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Summer season is rapidly approaching! It’s time to start looking ahead to the next season and thinking about what is worth watching vs. what isn’t. This is also the official thread where I will watch for shows that you mention and will enable threads for those shows to be made by our resident bot, @rikka@ani.social.

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  • molave@reddthat.comEnglish
    1·
    10 minutes ago

    For Summer 2026, I will continue watching Ganso BanG Dream Chan, and my other seasonal may be Yumemita, so it’s gonna be a Bandori season.

    Wildcard choice would be Sparks of Tomorrow i.e. Twentieth Century Electricity Catalogue. I prefer using the latter even if it’s the longer title, it just goes really hard.

  • Unboxious@ani.socialEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    In addition to continuing stuff from this season (Re:ZERO and Daemons of the Shadow Realm), I’ll be watching:

    • You and I Are Polar Opposites
    • Ribbon Hero
    • Ghost in the Shell
    • The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really REALLY Love You
    • Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You
    • Clevatess
    • The Elusive Samurai
    • A Witch in Mongolia

    It’ll be busy but I’m happy to have so much to look forward to!

  • Rottcodd@ani.socialEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    As has happened before, I found myself picking up more and more series over the past half dozen or so seasons, until it reached the point that I was invested in too many of them, and disappointed by too many of them this past season, and ended up dropping most of them (though I’m still planning on binging some of those sooner or later).

    So this coming season?

    The only thing I plan on definitely watching from week 1 is You and I Are Polar Opposites S2. Season 1 was brilliant, and (I already read the manga) season 2 might just be even better.

    I’m sorely tempted to follow S3 of Mushoku Tensei - I really enjoyed the first two seasons, in spite of Rudeus, and there have been enough broad hints of things to come that I’m looking forward to seeing it. But even if I wasn’t facing burnout, that’s the sort of thing I’d tend to prefer to binge, so probably not.

    Ghost in the Shell. I mean - a GitS reboot by Science SARU? That’s like a dream come true. But again, it’s the sort of thing I likely would’ve preferred to binge anyway, so…

    Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia - Science SARU historical epic equals absolute must watch - yet again, the only question is whether I’ll try to follow it or wait and binge it, and yet again, it’s the sort of thing I likely would’ve preferred to binge anyway.

    Possibly Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You. I mostly enjoyed the mini-episodes (Sasaki’s recurring blithering panic got a bit tedious), and it’s relatively low key, so I’ll undoubtedly try the first episode and see.

    Things I’ll at least sample:

    I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day - I can’t deny the appeal of what looks to basically be Gunslinger Girls plus mystery plus GL.

    Sparks of Tomorrow - the broad plot outline only seems somewhat interesting, but I’m intrigued by the idea of a KyoAni historical epic set in the middle of the Meiji era.

    World is Dancing - fictionalized 14th century history of the creation of Noh? I love that idea. Depends on the execution.

    Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. S2 - actually, I’ll have to go back to season 1, since I didn’t see it, but I’m intrigued. I might just do that this afternoon in fact.

    And… that’s about it. If this goes anything like past seasons, I’ll stumble across things as the season goes on, or notice that something that didn’t look promising is getting much more attention than it seems it should deserve, and at least watch the first episodes of those, but for now…

  • wietach@ani.socialEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Summer Season

    Definitely watching:

    Interested in:

    Will watch the premiere to decide if I want to stick with it:

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    Summer? See you guys in December… okay, sorry for the dumb joke. Here’s what I’m planning to pick up, roughly by order of how much I want to see it:

    1. Mushoku Tensei III
    2. Youjo Senki II
    3. Otomege Sekai wa Mob […] 2
    4. Black Torch
    5. Ryoumin 0-Nin Start no Henkyou Ryoushu-sama
    6. Tsuihou Sareta Tensei Juukishi wa Game […]
    7. Koko wa Ore ni Makesete Saki […]
    8. Hell Mode […] 2
    9. Sekai Saikyou no Kouei
    10. Reiwa no Dara-san
    11. Suterare Seijo no Isekai Gohantabi
    12. Rakudai Kenja no Gakuin Musou
    Further impressions on the first six series I mentioned (note: no actual spoilers here, I'm only trying to reduce clutter)

    Mushoku Tensei III — Once you go past the fact Rudeus (the MC) was scum in Earth, and that he’s still shitty after reincarnated (but less than before, so… yay?), you’re presented with a solid fantasy series. IMO Mushoku Tensei has the perfect mix of romance, adventure, and worldbuilding, all of them tied by a nice theme (TL;DR: “try to be a better person, one step at a time”). And it diverges from a lot of later isekais in small aspects, that makes it feel refreshing and exciting.

    Youjo Senki II — in totally-not-WW1-Earth-with-magic, a man reincarnates as a little girl, misunderstood by everyone, as they assume she’s more thoughtful than she is. War is still cruel, but at least it’s fun to see Tanya’s plans of a peaceful life being ruined by God.

    Otomege Sekai wa Mob […] 2 — Almost everybody has a loose screw or two, and that’s bloody hilarious! Specially the goldfish poop gang “capture targets” of the game, chasing after Marie. Plus Leon does show some character growth, even behind his arsehole façade.

    Black Torch — I read some of the manga a long, looooong time ago. I remember it was about some kid who loses his (literal) heart fighting against a mononoke, and then merges with another who decides to save his life. The story was fun, but IIRC it was cancelled, so I’m glad to see it being animated.

    Tsuihou Sareta Tensei Juukishi wa Game […] — the premise is bland: reincarnated in a game, strong but taken as weak, disowned by his father, yadda yadda. But even then, there’s always some struggle behind the fights that most isekais miss, because having game knowledge doesn’t magically make Elymas invincible. Also, I really like Ruche/Luce as a deuteragonist.

    Ryoumin 0-Nin Start no Henkyou Ryoushu-sama — if I were to describe the manga, it feels a lot like “Spy x Family meets Isekai Nonbiri Nouka”: wholesome slice-of-life with settlement building. There are bits of actions here and there, but I won’t watching it for the action, I’ll do it for the sheep. And the beastkin. And all that fluff.

    I’ll also keep watching: Re:Zero, Iruma-kun, TenSura, Ascendance of a Bookworm. Then there’s the older stuff I’m only watching now, like Mahoutsukai no Yome and Highschool of the Dead.

    So a total of 18 series, 12 being new ones. Two~three episodes per day.

  • NineSwords@ani.socialEnglish
    3·
    14 hours ago

    A lot of shows that are potentially interesting to me, but going by the last couple of seasons, I’m probably just going to finish a handful of them.

    I’m especially happy to see Frontier Lord, which made it into my top 3 light novel series, and both of my favorite murder hobo protagonists this season. I just recently binge-read All-Works Maid, so this is going to be fresh in my memory when I watch the adaptation. I’m not sure if this will help or make me even more grumpy. And then there is finally more of Tanya. It’s been too long after that speech at the end of the first season.

    • The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects
    • Saga of Tanya the Evil II
    • A Livid Lady’s Guide to Getting Even
    • Victoria of Many Faces
    • Grand Blue Dreaming Season 3
    • Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It!)
    • Behind the Supermarket, Smoking with You.
    • Chainsmoker Cat
    • Skeleton Knight in Another World II
    • The Oblivious Saint Can’t Contain Her Power
    • I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day
    • Clevatess Season 2
    • The Forsaken Saintess and Her Foodie Roadtrip in Another World
    • From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman Season 2
    • The Ghost in the Shell
    • Sparks of Tomorrow
    • The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System
    • Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games
    • Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World Season 2
    • Goodbye, Lara
    • I Became a Legend After My 10 Year-Long Last Stand.
    • The Villager of Level 999
    • Kaiju Girl Caramelise
    • The Cat and the Dragon
    • The Insipid Prince’s Furtive Grab for The Throne
    • The World’s Strongest Rearguard
    • Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life
    • Red River
    • My Mother-in-Law and Sister-in-Law Who Don’t Bully Me.
  • e0qdk@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    15 hours ago

    I’ll watch Mushoku Tensei S3 most likely (not sure if I’ll follow as it airs or wait and just binge at the end; I usually prefer the latter). Would like to try the new GITS but I have no enthusiasm for dealing with Amazon’s streaming.

  • Endmaker@ani.socialEnglish
    1·
    13 hours ago

    Plenty of anime for me to follow next season!

    Sequels

    Familiar with plot

    Unfamiliar with plot

    Maybe Jobless Reincarnation S3, but I doubt I’ll be able to catch up to the latest season in time to follow it as it airs.