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!
Hells Paradise is in the same boat as Oshi No Ko, and Chainsaw Man.
They all need more than 12 episodes worth to get really damn good, ONK suffering the least in this regard imo.
Unfortunately, Oshi No Ko is the only one to get the fabulous treatment of a feature length film for the first episode.
Chainsaw Man and Hells Paradise will suffer a bit because 12/13 episodes just isn't QUITE enough to really get people invested, imo.
As a manga reader it took me 2 tries for both of the aforementioned to get into it, and I fear that will be the case for them in the anime realm as well.
CSM and HP are both well done middle to end, but have slow, albeit good enough, starts.
Good news about Chainsaw Man, I've heard it'll get a second season and a film so it looks like it'll get the Jujitsu Kaisen treatment.
Got no clue on Hell's Paradise unfortunately.