Best Anime: Sk8 the Infinity
This was a tumultuous season filled to the brim with ambitious new originals, returning favorites, and a few highly controversial messes, so there were a lot of options to pick from for both best and worst. But I knew, in my hearts of hearts, that there was no way anything was going to outscore SK8 in my affections. From its first episode, this show gazelle flipped its way into my life with a loud, gorgeous production brimming with the exact kind of energy I love to see in anime. Oozing with style and bleedingly sincere, I fell in love immediately, and every subsequent character and episode just made me love it more.
That isn’t to say SK8 is all flash though – while the aesthetic hooked me, it was the lovable cast that kept me around. For all its crazy, physics-defying races and high-octane drama, this series obviously loves its characters…
