Anime

Rather than just create a big list of shows and my impressions, I thought it would be more fun to do a sort of Yearbook Superlatives version of what I watched this season. Without further ado:

• Valedictorian: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End - What more can I say? It was just an incredible adaptation of one of my favorite manga.
• Class Clown: Bravern (Brave Bang Bravern!) - This show was incredibly silly and only kept getting sillier as it went. The finale airs this week and I fully expect that each serious scene will have an equally silly scene to follow it up.
• Most Gullible: Hime-sama ('Tis Time for Torture Princess) - I had to drop this one partway through the season, but what I watched was really fun.
• Best Beard: Senshi (Delicious in Dungeon) - When your beard acts as armor against magical effects, then you know it has transcended the ordinary to become legendary. Great show that has another cour coming right up.
• Best Dressed: Sasaki (Sasaki and Peeps) - A salaryman's suit works for any occasion, whether that be undercover detective, a wizard battle, tense negotiations, being a magical ~~girl~~ man, or taking your pet sparrow for a walk. Truly a versatile outfit for any genre of story you might find yourself in.
• Most Talkative: The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic - This show had a lot of dialog. Like, a lot. I enjoyed my time with it, but I can understand the criticisms that the pace was incredibly slow and did a lot of telling rather than showing.
• Cutest Couple: Yumiella and Patrick (Level 99 Villainess) - This show really focused on its strengths for this season, namely Yumiella. Don't come to this show expecting action or animation, come into it for the dorky, leveling-obsessed girl that is able to somehow have somebody fall for her.
• Biggest Disappointment: Metallic Rouge - This show had such a rushed, muddled story and never let the viewer grow to like or get to know the characters as it raced through things. I had such high hopes for this show based on the first two episodes.
• Biggest Flirt: Tenka Izumo (Chained Soldier) - This show did enough to keep me interested and Tenka was one of the highlights. In an anime/manga landscape full of characters that are too shy to say how they feel, Tenka goes out of her way to both say and act on her feelings with zero hesitation.
• Quietest: Korisu Morino (Gushing Over Magical Girls) - I only watched the first couple episodes, but I don't think Korisu had a single spoken line the whole time despite being a lead character.
• Most Likely to be President: Hibiki Otonashi (Tsukimichi Season 2) - This show is halfway through its 2-cour run and I have been mostly liking the adaptation so far. The introduction of the other isekai'ed characters like Hibiki adds a lot of interesting elements to the story.
• Most Forgettable: Tsubasa Shiki (Hokkaido Gals are Super Adorable) - I dropped this show partway through for time, but also partly because the MC is as featureless as the vast snowbanks of Hokkaido. This show mostly went in one eyeball and out the other without really registering much along the way for me.

Alright, I think that is all the shows I watched at least a couple episodes of this season. I am personally not planning on watching as much next season. I am expecting work to pick up for me in the coming months, but I am also wanting to get back to reading more manga/LNs. The past couple months have been very anime-heavy compared to how I normally consume media.