Had less time to watch all the things I wanted to with there ACTUALLY being stuff worth playing and busy work shift but just got this in before the new season, plus got 2 weeks off over Christmas to catch up!
The Heavy hitters
SpyxFamily S3: Still as great as ever, so many funny moments as well as more backstory on Loid this season.
Campfire Cooking in Another world with my Absurd Skill S2: WARNING Do NOT watch this show without food available! You WILL get hungry and your bowl of noodles or slice of toast won't cut it! Still great as ever with a pixie dragon added to the gang and two new guy gods added to the tribute gang. Also the outro is a mood.
May I ask for one final thing?: Ok classic mc is the female 'villianess' getting dumped by the prince in front of a ball, seen it all before...and she just punched the bitch into a wall...and put on knuckle duster gloves and beatdown what was nearly an Epstein party before punching out the prince that dumped her. I REALLY just enjoyed Scarlet on how gracefull she acts one scene then is kneeing a prince repeatedly in the face. Plus the outro is peak evil bitch tune.
Aquired taste
My status as an Assassin obviously exceeds the Hero's: I don't know why as although this doesn't try anything new, it reminds me of a 90s/ early 2000s anime from the art style and direction so weirdly nostalgic
A gatherers adventure in Isekai: I actually started reading this long ago but dropped it as it kept going on with jokes about how big his cock was in this new world. Glad to say they dropped that overused joke and just focused on the chill vibes and cute baby dragon.
Banished Court Magician Aims to become the strongest: nothing spectacular, I remember reading this and dropping with the same opinion, good turn off brain show or background show.
Now two I have read but couldn't get to was Hero without a Class who need skills and backstabbed in a backwater dungeon with the former being ok but seeing clips of the anime looks like it has a decent animation budget and the latter was a good revenge with progression story and also seems to have benefited from a nice animation budget.
Only caught one episode of A wild last boss appeared! so can't really judge and on my watch list easbpass the monster meat milady!, this monster wants to eat me and Tojima wants to be s Karmen Rider so if anyone watched them, let me know your impressions. I'm just glad from what I heard about it, I never bothered watching OPM S3...
the season was way too full of isekai shit. beyond spy family, I didn't really find anything interesting.
May I ask for one final thing was a blatant power fantasy show, but once I realized it was one punch man where one punch man is a princess, I enjoyed it a lot more.
I enjoyed it for showing my perfect fantasy:
Being in a room of rich entitled zero moral pricks and allowed to throw hands freely!
Having May I Ask For One Final Thing? airing at the same time as a dreadful season of One Punch Man makes it even funnier.
Rarely watch anime now. But when I do I go look for these old posts to look for suggestions.
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This Monster Wants To Eat Me is pure gold. The manga is god-tier and the anime captures everything good about it. Not "yuri" at all, it's story and character driven, with a gorgeous soundtrack and bangers for OP and ED.
It would be AotS except for Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray which continues the Pretty Derby franchise by being better than all the previous outings... and they were all terrific! You can "jump right in" as the series predates the rest, time wise. The concept is explained in about 20 seconds at the start :> Yes it's the supporting anime for the game, but the anime came first & is successful all on its own.
A Star Brighter Than The Sun is very nice! Highschool romance sweetness.
Alma Chan Wants A Family is wholesome goodness. If you like SpyXFamily you'll probably like Alma-chan too.
Towa no Yuugure is a massive disappointment. Looks so good... but the story jumps around like a flea on cocaine & is just as irritating.
Cingray continues to be peak
The Infinite Level 9999 Gacha series? Yeah, much more quality than Classless Hero, but that also seems really lacking when it comes to writing.
Towa no Yuugure/Dusk Beyond the End of the World- I'd say this one actually is pretty good in animation and story beats. That said, it just hit a twist climax that I have difficulty justifying in my head. Its last episode is this week, we'll see if that'll help me get past how unreasonable last week's twist seemed.
I've been reading the comic for this, it's doing the same thing Overlord and a hundred other things have done where the overpowered protagonist amasses an army of minions who in turn are also overpowered, and they slowly take over the world via intrigue instead of just conquering it overnight like they easily could. What this does a little differently is make you root for the protagonist by making the non-human races all cartoonishly evil so you get that human supremacist catharsis as they get what's coming to them.
Yeah I do prefer Overlord in that respect, there isn't one side cartoonishly evil, as you see the deep corruption in the Kingdom that leads it to ruin while the Empire survives thanks to pragmatism and on the flipside Ainz's side is overpowered but are tempered a bit by Ainz.
Whereas with gacha, yeah they're hating humans like a normal White couple in the middle of a pride parade!
While I'll admit Overlord is much better written, I don't like Ainz as a character. He's a coward and a tool, being led along by the perception his minions have of him and afraid of what they'll do to him should they learn that he was just a normal dude who got stuck as the character he plays as in an MMORPG.
This kind of thing that I've seen that I like best is Eminence in the Shadow, only because of how the protagonist is hamming it up every second. He's just there to have fun.
Isekai Quartet at least takes Ainz down a peg by having fucking Aqua completely outclass him.
Well, she may have wasted most of her points on frivolous cantrips, but her power moves are specifically for fucking up demons and the undead.
I understand that, why my favourite character in that is Sebas, it's like what if we take Alfred and then give him Kratos level power.
But I do enjoy that he was REALLY out of his depth when he was transferred and then the dynamic of his undead body slowly stripping him of any humanity like compassion or empathy.
it's just his gimmick that serves as punchline. works better in the novels.
Level 9999 Gacha is unwatchable to me because the localizers decided one of the characters talks in a stereotypical Bri'ish accent when you can clearly hear he just talks normally like everybody else, there's not a "de gozaru" anywhere near him.
I hear you mate, wot.
I recommend Tojima Wants to be a Kamen Rider.
Absolutely hilarious take on the sentai genre, it's basically Power Rangers but midlife crisis. A little ecchi, very corny and some pretty good fight scenes. Only caveat is that this is a VERY different than usual art style. Try it even if it doesn't seem like your thing, imo this is the best new offering of the year.
2 mid animes with "hero without class" and "My Gift Lvl 9999" not particular good but ok. Rest has been utter bullshit and uninteresting even if some had a better artstyle like the assassin anime. But characters are lame everyone has plot armor, also in the "gatherer" anime. Quite a lack of competent solo heros. If you dont care about spyfamily one of the worst anime seasons lately. And its not because some were isekais. There are really good and funny ones, with some nice power fantasies. But this season its just the writing/characters which are really bad or nothing really happens and they just talk like 90% of the episode in a room. Like the budget ran out except for voice actors.
I'll vouch for A Wild Last Boss Appeared. It's got the intrigue of a protagonist getting isekaied but not having the whole story of how or why. There may or may not be others sharing in his fate and whoever brought him seems to have some additional machinations going on behind the scenes, so it isn't your straightforward summon the stalwart hero to save the realm from the demon king, although there's shades of that at the outset.
Very good animation, although it's pretty light on providing any fanservice. 12 episodes makes for a good bite sized adventure that left me hoping for a season 2.
wasn't there a 'to be continued...' fade-out? what it really does good, is condensing the overblown repeating writing style of the light-novels into something watchable.
shit season outright tbh. only wild last boss is watchable, altough that might just be because i am reading the light-novels at the same time. skipping whole paragraphs because the author just has a shit writting style where he describes the action, or the character says and explains stuff, then he will write multiple explanations describing the same thing you already got pages ago.
Witch Watch was great.
I remain incredibly disappointed in OPM's artistic implementation by the studios, Season 1 was such a gift. Therefore I remain always a faithful Manga loyalist.
Chainsaw Man The Reze Arc was one of the best Anime Films of all time.
I know it's not a season of anime but considering an actual next season might not be out for 2+ more years atp, I felt it deserved an honorable mention.
I just want OPM season 3 to be over. It's been such a disappointment.