Perfect, just in time to make me want to go camping next year!

I haven’t seen Lycoris Recoil, but I’m not sure I’d call the other three power fantasies. Sure these main characters are OP, but they all have goals or wishes that remain out-of-reach for them despite that. Mob’s goal isn’t to smash other dudes with his power. He just wants to be able to run better than an old lady and confess to the girl he loves. Likewise, One-Punch Man avoids it because the main character’s dream is to have an engaging fight and his overwhelming strength doesn’t help him with that at all. Frieren can kill demons all day but it won’t bring her dead friend back to life.

Oh, I love Eminence in Shadow! I really appreciate that the main character spends just as much time and energy (at least on-screen) being outwardly ordinary as he does being secretly strong. Having a certified weirdo as the main character always elevates a story.

Honestly kinda relieved that they got through this at a decent pace. I was worried that it would be drawn out; I remember it being a little slow in the manga.

I could probably fall asleep during most isekai; no pressure at all to pay attention since actually reading the subtitles will usually make the show worse.

edit: I just remembered this quote from a Mamoru Oshii interview:

Nishio: Angel’s Egg was only 70-minutes long, relatively short work for a feature length movie, so people who fall asleep when watching it really have low literacy, don’t they? Visually speaking, there are a lot of stimulus in it and the music is very dramatic, it’s totally watchable.

Oshii: I don’t mind people fell asleep at all. Since I wanted to emulate that Tarkovskian atmosphere in animation form. A pleasant and unbounded time. Films that make people fall asleep are good films.

So I guess his films are fair game lol

Honestly best episode yet. If it actually is filler that doesn’t say great things about the original work.

I couldn’t get past the part where they get together because she tells him she’ll accuse him of sexual violence if he doesn’t help her.

Death Note may have gotten incredibly silly at times, but at least it got us some top-tier memes.

I think it says something about this season that the only one that stuck out to me was when they used the song from the 90s Magic Knight Rayearth OP for the end credits of the first episode of the new show.

I think the crown here might go to Takopi’s Original Sin. There’s hardly any blood, let alone gore. I still never want to watch it again.

Absolutely not; I have important manga to read, anime to watch, and video games to play!

I don’t know about Cowbow Bebop; maybe if they ever did well enough at a job to get paid for it!

Only a couple of things come to mind: Ghost in the Shell (probably any of them) and maybe Legend of the Galactic Heroes. The good news is that they’re both extremely good!

I think I’d rather read the manga than commit to almost 400 hours of anime.

I think the fact there’s more trash than ever being produced kind of proves the original point

I strongly disagree; the fact that a bunch of trash is being made does nothing to prevent me from watching all the great stuff that’s also being made.

That’s easier than you’d think; I’d put Journal With Witch, LOOK BACK, and Draw This, Then Die! on the same level as those first two and honestly like all 3 of them much more than Death Note. Yes, there’s more trash then ever being produced. But there’s also lots of great stuff being produced as well; you just have to find it. I could name more; those are just the first 3 that came to mind.

In the future if you’re actually curious about what’s current I’ve found the best way to figure out what’s worth watching is to check in on channels like Mothers Basement or Gigguk; a few weeks into each season they post roundups of what the best shows from the season are.

Unfortunately if you click on whatever is on the front of a website like Crunchyroll you’ll usually end up with some lowest common denominator isekai slop or some other equally uninteresting thing.

That said, this season is weirdly bad; the only really good shows I’ve found have been sequels.

I wouldn’t be surprised if CGI was involved in some of Frieren’s more badass fight scenes

Certainly; Demon Slayer does it a whole bunch too.

and no one will complain about CGI because they evolved the techniques from when Heavy Knight did it.

Absolutely not. There’s this thing called “compositing” that other anime do where they try to make the 3d CGI backgrounds not look like they exist in a separate universe from the characters. CGI backgrounds are pretty normal in anime these days; the only thing GoHands is doing special is not even trying to match them to the foreground.

Right, but the implication that Brotherhood is supposed to inject the same filler the 2003 anime did is silly.

Well they’ve gotta spend the episode’s animation budget on something lol