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As long as there's a version with less of that localization nonsense, all is good.

As long as there's a version with less of that localization nonsense, all is good.

nah

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.

Here to say that AOTS is Planet With, and that Jashin-chan Dropkick is surprisingly kind of enjoyable. That is all.

Just Because's OP is the best one from 2017. 
 

Ah, so you've succumbed to the comfy too.

I don't really think it's her teasing that's the problem, but it's just that the show drags each moment she teases him on forever to the point that it's annoying on a "Get on with it" level. And when every single scenario of the show plays out like this, it's a recipe for disaster.

Youngsters and Yuri are both pure. By your name I expected you to understand this better than anyone else. Yuri shows are meant to be masturbated to. Tainting the innocent and pure lesbian lovers with your own lewd thoughts is what all men of culture strive to do.

Here's my thoughts on everything I'm watching.
Shoujo Shuumatsu - Unlike Ittaku, I have the exact opposite problem with this show. Shoujo Shuumatsu is not boring enough. This is mainly due to my comparing it to the manga, but it feels like they're trying to give so much more energy and pep to a manga, which is is a lot more subdued in it's approach. It's the same exact story, but there's so many changes to the tone of it that it loses the spirit of the original. This also means that the the manga and the anime are constantly clashing. We have a story that relies on it's more casual and reflective nature going against a direction that is trying to make it something it isn't. The art is also a lot worse than the manga. It's more detailed and colored, but the roughness of the manga gave it a wasteland feeling, while the anime has a destroyed city type of thing going on. This makes the strange structures stand out as even more jarring and distracting than the manga. It's still a decent enough show, but it could have been so much more.
Anime-Gataris - It's okay. The in depth anime talk is pretty amusing, but past that there's not much interesting going on with the story.
Ballroom e Youkoso - I hate this show so much. It's like every single bad sports manga cliche put into a sport that I could not give any less of a shit about. I've been watching it at 2x speed for the past two episodes because of how little I like it.
Blend S - the main appeal of it for me was the sadist faces, but the past few episodes have been lacking them, so since then I can only think of it as a very average show.
Shobitch - Don't know why I'm still watching this shit. It's not funny at all. Sex jokes and japanese humor don't go together at all.
Imouto Sae Ireba Ii - This is actually pretty alright, almost good even. People have only reacted to the amazing opening scene, but past that what you have is a competently written show about people and their passions or lack of passion for what they do. It's sad that it's probably being labeled as an incest show by people despite the complete lack of it.
Just Because! - It's good. The interpersonal drama between all the characters is very well handled and it doesn't fall into any of the cliches that most other shows of this genre do.
Kekkai Sensen & Beyond - It's very similar to the first season. That isn't bad at all, as it's still a fun show to watch, but there doesn't appear to be an overarching plot this season, which is a big disappointment.
Kino's Journey - Not nearly as good as the first season, but it still has some fantastic episodes. They're really hit and miss episodes, but the good episodes have all the great writing of the original series. I just wish that the selection of stories here was better, since it could be just as good as the original if it tried enough.
Konohana Kitan - Probably the best show this season. It had a few missteps in the beginning, but it's finally found it's footing as is now consistently on point. It uses it's supernatural world with japanese folklore really well to tell interesting lessons. It also has a fun cast of characters and some really strong yuri ships. Oh, and the characters are fox girls, so that also adds a lot to the show's charm.
Children of The Whales - It's okay. The art is fantastic, but nothing past that is all that great. The story as a whole feels messy and rushed. The characters are incredibly basic in their personalities and frequently act out of character. It also pushes it's ideas way too much to the point that it's almost insulting.
Love Live! Sunshine!! S2 - It's kind of eh. Never really liked the Aquors girls as characters, so seeing more of them leaves me more annoyed than happy to see them again. I also don't really like any of their music, and I think this season turned up the cheesiness levels too much, even for Love Live!
Mahoujin Guruguru - still really liking this show. The half this season isn't as strong as the first half and it has slowed down it's pace, but it's still a really fun show to watch.

Well, there's not that many anime I can 100% say are good from episode one, and I assume you want something that is more conventional so I'm going with safe picks here
Gurren Lagann - an obvious pick to recommend. It's just incredibly fun from the very start and is easy to get hooked on.
Usagi Drop - fantastic anime that everybody should watch, and is amazing the whole way through. Only thing wrong is that it doesn't have an ending, but it doesn't matter too much with the type of story it is.
Hanayamata - If you want her to watch any CGDCT anime, then this is the one to give her. Very well done drama, well written characters, and it doesn't really have fanservice of any kind from what I remember.
Gakkou Gurashi - Most of the first episode sucks, but by the end of it, she'll be hooked.
Flying Witch - In the case of SOL/iyashikei, Flying Witch is probably the best introduction along with Usagi Drop. Has a fantastic first episode and the rest is harmless and charming.

Well, there's not that many anime I can 100% say are good from episode one, and I assume you want something that is more conventional so I'm going with safe picks here
Gurren Lagann - an obvious pick to recommend. It's just incredibly fun from the very start and is easy to get hooked on.
Usagi Drop - fantastic anime that everybody should watch, and is amazing the whole way through. Only thing wrong is that it doesn't have an ending, but it doesn't matter too much with the type of story it is.
Hanayamata - If you want her to watch any CGDCT anime, then this is the one to give her. Very well done drama, well written characters, and it doesn't really have fanservice of any kind from what I remember.
Gakkou Gurashi - Most of the first episode sucks, but by the end of it, she'll be hooked.
Flying Witch - In the case of SOL/iyashikei, Flying Witch is probably the best introduction along with Usagi Drop. Has a fantastic first episode and the rest is harmless and charming.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yosuga no Sora. There's barely anything wrong with it in my eyes. The drama was never complicated enough for me to feel like it was overdone, the incest was handled very well, they actually incorporate the sex into the plot, and I like how they use the omnibus format to shed light on other arcs, rather than have them not be connected at all. It easily gets an 8/10 from me. 

Yosuga no Sora. There's barely anything wrong with it in my eyes. The drama was never complicated enough for me to feel like it was overdone, the incest was handled very well, they actually incorporate the sex into the plot, and I like how they use the omnibus format to shed light on other arcs, rather than have them not be connected at all. It easily gets an 8/10 from me. 

Yosuga no Sora. There's barely anything wrong with it in my eyes. The drama was never complicated enough for me to feel like it was overdone, the incest was handled very well, they actually incorporate the sex into the plot, and I like how they use the omnibus format to shed light on other arcs, rather than have them not be connected at all. It easily gets an 8/10 from me.