Winter 2019

Episode 2 was the highpoint of the show for me, because it made the most delightfully bizarre changes to the "source material" by having the in-universe "virus" turn the theme of rabbits (usagi) into eels (unagi). https://imgur.com/a/ZQQ82TX Since then it's become gradually less out-there. Episode 3 put the gothic lolita dolls of Rozen Maiden into tracksuits. Episodes 4, 5 and 6 did Ro-Kyu-Bu, The Ryuo's Work is Never Done, and Hamtaro, but in those cases the show simply added monsters to those worlds (and generically turned hamsters into monsters) rather than changing anything in a silly unexpected way, which had been what I'd hoped would happen based on episode 2.

Thanks to Japanese law, that kind of specific parody is rare enough that, at least when applied to something much less iconic than Gundam or Dragon Ball, I welcome it - even at this inane Friedberg/Seltzer level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Friedberg_and_Aaron_Seltzer#Filmography

nDroae said:
This was my first time seeing a concept I had wanted for years become an anime, and it did everything I wanted and more. Very satisfied.

Props for doing what TV original anime should do, and ending on a conclusion. Single-season adaptations of long-running novels and manga remain as much a disease now as ever, and even some TV originals don't end properly - I'm thinking of Princess Principal, though fortunately that one got away with it by being successful enough to get a sequel. Though there's no guarantee even that sequel will reach an ending. End your stories. Every ending is a beginning anyway. Western movie franchises have been getting away (financially) with adding sequels where none was planned or needed for decades.