Anime

Just binged season 1 of Attack on Titan.

IMO it is overrated.

1. Besides the scenes where they are swinging around with their mobility devices, the animation is completely a slideshow.
2. There's way too much narration and exposition.
3. The scriptwriter / original writer tried to make the characters sound cool, but they just ended up with stupid dialogue.
4. The recaps are as long as the ones in Undead Unluck, taking up close to 10% of each episode's runtime.

Thankfully, the story and world-building is good, which is not surprising considering it is Gundam but with meat robots.

So I'm going to give it a 8 / 10

Also, now that I watched AoT, Kaiju No. 8 feels like a dumbed-down knock-off.

From the anime I'm watching, the only OP and ED that really stand out are the ones from Dandadan. The other ones are fine.

And honestly, that kinda sums up this season in so far in general for me. There are some I'm enjoying a fair amount, but not much that stands out. Even Re:Zero I'm not enjoying as much as I'd have hoped. Maybe I'm in a bit of a slump or I'm watching the wrong things.

your favorite OPs and EDs for the season

Only Otonoke from Dan Da Dan is catchy enough for me.

Watched Handa-kun, but it was just so-so. Its sequel, Barakamon has a higher rating, so hopefully it is better.

Weekly ranking roundup:

1. Anime Corner - Full Results - Weekly Winner: Dan Da Dan
2. Reddit Karma - Weekly Winner: Dan Da Dan
3. Anime Trending - Weekly Winner: Dan Da Dan

Credit to /u/Abysswatcherbel for making the chart for reddit karma and /u/Nooble5 for the Anime Trending chart.

It is a Dan Da Dan sweep across all three charts this week. The show is on a tear up against the big hitters of Re:Zero and Bleach. We will see if it can maintain this as it moves into a new arc with episode 5.

I picked out a handful of my favorite OPs and EDs and grouped them by shows that I am watching vs. shows that I am not watching. I also threw in a couple random mentions at the end for fun. These are in no particular order.

From shows I am watching

• Dan Da Dan OP - Otonoke - Such a great OP. If you haven't been watching Dan Da Dan, you should at least check out Creepy Nuts' latest hit after their Mashle OP.
• Orb: On the Movements of the Earth OP - Kaijuu - This is almost definitely tainted by how much I like the show, but I have really been enjoying this OP a lot.
• Tower of God Cour 2 ED - Falling Up - Stray Kids are back for the second cour and I really like the ED. Felix's deep voice in the beginning is always a treat.
• 365 Days to the Wedding OP - Kirakira - Too sweet to handle! I also love how it ends with the facade literally falling down around them.

From shows I am not watching

• Touhai OP - Gambling Hall - Masayoshi Ooishi never misses. Another really fun song from him for this show about...Mahjong, presumably? Seriously though, all of his stuff is excellent, even if the show isn't.
• Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister ED - Kimi ni Koi wo Musunde - Hard to put my finger on what I like about this ED, but I have been vibing with it since I listened to it this past week for this post.
• Maou 2099 OP - Hollow - The song starts out nice and subdued in order to build up a to a really nice and hype chorus.
• Mecha-ude OP - VORTEX - The song is fun and the visuals look super fun. Is this seriously this studio's first ever project? Looks nice and polished.
• The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan ED - Liberation - The visuals might not be much to write home about, but I love the kind of creepy atmosphere of this song.

Honorable Mentions

• Thirstiest - (Probably NSFW) - Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? ED - Hydrate - In a year in which JC Staff has taken on so, so many shows, they always seem to dedicate a huge portion of their effort to Danmachi. And it shows...
• Most Unique Visuals - You are Ms. Servant OP - Otozure - Just a carousel of different visual styles. You never know what is coming next.
• Now That's What I Call Eurobeat! - MF Ghost OP - Rock Me Kiss Me - Eurobeat is pretty much the only thing I know about MF Ghost other than that it is about racing.
• Banana? - Bananya: Around the World ED - Across Universe - Banana.

I have a question. Are there any communities where i can watch anime webm/mp4 - short anime fanmade videos (for example) +AMV +otoMAD? What is marked as "clip" in r/anime is not exactly what i mean. I know there are 4chan thread where some people post that kind of videos, but too few of them

And why AMV and genral anime videos are not so widespread in Reddit and lemmy? r/amv is not really popular and the videos that i found, for example in r/bocchitherock, were have maybe 10-70 upvotes. Just because youtube and animemusicvideos.org or animenews exist?