No, it looks like Time Paladin Sakura is a spinoff of Da Capo, which is a visual novel. I guess it's more like Prima Illya.
In Japan, April 1st is considered to be the first day of spring, which is why so many anime characters have it as their birthday.
The plot needs to advance?
There's a few like that, but I think many of the creators can't relate to such concepts.
Do you remember what happened to an American show called Moonlighting after the leads got together?
Friend and I have been slogging through the Tenchi Blackhole, as we call it, for years now as a way to cleanse our palette of Love Hina. We really do like Tenchi in general, but we have definitely found our match with Sasami: Magical Girls Club. Literally fuck-all happens for 13 episodes, something starts happening for a few episodes at the start of season two, and then went back to dull and uninteresting where world-building is glanced over and adults just refuse to talk to the girls as to why it's not a good idea to get involved with what amounts to cult behavior. Such a waste of potential for any kind of commentary about magical girls and reality, and the characters are completely underutilized. The OCs made for this series are nobodies with nothing of substance to show for it and the Tenchi characters who are in the show are skinwalkers for all I know. We're not yet done, we're legit exhausted by it.
Watch TONIKAWA: Over the Moon For You.
There are oneshots that have them but they are short. Speaking of one shots, dig this one
depends on the genre, I know there's a recent trend in some seinen manga that's carved out a decent sized niche where the set up is some variation of "MC in their late 20s or early 30s leaves tokyo or some major corporation and starts a completely new life in a very small city or rural area, which somehow leads to some pretty quick romantic developments. And I'm sure a few users can list a few shojo or josei series where it's nothing but following one couple for dozens of episodes or volumes.
I generally assume that's sort of what happened with Tenchi in Tokyo (Shin Tenchi Muyo) as well, that it started development as an unrelated show with superpowered high school students, magical girl or otherwise, fighting a monster-of-the-week that AIC got cold feet about so they decided to cram in Tenchi and the alien girls and create yet another Tenchi Muyo! spin-off continuity that is absolutely incompatible with either of the previous two main Tenchi Muyo continuities, either OVA or TV.
And Tenchi has a different mom yet again and Sasami his sister.
Try reading non Shounen Jump Weekly manga. Weekly releases just aren't sustainable health wise long term for most manga artists to draw high quality stuff, SJW especially given how competitive it can be.
It might be the usual case of remembering only the 5% good art in the past, though there is now some popularity to a more sketchy style. It is an exaggeration to call it calartsification though since the rough sketch style is still stylistic compared to calart basic shapes with no edges and extremely basic colouring.
No, I mentioned this, most of the Shounen/Seinen manga from 80-2000 have much better art than their counterparts today, ignoring the purposefully cartoony ones. Shoujo and Josei suffered a bit in that area back then but not to the point of anatomy being shit, just having less detail (Golden Boy is one of the only mangas Ive seen with 2000s webcomic level anatomy which is shocking considering how detailed the show is like other 90s shows).
Its the difference between a webcomic and a woodcut painting. Sketch style still lacks anatomy, still lacks detail. This is not even directed at the common anime criticism of big eyes and emoticon faces but its directed at the lack in detail (inking, crosshatching), lacking anatomy and stuff like background composition.
