I Watched EVERY SINGLE NEW ANIME of the SPRING 2026 Season...

[00:02] I have sat down and watched every single new anime from the spring 2026 anime talking about today, discussing how much initial episode, and then we're going to rank them. Our tier system today goes

[00:15] from D all the way through S, which should be mostly self-explanatory. D is just the worst, and I regret even spending my time watching the thing. S is that I regret not being able to experience my first time watching this

[00:28] again. And then everything else is just in between. C is more or less I'm the barrel. B I might need more time with or it has things about it which are for other people but just not me. A I am

[00:40] the cream of the crop for one reason or another because that's relegated for S. S. This ranking just makes it so that I can separate things like this is excellent [music] and I enjoy it from

[00:54] this is actually goated and it is like top of the season for me. But it also like I just don't like this and it's not my thing from I don't know who could going to give you a weird look and expect you to explain yourself and tell

[01:10] me how [music] you could possibly like this unironically. So that's the deal. 36 new shows, five possible places to be ranked. No sequels, prequels, or spin-offs. Let us begin. Youth, drama, school. While none of

[01:26] these aspects are unique for most people, their combination makes for such delightful permutations that even generations later, these three same combinations can still make for unique and interesting stories. This is 100

[01:40] scenes of Aajima, a drama anime about a bunch of students who are going to a private opera school for girls and working through the complicated feelings that they have about life and their place in it. from jealousy to

[01:53] backstabbing and backtalking fellow students to, you know, existing at a music and drama school where emotions just run high [music] naturally through everyday life. Just just one episode in this case is truly enough to get a feel

[02:07] for this series. And it seems to be, you know, planning to spend a reasonable of different girls that attend this school, not everything all at once. And we've only just scratched the surface of it so far. What I can say is that

[02:21] Madhouse can very much do the uh high school yuresque stories quite well from stylization of all of these characters is very pleasant. I'm not sure how much I'm going to want to keep watching if the toxicity of this particular school

[02:36] But until I get a more solid beat on that, I'm going to be placing this show that, I'm going to be placing this show as a solid B.

[02:48] The seasons of this world are locked behind the rituals performed by a handful of [music] agents. People granted favor from some kind of pantheon of seasons. These agents [music] must do their diligence and duty to keep the

[03:03] seasons always changing, lest nothing ever changes again. This is Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring, where we start off with one particular seasonal agent and her bodyguard heading off to [music] a somewhat distant town

[03:18] to perform her required seasonal ritual to bring a forth spring. What's interesting is that this ritual for spring that she needs to perform is one that she hasn't been able to for at least [music] 10 years, implying that

[03:31] much of the country has been stuck in some kind of perpetual winter for most, if not all of the last decade. [music] and she is finally now able to pull herself together enough to get the job done despite her seemingly massive

[03:43] social and performance anxiety. This series in just its [music] first episode does not really get into the nitty-gritty of why this agent of spring has been unable to perform for [music] the last 10 years, just that she hasn't

[03:55] done it. And her guard also seems to be overly protective. [music] Like whatever did cause this massive winter time lapse was somewhat traumatic for them both. good eye for these characters, but also enough of their determination to have

[04:10] [music] us interested more in the world and why it is the way it is. In any broadcasting in spring [music] was not lost on me, and I'm happy to put it in a lost on me, and I'm happy to put it in a tier for that alone.

[04:23] Rakugo, the art of the one-man storytelling performance in anime. Thus far, there have only been a handful of titles that cover this art form at all. Rauugo Shinju and Jooshiaku. Shinju is a fantastic series with an untold depth to

[04:38] its characters hampered only somewhat by the lack of a like a fanatic passion needed to showcase why an average person could love Rakugo. Joshu is like the uses Rakugo as its main medium of joke delivery, which somewhat gets lost in

[04:53] translations at the worst of times. Neither of them, I would say, is the absolute perfection or pinnacle of showcasing what Rakugo is to someone who has no idea nor give them a reason to care. But this series, I think, takes

[05:08] care. But this series, I think, takes care of that far better. This is Akane Banashi, a story about one girl's goal to become the best damn Rockugo the kind of raugo that she can do, the kind of raugo that she watched her

[05:21] father perform for hours, but also to show that her father's raugo has actual merit. That it, alongside her own take on things, can rejuvenate the somewhat lagging in popularity Japanese storytelling art form. Even if her

[05:33] fellow contemporaries mind to disagree, and some of them even had her father banished from the profession altogether. I do not want to spoil much of this will do so much of a better job at explaining Rakugo and the motivations of

[05:46] its characters far better than I [music] ever will. I really also want to say that there are very, very few anime prior to their airing that I have actually sat down and read their manga for. Oddly, there are two this season,

[05:58] but that just seems to be a level of coincidence I can't handle. I don't normally find uh a manga series engaging enough to do that with and [music] just not have me wait for the anime to come along, but this I read this years

[06:12] ago. I've kept up with it and now it's an anime. So, if I can do that, you can watch it and then read it and then also agree with me that it's well worth being the first S tier show of the season. There will be more.

[06:27] nobility, romance, an engagement with the prince that gets called off in the first two minutes. Haven't seen that before. This is always traveled to the neighboring country of her best friend in order to find a

[06:43] suitable husband since her younger brother just got born and she can't be Shame. In any event, we now have a lot of villaines tropes on full display here. Also to try and be all, oh, but

[06:56] differently. See? See, there's not actually an engagement being broken. Or rather, there is, but we're playing with the formula because yes, our of this land calling off his engagement based on the words of another woman,

[07:10] most likely so that he can go off with her instead. However, this prince has fianceé, [music] and he doesn't realize that our protagonist is not her. He's engaged to her best friend, but then he publicly

[07:23] ends his engagement with our protagonist because he doesn't know any better. Man, consequences for the prince not even knowing who his own fiance is, but I seriously doubt it. Anyway, the series is taking a comedic bent to all of this

[07:38] our protagonist is going to end up with the first prince anyway because I mean her friend just has a better rapport with the second prince and also the calling that that's probably what's going to happen. And with that

[07:51] going to happen. And with that knowledge, I am placing this in C tier. A college student, a student dorm, and a dorm leader who likes to drink highballs alone. If you want a series about cute girls talking about alcohol and getting

[08:05] drunk, well then this is the show for you. This is Botan Kamina Fully Blossoms when drunk. An all female romcom about these girls who live in a somewhat picturesque college dorm and [music] what alcohol does to them. Or rather,

[08:19] universe, and everything when they consume and perhaps also overconume this particular beverage. The titular boton is a 20-year-old student who prior to the start of this series has never drank alcohol before. So then when she meets

[08:33] time, they share a highball and she is dived head first into this world of just the effects of being drunk in though. There is no having to hold your hair up while you're over the toilet for

[08:47] an hour because you drank too much. I'm not sure if the series is going to lay drinking enough to show us that part. And you know, personally, I don't know if this is the kind of show that I would go for. I mean, traditionally, alcohol

[08:59] is the great lubricator that allows a person to do things they might otherwise be too timid or afraid to do when they're sober. But when that applies to, you know, romance, which this show has a genre tag for, there are only a handful

[09:12] of places that this can go. But being an anime, one that airs on television, just doesn't change the fundamental pace of any kind of yuri romance that the show may decide to concoct. It's like this built-in relationship blocker that I

[09:25] feel like will just take me out of any given episode as the situations arise. chance, I think I'm going to have to start the show off in Ztier for me. A remote mountain village, a seemingly Edeto period community. But what is

[09:41] that? A dragon, you say? Looks like an airplane to me. What is going on here? And why are you fine with your sister being locked up in a cage? This is Demons of the Shadow Realm, a series that

[09:55] Okay, let me get the obvious out of the way. This is a new anime adapted from a manga written by Hiomu Arakawa of Full Metal Alchemist fame. And it is very, very hard to not try to compare this work at base with the legendary work

[10:08] as anyone can tell you, comparison is the thief of joy. But at first, I had no joy with this series. But then after the first few minutes, the show decides to kick off. And when it does, it really kicks off. Our protagonist, Yuru, seems

[10:23] to be living the dream of a comfortable, if a bit medieval life. Good [music] village, good food, sister who is locked up in a cage and is disallowed from seeing anyone or speaking to anyone outside of the family. You know, normal

[10:35] barrier that hides and protects this village is taken down, and a paramilitary unit with choppers and guns drop in to apparently kidnap our protagonist. But not just military guys, but also two women with supernatural

[10:48] powers. One of which claims to be Udu's true sister. What is going on here? Yudu gets to turn the town guardian statues into protectors like their freaking Mushu. And like, did I enjoy this? Damn right I did. S tier. Maybe

[11:03] hell, at least for now, these first few episodes are hype. This is an anime about art. How art makes someone feel. how fired up about

[11:15] making art you yourself can get. It's about people who then decide to showcase their love or sometimes frustration with art and the world in different ways. art and the world in different ways. This is Aaron the Southpaw. A Southpaw

[11:29] if you haven't heard of it before is just essentially someone who is as one of our main characters Aaron happens to be. I'm sure that will become least in the show's first episode, it's a minor point at best. Aaron the

[11:43] Southpaw is a series that revolves around two characters, Aaron and Kohici, who are both artists in a sense and either do or don't make art for a variety of different reasons. A lot of this first episode is attempting to be a

[11:56] commentary on not just what is art, but also who the artists are behind it and what drives someone into doing the art that they are doing. You have like teachers who speak on how few graduate art students are actually going to be

[12:09] You have people talking about what they want to do with their lives and their skills. And of course, you have Aaron going off and blasting the side of a because of an announcement of a young artist's showcase that just makes her

[12:23] want to vomit. She's so insulted by their lack of talent. The issues I have really don't care for either protagonist. They are not really likable in any respect. And the added discussions on what is and is not art.

[12:37] Like I just get the feeling that the writer has very strong opinions on the subject and might just be as insufferable as their leads happen to be. Unless, you know, that is the whole point. Maybe the journey to acceptance

[12:50] and becoming better people is the show. That's possible. But I'm not judging it based on what's in front of me. And what's in front of me is going into D tier. What if you had a copy of yourself? a

[13:06] being that looked [music] exactly like you could act like you, take your place to do all of the things that you need to do but don't want to do. And what if this copy, this being could then be whisked away into nothingness and back

[13:18] again whenever you want it? Now, what if that copy was the protagonist of this story and not you? This is even a replica can fall in love. A story about one such magical being who's been granted to this young girl and uses her

[13:33] for all of the boring stuff she doesn't want to deal with due to her anxiety and bad social skills. At first, you know, I thought a replica in this series was here somehow came up with reasons why you would want one, only to learn that

[13:46] no, this girl somehow just got the ability to summon a copy of herself social things she doesn't want to do, which I mean might have been fine when she was younger. She gets a new friend and all, but then as time passed, the

[13:59] girl [music] becomes more and more withdrawn, leaving the replica to even go to school for her for days at a time while she stays at home in bed. But the personality. She is her own separate being from the original. And she also

[14:13] to be as useful to her original as [music] possible, which might start to change when, as the title suggests, she falls in love. I am utterly fascinated even if we know where it's probably going to go. Like our replicant is going

[14:29] to be a fairly successful high schooler and [music] the original is probably going to continue to regress socially until there's not much left except so much jealousy that she can't do the sorts of things that her replicants can

[14:42] with [music] no real acknowledgment that this is a situation of her own making. But it's also going to be really sad because our replica is going to fall in love, but she can literally be wiped out of existence at a moment's notice by the

[14:54] original. and what does that mean for her feelings and her relationships? We're going to have to see. So, to start this off, man, I'm putting this series in a tier. What if you were really interested in an

[15:08] anime series designed for little girls? What if you were also a high school otaku who was anxious as hell and couldn't speak with people? What if you then got adopted by two popular girls who decide to be your friend and at

[15:21] least one of them shares your massive interest in that one anime series? I mean, then you would both be living in a fairy tale and also have the synopsis for this series. This is Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku, a series that makes a

[15:35] statement with its title only to spend the whole showcasing the exact opposite. protagonist is an anxious mess and constantly disaster brains what will happen in any given situation, only thinking of the worst possible social

[15:48] adopt him are nothing but kind and understanding. Oh, how great his life can now be with two of the most popular girls in the class interacting with him and talking with him on a regular basis. It is cute. I'll admit I have been

[16:01] enjoying it. And at least a part of me wants to see where this goes because I I do like to see this kind of positivity about high school relationships that we're probably going to ignore that the series does have a romance tag, which

[16:16] with one or both of them, but that's besides the point. The problem that I have with this series, and it's a very much a your mileage may vary problem, is that this series leans a little bit too much for my tastes into the wish

[16:28] fulfillment side of social scenarios where everything actually goes as good as it possibly can. And of course, everything is going to turn out all kind of confident optimism that I don't feel like I can fully support just

[16:41] because of how unlikely all of this is to me. It's like we're talking to a don't want to traumatize them, so we sugarcoat [music] literally everything. popular girls to like you. Of course, one of them is also going to like the

[16:55] thing you're hyperfixated on. Fancy that all of this is happening. Into Ctier it goes. All right, I don't know what to do [music] with this one. This is a series that is all over the place, and I don't

[17:08] that is all over the place, and I don't exactly know what it wants to be. This is Ghost Concert Missing Songs, a story about a futuristic world with a lot of automation, but also some dystopian things like it is illegal here to sing

[17:22] or compose music. Music still exists and you can listen to it, but only the music generated by some kind of AI system, one that makes things up on the spot for you. That that's all you have access to. And all of its music just kind of sounds

[17:35] off. You have a protagonist who knows that something is wrong, but is too doesn't really latch on to what is wrong. And then you might think that the figuring things out and then trying to bring music back or something. But then

[17:49] she gets possessed by a ghost. A ghost that calls herself Cleopatra and wants to go and mess around with a bunch of men for some reason. We get a typical priestess and priest pair who then want to get rid of this possessive ghost. So,

[18:03] we become an action series for a little bit and then the dystopia comes back and a bunch of people die when the automated system that runs society realizes that there's some rebellion potentially happening and kills everyone. It's a

[18:15] narrative problems that makes me wonder with, you know, with a series about an AI making all the music if the story itself was also somehow spat out by an LLM because of how rushed and sometimes incomprehensible it is. Apparently, this

[18:30] project that has been in the works for like half a decade. So, maybe this will actually all make sense to someone who's 6 years. But, you know, for me, who hasn't? Yeah, I got to put this into

[18:43] Dtier. Wouldn't it be great? Wouldn't it be just great if you could go back in time to your awkward high school years and knowledge? I mean, you could be more athletic if you wanted to, more

[18:56] sociable, and just in general have that perfect high school experience that all you you should have had the first time around. Wouldn't that be great? This is Hibata's Teenage New Game Plus, where this college graduate gets the

[19:10] opportunity to do just that. He wakes up in his overweight prehigh school body, spends some time getting fit, and then ready for his new high school debut. The problem here is is that we don't really get a lot that utilizes the narrative's

[19:25] like I don't mean to say that I want him to like continually time leap everywhere. No, no, no. I don't need that. But we don't see his knowledge of the future getting used like at all. He gets reintroduced to his classmates, but

[19:39] bunch of them. Maybe not long term, unless you know he's the kind of guy were doing like a decade out from high school, but like let's start here. He He [music] likes a girl, right? He wants to ask her out. He did attempt to ask her

[19:52] out last time, but she turned him down. Why did she turn him down? Did he ever boyfriend during her high school years? [music] That's pretty important to know timeline and become her boyfriend, you you have to realize she might have been

[20:06] in a relationship with someone else and that might still cultivate somehow. This guy then meets this group of three friends, one of which he seems to have a history with maybe, but the show hasn't really explained that. And it doesn't

[20:18] really go into who these people were during his previous high school times and [music] what that might mean going forward. I mean, there is an argument to be said here for the show not wanting to give us spoilers, but also to not give

[20:31] us any of the future info that may happen about these characters. To not a generic high school romance or a high school slice of life. Okay. But then

[20:43] there's nothing unique about it at all. I want to like it, but it's a C-tier for me. What if you were an awkward high schooler and an outcast, and then let's say that the second most popular girl in

[20:56] the class inexplicably had similar interests to you and decides to adopt break you out of your shell. Well, if it did, it would be the second time this season that I've brought that up in the show synopsis. This is I made friends

[21:10] with [music] the second prettiest girl in my class, which does exactly what it romcom with an overly forward [music] girl who has chosen the unlikely shy, awkward nerd to spend her time with, much to his astonishment. [music] Will

[21:24] boyfriend? Depending on how you look at it, they're already doing that. They match introverted interests so well that it's crazy. And yet, she's also perfect have an actual social life beyond spending some time with our protagonist

[21:38] at his apartment. They are going to be together. They are going to have a episodes of that, then this will give you exactly [music] what you are asking for most likely. For me though, well, with everything else that I have to pick

[21:53] and choose this season, while I can't point to any major flaws with the series beyond perhaps [music] originality, I also can't say that it has any standout also can't say that it has any standout elements either. So, C tier for me.

[22:06] How do you think that you could push the idea of a will they, won't they type romance? Many shows have tried. Many shows have ridden the line of pushing their protagonists to the edge of confessing and teetering on a knife's

[22:19] edge for forever since the story needs to continue for many, many, many more volumes. But what if that balancing act became part of the story itself? Well, then I mean you would have Kagioad Love is War. But if it wasn't that, it would

[22:31] is War. But if it wasn't that, it would be this. This is I want to end this love game where two childhood friends have concocted a very interesting game all the way back in sixth [music] grade. a game where they both continually confess

[22:44] their love to one another and the loser is whoever gets flustered first. This game has apparently been continuing for 4 years and now they are in high school. The confessions still continue. They are of course both madly in love with one

[22:57] complexes about the whole situation that devolves into neither of them wanting to actually make the first move beyond what can probably just be waved away as part of their little confession game. And personally, this is maddening. Even just

[23:11] the first episode has me screaming at the top of my lungs for these two to just kiss and get a room and admit to one another that they like each other. But since this is the whole show, this back and forth of stubbornness, I am not

[23:23] going to find relief here. This series is 12 episodes. 12 episodes of this guarantee that something will happen at the end. Why? Because guess what? This is all based on a manga. And the manga isn't even done yet. If you want to

[23:36] watch these two love birds continually run themselves into a wall rather than confess, then by all means, you will love this. But personally, I just can't. It's a C-tier for me. A country girl gets a once-in-a-lifetime

[23:49] opportunity to go to a private school in Tokyo. But when she arrives, she deal. She has to live and work at a manga cafe. A cafe run by a fellow daughter of the family that owns the whole school. This is Ichinoia Mangutsu

[24:05] Gurashi, a high school slice of life about four girls who now run a manga cafe because the owner needed a place to store her massive manga collection. And why not turn it into a cafe? And then why not tie it into school funds by then

[24:18] offering some space to be used as a dorm? Truly, her genius knows no bounds. I mean, I will say our protagonist here, Mo, is a great straight man in the everything happening around her. But having to deal with the precarious moods

[24:32] of this one rich girl who has a stoka screw the rules, I have money attitude we just doubled our manga collection. I know. Let me just bribe the landlord

[24:44] building [music] purely for storage. I have money to burn, you see. I I can just appreciate how blatant it is, which just adds to the comedy. Will it be for everyone? No. But I can't say that it hasn't been

[24:56] entertaining, at least for me. Will that entertainment last? Eh, we'll see. Btier for now. A deadly middle-aged expert assassin. An insect bite that transforms him. This is not some weird Spider-Man superhero

[25:11] ripoff, but more like a Detective Conan homage as our assassin dages into a middle schooler. This is Kill Blue, an action comedy about this assassin who school in order to protect his boss's daughter because he's now quite

[25:25] literally perfect for [music] the job. How will this man with 39 years of life behind him and assassin skills to boot survive in a school surrounded by now fellow [music] 13-year-olds? That is all part of the comedy. And it's also why

[25:39] I'm probably not watching it. I mean, when a show decides that a major comedic when a show decides that a major comedic beat has to be to bring this half- naked panda masked man wearing nothing but said mask and his underwear to show up

[25:51] on a school campus of 13year-olds just to slap his waistband around and frighten some girls. Is this supposed to be funny? It's just vaguely creepy to me. I mean, I had some high hopes because this is from the same mangaka as

[26:05] as Kuroku Nobas, but maybe I just need to give it some time to find its footing. This episode wasn't enough for me to get into it. It's not bad, it's just weird. And okay, man, I'm putting it in Ctier and I'm fully [music]

[26:18] expecting some diehard fans to kill me for that. Speaking of killing, the old saying goes that people die when they are killed. While there have been several shows that have gone out of their way to prove such a saying false,

[26:31] few others make it such a plot point they put it in their title. This is follows a young and slightly inexperienced sleuth as he attempts to solve a variety of cases, which every one of them apparently ends up forcing

[26:46] him into the role of murder victim at some point in time and he can revive himself out of it. You'd think that this would be a massive boon at times because if you get murdered by the culprit, maybe then you could reverse said murder

[26:59] and remember who it was that killed you and then you could use that newfound knowledge and solve the case. It's a shame that uh mystery solving in a show that has detective in the title and is about a detective and also solving

[27:11] mysteries. It's a shame that it's not the actual priority here. At least not in this first mystery case. The mystery of this show's first arc is a bit counteract that by just saying, "Well, it's more important for the narrative to

[27:24] begin showing off the relationship between our detective and his busty assistant who makes a habit of smelling his clothes." But I'm always a proponent of mystery first, relationship second. If the mysteries are bad, I personally

[27:36] find it very hard to believe that any kind of character dynamic is going to make up for it. I'm sure it can happen, but it's just not happening here. Most will, I think, be content with some light soouththing that the narrative

[27:49] does provide and, you know, plenty of time [music] with the busty assistant to this series in C tier and being done with it. A trope that I haven't seen acted on in

[28:02] a while is that of the popular boy fan club where you have like a pretty boy protagonist or a friend of the protagonist and there is this gaggle of high school girls who will watch him from afar and then berate the female

[28:15] lead for daring to get close to their beloved senpai. I would never have suggested or even considered that a whole anime about those girls could exist or what it would be like. But I guess I don't have to imagine that

[28:27] anymore. This is Kurio Fan Club, a comedy series about two girls who obstensively form the unofficial fan club for one of their male classmates, a somewhat introvert called Kurio. They obsess over this guy by like imagining

[28:40] and pretending to ask him out onto dates. They list out all of the things intestines, [music] and then they debate how joyous it would be to be able to identify his fart sound and if it was on the same decel level as a bomb. I made

[28:53] none of this up, by the way. Really what this show is is about the budding friendship and camaraderie between these two girls who, you know, then might end it's not Kio that they enjoy, but instead just spending time with one

[29:06] another. Yuri fan shippers are rejoicing in the background, I'm sure. But I mean, I do massively applaud the series for my god, the production, like even just the OP is so good for what this show actually is, the general premise is not

[29:23] extremely [music] high on any kind of recommendation list. Though I can see why others would dive into this thing head first. So your mileage may vary, and as such, I'm then going to put it into B tier.

[29:37] Imagine you are walking home. Then imagine you meet this weird humansized penguin-l lookinging bird thing. Then you realize he speaks both Japanese and Russian and wants nothing more than to eat Japanese food. What do you do? Well,

[29:50] you take him home and feed him because of course you do. This is Kujima. Why sing when you can warble, a comedic slice of life about this unexplained wants to experience all kinds of Japanese cuisine, at least as much as he

[30:06] can. It's also about Adata, the young man who for some reason goes along with this bird's plan. Even though, you know, the bird has no filter for his actions trespassing onto mountain land in order to cut down bamboo so that he can make a

[30:20] slide for Smen noodles. His desire for Japanese food knows no bounds. If you like a comedy that can be somewhat random and inexplainable at times with a protagonist who is not human and who has a human counterpart that just seems fine

[30:34] with everything, then this is a good bet for you. However, for me, why Warble when I can just place it in C tier and move on to the next thing here is modern Japan, but with the spiritual side fully being made real.

[30:48] Our protagonist has been able to see spirits, ghosts, and gods from a young position to interact with many of them for most of his life until he is placed in charge of an abandoned country estate [music] that used to be home to plenty

[31:01] [music] that used to be home to plenty of cursed spirits. This is Kuseninoi's Garden of Gods, a fantasy slice of life series with a protagonist who can accidentally exercise ghosts and evil spirits with just his handwriting,

[31:14] having them vaporize on contact with him because he's holding a shopping list of estate just by having his written directions to the place come in contact with the front gate. And he even ends up summoning the nearby mountain god to

[31:27] come and investigate only to then become a regular visitor since our protagonist Minato pays him, you know, proper respects as a god and gives him food and drink. I will say that like when I first looked at the poster for this series, I

[31:39] campfire cooking isekai because, you know, both protagonists are that same level of middle-aged bland Japanese guy, and they both have a strikingly displayed. But while both of these shows have some focus on food for some reason,

[31:54] this series is a far more like centralized series on spirits rather run-of-the-mill Isakai adventure series, which I do appreciate. I also legitimately appreciate the restraint of the writers here to have made our wolf

[32:08] mountain god essentially like a a kind old man who you can respect and appreciate for his age and wisdom and not making this wolf god some kind of sexy mountain sheolf for some halfbaked will they won't they romance plot. In

[32:22] fact, the series has nearly no female characters like at all. I mean, there's this ghost girl from Mato's childhood who will probably come back into the story at some point, but no obvious main female character who's going to stick

[32:34] around, which is surprising, honestly. All that to say is that I might end up dropping the show [music] due to time, but it definitely won't be because of how much of a relaxing quality this show has. A low end of a tier for me. Quickly

[32:48] give me a chance to collect myself before we continue with the next section, but also because I wanted to give shoutouts to supporters of this video is not sponsored and the more support that we get over there, the less

[33:00] to need at any given time. So, an immense thank you especially to patrons like Rifen Bonapot, Omar Showman, Ross Emerson, Hector Monttoair, Aiden, and without your support. So, however much you are able to help, I am eternally

[33:16] grateful. You receive a package in the mail. It contains 100 million yen and some instructions for a game. Someone is going to be given your name and you theirs. In 30 days, you have to steal by

[33:30] any means necessary the 100 million that they similarly have received. Anything you steal is yours to keep legally, but anything that is stolen from you becomes debt you have to repay. This is already an interesting setup, but then you have

[33:44] a protagonist who describes herself as stupidly honest. Emphasis on the stupid. This is Liar Game, a 20-year-old manga that's getting an adaptation in 2026.

[33:56] mean, I never did get into the manga myself back in the day, but I remember it being a very easy recommendation for people who got into like anime and manga back in the 2000s after you got your mind blown by Death Note and you wanted

[34:10] more interesting that Madhouse is the one handling it. So, the premise has already been stated. We have our extremely naive protagonist now, who has been given 100 million and needs to steal the 100 million that another

[34:23] person has also been given. that person [music] turns out to be a former teacher of hers, not necessarily a good guy, and then he uses Nao's naivity to literally convince her that she should just give him the money for [music] safekeeping.

[34:37] Like the show did say that she is stupid, and that makes this quite clear. But once she finally realizes that this former teacher does not have her best interests in mind, she seeks out some help in the form of a con artist,

[34:49] Shinichi Akiyama, in order to get the 100 million back. Akiyama being initially annoyed at this whole thing, but intrigued as, you know, technically stealing F now is going to be not illegal at all. According to the

[35:03] it's the organization's money and everyone has agreed and consented to this game. So, him helping now out is not illegal, and he can use all of his skills without worrying about getting locked up for it. Sure, Nao is once

[35:18] again putting her faith in a person who could just, you know, [music] steal the whole 200 million and leave both her and her teacher 100 million in debt, but probably stick with her for a while through whatever happens through this

[35:32] game and, you know, whatever other games this mysterious organization has planned. The manga for this is very highly regarded and for a reason. But I can't say that this animation, uh, this adaptation is particularly stellar,

[35:46] despite Mad House being the one doing it. That's weird for me to see. But even so, that's still not enough to stop me from giving this an easy A for this season. I have been a bad fan of magical girl

[36:00] anime in that not only have I not bothered to fill all of the blind spots of the genre for my watched repertoire, but I can't tell you without looking it up when the last studio Piro Magical Girl series was. But we have one now.

[36:14] significance of Piro being the ones handling this series in particular. This handling this series in particular. This is Magical Sisters Lulu Lily, a series following two sisters who are given magical girl powers from some alien cats

[36:27] and use them to magically transform into adult-aged idols to fulfill their dreams. Now, Studio Piro is animating this and that is significant because in the history of Maho Shooujo anime, Piro was extremely prevalent during the 1980s

[36:43] being the dominating studio in the genre and also the ones who were most focused magical girls becoming [music] idols. So, this really does feel like a back to form kind of series for them. Sure. I mean, after the 80s, the genre

[36:56] then started to lean more into like action scent tropes with Sailor Moon and then, [music] you know, whatever the inverse deconstruction you want to describe Moka was. But this is playing the genre as classically [music]

[37:09] straight as I feel like we've seen in a while with two sisters that now have to keep their powers a secret, even from each other, while using their magic to to themselves and the people around them. I miss this kind of magical girl

[37:23] show. I mean, I can still appreciate the action ones, even the action idol ones like Symphfoggeear and the like, but having this series being the old classic of what the stereotype of the genre used to be and done this well, I mean, the

[37:36] show is just so colorful and inviting. It is a welcome addition to the genre, and I am excited to have it around. I may be biased because I've always been a fan of the genre, you know, despite my blind spots, but I cannot put it in a

[37:49] tier lower than a. What if you had the mangaka responsible for writing Inyu Yasha think to herself, you know what? If I just did that again, also, you know, just as good and doing it now and not in the late '9s. Well,

[38:04] then you would have this. This is Mau, a series following a young girl who died and then later accidentally found herself with the ability to travel to the past by walking through an abandoned shopping arcade. It is in that past

[38:19] to the brim with spirits and other dangerous beings, but also the titular Mao himself, a young mystic who's been suffering from a curse. Together, the pair team up to fight various spiritual entities and other things that threaten

[38:34] them and the whole area. Like, you can't blame me for making the Inyuasha comparison here because, you know, having a girl that does the whole time travel thing, teams up with a powerful warrior, fights spirits. A lot of it

[38:48] a different coat of paint. And that's still great. I am liking this a lot. And you know, this narrative brings considering those similarities, but also [music] the animation that just makes

[39:02] old '90s anime. Cuz I mean, like there is a tendency now, I think, to look at older shows like that and then try to redo the character designs to be more modern in a sense. But here, man, I am

[39:16] that little bit of film grain for aesthetic purposes. It's like we aren't just animated the whole thing with cells. [music] I wouldn't expect them to do that. But still, the levels that they're willing to go for this just to

[39:31] brain. Now, I can't lay so many praises on this series and say that like it's going to be a massive standout when most of my reasons for enjoying it are nostalgic in nature. So, my praise might fade as the

[39:45] season progresses, but I am loving this blast from the past so far, and I'm blast from the past so far, and I'm going to happily place it into a tier. It always fascinates me when I run into an anime that covers a lot of

[39:57] interesting tropes in a way that I can describe with fancy sentences. Sentences like, "Yes, I have also built up an immunity to powder." And also, for some reason, the centipedes don't bother me. And finally, sometimes it takes a man to

[40:11] be the best girl. This is Marriage Toxin, an action comedy about a strangely super soldier-like guy whose family specializes in poisons and works Unfortunately for our protagonist, his grandmother is fixated on the very thing

[40:26] that so many grandparents are focused on, which is the immense desire for grandb babies, as many as possible. But since both of her grandchildren have been taking their sweet time, and you know, one of them is gay, the matriarch

[40:39] flexes her influence to force said gay granddaughter into a marriage just to forces our protagonist to declare that no, he will answer to call despite having no social skills whatsoever in order to save his sister from this fate.

[40:54] And so, while all of this is happening, he's in the middle of an execution by poison of an accused marriage swindler. Our protagonist then decides to hire this swindler in order so that they can help him find a marriage partner. All

[41:08] signs, however, point to our chief poisoner, Gro here, to actually end up falling in love with the very person he was about to poison to death. He wants person that he can spend a happy life with. And despite their conflicting

[41:21] personalities, the swindler May ends up striking all of the green flags necessary for such a relationship. There's only one problem. He's a guy. I of course don't really have a problem with this necessarily. I just don't know

[41:34] everything about the relationship between these two despite the fact that Mai is supposed to be helping Gooo find a wife in order to you know make grandb babies. Everything screams that no actually these two are the ones that are

[41:50] going to get together. This is going to be Yahi. And that's fine. I'm just not sure yet how that solves the issues presented in the story. Grandma still wants grandkids and was perfectly fine dragging Gho's sister out of a

[42:03] homosexual relationship with her girlfriend in order to get it. But I guess that we're just going to have to keep watching Ghetto do his Neo thing every episode until we find out exactly what the show plans to do. My god, I can

[42:15] we're still confused about it. Entertaining enough that yeah, I'm Entertaining enough that yeah, I'm putting it in A tier. My god. We start with a young demon, a daughter of the god of gluttony, who has grown

[42:28] tired of mere food, and decides to do the next best thing to increase her the next best thing to increase her pallet, eat human souls. She infiltrates a high school, immerses herself in its culture, becomes the top student and

[42:40] head of the disciplinary committee, all so that she can use this campus as a human ranch to feed off of. But when she picks her first target, instead of eating the young man's soul, she becomes his girlfriend instead. This is Mistress

[42:54] Kanan is devilishly easy, an etchy romcom about a devil who thinks that she she desires is just [music] to have someone to eat food with. She also has a very active and in the gutter imagination and constantly acts like an

[43:09] exactly as she's planned. She has a confidence and a desire to show who is the dominant one in her relationship with this lower [music] life form, this male student named Uigi. However, her dominance is constantly tested when he

[43:23] is able to make her flustered and stuttering without barely saying a word. butdding romance as they begin to act like a couple and not, you know, have Yuigi getting his soul devoured because Canon is too chicken to actually do

[43:37] that. If you like the idea of this overly straightforward guy and this also overly busty naive demon doing etchy slapstick for 12 episodes, then have at thee. But I'm tossing it into the C tier and forgetting about it. You know how we

[43:51] have so many countless isekai stories about reincarnating into a fantasy world or being in the hero's party or being banished from the hero's party or being a villainess or being a sword or being a vending machine. Heck, there's even a

[44:03] manga about being a tapeworm inside of a fantasy princess. Feel free to look that up on your own if you want. It's only a manga for now. But you've been warned. But what if you wanted to not have one reincarnation story, but many all at

[44:18] once, each more insane than the last, starting with reincarnating as the starting with reincarnating as the hero's rib. This is my rib ridiculous reincarnation where our protagonist after failing to get isekai by truckun

[44:31] instead and sent in front of a goddess in order to determine his reincarnation. worthwhile has a waiting list of thousands of years long. But if our protagonist can think of a unique reincarnation that no one else has

[44:46] thought of yet, he could reincarnate instantly, thus beginning the search for the most fulfilling and unique reincarnation. And we start off with being a fantasy hero's rib. And then episode two is going to have him be a

[44:58] series unique beyond its ridiculous premise is that each reincarnation has its own art style and they are all over the place. It really is a series that unique. So its entertainment really just

[45:12] handle on a weekly basis. And if this wacky style is of interest to you, I am personally fascinated. So, I'm going to try and keep up with this at least for a I'm going to go the distance. So, we're going to start this one off in Btier and

[45:27] going to start this one off in Btier and see how things play out. You know, when I just finished talking about an isekai that goes wacky and crazy with its presentation and art style, I honestly thought that I had

[45:39] of crazy for this one season. Heck, probably the whole year. So, imagine my surprise when the literal next series I have to look at is arguably even more unhinged. This is Needy Girl Overdose, a series that I am going to fail to

[45:54] describe because of how off the rails it is deciding to go. On the whole, it largely seems to be some kind of critique of streamer and influencer culture. Not just having a main character be a influential multi-million

[46:06] followed streamer, but also spending an insignificant amount of time looking at her as if this was some kind of boomer documentary discussing the harmful effects of influencers on the children of today. But we also like have a

[46:18] separate girl whose follow count is only in the low hundreds and she makes ends going home to a freeloader boyfriend who seems to be abusing her. And then we also swap to a trio streaming unit who are desperately trying to reach the same

[46:32] follow level as the poster girl on the show's PV material. This is not a cut and dry series that is able to be easily explained. And honestly, I don't think that the series will be enjoyable for most people. But enjoyment is I doubt

[46:46] that's what this is going for. Sometimes hard-hitting critiques are not meant to be enjoyable. Psychological dramas are not always meant to be enjoyable. Watching a girl swap from super ganky happy streamer girl to obviously bipolar

[46:59] who cuts herself introspection is not going to be enjoyable. But then how like to purely go on enjoyment, this would be all the way at the bottom in D tier. But if we ignore enjoyment and try to look at its merits and what it's

[47:13] attempting to do, well, I don't know if I can accurately judge this work and the depth that it might end up having. I can say though that I haven't decided to actually pursue the series myself. It It really is the kind of thing that I need

[47:27] to be in the right mood for, and honestly, finding myself in that mood is becoming harder and harder these days. So, we're going to have to middle of the road this. We're placing it in B tier and seeing how things pan out. But if

[47:39] anyone tells me that they would S tier this, I honestly would not be surprised. Let's say you were a 21-year-old female otaku whose only sanctuary from the

[47:51] horrors of your workplace was your small living room where you can calmly and safely watch anime. Except you can't watch all anime as almost anything happens to invoke a reaction from the neighbor next door who instantly bangs

[48:05] on your wall. should you dare to watch anything he doesn't like. And so then when you enlist the help of your other neighbor in order to confront him, you then if you retreat into your other neighbor's apartment, you get a hole

[48:18] into that dividing wall as well. Okay, sure. Why not? This is, pardon the intrusion, I'm home, where this female otaku is caught living between two mysterious men who are mysterious for different reasons. You have an overly

[48:33] violent blond-haired mangaka who only gets a pass once our heroine finds out that the manga he happens to be writing is also her favorite manga of all time. So, as a massive fan, she gives him a pass for most things despite his violent

[48:46] tendencies. But we also have this caring and understanding protective boyfriend type who worries about his new neighbor and the bad attitude she now seems to be perfectly fine with putting up with on a daily basis. So, since they all have a

[48:58] clear line between all three apartments, she ends up hosting them both for food regularly, and this awkward and interesting living situation can continue. I'm not sure if I'm particularly sold on this setup, even

[49:10] ignoring the reverse harm situation. Our male characters are just a large bundle of walking red flags. And, you know, we have this female lead who can't seem to more anxious and introverted personality. the male leads just seem to

[49:23] be bouncing her around a bunch, even if one of them is more empathetic than the other. I mean, I just can't say that I'm all that interested, to be honest. You could certainly do worse, but for me, I'm putting it solidly into C tier.

[49:37] Despite having reincarnation in this show's title, it is not reincarnation in become accustomed to. We are not reincarnating into another fantasy world, but instead just unlocking the talents and abilities of our past lives.

[49:52] This is Petals of Reincarnation, an action series where our protagonist, Toya, starts off as a talentless nobody, crushed under the expectations placed existence of his prodigy of an older brother. But one day, he meets Hayo, a

[50:07] young girl who has a dagger. A dagger that can unlock the talents and cuts her own throat with it, she gains the sword skills of a past life. Someone who was part of the old demon fighting Miyamoto clan. And she has been tasked

[50:21] with finding other reincarnated people who use their abilities for evil and then snuff them out. But then she also gives Toya the chance to use this dagger himself and gain his own talent. A talent that allows him to steal whatever

[50:35] he wants within range. But what he wants is more talent. And so this ability allows him to steal all of that as well. You know, honestly, having a protagonist that rides the line between hero and villain, leaning ever more so into

[50:48] villain territory is a precarious balance, one that for some reason, I'm just not seeing a good chance of it being done well here. Toya doesn't seem to have any moral grounding. and those who have granted him this power despite

[51:02] their own stated goals of wiping out evil people. They just seem woefully incompetent in what they do when you know they just allow this guy to cut his own throat with this dagger and end up with powers that they probably don't

[51:14] want him to have. Sure, something might end up grounding Toya so he only uses his powers for good. But when you have a power that is essentially just steal the powers from everyone else, it's hella difficult to argue why he would not just

[51:28] become the most powerful being in the world. A god of the new world, you might say. And personally, I'm not interested passing and placing this into sea tier.

[51:40] Demons walk the earth, causing destruction everywhere when they are the size of titans. Only a true defender of humanity can defeat them and bring peace to the world once again. And that defender is a rooster. This is Rooster

[51:55] Fighter, a comedic action anime where our protagonist is a rooster. Not a human transformed [music] into a rooster, not an alien who took the form of a rooster or some kind of person reincarnated as a rooster. He is a real

[52:09] rooster. He also just happens to have superpowers enough to defend humanity episode 1. It's a comedy, you see. So, expect things to be filled to the brim with chicken and rooster jokes. Let me put this simply, all right? If you watch

[52:23] this in Japanese, you are going to hear the voice of All Might coming out of an overpowered as hell rooster who fights demons for humanity and then maybe gets sacheting off to the next town while some western music plays softly in the

[52:36] background. This series is utterly insane. And honestly, while I doubt that it's good enough for, you know, everyone in order to commit to watching it all of the way through, I think it absolutely has enough charm to it for most people

[52:48] to you should give it a chance is what I'm saying. Give it a chance and just be for everybody, and I'm not even sure if it's for me yet. We're going to find if it's for me yet. We're going to find out. I'm going to put it into B tier.

[53:03] Let us take a now stereotypical, anxious, and awkward, no friends little boy named Yu-Gi-Oh, and we're going to make him a genius pilot and also make advanced fighting robot that humanity needs in order to face this dangerous

[53:18] and growing kaiju threat. My god, where have I heard this before? This is Snowball Earth, where our protagonist's only friend is the robotic AI system of a giant mech, and they both agree that he doesn't count as a friend. Yu-Gi-Oh

[53:32] world is more important. So, they fly off into space, do a gunbuster homage, and then the robot heroically sacrifices itself to wipe out the kaiju and also escape pod, our main character, back home. Cut to 8 years later when Yukio

[53:46] gets revived out of a cold sleep, having safely arrived back on Earth, only to find that the world is now entirely encased in ice. A new ice age has arrived, but Yu-Gi-Oh still has made a lasting promise to his robot buddy that

[53:59] he will make 100 new friends. How can he do that in an apocalyptic snow world? out. There are several great things about this series and also several meth. I love the general premise of having gone off to save the world only to come

[54:14] regardless. Not every hero gets to have a happy ending. That's cool to me. But Yukio now having to work even harder to make friends and overcome his anxieties. I I will admit I am getting a little bit tired of having protagonists that have

[54:28] [music] no confidence in themselves and are just anxious as all get out. I mean, I know that for many people those are very relatable traits. I get it. I'm not sitting here with like 100 good friends that I can name either. And for all I

[54:41] know, I would be even worse off than Yu-Gi-Oh in many respects. But it's becoming a common trend. And when I watch someone go off and try to save the world, I want them to, you know, at least have a little bit of their [\h__\h]

[54:53] together. Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't seem to have any of that. At least not yet. Uh some time to get used to, and I can't say that I'm sold on that yet. Wish in the mix, but you know, that's personal preference. All in all, I think

[55:07] few more episodes to really nail down whether or not I like what the show is me. So, for the moment, we're going to put it in B tier.

[55:19] Japan seems to have a thing for making magic shows that revolve around a protagonist who can't actually do magic. Or at least they might have a little magic, but never enough to consider it to be their main profession until, you

[55:32] know, we go through the whole series and either they learn how to do magic in other ways or they unlock some kind of secret magic through their experiences show is like that, except our protagonist unlocks her secret magic by

[55:46] asskissing her tutor. And I don't mean that she sucks up to him socially or anything. I mean that her tutor is a cat and she uses magic by literally kissing the cat's butthole. This is the classroom of the black cat and a witch

[56:01] about a powerful magician named Claude who one day was inexplicably cursed into the body of a cat. Years have passed now and he stumbles upon our protagonist Spia or Spicet. I don't know how to pronounce her name and I feel like the

[56:13] dedicated her life to becoming a witch despite having no magical ability whatsoever. Claude finds her annoying and unhelpful. But since she's the first to him, he decides that she may, I suppose, be worthy enough to become his

[56:27] him find out how to break the curse on his body. So they go and they find a magical providence tome that is all knowing. And you know, the tome says that his curse can easily be broken with Spessia's natural healing magic that

[56:41] apparently she has. But also, the only way to transfer that magic into Claude is for her to kiss him in the dark hole. So, they instantly get attacked on the spot. And since she can't protect them, but he could if he was human, guess what

[56:54] she does? Human Caterpiped is what she does. Oh, but you know, since her magic is weak, Claude's now transformation is only temporary. And anytime Speesia needs Tim to, you know, be a powerful magician, she'd better make sure that

[57:07] he's been hit with a powerful bedet. That's all I'm saying. Oh my god. So powerful enough a magician in order to break his curse, and she's going to go to a magic school in order to do that. I mean, largely this is not a bad series,

[57:20] but but why in God's name does she need to literally kiss his ass? Out of all the possible ways to do that, why this one? D tier. A worldrenowned wine critic passes away. He leaves behind a wine collection worth

[57:36] billions, but not to his son. His only son. No, he's one of those eccentric rich [\h__\h] who's going to put his will behind a contest. A game that he will not be alive to witness. Two weeks before his death, he officially adopts

[57:50] one of the world's best wine critics as a second son. And with his death, these two sons must now identify a series of lines that their father has considered to be the best. They need to find the drops of God. This is Drops of God, a

[58:06] series that will only be interesting to you if you already know or want to know you if you already know or want to know more about wine. I think, you know, I'm going to have to apologize here. You'll have to excuse me when it comes to both

[58:18] my ba extremely basic knowledge and my attitude on the subject of wine. Just to hear all of these characters expose all of this information about this alcoholic beverage makes me question just how accurate some of it is and how much of

[58:32] it is just wine fans piling on [\h__\h] so that their hobby feels more important that time in Italy they disguised a McDonald's as a gourmet burger joint and it's kind of like that. How many wine snobs are there can be handed something

[58:47] that came from a $5 bottle and you know they act all impressed if they were told of them, right? I mean, that's probably unfair. I'm sure there are some people that there is a difference between wine that is normally served in a plastic bag

[59:02] versus a bottle. But I feel like the ratio of those people to other people who just say that they enjoy in wine or claim to be an expert and actually know nothing. I feel like that ratio is quite large. All of that to say it's not the

[59:17] wine that's keeping me interested in Drops of God. God, no. Even if I'm the guy that like spent close to a decade espousing my love for a series about mixed drinks served by a bartender in a hole-in-the-wall bar. Oddly, that that

[59:29] series also like to focus on a glass of God. Almost makes it seem like people who like expensive alcohol have similar tastes in their own grandeur, perhaps me included. Like, I know I'm ragging on wine drinkers super hard. I'm still

[59:43] going to end up putting this into B tier. It's better than your average show. Your mileage may vary just when it comes down to the wine itself, but even then, I mean, it's got a long way to go to catch up with some of the higher

[59:55] shows in this season. This show is called The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt. Guess what it's about? Perhaps adolescent mind when confronted with the

[1:00:08] high school days. If you guessed that that was what it was about, you're about a klutzy class monitor and a girl with a short skirt. They nailed like 90% of the show with the title here. This is Okay, look, I've already said the title

[1:00:23] like twice. It's a romantic comedy about two goobers who end up nearly together as a couple after only half an episode despite that first half episode having them fight all the time. But, you know, hatred is just one step next to

[1:00:38] adoration love, I guess. We then spend the second half of episode 1 with skirt girl trying to spend her entire existence pretending that she did not in fact almost ask out the class monitor to be her boyfriend. Why would she do that?

[1:00:51] He's infuriating. But you know what's not infuriating? This whole series. Who cares if the show is just exactly what it says on the tin. It is stupidly good characters make for really good television. Top end of B tier.

[1:01:06] You start off after a weird introduction with what seems to be like a standard protagonist is a little socially awkward. She has a reputation for being doesn't seem to notice her icy demeanor and then overwhelms her with his

[1:01:22] that balances even that out by being just generally friendly and kind. It's not the kind of thing that she is used to. But this is not a normal high school romcom. Not because of, you know, what happens here at the high school, [music]

[1:01:36] but what has happened before high school. how these characters pasts have shaped them, how it has molded them, how they have now built their walls to protect themselves. This is the ramp parts of ice. And yes, I am putting

[1:01:51] heavy emphasis on like the darker parts of the show that is otherwise built as a romcom slice of life. And there are plenty of those upper beat moments in here. But on top of all of that is a protagonist who used to be broken. She's

[1:02:05] not now, not currently. We don't know what happened to her or what dragged her out of whatever hole of trauma that she was dumped into, but she seems to be at least somewhat stable now with very large emotional walls that keep her from

[1:02:18] getting hurt. But of course, she ends up running into people that make it seem like her walls never existed in the first place. How is she going to handle that? Poorly, I'd expect. But considering the drama and trauma are all

[1:02:30] under the surface and that the series is trying to pretend to be a lot more of an upbeat show, what does that actually mean for the tone of any given episode? Will romance actually be able to bloom, or will the series just be a core of

[1:02:44] characters? [music] That's the thing that I want to find out. A tier. Imagine being a king of barbarians. One who has fought a war lasting for years.

[1:02:57] Soon he wants to settle down and end his fighting even if the war continues. So what does he do? He lives by the cardinal rule of needing to find a wife. One who under the right circumstances can absolutely kick his ass. This is the

[1:03:12] warrior princess and the barbaric king where our noble princess captain of her battalion was defeated in single combat and taken back to the barbarian camp for unknown purposes. Unknown to her at least. The barbarian king fully intends

[1:03:26] to wed this princess. Though she does end up misconstruuding a lot and doesn't understand the situation that she is in. It doesn't help that what she has wanted from life has been vastly different from what everyone has expected from her. She

[1:03:39] wanted to lead knights into battle, but the hand of her family, her brother, found a husband and settled down somewhere. Most nobles look down on her for taking up the sword. So then, how does she plan on dealing with all of

[1:03:53] that baggage while also taking up the position of the king's bride? It's quite cute, but while it has a tendency to be a bit h looter than most anime of its kind, I've been fine with that, and I'm I'm actually quite happy to add this to

[1:04:07] I'm actually quite happy to add this to my watch list for the season. A tier. A young girl, one who is fascinated by magic and those who wield it, has spent her life being told that the only people who can cast magic are witches who have

[1:04:20] had this ability from birth. But you know, our girl Koko here is smart and she is inquisitive. When a male witch comes to call and offers to use his magic to help out some people, Koko decides to witness his magic firsthand.

[1:04:34] Magic casted with a pen and ink. Magic, she realizes, [music] can be casted by anyone. You just need to know what to draw. This is Witch Hat Attelier, a series that I am not going to explain anything more about. Why is

[1:04:50] that? Well, that should be obvious if you've seen me do this before. I'm not because you are going to watch it. If you trust my opinion on anything at all, you are going to watch which Hatellier. This series is so clearly in S tier, I

[1:05:05] alphabetically before putting it on the ranking chart. It's been there from the get-go, if you haven't noticed. If I tried to describe anything more about because the experience of watching this

[1:05:18] show is far greater than anyone, myself included, could possibly describe. It is beautiful. It is sounds amazing. The characters are so engaging. The world is more engaging than even that. So, you are going to go and watch it. Thank me

[1:05:34] later. Do you like the idea of a busty home room teacher in a high school? A teacher who continually bursts out of her clothes for a comedic effect? What if she was also extremely nervous and

[1:05:46] soft-spoken? What if she occasionally dawned the me? Now, keep all of that in mind when I tell you that her romantic partner in this series is a 16-year-old student. This is YoYo Sensei, an etchy comedy

[1:06:02] about a young man who for some reason takes it upon himself to help bring out the confidence in his adult high school home room teacher who can't even speak loudly enough to finish her class, let alone anything else. A woman who, while

[1:06:15] trying to improve, constantly lands herself into etchy situations, like only having her own high school tracksuit in order to work out in one that is just way too small on her. Or what about ripping her tights on a stuckout nail on

[1:06:28] a day that just so happens to be one that she forgot to wear underwear to school. There are some people, you know who you are, who are the exact target audience for this kind of series. I'm not judging you directly, but you must

[1:06:44] know that you cannot count me as one of your number. I mean, gez, I have had to convince like family that anime can actually be deep and worthwhile without there's this anime and it's about a grown adult who keeps flashing her

[1:06:59] underage student because the plot demands it." Ah, Dtier this goes. Why alphabetically? I didn't want to end the video like this. I didn't want to end the season like this. Why couldn't we have ended with witch hat italier? Why

[1:07:14] couldn't we have ended with witch hat? I would have loved it then. But I guess that's it for our show today. With any luck, you now see you now know what I meant in previous videos when I was talking about just how good

[1:07:28] this season is, right? How many gems we have. There are three Sranks and a [\h__\h] ton of A ranks in my list. So, I hope at least [music] one or two of all of that least [music] one or two of all of that ends up in your watch list. And if not,

[1:07:43] man. If possible, I'm going to try and find a way to link in the description to these shows for legal streaming. But if that fails, feel free to Google it and be that difficult. Subscribe if you haven't. Hit the like button if you

[1:07:57] whenever that happens to be, watch more anime and stay [music] frosty.