I've been finishing up last season's anime (highlights: Kaiju No.8, Black Butler, Train to the End of the World, Tonari no Youkai-san, Astro Note, the first half of Yatagarasu) which means that it's time to start this season and grumble when the first few shows aren't as good as the stuff that made the cut last time around.
The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army was a Human ep1: This is exactly as generic as it sounds, and unfortunately its animation is pretty rubbish too. The main character is CG whenever he's in public because he wears a mask, which makes for lots of boring scenes of people thinking and narrating without anything happening visually other than slow camera pans over bland, cheap-looking art. Every aspect of the core plot has been done before in multiple different ways and seeing them all done again worse isn't very compelling; I have better uses for my time. There's a slave girl too, for those keeping count. Not a strong start to the season.
My Wife Has No Emotion ep1: A socially-awkward (understatement) guy gets so lonely that he tells his pet robot chef to be his wife. She acquiesces because she's effectively his slave and then he spends the rest of the episode working himself up into a horny frenzy over nothing. They're not actually married and she doesn't seem capable of any naughty stuff, so it's more a comedy based around some guy's uneventful non-marriage to a humanoid dishwasher, showing him making magnanimous concessions like offering to do half of the cooking when he's the only one who can eat and cooking for him is her literal purpose. The 'unemotional' passive aggressive attitude of the 'wife' is moderately amusing (the show could be quite funny if she just hated him), and if they'd lent into the marriage thing rather than the one-sided creepiness then it might even have been sweet. However, in the context of everything else going on in anime there are some awkward undertones. She kind of consented to their marriage but ultimately she has absolutely no agency in her life; either she's an appliance and the male lead is deranged, or she secretly has feelings yet is forced to be an outlet for his fantasises. Neither makes for the best viewing experience. The art style is a lot nicer than the last show but for some reason the android lady was given a fully realistic head and hair, but her mouth cannot move even though her eyes are fully detailed, which makes this a similarly static affair whenever she's the only thing on screen.
The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party, Became Invincible ep1: This series was much better than the last two, which isn't a huge compliment. It started off well with the Kushida Akira OP and decent animation, which even has a discernible style of its own, but even the best efforts of the animation team couldn't do much with the lacklustre source material. The 'ancient' newbie hero (he's in his early 30s) spends the whole episode being sad that everyone thinks he's too old to start out as an adventurer even though it's blindingly obvious that he's the most powerful person in the Generic RPG Adventurer's Guild, and the strongest party in the world have apparently had so little to do that they personally trained him for two years. Given that he used to work in the guild, you would imagine that he would have an inkling that he's a bit overpowered too, but despite some early signs of self-awareness it seems that he's a super-strong passenger in his own life after all. It's a bit sad that his oldness is used as a gag (incessantly) but he never actually acts like a middle-aged man or thinks middle-aged man thoughts at all, which makes the whole series come across as though it was written by a teenager imagining how it might feel to be old. Weird.
TASUKETSU -Fate of the Majority- ep1: Finally, some (ridiculously high) stakes! This is Squid Game (or any of its inspirations) with the presentation of something like Yu-Gi-Oh! and if I was younger I think I would be all over it. Unfortunately, because I've seen a ton of these 'death game' shows before, it's obvious that all of the twists and turns are cribbed from earlier works and I never found myself swept away by its intentionally bonkers premise, about a population being rapidly whittled down to one person by way of an all-powerful person (?) with full control over technology and people's lives. The storytelling is quite natural without the lazy expository monologues of recent LN adaptations but the characters are a boring bunch who haven't really established themselves (or remained especially internally consistent), which is unfortunate. There are occasional glimmers of inspiration, though, which is why I think it would be a good entry point for someone less jaded. It's not fine art but it might serve to entertain.
I'm going to treat myself with Oshi no Ko s2 next, which I expect will be awesome, but aside from a few surefire hits I'm honestly not sure what's going to end up on my viewing schedule this time around.
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Episode 12 was at first an extremely frustrating ending to the series, until I found out that a second season is coming in January 2025, which then turned the ending of this season into a pretty awesome and unique cliffhanger instead. It's going to be a grueling 6 month wait for Season 2 for me, though! 
; also I assume it really added to the Kumiko and Reina dynamic; I liked the open ended nature, especially as I felt the yuri-ness was a tad bit closeted anyway with the implication of neither party ever likely to commit. 