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Finished a few Winter series, so writeups begin:

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady was pretty good stuff! The whole first arc (first five eps) was great, and the second arc was solid, handling Algard a bit better than I expected considering how annoying he was early on. The third arc was bad all around though - none of the drama around Anis wanting to do her duty as a princess or the horrors of being immortal was compelling in the slightest. Show's lucky the final episode followed that up with a great ending!

My Life As Inukai-san's Dog - going from comments, this sadly cut some of the more over the top fanservice from the manga, but it was still mostly fun. 3 of the 4 main girls were good characters, though sadly the best one was introduced last and had the least screentime. Certainly would've been a better show without the lame girl, and I'm not sure if being so plot-focused rather than episodic was a good idea.

Onimai: Now I'm Your Sister! felt like it fell short of potential to me. It's mostly just a cute girl SoL, which I dig in general, but I didn't love the cast. The animation being godlike was the strongest aspect, of course. I don't think the main gimmick (MC being turned into a girl) added that much to the show in general, but it did give us some fun scenes. Solid, but not really all that special.

The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague - dropped this one. Had a decent cast, but was just too repetitive, giving us the same joke about Himuro freezing stuff over and over, and the pace was too slow (looking at what happened later on, their relationship is less close in the final episode than it was in episode 3, amusingly enough).

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV Part 2 was a bit of a letdown. S4P1 is the best season of the show, and this is basically a follow-up to that, so it could've been great, but it's just too slow. There's a lot of episodes where nothing happens, and the show really falls into the trap of "let's make the show get really dark, but none of the main characters can die so there's no actual dramatic tension." Ryu also not so great as a character.

Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible is a show I haven't decided if I'll watch when it comes back from hiatus (hopefully I won't, but I might fall prey to temptation). It looks quite nice, and Kana Hanazawa's voice is great, but other than that it's quite poor. The "teasing" in this teasing girl is painfully light, and the MC is a 100% uninteresting vanilla loser. He has a gimmick to make him stand out, but that gimmick sucks and isn't used for anything funny. Neither the romance nor the comedy are that good.

Winter rankings:

1. Magirevo
2. Onimai
3. Danmachi S4P2
4. My Life as Inukai's Dog
5. Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible
6. Ice Guy
7. Eminence in Shadow

Kinda a weak season so far, with Magirevo being the only thing I even gave an 8 to.