Late getting this out as busy but still a good season. Isakai came back in force and a few good heavy hitters, as always disclaimer, I am human so haven't watched everything and not fully caught up with every one of the shows listed but at least past 3 episodes on each. Without futher a do:
The Heavy hitters:
Solo Levelling S2: They went HARD this season, spectacular fights nearly every episode, the MC already at the 'I'm him' stage plus him collecting bodies, literally, for his army.
Shangri-la Frontier S2 Cour 2: Just the start of this season with the showcase of the move armageddon to now we in the pro leagues, it's still a fun ride especially for gamer weebs.
Re Zero S3: It's back and still brutal as fuck in deaths only now some of the bad guys get to die horribly too.
Zenshu I put this new one here as it feels like a passion project for anime artists, an animation artist dies at work and wakes up in a fictional world she once saw as a kid, only she has the power to draw scenes from OTHER work to help her like Valley of the Wind. It's nice just seeing childhood anime scenes be displayed in this work.
Dr Stone: Science Future: Senku returns only he's travelling to America so you know what that means...guns in the stone world! lol.
Isakai zone
Headhunted to another world: from Salaryman to big four!: A looked over but highly skilled salaryman is summoned by the Demon Lord to be his new General. What I like about this is he's summoned BECAUSE of his skills in our world showing the most powerful skill in any world, understanding logistics!
I'm a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, so I might as well try mastering magic: Nothing spectacular, guy wakes up in a fantasy world in the body of a young noble, learns he can use magic and makes ut his focus. It's just average and good filler anime.
The Daily life of a middle aged online shopper in another world: The title speaks for itself but what I like about this is: A: inventive use of his shopping ability like using a magic tool in this world to make biofuel for his vehicles and generators B: He fucks the catgirl.
Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of all time: Our MC gets caught in the path of an illegal summoning so unable to return home, the goddess gives him a new body and the powers to create using magic. What stands out is that the goddess was smart and planning in that she gave the MC a blessing effectively giving him a tutorial mode to reduce danger for a while and plants him a year BEFORE the guys who were summonded.
The Red Ranger becomes an adventurer in another world Title speaks for itself only this ranger runs of the power of relationships so lots of marriage and friendship jokes in his moves plus main girl has very big plot..
Aquired taste
I may be a guild receptionist, but I'll solo any biss to clock out on time: Channeling the feeling of every support and healer main,her nice job is being ruined by adventurers unable to take down a boss resulting in overtime for her so she gets a disguise and onshots the bosses the weaklings can't cope with so she can clock out!
100 girlfriends season 2 After the baby feeding scene I saw, I'm just going to say it's still 'cultured' and move on...
I left my A-Rank party to help my former students reach the dungeon depths: This one gets a higher rating than average as the guy LEAVES himself knowing his worth and the BRUTAL retaliation he does against those that wrong him later on.
Bogus Skill <<fruitmaster>>: This one is weird, it's not particularly good but it's not bad, its a weird middle ground where you can enjoy watching it but know it's lacking
Even given the worthless Appraisal class I'm actually the strongest This does a Goblin Slayer bait and switch in that the first episode is brutal but it doesn't go to that level again really. Not bad, but be aware of that.
And that's what I can talk about, feel free to add in the stuff I couldn't catch up with as there's still A LOT to chose from.
A few more:
Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!
Reverse Isakai. An Elf and a Dragon in our world. Cute.
Okitsura: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Know What She's Saying
This one dives deep into Okinawa culture, tradition and dialect. Recommended for hardcore Otakus only.
I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class
Arranged marriage to a Tsundere. Enough said.
I disagree about this part. It's still just basic romance and humor, you don't need to be hardcore to enjoy it at all. Those of us who aren't hardcore might miss some stuff, but it's still completely fine even then.
I will say the subs are a bit rough in places, since it's trying to translate both Japanese and the Okinawan dialect at some points, but it's doable.
Speaking of specific cultures or regions, have you seen Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable?
"If we set our rom com somewhere cold, constant blushing and steamy exhales make real-world sense."
Honestly brilliant.
I can't tell if I'm just getting bored of anime or if it's been in a slump the past few years. Isekai doesn't interest me at all, which doesn't help I'm sure. But most these don't either. When's the next great shounen coming? Or great anything? It all seems so mediocre to me. And I don't like how feminized it's become, seems like there's very few masculine animes/manga anymore. I don't follow like I used to though, maybe my perception is wrong idk
Shounen has lost of of its appeal-to-boys-only style (allegedly because it is profitable) in contrast to shoujo. I guess that mirrors changes in western media. I don't know how up-to-date you might be but some recent ones I have watched are Fire Force (fighting fire with fire), early parts of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (punching vampires with the power of sunlight), Food Wars (extreme cooking), and Demon Slayer (slice demons with a katana). I avoid some of them because the fanbases are annoying like Jujutsu Kaisen. Some I just have not seen yet like Baki.
I don't think we are going to have any more shows that run weekly for years like One Piece, Dragon Ball, or Naruto.
I have to gush every time Fire Force gets mentioned. Cool animation, interesting and unique world and, most memorable, the OP and ED are epic, actually top tier.
As for Food Wars, I like things that over overcome their premise. Food Wars is bizarre lewd cooking...which sounds like it's going to be awful and embarrassing, but it's actually pretty wholesome, and the fan service is hilarious and more the cherry on top than the actual focus. And, similar to Fire Force, the S1 ending is awesome. The tone change around halfway through is epic, too, and the animation there is super cute.
One thing I really appreciate about anime is the attention to detail. If it's about a specific subculture, it tries to get it right. If it's about a sport or activity, it often goes into extreme detail. While exaggerated, Food Wars does cooking well.
Fire Force was cool but the animation budget plunged off a cliff after like 2 episodes. It was actually shocking how much they were struggling with basic fights. Maybe it got better later, idk.
I'm thinking of the episode with the mascots holding the balloons specifically.
Yeah the animation usually got kind of cheap in the lulls between story beats, lots of moving stills and reused frames. But they usually pulled the good stuff back out for the big fights.
Spoilery minor rant on Food Wars: XXXXXXX The series was great right up until they decided the main villain wasn't villainous anymore. There's nothing wrong with a villain temporarily joining a hero to defeat a bigger villain, or a villain turning good, it can be a decent plot device, but she's a karma houdini! She suffers NO concequences for her actions, and not even in-universe, (all her losses are self-inflicted) but out-of-universe the audience is written as expected to suddenly like her just because she's hot. Her meat-minion showcases a GOOD heel/face turn: Beaten in battle, humiliated by the good guys, she returns and is humiliated by the bad guys, and the good guys, initially, are annoyed at her, and she explains she was Just Following Orders, a bad excuse, but it IS an excuse, and she must contribute in major ways before being accepted, and even then, often gets the side-eye. The main villain? Shows up on their doorstep, the doorstep I must remind she TRIED TO DESTROY, says "well, I'm a good guy now", and everyone just... forgets that she was the primary open AND mastermind antagonist.
I know that's not a big thing to many people, but despite the premise, Food Wars isn't a comedy! You can't just have major narrative shifts with no rationale. "The tone change halfway through is epic"... Maybe? But the writing really isn't up to par to justify it. Psycho dictator chef guy is cool, but the way he was placed into the narrative isn't. If the primary antagonist was a fat ugly dude instead of a hot big-breasted blonde, and they still kept the minute-long segments of "his" tongue swirling about the open air, you'd argue the writing was bad switching him to good suddenly and arbitrarily, too.
Firstly, massive clarification. I can see it being unclear, but I was talking about the tone shift in the song.
Frustrating, since I thought of phrasing it a few different ways, and apparently went with the most misunderstandable phrasing...oops. I thought about mentioning the timestamp, I thought about saying rhythm or similar instead of tone. But I didn't, and now here we are.
Yeah, there were some issues with the story, no argument. I didn't hate it, but I certainly didn't like S3 (I believe) as much as 1 and 2. I don't think it's quite as bad as you paint it but, yeah, could have been handled a lot better...or not at all.
Oh it definitely isn't as bad as I paint it, I just have a particular distaste for that particular literary trope. There are several great anime, objectively great, top-ranked ones, which I just cannot watch because I hate that trope. If you're among the "hot girls can be poly-morality with no issues" crowd, it wouldn't even be an issue, it could even be a positive selling feature in the story to some to see more aspects/screentime of hot girl. I fully endorse seasons 1 and 2, and then pretend the later doesn't exist, anime never got a continuation! Or... Watch it, because it's still... fine... it's just grating to my personal taste.
Have you seen High School of the Dead?
That one's pretty unique in that the female main character we were allegedly supposed to like was near universally hated, but everyone loved the other girl. That was pretty funny. They tried to sell the audience on a terrible girl...and no one bought it.
I enjoyed HSotD. Everyone had their own circumstances, and while the designated female lead was a bit insufferable at times (a lot of times), she undergoes her own character arc, albeit an abridged one since the series is so short. The other women in the main cast were... objectively better? But still, the entire case was likeable enough.
It is amusing they had a designated love interest, but if you asked people to rank the four adult main cast women in the show, she's probably reliably #4. (Personal opinion: Tsundere, Nurse, Psycho, FeMC, but the joy in this series is that order could vary wildly person to person... So long as FeMC is last). But the show itself also seemed to realize that. It was written with her as the designated love interest, but it never seemed to push it unnaturally. It wasn't even harem-y, despite my ranking statement: Tsun is clearly designated/written to be paired with gun otaku secondary, and Nurse is clearly assigned to that SpecOps person. But they all have good chemistry nonetheless.
I don't recall that ED. Did I see a censored version?
Not sure. I looked it up, it looks like it changes half way through S1, so what I linked is for episodes 1-14 only, according to a wiki. So maybe you just remember the other ending song more, I don't know. But a cursory search didn't show me any mention of that song being censored or replaced.
It's sad because anime's unabashed appeal to men/masculinity at a time when western media had been feminized was one of it's biggest appeals.
All of those are old except for demon slayer and even it's been over for a while and didn't appeal to me in the first place. I don't interact with anime fandoms online anymore so I don't bother with that stuff, I haven't gone back to JJKK in a while but I do like it and think it's the closest thing we have to what I asked about. Baki is ancient but I enjoyed some of the netflix stuff for sure.
I just don't get why not, battle mangas/anime have a massive ceiling and have proven to be cashcows. The right one with interesting characters and powers can go on forever and be huge hits.
Might be looking in wrong direction then as Solo Levelling is doing good, we have the other Korean series Omniscient Reader in the works and there's A LOT of good fighting Manhwa and manga to recommend.
Maybe you just need a break from anime and read some Manga/Manwha?
Solo Levelling is OK as entertainment, but it doesn't have much of a soul to it. Korean stories in general have that issue.
Korean adaptations that get animated seem to have exactly two possible stories: either "Monsters are appearing in Seoul and I'm going to level up so much and never really leave Seoul" or "I am going to be bullied in ways that would have made Reinhard Heydrich say 'alright, that's a little excessive'".
This is my take as well. It's entertaining, but it doesn't actually have 'characters'. It's action set piece fights occasionally interrupted by the MC slowly walking around mean-mugging cardboard cutout people with an affected emotionless coolguy hardass persona. It took me halfway through this season to remember even one character's name outside the MC.
Man, I was going to say that in my reply to OP but just ended up saying "they've never really captured me like anime/manga has. I just prefer the vibe the Japanese give, the aesthetics etc."
But you nailed it. That's what I was thinking, they do feel more soulless to me. I've read more than a couple really good ones, but there's usually something missing compared to a great manga/anime for me. They feel like more of a product then a labor of love like great anime/manga. Though I guess I feel a lot of modern stuff coming out of Japan is going the same way, hence my original post. But at it's best manga/anime is hard to beat.
Yeah idk, I've read some really good manwhas before but they've never really captured me like anime/manga has. I just prefer the vibe the Japanese give, the aesthetics etc. I do see solo levelling a lot though, it seems like maybe the biggest property right now with JJK.
It seems this generation's big shounen was Demon Slayer and Chainsawman. If those didn't appeal to you (and they didn't to me, at least after part 1 in CSM) then I think you just grew out of them.
Because I do think they were better than the Naruto/Bleach generation, but they are still just shounen series doing roughly the same things with the same cliche archetypes.
Maybe I'm biased cause I grew up with them but chainsaw man and demon slayer didn't look like could lay a glove on Naruto/Bleach. Both series had their flaws, but were way more interesting and cool. I thought I'd like chainsaw man but got bored quick and demon slayer didn't interest me at all, feel like that's a chick show idk. I still haven't finished the second season or kept up with the manga, but JJKK feels like the closest thing to me. But I keep expecting to hear about some new big battle anime and it hasn't happened for a while.
Demon Slayer is very popular with women so it might be more chick oriented, but it was the biggest seller in the world for a while during its run. So I think that means both of us are just out of touch with what kids like these days.
CSM was really good and had a solid definitive end with part 1, which makes it leagues ahead of all the shounen zombies. I have ignored the entire second half and felt no worse for it. Though I'll admit it takes like 50 of the 100 chapters of part 1 to really make you be hooked. Not that its bad early on, but its a lot of setup.
Unfortunately for most series, they have to compete with the big battle anime in Dragon Ball outshining them constantly right now. Even if Super is shit and Daima is just okay, its still fucking massive and makes it hard for anyone to compete against it. If they even want to, because you also don't want to try and beat your own childhood nostalgia that most of Japan probably has for it too.
The late 90s until the early 2010s had that huge gap without any Dragon Ball being made (besides the joke movie with Vegeta's brother), and that's when all the other big battle shows we can think of were happening. Once it came back with BoG, you can almost hear them all rushing to isekai instead.
Yeah probably lol, it didn't appeal to me but I know it was massive. Feels like it came and went fast though. For someone who grew up with DB, then the big 3 when I was in highschool, it's weird to see a manga come and go so fast. I want another epic 600+ chapter, multi arc battle manga.
Interesting, I love DB but I didn't realize it was still so big. You'd think people would be tired of it and want some fresh blood in the genre. Probably doesn't help that OP is still going strong too. But I would love to see a new one pop up in the next year or two, I feel like anime needs it, it feels stale to me. Isekai needs to die ASAP too, fucking bored and played out, don't get the appeal.
Well it did actually end. The manga was already ending when the anime started and it didn't really get big until the anime itself. Compared to all the other "big" shows which limp on forever, that certainly makes it feel like a flash in the pan.
So most people who were really into it probably stopped waiting for the anime and just went and finished it with the manga.
I think One Piece and Dragon Ball will need to end before anyone else can show up and not be choked out of the area. We've listed all the big ones (except MHA and AoT) and all of them barely reached the level of the Narutos or Bleaches did back in the day in terms of mass popularity. They sold more but the market is like triple the size it used to be too.
Like, One Piece is about to have four fucking ongoing forms. Two anime, a live action and the manga. Fans of it will have a full time weeb schedule on it alone.
But its also not my arena. I retired to SoL, comedy romance manga a while ago. That's area is in its renaissance and I'm eating good almost every few months with a new series coming in swinging.
Medalist: Wholesome sports anime about a coach teaching a little girl figure skating. Your usual sports anime about improvement and challenge. Gorgeous animation.
Glad I picked this one up, as I'd ignored it for a while, since it looked like a bunch of stuff I wasn't interested in. Figure skating? Little girl MC? But it's actually really good.
Sorairo Utility: Speaking of sports animes, this is 'cute girls do goofy golf.' Not in the same league as Medalist in my opinion, and completely different tone, but it can be pretty funny.
Can You Keep a Secret?: Romance anime about an office romance kept secret. Not top tier, but pretty good and cute. Also, benefits from (so far) not having the side characters be annoying bastards, which sometimes happens in this genre. No forced harem stuff either.
Speaking of, I see someone already mentioned Ms. Elf, Okitsura, and I'm Getting Married, so I'll leave those. I will say, speaking of annoying side character, I'm Getting Married has a ton of annoying characters, but is still enjoyable. Okitsura is funny, and I like the animes that talk about specific subsets of Japanese culture. Ms. Elf is good but in my opinion a bit inconsistent.
Blue Box: While we're talking both romance and sports, Blue Box is still ongoing. Generally really good.
Ubel Blatt: Fantasy action. Points for non-isekai. Points for interesting world building. Massive loss of points for being retarded and frustrating me with monumental waste of potential. I loved the first episode, and I think the second was okay, and I was really drawn in by the world building, as I mentioned. Then it just got really stupid, really fast. Very disappointing.
Sakamoto Days: Haven't watched it, but looks interesting. A hitman who gives up killing but still has to defend those he cares about, or something.
Now to touch on a few you mentioned:
Zenshu: Haven't watched it, didn't look like my thing, but I'll have to check it out now. You made it sound more interesting, and if it has a Nausicaa reference that's worth it for that alone.
Solo Levelling S2: Probably even better than the first season. Animation is great, and the ED and OP are killer.
I Left My A-Rank Party: Fun but not amazing. The most noteworthy thing a lot of people bring up is it apparently cuts out a ton from the source material, skips things, totally changes the pace, and more. Apparently some of it was much, much more brutal in the manga, so this was toned down.
Bogus Skill <<fruitmaster>>: Absolute ass, at least in my opinion. It started off...okay, and then got really stupid.
Appraiser Class: Similar to Ubel Blatt, wasted potential. Didn't start off as intriguing as Ubel Blatt, but also doesn't get as bad. Starts off interesting and, although I'm not a huge blood and gore fan, it can often be used as an indicator that it's going for more complex themes. Not so much here. It wants to be gory at times, but also all power of friendship and smiles and stuff, the pacing can be weird, secondary characters aren't amazing. MC is also one of the most OP MCs ever, but it's not handled great. Not a terrible anime, but a lot of wasted potential in my opinion.
If I had to pick my favorites, I'd probably say Medalist and Solo Leveling.
Sakamoto Days is really good, you should make time for it. It's basically Spy x Family except every episode has a Yor-style fight scene.
Yeah, from this thread, that and Zenshu are on my immediate list for sure. Looking forward to it.
Apothecary Diaries is still running the rankings table. The anime will catch up with both versions of the manga this season. The open question is whether the money is good enough for them to forge ahead into LN territory for a season 3.
Ameku MD started out with a few good episodes but it's burning out fast because its House-expy frankly isn't House enough.
both versions of the manga?
theres another version of the manga?
I do hope they animate the entire thing
Yes, one is by Nekokurage, the other is by Kurata Minoji.
So what is the "original" version of it?
Natsu Hyuga is the author, but there are two revisions, the WN and the printed LN. The LN is typically regarded as the canonical version, with the WN being more of a beta release version of the story.
So isekai, isekai, pseudo isekai, isekai... man, people were spoiled in the 90s and 2000s.
But on the other hand some potential all time greats are coming out this year. The next Chainsaw Man, Dorohedoro season 2, Lazarus. Also Ranma 1/2 season 2 might be releasing, since they supposedly had most of it wrapped up last year.
I preferred the 2000s. "I was an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh who resurrected in Japan so I might as well become the god of card games" was a great pseudo-isekai. I also enjoyed "Born on a high-level-planet, I landed on Earth and apparently I'm the strongest?!", the monkey-man in that isekai was really cool with his martial arts powers. He also flew on a cloud and used an extending staff, very Journey To The West referential, but outgrew it and just flies and punches with spirit bombs in the later seasons.
This is the cost of having anime become popular.
Gotta say though, I'm partial to some isekai trash.
If they don't get to best girl, Ukyo, in this one and give her the center stage she deserves for the rest of the series its shit and deserves to be destroyed.
It's all SHIT
Your comment about videogame mechanics put words in how I feel so thanks. On an off topic, seen Thunderbolt Fantasy? It's puppetry that uses practical effects with digital effects to enhance the scene. The action and movement is exhilarating, there is nothing else like it.
I've heard of it, but I haven't picked up any shows in years. Is it worth adding to the backlog?
I wouldn't say so. It's weird I hype up a show that uses puppets but it's on a grand scale. The story is pretty simple and exciting. It's about chasing down cursed swords. Very fairy tale like
Gotta say, I was kinda annoyed with how much they're rushing in Solo Leveling S2.
I mean sure, they don't cut out anything important, usually just some jokes or some minor plot points, or they change the scene/fight somewhat to be shorter, but it still made the pacing feel way too fast.
There are also some changes in the anime adaption overall that just baffle me. None are anything major, but I also don't understand what even the purpose was.
Like for example the red gate incident. In the comic he saves 3 people from the guild in the anime just 2. And I don't understand what this change was for. It literally does not make any difference in the plot.
Or in the anime his class is referred to as Shadow Monarch in the comic it was Shadow Lord. This also brought on a change in the fight against Tusk, because in the anime everything he said was glitched out, while in the comic this is the first time the title Monarch is uttered. It was just such a strange decision.
In the anime papa Sung outright threatens the S-rank twatwaffle, that he will kill him, if he ever sets foot in Korea again. In the comic he instead gives him a warning (that is very similarly phrased), that if he ever sets foot again in Korea, he will not be able to rest, even after death. Implying that he knows about the powers his son has acquired.
Now there are two changes, where I clearly know what the purpose was. Namely to make protag-kun look better, but I gotta say, that's really lame, man.
Number one was in season one during the dungeon incident with the purple haired weirdo. In the anime the criminals are all dead. But in the comic one of them is only playing dead and after the other two survivors leave, Jin-Woo picks him up, drags him to the boss room and just throws him into the monsters.
Number two was during the red gate incident. In the anime, when Jin-Woo fights the elf, he remarks that he needs another strong shadow. Completely coincidentally, his mages cause an explosion that completely coincidentally launches Kim-Chuul's sword next to him, who sees it and uses the opportunity to attack Jin-Woo and getting shadowed in retaliation. In the comic however, the sword lies at Jin-Woo's feet and he deliberately jumps at the elf in such a way that it gets launched next to Kim-Chuul. 'cuz he's predicting Kim-Chuul will attack, giving him the chance for some self defence shadowing.
Weeb sperg out over.
+1 for Zenshu being an isekai that actually follows an arc with the main character. I feel like the only other isakai that I've watched like this has been Jobless Reincarnation. The rest seem to always have perfect characters who are stuck fixing a world of retards.
I would also like to throw Sakamoto Days into the ring. it's a show in a similar vein of spy X family, in that the scenario is absurd and the comedy stems from that absurdity. There were complaints about the animation, though I am still very satisfied with the animation quality.
Orb: On The Movements of the Earth is actually really good if you like stuff like Vinland Saga.
That headhunted one looks kinda interesting. I dismissed it as looking like standard isekaislop with an overly long name when scrolling around for something to watch a while back, but it's so rare to see fiction acknowledge that logistics win wars that I might give it a try.
One thing I love is that it does the whole 'mind scape' thing like sherlock but his is a bar as the ONLY place a Japanese salaryman can think in peace is a bar lol.
It's straight up just "today I will use superior Japanese understanding of business and logistics to set the country straight" and it completely works.
Tasokare Hotel: It's laid back Death Parade, but they can be alive or dead. Episodic. Sometimes hopeful, sometimes bittersweet, sometimes dark.
I'm reading through Solo Leveling right now and it's quite good, but where I am in the story now (~ch. 180) I'm actually a bit disappointed in the overarching storyline. Where in the story is S2 covering?
Up until the Ant Island raid.
This sounds like big FFXI Red Mage energy to me. "The whole alliance keeps wiping so I'm gonna go sub NIN and solo this bitch."
It is VERY silly! But mostly good clean fun.
I'm dying to see another anime along the lines of Noir and Black Lagoon. More so Noir because the mysteries and secret societies was exciting. Any winners?
I can't think of any off the top of my head, at least in anime. Think if I looked into manga/manwha they'd be a few so maybe they get future adaptations?
Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Ojisan is pretty good. I haven't caught up with it, but I was enjoying it. More of a comedy than anything else.
100 girlfriends baby episode was a trip
Headhunted to another world: from Salaryman to big four looks interesting. I'll check it out.
The 100 Girlfriends subtitle localization is so transed up it's completely unwatchable, which is a shame because it should be goofy and funny instead of making you mad at some anonymous queer.
Its a gag manga by its own admission and the entire point is to see how ridiculous the shenanigans are going to be this week.
I mean, they have an entire few chapters where one of them takes a "Tsundere Cure Drug" and they try to change her back, but can't capture her old "essence." So instead they all generate a small amount of Tsundere power on their own (which totally isn't an excuse to show every girl acting that way) and then form it into the MC (because that much at once might kill the girl, but he is willing to shoulder the burden to hold it) who then throws it like a Spirit Bomb back into her.
Its a completely ridiculous series that gets better as it goes, because each additional girl is a new avenue for more gags. And eventually it'll have a waifu for everyone, which seems to be its main goal.
It is unfortunate that early on Hahari takes a huge center stage, because she is incredibly one note with her baby stuff. But that is the cost of an anime that is adapting everything instead of jumping over chapters entirely.
I'm watching a lot, as usual, but most are not in this "tops" list.
Re Zero S3 = still god-tier!
I may be a guild receptionist = dumb, but fun.
100 girlfriends season 2 = so dumb, it's fun!
Watching these too:
Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! = dumb but fun.
Okitsura: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl,= it's so cute!
Sakamoto Days = A good show! Solid in every way.
Tasokare Hotel = another good all-round show.
I'm watching 11 more not listed, Amagami-san S2 is probably the best one although Honey Lemon Soda is god-tier so far.
Solo Leveling S1 and S2 ( up to now ) are fantastic fun to me.
u/SoctaticMethod1 I checked all the animes you listed in the Fall 2024 review and enjoyed most of them, thanks very much.
You're welcome, enjoy doing this every season not only to highlight some people might have missed but also write down what I missed lol.