Pour one out for the recent high sea purge, though they've already been mirrored so these sites are like Kane from C&C with how much they resurrect..
Anyway good season overall, a surprise standout and one that gave my brain a vaction. Disclaimer as always, haven't seen EVERYTHING so will miss stuff, key ones is The Elusive Samurai and Pseudo Harem, I am only human (for now, come on cybernetics!) so some slip the net and not caught up on everything, without further ado:
Actually I read the Manga
A journey through another world: Raising kids while adventuring: this is just good male role model vibes where a guy Isakai'd becomes the caring older brother to two orphaned young saiyans, just a pallette cleanser show
Why does nobody remember me in this world: Humanity had a war with magical beings, won and live in peace but some a hole flipped the table and reset the world to where Humanity didn't have the hero that turned the tide, with everyone forgetting him but our MC so becomes the one that needs to help turn the tide in this war. It's ok but nothing big budget.
Failure Frame: I became the strongest and Annihilated Everything with low-level spells: WARNING, heavy use of cgi, it's actually used quite well but I know this is a turn off for some. The main thing that keeps my interest in the series is the MC as going in you thing 'another beta guy exiled for weak abilities but turns out they're cracked' but no he had a psycho switch in him the whole time and he can manipulate, kill no hesitation. Plus while everyone else lusts over the main girl, he's 'revenge first, pussy later' when she actually gives him the green pass.
continuing from previous season
That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime S3 cour 2: I prefer this festival arc as you get more characters coming in, more development in Tempest and character development all round
The heavy hitters
No longer allowed in another world: following the example of Ya boy Kongming, this takes author Osamu Dazai and Isakai's him and like the original, he just REALLY wants to die. Thought it'd be a bit of a one trick joke but damn did this have great characterisation. Episode 8 was a masterpiece to itself.
Oshi no Ko S2: still top tier quality exploring the entertainment industry and while the opening not as good in my opinion to Season one, still a banger.
Sussy Sisters (should've included Oshi no Ko on this)
Days with my stepsister: actually just a very good story about two strangers now having to live with each other and understand their feelings in this new dynamic.
Alya sometimes Hides her feelings in Russian: Our main girl is a tsundere who says her true feelings in Russian as she's in Japan so who there knows Russian? Our MC so he got a girl acting cold in public but saying in Russian how she'd like to toss him down and french kiss him. Also his sister a bit of a freak.
Aquired taste
Wistoria - wand and sword: from the mind behind Black Clover, this is very well animated story as the one guy that can't use magic in magic school but literally built different. I put it here though as the MC might turn people off as though he can go badass, his whimpy scenes can be annoying.
My dear friend Nokotan: Welcome to the deer world motherfuckers! Everything is deer and you will be deer too hahaha! (This written by 1 braincell, rest of brain took a vaction). Studio Wit KNEW what they wanted with this series and the fact that intro song was as catchy as hell BEFORE it even released, you see why they put their full effort into this than Suicide Squad, speaking of which..
Suicide Squad Isakai: I kinda got bored and dropped it, just ok and other than the Morri ed, it's just average.
The Strongest magician in the Demon lord's army was a Human: liking the story, a human raised in secret by the best magican in the demon lords army and wants to make a world where both humans and demons can live in peace but has to hide his human identity as well as resistance from both sides.
Tower of God S2: this is an improvement over season 1 but still lacking in some explanation and development to get higher, a bit more work and it'll be a lot better.
Vtuber legend: How I went Viral after forgetting to turn off my steam: this is the most ACCURATE portrayal of vtubers in ANY media, so much so I think they watched a vtuber and just went off that. Growing hypothesis, they were watching Bao the Whale just toned down the gooning for the anime...
My wife has no Emotion:welcome to what happens when western women get too bad, we go for the robots. It's light hearted and at least he's simping fir the robot not an ethot.
That's the list of what I have at least viewed, didn't watch the second part of Nier Automata as the delay killed the buzz for me to watch it so on the back burner.
I don't watch anime, so posts like these give me an idea of what's happening in modern media outside of my little bubble (I mostly stick with older films, Danish mystery-thrillers, Hong Kong action flicks, and South Korean crime-dramas).
Most of these seems like it's a lot of isakai stuff, which is not really my thing. But judging from the comments, most here seem to think Elusive Samurai is good, so I might keep an eye on it.
Def. give it at least a glance, if it weren't for the other bangers this year it could easily snag Anime of the year. Feels like every year there's more and more modern classics that instantly achieve said status by virtue of having people work on it that actually do love the source material.
It's also because a lot of the authors are using anime to correct mistakes in the original work, in 'it'd be better like this' not a 'make it lame and gay' way.
For example, in the recent Bleach TYBW, the original author added scenes into the anime to make it flow better compared to the original work. There's still a lot of passion and it's just the chappy streaming sites that are slowing down a lot of it getting released.