The Anime Thread

I am so loving this anime , the ending song is one of my favorites of the season. The other Magical girl with the foul mouth cracks me up

lol

I love it too!

Huh.

My Dress-Up Darling Manga Gets Live-Action Series in October - News - Anime News Network

I'd be hesitant to check it out after how well done the anime version was, because after reading the manga I think they already nailed it in the anime.

Ok, how meta can you get? LOL

Reincarnated as a Slime is currently having a martial arts tournament to help Rimuru celebrate the founding of his country/ascension to Demon Lord.

One participant is the world's Hero, Masayuki (voiced by the same actor who plays Bell Cranel in Danmachi).

His opponent before the finals? A minotaur named Bovix.

Slight spoiler alert

The outcome? Masayuki offers to fight Bovix in the dungeon Rimuru created because Bovix is still exhausted from his match and Masayuki wants both to be able to fight at full strength.

Bovix agrees.

So Masayuki (Bell) is going to fight Bovix (a minotaur) in a dungeon later.



Gotta love it.

Woo-hoo, January!

The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You Season 2 Unveils January 12 Debut - News - Anime News Network

What a coincidence, I'm selling Names from 100 girlfriends who love you lol and the magical girl and the evil lieutenant has the best ending song ever!

Oh my.

Kyoto Animation Reveals Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to be Loved Film for 2025 - News - Anime News Network

The promo artwork.



Right in the feels.

Okay, shows finishing up.

Pseudo Harem continued its cuteness overload all throughout the season, and it made for a really easy-going watch. Seeing the relationship blossom and develop through the series was great, even showing what happened after Senpai graduated. They even had some fun dealing with how Eiji and Rin treat each other, including the harem personalities that have pretty much been their love language. A great chill rom-com to watch, and one I'd recommend because it pretty much always left me with at least a happy grin if not full-blown smile on my face.

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian was overall a good show, but I think the ending for this season was at the very least an odd stopping point because it kind of left everything up in the air in a weird way. They developed a few things that were introduced in a decent way (answering some questions while bringing up others) and the relationships between Kuze and Alya as well as Kuze and Yuki were great. But the ending left me feeling like, "wait, THAT'S where it's stopping for now?!" It wasn't a bad ending and I'll be watching the second season, but that ending point just put me off for some reason. Could just be me, I don't know.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime finally finished up its third season, as well. And yes, the show does deserve some flak for the amount of boardroom/meeting scenes they had, I won't deny that. LOL But it helped lay the groundwork for much of what happened this season and I'd imagine what happens in the next season AND film, so I didn't really have a problem with it. The action scenes were top notch, the comedy was on point and the story developments (both macro and micro among characters) were fun to watch. Good stuff all around, so if you've liked what you've seen in previous seasons and the Scarlet Bond film it's pretty much a home run.

Failure Frame was very much a show that can be described as "ARIFURETA with more edgelord stuff" (I think it was even described as such in a year end best of/worst of list on ANN). The show can be really hit or miss with animation, especially with the transitions they try to make between traditional and CG when it comes to characters. But the monsters are decently designed and animated. Character depth isn't all that deep overall, especially with male villains (their main show of being the bad guy seems to center around a particular kind of assault against women). And yet despite the flaws, I found myself keeping up with the show. It wasn't a trainwreck or hate watch by any means, but there was just enough entertainment to keep me engaged. It's not a great show by any means, but I've seen worse.

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Wistoria: Wand and Sword was just awesome. It's very easy to look at the premise as something we've seen MANY times before in manga/anime/light novels: young underdog fights to progress in a system where he's at a complete disadvantage, with this being he can't use magic and everyone else can. But the show shines in the execution of telling that story, especially when it comes to the fight sequences. They went hard right off the bat and continued all through the run of the show, so there's no surprise that many of the clips released on Crunchyroll's YouTube channel center on the action sequences.

But they've also done a great job of telling the story of the world they're living in and building that up behind the surface level. They've also seeded more than a few lingering questions about some characters and may have thrown in some GRAND crossover stuff in the last episode (a short blond "kid" named Finn who functions as a "Supporter" in the school's dungeon shows up lol). Remember, the show's source material was written by the same author as DanMachi.

Another show I'd highly recommend without hesitation.

Fall animes really compensating for the weak Summer animes.

Can't believe I forgot about the finish of this season of Oshi no Ko.

Hoo boy was this season a roller coaster. Lots of twists and turns, right up until the very end of the show. And every episode was so well paced. Every single time the ending song would start up it's first beats (and that was a killer song to begin with) I'd find myself saying, "What, already!?" Well, that or cursing them for leaving off at a stopping point that'd make you wish for time to accelerate. LOL

Character development was strong, the story unfolded well (I still can't bring myself to rewatch that one episode yet, though) and they've teed up things for new seasons as well.

Highly recommended if you liked anything about the first season.

I think I'm going to delete The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army Was A Human from my queue, though. Despite their efforts, the show didn't hold me enough to want to finish, even though I've only got two more episodes left. The characters have been kind of one-note and dull, and I don't think I could tell you the name of any of the characters off hand. Just kind of a forgettable show, I guess.

Okay, new stuff. Well, some new, some returning.

Returning for me? Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon, Seirei Sengouki - Spirit Chronicles and Arifureta (which seems to have slipped by my queue, must check that out). The new season of DanMachi has been great so far, of course. Seirei Sengouki starts up right where the first season left off, which is nice, but since it's been a while since the first season rewatching season 1 probably wouldn't hurt. The translation gimmick (for lack of a better term) gets a little annoying, but not terribly so.

New? First off there's How I Attended An All-Guys Mixer. It's a bit of an odd duck show, especially with some of the simplified/chibi designs when they go for comedy moments. The whole "all-guys mixer" comes from the main character Tokiwa being invited to a mixer by a woman in his college classes, but when Tokiwa and his friends arrive, the girls have all come immediately from their jobs working at a drag bar, so the girls all look like hot guys. Hotter than the guys they're meeting, to be honest.

The main humor of the show consists of one guy simply being thrown off by a girl who is obviously VERY interested in him dressing as a guy, one guy just being a bit clueless but not really being affected by the drag aspect and enjoying talking to one of the ladies and one guy who's having a tougher time coming to grips being very attracted to one of the girls even when she's dressed for work (lots of "what does this mean about me?" moments). I don't get the impression that's it's being done in a hurtful way (mileage might vary from person to person with that kind of situation, though) and it's generally a lighthearted show. Nothing really groundbreaking, but I've found it to be a nice way to pass some time.

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Next up is Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister which has a plot straight out of the past: guy goes to live at a shrine while attending school and is told he has to choose one of three sisters to marry so that the shrine can continue. So a tried-and-true rom-com setup, the usual accidental hijinks and three distinct relationships being built between Uryu and the sisters. But even though it hits those usual tropes/cliches you'd see in that kind of show, it seems like there's some extra little bits going on in the background of a slightly supernatural aspect (it is set in a shrine, after all) that have me interested to see where the show goes.

Finally, there's Let This Grieving Soul Retire! It's very easy to get some Eminence in Shadow vibes from the main character, but they put a slightly fun twist on that with Krai being someone who isn't nearly as awesome as most would make him out to be and would be happy just stepping aside from his duties. As kids, he and his friends started a party that became rather amazing, but he could see they were outpacing him. So to keep from holding them back, he decided to resign.

They made him the leader of their party (and eventually guild) as a result. And as a result of that, his legend keeps growing despite all his efforts. There's a lot of misunderstanding humor as well as quite a few self-deprecating comments from Krai himself that no one seems to listen to. There's also quite a few hints that Krai is likely being too hard on himself and others are seeing him for who he really is and not what he sees himself as (his friends DID make him party leader, after all). But they do go over the top with the jokes, which does bring some good laughs. After all, when's the last time you saw a wall pin/path block in anime like this?



It's got some fun potential, so I'm gonna stick with it for now.

Thanks so much for your posts. I really look forward to your reviews. I also highly recommend a few anime if anyone is intersted.
1. Dan da dan
2. Mecha ude
3. Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.
4. Ooi! Tonbo 2nd Season
5. I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History
6. Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II
7. The Do-Over Damsel Conquers The Dragon Emperor
8. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Conflict
These are really some of the best anime of the season. I am a big time Bleach fan and that goes without saying. But one of the most surprising anime of the season is Dan Da Dan. This is a must watch for all anime fans, taking either the number one or number two top ten of the season. Also I love most magical girl anime and Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. is a good one too. My favorite magical girl anime is Flip Flappers. Hope everyone has a wonderful Fall season of good anime shows

Okay, forgot one and checked my queue to find one.

ARIFURETA was indeed in my queue so it was time to watch. They pick up pretty much where last season left off, including a decent little recap of last season. So I want to say they're giving us more of the same, but this first episode of the new season looks like some fun is being had, which is always welcome. The rabbit beastmen themselves are fun/incredible to watch on their own, but seeing them reflect Hajime's own edgelord tendencies right back at him? In front of his old classmates? Comic gold. LOL If you liked the first seasons this will probably be up your alley.

Loner Life in Another World was the one that slipped my mind, and that may be part of the problem with the show. A lot of the usual isekai tropes, but with some humor. The loner main character sees a magic circle show up in class, and instead of getting all geeked about it, he knows enough about isekai stories to know it's probably time to get out of there. Unfortunately his attempts at escape don't work, and as a result he's the last to choose skills/abilities, which are all the worst ones. But as the show goes on, he learns to combine his abilities and starts to get OP. Oh, and despite being a loner at heart, everyone seems to be coming to him all for help.

It's not a bad show overall, as the humor is decent and there's a subplot afoot about ill intentions from the delinquents from the class and a classmate who seems to be out to get super powerful, but the show doesn't really seem to be doing as much as it could to stand out, hence why it probably slipped my mind about being a show I was watching. It could be problematic if it stays on the forgettable side.

Okay, Let This Grieving Soul Retire! decided to go a little more bonkers (yes, even more so than the screenshot above, but it kinda involves that character, Tino).

So Krai accidentally sent Tino and three other random adventurers into a dungeon that was, unbeknownst to him, at a much higher level than those four hunters (term for adventurers in the world) were at. He goes there to help them out and they manage to find the lost hunters that they were tasked to find. But on the way out, they face off against what are essentially the bosses of the dungeon: both ridiculously strong, one of them massive in size, and everyone there isn't really in any position to put up a real fight. But they get some help in Liz, a member of Grieving Souls (the group Krai formed with his childhood friends.



Between her appearance (despite the pink hair) and her demeanor when dressing down her apprentice Tino, my first impression was being reminded of Nagatoro (from Don't Toy with Me Miss Nagatoro).

Then she started fighting. You watch her fight the bosses and it's no wonder Krai started to feel like he was going to hold his friends back. Especially when it means the rest of the group is probably as strong if not stronger than her.

It's worth looking up the fight scene from episode four, that was something else.

Well now.

Saw a review of the latest DanMachi episode on ANN today, and decided I didn't want to wait until the weekend (usually save the "big shows" for watching on mornings I don't have to work LOL) to watch the episode. Especially after catching a glimpse of some of the review before realizing it was for the latest episode.

I'm weird, I like watching the show THEN reading the review to see the reviewer's opinion as well as anything I might have missed.

I'd done pretty well avoiding spoilers from the light novels up to that point, but even so from pretty early on I thought there was a connection of some kind between Freya and Syr. Seeing the initial reveal of that connection was satisfying (had a nice little "hey I got that one right!" moment lol) but now I'm curious to see if they give out a full explanation in the show, especially given Horn's involvement in the episode.

And please no spoilers from the light novel readers, I really want to see how things unfold.

Okay, gotta tweak my description of Liz from Let This Grieving Soul Retire!

So she's showed up in a couple more episodes since her premiere, and while I still get some Nagatoro vibes from her demeanor, now imagine combining that with the love of battle (and maybe the affection towards the leader) of Delta from The Eminence in Shadow.

Yeah, let that combo sink in a bit and shudder. LOL