Am I the only one watching BAKI here 😄?

I will have to say Asobi Asobase. The humor is a bit too low brow for my taste but the reaction faces are just absolute perfection. I love anime faces, so few animes do those nowadays. A giant bonus is also the ED. I wish there was a whole album of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1im_br5phc

I looked it up and didn't see a single female.  That makes it a difficult sell for me.

Hi Score Girl ep. 3 was damn good.  Such a bitter-sweet episode so early in the series really makes me care about the characters.  I especially love that they've managed to capture Ono so well.  She's awkward and weird but, at the same time, she's the bishoujo madonna of the elementary school.  That she doesn't talk underscores how much she is misunderstood, as everyone makes assumptions about what she is feeling and thinking based on her being pretty and rich.  Meanwhile, instead of piano lessons and tea parties, what she really wants is to visit seedy arcades with someone she can be herself with.

I like the ED a lot, too.

High Score Girl eps 4 & 5 -- I'd like to change my answer for favorite anime of the season.  High Score Girl is an A-level series so far.  

These last two episodes shift gears and the narrative jumps to Hidaka.  She's essentially the opposite of Ono.  The presentation of the anime leaves no doubt that Hidaka is the "other girl" but she doesn't feel like that at all.  She's really cute but that's mostly because she is relatively normal and simply very likeable.  She's studious and smart, she's kind of reserved and doesn't care much about socializing, but she is no cliche.  She's friendly with her classmates and is every bit a normal girl with her own personality.

And, unlike Ono, she has never played a video-game before, which obviously puts her behind in the eyes of the game-addicted main character.

This the current anime where I most hate waiting for the next episode.  I want to see where it's going.

To be honest, I don't pay any attention to the people behind the scenes of anime. Losing an animator is a blow to the industry though.

Maybe this is poor form, but it works because he nailed Old Joseph's voice.

RIP...really lost a talented man who was still pretty active. Super sad.

And hello again everyone...back from a short sabbatical but I'm here again...sorta. I ended up dropping that Holmes show because I didn't really care what was going to happen next. Grand Blue and Cells at Work are my running favorites this season, and it'll probably stay that way.

Cells at Work ep. 7 was exceptional.  Never thought this anime would get so philosophical.  

Anyone reading the analysis a pathology student posts on reddit?  The science seems to be pretty spot on, for the most part.  Natural Killer cell being the only one able to figure out what was happening, for example.  The only real deviation seems to be with our main characters, who go a bit above and beyond what normal cells can do.  

I'm loving the main character's personality change in Hanebado!  She is such a condescending prick now.  The things she says in crazy-mode are just brutal, mostly because they're true.  Also, Nozomi is hot.  She had a good backstory, too.

This show is really something else, I feel like anime this clever don't come along that often. I never thought an anime would make me feel sympathetic towards cancer of all things, but it was actually very well done and the story was pretty fitting given how the world is set up.

I was talking with my sister, who works as P.A, and she was surprised the anime was even adding an NK cell into the story. I'm trying to get her to watch it to see how much she'll geek out over it.

It wasn't all that long ago that I took Anatomy & Physiology, so I actually do remember some of this stuff.  The Helper T cell especially made me chuckle, as did the whole thing with Histamine overproduction--anyone with allergies probably felt sympathy pangs during that, as the worst part is the fact that your own body is making you suffer by overreacting.  Mast cell was really cute, though.

I've said it before but I can see Moyashimon being an inspiration.  That's about a college freshman who can see microbes, which are personified as cute little goobers.  It's actually a mature series that touches on different lifestyle choices, so the narrative is much different, but part of the charm is the way it talks about how the various microbes interact with their environment, both good and bad, like causing sickness or producing alcohol, and gives little lessons about them.  It makes you look at the world a little differently, since microbes are everywhere.

I can't find much video footage but this AMV shows some of what I mean.  A very underrated series (in the west) that would probably have seen more popularity in today's environment where people are watching more than just Bleach or Naruto. 

 It was plenty popular in Japan and even had a rather good live action series.  This scene is about fermentation and is absolutely gross.  Kiviak, it seems, is made when you stuff a bunch of dead birds into a dead seal and then bury it for a year or so.  I mean, who even thought to try that the first time?