User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Wiki in Anime: Summer 2016/@comment-24546844-20161003180715

Okay, this season was okay overall. I don't think I watched any particularly bad anime but on the other side, even the good ones didn't stand out too much. I didn't watch the hyped Mob Psycho 100 so I can't tell if it was the best of this season like many people claimed, and it's a bit hard for me choose one to hold the title.

>> If I have to chose one, Best Series goes to:


 * Re:Life! I marathoned this anime in a single night and don't regret it at all. I liked the idea, having a new chance in life is something that may appeal to a lot of people out there and I'm not different. The characters are likeable and both the comedy and drama were good. As a fan of slice of life my biggest issue here is that I feel this anime tried to cover the most conflicts and plot points possible and it lacked fillers. I mean, not every chapter needs to have an important discussion moving it. To me it lacked more scenes of the characters doing random, common things that highschooler would do. Also, I loved the idea of putting 12 different endings, each matching the episode. I liked this one so much that soon I'll be moving to the manga.

>> Now on the other ones:


 * Amanchuu!: Amanchuu! is, in my opinion, this season's equivalent to Flying Witch. It's a calm and relaxing story about friendship, growing up and enjoying the life to it's fullest. It has more melancholic moments than Flying Witch but that doesn't make any worse. I believe it makes it evermore worthy of watching because th many emotions it's able to convey. Amanchuu is almost tied up there with Re:Life for anime of the season in my opinion.


 * Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu: For some reason I enjoyed this season less than the other, even though this one had some pretty memorable moments, starting with the very first episode. Episode 15 was creepy as hell and episode 18 was undoubtedly the best episode of the whole anime (maybe of the whole season?) but apart from that I felt the anime stopped appealing to me for some reason. I didn't like almost anything from the battle of against the whale onward and the ending was just meh for me. I tried to emulate the same feeling it had given with episode 18 but it simply failed. At least I feel like it it succeeded on it's role of promotional anime and maybe one day I start reading the LN.


 * Amaama to Inazuma: This one had one of the best starts of this season, but it steadily got repetitive and a bit boring. The characters were fun to watch and Tsumugi impressed me as the anime team did a great job on representing her as a small child. My biggest problem was that the anime focused too much on the making of the food instead of the relationship between the father and daughter. So much that the best episode was the one this is changed.
 * Orange: I can't agree more Miskos. Even I who most of the time ignore bad drawings and animation felt a bit turned of by the art of this one. But as far as story goes Orange is pretty enjoyable. I feel the depiction of depression is on point even for someone who has no experience with it like me. I've read the manga short before finishing the anime, so if I'd ever recommend Orange to someone it would always be the manga.


 * New Game!: Cute girls doing cute things while developing a game. There's nothing spectacular about this one except that it gives you exactly what you expect you'd find (except realistic game development, but you were not expecting that on a moe anime right?) It's cute, it's fun, it's relaxing, it's enjoyable.


 * Alderamin on the Sky: This one is a strange case. The premise and the world are really interesting but I couldn't enjoy watching this one because I simply disliked all the characters. You have a genius, perfect but lazy main character that makes everyone around him look dumb, an Erza rip-off that is also stated to be invincible, a loli princess that adds nothing to the show after the first two chapters, and three other characters that you can't care about because the two perfect main characters cover whatever roles they might have had, they even state on screen that they're vastly inferior to the heroes. Even the military strategies that should be the high point of the show means nothing because you know the main characters are invincible. Too bad because I wanted to enjoy and know more about this world.


 * 91 Days: A story about vengeance and mafia on the prohibition era. I still haven't finished this one, but it bothers me a bit that it jumps from serious to calm to comedic situations on the most inappropriate points. Also, I'm not really that rooked on the plot or the characters.

>> Best OPs:


 * Re:Life's Button: Both the audio and visual parts of this one are amazing. This one is probably the best opening of the season in my opinion.


 * Orange's Hikari no Hahen: Though the song is on par with Re:Life's opening the visuals to this one are way too simple and generic so it takes second place.


 * Amanchuu's Million Clouds: I loved this one. It's so beautiful and calming and it fit's the atmosphere of the anime so much I had to mention it.

>> Best Endings:


 * Amaama to Inazuma's: My favorite ending this season, it touched me for some reason and was one of the things that supported the anime to the end. I sort of got adicted to it.


 * Alderamin on the Sky's Nameless: This is one of the few things that I'd be looking forward to while watching Alderamin. It's actually pretty good IMO despite the anime letting me down.


 * Generally, Re:Life's Endings: I know it's not fair but generally speaking Re:Life have some of the best endings of this season and they fit both in universe, as they're something the main character would listen to at highschool, and as specifics to the episodes. I particularly liked those at the later half of the series as they take on a more slow and romantic rhythm. ED8 Yuki no Hana, and ED10 Asu e no Tobira are my favorites. Too bad we only get to listen to each of them once in the anime.

>> For the next season:


 * Next season isn't looking particularly appealing to me so I guess I'll take less animes. I've already started Izetta, the Last Witch and Mahou Shoujo Raising Project, also, I'll surely watch the second season of Hibike: Euphonium as I just finished watching the first one and it was beautiful. Also, I'll give a chance to Sangatsu no Lion as it looks promising.

Well, this is it. Feel free to comment. See ya.