User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/Fairy Tail Wiki Winter 2016 Animeh Review Blog/@comment-1776824-20160401154634

I never finished AssClass cour 1 or Musaigen, but I did finish everything else, luckily...

Best Series Oh man, this is hard for me, not gonna lie. Between Haikyuu, Erased and Gundam Iron-Blood Orphans (which, by the way, shot up over 200 spots on MAL following the final episode, now ranking in at #565), it's hard to pick. But if I had to pick one...

'''Haikyuu!! Second Season''' : I shouldn't need to explain. Long live Oikawa and your fantastic serves. You're so cool I had to buy a keychain of you. ( .___.)

So that leaves Erased and G-Tetsu as honorable mentions. I gave all three of these series 10s because I loved them immensely and they were all so well done (especially Erased, seriously, Carry's assessment of the "bad guy reveal" is spot on), but of the two, they're obviously completely different genres. In fact, all three of them fall into completely different genres, so if you like mystery and stuff, I recommend Erased, obviously. However, if you like mecha, Gundam, or action, I recommend G-Tetsu, but in G-Tetsu's defense, it doesn't fit a lot of previous Gundam molds.

More on G-Tetsu, the Gundams are the titular mobile suits of the series, but unlike in past series (Gundam AGE, Gundam 00, Gundam SEED, and so on), the Gundams are not the main focus, and are purely a means to an end, though they are generally the more powerful mobile suits in the series, though in this one that is not necessarily the case. This Gundam is also part of an alternate universe, so you don't need to watch any Gundam series previous to understand anything (maybe just inside references, but that's it and they're far and few between). There's also quite a bit of death and good character development, and a lot of political stuff, since that's typically Gundam's larger focus, but this series is almost completely politics, especially when you get to the second half, so you may need to pay close attention and try to memorize the characters as best you can, especially the secondary ones, as they come into play later. The finale also left me speechless, so there's that.

I also watched Divine Gate, which was meh. ( .__.) The ending was kind of open, so maybe a second season would fix its flaws, but I'm not familiar with the game it's based on, so I don't know if a second season could even be aired.

Worst Series

Active Raid : I dropped it after episode 6. It was bad. Terrible characters, boring episodes, bad OST, completely episodic while trying to actually maintain some sort of "linking feature" between episodes, I mean jeez. I even forgot the entire purpose of the main character, and I'm pretty sure the studio did too, and even the main bad guys, who are cyber terrorists of an extreme variety, are episodic. It's just bad. Do not even attempt to watch it, and the bad news is that it gets a second cour in summer.

Best Opening

G-Tetsu Opening 2 : I'm extremely biased towards Gundam, and while this was no Raise Your Flag, it was still quite good. ;o

Best Ending

'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-XxikvcpwI Haikyuu!! Second Season Ending 2]''' : This shouldn't need any explaining. It was easily the best, in my opinion, between animation and actual sound. Moving manga art is always awesome.