春夏秋冬代行者 春の舞

OK, who brought the onions here? It's absolutely beautiful, especially the sequence when Hinagiku manifests Spring. Naobou did an absolutely good job as Nazuna , bringing her A-game to bring out the emotions of missing spring all her life. And damn, is Hinagiku cute. Lastly, they did a great job casting Yoppi as Sakura . Dance of Spring song lyrics by Akatsuki Kana and composition and arrangement by Kensuke Ushio.

This show will definitely be a top contender for most aesthetically pleasing anime of the spring season. Loved how all these flowers and grass were sprouting from the ground at Hinagiku’s feet. The framing of this specific shot felt very reminiscent of this famous scene in Violet Evergarden where she takes a step on the water. Lastly, they did a great job Yoppi as Sakura. I really hadn’t realised that Yoppi was voicing her. Sakura feels a bit different from her usual characters. For one, the girl is clearly traumatised. What exactly went down in the past!?

I had never heard of this and had no idea a new show was starting today. But I decided to take a look - and am pretty certain I am going to love this. Quieter and more restrained than Sakuna (in both tone and color saturation) -- but with a vaguely similar sense of "fantasy". I assume we will eventually find out why both Hinagiku and Sakura seem so damaged/traumatized. The two female lead VAs are great, btw (ditto Nazuna's VA). I wonder whether we will see Nazuna again?

An anime about spring being the first Spring 2026 anime lol. This was interesting to watch, it feels like we're missing a lot of information so I'm curious to see whatever happened in the past, while also learning more about what this world has to offer.  I'm guessing the black haired guy is Winter's Agent, I wonder if they'll be a romantic pair like who they represent.  Sakura's trauma is so well done, you can really feel how fragile she is. The fear she has was palpable.  Hinagiku's speech is really interesting, not only does she refer to herself in third person, but the pauses makes me wonder why she can't speak normally. I did wonder if the Hinagiku we see now is not the real Hinagiku because of how she refers herself, but more information is needed.  I was worried Nazuna was in an abusive household, especially after seeing the grave, maybe she still is, but hopefully things get better for her now that spring has arrived.

I thought she referred to herself in the third person because the writer wanted her to sound cute. (It was distracting as hell to me honestly.) A lot of children, usually girls, refer to themselves in the third person. (See Ayumi Yoshida from Detective Conan for a fictional example.) If anime in general is anything to go by, children will eventually switch to first person pronouns during grade school. There are girls who keep doing this into teenhood and possibly adulthood in an effort to appear cute, much to the chagrin of the girls and women around them. (See Nadeko Sengoku from Monogatari and Mutsumi from Noragami .) Or I could be just talking out of my ass, and you’ll get an actual answer from somebody feeling the need to correct me.

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There's some inconsistencies regarding the description of this show. Either the world is stuck in a perpetual winter or they just completely skip spring and move to summer. I feel like even if you just skipped spring, spring-like things are still going to occur if it suddenly goes from cold and snowy to warm and sunny, including the blossoming of trees. Wit doing two shows this season is odd. Hopefully neither have an impact on the other's animation quality.

I'm not talking about the story they give at the end of the episode. On the Crunchyroll description page for this show: When the Agent of Spring, Hinagiku Kayo, is abducted, spring itself vanishes -- plunging the world into an unending winter. This clearly suggests that it's only been winter for the last 10 years. Then in the episode description: Ten years ago, the balance of the seasons was broken. Which suggests what the show seems to suggest, that summer and fall still exist, but winter is longer due to spring not existing.

She also literally says she knows what Summer and Autumn are. But she also claims the lack of spring has ruined her father's tourism business which makes no sense. They also imply that the climate of the region changed due to lack of Spring which REALLY makes no sense. I live in a place that gets 6 months of Winter basically and that happens because of the climate, if Winter got extended in the southern US it wouldn't make them into a tundra, they would just have 30-50 degree weather for longer.

I feel like even if you just skipped spring, spring-like things are still going to occur if it suddenly goes from cold and snowy to warm and sunny, including the blossoming of trees. It does happen sometimes. Here in Finland I've experienced within the matter of a week it would go from freezing to 20C, so you'd end up sunbathing surrounded by piles of melting snow. It really throws everything out of whack Ofcourse stuff like blossoms and flowers still occur. But it seems in this world that kind of stuff doesn't occur through a natural process, but instead the leaves on the trees are straight up magically summoned

It's fitting that this show is technically a Spring one but premiered in Winter, albeit at the very end of it. The scene where Hinagiku performed the ritual was absolutely stunning, how the scenery changed from white and dull to green and lush. Love the Hinagiku-Sakura pairing. One's a complete sweetie pie, while the other's a bit rougher on the outside but with a tender heart inside. Eager to learn about the mystery behind Spring's lack of agent for a decade, as well as Sakura's traumatic background that continued to eat her to this day. So there's a special relationship between Winter and Spring. How do Summer & Autumn come into play? I'm getting the feeling that they're both supportive instead of being a rival.

A very lovely first episode! And it looked beautiful ! The setup with people taking on the roles of agents of the seasons is definitely interesting, and the mystery of Spring 's disappearance seems very intriguing (why it happened, who is responsible for that, etc.), so I'll definitely check out the next episodes. Here my screenshot albums from the episode: Group scenes Hinagiku Sakura Nazuna Others EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.

Really strong premiere. Hinagiku and Sakura's characters and their dynamic was established quite well. I'm sure we'll get their backstories and more on them later but I feel like I've got a decent handle on them both already and am quite invested in what happens to them. And Nazuna I'm guessing is a one-off character and not a recurring one. But her character build up was really good too and the reveal of her shovelling snow over her mother's grave hit hard. Then the release and relief when Hinagiku brought forth spring was so good. Whatever happened to Hinagiku 10 years ago - that first scene we saw - seems to have taken quite the toll on her. Glad she endured and brought about spring, for the sake of Nazuna and everyone else. It really is the season of hope. And our Spring 2026 season is off to a great start with what promises to be a wonderful adaptation of an interesting story.

Wow, this was a standout premiere. So here we have each of the 4 seasons bestow their powers on a human. Hinagiku receiving the power of Spring. Though what happened in Hinagiku's past because if Spring did not manifest in 10 years, then clearly something major had happened. Nazuna truly loved her mother. She did not know of Spring; it is something that sounds foreign in our world but sounds depressing. As spring is the intermission between winter and summer. No doubt that Hinagiku seeing Nazuna trying to shovel the snow around her mother's grave gave her the push forward. With an outstanding scene that was beautifully animated. Nazuna remembers the spring that she once saw when she was a baby. It's very interesting how this show proceeds forward, and Wit looks to be doing an outstanding job.