The Plot Whole
I’m not usually watching seasonals, and when I do it’s not always while they are airing. This is still not the definitive order, as I haven’t watched all the shows yet, and will be updating this as I go through all of the series in this list.
Watching
Dandadan 2nd Season
Watashi ga Koibito ni Nareru Wake Nai jan, Muri Muri! (※Muri ja Nakatta!?)
Sometimes I like my junk food. And this show was it for me this season. From the nonsensical and contrived plot, crafted with the single purpose of creating a harem for Renako, to the pop-culture and hikkikomori humor, this show hit all those boxes in my book. It is hard to recommend for people less accustomed to these ~degenerate~ self-depreciating kinds of shows, but I had a blast watching this. It managed a good balance of humor, romance and even actual character exploration and development to have me coming back each week for me, and that says more than a lot of shows out there. 2025-09-22
Ame to Kimi to
This show has been a cozy companion on my daily life this season. It’s very nice to have on in the background while I’m doing other tasks and it’s heartwarming humor never failed to put a smile on my face. 2025-09-22
City The Animation
Just like Nichijou, the humor of City The Animation didn’t really land for me. I felt like none of the jokes were particularly funny (most even less so than Nichijou), and some episodes (like episode 5) were straight up overstimulating, with multiple storylines happening at the same time. It felt like thos ADHD social media posts, where there’s a section of the screen playing Subway Surfers while 3 other thigns happen at the same time. This overall package made for a very unsettling focused watching experience, but as a background anime it was way more bearable, so that’s how I ended up watching it by the end. 2025-09-22
Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku
This show is definetly pulling on my heart strings. Everyone is very sweet and I’m here for the sap. 2025-07-30
Gachiakuta
My curiosity was peaked by the tone and world building thats reminding me of Dorohedoro (one of my favorite manga). Only time will tell how it holds up, but for now I will keep my eyes open for more episodes. 2025-07-30
Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu
This show has been one of the most anticipated of the week for this season. I have been blown away practically every episode with the cinematography and directing. This is my style of show in those aspects so it felt particularly catered towards my visual preferences. But this series also excels in other avenues, namely story and characters, which are both incredible. I was a bit reluctant about watching this at first because I am notoriously bad with horror media, but the more suspenseful presentation of Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu was good surprise for me. I would like to highllight episode 7, for its masterful building of tension, where even the most mundane of actions had me at the edge of my seat. Part of this is in no small part due to incredibly human cast that show creates. Without going into too much detail, each character feels not only fleshed out but also layered, with beliefs and motivations that sometimes contradict each other, leading to very human actions and interactions. I cannot recommend this series enough, specially for suspense and horror inclined viewers, or those in need of their doomed gay fix. 2025-09-22
Dr. Stone: Science Future Part 2
I really liked this season of Dr. Stone. After the stakes were left so high from the previous season I was a bit worried about how the conflict would continue to scale. In the previous seasons I had been feeling a common issue of shounen battle anime assailing Dr. Stone, which boils down to the struggle to always have a bigger and badder enemy each time to increase the tension. And lately the stakes had been the highest they have always been, with the USA army being led by a NASA rocket scientist as the opponent. How much higher can the power scaling go while mainting the realistic aspect of Dr. Stone I reallly appreciate? The answer was not much higher, as the narrative showed by effectively resetting all scientific progress back to the stone ages as both our heros and enemies were turned back to stone. On the one hand I felt like this was an excuse to kill off a handful of dear characters for emotional impact, but also have them coming back. But the fact that, despite not being realistic by our real world, the world of Dr. Stone is really consistent. Turning someone to stone to save them from fatal wounds while also literally stopping enemy forces on their tracks sounds like a strategically sound move, completly within the bounds of what the show has presented thus far. Plus I really enjoyed the change of pace from mind games and action scenes to the slower pace of the first seasons where it was more survival and science focused, as we follow Suika rebuild the Science Kingdom over the course of years by herself.
Kaijuu 8-gou 2nd Season
New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
This new season feels a lot less fresh than the original did 15 years ago. The “current day” commentary, in the same vein as South Park, was outdated even before it was penned (specially the ones about social media and influencer culture). It reads like a memoire and not like the general satire the first season had. I think this is in part because the first season was commenting on more broad “bitchy” topics, while this new one is forced to focus on specific topics (because they general ones were already convered in the original). Even the pop-culture references feel stale. One that stands out to me is the “Fast and Furious but they are actually semen” joke, which feels like a watered down version of the same joke the original made with a similar parody of “Saving Private Ryan”. One positive aspect is the increased screentime of the devil sisters, but even they are slowly losing their luster fast. Just like with the unecessary FLCL sequels, this also feels like an attempt at recapturing a labor of love series but with only half of the love and freedom that allowed for the creation of the original. Just like with FLCL, the original Panty and Stocking worked because it was what the staff wanted to do, regardless of the reception, while their respective sequels were only produced to try to reproduce the good reception that the original created. You cannot mass produce charisma and creative spark, just like you cannot just slap sexual humor and pop-culture references and call it Panty and Stocking. When one of the selling points of the show is tighly connected with the circunstances that lead to its production, it is hard to produce a satisfactory sequel. It is my stance that that same money would be better spend trying to recreate the circunstances for creative and bold original anime rather than a sad sad rehash of a cult classic. But alas, we live in a ~capitalist~ society. 2025-09-22
To Watch
Seishun Buta Yarou wa Santa Claus no Yume wo Minai
Sakamoto Days Part 2
Karaoke Iko!
Dropped
Nyaight of the Living Cat
The premise seemed interesting but when I watched the first episode I thought it was pretty boring. Nothing much called my attention and I was just zoning out whole time.