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Us yuri fans eating good (well relative to normal) this season. Stardust telepath is some adorable ass yuri. I am kind of tired of characters that borderline can't speak from social anxiety. Streches out every bit of dialogue to like 5x what it should be with all the stuttering and stammering. We get yuri fanservice in witch family circumstances and vampire vexation and a little bit in Shy. We get in love with the villainess as well and theres a few other anime that could go in a yuri route.

I thought that this felt similar to 80k. I guess my issue is that they seem to want me to theorycraft what I would do with those powers. They frame the solutions the characters come up with as clever. If the main character was an airhead it'd be a lot more palatable that they just didn't think to use their powers to more directly solve their problems.

Although I do feel 80k was more fun to theorycraft about. Just being able to go back and forth isn't quite as broken as a "do anything potion". I just feel like it'd take two seconds to hand wave us some reason why she can't make the potions actually do anything. Maybe some limit based on the rules of the world the goddess can't break or it'd cause a distortion or something (although I guess the lore is that their world is unregulated). Could even add some tension where if a potion is breaking the rules of the world, it explodes or becomes poison or something. That'd leave some obvious solutions as last resorts because they become risky.

I watched I will survive with potions and it's kind of fun but at the same time it's a really poor utilization of the power she has. She could just make a potion that makes her immortal and have godlike powers or something and if she can't do that, they should at least explain why. It's basically a cheat code to do anything at all. Hell she could make a potion that once drunk spawns gold coins all around her for a few minutes and completely skip the entire plot of the first episode.

Judgmenl posted...

The only genre I outright dislike is fantasy but that extends into other media as well.

I counted 11 anime that aren't fantasy that I'm watching this season. I've only ever heard you talk about modern romance anime.
dragon504 posted...

It's a shining example of isekai trash. I had two isekai that I plan on watching and it was rated worse, so I went with it first.

I watch a lot of isekai trash but some is just too bad for me to continue. I say this as someone that finished evolution fruit first season and last season I finished my unique skill makes me OP.

dragon504 posted...

Watched Jitsu wa Ore, Saikyou deshita?. It wasn't very good and felt like one of those isekai that just tries to check boxes of successful isekai. Which can be fine, but it also felt very simplistic as well. It was watchable, but not something I'd recommend.

Thats one of the few I dropped. The main character is so boring.

dragon504 posted...

Next up I'm watching Undead Girl Murder Farce. First episode was intriguing.

I felt pretty disappointed by the first arcs conclusion and dropped it. A bit sad about that. I'd really love a good mystery anime but they just can't make one IMO. The last one I really enjoyed was Hyouka. I feel a lot of mystery anime suffer from the protagonist being smarter than the writer, which makes them make giant leaps that actually end up with quite a few holes the author just didn't see. Hyouka had a strong advantage there because they weren't trying to actually conclusively solve most of the cases, they were just trying to come up with any plausible solution.

Judgmenl posted...

That's insane. I'm watching 2 shows this season and I might drop one of them and both of them air in Sundays. We are having opposite seasons here because I think we like the opposite kind of things.

Well you seem to only be interested in a small part of one genre whereas I watch pretty much every genre except idol so thats just bound to happen I suppose. I will probably drop a couple shows but I wouldn't be surprised if I finish 25 shows this season. I'm still watching Helck and JJK from last season as well. My current drop candidates are ragna crimson, demon excalibur, and our dating story. Already dropped guard dog (what an unpleasant show).

Today is the day of endless anime. My god. I haven't watched even half of it yet but all on one day we have:

Vampire shut in (which has a lot of yuri fanservice)
Spy x Family 2
Faraway Paladin 2
Survive with potions
Tearmoon

and then some weaker ones like
Returners magic (a manwha adaption, thats kinda cool)
Demon Excalibur
The pig isekai
Ragna Crimson

Thats 9 shows I'm watching on saturday.

And yet another anime I didn't think I'd watch that I'll at least give another episode to. Under Ninja was weird but I kinda enjoyed it even if the CG is not exactly the best. It's like, it starts off with so bad it's good but at some point actually pulled me in.

This is getting out of hand. 16bit sensation also is interesting. We have a girl complaining that Rance is selling for only 100 yen in the first episode. Girl travels back in time to the golden era of pornagraphic VNs to make the best eroge she can.

Well they actually dance around the term a bit calling them bishoujo games and the main character claims to just like games with cute girls in it but we are including games like Rance and her current company was about to make "MILF hypnosis" and nearly every game she had came with the R18 circle on the spine.

Im gonna be watching too damn much this season. Also every bit I see of the japanese work place in anime just makes me annoyed. Quit you dumb bastards. Main girl said she wasn't "assertive" enough to ever quit. Just quit. It's not the hard.

Woah I didn't realize MFG is an initial D sequel. First episode looked not bad although we didn't get to a race yet.

Also wtf I've already started 16 new anime this season. There's still a bunch left and some continuing series. I think I'll be keeping up with 20 weekly series or so. That's insane.

Yuri harem sort of exists (maria holic being the first that comes to mind), but ecchi yuri harem doesnt (well technically there was that shitty short series triangle something). Even among VNs and stuff it seems like most ecchi yuri stuff is paired instead of harem.

Lol, in love with the villainess is "don't bully me, I'll cum" the yuri anime. It's pretty great so far.

The excalibur anime is yet another demon lord reincarnates in the same world 1000 years later. It's first episode was fine I guess. Been playing a lot of deep rock galactic lately and this anime kind of sounds like an anime girl version of it. Just needs a mission control with "swarm incoming". Rock and Stone.

Also watched Shy which was pretty interesting. It's a super hero anime but theres only a handful of heroes total and it seems like each major country just gets one. The japanese hero is a 14 year old girl and pretty new to things and very shy and has guilt about people she couldn't save. It has the possibility of going in a very dark direction and the show is almost more magical girl than super hero. Need more episodes to really feel out where it's going.

Finally watched vrmmo life which had a pleasant first half and a generic second half. In the first half it's just a salaryman with only a couple of hours a day trying to chill and play an MMO solo at his own pace. In the second half the intentionally bad skills he took turn out to be super valuable and now everyone needs him. It was more entertaining IMO when he was just leveling crafting and cooking and archery and stuff. For now it's watchable but I'm not expecting much from it. Shangri-la seems like the better VRMMO anime this season by a wide margin.

Watched two more.

Berserk of gluttony is barely watchable trash. It's essentially seasonal isekai garbage except it's not isekai. We see his character status window like 10 seconds after being introduced to the protagonist so it's one of those kinds of shows. His cheat ability is skill and stat stealing from things he kills. The bad guys are cartoon villains and the good girl is a pure paragon of justice. You've seen it before 50 times. There is a bit more blood in this than the standard isekai but thats about it.

Witch family circumstances on the other hand was pleasantly surprising because it was actually pretty funny. Seems like a bit of yuri bait but so far it's actually just comedy. Main girl is 16 and looks like a 30 year old milf and the ancient witch that is her adoptive mother looks like she's 16. Part of the comedy is just seeing the "child" act childish despite those mature looks. She is quite a brat.

Got quite a few new ones starting tommorow.including the twist I've been waiting for in villainess anime where the reincarnated office girl just wants to seduce the villainess in some glorious yuri. Really hoping that one's good. Still wish we'd get a proper ecchi yuri harem but alas, not yet.

Just watched episode one of shangri-la frontier and it was a lot better than I expected. I actually had heard good things about it but episode 1 really drew me in. Premise isn't crazy, guy plays VRMMO, but I guess I just like that concept. I also like that the main guy actually feels like he's played an actual video game at some point in his life and is able to judge a move has too much startup and end lag with no super armor to be worth it. Although man, every rpg related game treats luck like a god stat when every game I've ever played it's almost always the absolute worst stat in the game where the only niche is using luck boosting equipment to up your drop rate when grinding easy enemies.

Also watched the first double length episode of ragna crimson. It feels extremely generic despite not actually being something I've seen before. They fight "dragons" who take on a human form and are weak to sunlight and silver. Thats a fuckin vampire bro. Guy goes from zero to godlike entity in like 20 minutes and I see nowhere for the power scaling to go after this, however, it's not a comedy series so I struggle to see how the show will be remotely entertaining going forward. Will probably give it an episode just to see how they approach the rest of the story.

A girl and her guard dog is trash. Not only is the premise creepy, the execution is creepier. Nothing like having your 26 year old adoptive father suddenly spoon you (main girl is 15). Even putting that aside, it's just not entertaining.

dragon504 posted...

Kind of annoyed that they added an opening to this season, especially since it was apparently abridged as far as the arc goes, so it'd have been nice if a bit more of it was animated.

Agreed, thats my one real complaint, The song isn't even bad, but it's nowhere as good as season 1s OP+area montage. Loved the season and can't wait to see whats gonna happen next. Fortunately they said "part 2" coming later which means probably a shorter wait than between full seasons. Maybe only a 1 or 2 season gap.

EDIT: MAL says part 2 starts in spring, so a 2 season gap. Not too bad but I wish I could watch the entire rest of the series right now. It's just too good.

New anime season has begun and for some pleasant reason frieren dropped 4 episodes at once and supposedly it's going to air for half a year. I like it but I'm surprised it's so popular. It's very slow paced. Kind of like a much more relaxed kino's journey in a much more coherent fantasy world. Actually I just described mushishi. This show is classic fantasy mushishi with hot anime girls. I like that the super powerful demon got power crept by the magic meta.

I've always really enjoyed the concept of immortals or at the very least extremely long lived people and it's always fun to see different authors take on it as long as they don't describe it as torture because you see loved ones die. You see loved ones die in your normal ass life already but people aren't as keen to quit that.

Yeah, I really liked star ocean 3, 4 and infinite undiscovery but they have not been doing well with new titles since then. Sad too because I feel like tales has fallen off in quality as well around the same time. The future looked bright around the vesperia/graces f, star ocean 4, infinite undiscovery time but neither team has really managed to reach those heights again IMO.

Probably cause star ocean 5 and 6 were trash.

I'm kinda surprised you didn't already watch that. Was probably the most talked about romance of that season. I thought it was fine but not amazing.

I probably will play it after I finish up starfield.

Also I'm glad helck is 24 episodes because this show has become one of my favorites this season. After the first handful of episodes (which were still entertaining) it's a solid fantasy adventure. It and one room hero are the two standouts for new anime this season IMO. I guess my happy marriage is too but it's not really my type of show.

agesboy posted...

apothecary diaries (literally its 10/10 manga)

I'd kinda written off that anime since the premise doesn't sound all that interesting to me. That trailer looks pretty good but it's still hard to tell what the show is actually like. I did notice it had a fair amount of buzz for a new anime.

Was already planning on watching the other two (and like 15 more shows). Also heard good things about "my daughter became an S ranked adventurer".

After actually looking, it turns out I dropped 10 shows this season. Without jjk and mushoku tensei, this would be a really disappointing season. Next season looks insane though. So many season 2s that I'm going to watch. It's got eminence in shadow S2, goblin slayer S2 (amazed it got one after all this time), faraway paladin S2, dead mount death play S2, kanojo mo kanojo S2 (very surprised we got this), and spy family S2. Also shield hero S3 but I'm not sure I'll watch it since S2 was so ass. I am ready for it to start.

I feel like I've dropped a lot more anime than usual this season. I think I've dropped 6 shows and most of them I watched more than one episode of. Although I guess tempuru is not truly dropped, I'm just waiting for an uncensored release.

Considering getting sea of stars. I liked the demo and the game seems fun but I'm in the middle (or I guess beginning) of playing starfield at the moment. My financial situation is quite doomed so I feel like I gotta play and watch everything I can while I still have the chance but that also takes up time I could be brainstorming to try and figure out how to avoid the impending doom.

Pretty depressed overall about the whole situation.

I do really like the setup of danmachi's world and wish there was a solid AAA video game of it. Something like tales of arise combat but without the stagger mechanic for bosses. Doesn't even need to be roguelike. You can have every level just be a fixed map as long as you make like 100.

Also AC6 has been fun. Just about to beat the first playthrough.

Fair enough I guess but I'm wondering why you made so much less than me with Irys. I made right about 1 mil in 31 minutes. The only thing I can think of is the solo stamp.

agesboy posted...

on my first two runs trying this, i got 200k in 18m then 600k in 30m

you could also just fish because for some reason high end fishing seems to outpace this

Or you could just do greedrys and get twice that money. Basically the same strat but with irys. Pretty sure stamp wise you want solo stamp, bomb, and greed. Also don't need double heal. Really any build works but you almost certainly want xp glasses early if you can since it's a lot of damage now. You can leave a maxed lifesteal stamp to swap solo with after 30 minutes.

Cilvanis is so damn funny.

I managed to hit 80 on the run that got me the golden rod.That's the furthest I've managed. Usually I lose in the 60s. I find it kind of fun but the fact that sometimes it takes like 5+ seconds to hook a new fish kills the flow. Fully leveled up platinum workers are also going to be making a lot of money. I think they make efficiency gold per second for stamina seconds and you can end up with nearly 60 efficiency and maybe like 200-300 stamina. So thats a passive 18k per worker and you can have 10 workers so 180k. You can just check em between runs. Granted, I've already got all characters to g rank 20 and maxed all upgrades but I guess there's still furniture to buy.

Of course, I also did a greedrys run on the new patch and got just under 1 mil coins in 31 minutes. Could get almost twice that on 3 hard if you could manage it but it kind of makes money pointless.

Finished up all the main achievements in holocure besides catch every fish. Beat a hard stage without taking projectile damage was needlessly stressful because the damn body pillow would not show up the level ups even after 10 rerolls and 60 levels but managed it with fubuki and her passive. Actually ended up fast enough to just outrun the bosses bullets.

Also barely got the 500 hp one. Took level 196 on robocco and then the next 3 levels all offered hp.

All fish feels like it's gonna take forever though assuming theres a golden version of each fish. I've only caught 3 goldens total. Wow, I actually just went fishing and got an axolotl which popped the achievement. I don't know how I possibly didn't catch it. Been using the turkey rod for 500k sand worth of fish.

Maybe I'll try to gachikoi everyone and get the final achievement.

I figured out the "huh?" achievement. You just walk behind the house and see the takodachi's looking at a magazine.

I been playing holocure. I had all the non character achievements last patch and working my way through the new ones this patch. Getting 10 hastes in one match was kind of annoying but I've unlocked all the new items. Beating a hard level without taking projectile damage seems tricky. Hopefully body pillow and dodge passives help although the new pacifist stamp might make it easier too.

Then finally there's an achievement called "huh?" with no description. No clue how to get that. I'm pretty close to the 250k fishing rod, manager level 2, and farmed all the crop types. I feel like the workers are poorly implemented because it's SO much easier to get mass amounts of fish than crops so you basically level a unit to 20 and just hope it has fish as it's last needed item and then retire it if not.

I never played much Osu to begin with but I haven't touched it in years.

That's unfortunate. Oh well, maybe a weak con will make the better cons feel that much better with the lower point of comparison or something. Idk.

In anime watching news the OP at level 1 anime is so fucking weird. I already complained in episode 2 or 3 that it felt like they had the recap for the next episode instead of the current one but no, they just do that every time. The 2 or so minutes before the OP is literally just a spoiler recap of the episode thats about to happen. I can't possibly imagine why anyone would do this. It's not just a quick teaser either, it's a full minute+ showing exactly what happens. Maybe they realized the show is kinda trash and figured people might enjoy it more 1 minute at a time and just use that as an excuse to skip the episodes? I really do not know.

Whelp, watched the latest JJK which concludes this prequel arc and now we get a nice long wait before the next episode sadly. We get TWO recap episodes followed by nothing airing on the 24th. It's not till the 31st the much hyped "shibuya arc" begins.

The vampire mystery in undead murder farce ended and I was not correct. I'm trying to decide how well I like the actual solution. There's at least parts of it I don't like.

1. The injury red herring felt very cheap. If vampires can regenerate that way by cutting off affected areas, why was that even brought up in the first place? I mean, clearly to force the viewer into not making the right prediction by effectively lying about the rules.
2. During the noise part, there was a 5th reason why they might not have heard the noise. Because there was a louder noise drowning it out. AKA the singing. This wasn't even considered for some reason.
3. The convenience of finding the stake and getting it to the study feels like a bit much. If that was the only coincidence, maybe, but it's not.
4. The motive was uninteresting. I mean, it's what I suspected of the motive, but it's still kind of lame. If he wanted to be a "solitary noble creature", why is he with his family anyway? Go live on your own. His justification for not wanting to be a human ally felt very flimsy.
5. The dusty bottle. This might be the worst part. Why the hell would someone who can create this conspiracy, think to take the stake holster and freeze holy water inside it to make a perfect stake and think to bring a bottle to make it look like holy water was scattered around NOT use a bottle that had been washed out recently. In fact, why wouldn't he specifically store holy water in there so there'd be trace amounts on the inside? That seems very dumb especially when the bottle is visibly dusty.

I honestly like the idea of using frozen holy water as a stake, that part is clever, but the clue it left behind was very dumb. I did say if the boy was the killer, it would be the weakest plausible answer so I'm kind of disappointed that I still feel that way after the reveal. The show was pointing at him to make him guilty from the outset and I'm not sure I can give the show enough credit for that to be a double fake, especially not when other plausible methods for the crime weren't explored and the motive was so mundane.

So after more thought, I guess I don't like how it turned out very much. I will still keep watching though. The dialogue is witty and the world and characters at least somewhat interesting but I really hope the next mystery has a more satisfying solution.

I get trying not to take review scores too seriously but I don't think I've seen a single show rated under a 6 that wasn't hot garbage. I felt like that one in question had an ok premise but then awful execution and the part where I really checked out was when the one girl resolved not to kill anything.

I'm really liking great cleric. It might be the slowest I've ever seen an isekai protag progress. Well, outside of konosuba I guess. The show isn't anything special really, but it's the exact niche I want more of. I just hope we don't get a time skip and suddenly he's OP.

Also saw the latest of heretical last boss queen and it was good. I think this is the only time I've really seen a "villainess" leverage the fact that the villain of a game is generally very competent and powerful. Also the only time the villainess has been properly evil in the first life instead of just petty and rude. Original Pride did some savage shit. Although bro, just teleport stale to the captain and then teleport him back. That part was extremely frustrating to not have them do.

I've been watching a lot but I just added undead murder farce to the list. One of the worst names IMO but the show is actually quite good. It's a mystery show with good attention to detail and logic so far. A pleasant rarity. Theres also a solid wit to the dialogue. I'm genuinely unsure of who the killer is, but I do have a guess.

The most basic answer would be the blonde son. That is where the show is trying to point us and he did have his hands in his pockets as much as he could. I believe the more interesting solution would be the daughter with help from the maid. Logic would dictate one of the vampires would have had to have broken the lock as no way a human could do that, however, a vampire can't carry the stake. If the daughter broke the lock, had the maid carry the stake and holy water, then it works out.

Additionally the blonde son seems too incompetent. He was spotted by our half oni when he thought he was well hidden. Furthermore, the daughter made sure to sing loudly, covering up any sound and delaying people from checking on the mother. Additionally, the daughter twice interrupted aya's line of questioning, once by appearing in the room and once by leaving the dinner table. While the daughter appears to be a child, it is a vampire, it could very well be 100 years old and the show wants us to think she's too young and innocent for that.

I believe the brothers having only half an alibi is a red herring. It's where the viewers attention is supposed to be drawn. The answer to a good mystery however, is precisely where the author doesn't want you to look. It's very similar to slight of hand magic in that way. Well I guess slight of hand is just a type of mystery anyway.

The only other thing of note to me is that the butler was with him before he was a human ally and he tried to leave when shizuka was watching them. It's plausible that the butler would want things to go back to how they were before allying with the humans, but thats somewhat flimsy and really most of the people there do. Additionally, him having the key is a good way to throw someone off the trail if he was somehow able to break the lock. People would think he would have no need to break it with the key but thats really not the case unless he wants to incriminate himself.

So in conclusion, the weakest plausible answer is the boy, the medium quality answer is the butler, the high quality answer is the daughter and maid.

This show seems to follow a lot of the rules of mystery. I can suspect that next episode will have us going over suspects one at a time while making each one look guilty, however it's the one not shown till the end thats actually guilty. The thing is, in mystery, everyone should be hiding something. We can assume the brothers and butler were hiding something, just that it wasn't the murder.

What will upset me is if it's a plan from the "M" guy to send a hunter with the silver stake to enable the murder, trusting for basically no reason that godard would put the stake in his house instead of just disposing of it despite not having any plausible way to know anything about them. I foresee this possibility but IMO it would be bad writing.

Yo wtf did I just watch? This might be the worst directed episode of all time. Unique skill makes me OP at level 1 (which honestly sounds borderline auto generated) had an ok first episode. Just standard isekai trash really. Episode 2 starts by recapping the fight with the giant ape...which didn't happen yet, and then goes to show us a flashback of main guy and girl picking up carrots in the dungeon...which also didn't happen yet. For the first few minutes I really thought they just aired episode 3 by mistake but no, we actually get to see both of those events happen later in the episode. Maybe the recap was supposed to be for episode 3 instead? Truly bizarre.

Lots of new anime started up and I got my first (and likely only) real pleasant surprise this season in zom 100. It was a lot better than I expected and an all around fantastic first episode. Of course, I'll have to see how the normal episodes play out now that the intro is done and it could very well be less good like say, to your eternity.

Also watched classroom for heroes which is pretty weak generic technically not isekai fantasy. The characters came off as very inconsistently written in the first episode but at least it's ecchi.

Saw tenpuru which is one of the other ecchi anime. Aside from the main guy sounding like he's 30 years older than he actually is (it's really bizarre), it had an old school ecchi feel. It was kinda funny in parts so I'll keep watching.

Liar Liar is yet another ecchi anime and only mediocre. It's premise is full holes and feels like a knock off classroom of the elite. I'll keep watching for now but I'm gonna have to really turn my brain off to not get annoyed.

Then we get unique skill at level 1 which is slightly better than I expected. Was interesting to see that their status functions very similar to rance where people have different max levels and our poor protag has a max of 1 except he's not a poor protag because his drop rate is so high that enemies constantly drop stat up items every time. Fairly basic setup so that they can have the classic "heh, your just a level 1 weakling" into him being way too strong. It was kind of fun to watch him game the system though even if it's simple. Oh yeah, pathetic protag broke down and cried when a cute girl cooked him some soup and hugged him. A new low? Probably not, but still stood out to me.

And of course, the GOAT is back with mushoku tensei season 2 actually starting this time. Big surprise, it's still a masterpiece. I'm continually impressed by the writers ability to write fundamentally different characters and yet they feel real and accurate. The way Sara is similar to Eris is able to actually stand out because every other character is so well realized.

Can't remember if I mentioned but I watched the jujutsu kaisen movie since this current arc ties into it.

The gene of AI first episode is pretty interesting but it has so far what I consider a common issue for morality based sci-fi. A lot of the negatives come from people not using the tech in a more optimal way. Like clearly the show wants to tell a story to make us question what really constitutes us and what can be removed and replaced while still be considered the same person, but in practice a copy of a brain isn't more valuable than a new one made from scratch. Considering roughly 1 billion humanoids exist, the tech to make an AI brain and body MUST be widespread and well understood. If you need a brain to stick in a body to commit crimes, it makes far more sense to create a new one and alter it to be more effective at crime. You can probably even strip away free will and morality at that point.

And that ignores the likely very high price of these illegal bodies and brains they are uploading the data into. You'd need to commit some pretty high profile crime just to cover the costs when you could much more cheaply just convince some poor chump to do it in the first place.

Since digital brains are clearly subject to privacy laws shown in the moms flashback, it wouldn't even make sense to make a copy of some rich person for taking over their identity because you could just use an entirely different brain in a copy of the body.

I feel like ghost in the shell handled this concept more rationally.

The first season of vinland saga gets pretty amazing IMO.

Also started reign of seven spellblades anime and it's a lot higher quality than I was expecting. Actually the art in general for this whole season seems to be exceptionally good in the otherwise just ok shows. This show seems like it could be pretty good though but we will need at least another episode to really know.

The rurouni kenshin remake seems decent. This is one of those times though where knowledge hinders my enjoyment. I know a bit too much about actual swordfighting to not constantly be annoyed in the action sequences which looked almost like dynasty warriors here. Even in the opening fight, I'm not a fan of how they show a sword swing, and then cut to the person's wound and blood flying instead of just showing one scene where the swing and the hit occur. That requires actually choreography though.

agesboy posted...

Only got around to Am I Actually The Strongest so far and it's so bad. I wasn't expecting it to be good since I've read some of the manga and LN, but damn. At least it has Char

Oh yeah, I did watch the first episode but it left so little impression I forgot. In fact, I can still barely remember what happened. Definitely the weakest of the isekai so far.

Just watched the cleric isekai and it's fine. Doesn't really stand out but it's not doing anything wrong other than ending episode 1 on a cliffhanger. Will probably keep watching.

Jujutsu kaisen has started back up. It's great as could be expected.

Also watched episode 1 of last boss queen which was ok but also kind of annoying. Like, why would the main girl not immediately think to change the story? Whatever, she got there eventually. Less interesting than bakarina, more interesting than that other one from a few seasons ago. Will keep watching for now.

I will say, I'm starting to miss the star power of last season. Nothing aside from sequels really on par with heavenly delusion, hell's paradise, or oshi no ko.

The vending machine isekai first episode was actually not bad. Started a few things of the new season.

Pastry isekai is not bad and not all that pastry related. It actually kind of reminds me of bookworm isekai because the character is reincarnated as a baby and only cares about one thing (books in bookworm and pastries in this one). It has a level of medieval understanding that is higher than the average walled river city with adventurers guild and demon lord isekais. Supposedly it goes a fair bit into politics in the future (so that main guy can acquire more materials for making sweets).

Watched episode 1 of my happy marriage and it's very well made but I'm clearly not the target audience. I might give it one more episode regardless because not much airs on Wednesdays.

1 room hero was a bit better than I expected as well. It's not a 10/10 or anything but it was funny enough to keep watching.

Of course, I also watched episode zero of mushoku tensei which is still GOATed. I greatly appreciate the yuri princess.

Aside from sequels this season so far has been the opposite of last season. Everything here is solidly decent with no standouts whereas last season had several greats a few mediocre anime with only a couple decent shows.

Gundam witch finished up and did not have a remotely satisfying ending. Also, wtf no yuri kiss! We get scammed AGAIN! Things resolved by unexplainable (even by the characters) space rainbow magic with no fights and the ridiculous implications that ONE gundam machine with the help of permet ghosts can hack all machines in existence instantly from anywhere is completely glossed over. Also, wtf why aren't more people in jail? Prospera straight up killed an entire fleet of people as well as caused a massacre on earth. Wtf is she doing peacefully in a wheelchair at the end?

In a lot of ways, this is the bullshit happy ending stuff I don't mind, but here it just goes several steps too far.

Might even be a bigger disappointment than iron blooded orphans second season, which I've mostly forgotten. Gundam needs to actually give us a war again instead of this small scale will they won't they bullshit that just fizzles into random space magic.

Just finished up mashle. It was kind of okay. I feel like the comedy was poorly done. They stick way too long on a single overreaction and every joke is the same joke. The action and world are relatively interesting and I kind of wish it had just been a primarily action show instead of action comedy but even then, it's just ok. I feel no strong feelings about the show.

New anime season finally kicks off tomorrow unless one airs early cause of timezones. Only two days until more mushoku tensei.

New episode of gundam witch is out and it does confirm next episode will end the series, not just the season, although that seemed highly likely at this point anyway.

The more I think about the plot, the dumber it seems, which is kind of a shame. Caliburn vs Aerial was a big anti climax. Guel vs Lauda was more of a climax but still very dumb that it happened in the first place. The amount of "think about the future" lines spewed at a mass murderer feels really stupid. Like, theres no world where prospera doesn't either die or go to prison for life.

Additionally, I'm not really sure what the point of quiet zero really is. Like, you could just make a much smaller scale version and take it around so eri can exist wherever she wants without needing to commandeer every machine in existence. For that matter, why even hide that? It's both profitable and humanitarian. Instead you put your daughter that you care so much about in harm's way for what end game? Holding the whole world hostage and looking over your shoulder forever? What happens to eri when you die?

And then somehow the assembly league was able to hide a super powerful orbital laser weapon that prospera just somehow never found out about which completely counters her entire plan. A weapon and an enemy we the viewers have never seen until the second to last episode.

I find myself very unsatisfied with where this show took the excellent setup. It needed AT LEAST one more season if not two.

Heavenly Delusion finished up and it definitely gets my pick for best of the season. It started strong and only got stronger as time went on. The story is incredibly interesting with all sorts of mysteries but they do a good job of feeding you info at a decent pace and this is the only show in a long time that had me going back to scenes in previous episodes to check stuff to try and confirm theories. The production is also amazing though. Great animation, there aren't a ton of fights but all of them are well animated and choreographed, the dialogue is fantastic and keeps my attention constantly, and the direction of a lot of the scenes is what I would expect from a movie. Just the choice of angles and shots and timing set a clear cut above the average anime.

I don't think I have a single complaint about it. Maru and Kiruko are such a great pair in all situations from silly to casual to serious to sad. It also ends up really organically bringing up trans stuff in a way that doesn't feel remotely hamfisted. The way it ended with Maru telling Kiruko that this version of her is what he likes. Not who the sister used to be, not who the brother used to be, but just what they are right now. It managed to do that without feeling preachy because it's just what makes sense for the character to do and because the brain transplanting stuff is vitally important to the plot.

I wouldn't be surprised or disappointed if this ends up being anime of the year for me.

Birdie wing ended and I feel kinda mixed. IMO the ending was fairly bad and rushed and it felt like the entire drama of the last half of the season could have just been cut out and made a better show. Like, did the golf cancer and losing the license really add anything positive to the show? They could have just let them have a climactic finale in the british open like the characters wanted.

Additionally, no kiss. Wtf, how dare this only be yuri bait. They let on soooo strong and it all amounted to less than nothing. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

The show was still a ton of fun but it feels like it needed a season 3 but it wasn't greenlit so they just rushed through what would be season 3 in the epilogue.