Lousiest episode so far. Listening to them talk makes me feel dumb.

For some reason, they’ve got to state the obvious throughout their conversation. Also, whenever someone come up with a counterpoint or an idea, the rest would revere it - even though all the speaker did was said something common-sensical.

It’s like the show’s creators don’t trust their audience to think or something. My intelligence feels insulted.

Subaru’s speech sucks too. Too lazy to elaborate.

This is not the first time Re:Zero has made me feel this way, but it rarely makes me feel like this the entire episode. I had to speed up the episode to get through it.

It’s about time Subaru get back to dying again to make things interesting.

Completed season 2 of Attack on Titan.

Just like @ReluctantZen@feddit.nl, I found season 2 to be way better than season 1 based on just the plot alone.

The flaws that I pointed out previously are still present, but I felt that there have been improvements e.g. less narration and exposition, reduced recaps (no recap for some episodes).

I like it a lot, so I’m closing one eye to its flaws and giving it a 10 / 10.

Also watched Look Back. It’s good.

It being only 1 hour long makes it an easy watch too.

For me, it’s the PS5 for having such a slick and futuristic look.

Honourable mention goes to Nintendo Switch for being so cute.

Witch from Mercury is on my watchlist so I’ll have to give it a go.

Make sure to start with the prologue / episode 0.

As for everyone else, it’s just that typical anime thing of keeping characters in the same outfit so you don’t need a design sheet for multiple outfits.

This is so lame, considering a number of (personally highly-rated) anime have characters donning various outfits.

It’s kind of late to ask this, but why is Subaru still wearing his one-and-only tracksuit? Does he not have any other clothes? What happens when he does laundry? We don’t see him change out of it ever!

In fact, other characters are all wearing the exact same clothes or have multiple sets of the same clothes.

The only explanation I can think of - in Subaru’s case at least - is that someone casts laundry magic on him regularly.

What anime has the best romance?

Thank you for phrasing it this way, leaving room for anime that do not have romance among its genres.

For me, it’s Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury . I love the relationship between Suletta and Miorine so much.

Honourable mention goes to 86 for Lena x Shin.

I guess I like seeing couples overcome shared trauma.

Singapore

61% of the votes, but 89% of the seats in parliament

Well deserved

I briefly considered listing Wotakoi in my comment, but then

Konosuba

Being a parody, it subverts most tropes of isekai anime. Its humor is exactly my type too.

Honorable mentions:

• Cautious Hero
• Saga of Tanya the Evil

Most other isekai anime have the same cookie-cutter plot, making them so predictable and boring. Or they have an interesting premise, but waste it with poor writing and dumb characters.

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai is a good choice

best romance animes with an assertive male protagonist

Since the question used “animes” (though I’ve heard plural of anime is “anime”), looks like it’s fine to list multiple shows😈 In no particular order:

• Cherry Magic! - Adachi can be assertive sometimes; Kurosawa is pretty assertive.
• Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai - Azusagawa is simply great throughout.
• Skip and Loafer - Not very romantic just yet and can’t remember it well at the moment but I believe Shima is assertive.
• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You - Rentarou is pretty assertive.

In fact, my top favourite romance anime tend to have an assertive male protagonist. I can’t stand wimpy, indecisive, weak-willed male protagonists.

This really is a good time to add to this counter, Subaru.

By now, he should have a good idea of how his restarting ability works.

Makes me wonder why he doesn’t keep a weapon for ease of suicide with him like the MCs of Edge of Tomorrow and Webtoon Character Na Kang Lim.

The simplest guess I have is that he is too dumb to realize it.

Vinland Saga

Moral of the story: revenge (and war) is no good.

Just binged season 1 of Attack on Titan.

IMO it is overrated.

1. Besides the scenes where they are swinging around with their mobility devices, the animation is completely a slideshow.
2. There’s way too much narration and exposition.
3. The scriptwriter / original writer tried to make the characters sound cool, but they just ended up with stupid dialogue.
4. The recaps are as long as the ones in Undead Unluck, taking up close to 10% of each episode’s runtime.

Thankfully, the story and world-building is good, which is not surprising considering it is Gundam but with meat robots.

So I’m going to give it a 8 / 10

Also, now that I watched AoT, Kaiju No. 8 feels like a dumbed-down knock-off.

your favorite OPs and EDs for the season

Only Otonoke from Dan Da Dan is catchy enough for me.

Watched Handa-kun, but it was just so-so. Its sequel, Barakamon has a higher rating, so hopefully it is better.

Watched GUNDAM: Requiem for Vengeance and enjoyed it. The messaging behind the show is very typical Gundam (i.e. war is bad).

The animation style (?) isn’t like the usual anime style which is a nice change of pace. It makes it look like a live action show.

Yep, typical gundam. I like it.

This animation style (?) isn’t the typical anime style, but I liked it too. Looks kind of like a live action show.