My personal favorites of hers are the Lycoris Recoil ED and the My Hero Academia ED. My favorite of her non-anime work is Anonymous.

You might want to check out last week’s general discussion thread that was the Fall preview thread. Lots of good answers there! I am most looking forward to Dan Da Dan and Orb: On the Movements of the Earth.

You’re right. When I initially wrote this up, I didn’t yet see it pop up in HiDive for me, so I figured it must be similar to Nokotan from last season. Instead, it seems like it was only delayed a short time instead of a week like I had initially thought. I will edit the comment.

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Ignore below, this show will be handled just like any other. There was a brief period where I thought the global release was delayed for up to a week. Carry on!

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This show has been an incredible mess of a situation from beginning to end. So, I guess it is no surprise that the finale has not resolved anything whatsoever. It is fitting that they are all just wallowing in an indecisive smoothie of misery that is entirely self-made. It is exactly like Naori said:

Honestly, I kind of want nobody to “win” and for them all to just grow up and find other romantic interests in their lives. I mean the professor or this chess senpai both seem to be able to hang with Naori’s quick wit, so why not give it a shot? As things are now, I expect a world of drama and pain in Jun’s future. There will be lots of this going forward (@rikka@ani.social):

I looked it up and there is more story to go, but I am not sure I can bring myself to continue this one. So, this will forever remain an unresolved pot of love pasta in my brain.

I think the pretty clear stopping point is going to be up through chapter 80 of the manga (maybe rearranged slightly). I really, really want this show to come back soon. Here’s hoping for an announcement after the finale.

This episode might not have had the visual spectacle that other episodes of this season have had, but it delivered on some powerful story beats. The new B Komachi got their new song and are busy shooting their music videos. It was funny to see Akane fussing over Kana and then not being able to just give her a straight compliment (@rikka@ani.social):

Additionally, we got some Sarina and especially Gorou backstory this episode. For his tragic start to life, and rocky relationship with his grandfather, Gorou ended up accomplishing quite a lot. He went to Tokyo University and became a doctor, no small feat. This is where we also get to see the little keychain thing that Sarina gave to Sensei. In a blink and you miss it change to the ED for the show, there was a small addition to the very end where it shows up again:

In the episode	New scene in the ED

Finally, I just like in this story how just as Aqua is starting to come to terms with the fact that he believes his revenge arc is over…we see Ruby’s star begin to darken at the end of this episode.

One more episode to go in this season, but we will have to wait until October 6th for it to release.

I don’t make up the titles, just report 'em. This one definitely cause me a double take. It wasn’t listed on AniList for me to double check the title, so I had to look it up on Mangadex.

Just wrapped up this show and the final episode was very nice. We got to see the two of them relive their romance and share it with everybody they know. I know they were both kind of embarrassed by it, but I think it is nice that their friends didn’t tease them too much.

Thanks for the good times Pseudo Harem! You were a great manga and ended up being a pretty darn good anime adaptation as well. @rikka@ani.social

Yeah, this season has been…not great so far, and I don’t expect it to suddenly turn around for the second cour. It has definitely been a letdown from season 1.

So, we swapped some team members it seems. We also got to see the sadistic side of Rachel a bit more (@rikka@ani.social) though I am happy to see Dan still alive as I liked him. Not sure how he will contribute going forward though.

The story this season is just getting more and more convoluted, so I have kind of stopped trying to follow it too closely and am just strapped in for the ride. I am really hoping that we get to see more Rak in the near future. He said he is going to go expose some turtles, so I expect great things from him. If anything happened to Khun, Rak is going to be devastated at the loss of his infinite chocolate bar supply.

Belle is too strong. Just on another level completely. It all just makes me more curious what went down with her adoptive father when he went through the dungeon because everything we have seen about him makes him seem completely broken as well.

I loved the black uniforms! Very JRPG final boss vibes.

Finally got the chance to watch this episode and it was fun.

We got to see how out of shape Jun is. We also got to see Rumi go on a “date” in which both of them realize it isn’t going to work out almost right away. We also got to see Naori flex her chess muscles and get hit on by yet another person. I feel like this chess dude would be a pretty natural addition to the club that Naori is trying to form considering he is reading Heinlein and quoting Goethe.

I am curious to see Naori’s gambit with Jun play out. I really agree with Mizuma’s criticism of Jun. Just saying to wait for him to think about it properly is simply a way of delaying any kind of decision at all. He is simply verbally running away. Rumi, by saying that is fine with her, is spoiling him. She is allowing him to put off dealing with his feelings and keeping herself and her sister in this unsustainable pseudo-relationship. At least Naori is trying to push Jun into action through her scheming and assertiveness.

In any case, the three girls at Shiena’s place was my favorite bit of this episode. They had such chaotic energy and I totally just want the three of them to live their best lives together. @rikka@ani.social

I just finished up this show and felt like it deserved a final post, so here it is.

Overall, this show was frustrating. I feel like there is an interesting story here, but the anime was frankly not a great vehicle to tell it. So much of this story is just extremely polite conversations between people running businesses or tinkering with magical tools. The whole show gives off a lot of “this meeting could have been an email” vibes in that there is almost never any drama or tension around the running of the Rosetti company, but we still are witness to every step of the process. Like, if Dahlia is having a meeting with some workshop to figure out production numbers and everybody simply agrees to the proposal made by the trade guild person, why spend so long showing us all the details of that meeting?

I think that this kind of story would be better in text form because you can read it at your own pace. In anime form, most episodes felt like a slog to get through. Add on top of that the extremely static animation through the whole series and the boredom generator is complete.

There are things that I wanted to see more of in this show:

• What’s up with her ex’s new girl? That seemed like a kind of suspicious situation that was literally never brought up again.
• More romance between Dahlia and Wolf. So far, they are more like best buds or drinking buddies than they are flirting with each other.
• More depth in the magic system. If the whole conceit of your series is about the creation of magical tools, then commit to it. I would have loved to see some more depth to the magic system or more time where we see Dahlia experimenting and failing before creating a new tool.

@rikka@ani.social

That’s not a bad idea. I might make and pin a meta post about it alongside the next weekly thread (week 40). That will be the Fall season kickoff thread and will coincide with a whole bunch of shows starting up threads.

So, I have a clear favorite of what I have watched this season. The standout show for me was Oshi no Ko Season 2. There is one more episode to go, but it has been an absolutely stellar adaptation of an already good manga. The source manga is still ongoing, but it is heading into its final arc. I cannot wait to see the rest of the story in anime form if the quality was as good as this past season. Anyway, enough gushing, here are the shows I watched:

• Oshi no Ko - see above
• Dungeon People - My biggest surprise of the season. It was way better than I thought it was going to be based on what I saw before the season.
• Dahlia in Bloom - I feel like this story in interesting, but moves a bit too slow to make a good anime adaptation. I haven’t watched the finale yet though. I would probably recommend reading this one if it catches your interest.
• Love is Indivisible By Twins - A fun guilty pleasure. Lots of teenage drama born from an incredibly elaborate arrangement of people crushing on each other. I really enjoyed this one and look forward to the finale.
• My Deer Friend Nokotan - Lots of ups and downs. Like many sketch shows, some segments are going to connect and some aren’t. Overall, I still enjoyed it.
• Sometimes Alya Hides Her Feelings in Russian - I feel like this one is trying to do more than it needs to do. All I wanted was a cute romcom, instead we got a ton of political scheming and mind games. With season 2 announced, I hope we get more romcom going forward.
• Pseudo Harem - I have a couple episodes to catch up on, but this has been fun. It is a great manga, and the adaptation of the super short chapters to anime form has been done fairly well. Overall, it has been very cute.
• Quality Assurance in Another World - I am a couple episodes behind on this one, but I intend on finishing this season. I really like the art in this one and the world is interesting enough that I want to keep going.
• My Wife Has No Emotion - I only watched a couple episodes before dropping. I really like the manga, and I think I will stick with it. The anime adaptation just didn’t really do it for me.
• Plus-Sized Elf - I watched a couple episodes of this before dropping. They cranked the fan-service dial way past what the manga has. It just wasn’t really for me.
• Tower of God - This season has been a big change compared to the first, and not for the better. The second cour is still to come, so I will see where it goes from here.

Weekly ranking roundup:

1. Anime Corner - Full Results - Weekly Winner: Days with My Stepsister
2. Reddit Karma - Weekly Winner: Oshi no Ko

Credit to /u/Abysswatcherbel for making the chart for reddit karma and /u/Nooble5 for the Anime Trending chart.

Oshi no Ko comes back to the top of the chart this week as the best-girl wars heat up to a new fever pitch. There were also 3 finales in the top 5 this past week. Something to notice is that Nokotan ended the season outside the top 10 after such a strong start (and a strong OP).

I haven’t been watching this one, but according to AniList, episode 18 was the finale. No idea about the potential of future OVAs or seasons.

Earlier in the episode, she used speaking in Russian to get people’s attention, so I would assume that she figures that is what was going on with Masachika. He was too embarrassed to make eye contact, so hit him with some Russian to dissipate that and get him to look at you.