Handshaker season 2
Somehow, they are able to do this immediately on the bridge in Dotonbori in Osaka. Despite this, he laments that he isn’t popular enough to his childhood friend, and she has the idea of making a proper PV to boost the popularity of his videos. He’s also a DJ, who is apparently so cool that everyone who watches his DJ videos uploaded to the internet starts dancing in a bizarrely unsettling manner. Once they come back, the other person doesn’t remember it at all. The protagonist this time is also a Hand Shaker, and his hand-holdy power is that if he holds somebody’s hand – or apparently even brushes hands – both he and the other person enter a strange dimension. I was so utterly amazed that I was tricked into watching Hand Shakers 2 that I didn’t even scream and close the browser, I just kind of sighed and grimly accepted it, figuring that maybe if I saw it through and reviewed it, this foul ghost will stop haunting me. It’s called W’z (?) but I got tricked into watching what is actually Handshakers 2. It’s fuckin Hand Shakers 2. I cannot believe this. Anyway, so what was my first anime of the year again? ….wait. The only way I’d ever end up having anything to do with Hand Shakers again was if they made a second season of it, gave it a different name and then didn’t actually indicate it was a second season of Hand Shakers anywhere, so the only way to find this out was watching the show! Can you imagine a studio actually doing that, though? Man, wouldn’t that be utterly bonkers. I mean, first of all, there’s no way it was remotely popular enough to even get another season, and even if it did, we don’t do First Impressions of sequels and prequels on Moeronpan usually.
Anyway, my first anime first impression of 2019! It’s a brand new year, so I wonder what anime I’ll be greeting it with? Haha, remember how in 2017 the first show I saw was Hand Shakers? I’m so glad I never have to think about Hand Shakers again – not since I gave it the award for worst anime in the 2017 Moeronpan Awards and then used it as a yardstick to measure bad anime against. Yes, it sure is a good thing that there is absolutely no way I’ll ever have to watch anything Hand Shakers related ever again. When we decide who reviews what in the season, typically we make it a random lottery thing, although mix and match a few so that no one ends up with too many shows airing on the same day. Time for me to watch my first anime of the year.