I love this manga so much.  The anime had better do it justice.  Hm, let's see how this new editor works with image spoilers ...

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I need to complain about this anime.

SAO: Alicization.

I noticed you guys aren't talking about it because it's weeabo trash. I know a lot of people didn't like SAO to begin with but I've enjoyed it so far. Until Alicization. Every episode just seems to drag on and on and on and on. The plot barely moves every episode. It took them like 10 episodes for them to move to any semblance of a plot. With the other seasons, the arcs were short and move quickly and there were usually two per season.

As for the characters, if you thought Kirito was boring and uninspired, Eugeo is even worse. As is his love affair Alice. All of them are bland and the show only focuses on these three characters. The bad guy is barely fleshed out, just enough to make you hate her. But they make her so fucking hot that it's kinda difficult to care that she's evil. The show also doesn't focus on any characters outside the game world. This time it's called Underworld. How original. Because their souls are stuck in this weird purgatory.

Asuna and company were in the first 3 episodes and that's about it. In the 19 episodes since, she's appeared a whopping two times. Which is bullshit because she's my favorite character.

To make an accurate comparison, watching Alicization is like watching Domestic Girlfriend. A TRAINWRECK. Except without the laughs or the spice.

PLEASE SAVE ME AND RECOMMEND ME SOMETHING GOOD.

Recently, I liked Zombie Land Saga and Familia Myth: Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon?

There are way too many good animes to recommend. Have you tried Made in Abyss yet? That plot certainly doesn't move slowly. When in doubt, check out my 9s and 10s.

https://myanimelist.net/animelist/vivster?status=2&order=4&order2=0

With Kemurikusa ending, so does the best anime of the season. It was great from start to finish. If it had the same production quality as Houseki no Kuni it would be the strongest contender for AOTY.

I watched the first two episodes, and didn't continue for that same reason. I wasn't crazy about SAO, but I thought the wider cast was pretty good overall, so to throw them all away and focus on Blandy McBlanderson was pretty disappointing.

Zombieland and the Dungeon show are pretty different, so not sure what to recommend. My top picks this season though for new shows are The Promised Neverland, Kaguya-sama, and My Roommate is a Cat, and BanG Dream S2 and Mob Psycho S2 for returning shows. You might also like Rising of the Shield Hero if you like game world shows...but I'm honestly watching it more as a comedy at this point than anything serious. 

From the last few seasons only ...

Hinamatsuri.  Psychic death battle girls.

Grand Blue.  The typical life of a college freshman.

Made In Abyss.  One of the most emotional anime ever made.

Speaking of Hinamatsuri, chapter 81 had me nearly crying.  Nitta is the best.

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Thanks guys. You're life savers.

Got back to Japan and have only had an hour of free time/ Internet every day for the past 7 days. I miss anime/ video games/ anything entertaining so much.

Ranking the shows I watched this season.

6. Domestic Girlfriend

This show was the greatest dumpster fire I have seen in my life. The drama in this show is incredibly spicy, that thanks to the insane love triangle between a teenager male, a teacher, and girl who he had a one night stand both of which happen to be his step siblings was one hell of a roller coaster. Gonna catch up on the Manga some time within the next week, just so I know how spicy things are gonna get next.

5. The Rising of the Shield Hero

I really like this show, Naofumi has been a great protagonist so far and I am looking to seeing how he will inevitably get his revenge. My only problems with the show is that it does peak a little early with Episode 4 being easily the best episode so far and I am not sure how I feel about Raphtalia being a 10 to 12 year old, having the body of a 16 to 18 year old. It doesn't really help that I honestly though do enjoy the chemistry between Raphtalia and Naofumi, granted that might have to do something with the voice actors for both characters, since they voiced Mai and Sakuta in Rascal Doesn't Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai which was my AOTY last year with a the chemistry between Mai and Sakuta being one of my favorite parts of that show. But still, those are just some small problems I had with an otherwise good show.

4. The Quintessential Quintuplets

For a harem, this had no right to be as good as it was. A wholesome harem about a guy being a tutor to a set of 5 sisters, which just turns out to be a flashback as the series opens with the protagonist on his wedding day, where the bride is one of the 5 of the sisters. So its also a mystery show, as part of the fun is trying to guess and theorize who the bride might be. I really did enjoy the characters, all 5 of the sisters were great though some did make better first impression then others and Futaro was a breath of fresh air the harem genre, as he didn't really feel like a self-insert protagonist. I decided to pick up the Manga since the Anime ends on a cliff hanger, oh boy I hope we get a season 2 so some of the best moments of the series can get animated.

3. Kaguya-Sama Love is War

Now I only caught up on the Manga recently, but man this was a great adaption and both the Anime and the Manga is probably the funniest Anime since Konosuba. The mind game's between Kaguya and Shirogane are always a treat, Fujiwara being a wild card makes best girl and I can't remember the last time I related to a character as much as I did with Ishigami. 

2. The Promised Neverland

I read the Manga back in the summer, so I was pretty excited for this adaption and I thought it did a great job at delivering on that front. The choices they had for the voice actors were all great and got the atmosphere perfectly done to a T. I know there some parts cut the inner monologues and some scenes, but those was still a really good adaption of one of the best Manga's in recent years. 

1. Domestic Girlfriend

I'm gonna be real with you, I can't tell if this dumpster fire was something I either unironically enjoyed or ironically enjoyed. Like you can make a compelling argument that this is either a trashy show with great moments or a great show with trashy moments.  So I am putting it at the bottom and top for my favorite show of Winter 2019.

Not sure what to make of Domestic XD An amazing dumpster fire indeed.

I watched the rest of those other than Quintuplets, and I agree with those placements. I read the Neverland manga as well and man was this an amazing adaptation. The way they blended the boy's guitar into the OST was phenomenal.

I'll do my seasonal break-down sometime this week, though I think I'll do a different format than my usual gif dump. Just need to wait for Mob Psycho 100 -S2 to finish tomorrow, could potentially beat my current AOTS if it's strong enough.