Yep I'm back to do these, been busy personally and had to change due to new phone so be a shorter list plus quite the chill season this time. Without futher adou:
Actually I read the manga
From old country Bumpkin to master swordsman: This one was a good manga when I read it but what I liked most were the fight scenes and the main character. In the anime they stuck true to that to the point Shad has made video critiques on it praising it in parts and pointing out room fot improvement. It does have 3D so if that's a no go understand it's in there.
The unaware Atelier meister: this was just light hearted comedy, the mc is a guy who is COMPLETELY useless in combat but all OTHER skills are SSS grade that his porridge can cure and disease, he can build a mansion by himself in a week and his pig feed is so good, dragons fly down to have some.
I'm the Evil Lord of an intergalactic Empire: so imagine a guy REALLY fucked over in life, like he gets ntr'd, his daughter isn't his, framed for fraud, gets cancer and ss he's dying in a shoddy apartment only to be tricked into reincarnating to suffer by an evil entity....only for THAT to go tits up thanks to a certain 'good boy'....
Something to mention with this, it is DIFFERENT from the manga, timelines have been changed, new jokes and scenes added and it WORKS! I like the addition of scenes of the evil guide just fucking with people's everyday lives because he loves negative emotions.
Up to personal tastes
The Brilliant Healer's new life in the shadows: like every bad dnd/raid party, a healer who's exceptional at their job often gets accused of doing nothing at all. MC gets kicked out so starts an underground clinic but doesn't realise how exceptional it is that he can literally amputate then regrow you a new arm. I actually enjoy the deadpan delivery of the MC who asks for minimal pay after he regrows your limbs.
I've been killing slimes for 300 years and now I've maxed out my level season 2: same lighthearted comedy as last time, just nice to clear your head to.
The beginning after the end:I'll be honest, this adaptation felt disappointing. I never read the original work,was on my to read list and never got round to it. But this adaptation felt weak like God of High-school wasted potential. It's getting a season 2 so hopefully tgey improve.
That's it for me, I wanted to see Kowloon Generic Romance and A ninja and assassin under one roof but got too busy. Hopefully others can fill me in on if they're good to catch up on.
A few more you did not mention:
Aharen-san wa Hakarenai 2: The most wholesome rom-com I've ever seen returns for Season 2. Just as good as the first season. The sweetest pure love comedy on TV.
Apocalypse Hotel: Unique idea, post apocalyptic world with only robots and aliens. meh execution.
Please Put Them On, Takamine-san: Hard pass unless you are looking for ecchi on steroids. Trying to combine femdom and a classic rom-com
The Shiunji Family Children: Boy finds out he is not blood related to his 5 sisters. Suddenly all of them are in love with him. Sounds lame but the execution is pretty sweet and innocent.
Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive?: Actually wholesome love triangle. I like it!
Thanks for filling in the gaps.
Yeah I looked at the description of Takamine and passed hard, almost as hard as that reincarnated as a dog one years ago lol.
Some animes are just super easy to pass on, aren't they?
Yeah, there's a lot of ecchi coming out this season, for whatever reason. And, although I didn't look into them much, they don't even seem interesting (High School of the Dead, for example, is amazing despite the ecchi), but these just lean way too hard on the ecchi, from the looks of things. None of them interested me in the slightest. Especially Please Put Them On, which looks pretty gross in concept. No thanks.
If you're saying it's actually wholesome, maybe I'll check it out. I passed just based on the framing.
Need to get back to Boy-Girl Friendship, only watched a bit. And I'll check out Aharen-san too; I've heard of it, but never watched.
If you haven't seen Dangers in my Heart, recommend. MC is a an insufferable edgelord for the first ep, but starts to improve quickly.
You didn't like the execution on Apocalypse Hotel? I thought it had some really great animation in it!