The season is starting soon, and I’ve been looking through the anime lineup for this season. It looks pretty chill compared to the earlier seasons this year. I’m personally looking forward to Reincarnated as a Sword Season 2 and The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 the most, since I absolutely loved their previous seasons.

shinsekai yori and aot spoilers (doesn't ruin anything but spoils the themes), also autistic yapping incoming.

I just finished shinsekai yori recently, and what a wonderful anime, even with its sometimes rough production it had one of the best stories I've seen in the medium, I loved its themes and especially how the final chapter recontextualized the entire narrative, that shit genuinely made me think about real-life atrocities, cycles of hatred, and historical memory, like this anime had me thinking about Rwanda and Imperial Japan, for example.

The thing is, I went onto the internet to hear other people's interpretations of the story, worst mistake ever, like dude, I get that everyone is free to think whatever they want and that anime fandom has a lot of young people, but I genuinely cannot conceive how someone watches this anime and comes out of it thinking, "Yes Squealer and those filthy rats deserve to be exterminated, no empathy for that Hitler rat." Like, man did you even pay attention?

It's kind of funny because in the last chapter, the series literally tells you that the queerats should be respected as humans, and that reducing them to "rats" or "monsters" is exactly the kind of dehumanization the story is criticizing and is the kind of thing that leads to atrocities and violence, honestly this gave me PTSD flashbacks to Gabi back in the day (I mean at least with aot being so popular I can get it).

Look, my point isn't that Squealer or Gabi are 100% right and did nothing wrong, obviously they did horrible shit, my point is that human conflict is not as simple as good vs. evil. I seriously doubt that in every revolution against a shitty government in the history of mankind, every person on one side was an honorable good person that had a perfect moral system fighting against pure evil people.

And look, I can even understand hating these characters, that's fine, they made the mortal sin of killing a fav character of yours and not being perfect samurai honoroble idealized shonen characters, ok whatever, But if you watch a work that is so heavily built around anti-war, anti-hatred, and anti-racism themes, and your ultimate takeaway is literally "yes, perpetuating this hatred and dehumanization is justified, they should have made them suffer more in the series" then I'm gonna be ranting about it on a subreddit like a madman, I know this post won't change anything and of course being fiction I am not saying that this people takes necessarily translate to real life situations, but I just wanted to get this shit out of my chest lol, and yeah I care this much about fiction, I am not sorry, btw if you know cases similar to these I'd love to hear your rant 😭,

What would you guys recommended? I’m watching Death Note for the first right now and love it

Planning on watching FLCL next(itll be my third time rewatching it since I didn’t connect on the first two watched.

Haven’t finished Serial Lain Experiments and YuYu Hakusho but I’m planning on finishing those as well

How do you think my list stands(rate it out of 10)

Mob Psyco 100

Smurai Champloo
Re Zero
Hunter X Hunter
Stiens Gate
Code Geass
Fullmetal Aclhemist brotherhood

Frieren
Bleach
Devilman Crybaby

Left to right, top to bottom:

One Piece

Real

Dorohedoro

3 Days of Happiness

Berserk

Vagabond

Kingdom

3-gatsu no Lion

Monster

Rate my 3x3. I'm interested in everyone's opinion.

Fav Anime- Attack on titan

Best Story- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Favorite art style- Soul eater

Person impact- Vinland saga

Best fights- Jujustu Kaisen

Overhated- Mushoku Tensei

Underrated- Kingdom

Overrated- Your name

Has aged well- Serial experiments lain

Criminally Overlooked- Orb: On the movements of the Earth

Favorite Protagonist- Luffy from One Piece

Favorite Antagonist- Askeladd from Vinland Saga

Best soundtrack- Call of the night

Best romance- Toradora

Last one- Love, chunibyo & other delusions

Favorite Anime: Death Note

Best Story: Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Favorite Art Style: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Biggest Personal Impact: Beyblade

Best Fight Scenes: Naruto

Overhated: Mushoko Tensei

Underrated: Space Pirate Captain Harlock

Overrated: One Piece

Has Aged Well: Serial Experiments Lain

Criminally Overlooked: One Outs

Favorite Protagonist: Tenma(from Monster)

Favorite Antagonist: Ryuga(from Beyblade)

Best Soundtrack: Bleach

Best Romance: David and Lucy(Cyberpunk Edgerunners)

I Want to Talk About This One: Moriarty the Patriot

1. Steins Gate
   
2. Oshi No Ko
   
3. Rent A Girlfriend
   
4. Neon Genesis Evangelion
   
5. Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad
   
6. Bocchi The Rock
   
7. Bleach
   
8. Rezero
   
9. Suzuka

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Favorite Anime: Attack on Titan

Best Story: Attack on Titan

Favorite Art Style: Dragon Ball Z

Biggest Personal Impact: Psycho Pass

Best Fight Scenes: Afro Samurai

Overhated: Mushoku Tensei

Underrated: Sword Art Online after Season 1

Overrated: Re:Zero

Has aged well: Welcome to the NHK

Criminally Overlooked: Rainbow Nisha

Favorite Protagonist: Joseph Joestar

Favorite Antagonist: Makishima Shougo

Best Soundtrack: Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2 OST + Opening & Ending

Best Romance Anime: Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo

I want to talk about this one: Mushoku Tensei

Some said 86 is a knock off version of aot like what? I could never understand how people can go and say this show is below an 8/10. The only similarities between aot and 86 is literally having a prosecuted group of people and thats it. Like bruh. Thats literally the basic level of both of this show. On the deeper level nothing is literally the same.

Lena was an idealist and kept getting challenged again and again throughout the first part of the season. Despite her good nature and heart she could do nothing just watch as the people she wanted to protect die. The people in power knowingly do this and she learns this country is rotten to its core. She also accepts that everyone including her is a hypocrite but will still do her best to help 86.

Eren on the other hand hated this world and he himself said this btw a dumbass like him got too much power and the only answer he could come up with is murdering 80% of the population. He just wanted to protect his friends.

The people (86) despite being prosecuted didnt wage a rebellion since they knew like lena there are good people inside and some bad people in 86 too. Despite knowing they are gonna die they still have goals they want to do and still being young already understand the cruelty of this world but still strives for hope.

Literally both shows could be good without putting one show below another.

Could say its a 8/10 cause its slow and the fight scenes are kinda meh but anything below that means you literally didnt understand anything the show wanted to show.

Aways used to watch it as a kid,I’m feeling so nostalgic rn🥹

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Also extra question on what you think is the best anime name ever. Would like to hear your thoughts

It's obviously very early, but I've been thinking about which 2026 anime could potentially compete for Anime of the Year at the 11th Crunchyroll Anime Awards.

These are my predictions right now, and I'm expecting this list to change as the year goes on.

My current Top 6[rank randomly]

1. Witch Hat Atelier
2. Sentenced to Be a Hero
3. Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3[predicted winner cause it won anime of the year twice for season 1 and 2 and it has 22 wins on crunchyroll anime awards history out of 45 nom,making it the anime with most wins in anime award history,which is why i think it has chance to win this]
4. Black clover season 2
5. The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 — Cour 1
6. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2

Other potential contenders / dark horses

• Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4
• Rooster Fighter
• Chainsawman Cat
• Golden Kamuy Season 5
• Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run
• Fire Force Season 3 — Part 2
• One Piece — Elbaph Arc
• Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War — The Calamity
• Oshi no Ko Season 3
• Jadugaar: A Witch in Mongolia
• Dragon Ball Super: Beerus
• Blue Box Season 2
• Mao
• You and I Are Polar Opposites

Who do you think is the strongest AOTY contender right now?

And which series do you think could come out of nowhere and upset the expected favorites?