Re:Zero -- Season 1 was brilliant and season 2 seems to be more of the same, which is good
THE GOD OF HIGH SCHOOL -- Crunchyroll and Webtoons seem to be making a statement-of-intent with this show. Its animation is blowing away everything we've ever seen before including ufotable's work on FATE. They have spent so much money and effort on this as a showstopper to promote their partnership and I'm extremely happy to eat that up because it is a visual fiesta.
Deca-Dence -- This show started off sounding boring and then immediately took a turn into wilderness. Extremely interesting. Reminds me of West World in a lot of the themes it has, I can't really say much more without spoiling.
Enen no Shouboutai: Ni no Shou | Fire Force Season 2 -- I actually really didn't like Fire Force up until three quarters of the way through season 1. It took a long time to hit its stride and then it just got good, really good. It's still brainless consumption shonen but it has become really enjoyable brainless shonen.
Appare-Ranman! -- Got delayed for ages and ages due to covid. Still have no judgement on it, visually interesting but unable to get a read on it fully yet.
Fruits Basket -- Wonderful show, wonderful stories full of emotions and morals. A few bad social takes but it's from a manga that's quite old now so its not too surprising. A lot of good takes that outweigh the rare bad ones.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T / A Certain Scientific Railgun 3 -- I love Railgun so much. It's just really really well executed and fun psychic powers fighting against clandestine government evils.
I actually thought Tower of God was underwhelming. Not bad, just not especially better than any other anime. Like, if you put it next to Promised Neverland which you recently watched then Neverland stands out pretty far above it in my opinion, not just in visuals, but in animation and the director's cinematography too.
God of Highschool though? Every single episode has me saying "HOW MUCH DID THEY SPEND ON THIS?". They have movie-tier budget for every single episode. It is blowing my mind. You don't see this level of animation in every single episode of any show at all.
I intentionally try to stick to anime-only on things I haven't read for exactly the reason you're describing. At least until completion.
This season:
Re:Zero -- Season 1 was brilliant and season 2 seems to be more of the same, which is good
THE GOD OF HIGH SCHOOL -- Crunchyroll and Webtoons seem to be making a statement-of-intent with this show. Its animation is blowing away everything we've ever seen before including ufotable's work on FATE. They have spent so much money and effort on this as a showstopper to promote their partnership and I'm extremely happy to eat that up because it is a visual fiesta.
Deca-Dence -- This show started off sounding boring and then immediately took a turn into wilderness. Extremely interesting. Reminds me of West World in a lot of the themes it has, I can't really say much more without spoiling.
Enen no Shouboutai: Ni no Shou | Fire Force Season 2 -- I actually really didn't like Fire Force up until three quarters of the way through season 1. It took a long time to hit its stride and then it just got good, really good. It's still brainless consumption shonen but it has become really enjoyable brainless shonen.
Appare-Ranman! -- Got delayed for ages and ages due to covid. Still have no judgement on it, visually interesting but unable to get a read on it fully yet.
Fruits Basket -- Wonderful show, wonderful stories full of emotions and morals. A few bad social takes but it's from a manga that's quite old now so its not too surprising. A lot of good takes that outweigh the rare bad ones.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T / A Certain Scientific Railgun 3 -- I love Railgun so much. It's just really really well executed and fun psychic powers fighting against clandestine government evils.
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I actually thought Tower of God was underwhelming. Not bad, just not especially better than any other anime. Like, if you put it next to Promised Neverland which you recently watched then Neverland stands out pretty far above it in my opinion, not just in visuals, but in animation and the director's cinematography too.
God of Highschool though? Every single episode has me saying "HOW MUCH DID THEY SPEND ON THIS?". They have movie-tier budget for every single episode. It is blowing my mind. You don't see this level of animation in every single episode of any show at all.
I intentionally try to stick to anime-only on things I haven't read for exactly the reason you're describing. At least until completion.
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