Anime is making pursue immortality or at least a longer life, my backlog grows and I haven't even started watching all of One Piece or Gintama, at least my retirement won't be boring..
A good season overall, a lot more action compared to last season and summer is looking more intense, so far the leftists still haven't managed to get their claws inside any of the popular ones so still a safe haven for those of us wanting entertainment. I'm also going to link some of the op and eds in this as there were some really good songs this season.
On my backlog: Ranking of Kings spinoff, Heavenly Delusion, my love story with Yamada-kun at lv999, Skip and Loafer (started first episode at least) Why Raelina Ended up at the Duke's Mansion, The dangers in my heart, Otaku elf, insomniacs after school. Just didn't have enough time.
Best of season: Oshi no Ko: great op and ed that delves into the dark side of the entertainment industry. Won't spoil just try to watch the 1hr first episode, if it doesn't hook you then ok but if it does wait for ep 6 as it's something we've been monitoring A LOT.
Demon Slayer: no brainer, fantastic art and op, great VA work from Tanjiro va in that last episode, just a good time.
Mobile Suit Gundam The witch from Mercury cour 2: Warcrimes! Get your fresh warcrimes with big robots! God damn Prospera is the biggest bitch around but damn does she play EVERYONE like a fiddle, BIG payoffs from the set up of the first cour and a great 2nd op
Death mount Dead Play: This one caught me off guard and almost slept on it. Great op pulls an uno reverse card first episode and every character is a shade of grey not 1 dimensional, highly recommend.
Dr Stone season 3: I learn more science from this than my time in school, getting more payoffs and can't help but root for your guy 1 billion percent
Mashle magic and muscles: one punch man goes to Hogwarts. In a word of nerds relying on magic for everything, one gigachad goes to everyone and teaches why you never skip leg, bicep, abdominal, back etc day. Really funny had so many belly laughs from this one.
Konosuba: An explosion on this wonderful world: it's more Konosuba but telling Megumin's backstory so if you enjoyed the main series you'll enjoy this
Need more episodes to cook: Hell's Paradise: the art is good as well as the action, story is interesting but needs at least 16 episodes before I can recommend.Great op
Slept on: My Home Hero: The art might put people off but the story about a father covering up murdering his daughter's abusive Yakuza boyfriend is a good thriller, props to his wife as a keeper as she walks in and immediately goes 'alright how do we hide the body?'
Interesting but not for everyone: Kamikatsu: Working for God in a godless world: You will be trolled by the art in this, they are doing it on purpose. Son of a cult leader after a ritual wakes up in 'another world' where there is no concept of god. After nearly dying thanks to this empire's adoption of Canadian healthcare, his loli cult's god comes down to save him and together start a religion to givdme her power through worshippers. It's nuts from Sex cults, strange 2016 CGI monsters and the best girl was a guy but it's fun to watch.
The Legendary hero is Dead!: fantastic op, a village farmer and devoted follower of thighology accidentally kills the hero in the dumbest trap ever and forced by the hero's necromancer ally to inhabit the hero's body to 'save the world'. Got some good humour but is heavy on fan service so not your thing skip, but at least listen to the op.
Rokudo's Bad Girls: In a story that I can't tell is Imp's hell or secret fantasy, mc gains a charm from his grandfather that makes any bad girl fall in love with him, the biggest being a girl that solo's gangsters for breakfast, good op and fun ed
Mentioning because I can: I got a cheat skill in Another world and became Unrivaled in the Real world too: long ass title explains it all, quite generic but to it's credit brilliantly displays trauma in the MC for being bullied all his life
My One-Hit kill sister: yeah I know its heavy on the incest vibes and fan service but two things: 1. WHY is the art for the action scenes REALLY good? 2. The ed which is good visuals are giving me flashbacks of Recess/Rugrats creepy pasta stories or is that just me?
In another world with my smartphone: it improved a little, that's it so it's avoided being last on my worst Isakai list.
The average: The aristocrat's otherworldly adventure, Summoned to Another world for a second time. They're not bad but VERY predictable.
That's it, I KNOW I left a few things off but it's just a stream of anime nowadays, even professional anime YouTubers that do it as a job can't keep up!
Oh nice, an anime thread, good stuff.
I need some anime to watch. Feel free to recommend me (preferably plot-focused) stuff, excluding cyberpunk/dystopia anime because I don't feel like I've ever seen any of them handled well in a way I'd like. I recently finished Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu, it lived up to the hype but now I need something else to watch.
I've watched a lot of anime by now, I think I've finished most of the big and mainstream action/adventure anime stuff.
Some of the stuff I've finished that I loved in the past that are similar to what I'm looking for:
Gurren Lagann, FMA, Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, Hunter x Hunter, AoT, Fist of the North Star, Rising of the Shield Hero, Re:Zero, Kaiji, Code Geass, Hajime no Ippo, Evangelion, Overlord, Jojo's (but my favorite was part 2), Kill la Kill, Berserk 97, Hellsing Ultimate, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, No Game No Life, Made in Abyss, Jujutsu Kaisen
I'm just looking for a good plot and characters in an anime. Could be any setting, except cyberpunk/dystopia, and any genre besides episodic stuff, pure slice of life, or pure romance on its own. Isekai are welcome, fantasy are welcome, mecha are welcome, shounen or seinen are cool. If you've somehow got a good josei or shoujo that fits, that might be okay too. Sports might work but I've seen most of the big ones already.
Preferably with at least a decent amount of action too would be nice, adventure isn't bad either. I'm open to most genres in this respect. I already plan to try Black Clover and Fairy Tail at some point and see how those are, no need to recommend those.
I might've missed some seasonal anime of the past few years or present that people liked a lot, so feel free to recommend those if they still hold up.
Only covering this season but from your description, I'd recommend Oshi no Ko, Death mount Dead Play, Mobile suit Gundam The witch from Mercury and Hell's Paradise.
Might've suggested Demon Slayer but by now you've kinda decided if you're watching it or not thanks to it's popularity lol.