Lets all love Lain.

Of the new season, Train to the end of the world & Jellyfish can’t swim

Check out the Mother’s Basement youtube channel for some good seasonal recommendations. He also covers trashy anime in seperate videos from his ones-to-watch or best-of videos, if you wanted to avoid (or deliberately delve into) that.

I cant believe this was as good as it was. A “Romance of the week” format sounds like a disaster, but Rentaro really really really really really loves those 100 girlfriends so it actually works?

oh there were some good ones this year

Frieren, Ancient Magus Bride, Sacrificial Princess, Pluto, Heavenly Delusion, and there were ones I just missed.

Of the ones i’ve fully completed, I’ll say Sacrificial Princess & King of Beasts gets my vote as best - It stands alongside Beastars as one of the brave few anime to not coward out and just make the non-human women completely ordinary humans with cat ears and :3 faces.

The problem with the current one no sane person can catch up on is that it doesnt want you to catch up on it. The number of episodes is one thing, but the sheer disrespect that it puts on the viewers time is egregiously bad. Theres so much stuff to like in the anime, but its layered under 3 and a half minute OP, 3 and a half minute recaps, multi-part flashbacks occuring before and after mid-episode splashes, entire episodes in the middle of critical arcs that are just flashbacks, glacial shounen battle arcs, and somehow loads of cut side content despite its incredible bulk. A remake can right all of that.

I’ve been watching the one piece anime, and tried out the manga after realizing how much the anime disrespects your time with glacial shounen battle arcs, 3 and a half minute long OP sequences, and painfully long recap sections. I then swapped back to the anime with the power of “just skip entire episodes and the first 5 minutes” and it’s been much better. If you miss something important (unlikely during battle arcs), the painfully long recaps at the start will cover it on whatever episode you come back on.

It was Chopper’s VA that got me back, mostly. And the music.

Whoa, I thought this series was concluded. The bookworm ascended, and now you’re telling me theres more?

Eminence in Shadow, as that is the reverse of what was originally going on before just kind of becoming a completely ordinary isekai. Having the tables be turned would be kind of fun

I just finished the Enies Lobby arcs in the One Piece anime.

To those who’ve suffered through the glacial pacing, should I just swap to the manga? I really like 1p, but it has this terrible habit of killing all tension by putting the stuff I care the most about at the end of a comical amount of tedious shounen battle sequences that each go on for way too long, and flashing back way too much all the while. I skipped like 5 episodes and the only thing that actually changed was that the big threat actually appeared on the island, and I kind of hate that.

I ended up just watching on a pirate streaming site lol

need me some anime with real struggle and loss. absolutely starved for a good tragedy.

This comment puts the fear of Oda in me. How? that series episode count is in the quadruple digits

ED DEFEATED

I enjoyed Sylphie’s Arc enough to pick up the LN, only to realize

but I’ll be sticking around to watch regardless.