Anyway, this will only be a simple list, score, and I'll talk a bit about it. I'll talk more in depth in a separate post. Hopefully.
- What I watched:
1. Boku Dake ga Inai MachiScore: 9/10
Boku Dake ga Inai Machi surely is the surprise hit in this season although it did leave a lot of people disappointed in it in the end. For me, this series starts off great and it executed Hinazuki Kayo's arc in a brilliant way. The reveal of the killer is also done great although the killer himself is well, quite obvious, but that doesn't matter much, the execution is just beautiful. My problem with this series that cause my score for it drop from 10 to 9 are: Airi needs more screen time, the last 2 episodes feels somewhat too fast for me (but that's most likely my personal taste in pacing), the cringe moment with the teacher, a huge ship sinks almost instantly with a single lethal strike, and his revival ability doesn't get explained at all (this doesn't really bother me too much actually). Anyway, despite its flaws, this series is still a very good series and I recommend it to anyone seeking for a good series.
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| I ship them so hard |
Score: 8/10
At first i planned to give it 7 or 7.5 but that Death Spot scenes are epic so i raise the score up (it should be higher if Death Spot doesn't lose the way it does, but oh well, it's still a good scene). Grimgar is unlike most "stuck in fantasy world" setting since rather than taking the adventure or comedy route, it's taking the slice of life and realistic route. Or maybe rather than slice of life, it's more of a slicing life, goblin's life to be exact. Jokes aside, if you seeks a shounen type battles or adventure, yeah, grimgar isn't the place. Grimgar focuses more on their character interaction and in my opinion, they did it greatly. Speaking of characters, thank god Ranta got some character development since he needs one before the series ends. Also, do i need to mention why i think Yume is the best girl of the series? I don't think i have to, it's obvious. The other thing this series does differently is the art, i simply love the water color background, it's so stunningl beautiful. One complain i have for this is... what's with the insert song, like seriously, some of it feel really out of place. For example and probably the worse case is they put a beatbox music over a bath scene, like what are you thinking?
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| I'm a huge fan of that beautiful background. Why wouldn't I? |
Score: 9.5/10
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| Barbatos in all of its forms. Well, it's true form and all of his wrecked ones. |
Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans or IBO for shorts actually aired in the last season but because it's a two cour series, it lasted until this season. And truthfully, IBO is my favourit series for last season and this season. Yes, i'm a big gundam fan but it became my favourite is for its great story, characters, pacing, etc. I can go on and on praising this series for what it did. I don't have any complains for this since they announced the season two for it (25 episodes are only a half gundam series). The characters are also interesting, Mika especially, he's ruthless, probably one of the most ruthless main character that is not evil i've seen so far. Sunrise also being an expert when it comes to mecha genre and also someone who did Gundam since 1979, they know how to make good quality mecha fights. All in all, watch this whether you like mecha or not. Don't let your biased opinions on some genre stopping you from trying new genre, who knows, you might like it.
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| I really love Barbatos' design. I really do. |
Score: 7.5/10
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| From left to Right: Masochist Crusader Darkness, Simply Kazuma, Useless Goddess Aqua, Explosion Megumin |
Konosuba is a series that is clearly a comedy series and nothing else. If grimgar took the go to fantasy world setting to a serious and realistic view, Konosuba took the other route, the comedy one. Our main protagonist died in a shameful and lame death. In the afterlife, he met an annoying and prideful goddess name Aqua. Basically she talked him to choose reincarnating in a fantasy world with one thing or one talent that he choose. Rather than choosing any overpowered abilities or some game breaking item, he choose the ever so useless Goddess herself. And thus his dreamed life in the fantasy begun or so he thought. Aqua is useless, not entirely useless but is still useless. He got thr lowest class possible. He got party members that are useless in their own way. Megumin, the archmage, can cast a highly destructive spell ONCE per day and afterwards she can't even move her body. Darkness, the Crusader, is a masochistic girl who has probably zero accuracy, yeah, she can't even hit anything and due to her masochistic nature, she won't evade any attacks coming towards her at all. Despite its good comedy, the series has a lot of issues. Clearly the studio that made this doesn't expect it to do well at all. The animation quality is quirky and at times bad, it only has 10 episodes, and they choose some random unknown seiyuu to voice the main cast (which is doing quite well fortunately).
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| Megumin! |
Score: 8/10
Dimension W is a series that flew under the radar of many. I almost drop it too since the first few episodes feel a bit like filler episodes but it got really good afterwards. The main concept is also interesting. Humanity found a dimension other than the xyz dimension that we know, dimension W. This dimension w provides an infinite amount of energy and special machine called coils are used to draw energy from it. The story itself is quite interesting especially Kyouma's past, the Beast of Grendels, man, i wish they tell about them more. Also Mira... damn she's cute, one of the cutest robot i've seen so far. Or the cutest piece of junk if we call her as Kyouma call her.
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| Mira is too cute for this world |
Score: 8.5/10
Gate is one of those anime that i wait eagerly each week to watch the next episode. At first i thought it would be a fun series from the way JSDF massacred the imperial army. Yeah, no knights on horse can defeat a soldier with assault rifles, let alone tanks. But to my surprise the series takes the diplomatic route and tries to go a peaceful way, which leads to some interesting diplomatic problems. But seriously, even though i enjoy watching the diplomacy, the tactics and all of that, nothing beats watching knights getting absolutely wrecked from gunfire. Somehow after witnessing what the JSDF can do, a certain stupid prince still decided to wage war on them and attack their embassy, yeah, stupid decision is stupid. Anyway, this series is one of those anime that i will enjoy no matter how much i rewatch it and i'll be surely to rewatch it someday.
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| You're so dead |
- What I dropped
1. Musaigen no Phantom WorldScore: 6/10
Why did I drop this? Because it's mediocre. There's a lot of things that i rather watch than this. So yeah, maybe if it get good somehow, i'll pick it up again, but it it highly unlikely. The art is good though, as expected from KyoAni.
Score: 5/10
I never even intended to watch this. But i did watch the first episode just to count how many cliche of a magic/sci-fi, school, harem series i could find. And oh my, there's a lot, a lot of it. The main protagonist sees the main heroine naked, he falls to her breast, the main heroine is a tsundere, there's a childhood friend, a cute imouto character, and so on. Also the exoskeleton designs are borderline copyright infringement from infinite stratos.
Score: (i won't give any score for this since i barely watched it)
I heard that this series is good but well, that full 3D animation just threw me off from this series. I don't usually have too much problems with graphics (i watched a full 43 episodes of an anime that aired in 1979). Don't get me wrong, i have nothing against 3d animation, i watched expelled from paradise, a full 3d anime and i really liked it. It's just 3d animation just doesn't suit this series at all.
Score: 6/10
If i have to summarize this series in one word: weird. Yeah, this series is weird to the point of someone who likes weird ideas like me dropped it. This series or at least the first episode is weird through and through. I might watch it someday though, i might...
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