I'm on episode 14 right now. It's nice that there's so much focus on character development without any fillers to mess up the pacing of the anime.

Grimgar has some beautifully emotional set pieces enough to be another AOTS contender ...

And thank god World Trigger is back on track ...

This, so much this!

I've been mulling this post over in my head for a bit. I think the big problem with moving from text to animation is that narrative sequences don't always make the transition very well. Having a controlled narrative works well in text, but anime viewers will get bored with constant narrative in animation. Kinda just thinking over my recent convo over Hunter x Hunter...and realize it kinda applies to this as well (sorry to bring this up behind your back, Lucky). This applies even more to light novels...given the nature of how they're written.

As someone who reads a lot, I'm not really sure if this is a good or a bad thing. Missing parts of the story is always bad, and losing key parts of a character's background or why they're thinking a certain way will have a direct impact on how you appreciate a part of the story. On the other hand, I can definitely think of times where I preferred the visual adaptation due to constant exposition. I read the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a while back, and remember thinking how overwhelming the way the author set up scenes was. He would basically narrate entire life stories of characters in their heads, even if said characters really weren't that important in the scheme of things. I was honestly glad the recent film focused less on that and more on the action of the story. Maybe the best option is to find a middle-ground...or to find other creative ways to get the narrative across.

Speaking of Yamada, I think that actually brings up a seperate issue, in that a lot of anime are created solely to boost the sales of the manga or light novels. It's pretty evident with something like Yamada-kun, where a well-written manga is basically adapted into what seems like a collection of PVs rather than a single cohesive story. It's kind of weird to think about, since I feel like Western media adopts the opposite philosophy, but manga volumes in Japan tend to have much higher profit margins than anime DVD/BR. 

I still liked that anime overall...it just also happened to be one of the worst cases of the above example I can think of. 90 chapters into 12 episodes is ridiculous. 

Then it has decayed... 

The anime industry has never been better than before IMO and revenues from the recent years show it ... 

Doesn't really change what I said... 

That Shounen's have decayed as far as anime goes ? 

If you want options then why not pick up a manga ?

Quality wise. Cash cows are no necessarily good or a staple... I've yet to see a good series like Dragons' Rioting obtain it's own anime... 

Cash cows are not necessarily bad ... 

Broaden your horizon with Weekly Shounen Jump manga's ... 

I checked the synopsis for Dragons' Rioting and it sounds like one of those generic action/ecchi manga/LNs with a high female to male ratio that Kadokawa publishes ... (and we usually get tons of those for anime adaptions)

Edit: So it is published by Kadokawa, no worries you can find tons of those already on anime ...