Spring, summer, autumn, and winter—which of these four seasons would you like to see featured more in the world of anime?

Mercury-Lamp said:
Winter, mainly because I always felt that most episodes set in that season just focused on trivial winter gimmicks, such as snowy landscapes, everything being decorated for Christmas and all the celebration, a temple visit on New Year's Day, handing out chocolate for Valentine's Day if that gets taken into account and that's about it. And as it's been said earlier, it's the least featured season in anime. But mainly it's these (mostly) universal winter experiences that annoy me. Even though the integration of a season's atmosphere is something this thread focuses on, I personally would like the opposite. I'd like an anime set in winter without focusing on any of the usual gimmicks. Like sure, there would be snowy landscapes and maybe a holiday mentioned here and there, but I don't want the season and its connotations to be enmeshed into the story at all. Let the story flow without paying any special attention to the season, long story short. I can think of anime set in all the other three seasons, especially in spring and summer, that don't just focus on the cherry blossoms and the start of the school year or going to the beach and attending a summer festival. Those are included, but otherwise the story goes on and it doesn't have to correlate with the season's atmosphere at all. An anime series where the season is important to the story and the themes is nice every now and then, but usually I like it best when little attention is paid to the season.

ifuudoudou said:
autumn!! only cuz i need more halloween centred around halloween tho

Crow_Black said:
need any spooky recs well here you go

ifuudoudou said:

thank u sm!! a lot of these sound rly cool :00

Joshhhp said:
The sweet breeze of winter is my favorite environment especially after seeing Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu, I also enjoy watching anime the most during this season

Crow_Black said:


The Disapearence Of Hatsune Miku is such a masterpeice for real for real and they really need to adapt the arcs of the ln soon.

Joshhhp said:


It's an hard wish but we can always hope for it

Crow_Black said:
KEK. i was barely even awake when i wrote that post, disapearence of haruhi suzumimya is what i meant to say but i ended up using a similar name but totally different light novel the disapearence of hatsune miku

ifuudoudou said:

thank u sm!! a lot of these sound rly cool :00

Crow_Black said:
Oh yeah i forgot to also rec this as well its really great.

ifuudoudou said:

thank u sm!! a lot of these sound rly cool :00

Crow_Black said:
https://myanimelist.net/manga/110029/Shinigami_Bocchan_to_Kuro_Maid

here you go, here's another read i've just rec'd to op not too long ago i think you'll also like as well too

Aritabias said:
Winter because it doesn't snow where I live. I find anime with snow/winter episodes like Erased, Disappearance of Haruhi more memorable.

epidemia78 said:
While I'm not a huge fan of it in real life, autumn is easily the coolest season. (I mean cool as in hip not cool as in temperature.) There's just so much you can do with it aesthetically, symbolically and thematically. A show set during this time frame would will most likely have "mono no aware".

ifuudoudou said:

oh ye! i've heard the anime's good but i didnt know it had a manga, thank u!

Slimsith said:
Winter is overdone in anime.
Summer might be 2nd.

Crow_Black said:

https://myanimelist.net/manga/3898/The_Girls_Winter

here you go i think you may also like reading this as well

Mercury-Lamp said:
Winter, mainly because I always felt that most episodes set in that season just focused on trivial winter gimmicks, such as snowy landscapes, everything being decorated for Christmas and all the celebration, a temple visit on New Year's Day, handing out chocolate for Valentine's Day if that gets taken into account and that's about it. And as it's been said earlier, it's the least featured season in anime. But mainly it's these (mostly) universal winter experiences that annoy me. Even though the integration of a season's atmosphere is something this thread focuses on, I personally would like the opposite. I'd like an anime set in winter without focusing on any of the usual gimmicks. Like sure, there would be snowy landscapes and maybe a holiday mentioned here and there, but I don't want the season and its connotations to be enmeshed into the story at all. Let the story flow without paying any special attention to the season, long story short. I can think of anime set in all the other three seasons, especially in spring and summer, that don't just focus on the cherry blossoms and the start of the school year or going to the beach and attending a summer festival. Those are included, but otherwise the story goes on and it doesn't have to correlate with the season's atmosphere at all. An anime series where the season is important to the story and the themes is nice every now and then, but usually I like it best when little attention is paid to the season.

Mercury-Lamp said:


That's fair. I mentioned briefly in my post that I enjoy anime where a season's entire atmosphere is integrated into the story every now and then, so I enjoy those sorts of series too. You're right that a lot can be done with the atmosphere! For example, the Shirahime-syo manga by Clamp that Crow recommended to me was a good example of that, it really has that immersive, folkloric and chilly vibe to it. But I was focusing here more on the anime that don't pay much attention to the season in their stories, which are a good amount, and in them winter is always a very brief season. Take any school anime, the few winter episodes it might have will focus on things like snow, Christmas and maybe Valentine's day. So seeing other titles that are set in the other three seasons and don't focus much on the setting makes me want more winter anime that do the same. I realise that my reply probably went in direct contrast to the whole point of the thread, ha ha, but that's what I personally wanted to see in an anime set in winter.

doctor_funkbeat said:


duuuude how do u have so many cool recommendations :00 thx again! :)

Mercury-Lamp said:


That's fair. I mentioned briefly in my post that I enjoy anime where a season's entire atmosphere is integrated into the story every now and then, so I enjoy those sorts of series too. You're right that a lot can be done with the atmosphere! For example, the Shirahime-syo manga by Clamp that Crow recommended to me was a good example of that, it really has that immersive, folkloric and chilly vibe to it. But I was focusing here more on the anime that don't pay much attention to the season in their stories, which are a good amount, and in them winter is always a very brief season. Take any school anime, the few winter episodes it might have will focus on things like snow, Christmas and maybe Valentine's day. So seeing other titles that are set in the other three seasons and don't focus much on the setting makes me want more winter anime that do the same. I realise that my reply probably went in direct contrast to the whole point of the thread, ha ha, but that's what I personally wanted to see in an anime set in winter.

doctor_funkbeat said:


duuuude how do u have so many cool recommendations :00 thx again! :)

SakuraCheri said:
Spring still manages to be my favorite season both in anime and in the real world, but I haven't seen as much winter or autumn depicted in anime.

epidemia78 said:
While I'm not a huge fan of it in real life, autumn is easily the coolest season. (I mean cool as in hip not cool as in temperature.) There's just so much you can do with it aesthetically, symbolically and thematically. A show set during this time frame would will most likely have "mono no aware".

doctor_funkbeat said:


duuuude how do u have so many cool recommendations :00 thx again! :)