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Not sure how fast this will update due to death from school but I'll try to update as I finish shows.

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Steins;Gate 0 - I came in with pretty high expectations and for the most part, I think they were met. However, the series still falls short a bit when compared to the original series in terms of my enjoyment. A big part of that is probably the serious lack of Kurisu (Kurisu/Okabe banter were some of my favourite moments and I love how their relationship ended up playing out) and although Maho was a great character, it just never really was the same. If this show did do anything though, I definitely like Mayuri a lot more as a character after 0. I felt like she got a lot more development and you get to see a lot more of her character this time around compared to the original Steins;Gate (I basically had no feelings whatsoever, positive or negative, at the end of the original Steins;Gate).

Asobi Asobase - I thought this would be just your standard CGDCT with some comedy but boy was that pretty off. While it is still kinda just girls doing random shit, a lot of the reaction faces are far from cute and the humour that is prevalent in this show is very different from the type of humour usually found in CGDCT shows. While the beginning was kind of jarring for me (due to expectations and what it actually was) as soon as I got accustomed to how scumbag a certain character is and how their interactions usually play out, I became a pretty big fan of the show. While I still didn't really enjoy the disgusting faces some of the characters in this show made, the fact that this show had me rolling over laughing multiple times throughout the season definitely made this one of my highlights of the week.

Boku no Hero Academia Season 3 - Probably the most enjoyable season of BokuHero for me although it was mainly due to the One for All vs All for One fight. Since I already discussed this in a previous post, I won't talk too much more about it. The latter half with the provisional license stuff wasn't nearly as entertaining as the big fight though and while it's not bad by any means, it is probably why this isn't a 9.

Harukana Receive - I LOVED this show at the beginning. Especially the episode where Haruka basically proposes to Kanata. Had the anime been more like that the whole way, I think I definitely would've given it a 9. However, the anime never did manage to recreate the magic of that episode for me so the slightly lower score, but I still immensely enjoyed this show nonetheless. Thicc and cute girls with some pretty nice volleyball along with some nice character growth for a some of the characters (mainly Kanata).

Grand Blue - I was told by multiple friends that read the manga that this was gonna be a good watch and they were pretty spot on. Tons of moments where I laughed out loud and the ridiculousness and how far some of these characters will go to fuck up someone else was actually hilarious. Add in best girl Chisa and I would probably have to say this is my anime of the season. I wish to be stepped on by Chisa.

Overlord III - Honestly, I don't have much to say for Overlord III. Another enjoyable season of watching Ainz be Ainz. Those 3D sheep thingys he summoned looked kinda dank though.

Gintama.: Shirogane no Tamashii-hen - Kouhan-sen - Another solid season of Gintama. Honestly, not much I can to say. The last episode was kind of anti-climactic, but it was definitely unique. Never really seen another anime do anything like that (I don't really want to give too much away).

7
Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu - Probably the biggest (positive) surprise for me this season. Part of it is probably me expecting completely nothing from this show though. Instead, I got (while nothing groundbreaking or anything) a pretty funny isekai romcom with uncensored fanservice. The highlights of the show are definitely the girls though. Despite not being super unique or super fleshed out, the entire cast was very likable for me, even the late comers such as Edelgard and Klem. Since how much I like the girls of a harem usually reflect how much I enjoyed the show itself, Isekai Maou was definitely a fun ride for me. I know a lot of people online harp on the beta protagonist shit a lot, but I think the way they portrayed how insecure he was outside of his Maou persona was a pretty neat touch. Also, everyone I know seems to either hate Rem and love Shera or hate Shera and love Rem. Why not just love both (or all)? <--- words of a kuso dd.

Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro - I'm not really sure what is with this season and comedies with friends being assholes to each other, but I am loving it. Despite Chio-chan sharing that type of humour with 2 other shows I enjoyed this season (Grand Blue! and Asobi Asobase), Chio-chan was probably the weakest of the 3 in terms of making me laugh. I'm not sure whether it was the nature of the jokes or just the girls weren't as cute, but I found myself laughing a lot less and not as hard during Chio-chan episodes compared to the other 2. This anime was still entertaining though and I definitely enjoyed Chio-chan and the rest of the quirky cast.

Hataraku Saibou - A show that is not only entertaining, but educational is definitely a plus for this show (although not that much of the material covered in this show would be useful to anyone not in a health profession). I think the biggest gripe I had with Hataraku Saibou was that it did start to feel a bit repetitive for me. It was always still fun to see how the body was reacting to everything that was happening and the fate of the cells that we ended up getting to know, but the constant problem of the week just left something to be desired for me. The last arc (2 episodes) was definitely really good and somewhat of a break from the usual routine and if it weren't for that (and maybe platelets) this could've very easily been a 6.

Shingeki no Kyojin S3 - Seems like the true heart of the SnK story is starting to be unveiled in this season of Shingeki. A lot of mysteries from past seasons are answered, but ends up raising other questions in its place. Historia is best girl now (with Mikasa still a close 2nd for me), the fight scenes for this show still look stunning, and the plot moving forward are all great things that happened in this season. Overall, I really don't have many complaints about this season of Shingeki and I think it's another solid addition to a franchise that's pretty loved by the community. However, Shingeki doesn't really do anything too different from the previous seasons (maybe besides toning down the action a bit to favour advancing the plot), and many of the same things I didn't like about Shingeki in the previous seasons, show up here as well such as a relatively weak cast of characters. Action also isn't my favourite type of anime and while it's not like I dock marks just because an anime is more action oriented, it usually does end up affecting how much I ultimately enjoy the show as a whole.

6
Jashin-chan Dropkick - Somewhat disappointed by this show although my expectations going into this show was pretty high. It remained pretty "meh" throughout the whole season and it was only getting some chuckles out of me every once in a while. It was nice seeing Jashin kinda grows a bit more softhearted throughout the series but the comedy just didn't hit home with me as often. Not to mention, in a season where I am comparing to comedies that make me laugh until I cry like Asobi Asobase and Grand Blue!, Jashin-chan Dropkick really did fall a bit short for me.

Yama no Susume Season 3 - Another season of relatively comfy climbing. There was some drama near the end that felt kinda awkward, but the resolution made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside and it resolved relatively fast which is nice. Wasn't that much different from all the other seasons (as is my opinion on most sequels) so yeah, another similar score to previous seasons.

Hanebado - I had pretty high hopes for this anime, but the drama in the middle of the show really started to make me dislike the show. Personally, I think this could've been an easy 8 or 9 for me if it had just been more about power of friendship and hard work with some yuri while keeping the pretty exciting badminton matches in. While the middle was kind of weak for me, the beginning and the ending were pretty solid and are probably closer to around a 7 so I just decided to dock 1 point for the part in the middle I wasn't really enjoying. That and how some of the characters seem to switch personalities at the drop of a hat which kinda breaks my suspension of disbelief for a bit. Shiwahime cutest grill btw.

Sunohara-sou no Kanrinin-san - A pretty relaxing show with A LOT of /ss/. As someone who certainly doesn't mind /ss/, I guess this anime was relatively appealing to me. It was relatively bland and generic and didn't do anything too out there, but I thought that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Just some a nice and relaxing show with some onee-sans and /ss/ isn't too bad after a day of work if you're into that sorta stuff.

Happy Sugar Life - Pink-haired yandere that is not only smart and cunning, but physically capable? I really liked Yuno back when I watched Mirai Nikki when I was but a wee young lad, thus I decided to watch this. While that's probably where the similarities end between the 2 shows, Happy Sugar Life was a pretty fun ride. I think it remained suspenseful when it had to and definitely had its moments. Characters not named Satou didn't get developed too much, but in a show like this, I think characterization isn't really as important. The plot while not terrible, left something to be desired. The conclusion was definitely an interesting one, but fit the theme of the show and all in all, I would say this anime was enjoyable. It was nothing ground-breaking or super special, but I don't really think it tried to be. If you're looking for some nice suspenseful, psychological horror/mystery, I think this does a much better job than a lot of its competitors out there. It even has cute girls to boot!

5
Akkun to Kanojo - Another romance where I like the side couple (Matsuo x Chiho) more than the main couple. Trying to squeeze meaningful development in a short and when you have multiple couples you want to show case is probably not that good of an idea. Not to mention when you have a super tsundere (probably purposely blown out of proportion) main male character, a lot of the interactions end up feeling kind of stale. While he does accomplish something at the very end that does resemble progression, it takes a whole 25 episodes whereas seeing how Chiho and Matsuo's chemistry was working out through the 7 or so episodes they got was much more interesting for me. Overall, it was pretty average and I might actually change this to a 4 depending on how some other shows end.

One Room Second Season - Honestly, I think I actually enjoyed the girls this time around more than first season. While Akkun to Kanojo had some episodes I enjoyed more, there were also episodes I enjoyed less. I enjoyed One Room around the same throughout hence the same score. I do try to be a bit more lenient as well for shorts.

Satsuriku no Tenshi - I was actually really enjoying this when it first aired. It kinda felt like a horror show done right. The mystery was pretty interesting and the I was pretty engaged in the show. However, the villains that started showing up basically felt like they added nothing to the story (I heard a lot of their backstories were cut) and I just gradually lost interest over time. Pretty sad that the show ended up the way it did, but oh well. At least Ray was pretty cute. There ARE still 4 more episodes though so maybe I'll change my score after that.

Cinderella Gekijou Season 3 - I like the Cinderella girls and seeing them in chibi forms doing some comedy skits is usually pretty entertaining. Nothing more, nothing less this show is pretty simple.

Persona 5: The Animation - I really had no expectations coming in since there was definitely no way they could do the story the game wanted to tell justice in 26 episodes. However, I almost always enjoy seeing anime adaptations of games that I've played so here I am sticking it out for 2 seasons to watch this. And I guess this was everything that I expected. Dank animation, lots of fun tid-bits cut out, rushed character development, etc. I didn't dislike it too much though and while I don't think the adaptation was very good, I enjoyed seeing the characters I spent so much time with in game, moving around in an anime adaptation.

4
Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria - I expected nothing and basically got exactly that. Most of the girls of his harem basically have little/no development whatsoever and outside of him being their savior (which I guess might actually be the only reason), it's hard to understand the motivations behind a lot of the female characters. At least, the designs for some of the girls were pretty cute. Also, I'm not too sure about that last episode. As much as I'm all for the childhood friend winning and everything, the ending just felt really rushed with and the conflict at the end kind of got brushed over with "he came back and saved the day" without even explicitly showing it. I also did somewhat enjoy the fact the main character used tactics to fight and explained how different tactics work (and usually why his tactics were superior), but I think some more time could've went into it (hopefully without too much talking. Or maybe show some fight scenes while talking. Or even some fanservice which is half the reason why I watch this anyways).


3
Sirius the Jeager - I actually don't know exactly why I started watching this. The plot didn't really seem that interesting and the key visuals didn't really have any cute girls in them. I think it was cause someone brought it up in one of the discord chats I was in and I decided to try it out. Pretty much a waste of time since the entire anime was a snoozefest for me. Not only was the plot pretty generic but the characters (especially the villains) were as bland as they come. Yuliy and to some extent the Professor had some pretty good moments, but the rest of the cast were basically static. Throw in some pretty nonsensical shit from the plot (mainly revolving around the Ark itself) and all I got was a pretty boring experience overall. I'm not really an expert on action scenes so Idk how well this show was considered on that aspect, but some fights were kinda interesting to watch so not as bad as some other shit I've watched. Ryouko is also best girl despite basically falling in love for not much reason at all. She is voiced by Rieri though.

2
Ongaku Shoujo - I like cute girls. I like idols. I like slice of life. Why is this show rated so lowly then when Ongaku Shoujo looks like another CGDCT to add to the plethora of shows that I already enjoy in the same vein? This is for a lot of reasons in the case with Ongaku Shoujo. Lets start off with what usually makes or break ANY CGDCT show: the characters. The cast has a gigantic 12 main girls and given that there were only 12 episodes, the anime basically couldn't even dedicate 1 episode's worth of time to develop each girl given that they also had a shitty plot to deal with. The show went with a pretty standard episodic character arc that basically brought up a problem with a character(s) and then through the episode, the viewer would get to learn about the character and the character (in theory) would grow in some way. However, all the characters in Ongaku Shoujo were so uninteresting (with the exception of maybe 1 girl) to me and even after all the characters had their turn in the spotlight, I just couldn't bring myself to care about any of them. None of the girls really got developed beyond the tropes or traits that they were shown with in the beginning (besides Uori) and as a result they made this show a snoozefest.

Moving on to the other stuff like the plot... which is nothing of note. The plot not being strong isn't necessarily a bad thing in this type of anime as shows of this genre as I said before, tend to be carried by the cast. With the plot and characters being utter trash, what did this anime have left? Maybe it had cool animations and pretty pictures! But nope, there were tons of dank shots and the animation was atrocious enough that even I noticed it was bad (hint: I know jack shit about good and bad animation). After finishing this series, I have come to the conclusion that there is basically nothing redeemable or worth watching this show for EXCEPT the fact that the girls were designed by QP:flapper and that the OP by Ogura Yui is pretty good. You can thank me later for saving you 276 minutes of your life by not watching this.

Back Street Girls: Gokudolls - This anime sounded super dank and I checked it out solely for that reason. What I got was... kinda that except everything was a powerpoint. The humour was pretty hit or miss for me and I didn't really laugh super hard to any of the jokes. Given the fact it was basically a powerpoint and when compared to some of the other comedies that I enjoyed a lot more (much like what happened with Jashin), it was pretty hard to justify giving this higher than a 2.

1
Shichisei no Subaru - There was quite a gap between whatever my last one was and Ousama Game so I definitely didn't expect myself to give another 1 so quickly. But boy oh boy, was this anime a hot steaming pile of stinky poo. As someone that tends to like watching shows a majority of the time for its characters, the fact that this show not only had some of THE MOST frustrating characters to watch, but also some of the least developed characters I've seen was already a bad sign. The plot sounded kind of alright (possibly even interesting) but the execution of everything was just done so terribly. I'm not sure if it was done better in the LN, but honestly the anime was so bad I really don't care even if it was more well done.

The game aspect is almost basically never explored in-depth and it just feels like they are in a fantasy world where game elements only matter when it matters for the plot (For example, a lot of the members take all kinds of damage but it is never shown at all how much damage they actually receive, yet when Haruto literally takes 1 bullet he almost dies? If it was meant to be realistic, getting shot through the heart sounds like instant death rather than slowly losing hp (Satsuki shouldn't even have had time for the time delay magic) whereas if we take it as a game balancing measure and he shouldn't be one shot, I'm surprised he basically lost that much HP from just 1 shot. The main character is basically just some Gary Stu that has not only some super OP power (to this day I'm not 100% sure what it does except asspull from another dimension his victories) but has some UNIQUE sword JUST FOR HIM that was randomly sitting at the bottom of the ocean for the longest time and literally no one in the history of this game ever thought to seek out the sword. Actually, I think they mentioned some people did but always failed but like come on. It really didn't take them much effort to get the sword so is everyone in the game just that bad? I'm almost half-inclined to believe this since he literally goes against thousands of members from supposedly TOP TIER guilds and easily massacres everyone despite not playing this game for like 6 years.

Don't even get me started on some of the relationship drama that happens in this show. I've always believed FORCED DRAMA was some meme term that everyone used to just describe drama they didn't like but boy did a lot of the drama here feel hella forced (to be fair, this is basically drama I don't like so maybe my belief is partially right anyways?). I'm not sure if it's just because I've never had any childhood friends I was that close to, but I find it really hard to believe that EVERYONE in this group despite basically not seeing each other for 6 years still held SUCH strong emotions for each other. Like not only was the misunderstanding pretty retarded, but the fact Nozomi goes full yandere when she hasn't even tried to approach him for 6 years is full of wtf? Maybe I could believe it if she was still going after him in the real world or something, but like what if he got a girlfriend in real life or something? Maybe the fact Satsuki invited her back to the game and then her seeing the misunderstanding lead to her fall to a yandere but honestly the show's writing is so bad it probably doesn't matter.

Now was there any redeeming quality about this show at all for me? I would say Satsuki and new Nozomi are kinda cute and I even liked Satsuki's character but everyone is so static (there is basically no character growth for anyone except Takanori) that by the end I basically only liked their designs. Yandere Nozomi is pretty eroi tbqh. Takanori also made the pretty smart choice in the end choosing the up and coming gravure model over a dead ship.

All in all, I regret ever watching this show and I hope no one suffers the same fate I had to. The most satisfying moment I got from watching this show was writing this shitty rant and giving it a 1 on myanimelist. What a good fucking use of 288 minutes + the 5 or some minutes it took me to write this rant.

I also said at the beginning of this Subaru review that it was a while since my last 1, however, I think ImoImo from this season might be a 1 as well (Fall 2018). However, at least I don't really actively dislike watching that show (and Ousama Game for that matter) since both of those were kind of in the "It's so bad it's kinda funny" sorta boat. Not only was Subaru actually frustrating for me to watch but it belonged in the "It's so bad but it isn't funny and it's just trash" sorta show. I wonder when the characters in ImoImo will start melting.