As always, below is simply my personal impressions/opinions and YMMV!
This was a fun experiment, but if I learned anything, it was to try to remember not to force myself to watch shows I'm just not enjoying. ^^;
Dr. Stone
My Personal Rating: 10/10Post-Season Impressions
I already knew I would love this show thanks to the manga, and boy howdy do I still ever!! This show will be continuing into the Fall 2019 season and I remain every bit as excited as I was at the beginning!! Bonus, my very favorite character, Asagiri Gen, has finally made it on screen! Also, I'm so, so happy to be in the current arc, where we have so many more characters and way more elaborate science contraptions and concoctions being created!! Get excited! The next half of the season is gonna be great!
Personal Queue Status
Still watching the heck out of!
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest
My Personal Rating: 4/10
Post-Season Impressions
Yeah okay, so I still watched this all the way through, but it does drag a bit at points, and my overall rating of the actually quality has dropped. I'm at least trying to mentally work around the loli fanservice, because it does legit help that the girl is actually much older than she looks, and also the main character himself is still a teenager, which sort of helps? Anyway, the plot is't bad, but the initial premise was stronger than the ongoing story. Still sticking it out, but if this had continued into the next season I probably would have dropped it.
Personal Queue Status
Stuck it out for the whole show, probably will not watch future seasons
BEM
My Personal Rating: n/a - did not watch enough to form a proper opinion
Post-Season Impressions
I actually wound up dropping this, coming to the conclusion that it was a bit dark for my tastes, and realistically I could not keep up the number of shows I was trying to watch. I still think the premise of the show was at least somewhat intriguing, and others may enjoy it, I just ultimately decided there wasn't enough content that was actually up my alley, personally, to continue.
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Dropped after the first episodes, due to lack of personal engagement
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Dropped after the first episodes, due to lack of personal engagement
Cop Craft
My Personal Rating: 5/10
Post-Season Impressions
This show was not as strong as I'd hoped. I still love the concept and the premise and the *idea* of the characters, but truth be told , the writing is a bit weak and the show was not enough to keep me engaged.
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Ended up dropping due to lack of investment, much to my disappointment
Demon Lord, Retry
My Personal Rating: 2/10
Post-Season Impressions
To be honest, I'm not sure why I continued watching this as far as I did? As previously stated, the loli elements were very uncomfortable for me - and then it got worse, with an uncomfortably cringey otoko no ko character who also uncomfortably lusted after the main character? In the end, there just wasn't enough content to exceed the cringe factor for me.
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Could not get past the cringe, dropped after 5 episodes or so
Fire Force
My Personal Rating: 9/10
Post-Season Impressions
This show is great!! I loved the characters and found the plot very engaging! Really the only thing I don't love about this show is the occasional scattering of excess fanservice, but it's generally not egregious enough to detract from the main story. Intriguing plot and great characters has remained a strong factor throughout! I love how they play the 'hero' aspect of the main character, and Arthur, who had a similar deal except replacing hero with knight, was very much my favorite (very much a lovable doof, for me)
This show is great!! I loved the characters and found the plot very engaging! Really the only thing I don't love about this show is the occasional scattering of excess fanservice, but it's generally not egregious enough to detract from the main story. Intriguing plot and great characters has remained a strong factor throughout! I love how they play the 'hero' aspect of the main character, and Arthur, who had a similar deal except replacing hero with knight, was very much my favorite (very much a lovable doof, for me)
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Ongoing, still watching the heck out of!
Given
My Personal Rating: 10/10Post-Season Impressions
Yeeeeeeeesssssssssss. We need SO MUCH MORE BL content like this, featuring complex, human, and *emotionally healthy* characters and relationships. I loved this so fucking much, and I want more of my favorite BL manga of this same quality to be adapted to anime form!!
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I loved every minute of this
I loved every minute of this
If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord
My Personal Rating: 7/10
Post-Season Impressions
Holy shit Latina is so fucking cute. Really that is the main takeaway from this show, if you were here to watch a frankly adorable demon child get adopted and become the town darling, then this show delivered in a big way. And it even managed some complexity and emotional depth along the way! Definitely watched all of this and enjoyed!
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Watched through to the end!
Isekai Cheat Magician
My Personal Rating: 4/10
Post-Season Impressions
Okay, I will freely admit that the quality of this show was all over the fucking place, but mostly low quality throughout. That said, it had just enough plot to hang onto, and some surprisingly strong female characters! (Unless there was a plot reason for them to suddenly become useless, which did happen). I remain super angry about how they handled the character of Anastasia?! Major Spoiler: Like wow, that was pure undiluted "this character exists to die for the main male character's character development". But then that gets contrasted with Rin, who occasionally just went off on her own adventures without Taichi (the male lead) and got to distinctly be the hero in those bits even got her own damsel in distress? I also liked how their teacher Lemia legit came across as Responsible Adult, pretty much the whole time? And most of the fanservice was actually focused on *adult* characters, and not the clearly teenaged girls? So yeah, a lot of weirdly good stuff, contrasted with a lot of quite low quality storytelling, animation, and shitty plot arcs and female characters handled as poorly as they are handled well, which is a weird contrast?
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Watched the whole thing, but definitely struggled through some of it - not 100% sure if it was worth it? But it did have some great moments scattered throughout!
Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note
My Personal Rating: 7/10
Post-Season Impressions
As previously mentioned, this was my first foray into the Fate universe, and it was quite legitimately interesting and engaging. They did a relatively okay job with providing enough exposition such that I wasn't completely lost, though I did still end up trawling wiki pages for more information. This didn't exactly sell me on the universe, as my enjoyment was pretty specific to the characters and the style of plot, but I did at least really enjoy this show!
As previously mentioned, this was my first foray into the Fate universe, and it was quite legitimately interesting and engaging. They did a relatively okay job with providing enough exposition such that I wasn't completely lost, though I did still end up trawling wiki pages for more information. This didn't exactly sell me on the universe, as my enjoyment was pretty specific to the characters and the style of plot, but I did at least really enjoy this show!
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My Personal Rating: 7/10
Post-Season Impressions
Honestly I had way more trouble than I expected getting through this, considering how much I liked the characters and the premise? Rating docked for that reason.
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