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.
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.