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Classroom of the Elite S2 - Man the first 2/3 of this season sucked. Basically checked it out as a refresher after not reading the books for a while, but I dunno if it was even that good for that, since the anime only focuses on the main events, skipping a bunch of the characterization (skipping the book that develops Ayanokouji and Kei's relationship was quite unfortunate). It's interesting how different the MC is in the show - the books definitely portray him as a guy who acts normal, but schemes inside, while his dead to the worldness is a lot more focused on in the anime. The animation was also terrible for a large part of this season. The final arc was relatively well executed at least, changing things but still giving us more stylish animation and direction.

Yakuza Babysitter - I'm generally a sucker for these adoptive father/daughter shows, but this one wasn't quite there for me. Yaeka was super cute and had some cute moments, but the yakuza aspects of the show weren't particularly interesting. They generally felt too sanitized, and when they did get more brutal, they didn't fit very well with the show. The pacing also felt oddly slow, despite it adapting like 4 or 5 chapters per episode. Like, people talked more slowly than they should. Ah well, it wasn't bad.

Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Not particularly good, but much better than I expected it to be? Manzai is inherently unfunny, so a show based on it sounded like a bad idea, but this had a few things that helped make it better. First, the animation is fantastic. No clue why this show looks so good, but the animation gives the cast a lot more character, and there's some great animated gags. Second, the show isn't actually focused on manzai, with the manzai performances taking up maybe 10% of the show, probably less. It's mostly just the girls getting up to ridiculous antics, and the show can be delightfully silly (one of the main characters is an actual alien, there's a time loop episode, an episode about becoming a crypto millionaire and losing it all, etc.). The actual thing that holds it back is that the cast's too big - there are 15 main characters, which is too many imo. The show does a good job balancing screentime for all of them, but I think it should've cute out at least three to make the rest a bit more memorable.

Summer rankings so far:

1. Isekai Uncle
2. Bastard!!
3. Cyberpunk Edgerunners
4. Lycoris Recoil
5. Yakuza Babysitter
6. Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7. Classroom of the Elite S2
8. When Will Ayumu Make His Move?