#very pog show I need s2 NOW

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alright, i have a wishlist for prodigy s3. which is going to happen. i speak it into existence. cool, now that that’s established:

what is dal hearing about augments as an augment don’t nitpick taxonomy don’t nitpick taxonomy within the federation? has he heard that they become tyrants? that they’re power-hungry arrogant bastards? that their existence is a threat for diversity of people of all bodies and minds? what’s he picking up on? what’s affecting him and what’s not affecting him? food for thought.

jankom pog development. i am no longer asking. we have a tellarite main character, we need to talk about how he’s been displaced 400 years in time from his people and tellarite society may be alien to him, which is an excellent vantage point to talk about tellarites like we’re new to them! which we kind of are! so make it count!

i understand this is a show for children in which everyone gets carte blanche from disbelief despite their age because children like to see themselves doing adventures, not adults. but also let’s talk about rok trying to avoid gifted kid burnout. it would actually really be a nice topic to tackle if you got kids at home who burn themselves out thinking their worth is tied to their accomplishments.

i want to see conflict between maj’el and the kids who grew up as slaves. maj’el is very put together but i am sure there would be blind spots as someone who grew up in post-scarcity utopia and might be more removed from the struggles of planets who don’t have coexistence and communication figured out yet. you know, make it juicy, ds9 style!

i demand the return of pogdal because i think they’re an incredible comedic duo and the crumbs we got of their dynamic from s2 wasn’t enough to satisfy me. i miss it when they were two dumb teenagers trying to brute force the kobiyashi mary. funniest character combo in the cast imo.

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controversial opinion but:

galaxy > ie s2 > chrono stone > go > ie s3 > orion > ie > ares

ares fucking sucks and the only good things about it are nosaka and haizaki. idgaf about the plot, the characters are ass and idc about it enough to rewatch it.

the original is cool and all but i have no want to rewatch it and the original raimon is boring. some plot points are interesting, but overall i just don't care much for the plot. it is iconic tho.

orion can be infuriating and plot points/ characters are dropped so fast. irina's whole motive makes no sense and kageyama is pointless in this one. tho it's so funny bcuz it's so bad, kinda the room vibe yk? personally i really enjoyed the attempted murders, ichihoshi being a menace and kidou bullying him. probably would rewatch only select episodes. oh also i hate how ichihoshi's did is treated and how his ndness is cured by getting the fubuki treatment.

the ffi arc is cool and very iconic. i rewatch it every now and then. appreciate fudou being developed but i wish there was more to his arc. fubuki gets character nuked which is sad :( kageyama dying is cool and the payoff of the whole garshield daisuke kageyama plotline, while silly, ties the series off nicely. very iconic very pog.

i think go is my most rewatched season and for good reason. i like the conflict and the plot + the characters are interesting and i get so invested in them. tho i hate gouenji during the movie and him condoning god eden is just yikes. tho go introduced keshins which i couldn't care less for and i think they are used as an asspull most of the time (ie majin pegasus/majin pegasus arc, matei gryphon, taiyou's keshin bullshitery). i hate that they didn't do much with kariya, hikaru and the rest of raimon cuz they deserve to be explored.

cs has a special place in my heart as it's the 1st season i watched subbed and not on prime time television. also it was the 1st time i interracted with the fandom (even if it was just reading fics). appart from that i am a sucker for time travel and history in general. i love fei and kinako's arcs and that sweet sweet angst. tho i'm a bit mixed on miximax since i find it aesthetically pleasing and cool, but also kinda meh on it's execution plot wise. i really dislike el-dorado and the ssc conclusion and the way the ssc are talked about/treated. i also hate asurei lol

s2 my beloved you have introduced me to blorbo from my show. love the premise and the plot, the drama and the copious amounts of angst. fudou is a thing /pos and while i find the whole dark emperors match iconic i also don't care enough about it. i love the aliea kids as they're the highlight of the season to me. the only thing i dislike is hitomiko's treatment of raimon but it is understandable story wise, still i am miffed. also fubuki merging is kinda meh to me.

i don't think i need to explain galaxy as a fave bcs i think it's quite obvious that i really really like it. hell my bio literally says that. i do have my problems with galaxy, like sakura's character being forgotten, kageyama being alive and the anime being worse than the game. surprisingly i like souls.

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Sandman was so good man, I literally love Neil Gaiman: I gotta read his books fr fr

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said I’d talk about that anime of the decade list I never really made so

Apparently I wrote this on the 3rd of January 2020. Would’ve just gone down MAL seasonal charts and noted down what seemed good. I don’t think I actually decided on a proper format at any point? Iirc I had 3 ideas going on:

literally just list my favourite anime from each year in order of year

favourite anime from each year but in order of favourites instead

any 10 from the entire 2010s and just rank them without needing to have one for every year necessarily

Realistically the first option’s the safest and easiest so I imagine if I did actually get around to doing this ever that’s what I’d have gone with, but uhh, I just never did lol.

Anyway talked about format enough so I suppose let’s just run down what my choices at the time were.

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2010

Honestly no complaints about having K-On s2 as my anime of the year for 2010. I think I’ve only completed like 2 or 3 TV anime from 2010 anyway, but even ignoring that K-On s2 is my second favourite anime ever so no reason it wouldn’t win this lol.

2011

I didn’t need to run down seasonal charts to have already decided that my favourite piece of literature - Madoka Magica - was my favourite anime of 2011. If I did the “favourite per year in order of favourites” it’d very obviously be number 1 and all that.

2012

So like, I do like JoJo obviously, and it’s not necessarily something I couldn’t see being my favourite show in any given year, though I do think it being the only contender is just indication that I’ve not exactly seen too many shows from 2012. Just going through MAL charts again and it seems like a good chunk of the 2012 shows I’ve seen are things I only got around to within the last year or so. And on that note I now get to say my favourite 2012 anime is the first season of Symphogear pog - even with people regarding it as the weakest season all around there’s still a lot I love about it so.

2013

Peeping MAL seasonal charts again and Love Live SIP s1 was beyond a fair choice for me to have put on that list at the time. And while I think SIP s2 surpasses it by quite a lot, I do still think s1 is real fucking great and I’d be more than happy to call it my AOTY 2013. Except uh, Non Non Biyori s1 aired in 2013 as well. I simply rated that higher. Non Non Biyori AOTY 2013.

2014

So I guess this is our first year where I was really conflicted, which ngl feels odd in retrospect. No Game No Life is pretty great but it’s not gonna be my anime of the year; Stardust Crusaders s1 is kind of a fucking drag lol; actually super content having Gochiusa here since I do fucking adore that series; but it really fucks with me that even for a second I didn’t instantly think of SIP s2 as being  AOTY here. Because it’s hella a 10/10 lol and literally one of my favourites ever now. Easily. Still holds as AOTY.

2015

This is another instance of me being right the first time with Hibike - my 3rd favourite anime lol. This year did have more great seasons for Symphogear, Gochiusa, and Non Non Biyori, but Hibike > all of those.

2016

Flip Flappers is about as “duh” a pick as I’d ever go with, I have nothing else to add other than its closest competition being Hibike season 2.

2017

Yeah so here comes the really difficult year that I just couldn’t settle on a favourite show for. Maid Dragon, Made in Abyss, Princess Principal, and Girls’ Last Tour are all fucking fantastic shows and I adore every single one of them. Plus at this point in time I get to say Symphogear AXZ and Houseki no Kuni are the running as well. What an unreasonably good year this was for anime lol. Though I guess the choice most accurate to my MAL favourites, and what I’d probably go for gun to my head anyway - is Girls’ Last Tour. Show just too exceptionally good among a year loaded up on exceptionally great shows.

2018

Actually surprised I so confidently put down just Yorimoi here as though it’s not constantly competing with Yuru Camp in my mind. Quite a few other great shows in 2018 but none really touch either of those two. Do think I’d probably pick Yorimoi over Yuru Camp season 1 so happy with this tbh.

2019

Mob Psycho s2 is a hell of an outlier to my usual taste, particularly given what the hypothetical revised list looks like at this point. But like, even to this day, even with Symphogear’s final and greatest season airing in the same year, do think I gotta give the edge to mob lol. Just too great a show.

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So anyway since I guess I just concluded my top 10 anime of the 2010′s let’s run down the revised list.

2010: K-On!!

2011: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

2012: Senki Zesshou Symphogear

2013: Non Non Biyori

2014: Love Live! School Idol Project Season 2

2015: Hibike! Euphonium

2016: Flip Flappers

2017: Girls’ Last Tour

2018: A Place Further Than The Universe

2019: Mob Psycho 100 II

And yeah I’m happy with this lol.