What the Spring Season Should Be:

If you want to know what anime starts airing this March, there's no better source than:

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Date A Live, Red Data Girl, Shingeki no Kyojin, Aku no Hana, Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru, and Photo Kano all look like promising new series.

Naturally, the most anticipated series are continuations of already good series:  Girls und Panzer, Oreimo, Railgun, Hayate no Gotoku, and Gundam Seed Destiny HD Remaster.  There will also be lots of cool anime movies released in Japan, but we won't get to see them so it's not very important.

The spring season will be very good.  It won't match this winter season, but we have to take what we can get.  Even so, I feel like this season is lacking compared to what it could be.  Why doesn't Japan release this anime schedule instead?:

1.  new Claymore.
2.  new Working.
3.  new Baka to Test
4.  new Papa no Iukoto
5.  new Haruhi Suzumiya
6.  new Full Metal Panic
7.  new Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru
8.  new Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Vivid and Strikeforce
9.  new Ranma 1/2
10.  new Rurouni Kenshin
11.  new Sword Art Online
12.  new Spice and Wolf
13.  new History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi
14.  new Guyver
15.  an adaption of Key's Angel Beats prequel manga
16.  an adaption of Key's Planetarion.
17.  an adaption of Key's Rewrite.
18.  an adaption of Key's Clannad, Tomoyo After Story
19.  an adaption of Key's Kud Waffe
20.  a Negima Remake, from start to finish, this time following the manga.

To make the issue even more bizarre, practically every single one of these series is popular and sells well.  Every Key adaption has succeeded commercially.  Nanoha, Negima, Full Metal Panic, Haruhi, and Working were all big hits.  Swort Art Online was one of the highest selling anime of 2012.  Even Papa no Iukoto sold well enough to merit a sequel.  There is no specific reason why continuing or redoing these series is impossible or foolish.  For some reason, Japan has just chosen not to do so.  It's because of these maddening, inscrutable decisions that anime can be the worst experience in life.  You grow to love a series, you have a huge desire to find out what happens in the end -- and then nothing.  Year after year passes, and your hopes fade away like blood from a fatal wound.  Why do they do this to us?  Banner franchises, super hit sellers, beloved by fans and critics alike -- and all we get is crickets.  Not a single studio out of hundreds of possible options is interested.  It's unbelievable.

So while I'm thankful for the new sequels that have been announced, like Oreimo and Railgun, I can't help but resent this spring as another lost opportunity that could have been airing genuinely good series, but instead will air tons of junk that no one cares about anyway.  Why?  Why, Japan, why?