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RenRen94
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Yatagarasu getting the respect it deserves makes me happy. Truly my favorite of the season. Second place is tied between Wind Breaker and Black Butler: Public School Arc. Wind Breaker might have the slight edge because of Yuuma Uchida's superb acting.
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tintor2
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Yeah... Delicuous in Dungeon really nailed it. An insane mix of comedy and drama. While Senshi was kind of the star of the series, Laios was pretty much the meme considering his ridiculous obsessions.
In second place for me it's Black Butler. This one was also mostly a comedy until the last two episodes. I never felt Ciel entertaining to see that much until the School arc. The production values were quite good |
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#Synaesthesia
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absolutely insane someone put Tadaima okaeri in their "best" list. what an absolute waste of screentime that show was.
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bassgs435
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I'm going to assume the lack of mention of Girls Band Cry is because it has no legal simulcast. Some anti-piracy regulations for the article?
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costmuffled
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Congratulations to Mr. Eisenbeis with the win for this season's best taste in reviews. Keep up the great work! And shame on everybody for not a single mention for The Fable or any nod to the technical merits of Girls' Band Cry. If you understand, please do your best.
Judges' Scores 16 - Richard Eisenbeis 15 - MrAJCosplay 12 - Lucas DeRuyter 11 - Steve Jones 11 - James Beckett 11 - Kevin Cormack 10 - Nicholas Dupree 08 - Christopher Farris 07 - Rebecca Silverman |
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Emerje
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No notes, nothing to add, just thought this needed to be repeated again in the comments.  This really felt like the season of sleeper hits. Sure, we had a lot of big returning titles and a lot of shows that were heavily hyped ahead of the season, but we also had a lot of shows that really came out of nowhere and became much more impressive that I think people could have imagined. Tonari no Yokai-san has a premise that feels like it would have appeared back in the 60s or 70s, it's strange that it's taken until 2024 to get a real slice of life show humans and yokai just live normal lives together. Reincarnated Aristocrat had wonderful watercolor-esque animation and a story that could have stood just fine on its own without shoehorning in an unnecessary isekai premise and filled it with fairly well fleshed out characters. 7th Prince had all the hallmarks of a great Studio Trigger anime, lost of fast and flashy animation, very consistent and smooth. I believe this is one of the first shows Tsumugi Akita Anime Lab produced themselves (while also animating the first three episode of Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night and last season's Meiji Gekken: 1874) and I expect really great things from them in the future! And then there's Yozakura Family which is a spy comedy in the same vein as Spy x Family but also with a similar vibe to Assassination Classroom (kid being trained to survive in the underworld), it's zany fun but also has had a few dark moments as well spoiler[that one spy's daughter being blown up on her birthday].
Lately I've been going into seasons not sure what I'm going to watch, having maybe half a dozen "must watch" titles I planned to watch but ending the season follow around 20. I honestly wonder if we're entering a new golden age of anime. I don't think I've felt this way since around 2009 when we were getting shows like Eden of the East, Casshern Sins, Toradora, Natsume's Book of Friends 2, Chrome Shelled Regios, Rideback, K-On, Basquash!, Guin Saga, and Cross Game just to name a few from the first half of the year, to say nothing of the second season of Haruhi Suzumiya, the return of the Slayers and Summer Wars! That was a hell of a year and the last few years have felt a lot like that to me. Emerje |
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Piglet the Grate
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Of course Gāruzu Bando Kurai (Girls Band Cry) is the best of the season, but unless one lives in Japan and speaks Japanese or in France and reads French, it is not allowed to be mentioned. |
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champeagle3
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YATAGARASU and Tonari are both certified bangers, but up until the gut punch episode of Hibike this week, one series that's hardly been mentioned had been my AOTS. So I'm curious if there's a reason for that.
Blink twice if you're not allowed to acknowledge the existence of Girls Band Cry... |
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ab2143
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If only Yatagarasu made it in the weekly reviews...
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whiskeyii
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Last edited by whiskeyii on Mon Jun 24, 2024 11:15 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Minos_Kurumada
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Well, I know its because it was too late, but it feels so weird to see Yatagarasu not getting weekly reviewed yet getting so much price.
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q_3
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I also love Tonari no Yokai-san. Among other things it does a great job of balancing a surprisingly large and varied cast, including several very cool adult ladies which is always a huge plus in my book.
Astro Note was a lot of fun too and sadly underappreciated. It did a great job of taking all the good parts of old school romcoms while stripping away most of the bad and giving a fresh, progressive perspective. I'm confident that Kimiko Ueno will have a highly successful original sooner or later, she definitely has the talent for it. |
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Vanadise
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I'm glad to see one person loving Tonari no Yokai-san, which is by far my favorite this season, and hasn't gotten nearly enough attention... and I should probably check out Yatagarasu, which I skipped simply due to airing so late, but it sounds like people who have given it a chance loved it.
And I have to admit that I've made it through seven episodes of Delicious in Dungeon now, and I'm just not feeling it. It's fine, and I do appreciate a good, old-school, D&D-esque fantasy series that isn't an isekai, but the food porn does absolutely nothing for me and every episode I've seen has felt incredibly formulaic. People praise the character writing constantly, but I feel like this is just normal character writing for anything that isn't run-of-the-mill shounen slop. It's not bad by any means, but it's also completely failed to hook me, so I'm curious if anybody else will feel the same way when the Most Disappointing list comes out. |
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NeverConvex
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I think it was mostly just a formula executed well through the first 3/4 or so. There is a point at which it changes and becomes a little bit more ambitious with exploring its characters and their relationships, although I don't know if it completely changes; the formulaic core is always kind of there to a fair extent. |
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kgw
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Which French streaming service is streaming it? Asking for a friend with a VPN... |
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