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title: 'Winter Anime 2024 in a Nutshell'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=yCKFrMoOsqQ'
video_id: 'yCKFrMoOsqQ'
date: 2026-07-20
duration_sec: 1005
channel: 'Gigguk'
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# Winter Anime 2024 in a Nutshell

> Source: [Winter Anime 2024 in a Nutshell](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yCKFrMoOsqQ)

## Summary

The video provides a humorous and opinionated overview of the Winter 2024 anime season, highlighting standout shows, trends, and personal favorites. The creator discusses a mix of sequels, new series, and genre staples, offering insights into what makes each show worth watching or skipping.

### Key Points

- **Season Overview** [00:02] — The year 2024 has memorable moments and iconic quotes from anime, with a focus on new sequels and upcoming shows.
- **Sponsored Segment: Honkai Star Rail** [01:26] — The video is sponsored by Honkai Star Rail, a free-to-play turn-based RPG that won Best Game of 2023 on Google Play and App Store. The 2.0 update introduces new characters and rewards.
- **Virgin Road Anime** [03:00] — A show about a virgin who can read minds by touching people, but he can't touch anyone. It's described as homoerotic and humorous.
- **Mecha Anime: Brave Bang Bravern!** [04:13] — A mecha show that goes back to roots with gay undertones and intense war themes. It features a standout character with a memorable theme song.
- **Solo Leveling Season 2** [05:13] — The opening episodes are decent with high violence and good animation by A1 Pictures. The story is a power fantasy, but the art is godlike.
- **Villain Anime with Time Loop** [06:34] — A time loop anime that interests the creator, from the same author as 'Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer'. It gives hope for a 'Spirit Circle' adaptation.
- **Delinquent Anime with Superpowers** [07:09] — An anime original with a virgin protagonist in a delinquent showdown, featuring superpowers. The creator questions the lack of representation for female viewers.
- **Chained Soldier** [07:39] — A show about a guy who gets superpowers from anime girls. It's described as 'Power Wash' with degeneracy, focusing on plot and 'plot' (fan service).
- **Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi)** [08:33] — Trigger's new show about cooking monsters in a dungeon. It features creative world-building and biological explanations for monsters, making it feel like a nature documentary.
- **Ishura** [10:21] — A battle royale with overpowered characters from different worlds. It's edgy fun with turn-off-brain action, though not the prettiest show.
- **Magical Girl Parody with BDSM** [11:13] — A show that starts as a cute magical girl parody but turns into something more adult. It's comedic and not for everyone.
- **Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!** [11:51] — A slice-of-life about girls in Hokkaido, featuring thick milk and short skirts. It's described as propaganda by the Hokkaido tourism board.
- **The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic** [12:34] — An isekai with a healing magic twist. The creator finds it fun despite the trigger word 'healer'.
- **The Unwanted Undead Adventurer** [13:12] — A skeleton protagonist slowly levels up his body. It's a different take on isekai with necromancy as 'healing for those who believe in the 5-second rule'.
- **Middle-Aged Protagonist with a Cute Girl** [13:28] — A slice-of-life about an older man taking care of a little girl. It unexpectedly turns into an isekai with economics, magic, psychics, and a shadow organization.
- **A Sign of Affection** [14:08] — A romance with a deaf female lead. The creator hopes it stays wholesome and nothing bad happens to her.
- **Metallic Rouge** [14:22] — A sci-fi anime original for the 25th anniversary of Bones. It has intricate world-building but a confusing start. The creator hopes it improves.
- **Romance Frustration** [15:01] — A romance plotline where the female lead clearly likes the male lead, but the show drags on. The creator is frustrated by the slow pace.

### Conclusion

The Winter 2024 anime season offers a diverse range of shows, from power fantasies and mecha to slice-of-life and romance. While some shows excel in animation and world-building, others rely on humor and fan service. The creator recommends checking out 'Delicious in Dungeon' and 'Solo Leveling' for standout experiences.

## Transcript

a year that gave us moments that are going to be remembered for a long time to come with iconic quotes that will live on in the hearts of anime fans inspiring lines such as and of course kill yourself truly
have taken and made their own but what else has this New Year got in store for us well for once we not buried under a Cascade of high-profile sequels this Apparently one of the best is I haven't finished yet that I need to one of the
the dangers in my heart looking like it's only going to get even better from you're all thinking are we going to see more of the most iconic role in anime our number
one maybe I think this is your best work yet but enough about sequels what else do we have we got more romance more Slice of Life more girls more isekai a lot of isekai again and of course we got the Action Baby Woo look at that this oh
the Action Baby Woo look at that this oh yeah shit's about to go
sponsored by honai star rail a game I have never ever played before so let me ever touched honkai star rail is a free-to-play turn-based RPG that has been awarded the best game of the year 2023 on the Google Play and app store
and the TGA mobile game of the year that I have definitely 100% honestly not already spent way too many hours playing because to reiterate I have never played this game before but if I did I would be really excited about the brand new 2.0
update that just dropped because it introduces us to the world of penacon added since the game released and along with that comes a bunch of new five star characters we got Black Swan a new five-star win type nihility character
who cares about what she does look at her just look at her God I'm so excited to pull for you you know is what I would be saying if I played the game but we little girl who's a five star Quantum type Harmony character that will fit
perfectly into my hypothetical roster because I barely have any hypothetical bunch of new exciting updates including new scenes new characters and if you log in now there are 10 free warps awaiting you and another 10 for logging in for 7
days and you can claim a free five-star limited character doct to ratio too but description to download the game today and you can use the code on screen for second I just got to note down this code thank you very much to hoers and hongkai
star rail for sponsoring me today back to the
virginy ourselves well it's official guys while us decrepit sex havs were busy en acting quitus these damn virgins were secretly getting wizard Powers I'm sorry to say weebs but I've let you down but the fight is not over you can finish
what I couldn't accomplish okay so our guy here has the ability to read minds by touching people because he's a virgin but the Catch 22 is the man is such a giga virgin that he can't ever touch anyone except for
anyone except for o oh it's that kind of show well nothing mates lose their virginity and honestly how can you complain my man is really putting the top in top husband material he's even using the Forbidden eron Yer
technique to RIS up his fellow bro it's been a while since we've seen a show Go is the most homoerotic thing we're going to see all to see all [Music]
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from Mercury try to revolutionize the genre it's good to see Mecca going back to its roots just gay guys in it but on a serious note don't make the same thought this was just going to be another standard real robot show people
are dying on the battlefield fighting for their lives you are witnessing the true horrors of War then out of nowhere this guy drops in and just just listen this guy drops in and just just listen to his theme
people fighting for survival in the brutal world of Attack on Titan then happens when everyone working on the show knows exactly what they are doing this is a mecha show by meca fans for meca fans with the gungho Top Gun
bravado that comes with it just a bunch of manly men doing manly stuff saying completely manly things to the fellow manly Bros yeah you better win your fight cuz I'm coming on your ass Bo I'm coming for that ass solo leveling okay
season and if you've seen my previous video on the Mana you'd know that I'm a big fan and these opening episodes seem decent they held nothing back when it came to the sheer violence compared to the original web comic here Yuki Sao is
as always bringing the hype with his OST animation seems my head when I'm getting a kill streak in Counter
because A1 pictures is doing a pretty good job with the animation but let's be real Here solo leveling is not coming in here as the Pinnacle of Storytelling one big thing that made this title Stand Out was that the art was absolutely Godlike
not just good Godlike they gave us some of the best heart pounding action scenes you can find in webcom I so the real question is is this anime going to be this art I'm thinking the action has to be like Demon Slayer jit in season 2
away and we have a story that's not too dissimilar to the truckload of power fantasy isekai we see every season the main character ends up more perfect than Kyo Side characters become as useful as Yamcha this is an Unapologetic power
cool and if we don't have similar Godlike animation what more can the show arise all right actually I'm sold we got a few villain anime this season and this was the one that definitely interested me the most and yes it is purely because
I am a sucker for time Loop anime coming from the manga the seems to have a curse Lucifer and the biscuit hammer it looks like one of his works is finally getting a decent adaptation I'm not too familiar with this one but it does give me hope
that we're going to get the spirit Circle adaptation we Circle adaptation we [Music] deserve account successfully created you are are now signed into
come to us with another anime original with another self-proclaimed virgin protagonist in an old school delinquent Showdown anime I'm not sure what's up superpowers this season and why is it always the guys what about all the
some representation for the freaking highman Squad you watch subbed anime highman Squad you watch subbed anime don't you yeah I mean to sub anime you don't you yeah I mean to sub anime you mean subbed anime
talking time for some real anime change Soldier is the show to watch if you want to be a respectable human being did I say respectable I meant the exact say respectable I meant the exact opposite of
that's how it works right yes it's an anime about a guy who gets superpowers anime girls man what the [ __ ] is going on with this season now before anyone gets angry this is basically just power world with a degeneracy mod sometimes
exactly what it wants to do and hones in on doing that one thing really well even if that thing is Awakening a new fetish every episode this is the rare type of series that has plots but also has plot you already know if this is the type of
scenes went unexpectedly hard in the manga and this action animation is not exactly the cream of the crop but you can only expect so much when the team is put their focus on another certain type of scene I'll still be a happy man cuz
let's be honest guys who doesn't want to be stepped on by a group of hot anime girls am I right guys trigger back again to save anime from the Jiu-Jitsu fan base this time with dunge meshy or delicious and
dungeon which no one actually calls it even though it name was on the original this was just going to be a Simple Cooking Show where some adventurers weird monsters have a good time I was on board for this but then I think the
episode that that really sold me was the one where they find the Living Armor now normal armor that's imbued with magic which is what you and everyone else assumes but dungeon mesy takes his common idea and goes nah that's baby
[ __ ] so as our hero fights one he notices something that looks like an egg egg why can the armor see me even though it has no eyes maybe this is a living Hollow doesn't die if I behead it and it moves too rigid to be a slime and too
silent to be a swarm but by some good detective work he manages to uncover a biological explanation behind the Living Armor that not only makes sense but also makes it edible that made me go damn okay I've never really thought about it
monsters we find in the series every single creature has careful th put into their biology their ecosystem even the most common fantasy monsters we're take the insane amount of creativity in the world building makes this feel more
like a nature documentary with a cooking twist and add to this a core cast with find in konosuba and you got yourself a pretty damn good show well this now in at the same time as frean all I can say is fantasy anime fans are eating good
right now huh huh all right what show we go
die you know I think she still could be savable uh yeah she still could be still could [Music]
see what did I tell you he saved the city guys it's saved sometimes all the show has is the rule of cool and sometimes it's enough ishira might just be that show it's some ruined fantasy land where a bunch of Dark Soul bosses
gathered from all over the world to take part in a no holds bar Battle Royale bloodbath isekai protagonists Undead Warriors every episode introduces a new stupidly overpowered character for the True Battle Royale experience that will
match this might not be the prettiest looking show of the season but this is it if you want some turn your brain off edgy fun so you watch subbed edgy fun so you watch subbed anime nah I'm into dumb you mean dubbed
blind thinking it was some cute parody of the magical girl genre then 5 minutes of the magical girl genre then 5 minutes in I realized wait a godamn
of this season but now we have BDSM botchy if she was a villainess and the thing is the scenes here go even harder but the problem is it's comedic enough be turned on sometimes if you want more culture in your life give this one to
watch this might not be your proudest fap but it'll certainly be your
Hokkaido gals a super adorable about some super adorable girls living in Hokkaido [Music] you don't know anything about Hokkaido well it's Northern Japan it's really
can find in the country and it's got really thick milk and then you have the Gus now for anyone wondering how These Girls Aren't freezing their butts off in in Japan short skirts protection to the cold follows the same logic as RPG armor
I'll be real with you this is clearly just paid propaganda by the haido tourism board and God damn it is [ __ ] working yo is he going for the aroner Strat too the wrong way to use healing
name for this show actually I feel like having healer or healing in your title has become a PTSD inducing trigger word for us at this point but I actually had a lot of fun with this one for one not so obvious reason I'm into dumb for most
people this probably looks like another run-of-the meal isekai junk food cuz it like me I can tell the difference between a white guy and a white guy between a White Castle and a Five Guys and to any isai Trashman out out there
latter not enough healing for you while we have The Unwanted Undead Adventurer featuring a dead skeleton protagonist slowly leveling his body back up oh that's a totally different thing uh excuse me necromancy is just healing for
those who believe in the 5-second rule hey look a middle-aged protagonist and he's adopted a cute little BB ah so it's a simple Slice of Life about an older gentleman taking care of a BB I can Vibe with
that's okay every Slice of Life needs its Quirk nowaday surprise isekai [ __ ] okay well I wasn't expecting an isekai but I'm not going to complain oh he's learning the economics I get it now so it's going to
be a spice and wolfes anime with an isai twist surprise magic [ __ ] so we can use magic in the real world that makes sense it's an isekai after all surprise psychics [ __ ] okay so I guess there are psychics in the real world and he's
getting tailed by a shadow organization of Psychics now while training goods in an isekai with a talking bird who's secretly a 3,000 year old demon this show is amazing we got ourselves a cute little romance this time with the most
precious cinon roll who has trouble communicating cuz she's deaf making her is honestly godamn adorable I haven't seen a story like this since the silent wholesome side and I better stay that way cuz if anything happens to this girl
way cuz if anything happens to this girl I will be shooting on their 25th anniversary and they pulled out all the stops to celebrate we got a new anime original sci-fi tokos satu style show that takes place in the world
little bit of Caroline Tuesday with also gay girls in it I feel like more and to get my sci-fi fixed and this clearly has one of the most intricate and wellth normally I love the show don't tell approach where I get to discover the
world and story as it naturally develops but this beginning feels like just a bit what are the characters trying to do here why are we fighting who the hell are these people in the first place I'm going let it cook because I smell a
but I hope I at least get a look at the menu soon ah Another Love confession victim of the godamn anime fireworks well you start off a romance plotline in your anime but surely they can't drag this on
her she clearly likes him this [ __ ] traveled to another world they're married for God's sakes I've seen anime romance [ __ ] before but how long can this possibly take [Music]
second chance this has never happened it she's given him the perfect layup bro got an open goal from two yards there's no way you can [ __ ] this
thank you very much this month too author Curtis xen basil dysfunctional degenerate flabber Walky husbando Hub Jon a thick Mike 808 misaka 12315 pain
patchet Pony Stark shouting zombie water gist VT and everyone else my patreon for making this video possible guys I hope you're having a happy New Year even though we're already [ __ ] month into the New Year it's always a grind for me
that first month when I have to get the best of anime and the winter 2024 anime video out back to back but hopefully I can go back to my normal schedule now today there's not much more for me to say I've been gig and I'll see you all
say I've been gig and I'll see you all next time