I can’t believe monogatari isn’t even on here. What?

Oh jeez. That’s worse than I thought.

I haven’t started this yet. What kind of age gaps?

You’re right, Osaka is starting to become my favorite character.

For people who grew up with recent anime I can see that being the case. Compare this with any modern comedy, like shikanoko, and it’s night and day. (not that I agree, but I do understand why they are wrong lmao)

My favorite comedy anime is Gintama, which I think is even slower than this a lot of the time.

But I’m loving it so far. Lots of subtle laughs in there.

Not every season needs to be a winner haha. Gives me time to catch up on my plan-to-watch list. I’m watching azumanga daioh right now. And I just finished watching all of the monogatari series for the first time.

Ah yeah I remember that one. I feel like that may have been an exception, there was a lot of buzz around that one if I remember correctly, just because it pushed the lewd boundaries of normal TV anime.

I’m surprised to see Alya in the top spot. I really didn’t like it. It felt extremely shallow, and relied on fanservice and lewd “accidents” to entertain.

I thought it might have been a show about the cultures of Japanese and Russian mixing and clashing, while being an otherwise nice slice of life or romance show. But in reality it’s much more shallow than that.

I know shows like this (fanservice, romance, lewd interactions, etc) are popular but I rarely see one get to the top spot like this.

I just finished this (couldn’t find discussions for 10-13) and I loved it. I don’t usually watch romance anime but this one pulled on my heart strings. I loved the character development, seeing kyo grow and heal over the course of 2 seasons. Anna’s character didn’t develop nearly as much, but it was still more than most romance anime.

I just added it to my sonarr so it should be ready by the time I’m done with breakfast. I’ll give the first half season a watch (to get past that tone change) and see how I like it.

EDIT: I watched 4 episodes and there hasn’t been a major change in tone yet, but I’ll keep watching tomorrow.

I’ve been watching frieren and dungeon meshi but dangers in my heart wasn’t even in my radar. Clearly it’s popular, maybe I should check it out.

That was very informative, thank you.

Also I think maybe just the way elves are. She says they lack romantic feelings, so that may also reach out to other social interactions. Humans to them might be unpredictable tides that carry them along, even if by way of potato-sacking lol.

Do you know what sousou translates to? MAL lists an alternate title translation as “Frieren at the funeral” but I couldn’t determine if sousou actually means funeral or not. (Using google translate, I know no japanese.)

I think part of why I like this cliffhanger more than your average cliffhanger is we know what’s going to happen. It’s not like some bog-standard “oh no, it looks like our hero is about to die, how will they possibly get out of this? Find out next time!” that builds suspense but is also incredibly annoying. We know that there’s either going to be an ass whooping or someone will come in and stop it. So the suspense is a positive one.