Top 10 Best Anime Release in January 2018

DARLING IN THE FRANXX

Darling in the Franxx is a brand new series slated to release on Jan. 13 that takes place in the distant future. This isn’t some utopian future where technological advancements have led to the betterment of all mankind or where innovation has created a better life for all. The land has been ruined and has forced mankind to flee to the skies instead.

The mobile fort city that has been established is called Plantation and many of its youth come into the world with only one purpose — to pilot robots called Franxx. Franxx pilots are tasked with fighting back against giant lifeforms known as Kyoryu and carrying out any other mission that is assigned to them. The value of their existence is based solely on their ability to pilot the Franxx but not all of these young pilots are happy those conditions. Darling in the Franxx takes viewers into this unique world while also exploring the complications of a pilot daring to want more out of life.

OVERLORD II

Overlord is back for season two and it’s already off to a great start. For anyone unfamiliar with the series, it’s the story of a young gamer who has decided not to log out of a virtual reality game even after it was publicly shut down. Momonga remained in the game alone but something strange started to happen. All of the NPCs in the game seemed to evolve and start developing personalities of their very own. Now Momonga has decided to focus his energy in the game on becoming a powerful ruler of all the NPCs now in the game with him.

The first episode of season two does an okay job of trying to reintroduce viewers to the series. It’s not a particularly strong start for the series but this episode also seemed to purposefully avoid going too deep into the new season’s main arc. Instead viewers are reminded of the various personalities that make up the Overlord cast just as the show prepares viewers to dive into a new chain of events. Overlord II keeps the same beautiful animation style of the first season and fingers are crossed that it will keep the same great pacing and clever storytelling as well.

FATE/EXTRA LAST ENCORE

Fate/EXTRA Last Encore is an anime adaptation of the Fate/Extra video game that takes place in a parallel universe to Fate/Stay Night. Shaft will be the studio in charge of the adaptation, which is enough reason to believe that Fate/EXTRA Last Encore is in good hands. With popular series like Ef and Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica coming from the studio, it’s hard to believe that the Fate/EXTRA Last Encore anime will fall short in delivery.

There’s some added pressure on Shaft for this adaptation since the Fate/Stay anime series has been incredibly successful so far. In this parallel universe, viewers follow Hakuno Kishinami as he awakens with no memory in quite a serious predicament. He is being forced to fight in a tournament that he doesn’t even understand. Despite having little knowledge of what’s going on, he still understands that the prize on the line is one he must get his hands on. The winner of this tournament is granted one wish but emerging victorious will be a lot more challenging than our protagonist could have ever anticipated.