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The Best and Worst of the Season So Far: Week of May 27-June 2

Wow, I was convinced that Kabaneri was going to hold on to its top spot in the cumulative ranking. But it makes sense because the 3 shows above it have been getting a lot of love from fans. My biggest question now is if Re:Zero will be able to reach the number one cumulative spot at the end of this season.

That Kabaneri debate. I predict Kabaneri will go down on its cumulative next two weeks (or even next week) if it cannot beat Re:Zero, Jojo and Ushio and Tora next episodes even once. Dropping 3 spots will be not shocking.

Wow, I was convinced that Kabaneri was going to hold on to its top spot in the cumulative ranking. But it makes sense because the 3 shows above it have been getting a lot of love from fans. My biggest question now is if Re:Zero will be able to reach the number one cumulative spot at the end of this season.

It probably won't because all other will have a satisfying (i hope) ending while Re:Zero will continue, and i'm sure you know that fans usually give a better score to a show when it reaches it's finale.

[Re: Kabaneri] I'm told those first few were actually the good episodes and I just found them mediocre if watchable so I can only imagine where it's gone downhill from there given it's staffs tendencies. I figured I'd watch about until I figured the script was probably going to crap itself which is usually after the first arc of a given big hype show so it sounds like I might have been right to drop it around episode 6.

I haven't really been following the season that closely but it seems like Re:Zero is that one dark horse LN show that always seems to rise up and get the critical acclaim and popularity through old fashioned community word of mouth (Last season it was KonoSuba it seems before that something like Overlord) to catch up to and even overtake the obvious hit contenders with big money, big hype, big brand names and big advertising behind them but usually a slipshod script (I have a problem in the last few years of getting into many if any big budget TV anime because of this problem where the scripts just end up offensively bad even when I'm not going into them with particularly high expectations) which is this seasons case having actually seen more than a few episodes is definitely Kabaneri.

Alabaster Spectrum wrote:

[Re: Kabaneri] I'm told those first few were actually the good episodes and I just found them mediocre if watchable so I can only imagine where it's gone downhill from there given it's staffs tendencies. I figured I'd watch about until I figured the script was probably going to crap itself which is usually after the first arc of a given big hype show so it sounds like I might have been right to drop it around episode 6.

I recently got Amazon Prime and marathoned to get caught up on Kabaneri. While I do think its sharpest episode was its first, I don't feel that the drop-off has been huge. I think it's more a case where the dazzling technical merits early on (and it's still a well-animated series, even if the animation has dropped off some) distracted people from there being nothing special about the plot or characters.

On another point, I am also dubious that Re: Zero will be able to overtake the much-beloved Jojo. However, its episode 10 is slightly outscoring Jojo's episode 10 at this time, so it should continue to inch up on Jojo while still maintaining its position against Ushio and Tora (which is currently scoring the same).

Alabaster Spectrum wrote:

I haven't really been following the season that closely but it seems like Re:Zero is that one dark horse LN show that always seems to rise up and get the critical acclaim and popularity through old fashioned community word of mouth (Last season it was KonoSuba it seems before that something like Overlord) to catch up to and even overtake the obvious hit contenders with big money, big hype, big brand names and big advertising behind them but usually a slipshod script (I have a problem in the last few years of getting into many if any big budget TV anime because of this problem where the scripts just end up offensively bad even when I'm not going into them with particularly high expectations) which is this seasons case having actually seen more than a few episodes is definitely Kabaneri.

Coincidence that all three of those were the big web novel anime of their seasons, like DanMachi?

I don't think so at all. At the start of the season I picked that as the show to fulfill that role just based on reading the premise, but again it still didn't have the crazy marketing push of the Aniplex backed series like Kiznaiver, Haifuri etc got to start their runs off with which seems to be everything popularity wise nowadays except for that one instance of the LN series that breaks out in the second half of a season. Usually if you aren't set up to be immediately popular right from the get go in this touch and go industry where shows nowadays are lucky if they get more than 12 episodes to work with your just done for. Keep in mind I'm talking specifically about Late Night TV anime here, OVAs and Films which I still watch plenty of are still IMO at least a very open field with potential for more than the privileged few that garner the right kind of marketing at least for now. I mean what can you say for a format where a Detective Conan film can make 6 Billion in a little under two months with just a regular amount of marketing.