Summer 2025 was a season for the ages. I doubt we’ll see something like this for a long time. The most recent prior to that was Winter 2018.

Takopi’s Original Sin: They maximized the heck out of the medium and delivered six episodes of a complex and emotional story. I may not watch it again, but this is my new #1 overall anime.

The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity: At the end of it all, this one delivered what I thought it could from the moment I saw the announcement poster (although the final episode carried it hard). This is where I also realized I like Kuroki Miyuki’s directional style. Cloverworks is one of the best studios out there, and within Cloverworks, Miuyki and her staff form the best team.

Other 10s in that season: Dandadan S2 (utterly consistent) and My Dress Up Darling S2 (a great step-up from S1)

The year as a whole? 15 animes watched, eight (!!) are rated a 10, five 9s, and two 8. An apples-to-apples comparison to 2024 gives me three 10/10s out of 16. It’s crazy that Summer 2025 alone has more masterpieces.

The numbers corroborated my hunch about Winter 2018. I had four 10/10s in that season and 2/3rds of all 2018, movies not counted.

Ah, yes the spiritual successor of Ruri Rocks /s

Angel Cop

The poster, does that refer to

Since the internet is now slop, ive been doing this with almost any search, and its sooooo good. Kagi is better, but this is free. I was getting so pissed off with how slopified search has become for everything.

The slop is real and, frankly, hard to read and at the same time a very convenient format for an article. I wouldn’t go that far as outright rejecting them, as it’s like shooting the messenger. I care more about the message. In practice, I have the reflexive urge to scroll to the Conclusion portion to check if the “slop” resource is worth reading. Don’t have the time to read the entirety of all articles.

Only downside is remembering to change my search setting every time !

My default search engine is a Searx instance with specific settings. It’s a pain to configure, so that gets saved as a bookmark.

Edit: Bookmarkable URL for OP’s suggestion: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s&df=1970-01-02..2011-12-31

Can’t think of a better way to use its last episode.

There will be a season 2. Or would it?

It became a victim of its own meme.

As for me. Let the anime end on that point and no further.

Horse fans eating good.

Cinderella Gray 🤝 Steel Ball Run

Technically correct. It’s selfish not to have anything because we’re broke. The alternative is going to debt and not paying it: it’s selfless in the sense you’re putting yourself in a worse position

If you really want to be safe AND upload it in MEGA, consider only making the links accessible to you and you alone i.e. your personal use.

If you are confident that they’re lost media, maybe they can go to archive.org.

For me, “we need more money to create better stuff” has become one of the biggest falsehoods of the time.

imo, it’s ragebait. Negative posts + a desire of the target audience to be validated = Engagement = More revenue

Does it’s mean it’s wholly false? Probably not. More likely, there’s a measure of truth, even a small amount of it. The rest could be emphasized or exaggerated to hit that engagement.

One Punch Man S3 catching strays with the grass slide animation.

A pretty serious episode, and in true Gintama fashion, goes meta in its messaging.

Disclaimer: Haven’t seen it.

It looks less scary than The Summer Hikaru Died and focuses more on the GL aspect. The supernatural appears to be more of a narrative conceit to get the story going.

This Monster Wants to Eat Me

I try to identify the most unusual thing I encountered every day, then I take a two second video of the moment.

Have you ever played in a band with your life on the line?

It’s now Lossax.

I’ll check myself out.

It’s a sort of perversely attractive universe. As I mentioned, Gridman, to me, had this constant underlying air of cruelty and mean-spiritedness.

I recommended Takopi’s Original Sin to SSSS.Gridman’s MAL entry for a reason. If you haven’t seen it, consider queuing it after Dynazenon (and Gridman Universe).