At this point in time, the Summer seasonal shows have mostly wrapped up and the Fall shows are getting started. So, I wanted to hear your thoughts on shows you watched this season. Shows you liked, disliked, were surprised by, disappointed by? Let those opinions rip!
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Summer '26 wasn’t a very good season for me. I had high hopes for a lot of shows, but the anime adaptations were lackluster. The frontrunner in this regard is Bookworm Part 3. But also, Livid Lady and Victoria of Many Faces were just bad adaptations. Even Grand Blue was not funny to me, but that was mostly true for the last season as well.
The only show I was looking forward to that didn’t disappoint was Frontier Lord. The animation was nothing to write home about, but at least it stuck to the pace and plot of the light novel. It might have been too slow for anime-onlies, and making the few action scenes a sakuga-fest would have been nice, but I’m happy with what we got.
For the new-to-me shows, I only really enjoyed Chainsmoker Cat and Dara-San. Those two were great, though, but in the end I would just give those 3 shows my stamp of approval. So, not the best season, and the next one looks even weaker for my taste. I hope there will be some surprise hits for me.