Anime

I watched a fair amount of shows this season. Despite not really having big names, it was a pretty solid season.

I loved:

• Makeine: the synopsis made it sound like it'd be a generic romcom with a slight twist, but so far it's not generic at all and I'm not even sure it's a romcom. The characters are great to watch, the animation is awesome and the setting feels lived in and unique, despite it being a school setting. The OP is great.
• NieR:Automata ver1.1a part 2: this blew me away. A massive improvement over the 1st part and a great adaptation, while adding interesting small twists to the original story to keep it interesting for people who played the games too. I adore the ED as well.

I liked:

• SHOSHIMIN: starts out like it's going to be a very mundane version of Hyouka, until it's not. Very interesting and curious to see how it continues in the 2nd season.
• Vtuber Legend: it got the vtuber vibes right and felt like it was made by people who liked vtubers themselves.
• 2.5D Seduction: whereas My Dressup Darling focuses more on the process of creating cosplay, this one focuses more on what cosplay means to people or on the community. It does it pretty well imo. Toning down the ecchi from the manga was a good idea imo, though I do like the manga more.
• Alya: decently fun. Masachika and Yuki are fun characters, but the Russian thing has not become more than a gimmick.
• Mayonaka Punch: a good ol' PA Works anime.
• Senpai is an Otokonoko: did very well in dealing with sensitive subjects. Devolves a little bit into the simpler chibi artstyle too much, making it feel cheaper.

I moderately liked:

• Wistoria: good action and OST, but story, world and characters leave a lot to be desired. Also had a tendency to overexplain things and slow things down to a crawl at the wrong moments.
• QA In Another World: interesting take on the whole stuck in a game thing with it being the testers being stuck while testing. As a software tester though, I take slight issue to this anime calling them debuggers.
• Elusive Samurai: cool premise, with fun main characters. Sometimes gets overshadowed/undermined by strange and weirdly timed humor and way too wacky villains to take the gravity of things seriously.

Disliked:

• Dahlia in Bloom: just not very good. And again, what the fuck is going on with those shadows. Dropped it.
• My Deer Friend Nokotan: got old really fast. Dropped it.
• Suicide Squad Isekai: just not very good either. Nearly forgot about it already. Anime Harley Quinn kept me watching though.
• Plus-Sized Elf: just read the manga. They exaggerated everything and added scenes just to get more T&A, while not providing good visuals. Dropped.

Still need to catch up:

• Spice and Wolf
• Monogatari series

I think that was everything