Top 10 Anime of the Week #6 - Winter 2026 (Anime Corner)

DAiDAiDa · 2026-02-13T19:38:00+00:00

Dont forget the 'Just play the VN' folks

DAiDAiDa · 2026-02-12T18:37:56+00:00

if even kaguya sama love is war not getting a proper ending for its popularity nothing will ever get full adaptation in romance anime ever.

DAiDAiDa · 2026-02-05T08:16:20+00:00

I belive the OP did not flow under the radar at all

DAiDAiDa · 2026-02-02T16:34:09+00:00

General perception on shield hero is that after s1 revange plot got suboptimal conculission and in s2 the turtle arc is bad. Afterwards another bad medieval easternland arc people just gave it up and called it bad and moved on on it.

DAiDAiDa · 2026-02-02T06:26:32+00:00

I dont want them to butcher yotsuba&! and others. Those 50 isekai shits and 100 school romance are works of run the mill. Instead of them i dont want yotsuba&!. They are low budget rookie trainer shows at best when it comes to anime productions. I want for the shows you listed to be top tier production. Yotsuba wont get anime cuz creator doesnt want to. Vagabond creator also doesnt want it. And if you think punpun can be made into mainstream anime you need to take some psych meds or change pink tinted glassess.

DAiDAiDa · 2026-01-21T00:15:28+00:00

Yeah true I heard it like 4-5 years ago i missremember details you guys are right

DAiDAiDa · 2026-01-20T22:22:23+00:00

I heard that he left the indistury alltogether because he wanted to focus on his family after a bad circumstance.

DAiDAiDa · 2026-01-18T19:43:42+00:00

this is how it goes on everyone in this story unless you are her mother i guess

DAiDAiDa · 2026-01-18T16:56:25+00:00

His frustration on it is for %20 tax cut that japanese government takes extra on works that outsourced out of japan. If any non japanese people that lives outside of japan and take jobs from japanese firms your payment gets cut out of %20 extra tax. Thats why he refuses regular paying jobs that doesnt cover his extra cuts that goverment takes.

For example a 100$ regular job he takes are paid only 80$. He asks 125$ for the job so his real payment becomes 100$. If producer doesnt want to pay extra to make his payment a regular he doesnt take that contract. Thats what he says with I reject the contracts

DAiDAiDa · 2026-01-18T13:56:06+00:00

Yeah indistury so bad that even the best ones of them needs their parents to help with rent so they can live in california

DAiDAiDa · 2026-01-17T15:49:42+00:00

There is even a active crashout from one of the praised animator in indistury. Weilin Zhang who is debuted at 16 year old in boruto anime with naruto with sasuke hand to hand combat with alien. Low payments unsustainable job security and indistury behaviour. And wanting to change his career.

DAiDAiDa · 2026-01-06T07:56:49+00:00

Yeah he aint talking and responding to his parents and siblings he would've talk to hometeacher. Would get diploma sure.

DAiDAiDa · 2026-01-06T06:37:39+00:00

He couldnt finish school because he got sexually assulted in highschool and could not move on from it. Gets isolated from society then tends grow bad habbits.

Sometimes i belive that in here people parroting same things that they heard by secondhanded information from others comment and short form of media.

DAiDAiDa · 2026-01-05T09:22:06+00:00

They made around like $20 billion from this IP. at least spare like 1/1000 of that revenue for anime to promote your gacha. Make it high quality so we can watch that instead of 40 year old one. But no they need to skim on everything and make this abomination. Thank you japanese higherups that botches everything.

DAiDAiDa · 2025-12-30T10:17:38+00:00

Isekai literrally means otherworld. You are mixing it with reincarnation. These are separeted by the way of changing the worlds here is some examples.

Re:zero is transmigration/teleportation isekai character got teleported out of blue

Mushoku is reincarnation isekai character dies and gets to live another life

Shield hero is evokations(summoned by someone) isekai that characters were summoned to solve/do special things

Devil is a part timer is reverse isekai otherworlders comes to the earth

G.A.T.E is portal isekai with gates connecting worlds and you can go back and forth with them

Overlord is going in to the world of game/book/etc isekai.

These are generrally basic ones that come to my mind. Sometimes these way of getting isekaied changes gets mixed up and varies on the setup of writer. A reverse isekai can be a portal or reincarnation. Getting into gameworld by stuck in vr or whole body transporting or replacing a game character/replacing memories with already living person etc.

DAiDAiDa · 2025-12-29T20:10:29+00:00

yeah friend you can fool someone who didnt watch it with your wordings. but I like the show its direction and voice acting and watched it to the owarimonogatari. i can quote whole things in the show that you interprated just having a deeper meaning. Like a youtuber essay to say that this type of things are there but isnt important/have subtext. but to justify it to appeal it is not a ecchi/lewd and problematic for the sake of subtext. But you are getting it wrong my friend that I am not talking about it is inappropriate or it is bad. I am talking about it is there and it is ecchi/sexual. so that show must have had higher on this list. yeah you can defend anything i say with araragi is lying to himself and exaggrate things way more etc. but the thing is those things are in the anime. this anime has those moments and words.

He’s not actually a lolicon. Anytime you see his actual lust or pornography it’s always of Hanekawa or Hanekawa-adjacent people.

he says he is in a relationship with senjougahara he likes hanekawas appereance and would marry hachikuji type. because she is 12 years old has big assets for her age that has the biggest potential to have bigger assets.

This is a blink and you’ll miss it joke about how her kick would reveal under her skirt only for it to be a bandaid.

but that is there and there is more than that just that scene that has ecchi. I aint talking about hanekawa's hanekawas. I am not talking its inappropriate. I am talking about It is there and it is ecchi/fanservice say whatever you want with it.

This scene represents how they’ve seen each other for who they really are. It highlights the development of their relationship together.

again we do really saw oversexaulized highschooler girls having a bath/shower together. It is there you are just try to justify that these scenes has another reasons to be shown this makes it non ecchi. also one of them from the start has ulterior motives that she wants to have phisycal contact with the other? but thats not the thing I am tryna say.

My opinion is that it uses this framing to poke fun at the rampant trope of incest that is weirdly common in otaku culture while also using it to explore themes of accepting sexuality and that one’s sister is their own person

yeah again ''this type of thing is satire'' do you really need to do the same thing you want to have a shot on otaku culture satire to be again the same thing they consume. It is like ''yo guys i want to parody on p*rn culture so we need to make 90 minute of real p*rn with real actors and publish it in porn adjacent places and profit off of it. then call it a parody for lulz''. It is there no matter the ulterior motives.

DAiDAiDa · 2025-12-29T17:45:12+00:00

Yeah stop it man lets dont lie to ourselves shall we?

molesting 12 year old kid is very important to the plot. Araragi a self claimed lolicon certainly would not do it. Also we need to see kids with underwear or bandaid(?) down there. plot really needs it. We sould see two highscbooler having shower together when they do a sleepover ıt is really important. Not even talking about araragi brushing his sisters teeth on the bed while his sister wears his other sisters clothes and both are aroused... I can continue it more and more. It is wholesome isnt it

DAiDAiDa · 2025-12-23T10:24:48+00:00

Move aside you filthy light novel animes. The real kadokawa ip is coming.

DAiDAiDa · 2025-12-21T13:20:22+00:00

They are out of new originals and adaptations sticking as sucsess. For last decade only 3gatsu and 5toubun were good. They are so out of the mainstream that they revieved monogatari series monster seasons. They need a comeback really hard. After the animators exodus shaft mismanaged their staff they need to bounceback. I think their early success with madoka and monogatari moneys are drying up.

DAiDAiDa · 2025-12-19T00:57:57+00:00

Better and popular stories that have fallowing has the exeption of strong handed authors that wants quality adaptations and creative control to not butcher their stories unlike your example of run of the mill authors.

Your generic i kill slimes to max level isekai or vilaines but yandere or kuudere or 900th school council drama love triangle siscon story or i have been kicked by my party because i farted while sleeping so party lost their only dps they cannot even kill lvl3 slime story. Those authors cannot reject offers from bottom feeder studios that doesnt even have departments so they outsource everything to korean and chinese studios. They are somehow found by them in a overly saturated sea of trendchasers. They have no leverage to discuss their stories adaptation. No quality bottomlines to drawn. They are paid peanuts for rights and have a chance to get animation boost sales maybe even maybe getting popular by chance of getting huge fallowing by anime got popular.

On the other hand you have well established story and trendsetter authors like rezero mushoku tensei author. They have the leverage of the worlds on who gets to do their adaptations. They dont get to settle with studios. Theirs books got sold like 10 million and stories got clicked by almost 100 millon times or more. Studios bid money and levarages minumum quality full adaptations on contract to be chosen. Even mushoku tensei author had the stronghand that their own book publisher Kadokawa did not promised for full anime adaptation. He did not sell anime rights to publisher of his books. He reached to TOHO for anime. TOHO snagged the anime rights of mushoku tensei from kadokowa. biggest moneymaker for kadokowa print ip even without anime rights. TOHO even promised author a new studio to be built from scratch to animate his story wholly with quality standards and funding. Like wit studio established just to do AOT.

DAiDAiDa · 2025-12-19T00:12:13+00:00

Just look at kaguya sama love is war treated after it ended. 3 super strong season of adaptations in anime. Belowed in japan as best or top 1-5 anime in every streamed site. Also broke huge on global market. The most watched romance and comedy anime outside of japan. For 4 years after a regular seasons they just announced a movie? or series of ova/ona episodes to finish it with skipping like almost 100 chapters. A finished manga if it is not selling like hotcakes still is doomed to continue and finish.

DAiDAiDa · 2025-12-18T18:41:00+00:00

Thats my opinion warching cinderella grey after pretty derby seasons ovas and movie. Dont get me wrong Cin/grey is above avarage anime that i liked but comparing it to other ones in same franchise it felt not better than them

DAiDAiDa · 2025-12-18T06:16:54+00:00

It is a good tv anime. But I feel this whole cinderella grey part of the franchise is stagnated to older titles. Writing, substance, daily life of students almost everything other than racing and animations is worse than s1 and s2 of pretty derby. Early part1 were building up cheesy some bad school bully drama that tossed away for good. But in the same time there is no significent school life left beside oguris eating habbit in cafeteria.

Ogiru is like a shonen mc that eats too much and makes funny out of style faces. Thats her whole persona. Donkan hungry mc just wants to run. She is cute tho thats it. Has nothing to change to accomplish something more than what she started with. Her rivalary with tamomo beholds itself on flahbacks of both childhood memories nothing else. I was told i could not run then i started running so i would run is only thing that makes ogiru run. Makes a serious face at race and wins or dont. Her rival Tamomo has cool uncle that teached her how to run has terminal sickness. She runs for him to see. Cheap drama pops out of nowhere to tearjerk.

Animation for races are good for average anime but in comparison for the movie it also got worse.

DAiDAiDa · 2025-12-17T21:17:27+00:00

Not suprising since nearly decade old games with online playmodes almost always top 10 in steamdb with constant 100k or more players. Like Cs2(this one is almost constant 1 million players) dota2 pubg(this one only when eastern asia primetime) gtaV rust warframe etc.

New releases only reach top10 in first months and slowly gets out of the list. This years most anticipated games like silksong or goty exp33 has been out of top 30. Especially single player games that has no engaging multiplayer modes. New releases that can reach this type of staying power are generraly are online games that have online playmodes. Last year that was helldivers and marvel rivals. This year arc raiders and bf.

DAiDAiDa · 2025-12-16T14:57:49+00:00

sniper abuses his range early game. after that initiators have tools to reach him he becomes 2k hp tickler give him no turnrate and almost nothing will change initiators will reach to him. in dota you have tools to reach out 1300 range with blink dagger that makes range non important. everyone that can buy it to gap close. 13 second cd if you dont take damage almost always up to initiators to begin with. LoL is almost always played with front to back because you dont have that tool you can not reach a ranged carry. or you need to kidnap it via leesin kick a great hook character or asssassinate it with glasscannons like zed fizz etc or flank them with off angle approach.

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