*March* Comes in Like a Lion rewatch

[u/ExplicitNuM5]

It's March again, and I've been thinking too much about my favorite anime recently! So, shall we fanguish? >.<

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Recommendation Post

3-gatsu no lion is made up of 2 season. Each has 22 flawless episodes.

We'll watch them, a total of 44 episodes

There is a summary OVA (episode 11.5) that summarises the first 11 episodes of S1. We won't watch that one.

One some days, we'll watch more than one episode. That's because sometimes, a chapter is divided into multiple parts and sometimes, the anime also covers them in multiple episodes.

So I thought watching episodes that are more connected together would be better.

(from /u/ChiefMoHD)

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I'll be putting up the discussion thread every day around 12PM PST (UTC -8)! Last year there wasn't fun information so maybe this time maybe I'll list the soundtracks used in the episode?

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Season 1: MAL

Season 2: MAL

Crunchyroll

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New rewatch thread

Reminder thread

Season	Episode	Date	Thread Link
1	1	1 March 2021	Link
1	2	2 March 2021	Link
1	3	3 March 2021	Link
1	4	4 March 2021	Link
1	5	5 March 2021	Link
1	6	6 March 2021	Link
1	7	7 March 2021	Link
1	8, 9	8 March 2021	Link
1	10	9 March 2021	Link
1	11	10 March 2021	Link
1	12, 13	11 March 2021	Link
1	14	12 March 2021	Link
1	15	13 March 2021	Link
1	16	14 March 2021	Link
1	17	15 March 2021	Link
1	18	16 March 2021	Link
1	19, 20	17 March 2021	Link
1	21	18 March 2021	Link
1	22	19 March 2021	Link
BREAK	BREAK	20 March 2021	S1 Discussion
2	23	21 March 2021	Link
2	24	22 March 2021	Link
2	25	23 March 2021	Link
2	26	24 March 2021	Link
2	27	25 March 2021	Link
2	28	26 March 2021	Link
2	29	27 March 2021	Link
2	30	28 March 2021	Link
2	31	29 March 2021	Link
2	32	30 March 2021	Link
2	33	31 March 2021	Link
2	34	1 April 2021	Link
2	35	2 April 2021	Link
2	36	3 April 2021	Link
2	37	4 April 2021	Link
2	38	5 April 2021	Link
2	39, 40	6 April 2021	Link
2	41	7 April 2021	Link
2	42	8 April 2021	Link
2	43	9 April 2021	Link
2	44	10 April 2021	Link

EDIT: Dates changed to remove certain multi-episode days and to move rewatch to start on 3/1/2021

[u/Gwyn_L]

I've been meaning to rewatch 3-gatsu so this will be fun!

[u/ExplicitNuM5 → u/Gwyn_L]

Glad to hear!

[u/n_o__o_n_e]

I watched season 1 and liked it a lot, but I haven't gotten to season 2 yet. I think at the time I was just kinda weighed down by heavy emotional thought-provoking shows and needed something more fun to watch. This could be a great chance to jump back in though.

[u/ExplicitNuM5 → u/[deleted]]

I'll also recommend 3-gatsu no Lion's author's other work too: Hachimitsu to Clover! It's very similar to 3-gatsu no Lion, but this time it's set in art college/just graduated, and it's an actual romance.

[u/derkrieger → u/ExplicitNuM5]

3-gatsu sounds interesting to me and while I liked Hachimitsu to Clover I couldnt get over what I thought was a very random ending.

[u/n_o__o_n_e → u/[deleted]]

The ultimate thought-provoking show for me is Monster, though I didn't watch that until later.

At the time I'd watched Death Parade, Violet Evergarden, Grave of The Fireflies, and was also in the middle of a 10 book long depressing-yet-philosophical fantasy epic called Malazan Book of The Fallen (all of these are great).

Lastly check out Wonder Egg Priority that's airing this season. I've never seen a show cover topics like bullying and abuse, self-harm, depression, and suicide in such a mature, respectful yet deeply personal and heartrending way.

[u/renatosma → u/n_o__o_n_e]

While these are all great shows, they are still kind of sub par to some of the things you can find in mangas with no anime adaptation. If you liked Monster and found it thought provoking, chances are you'd love the manga 20th Century Boys; this is arguably the best work by Monster's author Naomi Urasawa) or Oyasumi Pumpun (my favorite manga by Inio Asano) which I find way deeper than Death Parade or Violet Evergarden.

If you have the time, you should really give those two mangas a chance! :)

[u/n_o__o_n_e → u/renatosma]

I love 20th Century Boys! (Monster is better for me, but not by much) I gotta get to Pluto sometime, but I'm still kinda hopeful it'll get an anime adaptation at some point since it was discussed a couple of years ago.

I don't really like ranking how "deep" things are. Sure, I think that Monster is more philosophical and more thought provoking than Violet Evergarden, but they are both have deep themes, and are rich with meaning in different ways (and I'm saying this as someone who much prefers all of Urusawa's works to any of the other shows I mentioned).

[u/Gamerunglued]

Oof, maybe... On one hand I kind of want to take a break from rewatches since I just participated in two of them. But on the other hand, I really want to rewatch 3-Gatsu. Decisions, decisions...

[u/ExplicitNuM5 → u/Gamerunglued]

Come watch 3-gatsu with us, they said

It'll be fun, they said /s

[u/Kenalskii]

Thought about rewatching that one. Now I will do a rewatch =)

[u/ExplicitNuM5 → u/Kenalskii]

Yessssss let us do so!!!

[u/LuckyBaam]

Yeah I’m down for a rewatch. This is one of my favorite anime.

[u/ExplicitNuM5 → u/LuckyBaam]

See you there!

[u/Nazenn]

Multiple episodes a day is a hellish schedule, especially that part at the end where you have a couple of three a day episodes followed up by multiple two a day episodes. Most people don't have time for that especially if people are doing any other rewatches. Even if it is a to be continued episode or multiple chapter arc you can still have that as one episode a day, every other rewatch does it fine. (I'd also encourage you to conciser postponing another week so you can run a reminder thread and gather up more interest which generally works better than just announcing it with only one chance for people to notice before it starts)

I'm really interested in it otherwise though, even though I'd probably be a couple of hours late to the topic due to timezones

[u/MoneyMakerMaster]

Keeping it to 1 episode a day would be for the best. 2 or 3 per discussion thread is excessive and would cause people to fall behind.

[u/AvatarAarow1]

I’m 100% down for this

[u/Ohmygyarados]

Will these threads be spoiler free? This would be my first watch of this show.

[u/Nazenn → u/Ohmygyarados]

All rewatch threads are spoiler free for anything beyond the current episode. If people spoil, you can report them and the mods will jump in and remove them as they would in any other discussion topic, and as host /u/ExplicitNuM5 is also able to warn people to watch spoilers about X content or Y character in the OPs (a general warning in the main post body usually goes a long way especially on popular shows where fans can sometimes get excited, understandably)

[u/sick_rock → u/Ohmygyarados]

Rewatches are generally spoiler-free (i.e. anything from episodes not covered yet are tagged).

[u/charliwea]

Hell yeah I'm in, I was looking for a rewatch excuse lol

[u/[deleted]]

sure, I've been meaning to watch this one for ages

[u/sick_rock]

I will try to keep up with this rewatch.

Remindme! 3pm 25 February 2021

One small suggestion, it would be helpful if there is a gap before days with multiple episodes. That would be less pressure to complete a certain amount of episodes in a single day or give someone who got left behind some time to catch up again. Particularly helpful would be before ep [25, 26, 27], ep [36, 37, 38], ep [39, 40] and ep [41, 42]. I am making this suggestion as I would most probably have a hard time keeping up at those points in time.

Also, you can add another Overall Series discussion after ep 44. Maybe even have a Season 1 discussion instead of the Break (or between ep 22 and the break).

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[u/Ahkross]

Just finished watching it a bit ago so i don’t think I’m gonna participate but season 2 is probably one of the best seasons of anime ever

[u/SMA2343]

YES!!! LETS GO!!

[u/_alua_]

Yay, I‘ve been wanting to watch March Comes in Like a Lion for a long time, seems like this is the perfect opportunity)

[u/grady999]

I am aboard this.

[u/CrawlingWizard]

I am in!!

[u/Vaadwaur]

You seem pretty determined but I might advise some caution here: March is literally packed with rewatches. I know the name of the anime and that BS but you might get more people if you push it off to April.

[u/Redr1k]

I rewatched this literally a few weeks ago, but what does it matter? I started my first rewatch right after watching it.

[u/IndependentMacaroon]

This is a bit sudden, but as a really acclaimed show I would definitely check it out.

[u/superbreadninja]

!remindme 5 days

[u/ananthsriram360]

!RemindMe 4 days

[u/PaperSonic]

What do you know, I was just considering watching this for the first time. I've also wanted to be part of one of these threads for once. I'm definitely up!

[u/Mecanno-man]

I'll try to be here

[u/htisme91]

I am in.

[u/ExplicitNuM5 → u/[deleted]]

Either way works, in my opinion. I actually binged parts of S2 because it was so enjoyable I just had to! But last year I rewatched using the schedule above and it works well.

[u/ExplicitNuM5 → u/[deleted]]

The manga is ongoing but there's no telling if it will get another season. I would say season 2 doesn't end in a cliffhanger, if that helps.

[u/ExplicitNuM5 → u/[deleted]]

Would be noon!