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Glepnir, as it's the only anime this season that I was watching that didn't get shut down by corona

Vinland Saga and Dr Stone this time I think. Vinland for much the same reason as last season (and even more, the character development was top-tier great). Dr Stone because it was was somehow warm, spring-time of youth. Best Intro Two best EDs from last season This always acted as a double "FUCK OFF" because episodes would alternate between Alliance (Space America) and Empire (Space Nazis), the outro would move to the next side of the next episode and you kinda hated the cliffhangers. This composer did Gundam Unicorn too, they have a way with space shit (I think they did some Attack on Titan composing too) The song is whatever, but there's a visual at the end of it that I really like. The main characters have hacked up vikings in whatever battle it was taking place in, and a Viking is reaching his arm up to Valkyries descending from Valhalla. However in the anime itself, whenever any of the Vikings die, they're never shown hallucinating or thinking about or desiring Valhalla even if they still live by the "die in battle" code, they're shown thinking about Vinland, a place that's described to them as paradise (warm, rolling fields, grain as far as they eye can see, room for everyone etc) but really is just them mythologizing rumours they've heard of North America and treating it like some fabled paradise (Christianity is also depicted as seeping into Danish culture at the time, the first season/major arc is about the Viking Invasion of England by King Sweyn). I hope the series does end up continuing, because there's a certain character who, assuming he dies, I'm curious about what he sees.

Vinland Saga. Violent viking revenge story, badass animation during fight scenes, strong characters who will also self-reflect (similar a bit to how Guts will self-reflect on his life and actions in Berserk). Though, not completely the blow-away anime of the season, there is shit going down in Black Clover (it steals a lot of plot-patterning from Naruto, we're in the Chuunin Exams where the Hidden Sound just launched their sneak attack), Yaiba's second cour has steadily built and expanded to where I'm really interested in seeing where it goes (and some of the best animation I've ever seen, god damn). Also the two episodes of Fruits Basket Season 1 that I liked the most happened during this cour and it was probably more emotional than anything else. Fire Force had the coolest style. So yeah, Vinland is AOTS but not runaway. The surprise of the season for me was Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo/Maidens of the Savage Season. I never would've caught this if I had just judged it on the description. On the surface, it's about a high school literature club of nerdy girls who are starting to have crushes and sexual thoughts about boys (the first episode is fucking hilarious) but some of the subplots start getting mature and some of them started to get fucked up to the point where it's dipping in and out of adorable coming-of-age hijinx and "some of these people could go to jail if you called the cops right now" territory. It's also a bit of a disappointment because they had a bad anime-only ending for the last two episodes. I may have to hit up the manga to see how this one ends. Intro of the season goes to Vinland Saga Outro of the season goes to Fire Force

I like how they had that small moment where Jimba is shown rantingly teaching Casval all of his father's teachings and you know that's the basis that eventually led to him going Messiah-mode in Char's Counterattack. I think my favourite one was the first one, babby Char's eyes tell the whole story (and is an interesting contrast because he eventually covers them up with a mask)

Probably Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 - Part 2. So much crazy shit happened and we actually had Titans in it Probably is because this cour of JoJo Part 5 isn't over, and that shit's been intense, but the finale airs later in the Summer season so it might fall just short because of that (might fall short anyways, goddamn Shingeki was a ride)