It seems like it is going to be another year of mostly boring anime. I guess there is
Ascendance of a Bookworm S3, which... might be interesting if it focuses on Ferdinand using Mainz as a pawn in his grab for power. There is also the new Sunrise mecha show,
Kyoukai Senki/
AMAIM, but so far it's been slow and nothing interesting has happened yet.
I have been catching up on some manga:
Otoyomegatari and
Gunka no Baltzar. Fun characters and great art.
Otoyomegatari is about the lives of steppe nomads in Kazaksthan/Mongolia during the late 19th century, around the time of the Crimean War. Comfy. Also, the main character gets married in the first chapter, which is interesting.
Gunka no Baltzar is a military manga set in an alternate fantasy world that resembles late 19th century Europe. The main protag is a major in not-Prussia who is working for not-Bismarck to unify the not-German states. There are also informative pages at the end of chapters that describe what a German soldier's food was like and what stuff they carried, etc.
Unfortunately, both manga progress at a snail's pace, with 20 pages every 2 months. For Baltzar, we spent like... 5 years in the Basselland civil war arc and we are just now entering the Weissen civil war arc, which at this rate is going to take at least like 3-4 years to resolve. For Otoyomegatari, the manga has just turned into Hidalgo (horse race), which is fun.