The Eccentric Family (Season 2)
Best Anime 2017 (Must Watch Anime)
The Eccentric Family returned for another season this year and it brought back everything that was so captivating about the first season.
This anime steers clear of being a cookie cutter show filled with the usual tropes and stands out as a multi-layered, complex masterpiece that is extremely relatable despite being anchored in a magical world.
The Eccentric Family features a colorful cast of creatures known as tanuki and tengu who have always lived in the same world as humans but kept their existence a secret.
For many viewers, the second season can feel a bit like a break from the various challenges and hardships that characters were facing in the first season. While the second season still comes with its fair share of hurdles for the characters to overcome, it certainly seems like this season doesn’t tax your emotions quite as much or quite as frequently.
The Eccentric Family has many elements that are worthy of the highest praise and it’s an original series that is incredibly hard to forget.
Natsume’s Book of Friends (Season 6)
Best Anime 2017 (Must Watch Anime)
There is one word that is commonly used to describe this simple yet charming series—heartwarming. Even if you aren’t a fan of slice of life anime, you may want to consider giving this one a try. It’s not recommended that you pick up the anime on the sixth season but rest assured that your trek from season 1 to season 6 would be well worth it.
The series has spent quite a bit of time following the random adventure of Natsume Takashi, a 15-year-old orphan boy who can see other worldly creatures known as youkai. This proves to be only one of the gifts that were given to Nastume by his grandmother.
The other is her Book of Friends, which has served as the foundation of this series for each and every season as Nastume searches for each of the spirits that are listed in the book.
His goal is to release the spirits that were once attached to his grandmother. Every season, every episode, and every new encounter just feels unique and new despite their fair share of similarities.
