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Week 4 Anime rankings.

I generally consider week 4 to be the "Stuff needs to go down" type episode. It's usually when shows teetering on being kept or dropped will have their big push. It's also where I add in continuing shows from the past season.

AotD Candidate
1. Steins;Gate 0

Would be AotY Candidates if it was not for Steins;Gate 0
2. Megalo Box
3. Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory
4. Hinamatsuri
5. My Hero Academia S3

Really Good shows that are simply being over shadowed by better shows
6. Darling in the FranXX
7. Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online
8. Food Wars S3-2
9. Hisone to Maso-tan
10. Amanchu! Advance
11. Comic Girls

Good Shows that have an issue here or there.
12. Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen
13. Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi
14. Last Period
15. Golden Kamuy
16. High School DxD Hero

Shows that are fine.
17. Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori
18. Uma Musume
19. WotaKoi
20. Record of Grancrest War
21. Piano no Mori (TV)

Drop Line
22. Mahou Shoujo Ore (4)
23. Cutie Honey Universe (4)
24. 3D Kanojo: Real Girl (4)

Thoughts

Steins;Gate 0 maintains the top spot. I still considering to be far and away the best show of the season and it has had maybe the best first four episodes of a show (although it is technically cheating as it's an offshoot of an existing IP) I have seen.

The four shows in the next tier I feel are splitting apart from the rest of the pack too. MHA especially I feel has the most to really rise as it got off to a slow start, but it looks like it's going to really rev things up. Like I said before though, it has to be really good because this season is really good. Like as good as MHA ep 3 and 4 were (and they were great) the 4 shows above it are complete packages in what they are going for. Like all of these shows look really good. Like if you have not seen FMP, I think this third season is 100% worth investing time in the previous ones to get into.

I had a hard time deciding where Franxx would enter into this week. I feel like some of the show has been kind of eh, but the highs of the show are probably higher than any other show on the list right now. I still think that a weak finish would absolute tank this shows overall perception so just because I view it as favorable now does not mean I'm still sold on it's being locked into being a good show. I think the biggest issue right now is that it's just beating around the bush for the actual story elements and have been trudging through character dynamic for too long.

I also really like GGO. Although I guess I could call it like PubG the animation or Fortnite or something too. But I like how this time around some game rules make sense and I'm not really forced to suspend my disbelief too far like I was in the original SAO. Although I do think it would be very funny if they had a special gun that shot out a sword (and exploded like grenades).

Food Wars S3 has been great too despite not really having any food wars yet. They've gotten by simply on character dynamic and it's really been carrying this half of the season. The match with Akira might take the rest of the season.

Grancrest Senki is a show that should be exciting but just isn't.

Also Piano anime is like really teetering on if I want to keep it or not. Like in terms of being good or bad I think it's good enough to keep based on the standards I've set for dropping, but it's been maybe the most predictable show of the season.
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Updated: July 27th, 2016.