Last season stuff:Darling in the Franxx (finished): What can I say? I've liked every Trigger production I've seen so far. Even when they're adapting old tropes, they still pull through on execution.
Megalobox (finished): Although this had several Moments of Awesome, by the end it had fizzled out. The fights mostly followed the same pattern, and the last battle was forgettable. This is still worth watching for the production quality and the general ambience, but it's not a strong recommendation.
Hinamatsuri (finished): This had likeable characters, and some really funny moments, but I wish there had been more of an overarching story.
Major Second (season finished): If you like baseball anime, you can do a lot worse.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These (continuing): I hope they get enough budget to finish the story.
My Hero Academia (season finished):
New season stuff:"
Chio's School Road", "
Cells at Work!", "
Planet With", and "
Hanebado" survived the initial culling, but "Chio" is the only clear standout.
Mr. Tongawa: Middle Management Blues (1-episode drop): Over-the-top reactions to genuinely boring situations does not make for good comedy. Our protagonist (a banker of some sort) spent much of the episode trying to remember his subordinates names. This is about as entertaining as you would expect. The beginning was worse, though; there were four minutes of what I thought was a plot summary for an earlier season, but turned out to be completely irrelevant.
How Not to Summon a Demon Lord (4-minute drop): augh it's another crappy isekai please make it stop
Angels of Death (1-episode drop): This appears to be some sort of survival horror, but it didn't give me a reason to care about the main character. Creepiness without imagination or characterization is just irritating.
Harukana Receive (1-episode drop): Beach-volleyball series. The artwork...is...okay (if you're into that sort of thing) but none of the characters had distinctive personalities, and this doesn't look like it's going measure up as a sport anime, either. However, students of the female form may find this of interest.
The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar (15-minute drop): This isn't the worst I've seen, but it takes me a fair bit of effort not to simply dismiss isekai reflexively at this point.
The Journey Home (8-minute drop): Something about bugs in space. When the initial data dump continued for
eight minutes, it became clear this series wasn't going to respect my time.
Asobi Asobase (8-minute drop): Those characters were sandpaper on my nerves.
Music Girls (10-minute drop): It's an idol anime.
ISLAND (1.5 episode drop): This is based on a harem-style VN, with several of the bad cliches that entails. If you actually enjoyed that VN, this is probably a fair adaptation of it...just not one that I'm inclined to continue watching.
Phantom in the Twilight (1-episode drop): I'm not in the target audience for otome game adaptations.
Late night! The Genius Bakabon (4-minute drop): I think you need to have grown up in Japan in the 70s to have any idea what this was.
Holmes of Kyoto (12-minute drop): Antique appraisal has never been so boring.
