I would've done this last week but....didn't feel right if you catch my drift. Obviously didn't watch everything and behind on some so feel free to fill in the gaps. Without further adou:
I've read the Manga
Scooped up an S-Rank Adventurer: Standard 'guy gets booted from his party because he's so good they don't notice him helping them' fair. Have noticed they have changed things compared to the manga and can't tell if censored or not. It doesn't feel like creative changes like with others I see.
The Headliners
DandaDan S2: unfortunately no Creepy Nuts opening but this one isn't bad. It just feels more crazy and fun than last time with everything to suicide inducing giant worms with a cult, soccer playing possession, a musical fight and even Kaiju battle.
My Dress up Darling S2:Yep she's back, the one girl where we both appreciate the fanservice but also 'please get with HIM!' First episode along was funny with the bunny girl outfit and Gojo remembeting he is a teenage man!
Kaiju No 8 S2: Still some hyped battles and scenes though didn't feel as pulling as first season, could just be me.
Up for Personal tastes
Shield Hero S4:Nearly getting back to Season 1 quality at least, do prefer up of who he is against in this season.
Reborn as a Vending Machine S2: is still to the formula as last one only they raised the stakes with the attack of the demon lord with accomplices.
Clevatess: Now this one is interesting, episode one was double in length and features the heros getting bodied by the beast lord then their kingdom Annihilated with only a baby left alive taken by the beast lord after the pleas of a dying guardian and one of the slain heros brought back to life to serve as effectively a nanny. A lot more of a dark fantasy vibe.
Gachiakuta: A city divided in two between a prestine city where everything not perfect is dumped as trash and slums with below that a world of just trash. It's gotba nice soundtrack and visuals and not far into it but going to try to watch more of it.
Lots I haven't caught up on like Dr Stone but I will give a honourable mention to this: Takopu's Original Sin, I was planning on watching it when I was in the right mood as it's apparently dark as fuck at times but, well, never felt positive enough so put it on the back burner. Feel free for those who watched it to provide a review for that and others missed off as only one dude lol.
I wish I could remember. There was like 10 anime that came out within a year of each-other that all were VERY similar premise-wise (trend-chasing is not a new thing), and unfortunately the names were all Japanese, it got blended into the masses...
No, but now you've given ME one to watch, so thank you. I don't remember seeing this one. This looks too future-tech. It was very much in the middle of the "normal highschool but actually supersoldier training" era of animes, and it had a magi-tech element to it.
Definitely before 2017, but in my older years, the time blends together. Sorry. So many good, or at least average but with one or two interesting elements, anime lost to time.
I can never pass up these threads. Give us anything else you got. Contemporary, fantasy, or sci-fi setting? Are they fighting against another nation, aliens, demons, etc.? When you say "war-magic-gundams" do you literally mean they're using mechs or just thematically?
The unusually level-headed friends and setting makes me makes me think of The Irregular at Magic High School but as for married MCs, that's... complicated.
The best I got memory-wise: Contemporary technology aside from the war magi-tek stuff. No aliens, no monsters, the combat is human VS human. The best friend is flagrantly gay (but not for the MC, I think narratively he is gay just so there is no question of the relationship status of the female characters). I'm fairly certain the FemC is fire-themed and a redhead. Not actual gundams, they just have mecha-styled elements to their combat gear and their prep tech. I think the MC "won" the FemC in a prize fight in the first episode somehow, but I might be mixing two very similar series there.
And not The Irregular, that guy is weirdly obsessive about his sister, not some marriage potential.
Without mechs, my odds of knowing it go down. I think u/MuslimsWorshipSatan probably had it with Chivalry of a Failed Knight. Haven't seen it myself, but who hasn't heard Identity?