Fall season is rapidly approaching! It’s time to start looking ahead to the next season and thinking about what is worth watching vs. what isn’t. This is also the official thread where I will watch for shows that you mention and will enable threads for those shows to be made by our resident bot, @rikka@ani.social.
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Next Season
Most Excited For
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray part 2 - Part one was amazing. With how much the trailers hyped it up, it seems safe to say part two would be too. Without any strong contenders next season, this would likely be my next anime-of-the-season.
Continuing
These are sequels that I will be continuing but am not so invested in. If I lack the time and these anime are not great (i.e. 8 / 10 or better), I will be dropping them.
Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill season 2 - It’s sad how low the bar has been set when it comes to isekai that anything that’s not wish fulfillment is automatically decent.
Spy x Family season 3 - The life of the Forgers is always cute and fluffy. It’s wholesome to watch, but it doesn’t get me hooked.
Checking Out
These are new anime that I would giving a shot at.
Digimon Beatbreak - The artstyle reminds me of Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Also, I enjoyed Digimon more than Pokemon in my childhood. It looks like this is the brand’s attempt at refreshing itself and I hope it’s successful.
Gnosia - Interesting premise. Sounds like Among Us.
Notable Absentee
One Punch Man season 3 - Sounds like it would only be decent at best, similar to season 2. Decent is not good enough nowadays when there are so many top anime to check out.
This Season
I picked up The Summer Hikaru Died pretty late into the season, but now it is my favourite.
I find the style of suspense / horror similar to Heavenly Delusion. In terms of plot / characters, it reminded me of Nimona.
It is easily at least a 9 / 10. And as long as it doesn’t mess up the last episode, probably a 10 / 10.