What an interesting season this has been. The contrast between two sports animes, Harukana receive and Hanebado, is quite shocking. Harukana I genuinely enjoy, while Hanebado has been enjoyable for the wrong reasons. Revue starlight has been absolutely incredible, and for now, all I will say is thank you for giving me another great character that fits my favorite aesthetic:

and for the poll, I voted Chitoge because at this point is impossible to not relate her with boom and well, I really like boom a lot so they get my vote :P

For the poll I voted Chidoge, out of solidarity for Boom and because I like her character.

Until last week, I was taking a sort of break from anime, avoiding memes, waifu shit and the like makes me not feel so burned out from it.

Now for my mandatory post per season. Outside of what I'm currently watching, I still plan to watch Happy Sugar Life.

Encouragement of Climb S3. My soft climbing girls are back and they are just as adorable as ever, my feel good show of the season, Aoi and Hinata are still super cute tsun combo together, plus their fluffy drama.

Harukana Recieve. Surprised in a pleasant way by this, on one side there isn't much cheap fanservice, is very down to earth girls just playing volleyball and the little moments there are is for the pleasure of the ladies which I can approve. On the other side, the parallels of being a volleyball pair to an actual romantic couple is something I really down for, heck the title Harukana is basically a ship name and the character growth and drama is also pretty nice, well balanced across the chill and comedy.

K, now big boi time.

Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight. What started as a this is my jam anime due to the extremely gay demeanor of the characters and their on point fashion sense quickly evolved into a holy shit this is so good show. 

Love Live + Utena + Symphogear + Madoka is a dangerous combo for my heart. A show that like some of its similar quality in the media, plays everything to its strengths, it uses the advantages of animation to create something incredible to look at and listen to, takes the expectations known to its genre and subverts them to great extent through, all combined to deliver a truly memorable experience, an anime at its best.

All the characters and their relationships are interesting to see their continued development and like Utena, it resolves them through a battle, a revue that puts the characters feelings on overdrive, the moment where the show shines its brightest. Visually striking and with incredible music to follow.

Easily my AOTS and quickly becoming one of my favorite shows of all time.

So Killer T Cell actually started out as the main character of Black Clover?

I didn't even think about that, but it seems to be the case. Though at least his voice doesn't make me wanna die this time.

Definitely not a Neon Genesis Evangelion reference.

That scene was great. Wasn't sure if the censorship was a meta-joke or what though...feel like I see anime reference anime all the time. Maybe NGE is special.

And that preview for next episode looks great! Can't wait to Kohei die and the rest fight a shark. Or maybe they'll actually do something related to diving for once XD

Maybe.  I was thinking One Piece.  

I think it's just a joke because they're exact replicas.  Those are real diving suits, after all, and there have been approximately 5 billion NGE doujin produced.

I have no idea where this series is at relative to the manga.  Either they're skipping a bunch of stuff or they're jumping around.  Or maybe my memory is jumbled.  There is a character that appears in the ED that I thought would have shown up before now.

Man, How Not to Summon a Demon Lord is really just a work of art at this point. When that scantily-clad little girl appeared and asked for biscuits, I was floored by the symbolic imagery, it reminded me of a play I once saw in my youth. And when Diablo needed to funnel his magic into the cat girl by sticking his fingers into her vagingle-berry...I mean the underlying anti-racism message just speak for itself. When will mankind learn that love trumps hate?

On a more serious note, I know this is the "boring" season of Attack on Titan, but man do I love Historia's character arc. What an awesome character. I couldn't help but smile as she came out in full uniform, ready to join the fight, knowing full well who their enemy was.

Hm? Oh, she's blonde? I didn't notice.

Well, I was watching it for a few months now, but I just finished Sket Dance tonight.

I mentioned it before, but it starts off feeling like Gintama in a high school setting. It features a trio of characters from different walks of life that come together to solve various problems for their classmates, generally with an absurd comedy type routine that frequently breaks the fourth wall or references other manga/anime. The similarities seem to be more than coincidence though, as the author of the original manga used to be an assistant to Hideaki Sorachi (mangaka of Gintama), and the anime itself even lampoons it a few times, one of which being a crossover episode with the Gintama cast.

It feels more distinct as it goes on though, and unlike later Gintama episodes (at least in my opinion) the few serious arcs are really well-handled. One of them features heavy drama, while the others are more grounded and realistic, which works well with the setting. Each of the main trio had a really well fleshed out backstory that enhanced their character, and just made me enjoy their interactions more when we got back to the absurdity.

Overall, it was a ton of fun, and I'm sad it's over. It's been a while since an anime has had me laughing this much. Apparently the anime doesn't adapt the whole manga, so I have that at least. Time to get reading!

I'll be a bit busy this weekend, but I'll update the poll at some point. Like usual let me know if you have something you want to see up there.