ACCA - 13-ku Kansatsu-ka
this is just a really nice show that I hope continues to live up to what its been doing so far. it's cool to see something with such a laid back attitude manage to be so gripping at the same time, but the latest episode and how it handled conflict being brought into the equation didn't fill me with the greatest amount of hope. really want it to not just flop out but I trust madhouse to handle things well and keep things consistent. also would like to recommend another anime based on a work by the same mangaka, ristorante paradiso, because it's really good and has a similar focus on the locational aesthetic and the food of the region.
Demi-chan wa Kataritai
the way this one handled itself was actually pretty unexpected. I went into it expecting something that would never even hope to live up to the Might of monmusu quest (play it now) but it seems to be going in a more interesting direction than a simple shitty harem (as of ep 3, 4 was iffy about that). not a fan of how absolutely stupid the lore behind the world is. there's no way that so little is known about the demihumans and that this chucklefuck high school teacher is the first person to consider an academic study of them considering that it says that they've basically always been around. but suspending that disbelief ain't hard when this is just a cute girls show. headless is the best girl, teacher is the worst. hope it doesn't descend into stupid pedo harem territory like the latest episode made it feel like with that dumb please hug me scene.
elDLIVE
it's pretty bad, but it's a nice kind of pretty bad. there's no ill intent or anything, seems to be an obscure ass manga with some really classic shounen tropes going on. mc is a beta loser shithead, main girl Mizusu Sonokata is my #2 girl of the season and she's hot as f*ck and none of the other characters have any real personality that I've picked up. the one thing they do have is cool designs that bring a slight smile to my face whenever they pop up, like the black guy, the moon, and manaphy. wouldn't recommend it to anyone, wouldn't watch it if it wasn't airing, but I'm happy enough when it shows up each week to sit down and take it on.
Gabriel DropOut
I avoided watching umaru when it was airing/after it was airing because it looks terrible and this show seems to have picked up some of those aspects. it's kinda mean to its characters and I don't particularly like how the main cast just seem to be jammed in together without really sharing anything in common apart from their superficial backstory. the jokes come in at a rate of knots and it's pretty obvious that this is a 4koma/gag adaptation. I normally like that sort of format buuut this show seems to make less effort than many others to pull those individual jokes into consistent structure. still nice, cute girls, but feels more mean spirited than the dogakobo shows that I've liked in the past. gab is unpleasant, silver hair may as well not be there, blue hair is straightman and satania is worse nenecchi.
Hand Shakers
this one is a real ride. the first episode is some New Wave Art psychedelic shit and then the second.third are some boring ass slice of life where the mc has to wash the cute girl because she's about as useless as companion characters come. I'd definitely recommend that you watch the first episode simply for the experience that it brings to the table, but I can't really say anything about where it'll go from here.
Kuzu no Honkai
this is shinsekai yori if you take out all of the cool plot stuff. it's got the bonobo hypersexual teens and the two main girls look pretty similar. apparently it keeps getting darker? not sure, and I don't really like the way it uses straight up panels instead of actual animation shit man just use the medium you're in like a decent work instead of being lazy. gonna keep watching it because the scene where the two girls were making out was super hot.
Little Witch Academia
way worse than I was expecting. nothing that's happened has really done anything at all. main character is an annoying little shit and looks to be the worst kind of blunders through everything and lucks her way to success. the main plot should probably kick in soon and I really hope that the stuff that has happened so far ties into it in a decent way (read: not just mister miyagi teaching potentially useful skills for no apparent reason) and that it's not as predictable as its lining up to be.
Masamune-kun no Revenge
dumb stupid show, but Adagaki Aki is my #1 girl of the season oh me oh my. what I would give. there's no real decency to the show and it's not going to go anywhere conclusive during the first and likely only season unless it does a rushed anime only ending, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts. fan of the main character being dense in a good way rather than just being a little pussy b*tch like the one from tlr.
Nyanko Days
it's three minutes of little japanese cat girls a week what am I supposed to say????
One Room
kantoku's character designs and artwork make me cum uncontrollably and so not even my usual distaste for shorts will scare me away from this terrifying self-inset experience.
Onihei
shows with premises like this normally end up being absolute dogshit made on a tiny budget and I'm glad to find out that only one of those assumptions is true. people seem to really hate the "animation" in this show but maybe I'm just too distracted to actually notice? only thing I picked up on was the reuse of drawings and the heavy usage of horizontal tracking shots to save actual animation frames. other than the not-so-great production aspects of the show it's turned out not so bad. this is the kind of thing that I wanted Joker Game to be just in how it handles the characters and the episodic stories that take place. no signs of it going south anytime soon. don't like how it takes half an episode for me to remember which generic looking Japanese Man is the main character.
Seiren
looked up the character profiles for the next two girls and I'm excited about what's to come. it's basically a collection of fetishes smashed into something that barely resembles a budding young romance (at least the first arc was) with terrible characterisation and some awful contrivances to push to story along. not good at all but I'm watching it because at least it's not as bad as photokano was.
Urara Meirochou
honestly preferring this to GAB at this point. it's just a lot nicer in how it presents the characters and their interactions. they actually seem to be friends that enjoy each others' company and the humour/goodness comes from that rather than people just acting stupid because they do. the other main thing that it has going for it is that it is the best tummy-related show to come out since henneko and I believe that it will go on to beat that in terms of the quality and quantity of tummy shown. cute girls doing fun things.
also still watching:
3-gatsu no Lion
if this didn't have such a strong reliance on narration it would be seriously good in my opinion. really nice to see a show tackle a matter like this in a non typical way. people seem to get mad about the fact that the mc loses a lot of matches without really progressing his game even though that's not really the point. it's not a shogi shounen show about the mc being epic and BTFOing his opponents, it's about a youth dealing with depression. also his stepsister is hot.
All Out!!
while my initial reaction was that this was simply another homoerotic sports show (which was true for the first chunk) it's developed some true Rug spirit and I'm proud of it.
Tiger Mask W
fuuuuuuuu that Tiger Mask v Tiger the Dark fight was so good. continues to elevate itself and continues to make the most of it's presentation to tell a truly great story.
not watching:
maid dragon because FUCK kyoani
fuuka because of that scene in the first episode where they walk around the statue; one of the dumbest things I've ever watched in my life
that chinese show because it's chinese
chaos;child because I just can't deal with that franchise anymore
akiba's trip because it didn't interest me
idol jihen because it somehow manages to be even worse that the plot summary + stupid cgi idols
youjo senki because it looks terrible both in my impression of it based on promotion material and the actual presentation