opening
Lore
Lore Devil Hunters Devil Powers Devil Contracts
Characters
Characters
Denji
Denji Facts (Manga) What Makes Denji Stand Out The Ultimate Anti-Hero The Art of Creating a Solid Main Character Why Denji Acts The Way He Does Love Interests Most Impressive Feats (Manga) Most Embarrassing Moments (Manga) Dumbest Decisions (Manga)
Makima
Makima Who Is Makima? Makima’s Dubious Nature Pet-Handler Makima Manga Facts Chainsaw Man’s Women The Unsettling Mystery Surrounding Makima
Supporting Characters
Supporting Characters Every Main Character’s Age, Height, and Birthday A Shonen Trio That Turns Heads Pochita Power Aki Hayakawa Other Characters Most Powerful Devil Hunters Strongest Hybrid Characters
Other Fall 2022 anime games patch notes
Other Fall 2022 Anime
Akiba Maid War
Akiba Maid War Black Lagoon With Maids Strongest Maids
Arknights Animation: Prelude To Dawn
Arknights Animation: Prelude To Dawn Originium and Oripathy, Explained
Bocchi The Rock!
Bocchi The Rock! Every Main Character’s Age, Height, And Birthday Kessoku Band Introverted K-ON? Promotional Videos Pushes the Envelope With Its Animation Portrays Social Anxiety
Golden Kamuy
Golden Kamuy Remaining Golden Kamuy Season 4 Episodes Delayed
Mob Psycho 100 III
Mob Psycho 100 III What To Expect From Season 3 (According To The Manga) Why Season 3’s Pacing Is Brilliant Main Characters What Makes Mob So Relatable Who is Reigen? Arataka Reigen’s Strongest Special Techniques Shigeo Kageyama’s Strongest Abilities Strongest Espers (Besides Mob) About Dimple Has Ritsu Grown? The Divine Tree, Explained
To Your Eternity Season 2
To Your Eternity Season 2 What to Expect From Season 2 Nokkers, Explained Hayase’s Obsession Why “Fushi”?
Urusei Yatsura
Urusei Yatsura What To Expect
Recommendations
Recommendations
Best Of Fall 2022
Best Of Fall 2022 Best Anime Games Strategy Underrated Anime Best Opening Songs Best Ending Songs Best Male Characters Best Female Characters Strongest Main Characters Funniest Characters
Similar Anime To Fall 2022 Shows
Similar Anime To Fall 2022 Shows Bocchi The Rock! Chainsaw Man Do It Yourself!! Golden Kamuy I’m The Villainess, So I’m Taming The Final Boss Mob Psycho 100 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Ninja Ittoki Pop Team Epic Reincarnated As A Sword To Your Eternity Uzaki-chan Wants To Hang Out!
Chainsaw Man: Most Powerful Devils, Ranked
The following contains spoilers for Episode 5 of Arknights: Prelude to Dawn, “Farewell” now streaming on Crunchyroll .
After a rocky fifth episode, Arknights shows its strengths once again in an action-packed episode that’s building to a grand finale, but where those strengths lie is a bit peculiar. It’s become apparent this late into the season that Prelude to Dawn isn’t a great action series, something that honestly should have been clear from the early episodes.
Last week, Amiya had to get Misha to safety all while trying to convince her that they weren’t trying to lie to her or betray her by putting her in police custody. Considering the fifth episode’s dip in quality and Episode 6 more or less returning to the status quo, it honestly feels like the last episode could have been written out entirely or abridged within the start of this one. All that truly impacted the story going forward was learning that Misha has Oripathy and needs medical treatment and that the masked pursuer has some connection to her. Everything else was brief introductions to characters like Exusiai and Texas, which again were brief enough that they would have fit in this episode’s beginning with some trimming of the fat.
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The titular “farewell” of this episode is a brief one from Amiya to Misha, promising to bring her to Rhodes Island and give her treatment. It was surprising to see Ch’en so cooperative in promising to arrange a transfer to Rhodes Island, considering she’s been a secretive, somewhat aggressive figure in opposition to Amiya.
Perhaps it was just the story’s design, to set up this authoritative cop character to turn out to be kinder under the surface. Misha reveals that she’s heard of Ch’en’s good deeds in helping the orphans and infected in the slums, which is presented as a moment to see her in a different light. It’s certainly a more flattering depiction, but also where the story starts getting a bit hazy with its messages.
Arknights creates a fictitious and supernatural political story that seems to draw upon real-world influences but places its characters in a very neutral position. In that sense, it seems very centrist in its position on these topics, wanting to explore both sides. It’s an understandable approach when dealing with a cast of such marketable characters: who wants their waifu to be a bigot?
But centrism can also conflate two sides with both sides being equally valid/invalid, which in the case of oppression, can be more than a little hazy. When Amiya and her gang are cornered by yet another group of Reunion troops blocking their path in hilariously large numbers, Amiya lashes out in a way that feels dismissive of the plight of the characters.
Reunion has consistently been shown to be antagonists, with the Ursus Empire really not having a suitable character representing their will and the bigotry they have perpetuated. So the only villains thus far are the victims of bigotry who have simply become corrupted by hatred. It’s another case of “I see why you’re doing it, but I can’t support how you’re doing it.”
Rhodes Island’s solution seems to be creating an independent and supportive community dedicated to helping everyone. They collaborate with problematic governments while maintaining their independence, all in the hope of paying it forward as it were. It’s an inoffensive and valid portrayal of how to respond to a world that is hateful, but Amiya’s attitude towards Reunion seems to betray her previous temperament.
“You were the first to hate. You hurt the first innocent. You threw the first stone. Back in Chernobog, it was all you.”
The line about Chernobog implies that this entire rant stems squarely from the Chernobog incident, but it completely dismisses the reasons that Reunion got violent in the first place. And even with the context about Chernobog, suggesting that the victims of prejudice were the first to hate just seems stupid within the larger context of the series.
As mentioned previously, Arknights , despite having the look and attitude of an action series, is not a particularly great action series. It has an impeccable atmosphere and art design, and a voice cast that is extremely talented, but the story and characters are more interesting than the action that theoretically should be drawing eyes to this series.
There are moments of nice-looking choreography , but most of the magic of this show comes down to clever directing and the team working with what they have. A lot of action happens when the characters aren’t on-screen. A character gets kicked into view more often than audiences see the kick.
The opening of the show has more impressive sakuga than the entirety of the show thus far and for those who have been intrigued and have considered giving the show a watch, that might be a dealbreaker. There’s still a chance that the conclusion might pull out all the stops, but that kind of hope has been crushed by similarly promising shows in the past. We’ll just have to wait and see.
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