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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.

Last week, I have only been watching anime that are airing this season.

Just want to point out that Murai In Love is the unexpected hit of the season for me. I haven’t laugh so hard from an anime in a while. If the story doesn’t become dogshit towards the last few episodes, there’s a pretty good chance this would be my top anime of the season and become one of my top favourites.

“If China wants to annex Taiwan… it’s not for the sake of territorial integrity,” Lai said, in an interview to mark his first 100 days in office. “If it is really for the sake of territorial integrity, why doesn’t China take back Russia?”

He insists Taiwan has no need to declare independence because it is already an independent sovereign nation that has never been controlled by the People’s Republic of China.

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I liked it so much I read the novels and spinoff.

Same. In my case, it got me to read my first light novel.

Maybe How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer?

The crossdressing girls had the guys confused / questioning their sexuality. They are ultimately straight though.

I think OPM is better, but that’s because I’m bald.

Based.

Past Seasons

Completed Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku

This solidifies josei romcoms as being top tier for me at least. We have childhood friends entering into a romantic relationship, and they did so in the first episode. The characters here are mature and level-headed too unlike many shounen / shoujo romcom characters. I like the relationship dynamics not just within the main couple, but also between them and the other couples and within the secondary couple. The tertiary couple could use more development, but I guess that’s what the source material is for.

It’s a pity that the premise of josei anime tend to be boring. In fact, Wotakoi is the perfect example: the premise is simply two nerds falling in love with each other! I probably passed over many good josei anime because they don’t have the hook to draw me in.

On the bright side, at least I discovered this one, which deserves a solid 9/10.

This Season

Continuing

Re:Zero season 3 - I find a lot of the dialogue between characters - not just Subaru’s - kinda cringe like in previous seasons, but that’s just me being nitpicky. As usual, once Subaru starts looping, I’m hooked.

Dan Da Dan - It certainly lives up to the hype. Looking forward to more of it.

Murai In Love - This is way funnier than I expected. The humour just clicks with me. It’s an unfair comparison due to the 4-episodes headstart it had, but I found it funnier than Dan Da Dan at the moment. I have caught up, and would like finish it.

How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer - It’s entertaining enough for now. Shall see how it goes.

Dropped

All of these induce some degree of boredom for me.

You are Ms. Servant - Male lead sucks.

365 Days to the Wedding - Just watch Wotakoi instead.

I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History - In addition to flaws that others have already pointed out, I find that this is just a generic villainess isekai, which is too boring. Watch Villainess Level 99 instead.

Magilumiere - Looks poorly executed.

Acro Trip - Just watch Gushing Over Magical Girls instead.

Puniru is a Kawaii Slime - The humour is not hitting it for me.

1. For those companies receiving taxpayer money, layoffs must be voluntary, not compulsory, as is already the case for many white-collar employees.

Companies can simply do a soft layoff by making working conditions worse (e.g. declaring a work-in-office mandate when working-from-home has been the norm)