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53. To Your Eternity
https://anilist.co/anime/114535/Fumetsu-no-Anata-e

Note: There are VERY MINOR spoilers in this review

This is probably one of the first shows on the list that people would expect to be ranked higher. But even at the start I never really liked this and never understood why it got so much praise. I can understand people liking this, but it was in consideration for anime of the season for a lot of people.

Let's start with that the actual development of the main character, who is quite literally a blank slate, is very slow and even though you do meet side characters and such too that kind of help fill it in, until you get a little later on they don't really feel meaningful enough in the grand scheme of things. The show could have been like how Fushi took what he learned from the characters in each arc to become more "human like" and in a way this happened, but it's just done so poorly.

However, the biggest issue is the like "overseer" character or whatever it is. These characters that exist to just to "guide" things in certain directions almost always ruin what could be decent shows, and it's no different here. Basically, if the only real supernatural thing in the entire show was Fushi being immortal I probably would have liked this more. But they have to add these like supernatural creatures that "take away" parts of Fushi for no reason at all. The show uses a real physical threat as the main antagonist in one that is calling for a more intimate or psychological type. It just doesn't really make sense with the tone of the show.

52. Bokutachi no Remake
https://anilist.co/anime/114065/Bokutachi-no-Remake

Remember that show Re:Life where a down on this luck loner gets to go back to the past to relive his highschool (college) life? He improves his stock and become a better person and on the way he develops meaningful relationships, has a character development arc, and you can see the cast grow naturally based on their experiences? Well Remake Our Life is just like that if you only care about the first sentence.

The anime does nothing with the premise of going back in time at all to the point where it feels like a big 12 episode set up for a second season. There are glimpses of other time travel type shows in this but the execution is just bad. You feel like it's building up to something and then it does a Final Fantasy XIII styled asspull of a story turn that just erased everything the show had "worked" up to. There is no closure for anything. The endpoints you seen for each character are completely meaningless.

Remake plays with a lot of different plot threads but never really explores any of them to a satisfactory point. Romance? Kind of touched on, but nothing comes of anything. Personal improvement? Sure if you mean literally having a lifehack to cheat. I want to make it clear that shows like Re:Zero and Steins;Gate have made it clear you can have time travel and have characters with future event knowledge, and still make it so that the character has to grow in certain ways. Remake doesn't do this, and instead just has him use is knowledge a way to move along the anime.

51. Dr. Stone Stone Wars
https://anilist.co/anime/113936/Dr-STONE-STONE-WARS/

I don't really have a lot to say about this, except that I kind of feel like nothing really happens. The show heavily relies on the "F yeah science" type thing and while in S1 it was okay it really overstays its welcome in S2.