There is no absolute amazing stand out this season so Hisone to Masotan will easily take the AOTS for me. It's easily the most special anime of them all. The rest is just generic meh.
Special mention to Wotakoi, which is just excellently executed. Reminds me a bit of Golden Time in its mature tone.

Hinamatsuri is just too manipulative and hit or miss. It might've been my AOTS if they played it as a straight up comedy and cut all the melodrama. But it wants it all, so it doesn't really seem very cohesive.

Hinamatsuri is easily AOTS for me. It's not one dimensional, it doesn't pick and stick to one narrow genre like most manga/anime, which is great. I love watching something unpredictable and dynamic. The world and characters grow and change. The best analogy for me is the masterwork novel "Catch-22", which worked with both laugher and sadness on the palette board. The ability to be seamlessly multidimensional is too often lacking in the anime medium.

Comic Girls has been really good and the Chaos-chan episodes have been flat-out hilarious. The voice work has been stellar. Hisomaso and Wotako have both been entertaining and quirky, which makes them a lot more fun than a summary or description blurb would could ever convey. Pretty Derby has been a lot of fun and, surprisingly, it's managed to really make me invested in many of the races, especially the last two.

Looks like I dropped Megalo Box without thinking about it. I had a problem with believing the main character was an underdog, even though the principle "Megalo" gimmick is there to reinforce that. I mean, he's a better boxer than almost everyone and he has the most unstoppable and overpower skill in the entire anime--"smile".

Main Character uses skill: Smile--it's Super Effective! Main Character recovers from all damage, including status modifiers, and receives a stamina boost! Opponent must roll against Fear and/or Rage status modifier!

That more than makes up for not having the gear the other boxers have, which makes the whole "Megalo" thing meaningless.

Last Period has been the big surprise for me. It doesn't take itself seriously at all, has good voice work, and is just amusing to watch in general.

We might have watched a different anime. There was nothing seamless about the character development. Rather it hit you over the head with melodrama so hard that you forget how the character was before. It feels extremely deliberate and heavy handed in its development and presentation.

I think we did because I have no trouble remembering how the character was before.  In fact, I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.  They're still the same character.

Deliberate in development and presentation?  Well, yeah, probably.  Of course, that goes for pretty much every anime out there, so ... yeah.  

Deliberate as in very obvious and with no subtlety at all. That's what I meant with manipulative. There is nothing natural about the character development. They just get slapped over the head with the most convenient drama they can find and BAAAM, suddenly the character is a bit different. The drama just feels tacked on. They should've just made it as a pure comedy because execution is what they excel in.

That's true, it's like the way Hisomaso only sticks to comedy and doesn't slap you with blown out of proportion melodrama at ay poi--oh, wait, oops.  I'm a fighter pilot, damn it.

I like that Hinamatsuri doesn't just stay in the shallow end of the pool.  I like that the characters go through different things and find new directions.  I like that it just happens without any warning, unlike the total predictability of most anime plot paths, where the Big Evil shows up in episode 6-8 and they save the world in episode 12.  I'll gladly take something that plays by its own rules.

Well, what you like is wrong! :P

Hisomaso has other qualities to it. For example being awesome.

Wotakoi is just so fun. The otaku penalty was hilarious. Pretty sure Cloud or Poko posted an image of that in the Manga Thread a long time ago. Current Pokemon Go players are pretty serious!

Tada-kun follows some obvious cliches, but I find the interactions between the characters strong enough that I don't mind it. Little details in Mitsuyoshi's mannerisms make his shift in feelings feel pretty natural, those lingering glances and the way their hands make contact for just a bit too long. Unfortunately it seems like the side cast is kinda forgotten, though I was kinda expecting that from the beginning with so many of them. I suppose we don't need Fairy Tail levels of side-shipping, but I hope the glasses duo has a nice resolution. At least Nyanko Big x Cherry is canon.

3D Kanojo girl is hiding an illness huh...*PTSD intensifies*

New poll coming soon.

Best Setting is Fantasy World!

I guess it's the most general choice but it's the one I probably prefer anyway. The real world sucks...trust me I know people who live there.

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With 2-3 weeks left for most of our favorite shows, I'm gonna jump right into AOTS voting. Gonna use a combination of anime people are discussing here, are highly rated on MAL, and ones I just liked personally. Hopefully yours isn't missed...if it is you can vote Other and make an angry post. I probably won't care, but sometimes venting is helpful. :3

Happy voting!

I say HisoMaso. I have not watched To Be Heroine yet, that could be something.