User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Wiki in Anime: Summer 2016/@comment-4449950-20161012020214

Okay, I finally have even a smidgen of time to sit down and briefly give my thoughts on the last season. Like the spring season before it, I didn't have time to keep up with anything crappy, so everything I watched was pretty enjoyable in the end. As such, I'll just make a list:

'''[https://myanimelist.net/anime/32526/ Love Live! Sunshine!!]: Ngl, I went into this not expecting much because A) I wasn't a huge fan of the original in many, many''' ways, and B) the plot was apparently looking to be a re-hash of the plot of the original LL.

Sufficed to say then that I was pleasantly surprised. LL!S!! is in no way a masterpiece, but as far as slice of life with music twist animes go it's up there as the better in my mind.

The plot was a rehash of the original, but I'm not complaining because it's like the series took everything I hated about the original and made it better. Characters were not unbearable, animation (especially 3D) was much better, stupid plot points were avoided, the core message was more relate-able and stronger, and all in all I had a fun time and enjoyed what I saw. The last episode was a little cringey because they decided to be a little cliche, but all in all I enjoyed LL!S!! a lot :) You Watanabe gets my 'Female of the Season' award, because I liked her a lot. Ngl though, there wasn't a lot of competition.

Oh, the music this time around was ON.POINT. On.bloody.point.

Final Score: 7.7/10 Mob Psycho 100: This anime is really hard to talk about, because whilst I liked every episode, the characters, the unique animation and the fighting scenes, I just could not get pumped about this at all. In fact, I actually kept forgetting the air day and remembering half a week later that I had an episode to watch.

I have no idea why I was so meh about it, because Mob Psycho is an awesome anime and I did really, REALLY enjoy every aspect about it. It's very similar to One Punch in the sense that the author really just GETS real life and how people actually behave. There's no sugar-coating anything here, and even the core message is a bit of a tough love one, as I think the main message says that "No matter how awesome and powerful and special you are or think you are, if you are an asshole nobody is going to give five shits". It's a show about needing to work for what you want, about laziness and riding on being gifted not cutting it. And I liked Mob Psycho for that. I really did. Mob also gets my 'Male of the Season' award for being just amazing.

If you're after an interesting anime told well, I'd give this one a go.

Final Score: 8.2/10 Orange: Eh, what can I say about Orange? I read the manga before watching the anime and loved it, but the anime... just did not match that feeling at all.

Maybe it was the shitty animation quality for 70% of the show, maybe it was the voice acting or the slower-feeling pace of the story in the anime, but I just did not enjoy it as much as the manga. In the end Orange was just kind of there and I kept it up to see if it would ever get me to mirror the way I felt about the manga. It never really did .-.

If the premise for this series sounds good to you, read the manga. Give the anime a skip.

Final Score: 5.9/10 Shokugeki no Souma: Ni no Sara: I was really happy this got a S2, but after watching I didn't feel as much magic from this season as I did with S1. To me (and I haven't read the manga, as a note) the content seemed rushed, and I never really got fully invested into what was happening. I also noted by the end that I had completely (COMPLETELY) lost my interest in Souma, because he ceased to be relate-able to me in ANY WAY. Seriously, I actually just don't like him as a character anymore because I find him unbelievable. Luckily the rest of the cast is still AMAZING, so I enjoyed seeing what the were doing.

I was also really happy with the outcome of the election. My bro and I had bets on who would win and I was right ;) Glad the author at least has very clear goals for all of his characters. Ngl, the winner is also one of my faves overall, so I was rooting for him the entire time :3

Final Score: 8/10 Re;Zero blahblahblah: Don't talk to me about this show, because I refuse to agree with anyone who claims it is the best thing since sliced bread.

Ngl, at one point I was 6 episodes behind the airing episode because I honestly did not give a fuck about anything in this series. SO MANY pointless things happen in this anime, there are times when I thought the timelines were off, I didn't care for almost any of the characters (sans Emilia, Betty and Puck really) and the way Subaru was characterised ticked me off.

Yet, there is nothing in this anime that I can point to and say "see, this is why this show is bad", because this show contains nothing blatantly stupid, no obvious in-your-face fanservice, and nothing insulting. It's just an accumulation of cliches that tries not to be cliche, but doesn't do a very good job. I never felt an overall goal for this anime, and I never got what the characters were really trying to achieve. Not to mention that a heap of the characters like the main guy despite the fact that they've known him (due to the time thing where they don't remember - or at least they shouldn't, even if their emotions say otherwise) for mere days, or short weeks.

But whatever, this is the ultimate self-insert story right here. Imo it's just a mix of popular genres that adds nothing new to each genre and tries to pass itself off as unique in all of these aspects. It's not. Does that make it bad? Hell no, I was entertained at times and did like some of the story-telling. Does that make it the masterpiece everyone claims it to be? Nup, sure doesn't.

Also, not enough Betty >:(

Final Score: 6-7-ish/10 (I seriously have no idea what score to give this anime tbh, because my feelings are so mixed.) Apart from this, I am still trying to finish ReLife, which I am greatly enjoying so far. I dropped Handa (what a bloody disappointment that shit was) and Lightning (could't be bothered watching) as well, so I won't be finishing them. Best OP and ED go to Love Live! Sunshine!!, not because the OP and ED were amazing (though the idea for LLS' ED was awesome and I liked it - basically they got each girl to sing it and as the group came together there were more until the final episodes where they were all singing the completed version) but because everything else kinda sucked .-.

On the OP and ED for LLS though, as a note, can I just say that I love the little detail in Love Live where they make the girls dance just a little bit out of time with one another? It's a really nice detail that you can notice, but also needs to be looked out for. Really makes it more realistic :) This season I am definitely watching Hibike S2 (which so far is awesome), Bungou Stray Dogs Cour 2 (because I watched the first half), Haikyuu S3 (because I like awesomeness), and Yuri!!! On Ice (don't talk to me about this anime - holy shit, I just can't)

Apart from these, I haven't really seen anything in the first ep rounds that totally grabbed my eye. Might give some a few more eps. I am super busy with uni though, so my time is limited and I can't just keep up with shit like I could before. Next season I can, but right now, no ;__;