Could use a light topic from all the bs, with it nearly being Christmas so why not look at the one medium not actively calling white people devils.
I'd say it was a good season personally, feel free to put down what you liked or want to recommend. Here's my picks:
Standouts/ must watch: Bleach TYBW, Chainsaw Man, Mob psycho 100 III and Spy x Family cour 2
Suprises: The Eminence in Shadow: I went in blind to this one and the tone shift from ep 1 after credits was massive. A very good show with the perfect mix of cringe and badass scenes.
Akiba Maid war: Yakusa gang wars but in maid cosplay, seriously
Personal likes:
Reincarnated as a sword: could easily be dismissed as isekai trash but has cute then brutal moments mixed in (Fran's hands all I'll say)
Mobile suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: despite early attempts by leftists to call it yuri, no it's just a good introduction to Gundam for new viewers, excellent art and has the political intrigue you expect from Gundam.
Ituma-kun season 3: it's my lighthearted weekly watch.
Would like to highlight Isekai Ojisan is back after both Netflix and production hell which is also worth a watch.
As an Isekai connoisseur, I will say Slime is a good series and can just bring up one way it's better than smartphone to show how bad it is
The slime characters HAVE character, the each had personality that they could make a lighthearted spinoff and the story payoff in season two worked. Smartphone's characters are REALLY bland and 1 dimensional.
Edit: I will say the WORST isekai I ever watched was 'Isekai cheat magician', I dropped that after 3 episodes, GOD it was bad, it didn't deserve the Myth and Roid op it got!
My main issue is just the overpowered characters really. I did enjoy Overlord because its perspective is different in a lot of ways, i.e. with the Lizardman arc entirely from their perspective where some god level monsters are coming to kill them all. From the other perspective it's rather boring. That's what slime felt like to me but yeah, maybe you're right with your point, the smartphone one is such a bad one, I only ever got past 2 episodes whereas with the slime one around 17(I was bored @ work).
I get what you mean about overpowered characters, a LOT of early Isekais did them badly as it focused on wish fulfillment than story and character first. That's less of an issue from what I've seen of a lot of the ones this year as they give them qwerks like:
Isekai Ojisan: he's overpowered but a social introvert with access to mind wiping techniques
Parallel world pharmacy: overpowered but only wants to heal and help people.
Slime: he's overpowered but not THE most powerful plus he cares for those around him
A lot of the early ones like phone mad them op but with few character qwerks they can play off. Op is fine so long as you enjoy when the character is on screen.