We're a month in to the current season now What things are people watching/liking/not liking?
Personally, this season has rather a level playing field for me, with no less than 5 series that have a good shot at being AOTS. It also seems to be a rather comedy driven season.
My current rankings (points out of 100):
1) Hanayamata (77) - I could just eat up this sort of stuff day in day out all day every day for the rest of my life and never tire of it. The fact that this series has unquestionably the best visuals of the current season helps as well of course. I will be buying the manga.
2) Sabagebu (74) - The surprise hit of the season. I went into this thinking it could be decent. But I didn't expect what I got at all. Hilarious, for the most part, and Momoka is probably the best MC of the season. I can't help but think that this anime has got to be so much better than the manga.
3) Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (72) - Unlike Sabagebu, I definitely knew what I was getting into here, having read a chunk of the manga earlier in the year. So far the execution of the anime adaptation has been as good as could be expected, and I look forward to the introduction of my personal favourite character from the series in the next episode. I will be buying the manga of this, too. Probably would have done even without the anime.
4) Zankyou no Terror (68) - From having just watched the first two episodes so far, this is looking like having the title of 'most overhyped new series of the season' under wraps. That doesn't mean that it's bad, though, and it's definitely caught my interest. This series certainly has the potential to be great, but will it live up to it?
5) Rokujouma no Shinryakusha (67) - Although I didn't have any first hand experience previously, I had done quite a bit of looking into this LN series a while back, so knew roughly what I was getting into. Yurika is hilarious, although I do feel slightly bad laughing at her all the time. I'll probably get the LN series, although it isn't yet locked...
6) Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance (66) - ...which this one was before the anime. Main reason this isn't in contention for AOTS is because I know the anime series won't get to the best parts of the series. That's significant enough to counteract the effects of the existance of Est.
7) Jinsei (60) - This series was not made with an anime adaptation in mind. That much is obvious. In fact, the anime adaptation doesn't seem to have been made with an anime adaptation in mind either - as most of the important details are flashed over quickly, with the expectation that people will go onto the series' website to actually find out about them. That said, the series is fun, the concepts are great (if you can bring yourself to replay them over and over until you actually catch what is being said) and I love the characters. Oh and the OP is really catchy. I will be getting the novels, which this is so much better suited for,
8') Rail Wars (56) - Again, only seen 2 eps of this one so far. A bit disappointed with this, to be honest, although it isn't as bad as some people seem to be making it out to be - the disappointment comes from the fact that I had hoped this series would be in contention for the top spots, rather than bouncing along under the status of 'I guess I might as well keep going'. I doubt I'll be buying anything, though.
Stopped watching:
9) Free! Eternal Summer (43) - 2 episodes watched. Seemed to be suffering from 'It-sold-well-so-let's-make-any-possible-sequel' syndrome. Thus nowhere near as good as the first season, and continues a string of let-downs from KyoAni. Here's hoping AmaBuri doesn't join them next season...
10) Glasslip (39) - 1.5 episodes watched. Nothing happened. Characters not of interest. The whole scenario seemed to indicate that things weren't going to go in a way that I liked.
11) Majimoji Rurumo (28) - dropped after the first episode. If you've seen it, you should know why.
12) Momo Kyun Sword (??) - dropped before the narrator finished their initial speech. Again, if you've seen it, you should know why. Not really right to give a score after so little, but I'm confident it belongs at the bottom.
Not seen enough of yet:
Yama no Susume Second Series: Watched the first episode. Still waiting on CR to release the second. I like this series, though, and thus expect it to be good.
I'll probably also pick up Tokyo ESP (which I was holding out on in the hope that someone would pick it up over here) and Barakamon (which I've heard good things about) soon.
Ao Haru Ride I dropped the manga of.
I've heard good things about Locodol but not quite convinced. Ditto Aldnoah Zero. Akame ga Kill is also a possibility to pick up if I really run low on things to watch somehow (unlikely as I'm also watching a few backlog things).
The rest of the currently airing series I have no interest in.
