All evaluations are relative to other shows this season. Its pointless to compare to past or future ones, since what matters is enjoyment of the shows NOW.
Caleb Roberts
How can something be AOTY but not AOTS?
Leo Hernandez
Because this is a trolling list scientifically designed to make people respond.
Josiah Smith
AOTS is the most relevant/enjoyable show in specific season.
AOTY however is a show relevant beyound that. Season will be gone and everyone will forget Youjo Senki, with Death March replacing it in Isekai segment.
Meanwhile HandShakers will remain a classic relevant for years.
Matthew Brown
Tell me OP. Why are you so obsessed with Hanshakers? Sure, it has nice animation and a decent soundtrack, but plot is generic and so are characters.
Owen Long
It is one of a kind show, and its truly enjoyable watch if you have a hardware (huge monitor, 35 inches prefferable or VR device, though them being low res monitor/projector is prefferable).
I also love the creativity of director and artists put into it, making it truly individual signature passion project.
Matthew Wood
>nice animation >decent soundtrack The animation is so distractingly bad that I don't even remember the music.
So we will remember handshakers for being absolutely terrible and that will last for years?
Makes sense to me.
Henry King
>Abominable tier: >Chaos;Child Is it better or worse than head? I decided to watch that first and still haven't recovered enough to watch steins;gate.
Easton Diaz
Not quite, it's that hand shakers is nauseating garbage. It's shockingly bad.
Aiden Ross
>Death March anime So only the parts where it's shitty and generic and not the parts where it's a SoL about the cooking god and his lolis touring fantasy land and inventing magic shit.
Isaiah Ward
>but plot is generic and so are characters Its an old argument, but it still stands. Not everything has to be "original" or have interesting plot even. Much of this season popular shows are enjoyable exclusively through good characters or even good execution and direction.
Handshakers is basically a surreal music clip, AMV if you like. The "nice animation" and original art is all that is needed from it. Also i woudnt say the plot and characters are generic - so far we know too little of it, and the emotional connections and hints shown to already introduced characters are intrigueing.
Robert Morales
>The animation is so distractingly bad Stopped readying right there.
Isaiah Myers
Where are you arrows?
Adam Howard
AOTS: Rakugo
Great tier: LWA
Good tier: Gabriel Dropout Onihei Konosuba
meh tier: Chaos;Child
shit tier: Maid Dragon
Blake Baker
It realistically recreates the feeling of having someone shine a laser pointer in your eyes after you've been locked in a closet for an hour.
Matthew Perez
>Handshakers is basically a surreal music clip, AMV if you like. >AMV You've officially convinced me to never watch Handshakers.
Angel Long
If something is new, it doesn't authomaticaly mean that it is something good. Novelty itself is not significant.
Landon Wilson
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Brandon Sanchez
>Nyanko Days It's cute but there's hardly anything to it.
Jaxon Williams
What does it have to do with anything? Handshakers is already more original, BETTER and enjoyable than rest of the shows that tried to break the mold in the recent years.
Take an exaple of Flip Flappers last season - its a typical example of tryhard anime trying to be and look original, standing out. Like a hipster who read few lines of popular poetry and bought fashion magazine, trying forcefully to create own image: while ultimately falling into the narrative and cliches, and look of mainstream in every aspect.
Meanwhile Handshakers is VAPORWARE. VAPOREWARE genre was created to riddicule consumerism and egocentric hedonistic society, yet it backfired and it turned into glorifying it.
Same with Handshakers. It doesnt "try to be". Its the ultimate consumer product gloryfying decadence and consumerism. Its a flashy AMV with flaunting with rich effects, graphics, camera work - looking like TV advertisemt for some product. Vulgar, mismatched, show off, tasteless and full of chemical food addictants making you want more and your teeth turn black. It is not sublte, not deep, not symbolic - its just turning all valves on commercial product to a degree where it becomes more than just that - it becomes art.
Joshua Adams
>tfw I only watch two or three series a season. But since I'm user, none of you will ever know when I'm posting opinions that are just as valid as the peo that watch every series.
Jackson Rivera
What kind of stupid name is hand-shakers
James Peterson
>So only the parts where it's shitty and generic and not the parts where it's a SoL about the cooking god and his lolis touring fantasy land and inventing magic shit.
How else are you going to get the childrens to stay for 500+ chapters turned into an anime? If it ain't shitty and generic then it will never make it to that many episodes. Just look at (insert popular shounen anime here) and you will understand!!
>readying You are probably a phone-poster, who cares what you think?
Isaiah Wilson
What is the obsession with having "more to it"? Why the hell are you watching anime in first place? Because sincerely believe its the deepest and most creative artistic media?
Certainly not because you just strive to get portion of entertainment to kill time, that only anime delivers in its unique way?
If within the 30 second the episod lasts one heart nearly stops from moe dozen times, its God tier anime.
Cooper Moore
>HandShakers will remain a classic relevant for years
This t.bh
Nicholas Myers
You sure you dont want to delete your post, before the Mason secret world order takes a note of you for insulting their sacrelige?
Henry Price
AOTS: Youjo Senki
God tier: Rakugo LWA
Good tier: Kuzu no Honkai Masamune-kun Fuuka Demi-chan
Watching just because tier: Gabriel Konosuba Akiba Seiren Maid Dragon Ao no Exorcist 3-gatsu
Dropped: Urara
Alexander Adams
I can barely spot the good animation under the mountain of garbage. The layouts are nonsense, the compositing is atrocious, the colors are all over the place and obviously just left over from stock images, the CG is an eyesore, and the jerky camera movement both nauseates and detracts from the animation. And there are plenty of places where the animators clearly couldn't keep up with the absurd framing, and the characters end up looking like they're treading water while a fan tussles their hair from above. The show is ambitious to a fault.
Vaporwave, big guy. Vaporwave
Logan Davis
I sincerely did not expeect Youjo Senki to be AOTS. I seen the concept and spoilers in threads and though i`d hate it. I watched first episode and i did indeed hate it.
However Episode 2 turned the impression around and Episode 3 was just as good, elevating it to proper AOTS.
I still await the show to fail and me learning to hate it, and would love to be disappointed in my expectations if show remains just as good for remainder of the episodes.
Caleb Rivera
I watch anime mostly for lightheartedness and good feelings, and it does have it but not enough to make up for how short it is.
Charles Cook
It's an anime about Idols trying to make it in the business by working their way up from obscurity.
Is what I would rather watch.
Instead it is some gay magical teen thing where their powers come from holding hands.
Charles Kelly
Probably because you dont own a cat.
Aaron Lewis
There is just one Idol in the show, pic related, and she treis to make it in business by defeating God and rewriting history so that Morning Musume never was created.
Nathan James
Meanwhile, Detective Conan. Not something strung along by the fans alone to stay in relevance.
Jose Cox
Detective Conan is an unique case because its just great. It wasnt always so, some seasons were weaker - but the last few are a blast and it simply is better than most of what airs any season due to having actual plot, better action, better characters, good production values and just having atypical material since deals with detective theme in real world.
The Detective Conan movies still are every year the top box office and the anime is entertaining and relevant.
The only downside is, how hard is it for newfags to jump onboard due to 850+ episodes
Jaxon Hughes
>AOTY: Handshakers I'm tired of these masters of irony bullying a show with no budget. The joke stopped being funny already.
John Turner
>show with no budget You realize its a show funded by ANIMATE, the biggest japanese anime retailer chain, for their 50 years anniversary?
It has a budget anyone else this season can only dream about.
Connor Price
>show with no budget But that's Kemono Friends.
Jack Ross
I do. I mean, it's cute, but that's really it. It doesn't warm my heart as much as the more developed cute animes.
Noah Phillips
This season's been pree good desu. Isekai exposed. Edgy shounenshit exposed. Jojo exp wait it's always been shit.
Moeblob and SoL/Romance has taken over and I for one welcome our new memelords.
Nolan Baker
Well, the "cutest" anime this season is Urara and i dropped it as most other Manga Time Kirara trash, since its boring. Nyanko Days works probably because its so short - its concentrated highly refined distilled cuteness.
Nathaniel Baker
Pretty good tier: Rakugo
Watching only to hear Japs pronounce my name: Gabriel dropout
Still funny: Konosuba
Why am I watching this: Chaos;child
Bentley James
Edgy Isekai though is AOTS this season, surprisingly.
Moeblob and SoL/Romance season is nice, but already in spring it`ll be changed to Blockbuster season. So enjoy it while it lasts. I personally would love more romance anime, but there arent that many good source manga/lns to adapt really. So unless they go adapting more visual novels - i doubt it. And with VNs its very high chance of them being shit too.
Kayden Hill
I'm finding demi chan to be cuter. It's the only series ever where I don't care who wins because all girls are best girl. Im just rooting for everyone.
Mason Baker
AOTS : LWA
God Tier: Maid Dragon, Konosuba S2, Demi-chan
Good Tier: Handshakers, Seiren
Meh: Everything else
Unwatchable shit that does not deserve the success it gets: Youjo Senki
>Gintama wait, there are new episodes again? why didnt i hear about that?
Chase Davis
Same here, I really like Demi-chan, it's cute and sweet and makes me feel good when I watch it. I hope they all end up happy.
Ethan Ortiz
A true piece of art must deliver some kind of message to the audience, some emotion or thought that author wants to tell the whole world. And in case of handshakers I fail to see anything of this sort, except animation, that should justify it being not ordinary.
Ayden Foster
aots: Gabriel Dropout
fun: aimaimi demi urara maid dragon LWA konosuba seiren Akiba strip (also surprise of the season)
fun but I'm a bit worried: Masamune
I love soap: Kuzu no honkai
dropped: nothing
might still pick up: handshakers
Brayden Reed
Their budget being huge is the problem. They tried to make the new Madoka and flew too close to the sun.
Alexander Perez
>Favorite Gabriel Dropout >Enjoying LWA Maidragon Urara (my fucking dick) ACCA >It's alright Demi-chan Youjo Senki Konosuba IBO S2 I think I'll pick up Fuuka just to get in on the impending shitposting.
Godakobo dareed to do really explicite fanservice atypical for them, and made it funny.
Will KyoAni dare the same with Maid Dragon? Since there are plenty of scenes like that.
Liam Sullivan
This season I'm watching >HandShakers >KonoSuba >Spiritpact >Kobayashi-san Chi no Dragon Maid
Should I kill myself?
Jason White
>Handshakers >Spiritpact Unless you plan on replacing these two with some decent shows I recommend a swift exit.
Gabriel Sullivan
Updates after 3 episodes:
AOTS: Youjo Senki
Comfy: Urara Meirocho Demi-chan Maid Dragon
Fun: Konosuba Gabriel Dropout Seiren
Lewd: Kuzu no Honkai
Meh: LWA Masamune-kun Minami Kamakura
Dropped: Fuuka Hand Shaker One Room Akiba's trip
Dylan Gutierrez
I won't, both have potential
Austin Davis
I'm only watching Youjo Senki, Dragon Maid, and Demi-chan. I'd rank them 2-3-1 I guess.
Joshua Diaz
They're not even trying to be subtle with the light rays anymore. May as well be black bars at this point. Couldn't angle it from the top left to look like the sun coming out of the window? Christ's sake man. Fuck Japan sometimes.
Dominic Hall
There's no way hand shakers has potential
Kevin Jackson
Its GOD Rays.
Henry Martinez
What is that with Handshakers that it triggers some autists so hard? Envy?
Wyatt Price
AOTS Yojo Senki
God Tier: - Gabriel DropOut - Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon - Masamune-kun no Revenge - Onihei - ACCA
Great tier: - Konosuba - Kuzu - Demi-chang - Fuuka
Andrew Bell
>meh tier: >onihei fuck you, pleb
Anthony Cox
>500x281
Brayden Rodriguez
yeah, i read through the synopsis of it, and it sounded interesting with some occult stuff mixed. but well, now it sounds like some flashy anime where its all about sfx
Tyler Allen
They think they can't make a good anime with some CGI
Henry Sanchez
Rakugo is god-tier. Everything else is eh
Adrian Sanchez
It's not just any CGI. It's GoHands CGI
Jose Murphy
It's not like if the studio makes a big difference as long as the animation is smooth, and sure HandShaker's animation is smooth as fuck
John Thomas
If you take out the CGI and superb backgrounds, the animation is still superior to anything else this season.
Gabriel Foster
>picking up handshakers even though I know I'm being rused fuck you guys
Wyatt Ortiz
I think the animation of HandShakers is pretty average, you can see how they fail while trying to make the 2D characters fit the CGI background with the camera rotations.
However, the art itself is amazing, the way they combine hot colors from the top right of the screen to a colder tone in the bottom left and the details of the characters are freaking amazing.
Zachary Jenkins
forgot to say that when they're rotating the 2D characters within a CGI the fail is pretty minimal since you can notice it if you examine it frame by frame. At a normal speed you can barely notice it.
Sebastian Long
Continue to watch: >Youjo Senki >Konosuba >LWA >Kuzu no Honkai
On Hold: >Seiren >Masamune's Revenge
Dropped: >Main Dragon >Akiba's Trip
Gabriel Wilson
Best: Nyanko Days
Great: Demi chan Ai Mai Mi
Good: Maid dragon(would be great if other episodes were more like 2nd instead of 1st episode) LWA Gabriel Dropout
Average: Konosuba Urara
Bad: ACCA
Dropped: Handshakers Youjo Senki Akiba's trip
Anthony Ortiz
>dropping Urara Holy shit Sup Forums has worse taste then Japan.
Evan Allen
DEMI CHAN WA CHINKO WO SHABURITAI
Eli Thomas
Most likely they create the basic scene prototype in 3D, to adjust camera movement and sprite positions - and then animators drow frames based on the 3d frames. So while frames themselves are hand drawn, they dont have to think much about angle, size etc. So making transition is pretty easy.
Elijah Carter
Anything Manga Time Kirara should be eradicated
Josiah Nelson
WARE WA DAI MAOU, SATANIA-SAMA!
Jose Gomez
>great Ai Mai Mii: Surgical Friends Demi-chan wa Kataritai Gabriel DropOut Onihei
>good ACCA 13-ku Kansatsu-ka Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! 2 Seiren Youjo Senki
>okay Akiba's Trip The Animation One Room
>dropped BanG Dream! Chain Chronicle: Haecceitas no Hikari ChäoS;Child ēlDLIVE Fuuka Hand Shakers Idol Jihen Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon Kuzu no Honkai Little Witch Academia Masamune-kun no Revenge Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitensha-bu Schoolgirl Strikers: Animation Channel Urara Meirochou
Kevin Long
Watching: Demi-chan Youjo Senki Maid Dragon
Picking up later: LWA
This is a great season for animation. People in Youjo Senki actually have defined faces and whoever does Demi-chan should win an award just for how the dullahan uses her hands alone.
Adam Thomas
>However, the art itself is amazing, the way they combine hot colors from the top right of the screen to a colder tone in the bottom left So Handshakers is AOTS because gradients are sugoi?
Easton Price
>Good: ACCA. LWA.
>Okay: Onihei. Demi-chan. Kobayashi-san.
>Watchable: Gabriel Dropout. Youjo Senki. Granblue.
>Dropped: Kuzu no Honkai. Urara.
Camden Murphy
Cool:
Demi-chan Youjo Senki Granblue Fantasy Konosuba
Dropped:
elDLIVE Chaos;Child ACCA Hand Shakers Spiritpact Kizu no Honkai Maid Dragon Urara Meirochou Schoolgirl Strikers Gabriel DropOut