Spring 2025 is finally over!

It started as one of the best season EVER, but did it stay great until the end? Unfortunately a lot of anime fell off (HARD) not even halfway through the season.
OP Pic: at least 3 episodes watched

>HibiMeshi
Definitely AOTS. It’s a flawless cute girls SoL anime. as expected from Non Non Biyori’s author. The characters are fun and they all have great chemistry with each other

>Zatsu Tabi
The complete opposite of HibiMeshi. The characters are BORING with negative chemistry with each other and their every interaction was a complete snoozefest. They were supposed to be friends, but it felt like they weren’t even acquaintances. Should’ve sticked to solo traveling

>mono
It had a great start with interesting characters especially Shikishima, but unfortunately the author loved her self-insert way too much. Haruno and her hag friends got so much focus that the main character (forgot her name) barely got any screentime. Haruno ruined this series the same way Armin ruined Shingeki. Also they completely abandoned the photography premise. What a fraudulent anime

>Aharen
Aharen x Raidou’s chemistry is the best thing about this series, but S2 focused way too much on the BORING side characters instead. I absolutely hate them all, especially the new gyaru and the tall shy girl. Aharen’s siblings are fine, thougheverbeit

>Aru Majo
Boring anime carried hard by our bisexual stacy MC S’berry and her charming personality. Unfortunately shit got too serious near the end to the point that it’s not fun anymore

>Ninkoro
Very fun and funny.... at first. I can’t really explain it but it got progressively less fun and funny. I forgot when I simply lost interest.

>Lycoris OVA
Pure fluff SoL without cringe serious plot with Majima and gay sensei’s relationship drama!? That’s why it’s so good

>Cinderella Gray
It’s just fun. The manga got boring later on (just like Oguri’s real career), but fortunately we’re not there yet

>YAIBA
This season’s anime with #1 animation quality. I like that the pacing is fast, so we don’t have to deal with all the villain of the week slog. There’s only 1 flaw, which is the fact that this is a Reiwa adaptation, so bunch of le problematic scenes, according to feminists are altered or straight up removed, like Kenjuro and Yaiba’s flipping Sayaka’s skirts. Surprisingly, onsen and changing scenes are still present. At least it’s nowhere near as bad as the upcoming Nube’s Remake. It hasn’t even aired yet and they already butchered everything wow.

>Takamine
It’s really good for what it is. The chemistry between Shirota & Takamine feel natural, despite the nonsense relationship. Good anime that has more than just boobs and slits.

>Rock Lady
An unsurprisingly shallow gimmick anime. I always hate it when there’s a musical scene in anime, which sounds nothing special, but the audience and the narration are like “WOOOWWW SO GOOD”. No, it’s fucking mid. The only musical anime with actually good performance are Kono Oto Tomare and Mashiro no Oto. nothing else.

>Shoushimin S2
Absolutely garbage S2. Too much shit spent on that shitstain Urino. Where’s Osanai x Jongoro x Kengo moments? I’m so fucking sick of Urino.

>Makina-san & Yandere Dark Elf
Nice nudity, nice boobs, but nothing else. Their obsessively desperate personality is honestly such a turn off. So this is what women mean by “the ‘ick”.

Everything else is just garbage and not worth commenting, especially Gundam Gcucks. I don’t understand why it’s so popular in nipland. It’s garbage on every single aspect. >muh UC. Garbage.

Best OP: Danjoru
Best ED: Ninkoro
Both songs by Honeyworks. Amazing.

So? What’s your AOTS? biggest disappointment?

Fire Force, Ninkoro and Yaiba were the only good anime this season
Rock wa Lady was alright, not sure why it's so hated on here
G-Cucks was disappointing
Everything else was shit

>>280021839
>Rock wa Lady was alright, not sure why it's so hated on here
because it's a yuribait

>G-Cucks was disappointing
because it's a yuribait

>>280021853
>because it's a yuribait
That's really the least of its issues.

>>280021731 (OP)
>HibiMeshi
>Definitely AOTS.
Agreed so hard

>>280022068
I love sheep. I want S2.

>Takamine-san
My AOTS, everything it chooses to do it does perfectly, between the unselfinsertable MC who still manages to grow a pair when he needs to, the classic promise girl dynamic, the walking fanservice lesbian friend, the retro ecchi aesthetic, and Takane being so fucking hot
>Rock Lady
peaks and valleys as it works its way through multi-episode story arcs that it has for some reason, but the peaks are so high, high impact sexual musical violence, would have scored higher if it had boob nipples
>S'berry
makes you want to apologize for everything you've said about web novel adaptations, absolute emotional rollercoaster, makes you fall in love with the main character and keeps you on the edge of your seat as you follow her trials and tribulations, weird abrupt ending though
>Wind Breaker
another right in the feels, stiff competition between Tsubaki-chan and Sakura in who is cuter, but also mega hype battle arcs with raw impactful hand-to-hand combat, also a weird and abrupt ending
>LycoReco shorts
Chisato is precious, simple as
>Kijin Gentosho
comfy misery porn about a guy who has lost everything dear to him but keeps on living because he must eat the soba, Ofuu best girl
>Witch Watch
just a solid gag manga that does something for everyone, Nemu is a slut and I love her
>Bye Bye, Earth
still don't know what the fuck I watched but I was mesmerized every second
>Ninkoro
Intelligent, nihilistic, with a wicked sense of humor
>Kowloon Generic Romance
gorgeous aesthetic but nowhere near enough episodes to properly explore the meta plot and I'm just kind of lost, buying the manga though
>Zatsu Tabi
very comfy, scenic anime with just enough laughs and heart to round out the Monday roster, it's a shame that Yoko Hikasa is married because I want to marry her
>Summer Pockets
these arcs are a bit dense to have this four-episode omnibus format, and I hope the meta arcs in the second cour are worth it, but a lush island setting and fantastic girls make it worthwhile

>>280021731 (OP)
Where the FUCK is apocalypse hotel you goddamn homo?

>>280022208
Dropped after ep.1 due to extreme boredom.
The previous afterlife Hotel anime was dogshit and so is this one.

>>280022226
Fuck you. Shit taste

>Catch me at the ballpark
a joy to watch from start to finish. Every character was great. Every plot point was great. Sunshiro best bro
>Apocalypse hotel
really lost its tone halfway through. Ponko is a cancer and needs to be shot. It recovered a bit by the end but the ending was too melancholy for me. Cockblocking yachiyo like that is a dick move
>Rock is a lady's modesty
honestly lily having to keep h3er princess act up in school was more interesting then the whole band saga. The battle of the bands was terrible and tina immediately went from ice queen to simp and wounded puppy: it felt like the plot after episode...9? 10? was just filler
>witch watch
I think it was fun. The raven familiar added nothing good to the story and needed more cat witch, but Nico was really cute and made scenes fun. Her and Moi's relationship had a lot of potential but it went absolutely nowhere
>once upon a witch's death
they really couldnt decide if they wanted to stick to the "dead in a year" plotline or not. Usually it wasnt brought up at all until the very end of the episode, if that. S'berry also just kinda solves every problem without much trouble, so each episode's danger of the week didnt really feel like it landed. Which sucks because I cried at least 3 or 4 times at the beginning of the season with granny's death. Meg a cute tho

so Apocalypse Hotel is the Seikaisuru Kado of 2025?

As to keep the tradition, I don't agree with most of what you said. However, this time around I kind of agree with the overall best of the season.
My AOTS is either CinGray or HibiMeshi.

>Yandere Dark Elf
The whole production is endearingly janky, I love Mariabelle's design and personality, overall a pleasant low-stakes borderline erotica
>Ballpark
does one thing and does it well, though that one thing got boring after a while, still Fairouz Ai is a being of immense power
>Gorilla Girl
love this tall dork, love the squirrel boy, wish it had literally any action though for being a show about a junior knight with gorilla strength fighting against left-wing terrorists
>Unaware Atelier Meister
complete bubblegum narou but all the girls are cute, wish they had their tits out though like in Beheneko though because otherwise this show has nothing except the one joke
>Too-Perfect Saint
Philia is just so pretty and I want to root for her in love and in her fight against the demon king, but the detour into Mia's political career was a buzzkill also I can't quite place it but her chin and jawline look weird to me
>Danjoru
glorious trainwreck of a show, but too much of the younger characters whining about being in pain and not enough of the older characters inflicting pain on them
>Shiunji-ke
does literally nothing except have hot girls
>Apocalypse Hotel
should score much higher since Yachiyo is a dear and the feels moments rival the best feels anime of the season, but I didn't watch the PV that would have prepared me for the tanuki and fuck the tanuki, also robots are incapable of feelings so all of the feels are invalid
>Shoshimin
fuck these long ass tedious ass arcs, this isn't what I picked up Shoshimin for, and while Osanai's voice and her monologues are sultry to the highest degree, compared to Takane's body she is a total stick and doesn't have enough sex appeal to save this from last place

>>280022392
>she is a total stick and doesn't have enough sex appeal

>>280022392
>robots are incapable of feelings so all of the feels are invalid
how dare you. Yachiyo's boyfriend could kick your ass

>>280022226
Then you can be wrong and put it at dogshit. Leaving it off the list borders on insane.

>>280021731 (OP)
Apocalypse Hotel

>>280022512
Maybe OP just doesn't think his thoughts on series he dropped early on are particularly worth expressing? Would you like me to detail my reasons for saying never mind to the seven series I dropped at the first episode? Or the three that failed the three-episode rule? Or the three I just kind of got bored of? That adds up to an unlucky number so I don't wanna

>>280021731 (OP)
I genuinely do not understand your take on Ninkoro, if anything, I would say the complete opposite. I also do not understand why you dropped Apocalypse Hotel, but I guess this is seasonal tradition of me never understanding what the fuck is wrong with your head. Regardless, this is probably the first time I'm more or less in agreement with your tier list. I appreciate the fact that you didn't sleep on Yaiba, that anime was consistently punching above its weight, it was a Magical Circle Guru Guru situation where the new adaptation is so good that it eclipses everything else. Also, while I absolutely do not agree that Hibimeshi being "flawless", it was clearly the CGDCT of the season and despite the relatively low production value, it was delivering some of the best SoL of the season.

Side question: where the fuck is Shoushimin Series, you absolute lala prancing homo fruit? It doesn't top my seasonal list, but by all metrics it was a very notable show.

>>280022591
>where the fuck is Shoushimin Series, you absolute lala prancing homo fruit?
He put it at the lowest tier of the list lol.

>>280022645
I literally missed it because I thought there would be no way it would be on the bottom. I hate these threads so much it's unreal.

>>280022684
well I thought there would be at least some keion stans left who like it for the music and aren't just braindead moeshitters who complain about Rock Lady all thread for reasons besides the existence of male characters

>>280022684
>I hate these threads so much it's unreal.
Thanks for the laugh, but yeah, I don't really agree with OP (a faggot btw) 90% of the time, so that's why I don't usually post in these threads. Last season I terribly disagreed with one his takes, but I suppose that's what makes them endearing(?).

>>280022589
smart anon

>shoushimin
10/10 AOTY
>kusuriya s2
Pretty good so far.
>summer pockets
It's rushed, but I like it.
>kowloon
It's cucked, but I like it.
>vigilantes
Pretty good, considering it's derived from BnHA

>>280022750
>>280022591
Why are y'all so tsundere?

>>280022815
did I miss the cuck in kowloon? it's gay and I like it, but the cuck show of the season is kanpekiseijo

>>280022750
Most opinions on anime sound like trolling attempts to me. I can't read posts like >>280022815 without wanting to spoon my eyeballs out of their sockets. But I am extremely sure that OP does these ritual posts in a deliberately provocative manner.

love Ninkoro Dance

>>280022887
I meant it's cucked because of the gay/crossdressing shit.

>>280022906
>other people have different taste/opinion!? FUARRRRKS THEY MUST BE TROLLING!

>>280022932
well that's not what cucked means, sonny

Shoushimin is my 2nd best

>>280022591
> also do not understand why you dropped Apocalypse Hotel

People with absolute shit taste often do things many of us don't understand.

>>280022947
Anon, with the amount of insincere contrarianism on this board, can you really blame me?

>>280022829
I'm both on 4chan and /a/. I can't get more tsundere even if I wanted to.

>>280022906
I don't doubt it's his taste, and I don't usually care about what he thinks of an anime, but goddamn if there are times in which he throws some fucking terrible takes.

People who shit on others' taste never ever share their own because of their fear of being judged. share your taste, COWARDS.

>>280023008
I don't think anything this season was ubiquitously popular enough to invoke contrariansim, it's just that Shoushimin Series and Apocalypse Hotel did things that a plurality of people hated

>>280021731 (OP)
>lycoris
>anything but at the bottom of the garbage bin
opinion discarded

>>280023077
this, bet they're all just a bunch of oldgoodnewbads who didn't actually watch anything and are guessing which shitposts may work

>>280023091
>Shoushimin Series and Apocalypse Hotel did things that a plurality of people hated
the offense is called "being boring and unengaging".

>>280023091
>I don't think anything this season was ubiquitously popular enough to invoke contrariansim
Well, that's fair, but in the case of this particular season it was more the other way around. Namely ironic GQuuuuuuX apologists.

>>280023119
and tanuki and feces

>>280023135
Yeah I believe people are only pretending to like Gcucks. they're obliged to like it just because it's popular in Japan like Kemono Friends. No one outside Japan unironically liked Kemono Friends.

>>280023077
I already said I agree with OP in that my AOTS is either Uma or HibiMeshi. My third place goes to Shoushimin, and I still haven't decided the other two that would complete my top 5 because I have many options.

>>280023112
I really dislike “old good, new bad"faggots, but I don't think they have anything to do with this.

>>280023077
That's fair, I also hate that. Since I shat on anons ITT for their lousy takes, I'll share my top 5 of the season in no particular order (except for number 5 which is number 5 on my ranking):
>Yaiba
>Hibimeshi
>Apocalypse Hotel
>Ninkoro
>Shoushimin Series

By no means the only anime I've seen these season, of course. But I enjoyed this season way more than I expected to.

>>280021731 (OP)
>>280021738
>hates rock lady
>didn't properly connect with s'berry
>doesn't think the tabis have chemistry because they're not riffing like cartoon characters
well of course if you don't have feelings you're not going to feel the ROCK

>>280023283
play real music like GBC and Mujica next time.
even Jellyfish was better than Rock Lady.

>>280023172
The thing is that GQuuuuuuX was also very polarising in Japan. I've read through Jap comments saying some of the most egregious things ever posts on the Internet. A particular standout was some old dude saying that the anime was good because it had good animation, them yellow creatures are surprisingly monkey-brained. But you can also see a fair amount of criticism, namely the dependence on shallow references.

Also, I get why Western audiences would like to pretend to like GQuuuuuuX because I've also fell for the trap of seeing an ungodly amount of Gundam for the sole purpose of impressing online fatties. But this kind of poser bullshit isn't proper for this forum. GQuuuuuuX was simply bad anime on many, many, many, many different levels. Animation and references be damned.

>>280023366
the mecha design is also garbage.
how many gunpla did it sell so far?

>>280023283
Not OP but the side characters in zatsu were bland as fuck. Only the drunk hag was any entertaining

>>280023436
drunk > hassu > senpai > ugly glasses kouhai

>>280021731 (OP)
>No Hotel Apocalypse
>Takamine better than Maebashi Witches

As I expected, shitty taste.

>>280023221
if you're just going to make the safest picks possible and not give any takes let alone mention series you didn't like, then what's the difference between it and not posting at all?

>>280023575
No one actually likes Maebashi. it's almost worse than Princession.

>>280023575
I'd like to hear reasons why Takamine isn't perfect other than
>I don't like the artstyle
>I can't self-insert as MC
>I hate women
>if I see that butterfly one more time I swear to God

>>280023629
Dunno what you want me to say. Those are my genuine picks and the anime I had the most fun with. I also had fun watching schlock like Teogonia because of the MACAQUES, but I'm not going to pretend it wasn't awful. I guess my real controversial opinions would be on the anime that I hated or dropped.

>>280023690
all the cool kids are giving detailed hot takes on what they managed to hatewatch for the season

the coolest

>>280023655
>He only watched 2 episodes.

Maebashi delivered top-tier character growth and group dynamics this season.

I still have to watch Aharen, Slime, Uma, Maebashi, Vigilantes and Kowloon.

>>280023740
I'm trying not to hatewatch as much these days, I finally found out it was a huge waste of time and it genuinely damages your soul. The only thing I really had to hatewatch was GQuuuuuuX, but even that is admittedly a very boring take. If it pleases you, I'll expand my thoughts on my top 5, I'm sure you'll find something to poke fun.

>Yaiba
I've said it before, this was a rare Magical Circle Guru Guru situation where the adaptation was so good, it renders everything else almost meaningless. Not much to criticise here, it's just dripping with effort and love for the original work.
>Hibimeshi
This was the little show that could of the season. It doesn't have stellar production values but it has such a huge amount of heart that it's genuinely endearing. Not perfect for any means, but I'm going to miss these gals.
>Apocalypse Hotel
Very high highs and some acceptable mids. Being an original, it was nice to discover the anime alongside /a/. Some (shitposters) say that tanukis ruined it, but to me at least I was surprised by how soulful and absurd the whole thing was.
>Ninkoro
SHAFT delivered. Yeah, it's yurislop, but who gives a fuck when the comedy is this biting? It's a show with incredible character dynamics that only grew stronger with each new episode.
>Shoushimin Series
By far the anime I have the most nitpicks with. The second cour was slow and some of the character developments were odd to say the least. Can't say I'm a big fan of Osanai, even if I still do want her to put an apple on my mouth, strap my balls, stick a lit candle up my butt and spit on my face after eating my cake. Shoushimin Series to me is one of those classic examples of perfectly serviceable anime that proves that them Japs aren't that good at writing as they think they are, despite most Western fans deluding themselves into thinking otherwise. Like The Perfect Insider. Regardless, it was still a standout anime with many unique qualities and is an easy recommendation.

>>280023997
yep I'm thinking after all it's better to just give a list of series and your takes than trying to diagnose why you put one thing that was good in a tier with another thing that sucked

>>280023990
I watched until the pedo influencer mascot arc

>>280024006
Are you mad that the actual culprit mattered so little to the story of the Fireman arc that it might as well have been Hiya, or did you genuinely think that Yuki did it?

>>280023673
Genius logic, ignore all the flaws and suddenly it’s perfect. Wow, what a revelation.

The animation and art style are straight-up dogshit.

>>280024123
the artstyle is clearly intentional and not a valid criticism in and of itself, and when anons say animation they mean the artstyle

I guess I exclusively watched dogshit shows this season. Nice.

>>280024040
>Skipped the two best arcs

>>280024101
I'm not mad at the case resolutions themselves, even if the Fireman Arc was kind of anticlimactic and would've unironically benefited immensely from Yuki having been the actual arsonist. What rustles my balls is the Jogoro/Osanai dynamic. It's mysterious and intriguing but I don't feel that it actually delivers. Also, some of the character developments seem very odd to me, like Osanai just being pure chaos. The show certainly was at its best with small and gimmicky cases, but it's not like I mind the bigger ones. It's that it then becomes imperative to explain the character psychologies alongside the bigger cases, and especially how warped their sense of reality is. Which is a very neat concept, but I have some qualms with the execution. Jogoro's stunted emotions for the most part is analysed the best, it delivers a deeper sense for his character, a somewhat above average kid just trying to fit in. But Osanai remains this complete mystery and feels more like a narrative convenience. It feels like she should've gone full Moriarty, if that makes sense. Though I'm not sure what the solution here would be exactly.

>>280024155
This isn’t just about style. It’s just cheap and clumsy animation. It was so ugly I couldn’t even jack off. The manga does a better job, even with the same look.

>>280023997
These posts are all utterly meaningless to me. And I have no idea why anyone would post meme tier lists without any sort of additional input. All I can really say is that you're missing out on Yaiba, it's a really cool show if you're into Heisei shonen.

>>280024101
I'm surprised at the number of people who genuinely thought Osanai did it since the show made it pretty obvious she would never do something like that

because Osanai is evil

I had the most fun watching ninkoro, shoushimin, hibimeshi and aharen. each episode went by so quickly.
bye bye earth was kino. ballpark was fun. danjo was great until the forced drama. ore wa seikan was surprisingly good. kimisen was good and rock wa lady was alright too. mono was wasted potential, great production and fun characters but most episodes are ruined by the mangaka self insert. kowloon was interesting until it focused on the faggots. yami healer was the best among the slopsekais

>>280024311
I don't think that anons unironically think that Osanai did it. It's more that the story would've been much more interesting if she had been the villain. Because she is villainous, but the story never really confronts her on this.

>>280024272
based on the studio I'm going to say that it was masterfully executed and completely intentional as an homage to the classic ecchi of late night cable where the budgets were just as low and the animation just as jank

>>280021731 (OP)
Mono on top
everyone else fuck off

>>280024348
no, you could tell not only from the sleuthing during and the reaction after that they totally thought she did it, and I'm not convinced that "the story would've been much more interesting" isn't just massive cope, since clearly the story would have been more interesting if Nakamaru did it or had literally anything to do

>>280024395
I don't like Vinicius Jr

>>280024348
It would've been dumb. It took Jogoro like 30 minutes to explain all the steps she took to avoid being caught kidnapping herself so following it up with something that's as obvious and noticeable as arson would make no sense

>>280021731 (OP)
Years of people telling OP to fuck off but magically "people" will start to agree with him because the show with the worst fanbase of the season is at the top...

>>280024398
>>280024420
Again, my problem is kind of abstract here and mostly unrelated to the Fireman arc. Osanai is clearly a villainous character and we never quite truly understand her motives or even her origin. Like a dancing shadow. Was the Fireman arc the perfect opportunity to confront her character? Probably not, I'll grant you that. But no such opportunity ever appears.

As for Nakamura, I'm still very puzzled by her character. Because there was a case there, but Kobato drops it because he had zero emotional evolvement, she was just his coping mechanism. Ultimately, her character served to inform Kobato's psychology and some of his own personal failings, which was great. But she was criminally underutilised.

It feels like this story is incomplete without a University arc with Osanai going full Moriarty. Maybe with a dead body or two on campus.

>>280024519
Shhh you’re not supposed to point that out

>>280024519
>the show with the worst fanbase of the season is at the top
??????
The fuck are you on about?

>>280024519
Hibi has the BESTEST fanbase

Dropped Summer Pockets, I don't mind Shiroha and Umi shilling but not at the cost of the other heroines

>>280024378
In the end, poor animation ruins most ecchi, especially the erotic, non-comedic ones like Takamine. The genre is supposed to lie in the elegant way it expresses female sensuality, which presupposes at least a basic understanding of anatomic drawing. Without that, all that's left is a tired, convenient story.

>>280024827
>non-comedic ones like Takamine
yeah you're just delulu and you haven't seen one ecchi ever

Best girl didn't get enough screentime

>>280021731 (OP)
In this season the protagonists and the popular girls of each anime have had short dark hair:
>Shoushimin Series
>Your Forma
>Kowloon Generic Romance
>Chuuzenji-sensei
>Ninkoro
>Ranger Reject
>Cinderella Gray
>Mono
>Zatsu tabi

>>280021731 (OP)
Ninkoro = AOTY
everything else = shit

>>280023997
Uma musume Cinderella Gray is S
Kowloon is A
Chuuzenji sensei is B, but better than Mono and Zatsu tabi.
You are missing a lot if you don't watch them.

>>280025077
I will have to side with Ninkoro to stop the hibimeshi menace.

>>280024896
unf

Anime is dead. Death to moeshits.

>>280021731 (OP)
Ninkoro was my personal AOTS.
I watched Hibimeshi's first couple episodes but then I just got bored, maybe I'll try to pick it up again.
>Takamine that high
What the fuck? Did I fucking miss something?

>>280024395
Mono is shit

>>280025852
well written characters

>>280022226
>not following the 3 episode rule
I would have dropped it after episode 1 too but I'm glad I didn't. It's not representative.

>>280026154
yeah everyone should follow the 3 episodes rule for all 40 anime every season.

>>280025986
Mona is kawaii.

Only mentally ill /u/troons think Ninkoro is AOTS. It caters to their deviancy, after all.

>>280022684
Bro, OP placed the designated CGDCT garbage and the yuritroon anime at the top. It's quite obvious this is a bait thread to farm outrage and foster console wars.

>>280022815
See? Now this is a good opinion (slight disagree on kowloon tho, the homoshit went too far and there was too many infodumps).

>>280026842
>>280026934
sad that there aren't any battle shonen slop this season?

>>280021738
>Absolutely garbage S2. Too much shit spent on that shitstain Urino. Where’s Osanai x Jongoro x Kengo moments? I’m so fucking sick of Urino.
The episode where Osanai absolutely destroys Urino made it all worth watching

>>280026979
Not as much as you seethe when a male appears in a yuribait series. Your ilk seriously need Jesus.

>Rock Lady
Started off fun, but fizzled out after episode 7. There is just so many times you can recycle the same plot point every episode.
>Lazarus
You can watch episode 1 and episode 12 and not miss anything relevant to the plot. Everything between those two felt like one big pointless filler. Watanabe tried to pull another Samurai Champloo, but forgot that SC worked cause it was about the journey, not the Sunflower guy.
>Gundam Gquuuuuux
Massive trainwreck, as expected from the likes of Anno and Tsurumaki. Interesting premise and original cast abandoned by the wayside for nostalgiafaggotry and space-magic bullshitery.

>>280026979
Uma Musume.

>>280027374
Uma Musume is soulless without the Umapyoi

Maebashi Witches was the only show I watched the day it aired for the whole season. It was entertaining, if nothing else. I'm not sure why Sunrise did that.
Gquuuuux was a mess that needed more episodes, but at least even its state as a collection of half-finished ideas feels like a callback to the original series. I think it's better than some people give it credit for, but also worse than some people claim.
Apocalypse Hotel was a refreshing original series, well-done and realized existential gags. I wish it had leaned more into one or the other, but I don't mind getting both.
Ninkoro reminded me that SHAFT is still capable of a well directed and animated comedy series. It made me feel young again. I hope people watching it as their first series from the studio find their other comedy works. If CITY is good, maybe we'll have some good old fashioned studio wars again.
Mono and Zatsu Tabi were the exact same show. The latter was just honest about it at least. I like that sort of tourism show, so I don't mind.
Rock wa Lady needed more drama or something to hook me. It felt like the death knell of band girl anime (Bandori, GBC, BTR) - a cheap and half-assed copy of what made this modern trend popular. The music was good, but that and yuribait are not enough to carry you here. There are big shoes to fill.

Everything else was dropped. I dont care about shonenshit or isekai or sequels or regular adaptations. HibiMeshi was probably great but I was busy.

>>280026842
I don't know why everyone obsesses over Ninkoro being /u/. Their relationship's a slow burn thing rather than being shoved in your face at every opportunity like most /u/ media.

>>280021731 (OP)
I look at all the posters in this image and not a single one of them actually makes me interested, in fact it makes me think worse of them. The only half decent poster in terms of interest is Lazarus and I've actually been keeping up with it and it's shit.

>>280028074
try cartoon network and nickeledeon.

Who else did not watch anything at all this season? Seriously complete trash, I don't know if I'm outgrowing anime or if this shit is just all really low quality this year.

>>280028096
>>280028084

>>280021731 (OP)
Rankings:
1. Shoushimin Series (AOTS)
2. Ninkoro
3. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
4. Hibi Meshi

Dropped:
Witch Watch
Mono
Umamusume

Still interested in watching:
Apocalypse Hotel
Rock wa Lady

>>280028096
This season was the best we've had in years. If you didn't find anything fun you should probably give up now. You're either not trying or not interested in enjoying it.

>>280028096
Go read manga instead

>>280024519
>show with the worst fanbase of the season is at the top
but mono isn't at the top

>>280028130
Seriously? 0 memorable shows this season. Yaiba was halfway cool but literally just the most generic shonen possible and Yaiba is super unmemorable. Lazarus was a huge let down, all of these niche shows seem like they're literally for gay people or something

>>280028163
>all of these niche shows seem like they're literally for gay people or something
You're not trying. It's not hard to read a synopsis and watch a PV to try a first episode. I have a whole ass life and I find time for it. You don't want to find one that you like. Just do something else.

>>280028096

>>280028177
You don't even have to read a synopsis for 2025 anime, I look at the cover and go "oh it's Bocchi the rock ripoff #15"

>>280028218
There's only been a few BTR ripoffs. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, you might just be retarded.

>>280028163
you're a normalfag shonen baby
next season you will have many of your favorite battle shonen sequels

>>280028218
>hails bocchi as some pillar of originality
holy cringe

I would definitely say my big 3 were Ninkoro, Apocalypse Hotel, and Rock wa Lady.
And then Zatsu Tabi, Ballpark, and Aru Majo ga Shinu Made were my lesser 3.
Takamine was fun for the ecchi.
Witch Watch was also fun.
Kowloon turned out to be the least favorite despite it having really good production values and the most beautiful girl of the season but the faggotry turned me off.

>>280028235
>>280028297
>>280028313
Here's why 2025 anime sucks, I look at these covers and I just know that every one of these anime has already been done to death. I've barely seen any of these shows but I KNOW that this is exactly what I'm getting with them. Tell me I'm wrong. The days of stylish and creative anime like Ergo Proxy, Michiko and Hatchin and Casshern Sins are over. Even just the days of soulful moeshit is over.

>>280028385
>i made an image to show you how retarded i am
it was clear from your posts already

>>280028385
>Calling Ninkoro isekai
>using the term incel bait
I want to find you with my shotgun

>>280028385
I missed the middle one but it's some gay girly shit idk, probably very boring too

>>280028396
>>280028399
Sorry I called you out, bro.

>>280028385
>woke
>gay
>incel-bait
>>>/pol/

despite 13% of tanukiniggers making up 50% of the reception staff Hotelier is still an S their show

Ah, the classic.

>>280028419
Shut the fuck up faggot.
Your taste in anime is probably dogshit or worse: normalfag

>>280028385
"probably boring" isn't a reason to not watch a show, you can't know whether something is boring before watching it
i think you just don't like anime

>>280028385
you don't like anime

>>280028424
You can extrapolate a multitude of writing and narrative fallacies that could be caused by something being "woke" (politically biased) or "gay" (effeminate and nonconfrontational).

>>280028470
>>>/pol/

>>280028466
I fucking love Naruto, One Piece, and DBZ

>>280028385
Genuinely why are you still here? Get another hobby or something if you don't like anime anymore

>>280028385
(You)

>>280028470
At least for the woke argument I can agree with you on that one, because man Lazarus was insufferably woke.
But yet again, it was funded by Adult Swim which is an American company which should have been a massive red flag.
I will give you that one.

>>280028518
I actually really like anime. I love older stuff like Kanon, Windy Tales, Aku no Hana, I love the Japanese cinematographical vision... I think the Japanese make movies in such an interesting way, I watched the movie All About Lily Cho-Chou recently. I don't know what it is about Japanese media, but it just exudes this childhood nostalgia in such a raw way. Japanese minimalism, man, something about it is so eerie. The Japanese aesthetics and mindsets that historically went into anime used to be very unique.

>>280028096
I watched everything this season, you didn't miss anything really.

>>280021731 (OP)
Yugioh 5D'S was the highlight of this season

>>280028297
I think Dandadan is pretty bad. Kaiju is OK, slightly less bad than Dandadan but that doesn't really make it good. And then it's just OPM. Is that all the actionslop we're getting this year? Can't we at least get some decent action slop? Chainsaw Man and Demon Slayer movies I guess. Solo Leveling has good animation if nothing else, might end up being the most enjoyable show all year for that alone.

>>280028385
I can't find a single flaw in this post and I find funny people saying you don't like anime when they are always posting things like "I watched 1 show this season, that's more than usual!"

>>280028691
>yes i am in fact a normalfag shonen baby
thanks for confirming

>>280021731 (OP)
did fire force S3 at least have some good ryona service like in the other seasons

>>280028710
I don't just "watch anime" I watch GOOD anime. I don't get why people don't make that distinction here. I'll probably watch the Chainsaw Man movie, I'm looking forward to the new Koike Lupin movie and the new Shingo Natsume movie, some stuff Science Saru and Studio 4C got coming also look cool. I greatly look forward to the next Shinkai movie...

I've seen slop, if I wanted slop I'd at least watch something actually entertaining like Digimon or Naruto. Most modern slop is just so cringe and gay it's unreal.

>>280021738
>especially Gundam Gcucks. I don’t understand why it’s so popular in nipland
because every show was shit. nips literally watched yugioh over half the anime you watched.

>>280028735
>I don't watch the highest budget anime with the best animation
I named numerous anime of all genres that I like early. I think everyone can at least enjoy shonen slop for the artistic animation though.

>>280028805
normalfag shonen baby mad

>>280028868
I'm not sure why you think I'm mad

>>280028931
oh you're mad

>>280028965
Am I tho?

>>280028385
nice bait. better than OP.

>>280024896
Sorry but that looks disgusting

>>280028385
Congratulations. You managed to make an even gayer post than OP's. People who unironically say "moeshit" have no place on this board and need to fuck off.
>The days of stylish and creative anime like Ergo Proxy, Michiko and Hatchin and Casshern Sins are over.
Top pseud.

>>280021731 (OP)
Apocalypse Hotel should be top, Rock Lady should be right behind it and you are a fucking faggot as expected so good job OP.

>>280024896
This is not best girl

>>280030904
>moeshit
some anime is moeshit though you retard, you can do your tranny reddit "le fuck off" but anime with little girls being retarded for low iq audiences is called moeshit

>>280031015
You're using buzzwords you don't understand and you need to fuck off forever instead of insisting on this stupid discussion.

>>280021731 (OP)
Anime of the year coming through.

>>280031558
imagine being such a drooling gigafaggot retard that you saved that picture

>>280021731 (OP)
>as expected from Non Non Biyori’s author
Welp, can't believe I missed that an Atto anime was airing this season. At least I won't have to wait a week between episodes.

>>280021731 (OP)
>worst possible list
Fuck off you disgusting abhorrent retarded monkey with absolute shit taste. You needs to get bullied off the board once again. Vacate NOW!

>>280021731 (OP)
Pretentious moefags thinking their shit doesn't smell like everyone else's never gets old

this season and last season were the 2 worst seasons of anime since i started following seasonal anime years ago. i didnt finish a single fucking show. summer looks promising though.

>>280032455
>>280032426
MoeGODS

>>280032133
YOU MISSED ALL THE FUN THREADS!

>>280032426
>>280032455
>>280032706
Do you just watch one piece and dragon ball all day?

Only watched Wind Breakers (seen S1) and it was meh and Lazarus which is meh too.
I've been having more fun watching SLAM DUNK.

>>280032757
Speak for yourself you dunce, the fact you are eager to suck OP's rancid micro dick proves that you are either the OP or a retard who agrees with him because he put Hibi above the rest when Apocalypse hotel and Shoushimin exist. If it's latter i hope you kill yourself in the most painful way possible.

>Lazarus
PURE SHIT.

>>280032757
retard, this season was awful, just barely worse than last season. both were so bad i didnt complete and shows and have been subsisting on manga only.

>>280032757
>WAAAAH WAAAAH ANYONE WHO DOESNT LIKE MY BORING ANIME IS A SHOUNENFAG WAAAAH WAAAAAAAH WAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!

>>280032927
Lazarus is BASED

>>280032876
>>280032995
>>280033036
What anime do you like? >>280023077

>>280033297
favorite anime - bokuyaba
favorite manga - welcome home papa
i mostly like romance but ill watch any anime thats good. except mecha, i really dont like mecha at all.

>>280033297
>when Apocalypse hotel and Shoushimin exist.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, take a good guess!

>>280032728
It's all right. I have been having fun in Yachiyo's threads. I hope there were some NNB anons still around to enjoy Atto works after depression set in during the final Nonstop threads.

>>280033273
Damn, now I know to never touch it.

>>HibiMeshi
Did I sleep on this series? I watched the first episode and felt like I’d already seen something like it a hundred times before. Anyway, I only watched a few series this season:

>Apocalypse Hotel
My AOTS. A beautiful, touching story that excelled in every genre it tackled. The cinematography is amazing.

>Ninja to Koroshiya no Futarigurashi
My second favorite series this season. A great comedy with a charming cast of characters, filled with references to old shows that never became distracting. If you get them, great; if you don’t, the show is still fun. I hope it gets a second season or some extra episodes.

>Rock wa Lady no Tashinami Deshite
A show that I liked more on paper than in practice. I love the idea of this group of women who manage to express themselves and be their true selves through music, and how the music becomes a powerful conduit of communication that transcends words (hence why they play instrumental music). But everything about it is just dull. For a show that's all about music, I can't believe how exceptionally pedestrian and forgettable the soundtrack is.

>Mono
A show that doesn’t have an identity of its own. I expected Afro to give photography the same treatment it gave to camping, but the series abandoned the entire club that it spent two episodes building up, in favor of being just a mediocre alternative to Yuru Camp, without the elements that made that show entertaining in the first place.

>Witch Watch
The characters are so likable that it manages to be entertaining despite the mediocre animation. It’s the perfect Sunday anime.

>>280023077
OP is trash as per usual
Fire Force was good
Cygames cooked just like they always have
everything else is garbage

>>280028385
Please, give me another like Apoc Hotel. I need more Yachiyo.

>凸变英雄X
AOTY
>everything else
didn't watch

>Apocalypse Hotel
Personal AOTS and the anime I had most fun this season. All the threads were great

>NinKoro
First filtered, but after forcing myself to continue it turned out pretty good. Although sad too...

>Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite
Started off good, but got a bit sidetracked with all secondary characters. Still a pretty fun anime

>the new Gundam (name too hard to remember)
Dropped after the first 3 episodes. It just didn't feel like my type of anime. I enjoyed the original 079 anime, though

>Gag Manga Biyori GO
AOTD, hands down

>>280033273
Do people in that demographic likes this type of pandering writing?

>>280034100
Sort of. They enjoy the attention it gets them and will never admit it's retarded, but they'll promptly forget about it like everyone else because you can only pretend a lump of shit is gold for so long.

>>280021731 (OP)
A good list for the first time.
Midcalypse Hotel was meh, you did well dropping it.

>>280034236
lol

Which one is worse, Apocalypse Hotel or Shuumatsu Train?

>200 replies
successful thread once again.
see you in Summer 2025.

>>280021738

>>280023997
>dropped Wind Breakers.
I couldn't even get past the first episode of season 1. I hate the modern state of """delinquent"""" anime so much.

>>280021731 (OP)
Lazarus was the only normal anime, everything else was moeshit.

>>280033937
Chinese hands typed this post.

>>280036703
Wind Breakers? More like Farters.

>>280031914
But muh friends made it...

>>280036151
Hibitards won't let this thread die.

>>280021731 (OP)
>Watching I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! in Dogshit tier

Its unironically good at what its doing and is entertaining in that sort of over the top way, it doesn't belong this low

>>280037662
looks like it was revived by oldgoodnewbadfags who just couldn't resist the temptation to derail another thread

>>280022589
>Maybe OP just doesn't think his thoughts on series he dropped early on are particularly worth expressing?

If thats the case OP spent days worth of his time over the season watching 14 anime that he thought were dogshit, so either hes a retard or hes a retard.

From best to worst:
Ninkoro
Maebashi Witches
*HibiMeshi
*mono
Lycoris Recoil Shorts
Apocalypse Hotel (last 2 episodes massively redeemed it)
Rock Lady
*Cinderella Gray
Ballpark
Zatsu Tabi
Aru Majo
Slime 300 S2
Aharen S2
*Lazarus
Gundam GQuuuuux (last episode massively shat the bed)

Asterisks means it hasn't ended yet so it can still redeem itself/shit the bed.
If it's not on the list then I didn't watch it.

>>280037857
3*14*(25/60)=17.5 hours, so not even a single day, and considering that was spread over three weeks, that's not even an hour a day to realize that you're just not feeling it for some shows, provided that the three-episode rule was observed and he didn't just keep watching them and whining in the threads about how much he hates them like some anons did

I realized that I hadn't actually finished Ninkoro, and yep, I'm going to have to revise my ranking a bit
think I'm going to put it tied for fifth with Kijin Gentosho, but now I'm having trouble diagnosing why I had Ninkoro that deep in the middle of the rankings and why I insisted to myself that Kijin Gentosho was top 5 worthy, beyond one being my third most favorite thing on Thursday and the other being the most thrilling series airing on Mid Monday
At the very least I'm going to consider Ninkoro how I considered Medalist and call it the canonical AOTS even if I personally preferred several other anime that season

>aots thread
>bland moeblobs get the best rating
>anythign with mystery, aciton, story eithe get bottom level ranking or ignored entirely
How boring.

>>280021731 (OP)
>lycoris wet fart nothingburger shorts
>great
Found the contrarian baiter yurifag

>>280039154
You ignored my ranking, also you're at liberty to post your own ranking that will only get ignored by seethers

>>280030904
/a/ doesn't exist solely for moeshit, retard.

Apocalypse Hotel should be nowhere near the top of anyone's list with how the Tanukis treated her like shit
Stole her job, stole her hotel, stole her joy of humans returning, stole her shower caps, shat everywhere.
Treat Yachiyo as a side character from episode 3 and I'll agree it's a good show about Tanukis finding a hotel run by robots and having shenanigans.

2nd last episode was good though, I'll concede that

>>280039379
I'm pretty sure I didn't said that it was. And I'm also very sure you're still using buzzwords you don't fully understand the meaning or context of. What I'm wholly unsure of is why you're even continuing this discussion, especially when all that you're doing is putting words in my mouth.

>>280039444
I'm sorry context-kun but until they start making CGDCT starting properly sexualized hetero adult women then it's all going to be dismissed as moeshit and the only ones who care are the ones who watch this bastard genre

>>280039725
You're still saying random stuff. Are you arguing with yourself?

>>280039795
I've upgraded you to contextschizo

>>280039879
As long as you're having fun, brother.

>>280021731 (OP)
Mono, Ninkoro, Zetsu Tabi, these are some of the few anime I've enjoyed so far. It wasn't a very good season; there are too many romance anime and NTRs. Disgusting!!

>>280040016
Mono and zatsu are boring trash

Apocalypse Hotel is the only show from this season anyone will even remember a few years from now.

>>280040524
Shoushimin Series will be remembered. So will Ninkoro. Probably Yaiba too.

>>280040524
Wrong.

>>280040593
I liked Ninkoro a lot but it's completely forgettable.

>>280040524
It won't.

>>280040630
The twist made it a lot more memorable.

>>280040630
We'll have to agree to disagree. Plenty of lesser shows are remembered to this day.

>>280039444
>I'm also very sure you're
Not the same person you were originally replying to. You are, however, claiming people don't belong on /a/ - anime and manga if they don't like moeshit.
>nooo it's not moeshit they're not elementary or middle schoolers so it's different
No.

>>280040482
Hibibro, please, let people enjoy other things...

>>280040524

>>280040655
There was no twist in Ninkoro.

>>280040694
Who are you quoting?

>>280040694
moekino* ftfy

>>280036151
These seasonal ranking threads are the best at gauging what's worth the PTW and what's not.

>>280036789
Moeshits are way better than childish Lazarus.

>>280021731 (OP)

Wow you tasteless fuck, you don´t even have Apocalypse Hotel (the actual AOTS) in your list or even Witch Watch. That´s embarrassing and you should feel bad.

Also Kowloon is at least as good as Once upon a witch´s death (If anything it should rank above it because of how disappointing that one ended up being). The art alone already make it stand out and above average and the atmosphere is pretty good as well.

>>280041147
The Kowloon mangaka is way overrated. She's has a great design sense and she's a wonderful panelist, but her stories are so boring and way, way, way too woman-coded. Also, dudes kissing is cringe.

>>280026154
You can't judge any show based on the first 3 episode. You had to watch the entire thing

>but I can't do that

Too bad.

>>280040630
I was going to agree with you but then a flood of memories about the show came to me just to spite you
not that that's necessarily a good thing, since now I'm wondering whether the finale actually did a satisfying job of resolving Konoha's character arc where she reflects on the consequences of her losing her killer instinct right as she faces the consequences of her actions as her targets hit closer to home
I think that Not Lady Snowblood from a while back handled this a little bit better, if that's literally all it did, but Ninkoro still has a chance of exploring its themes deeper in a S2 while that show is deader than its MC

>>280028385
This guy is completely correct.

>>280028396
>>280028424
>>280028466
>>280029926
Bait, no one can seriously object to that.

>>280040524
HibiMeshi too. PA originals are always remembered for some reason. Even trash like Glasslip or Fairy Gone is not forgotten

>>280041401
(You)

>>280041354
modern series are written to match audience expectations and do a good job of telling you everything you need to know about whether you'll like it or not by the third episode

>>280028479
If you have a problem with that post, its because you are the cancer that this man is trying to point out, and cancer hates it when its noticed.

>>280041438
>modern series are written to match audience expectations and do a good job of telling you everything you need to know about whether you'll like it or not by the third episode

That is an interesting way of saying that modern anime have lost something to appeal to modern audiences.

>>280041402
Dude, it has nothing to do with PA Works. That is merely accidental.

>>280041548
Shakespearean prologues tell the audience exactly what to expect of the play and it's modern hack writing to rely on surprising people to keep them engaged rather than just telling a good story

>>280041354

Wrong. Assuming a show is around 12 episodes that means that by episode 4 the show should have already presented it´s conflict and main characters as well as shown it´s structure and narrative and cinematographic style. In fact, by episode 3 or 4 the plot should be reaching the first plot point, which is where presentations stop and development begins on any civilized piece of writing.

It´s perfectly reasonable for a person that gets bored, uninterested or tired by the 4th episode to drop a show as, in all likelihood, it´s just going to raise the stakes of whatever conflicts it established on the first few episodes.

Saddest thing right now are some sunk cost GQuuuutards who somehow think their show was deep....
Anno is too good at baiting midwits.

>>280042105
There's not such a thing as a good Gundam show, Gundam is all about buying toys, if you are not in Japan buying toys and sharing your hobby with other people there's no reason to be watching Gundam.

>>280042704
didn't people like that one spinoff series, Iron Boner or whatever it was called?

>>280042105
>He's in charge of the next Yamato project.
FUCK.

>>280043503
He storyboarded 2199

>>280043902
I though he only storyboarded the OP, which, in good old Anno fashion, is a homage to the opening of the original series.

>>280021731 (OP)
>gacha that high
Sad state of affairs.

>>280021731 (OP)
OP is a fag.

>>280046773
true

>>280046773
totally organic necrobump, not a false flagging attention whore at all

>>280046913
I didn't bump it, that was >>280046866

>>280021731 (OP)
Dogshite taste as usual
Apocalypse Hotel AOTS, Ninkoro pretty good, no one watched hibikek.

>>280046955
There's literally timecodes attached to each post, dude

this season was shit, not enough Yuri, give me yuri or stop making complete het shit anime that nobody watches!!!

>>280042754
everybody hated it because no yuri on it

>>280047524
Yurishit always flops

>Vigilantes
Maybe the standard for shounen has tanked, but I found most of it far better than anything else in the genre. I say most of it because maybe I'm just too old to enjoy song and dance numbers anymore. Excellent characters and lots of chemistry between them, and everything wrapped up well for this arc.
>Ninkoro
I liked it. I looked forward to it every week. How can Shaft make such great character designs for characters with mere seconds of screen time?
>The Beginning After the End
I actually read and like the webcomic. The adaptation came out of nowhere and whoever found the monkey's paw and wished for it needs to be shot. Terrible budget. Terrible pacing. Terrible "liberties" taken with the source material. I didn't see a single thread while it was airing and I know why.
>Moar MaoMao
I don't really want to spoil the manga for me so I am currently stopped at episode 43. Very competent adaptation, great choice in VA's.

>>280032927
>Toonami original anime is dogshit
Water is wet as well?