if the Ones To Watch didn’t give you enough of a backlog, here’s a comprehensive ranking of every new anime this season (based on the first episodes). follow me at https://twitch.tv/GeoffThew for more like this!
Little late to the party with this since I’m new to posting stream highlights and needed time to figure out the edit.
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For mash I think of it as what if voldomort won and killed all the moguls.
To me, cheat skill is great trash and to justify this, I'll just say that you have to watch it with the eyes of a producer/director/writer. Just trying to understand why anyone wrote this or decided to use those camera angles etc…. There's a scene of fan service in the girls locker room where inexplicably two girls are playing with stuffed animals in the background. How a human being decided that that scene made sense just is baffling and hilarious. That's one of many scenes with this kind of insanity. It's got a solid "the room" vibe about it. Other than that I agree with most of how you ranked things. Yuri is my job is also like a bunch of autistic people in a room doing Yuri things… It's so stupid but it's also pretty great. Kamikatsu is also just epic levels of bad. The cgi is deliberately terrible and that one scene where that horny dude is tilling the fields and it looks like a YouTube shit post is just amazing.
For me, Heavenly Delusion is show of the season, followed by Skip and Loafer. Oshi no Ko is fine I guess but it's not really grabbing me the way it's grabbing everyone else (I find its overly cynical take on the entertainment industry a bit cliche and tedious, as is Aqua's constant monologuing about it).
Can someone give a list of the anime please? Its hard to remember which is which just from the pictures, and its anoying to constantly go back and forth in the video because he didnt time stamp it 🙁
as a fan of the Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear manga, the anime is mid in comparison
No Vinland Saga?
Yuri is my job just drove me away. I know the over-hatred of the protag is supposed to be a mystery that will eventually bring them together, but I couldn't make it to the reveal. It's just not my cup of tea, not enough variety in the settings, not enough likeability for any of the characters, the premise is ultra dumb and the stakes are really low. It's too stressful for slice of life and, once the main protag learns the lesson, the anime has nowhere to go. I put it in trash.
Smartphone is good trash. Love the light novels
Kamikatsu is the perfect example of the horseshoe theory. 'Good trash' and 'banger' have never been closer together. It transcends and overcomes the distinction. It is the golden standard. It is a 'trash banger'.
I'm glad to hear Insomniacs After School's anime is good because the manga is like… perfect. Absolutely gorgeous art and direction, with wonderfully human feeling characters and story.
…the wrong side of the golf tracks. You missed one.
omg Excel Saga is one of my most favorite animes of all time. Please do a deep dive on it!
Have to be careful rating Yazi's favorites 👀
I'd put Ao no Orchestra somewhere between mid and good, but the cg gets so jarring when they actually play their instruments. The characters are just interesting enough to make me curious. I'd say it's worth checking out at least one or two episodes (when it's available for you to watch).
I desagree on Kamikatsu. It's a banger not good trash. And its clear at the point the bad cgi was intentional (tractor scene for exemple). It's one of the best anime this season and best comedy of this year.
Having followed Kamikatsu every week it's a really interesting case of good trash in that it's very clear that it's intentionally trashy. It feels similar to Renai Flops in that regard, on the rare occasion it shifts into a serious moment it reveals surprisingly good worldbuilding (Episode 5 I believe). The jokes range from cheap laughs to dark humour that would be at home in Uramichi Oniisan. I'm interested to hear what you think when the time comes.
afaic Blue Orchestra is an absolute banger, easily one of the shows I'm enjoying the most this season. Top 5 for me
My home hero is not trash at all
I can certainly understand not wanting to do this again if it’s too much work, but I really enjoy this content and would love to see it again in the future.
Just added Excel World and Accel World to my playlist.
My best friend and I are enjoying live roasting Isekai Smartphone, I'd love to see your take once it's over
Mashle is overrated garbage and I will stick to that opinion forever
I indeed like the new stream notification, very proud!
As someone he has konosuba in the top 3 animes of all time I think the megumin spinoff is pretty mid
Also side note maybe controversial opinion but as a person who is actively watching all the bangers this seasons The Bangers in my Heart is my absolute favorite
wtf????????????
if you watch Oshi no ko TW: Cancer
where's otaku elf?
What I love about Skip and Loafer is you see a lot of the tropes of high school, without going overboard and hyperdramatized like most slice of life anime tend to.
Marginal Service also has this weird thing where it keeps bringing up immigrants and drawing comparison between them and the cryptids (in part through the titular Marginal Service being part of the Immigration Bureau) while providing absolutely no nuance to that metaphor besides showing most of the ones seen in the show doing crimes. Which is… certainly a look.
this is definitely a valuable thing, and I absolutely think you should make it a regular thing. that said, the only things I'm watching this season are g-witch and Birdie Wing, so I knew what you'd say about them coming in lol
the skip and loafer love is making me so happy to see!!
Do you have any thoughts on Soaring Sky Pretty Cure (started in winter and ongoing)?
I watch solely to learn about anime I haven’t heard about. Rankings can b interesting but I really don’t care what anyone says or thinks — if I like it I do & if I don’t I don’t. TYVM for the effort.
G-Witch has been my top show since Mob and Chainsaw Man ended. Also that new ED is an incredible all timer.
Banger Wing!
This video scared me when I saw that edit shot of Otaku Elf in the trash setup even though he was talking about that NFT anime. Otaku Elf in banger is where it belongs. One of my favs this season.
How can you knock "My Clueless First Friend" for its animation, when "Yamada-Kun" takes just as many, if not more shortcuts with its animation? And Takada-Kun is way more of a giga Chad than Yamada. He was already holding her hand in Episode 1!
Excellent list. I think I must have agreed with 90% of it. The only things that bugged me were Magus Bride being put in Good instead of near the top of Banger and "Danger's in My Heart" is not worthy of being put in Banger alongside the likes of Insomniacs and Skip and Loafer. Those two exemplify what peek slice of life romance looks like and Dangers in My Heart isn't that. I really want to put my "Clueless First Friend in Banger but I have to agree with him on the fact that it just doesn't have the production values to carry it. It's adorable and although the story deserves top marks the lackluster animation and sound direction do hurt it a bit.
35:50 You had me at "Lesbian golf mafia"
Pokemon x and y is my favorite
Seeing ranking of kings get a side story season instead of a legit season 2 was the most disappointed I’ve been about an anime in so long
Live! From Canada it's Mother's basement
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The theater one seems like an idol show until you get to episode four or five because that is when you find out that they all have actual powers, like one character can read minds while she's acting on stage, that reveal fully threw everything for a huge loop. lol 😂
I like seeing that he likes magical girl destroyers. Everyone else doesn’t really talk about it and even in my own group it’s being slept on. I’m happy to see other people are enjoying it like I am!
Oh nice, most of the series I am checking out this season are Banger or Good here.
Meanwhile, Hirogaru Sky Pretty Cure got left out! Probably because Precure usually starts in February instead of along normal season lines.
I tried watching the stream. But I wish you had did a year list much later in the season and not 24 days ago. Thats like 2 and a half weeks of new episodes
Isekai smartphone goes freaking hard in the light novels.
49:38 I'm not watching MIX but the guy calling it a "Haikyu!!" wannabe feels wrong
Since it's a sequel to Touch, a 1981 manga, and the legendary sportsman is probably the MC from that.
As a reader of the manga for magus bride I want to say it's a banger because the manga is incredible. But I also admit I have not watched season 2 yet, so I can't say