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2018 Summer Rankings - Half Way Mark

1. Steins;Gate 0
2. Revue Starlight
3. My Hero Academia S3
4. Cells At Work
5. Asobi Asobase
6. Banana Fish
7. Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi
8. Chio's School Road
9. High Score Girl
10. Music Girls
11. Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou
12. Grand Blue
13. Harukana Receive
14. Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Spring
15. Phantom in the Twilight
16. Sirius the Jaeger
17. How not to Summon a Demon Lord
18. Attack on Titan S3
19. Six Senses of the Re'Union
20. Hanebado!

Drop Line
21. Free S3 (5)
22. Planet With (4)
23. Dropkick on My Devil (4)
24. Island (4)
25. Angel of Death (3)
26. Angolmois
27. Back Street Girls
28. Happy Sugar Life
29. 100 Princes
30. Tonegawa Middle Management
31. Kyoto Holmes
32. Lord of Vermillion
33. Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria
34. Senjuushi

Every remaining show that finishes this season is safe for the season.

Some thoughts

Steins;Gate 0 is like by far still the best show. The last few episodes have really ramped things up. It's interesting because right now the number two show on my list is Revue Starlight and that feels a lot like the number two show when the original Steins;Gate aired, Mawaru Penguindrum. However, as much as I like Starlight, the gap between it and 0 is larger than the gap between Penguindrum and the original Steins;Gate. And the original is the better show.

You might notice that AoT S3 is pretty low. And that's because... the show is kind of dumb? Like you can only get away with so much keeping the viewer in the dark and this behind the back power grab stuff for so long. Like without actual knowledge a lot of the choices the non scout regiment characters make seem extremely stupid. We know most of the things the scouts know, and we can draw conclusions on their actions based on that. Other stuff is revealed very slowly and it's very annoying.

As for the two sports shows. Harukana and Hanebado suffer from opposite problems. Harukana has a very likable cast, is fun to watch, but has like almost no tension at all. Hanabado has a lot of tension and knows how to drive up the stakes... but the characters suck and it's not very fun to watch. Being a fun show to watch is much more important, imo, than this other stuff which is a reason for the pretty large ranking gap. The way Harukana builds their characters is also a lot better. Like we get to see natural progression of skill through practice and building relationships through like the characters talking and sorting stuff out. Hanebado has almost 0 knowhow in handling interactions like these.

High Score Girl continues to climb. I really like the show now. It has a great mix of nostalgia and some great character building and interactions. I still think one of the most impressive things is how accurate it seems to be from the point of like someone who really likes games and outsiders looking in. Like some of it is somewhat exaggerated but a lot of the situations are things that I could see happening in real life.

Asobi Asobase is the season's best comedy right now, but Chio is not far behind. However, they still are not as good as like a lot of other comedies that have already aired in previous seasons, mainly Hinamatsuri and Skilled Teaser Takagi.

Phantom in the Twilight continues to overachieve by not being dropped. The solutions they come up with for the problems are kind of deus ex machina, but the like message they put behind them are solid if a bit simplistic.
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Updated: July 27th, 2016.