Anime of the Season

Arifureta Shokugyou- An example of how an awful anime can come from a top-class light novel.  The two biggest flaws of this anime are that too many episodes are spent on the labyrinth (basically the prologue) and the decision to use 2.5D animation for some of the monsters.  The results were that some of the monsters just look off and don't match with the basic animation, thus making the combat less interesting than it could be.  I recommend just reading the light novels instead.

Isekai Cheat Magician- Extremely low-quality isekai.

Cop Craft- A top-quality anime about a version of Earth where a fantasy world was connected to Earth through a gate, causing a massive war.  The protagonist is a detective with a history as a veteran and the main heroine is an aristocrat from the other side of the gate.

Katsute Kami Datta Kemono Tachi- A fantasy series focusing on a group of soldiers experimented on and turned into weapons of war.  As time went by, they lost their humanity and now the last sane member is hunting them down.

Maou-sama, Retry- This particular season's guilty pleasure for me, because the setting and story are all over the place.  However, it is fun to watch, especially because of how it constantly mocks isekai tropes.

El-Melloi Case Files Season 2- Normally I wouldn't bother mentioning this, but I love El-Melloi Case Files, lol.

Uchimusume- An interesting variation on the Japanese-style high fantasy world.  The world has multiple 'maous' and the mazoku are just another race.  The protagonist is an adventurer who finds an exiled mazoku child in the forest by the skeletal body of her father.  He brings her back to civilization and raises her as his own.  Much of the story is tear-jerking or adorable (sometimes both) with the little girl jerking on your heart strings and just being an adorable little girl in general.  There is some action to the series, and what is there is pretty good.  However, it isn't a focus.

Vinland Saga- Historical fantasy/drama focused on the era when the British Isles were colonized forcibly by the Danes.  Extremely violent and bloody.

Sounan Desu ka- A weird little anime about a group of girls who get stranded on a desert island.  I recall it being weirdly fascinating to watch.

Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka?- This anime is a comedy about a harem protagonist who is followed around by a bunch of perverted girls (all of them different types).  It is generally a fun watch, but it isn't something to go back to again later once you've finished it.

Cheat Magician and Multi Target Mother - I just put both because both are essentially the same thing, the isekai anime who tried to have overpowered female MC only for the author to put the male self-insert main character in their works. That said, at least the male in Multi Target Mother is not as strong as his mom who is the overpowered character, unlike Cheat Magician whereas the author manage to find himself make the male MC becoming very strong despite the author already make the female MC strong enough with four element mastery.

Tenki no Ko - Another work from Makoto Shinkai which depict another bittersweet romance, although people like to make the meme out of this thanks to the nature of the story which may or may not appropriate for the people who watch it.

Re-Stage - Idol anime with Tsubasu in charge of the original character design, and indeed the original design is really like her usual drawing. The anime art here is not as beautiful as Mahiro Iro anime though, which obviously because Kawamura is not in the charge of the anime art. Art aside, Re-Stage is mostly Love Live like idol anime with the center of the rival group being the older sister of the main character.

Symphogear XV - The fifth and the last part of Symphogear franchise, which mean the staffs do their best to clearing up the plot that have been foreshadowed in the previous four series. By the way the original creator of the series currently make the new anime with similar premise (Prinsession Orchestra), and it'll be available sometimes on the next year.

Vinland Saga - I just want to comment that apparently it was hailed as big three seinen alongside Berserk and Vagabond, and what I can see is that it's quite hard to adapt the so-called big three seinen into anime compared to adapt big three shounen (Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece). Anyway, obviously this is the most successful anime adaptation of the three big seinen, although it's not like there's much competition anyway seeing Bersek 2016 had mixed reception and Vagabond didn't even have anime adaptation.

Machikado Mazoku - Admittedly the premise is something like Gabriel Dropout with the good magical girl keep bullying the weak (And sickly) demon, although the author change that perception at the end of the first volume (Or 6th episode of the anime). Afterwards, it's more like on how the main demon girl (Yuuko aka Shamiko) start to find out what she can do with her power and eventually find out more about herself and the magical girl (Momo). Currently the story is take dramatic turn, although unfortunately the author has severe health issue so the update become irregular. Oh yes, obviously the anime is quite successful because we have the second season of this in 2022.

That's all for what I can comment in regard of Summer 2019 anime here.

Edited yesterday at 01:05 AM by littleshogun