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But I like the way the Japanese censor their hentai.

Sorry. Guess I wasn't subtle enough.

I dunno. It feels somehow very different from Eromanga-sensei. It's doing a pretty decent job at fleshing out it's side characters and from the look of it, the next episode will be dedicated to the protagonist. I'm not loving it, but it's actually quite decent right now and has some potential. Feel pretty much the same. It's a good premise, but it's pacing and the way it's introduced everything just feels off.

Yeah, that certainly seemed to be the case. The final arc felt very rushed around the end and it didn't seem to know where it was heading, so the ending was very rushed.

Yui deserved better. She should have had OVAs dedicated to her arc like Tenri. She was easily the most entertaining heroine. Yeah, most people are, and I can see why because she reflects well on Keima's character. It's just that she wasn't really a part of the final arc, making the final arc inconsequential towards who he chose, thus making the entire last arc feel somewhat pointless.

Honestly, if they were to continue the anime, they should adapt the chapters of the heroines that they skipped. Yui's arc in particular is probably the best individual heroine arc in the series. She really got shafted in screentime in the anime. Shame because she's actually the best character.

Don't know if you read the rest of the manga, but it's really best that they ended it there. It really felt like they were just throwing in a bunch of random ideas to try to continue the story, and it never paid off. The ending is more definitive than the anime, but it really feels like a "we had to end it now, so here's who Keima ends up with" kind of ending. Who he ends up with doesn't feel like one that the story past the Goddess Arc built up to since they were entirely irrelevant throughout that half of the story.

It looks like you're actively trying to look for anime that you won't be impressed with or won't like.

If you mean whether or not Eromanga-sensei will reverse it's hate train, then I don't see that happening. It seems that people now consider not liking Eromanga-sensei as a sign of great taste and hating it has become a meme in itself with every single time someone brings up awful anime, someone will bring up Eromanga-sensei. I think the best we could hope for is a Yosuga no Sora situation where it gets a lot of hate, but it mellows out and you occasionally come across people who genuinely like it.

It's certainly not for everyone, but I personally find it really funny. I especially like the pacing.

Mahoujin Guruguru was the only must watch from last season if you ask me, so I recommend that show.

If you want my thoughts on this season, here they are. Washio Sumi / Yuuki Yuuna S2 - I've already watched the movies, and they're incredible. The last half is really good, but I'm feeling really sorry for the people watching the series. The first two episodes worked well enough, but the next 4 episodes really work a hell of a lot better in pairs of two like the movies did. I especially think that the magic of Movie 2 will be lost in the TV version. The subs that Amazon has for the TV version are also shit compared to the fansubs of the movies. The movies are the best way to experience this story, and I encourage anybody who is watching the series to just watch the movies instead. Blend S - This is a pretty charming show. I mainly like it for Maika's sadist faces which are hilarious, but the series overall is really solid with good characters, good humor, and cute girls. Not much else you can ask for here. Girl's Last Tour - I've already read the manga, and I think the anime is doing a really good job adapting it. I personally find the manga better since the art is a lot more distinctive in how it presents the world, but the anime does as good of a job as it could adapting the world as they could. I think the manga mostly gets better as it goes on, so I'm looking forward to seeing further chapters animated. Animegataris - Animegataris has the worst first episode of the season, but it's second episode was actually really entertaining. A lot of the charm comes from the ways they twist existing anime names, but moving forward I say I'm excited to see the group dynamic as each of these characters represent a different kind of otaku, but none of them are grating exaggerations. This makes the interactions feel rather natural and as if they're actually a group that likes discussing anime with one another. Also, this show has the best OP of the season at least as far as the song is concerned. Inuyashiki - The first half of the first episode was incredible, but the rest while not bad kind of falls flat. It's really easy to feel for our protagonist and the first half does a great job introducing him and his struggles, but the superhero angle that the second half takes kind of puts me off from the show. I hope it can handle it better than it did in the first episode, but I'm at a loss as to whether I trust it to. Just Because! - It's mostly like Animegataris where it had a lackluster first episode and a much improved second. The first episode was a visual bore and it failed to ever click with me. The second episode though did click with me and it uses the relationships established in the first episode incredibly well. I hope this ends up being one of those unpredictable love polygon shows. There's no source material so anything can happen really. Mahoutsukai no Yome - There's mostly been a lot of explanations so far with some decent enough characters. It doesn't really do anything bad (besides that OP), but it has failed to captivate me yet. It's source material is pretty well regarded, so I'm hoping that this is building to something really good, so I'll just have to wait and see. Konohana Kitan - Kawaii fox girls. Enough said. Children of The Whales - It has amazing art, but other than that, there's little it has going for it. Children of The Whales is giving us a lot of information about it's world, but I don't feel it's doing it at the right pace. It's going incredibly fast, and I don't believe it's done a good job at establishing it's characters so far. Love Live! Sunshine!! S2 - I was never a fan of Aquors, but considering how great S2 of the original was, I had high expectations for this one, and as of now, it's failing to meet those expectations. This season is using the save the school plotline again and it's constantly reminding me about how not good most of the characters are. Aquors really don't have the same chemistry that u's had, and this season isn't offering anything new to change that opinion. Shobitch - This show has bad anime sex comedy as expected, but the main couple is actually pretty sweet when sex jokes aren't being made. Imouto Sae Ireba Ii - It's first episode was kind of uninteresting, but as of the second episode, I like the directions they're taking the characters and I'm really eager to see where they all end up. Kino's Journey S2 - It's more Kino's Journey, so it's great. The second episode was kind of meh and felt rushed, but I'm certain the future episodes will all be high quality. Kekkai Sensen & Beyond - It's more Kekkai Sensen, so it's a really fun action series. It's about on par with the original series and I really like it right now.

As long as you know what you're getting into and accept that it's basically just a comedy anime that just so happens to have underage characters and lewd humor, then it should be a good time.

I wish there was just one really talented hentai producer that made high quality POV vanilla hentai, but alas we don't live in a perfect world.

Eromanga-sensei. I'm one of the people who proudly like it and think it's a genuinely good show. It's best seen as a comedy, not because it's in the so bad it's good demographic, because it actually for the most part is a comedy. It just has a bunch of lewd humor to go along with the story, which honestly isn't that bad. I really like the way that Sagiri and Izumi push each other and the way their relationship develops. I think most people have a problem with the age of the characters, but I could not care less about that. In fact, it sort of makes it better that the characters are this old since it makes some of the humor more jarring, thus more funny to me. I would have more sympathy for the anti-Eromanga crowd if they didn't act like they were exaggerating every time they talked about it. Like when they talk about Eromanga's humor saying that most of it is unoriginal, I have to disagree as I find that most of the jokes are actually very original because of how far they take the lewd and uncomfortable aspects of the humor. They also say there's a ton of fanservice and that Sagiri's panties are constantly shoved into our faces, but that's completely wrong. There is some fanservice, but it's not like there some every single second of the show and every time there is some, it's almost always justified within the plot, rather than just getting suggestive angles in unnecessary places. I've even heard people say that Eromanga-sensei looks bad visually. People can say what they want about Eromanga-sensei, but saying it looks bad is just disingenuous. Eromanga-sensei actually looks pretty damn good, and looking back at Oreimo, it's amazing how much better Eromanga is than that show. It's actually a lot better than a lot of the other anime I've seen this year. If you want an anime that looks bad, then there's plenty of anime to choose from, but Eromanga-sensei is not one of those. The Eromanga-sensei hate bandwagon that has surged this year is probably one of the most obnoxious I've seen yet. Especially since Gigguk made some unfunny memes about it and now people are repeating it when justifying why they like Eromanga-sensei instead of actually defending it, so now there's nobody who is trying to look at the good of the show, but rather they just say it's bad but they like it, which is not a way of thinking that I will ever agree with. If you like something, don't just say that it's bad despite your opinion, because somewhere the show resonated with you, and you shouldn't be trying to ignore that.

I prefer True Routes. They don't make the other routes pointless at all in my opinion. They just provide closure for the VN. Proper closure is very important to me, since just ending after all the routes are cleared is very anticlimactic, and can sometimes feel that the VN as a whole didn't lead to anything specific since there's so many different endings and neither of them are any more important than the others.

I agree, but I wouldn't say it's because of the emotional moments. The first season felt a lot more like a workplace comedy where every single character interacts with one another, and there's lots of original ideas using it's setting. The second season on the other hand utilizes it's characters less, like how Hajime and Yun have like no scenes of note with other characters and Hifumi is barely there in the second half. It's like they did all that they could have with S1, and with S2 the only new ideas they could come up with were nothing more than the typical SOL comedy shtick.

Yeah, after that ending, there is no sequel. The manga goes in a completely different direction from that ending, so if they followed it up, then they'd have to completely retcon that ending.

I've watched just about everything this season. Mahoujin Guruguru is probably the only true standout show of the season. It's so good. Most of the other shows lost their momentum. I say the ending was as good as they could possibly do. I'm not a fan of the way the manga follows it up. Nejima goes from being kind of stupid to being completely braindead.

The manga is ongoing, so there is currently no winner. Where the manga is right now, it's not easy to predict who is going to win either. Lilina's the most deserving of winning though.

Don't know what you mean by spoilt it, because I haven't really given away who wins in the end or any key plotpoints, just that it becomes a love triangle.

I'm watching pretty much everything. Current best show of the season is Made in Abyss. Best thing of the season is Washio Sumi Movie 3. Worst show of the season is In Another World With A Smartphone. That show is godawful. Think of all the generic isekai tropes thrown into one show, except said show does literally nothing to make them interesting. That's what you get. This is a really strong season overall. I might drop a few shows, but I see myself sticking with most of them. If anybody wants a good comedy this season, I'd highly recommend Mahoujn Guru Guru. It's a brilliant parody of old school RPGs, and it's criminally underwatched. You don't realize how much it pisses me off that the Smartphone show is getting more viewership and has a better MAL rating than it. Man, I care way too much about MAL ratings. As a person who is familiar with the source, I'd say don't hold your breathe. It goes in the expected love triangle route, and it uses it pretty dramatically. But it's a love triangle worth caring about because Lilina and Nejima are a match made in heaven. I should watch that then. Tenshi no 3P is actually better than I thought it'd be.

At least they said please

I'm the opposite. I disliked it so much that I can't forget it. I think it was 30% his bad decisions at most. Most of it is that Slaine in S1 at least has some of the worst luck I've ever seen. In S2 he gets better since he starts to grow past his whole princess infatuation. That's definitely a better way of putting it

I actually think Slaine became even better in the second half. If I try, I can actually come up with a convincing argument as to why he was actually a good guy there. The only reason he ended up being the "bad guy" is because the ending fucked up everything and ignored any type of realism. I think that's probably the point, but it doesn't make it any less frustrating. The worst offender is probably the protagonist who is one of the most boring I've seen in a while.