I Ranked EVERY Anime of Summer 2023

[@kciref6016]

Undead Murder Farce has some of the best banter I’ve ever seen. Protagonist is an entertainer so he’s constantly trying to be funny, and his interactions with Head Lady accomplish just that for me

[@kote1287]

*giggles ensue*

[@thomasi.4981]

I was in agreement, but by episode 3 it's... a little much... I really like that they laugh at each other's jokes and are canonically entertained by their own attempts at humour, it makes it much more palatable, but imagine 3-5x the quip density of the MCU...

[@caligo7918]

@@thomasi.4981 sounds like some of my tabletop rpg sessions

[@spacefox6689]

I love their chemistry

[@danielkorrmann5467]

Also that Tophead guy is 99% Professor Moriaty and the first time seeing him was so fucking dramatic i love it xD the cape the caine with the "M" on it, the evil grin xD

[@SlashPatriarchy]

I wish Geoff streamed more often. He’s one of like 2 Twitch streamers I actually watch, but I almost never catch his streams

[@OroHoneyLemon]

One of my main issues with mushoku tensei is the main character. When he's shown as Rudy is mostly fine, but they keep reminding you that is his previous life this guy was, what, in his 40's? And then Rudy is a massive pervert who steals girls underwear and has s*x with his 15 year old second cousin. Then he makes a shrine for the underwear he stole from his teacher? I would be fine overlooking it if they didn't keep reminding you how old he was before he reincarnarnated. Honestly, it would be much easier to accept this if before he died, the mc was presented to be in his teens. You can still include a lot of his trauma, but that way, his perverted actions would be less distasteful. I really enjoyed the show, once I forced myself to overlook these points, but it doesn't change the fact it still bothers me. Rudy being a 40 year old man in his past life doesn't actually have a reason, he doesn't need to be that old, other than to enthasise how much of a pervert he is. (Personally, I would prefer one main female love interest, but spoiler warning, in the novel rudy ends up with 3 wives. Just personal preference, not something I hold against the show).

[@pjmcintosh6147]

That's fair it bothers me as well

[@NO1xANIMExFAN]

you HAVE to see link click season 2!!! shit goes down its so good

[@istvanpalanki5316]

gonna be honest, this summer is pretty shitty for animes, but at the same time we had like 2-3 seasons filled with amazing animes

[@Ober1kenobi]

Whaaa The Great Cleric was honestly good, heaps of funny moments too You need more X in your diet

[@fezzman9898]

Thighza is...accurate.

[@philo2189]

It really triggered me how he ranked things he didnt even watch.

[@j.p.1492]

I like the idea of Gene of AI but so far the whole "back alley" bit is not really there? I was really hoping a more Black Jack style vibe. The ideas are interesting though so I'll keep watching to see where it goes.

[@RandomNeat]

god help you if you dont agree entirely with my opinions on these

[@senormooples2354]

Mushoku tensei still hype af

[@boot-4704]

Unpunished acting pedophile the show

[@mardigrasqueen1339]

Went into BSD without knowing any of the Japanese literary authors at first. Hell it took til season two for me to figure it out with the American authors. It’s still enjoyable without knowing the authors. Hell it might get you intrigued into knowing about them later on.

[@mardigrasqueen1339]

Still as much as I love the show Bones kinda threw away a ton of important stuff out. So for those who wanna try the show highly recommend the light novels and manga first THEN the anime

[@Laeshen]

Read No Longer Human, other than that you're probably fine with Wikipedia pages (Crime and Punishment is maybe the only other one of import)

[@ingridbjrnstad4763]

ive only read Fitzgerald, Dostojevskij and Alcott but i understood most of it because i understood the archetypes. but i recommend watching Amadeus before BSD because thats what Pusjkin and his powers based on.

[@patrickroddy7313]

Undead Murder Farce has big theater kid energy and I love it. The whole thing feels like Kino's Journey (2003) Ep 9 The Land of Books and it is so damn good

[@laurabustos6560]

Seriously? If I'm a huge Kino/ MushiShi fan is it a next gen of those types of shows? ✌️

[@collinbeal]

​@@laurabustos6560it doesn't have the V I B E S that make shows like that so enveloping. Closest 2020's approximation to those shows is Raven of the Inner Palace. This is more like Bakemonogatari. Think quick-witted dialogue meets League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

[@laurabustos6560]

@@collinbeal I dig the monogatari series too, so I'll check it out. Thanks ✌️

[@dylanakers7272]

I'm glad to hear you give Ooku a shoutout here because I was disappointed you didn't mention it in your seasonal best (though I get why now). World building has been excellent, and the social dynamics in the Ooku have only gotten more interestingly nuanced. It's fun to watch with My Happy Marriage as a two different types of period pieces. Pumped to start Zom 100, Reign of the Seven Spellblades, and Dark Gathering this weekend! Thanks for what you do.

[@Dragonshade64]

Ooku is a summer 2023 anime? I've been watching it on Netflix and I like it quite a bit I just thought it was an older anime becaues of the art style and I'm pretty sure I saw some of the manga for it several years ago.

[@dylanakers7272]

@@Dragonshade64 yeah, it was released this June.

[@ParasaurolophusZ]

I felt like introducing a baby really derailed Devil Is A Part-Timer a lot. Once she showed up, everyone's motivations in the show at every single moment became centered around the baby unless they contrived some reason for her to not be around, and that just turned the plot into a slog.

[@halowaffle25]

When Baby isn't on screen, everyone in the audience should be asking: Where's Baby?

[@aktamannen1989]

Yeah the baby really annoyed me in s2. Like there’s nothing fun about a child and it ruined alot of the chemistry

[@LeonardGreenpaw]

babies ruin everything yes

[@willyonamountain]

That's when I quit watching 🙄

[@dataportdoll]

Ah, it appears you are indeed immune to propaganda.

[@magicalgirlmel3289]

Devil is a part timer is one where the more it tries to have an actual plot, the less fun I have. I'd much rather just watch the characters try to navigate office/fast food work, but no, we have to have angels show up, and a baby, and enemies/allies from back home. It's far less interesting. Not to mention it has this issue where every character has to be involved in every arc/plotline so they start feeling really bloated after a while because everyone needs to do SOMETHING to justify bringing them along on the ride, when we easily could just split the party for a while.

[@pyoheliobros5773]

Undead Murder Farce was a really good recommendation. I just watched the first two episodes and I'm really enthused.

[@LydiaReneeDarling]

Link Click season 2 is so good, I love the way they handle thriller

[@Magkraken2]

Why do you keep refering to Bang Dream as an idol anime? One of the original bands is an idol group, but other than them, it has nothing to do with idols. Specially with the characters from MyGo

[@dr.aissam]

Bungo Stray Dogs is one of the greatest series out there and NO, you don't need to know much about litterature, it's a great thriller and mystery series. Just be patient with Season 1

[@kukuandkookie]

26:40 Searched up _Link Click_ as per usual and this video was recommended, so I checked the time stamps and I’m glad it was actually in the video! So just wanted to say I came here for the donghua shoutout, as a donghua fan. Glad you enjoy the series. 😆

[@HelloKolla]

SAME

[@nik_narcotic]

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses turned down the Gohandsness a lot in the episodes after the first one. The first one actually gave me a headache but the second and third eps were just fine. And the story's pretty cute.

[@Bzerker01]

He hates stories like that though. He tends to think cute romance, especially in high school/middle school, as wish fulfillment.

[@00shmee]

They did tone it down quite a bit, but I still can't handle the main dude. He has been going to school with this girl for months now, and every time she gets close to him he reacts like he got punched in the face. Even though she is right next to him like every minute of every day it seems like.

[@Monika-di7vv]

Anime of the Season for me ❤

[@farannazar155]

@@00shmee dude he is like 14 every teen boy is like that

[@CompSomAnichi]

I understand the feelings of glasses wearing people tho that clicked out with the premise. Tho tbf I saw the opinions of two glasses wearing people which are Geoff and Garnt

[@elifia]

I quite enjoy the Heretical Last Boss Queen. Yeah, it's basically a more serious version of Bakarina with a way more competent protagonist, but that's why I like it. Did you see episode 3 yet? She was quite epic in that one. Though admittedly she perhaps does resemble your typical OP shonen isekai protagonist a bit too much in that. Helck is also really good, I actually laughed out loud during the second episode, I don't usually do that. It'll be interesting to see where it goes, especially if it's also gonna get serious like I've seen some people suggest.

[@dustyboy1209]

I actually enjoy the great cleric. I appreciate that him leveling up is honestly more realistic. He's training in a controlled environment, doing the same thing over and over again. Sadly thats what it take to learn something IRL, you just got keep doing it over and over. He's not immediately running off into a world he knows nothing about to learn on the fly and somehow not die lol.

[@CompSomAnichi]

Same! I'm not sure how exactly but it's so charming to me. I'm enjoying it so far.

[@000Dragon50000]

LasTame/Last Boss Queen: It feels like instead of the reincarnated person overwriting the villainess like Bakarina did in her show, the protagonist of this one genuinely merges the original character with the otherworlder who reincarnated into her? That does make figuring out which character is influencing the protagonist's actions at any giving moment a nightmare though

[@BasementLifePodcast]

Yeah, that does kinda undercut a lot of the drama. Like, I think she has all the memories from both lives, but then sometimes she thinks of the villainess in third person?

[@dvillines26]

next season's Tearmoon Empire sounds better, because it's similar, but instead of incarnating in the world of an otome game, it's a time rewind situation where a shitty villainess type wakes up in her child body over a decade earlier after being executed for her crimes, and decides to act like a good person to avert that fate. Apparently she hasn't really changed as a person, it's just cynical calculation. so that's like, everything people might have wanted Heretical Last Boss Queen to be that it isn't. the problem with 'Pride' as a protagonist is she's too nice and there's not enough indication that the shithead villainess is still in there somewhere. I just think it'd be compelling to see a bad person fix their mistakes for cynical reasons, only to gradually learn how to truly be a good person. that's way better than the halfhearted stuff Heretical Last Boss Queen is doing.

[@000Dragon50000]

@@dvillines26 Oh that show is ABSOLUTELY going to be better, lol, LasTame is just popcorn food to pass the wait until next season comes around lol.

[@nemoys_]

link click immediately heading to banger tier. the taste is IMMACULATE. I'm not sure if you've caught up with season 2 yet but all I can say is that it truly does not disappoint

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Hey geoff! Leave hearth if you were blown away by Jobless reincarnation Spiral op! 🎸🎸🎸🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@NeonIceyy]

Seems like with each new season there'll be that one banger series that everyone will sleep on and therefor make me feel like I got all the hype for myself. But let's see how well Undead Murder Farce goes. I'm already obsessed with that anime.

[@senormooples2354]

The girl I like forgot her glasses has one of the sweetest and most heartwarming mangas out there 😭

[@SuddenlyUpsidedown]

Oh hell, didn't know Link Click season 2 was out. This video would have been worth my time even if that was the only thing I learned

[@doodleplayer4014]

Not related very much because I haven't seen much of the video yet, but... Holy shit! THE JJK OP AND ED ARE FUCKING BANGERS

[@NexusGamerss]

Reign of the Seven Spellblades is worth it? I watched only the first episode and found kinda trashy not gonna lie, the characters felt really tropey, especially the girl taking a bath naked in the fountain lol

[@Melzorra]

This was my exact reaction to Seven Spellblades. I would love to hear if it gets better or where the praise is coming from, because the first episode really put me off.

[@seapeajones]

I looked at the art & figured it would be bad. Any time it's a majority girl cast it gets corny & sad with very few exceptions.

[@ToidleboyGaming]

ive seen the first 2 episodes and given how fast all the characters are suddenly best friends for no reason, with horrible random events occurring and lackluster characters atm it really feels like amateur level writing/pacing early on. i mean it could get better but tbh some of the worst first episodes ive ever seen. definitely not a banger atm, by far the worst take on his list.

[@zefyrisd69]

@@seapeajones "Any time it's a majority girl cast it gets corny & sad with very few exceptions." The main cast is 3 girls, 3 boys. -> I suppose in your head girls count more so it's a majority girl or something huh. Just in case you didn't realize : The gray haired character on the key visuals is a boy.

[@Shadow6OO]

I like to call Liar Liar NNGNL, or NOT No Game No Life. I see people making the comparisons and understand that it's sort of like that on the surface, but being able to cheat in a completely unrestricted way is just stupid as fuck and makes any possible enjoyment of it fly out the window.

[@Laeshen]

As far as fully understanding bungo stray dogs goes, you only actually have to read Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human. Most of the other references are minimal beyond the surface. Maybe read some Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment). Other than that the wiki pages (for the books, not the fandom character pages) will suffice.

[@bazinko]

I wanted this to be a comment, so I made it a reality. Geoff said the order of the bangers didn’t matter & I took that to heart. Bangers: Zom 100 Undead Murder Farce Ooku: The Inner Chambers Dark Gathering Mushoku Tensei S2 Link Click S2 Jujutsu Kaisen S2 Bleach Horimiya: The Missing Pieces My Happy Marriage Reign of the Seven Spellblades

[@METC500]

i like the concept of these streams, and i’m not saying you can’t have an opinion on things you haven’t watched yet, but maybe an Untiered row would be beneficial to put shows you haven’t seen. Feels weird to involve them in the ranking without even having seen their first episode

[@BasementLifePodcast]

I’ll try that next season

[@METC500]

sounds good, looking forward to it! 😊

[@dashboots376]

I disagree with your Mushoku Tensei recommendation, you say it's something everyone should watch, I don't think so, clearly the people that like it like it a LOT, but I hated it, I thought it was weird and gross and extremely cringey and deeply regret having watched the first season, while the anime does acknowledge the protagonist as a weird it still is clearly sexualizing the children he's looking at and the sexual assault that happens on it, don't get me wrong I'm not saying you're wrong for enjoying it, just saying that it most definitely shouldn't be a universal recommendation.

[@squallken3173]

I think it sucks no one can talk about Rurouni Kenshin (2023) solely because the author is sub human garbage. I don't condone the authors actions, but I'm not waiting until the filth dies to like something I already liked decades ago. I believe there are people who like Rurouni Kenshin and have since found ways to like and support the material without supporting the artist.

[@juanpabloochoagalvan9018]

Weren't we going to separate the art from the artist? Would be a shame people miss out on the great story Rurouni Kenshin was by itself.

[@squallken3173]

@@juanpabloochoagalvan9018 I'm sorry I forgot to put the word "but" between "I'm" and "waiting", that is my bad and I made the correction. I am watching Rurouni Kenshin (2023) (rather that than Rent-a-Girlfriend) and loving it and it really is a shame people are missing out on a good story like you said. I saw it in college way back and liked it but its message of losing ones place in an era hit super hard after graduation. I just hope this version does what the 1996 version never did.

[@BluePhoenixAlex]

I can vouch for the vibes of the stream it is a fun place to chill

[@geoforce6228]

mygo is sss tier now especially ep7-10

[@juanpabloochoagalvan9018]

I am confused. What was the point of all that talk about separating the author from the art back then, then? :/

[@ankokuraven]

Thanks for doing this At this rate i needed a "Watch" "Watch if you have time lists" "Dont watch, bad" "Terrible isekai bad" "Trash

[@moonlores]

link click is still criminally underrated, it's really once in a lifetime show

[@xianyi517]

Bangdream Its mygo actually is very good. It is a band anime but not like K-on or bochi, there are more conflict and it is darker. Everyone has their own problem and the band is nearly disolved. its quite interesting.

[@remiogunsanya481]

Just watch BSD. Not a huge commitment, totally worth it

[@Operator713]

Liar Liar sounds a lot like Asterisk War only much, much, dumber.

[@RenderUntoMe]

Kept thinking that Psychonauts art in the background was part of the tier list and was like "oh shit Psychonauts anime"

[@JoeGunawanfotosiamo]

Link Click definitely should be much higher in the Hanger list. It's my 2nd favorite after Jujutsu this year and only slightly ahead of Undead Murder Farce. Zom 100 and My Happy Marriage round out my top 5. I also can't put Dark Gathering that high, I think it's good but not great (not a fan of the character designs)

[@Ecstas345]

Don't worry, you'll probably put Dark Gathering that high once the series picks up.

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

I loved the original BanG Dream!, better IMO than K-on

[@MWhaleK]

Reborn as a Vending Machine is Top Teir Isekai trash. It is like a meal put together from left over freshly tossed into the dumpster behind a four star restaurant.

[@JD-wf2hu]

The masterful cat is depressed again's subtitles are an utterly terrible translation. It feels almost like machine translation to be honest. I'm not sure if that's because the company forced the translator to stick extremely close to the original Japanese or what but it's pretty depressing either way.

[@Pimpgamer101]

I don’t understand the open and forward hate of Go Hands specifically. They don’t make that many shows, and what they do make is innocuous and niche, so it’s experimental? What of it? Guess we should watch the same shows with the same plots and the same scene layouts. Just Stop Watching. I will henceforth boycott any and all Go Hands roasts. I have not and will not even watch any Go Hands shows (they’re just not my thing,) but damn bro, calling for a studio shut down is fucked up.

[@tanaokam9385]

A very good tier list ❤. My happy marriage is one of the best new anime this season.

[@thomasffrench3639]

Unfortunately, I probably won’t we watching much this season as it’s sequels to stuff I haven’t seen or I would rather read the manga. I also have to catch up on HiDive shows from last season, and watch 2 seasons of PreCure, because I kinda want to get into that franchise, and it’s a good time as there’s a sequel to those two seasons next season, so this season is a break for me. So it will be an interesting summer.

[@Pratchettgaiman]

Ooh I didn’t realize Ooku was made into an anime! Very cool

[@matias1278]

The problem with Devil is a part timer isn't the adaptation, it's the actual story. It works awesome as a comedy, but when it becomes serious is just so boring to watch

[@srb0501w]

I love this format. I'd love to see it recapping the various seasons once they're over.

[@StephenLeaSheppard]

My take on Last Boss Queen's melodramatic emotionality is that the protagonist doesn't seem to be the Earth girl stuck in the video game princess's body, but more like a full merging of both of them into one person with neither set of memories or personality traits given primacy, so she's constantly freaking out because she has 20th century Earth normal person's frame of reference and sense of morality existing simultaneously with the sociopathic privileged noble's persona. She's constantly realizing "Holy shit, I still kind of want to do all this awful stuff, and I recognize that if I didn't have this extra set of memories, I would totally be doing it. I suck!"

[@StormKidProductions]

She's not quite reached Aileen levels of being a new distinct person who is a fusion between her past and current self, but she is going along that path

[@StiggyAzalea]

The most recent episode finally had that aspect of it on display, where she's actively choosing to do things that her old self would find terrible and that's why she's concerned about turning evil still. However, waiting so long to establish that definitively means that when I watched her recruit the brother and the knight I was just laughing out loud at how cringe it was she was telling them to kill her. Like fr lady stop giving people permission to kill you it's bound to bite you in the ass. Unless she actually DOES turn evil and the show turns into the men struggling with their feelings of wanting to procect her vs wanting to stop her, which would be super interesting

[@StephenLeaSheppard]

Given the title of the show, I don't think that'll happen. I was reading about the Light Novels (not reading them, just reading about them), and apparently they have a unique writing shtick where absolutely every scene is delivered three times from three different perspectives -- first from the protagonist and then from other people who were there, so you get her angsty take on things and then everyone else's adoring take where they completely misunderstand her motivations. It makes the existence of the anime both more sensible and more baffling -- like, okay, the light novels are popular because they're doing this weird unique writing trick, and that popularity leads to the existence of the anime, but the weird unique writing trick that makes the novels stand out absolutely 100% does not translate into other media like an anime at all.

[@CJesss]

Aah you’re giving Spellblades the appreciation it deserves

[@kopitah7620]

Link Click Season 2 come with a banger so far

[@gruberu]

I didn’t know Geoff had a Twitch channel! Letsgo

[@Lukas-en6zf]

I really hope that Helck gets the recognition it deserves. It's so much more than a simple gag manga, I cried a bunch when I read the manga (some happy tears, but mostly sad)...

[@Lukas-en6zf]

+ it ends brilliantly, so that's something to look forward to.

[@dyslexicfaser]

It is going to lose people from the first two eps being regular - if reasonably well animated - demon lord/hero comedy

[@ConvincingPeople]

@@dyslexicfaserMaybe some people, but aside from being able to intuit from the first episode that there was another shoe just waiting to drop, I dunno, the comedy is just really, really good? It's such a well-observed and particular sendup of shounen clichés without being remotely mean-spirited or too clever by half.

[@timconner7693]

Hmmm... guy who is half oni with an immortal bodiless woman going to Europe and dealing with Vampires and Werewolves in the later 1800's. For some reason I feel like the main bad guy is gonna turn out to be someone like Victor Frankenstein.

[@michaelmeyers4843]

Well his cane has the initial M and Sherlock Holmes has been name dropped so that all but screams Moriarty, but the show is smart enough that this goes with a high possibility of being a red herring

[@orestria]

there have been so many isekai recently that act like they're going to be about commerce, especially selling modern day things in the isekai world, and like all of them just stopped doing that after a couple episodes so it's the VENDING MACHINE anime that finally scratched that itch for me

[@StormKidProductions]

I wanted a lot more Parallel World Pharmacy from Sweets Reincarnation than we seem to be getting

[@SaiyanHeretic]

The only thing I can hard disagree on is Reign of the Seven Spellblades. It's not a banger, it's mid af. Good production value, but the writing is amateur level. You know how 50 Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off? Seven Spellblades isn't just Harry Potter with the serial number only lightly scratched, it's like HP fanfic written by a middle school weeb, complete with the out-of-place Japanese Mary Sue who everybody loves (or loves to hate), with super ultra rare "This is my OC do not steal" vaguely defined special powers and an incongruously dark backstory.

[@zefyrisd69]

So err... You agree with stuff like MT being bangers, meaning, you think the writing is great, but in comparison you think 7spellblades' writing is"amateur level" ? I'm not sure if we're supposed to take your post seriously here. Insulting the author of "middle school weeb" doesn't prove your point either unfortunately. PS : I'm not sure you know what a Mary Sue really is either. May want to take 2-3 min and read the actual definition and think again before using it.

[@robertmitchell9559]

my tiny senpai is good

[@pjmcintosh6147]

Boring

[@fullmetaldumbass9564]

Glad you're enjoying Level One Demon Lord One Room Hero. People really need to give this one a shot. I started reading the manga after the first two episodes, and it ends up having much better plot and character development than I was expecting. And while the story does in parts start getting more serious, the humor stays consistently good throughout. It's just an overall really fun series that I think could end up being this seasons dark horse hit.

[@SlipperyTeeth]

"The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen" could be saved from her having unearned guilt just by having a throwaway line with her worrying about being "un-issekai-ed". Like, "what can be given can be taken away". Then she'd have motivation to make sure her inner circle is careful about following her potentially evil whims. Some good ideas that just weren't properly put in place. A real "you almost did it".

[@magicalgirlmel3289]

I think the issue is that it's sort of tapdancing on the line of isekai, as at this point it's unclear if the killed girl was actually isekaied into the body or if the villainess had visions of that life and seeing the way the game will lay out was enough of a wakeup call to get her to turn things around.

[@dvillines26]

not watching much this season, just: Helck Heretical Last Boss (might drop honestly, sadly, it's just boring) Hirogaru Sky Precure (continuing from before) Mushoku Tensei II My Happy Marriage Pokemon Horizons (since the dub seems to be coming sooner than expected, might restart in dub) Reign of the Seven Spellblades Undead Murder Farce Zom 100 might still look into: Yohane, Saint Cecilia, Vending Machine - I don't have enough 'cozy' anime in my diet right now Undead Murder Farce is my anime of the season so far. Zom 100 is impressive, but I wonder if it can maintain that quality, and it's not my preferred genre. Undead Murder Farce is MY SHIT. episode two and three I was just pogging the entire time on mystery stuff. as a childhood Agatha Christie fanatic, lol.

[@lilddd2394]

Based AF finally a good tier list

[@Monika-di7vv]

Rent-a-Girlfriend is my all-time favorite manga. I mean I spent $5500 on a Chizuru car wrap so what you expect?

[@StormKidProductions]

Least deranged RaG fan

[@giftedhandz3472]

Im an advocate for duke of death and his maid. The chemistry and development of the relationship between the two is soo good. His sister and brother are both good side characters. I love the show. The animation was jarring at first but i got over it and love the story. I highly recommend at least watching the first season

[@AemilianaRosewood]

Liar Liar has better production quality than more than 50% of the list... you put so much alot more objectively bad shows above it. Some even giving literally physical strain to the watchers. And changing the leaders basic, for everyone understood rules of order is stupid too lol

[@emilsoderman3691]

Mononogatari is one of those I really like, but "good" is probably the right ranking: The Tsukomogami concept makes for some cool concepts in fight scenes, there's some neat character stuff and comedy and it's just... competent. Not great, but I enjoy most of it.

[@AemilianaRosewood]

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale is insultingly bad. "Beautiful animation" you must've watched this blind

[@cozybrr3686]

Link click Season 2 AOTY

[@RebekahLeiplein]

If you ever have the opportunity to talk in depth about Link Click, I would be in your debt. Even just the OP and ED? I'd love your thoughts on it, as I love it :)

[@armorfrogentertainment]

The thing is: the current season of Rent-A-Girlfriend is the movie arc: aka the one actually good arc in the entire manga.

[@shadenone]

Everybody gotta appease the Twitch Gods. Good for you. Don't... Don't act surprised why I'm disappointed. Doesn't change the night we had in the best forest of our lives, but I won't tell anyone about that!

[@emilsoderman3691]

I acutally really enjoyed Liar Liar and I can't quite explain why. It's absurd and stupid and it's mostly calvinball, but it's somehow just fun, and it kkinda nwos it's absurd? And also as the title points out, everyone is constantly lying and some point the sheer amount is kinda entertaining? Like it's trash, but it's pretty fun trash.

[@themightygerg]

The Great Cleric is a smidge better than the first episode gives it credit for. It feels like it's going for a slow burn grind to Universal Healthcare more than a bog standard isekai.

[@AemilianaRosewood]

The Dreaming Boy is a realist is a trash worthy bad adaptation. the source is weak, but you should really dig into it and into the source to understand how horrendously bad it is

[@MichaelHazell]

I really do not get the hate for Rent-a-Girlfriend. It is my guilty pleasure show. I know the MC is not amazing and the premise of the show sounds pretty degenerate, but it is fine. I was told that season 3 was going to be the "movie arc" from the manga, and I have really liked it so far. At the same time, I also know that people hate the manga past this point because of it spinning wheels in mud. There is not much I can comment on about that as I have not read the manga, but the show is good for now, I think. Honestly, I think the constant dogging of this show actually causes it to become even more of a commercial success.

[@thomasi.4981]

I wrote this in a reply to another comment, but here's a separate comment anyway: I watched the first episode of Yohane the Parhelion, and thought it was kind of mediocre but may have been building up to something interesting, even though all the pieces seemed like something that shouldn't be done all together or something was wrong about the recipe that my instinct felt, but in the name of intrigue I watched the second episode. It had this ridiculous turn that was promising, because ridiculous could be fun. I was still waiting and hoping for it to be something good which it seemed to be promising, even though it wasn't hitting yet. Then the third episode just left me the distinct conclusion that it's not going anywhere good, my brain went "This is a frickin toddler show, christ this is bad" and I closed it out and dropped it from my watch history to not see any further episodes. It's somehow like the children's shows I used to watch but written worse. I couldn't stand another minute.

[@michaelmeyers4843]

Agreed. I gave it a try, couldn't get into it. I liked, really liked the talking dog though

[@farannazar155]

alright the first 10 minutes of am I actually the strongest is really bad but could you give it 3 episodes? Its really not about fan service and power fantasy at all...

[@VickyAmaru]

Did you like The Witch from Mercury?

[@BasementLifePodcast]

Yea, have yet to finish tho

[@CappyMorgan]

Question for any reading: For the new Jujutsu season, do we need to watch the movie first? Or is S2 directly after S1?

[@laurabustos6560]

You mean JJK 0? If so, that's a prequel to the whole show so don't worry if you haven't seen it.

[@jkattack2640]

As a big fan of the original Yoshiko Tsushima, yohane the parhelion was a pretty big letdown for me. Yohane is far too different of a character and imo missing a lot of what makes me like yoshiko. The rest of the series is fine, but I dont really want to keep watching due to the mc mismatch.

[@KamikazeSP06]

“Bastard” was a No for me dog. Like you said, if this was the 90s I’d be all in. It’s just meh to me.

[@FBI-iq4kp]

Not gonna lie if i was him i would put tenpuru in "Good" Because i like ecchi animes and the story is kinda okay. The girls there are kinda hot 😅

[@SakraIgor0qNomoko]

Reign of the Seven had a nice pilot episode, but episodes 2 and 3 just tanked it for me. Good premise, poor execution.

[@Neddyhk]

Basement Life is dead, Long Live Basement Life. (Loved your OP/First Ep review, shame it got claimed)

[@ArveEriksson]

Boi I haz but one question: Are you well? (Vacation time for YOU.)

[@yuuuurr4369]

Link click anyone ?

[@burgerkingas7027]

Some of these look so good. Wish I had time to watch all the anime I wanted. 😢

[@vincentlalyman1008]

Thank you for investing so much time and effort into watching and actually reviewing all these shows, rather than judging on intuition and preconception alone like so many anitubers do these days. It's refreshing. Thank you again ! Even better, I agree with everything but "Level 1 mahou" (definitely good) and "Dreamer boy is a realist", that I find more and more interesting with each episode.

[@AlbinoBlackHole]

The male MC of Undead Murder Farce reminds me of Dazai Osamu from BSD or No Longer Human in Another World. You should do a review of No Longer Human in Another World actually.

[@twilightchaosangel011]

Sounds like Liar Liar is trying to be a more serious Baka and Test and failing horribly

[@lilflax0396]

YEEEES DARK GATHERING IN THE BANGER TIER!!!! BASEMENT LIFE IS SO FUCKING REAL FOR THAT!

[@Theycallmetomu]

I like Liar Liar, but you're right it's kind of ... not great.