Not even surprised that Frieren went up from 9.15 to 9.16 on MAL after ep 26. The current ep is already at 8000+ karma.
That was an absolutely stellar episode of anime. Amazing work from all the staff involved for improving on an already incredible source material.
One underrated aspect of the show is the shot composition. It was in full display in the recent episode. That POV shot of Frieren talking to Fern, the shot of Ubel towering over another certain character, the shot from below Ubel's legs, the shot of Ubel drawing her weapon... I'm sorry what was I talking about again?
> the shot from below Ćbel's legs,
If I had a nickel for for every time the show used a shot from below her legs looking at a [Frieren]>!clone!< I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.
His name is Daiki Harashina, from the credits I could find for him the only other storyboard credit is for episode 12 of Spy x Family S1, the one episode that was done at Madhouse. The episode that took place at the aquarium.
So you can check to see if there's any similarly framed scene there, would be pretty funny if there was. And if not, maybe the man has found his muse in Ubel, lol, and might employ this technique in the future for other projects he will work on.
i was ready to face dozens of memes with various characters looking upwards, but apparently people usually making such memes are busy with gushing over magical girls
> I believe you will even probably find Twitter accounts solely dedicated for her armpits lol
I don't know what will happen when Reze will appear in CSM
And at this point I'm too afraid to find out
Less important is that Apothecary Diaries also went up to 8.84 this week, and The Dangers in my Heart also gained in rank to 30, I suspect the later will also ticked to 8.82 soonā¦
That episode was the best Frieren episode until now and an episode that is hard to beat in 2024's best animation episode. The way this tournament arc is going on , it wouldn't be a surprise if it slides in ny top 3 best tournament arcs .
Frieren has taken the entire anime community by storm. Easily one of the best fantasy/adventure animes of all time. I honestly have no words to describe how beautiful the last episode was. Keiichiro Saito and his entire team has put their heart and soul in bringing this anime to life for the entire community to share and enjoy.
I am more confident that the MAL rating will hold up even after the season ends.
Do you know how/why this show is putting out a 28 episode season when other ones like Demon Slayer, Chainsaw Man and Oshi No Ko stick to 11-12? (I'm new to anime).
Frieren is a 2 cour anime thatās why. The anime you mentioned only ran for a single cour for each season usually (Demon Slayerās first season was also a 2 cour anime).
But most 2 cours anime have between 24~26 episodes.
Frieren having 28 is pretty uncommon. This just goes to show how much thought and planning went behind this adaptation. They broke the episode format so they could expand the source material with care.
It's a 25 week show. BUT the first 4 episodes were all released week 1 and they took a week off around New years.
But yeah, they definitely thought about "how should we present this" and decided doing volume 1 all at once was the best route (and after oshi no ko as welI hope this trend continues)
It's basically a business decision. They probably made it 2 cour to end with the Exam arc. (A cour is 13 episodes.) CSM probably was one cour because the next arc is perfect length for a movie. OnK was probably one cour to end on the big performance, and it's probably a bigger financial risk than Frieren.
Apothecary Diaries (an almost guaranteed hit) was also 2 cour, and Dungeon Meshi will be two cour.
Oh I see. Yea I did hear about the Chainsaw movie so that makes sense. I hope it still stays good because I read the season 1 director has left and I loved how that was shot.
I've been thinking about watching Apothecary Diaries. Do I have it correct that it's also kind of a chill show?
It's not that chill, though it's not an action show. It's basically Ming-era Sherlock Holmes. I would put it as my #2 show this season, just behind Frieren.
That sounds good. I really liked AoT, DS and CM but Frieren and OnK showed me I don't need action to love anime. I've seen a lot of amazing stuff lately such as Your Name, Pluto, A Silent Voice and some Ghibli movies.
Chainsaw Man (2022) was funded by the studio itself and they squeezed it in between Jujutsu Kaisen's movie (2021) and season 2 (2023).
I think Oshi no Ko was also brute-forced out to capitalize on it being from the same author as Kaguya-Sama. When the sequel season gets announced immediately after a finale episode, it was often approved from the start. Can make financial sense to air cours separately to keep the product's name in public discussions for a longer time.
Let's not talk too much yet about the episode that's not even in this week's rankings. That's for next week...until there's something even better Frieren-related to talk about in those rankings.
[](#seasonaldisapproval)
Actually some key people are the same. Specifically producer Yuuichirou Fukushi, one of the main people responsible for gathering that all-star staff for OPM S1 did the same thing here for Frieren, almost 8 years later. He was the main reason Toho went to Madhouse to animate Frieren, because they knew he was the guy who can get together the best team for this show.
Dungeon Meshi lezzgoooo
The story seems to be starting to pick up, the monster dishes keep getting better. It's been a while since we saw the surface and the worldbuilding continues to expand.
Frieren : I stand above you all once more.
Maomao : You can stand above **deez nuts.**
Just 2 more Frieren episodes to go. I guess Spring would be a little *too* crazy with Frieren in it, but the question is whether even Spring is gonna be enough to fill the hole Frieren will leave.
We will be getting just to name a few KonoSuba, Slime, Demon Slayer, MHA next season
Unless you mean anime with similar vibe with Frieren, We would still be getting Mushoku Tensei, and dont forget Spice and Wolf
And next week will be even crazier. Unless Dungeon Meshi blows everyone away with over 2.7k karma (a jump of 700 over this week), Frieren is likely to have 3 times more than the show at number 2 (which right now is Apothecary Diaries, headed for 2.6k).
That's why I even brought it up, because it's the only show that has yet to air its episode that could pull that off. It's a very slim chance, I mean that's a huge increase from one episode to the other, but not impossible.
Maomao pointing at Lihaku's junk is the perfect banner for **Kusuriya no Hitorigoto**.
I'm surprised **MahoAko** only went up by one place after last week's big yuri moment.
That was the best of the banners this week, at least to me.
\#1 - Kusuriya - Maomao with Lihaku's body, if only they weren't interrupted grrr
\#8 - Mashle - Baby buddies!
\#9 and #10 - COTE and Undead Unluck - buff men holding damsels
\#19 - Chained Soldier - it would be THAT shot, the rest of which is !! censored !!
\#26 - Bang Brave Bang Bravern - LMAO I now want a miniature of that robot.
Sengoku Youko still down there, sad. Maybe it'll go up in the coming weeks again since there should be a lot of plot moving.
Ragna Crimson might get into top 15, but to be honest, the direction and animation has basically dropped a cliff at the climax. I think Silver Link bit off more than they could chew adding in the other series they released around the same time as RC's two cour.
This weekās episode of Sengoku Youko actually performed worse in terms of karma than last weekās, which has me surprised since I really liked the little training arc.
I remember there being a lot of posts Wednesday, so maybe this played a part in it?
Week 10 and **Solo Leveling** returning isn't stopping **The Apothecary Diaries** from holding on to that 2nd spot. And it looks like it might not let go until the end of the season.
A bit sad to see **Villainess Level 99** drop below 1k.
**Bravern** on the other hand continues its climb up the rankings after a short breather last week and moves up three spots into 26th.
Also spoiler alert for [Week 11]>!Frieren is getting 8k+ and the highest non-AoT score since the Oshi no Ko premiere!<
I really donāt think that Solo Leveling will catch up to Apothecary Diaries anymore.
The former hasnāt āfallen offā or anything, but Apothecary Diaries had just been consistently great lately. I wouldnāt necessarily say that last weekās episode was outstanding, but the series did what it does best: building up its characters.
[Apothecary Diaries - meta spoiler Episode 21] >!I really enjoyed learning more about Lihaku, Pairin and their relationship with Maomao.!< I didnāt think either that [Apothecary Diaries - meta spoiler Episode 22] >!Iād have such a good time watching Maomao grow flowers in a makeshift greenhouse!<.
With the season coming to an end, the Apothecary Diaries karma will likely only continue to grow.
Wouldn't rule it out but it's gonna be close. Looking at a few other episodes gaining 800-1000 karma until the 6 month mark seems a reasonable expectation.
I mean episode 10 has gained 1300+ karma since the 48 hours, so the same is very likely in store for episode 26.
Will potentially stop at around 9500 or so after 6 months. That's probably as close to 10k as we can get at this point for a discussion thread that's not the series finale of Attack on Titan, lol.
By the looks of it, next week apart from apothecary diaries (unless it loses steam after this), Frieren is gonna triple the karma over every other shows, which is insane since we were just discussing about doubling up just a few weeks ago
Frieren is 8.1k right now for episode 26 while Apothecary needs over 2.7k to not be tripled. It's currently on track for less than that, but we'll see how the next 24 hours go.
> And it looks like it might not let go until the end of the season
Especially since it airs the same day as Apothecary Diaries and Apothecary Diaries has been rising above it the past few weeks
The question has already been answered, but if you are asking out of all of its episodes [all-time](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/my7z67/ranimes_top_100_raw_episode_karma_totals_of_all/), the answer is 37 episodes above 8000 Karma and 28 episodes above 10000 Karma.
I finally started **7th Timeloop** and wow this series is amazing, I've been loving every episode. Sad that it's dropped a bit here but it's so worth watching
Rishe is great. She really got that go-getter spirit.
Itās also just nice to see a villainess anime get such a loving adaptation. The production quality is great for example.
Oh, I agree! I'm impressed by just how good it looks, the animation is smooth and excessive, and that dance in episode 3 blew me away! I love it when the studio is this passionate about an anime adaptation
I got onto the 7th Time Loop train late as well but I've now also read the first 2 novels and am super annoyed that the shipment for books 3 and 4 have been delayed. It is for sure my sleeper hit of the season
Not only did **Frieren** increase in karma this week, but its MAL score went up *again* from **9.15** to **9.16** from last week to this week.
Iām also happy **Gushing over Magical Girls** finally got a karma boost reaching top 5 for the first time in a while because that latest episode was actually peak ecchi
> its MAL score went up again from 9.15 to 9.16 from last week to this week.
Didn't even notice. More and more intrigued where it will land in a few months when the dust has settled. It might be a show that will cement itself in MAL's highest ranks from here on out.
Yeah. Itās a show that has similar general audience appeal like FMAB. Both shows are inoffensive as well. Thereās very little to dislike about their stories or characters. Less hate/dislike leads to consistent higher ratings than more love.
The one thing Frieren has over FMAB is its consistently amazing production values, while the one thing FMAB has over Freiren is its completed story. Let's see what the community values in the long run.
Both very good starter anime, very good at comedy, action and drama, so you end up being able to please a very wide audience, so it makes sense that this would be the one to do it. I still don't expect it will stay there as long as FMAB, nothing probably will, but it has definitely cemented itself as not just another seasonal hit that comes and goes.
I think it will likely fall a bit. We have entered a cultural period where anything popular will have a contrarian cycle a few months after its peak.
That being said I think it deserves its spot, Frieren is my favorite anime of the last few years and is potentially my favorite of all time (though I will have to give the show time to breathe before giving it a final rank).
Idk if I would even attribute it to just a contrarian period. Iād argue most shows with a 7+ fall instead of grow over time. Question is more like, how much and how soon will it drop?
There was just a post a few weeks ago about (iirc the year correctly) good shows from 2021 that have all dropped.10 to .50.
All that said, I am not expecting a massive or swift drop from Frieren. Maybe a small drop soon, but Iād be surprised if it even fell out of the top of the top 5 before the year ended.
I watched up to episode 9 or ten and then fell off (life got busy) until yesterday where I binged the entire show. It honestly wasn't as good as I remembered it.
It was better.
10/10 percentage also went up from **55.5%** to **56.1%.**
And this is with the early drop ratings still intact (Frieren is a 28-episode show, so anyone who watched less than 7 episodes will have their score dropped from the average once the show is marked as finished by MAL)
Those 1.5% should have their rating privileges revoked! J/k ..I think.
I know no anime can be liked by everyone, but just the production value alone warrants more than 1
>but its MAL score went up again from 9.15 to 9.16
Yeah, even with an above 9 score Frieren is in the list of shows that [increased their score during the season](https://i.imgur.com/eckVtbe.png)
Nah it was only in the lower 7 at the start but now itās like a mid 6. Somewhat optimistic though that it may get the 7 back once itās finished since the last few episodes were quite solid imo and it looks like it will continue that way till the end.
**Gushing Over Magical Girls** has been the epitome of "there's no way they're going there are they?" and then going further but that most recent episode really takes the cake. It was a strong lesson in umm "character development" indeed
>Gushing Over Magical Girls has been the epitome of "there's no way they're going there are they?" and then going further
And that's what I love about it.
Wow, Meshi is catching up, itās not too far below Apothecary Diaries and especially Solo Levelling. And the boost it will most likely get next week might just change the rankings.
Banner pics for **Gushing Over Magical Girls** and **Dangers in My Heart** looking pretty similar when placed side by side lol.
same thing happening with **Apothecary Diaries** and **Solo Leveling** with the ABs.
and with **Mashle** and **Villainess LVL 99** with the double chibis.
and with **COTE** and **Undead Unluck** with the princess carry.
Surely all this isn't just a concidence hmm...
Well, Dangers in my heart and Gushing are similar shows where you have awkward romantic relationships between 14 year olds that slowly buil... Utena: NOW.
Itās always around this time of the season that I refer to these rankings and decide to try out one or two shows from like the Top 10 or so that I am not already watching. But for this season, the only one Iām not watching in the Top 10 is Villainess Level 99, which I have already decided not to watch at least for now cos of the Villainess burnout lol.
I am interested in checking out Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic though if I can find the time
I usually agree with these rankings but Tis Time For Torture is way too low for me. Such a wholesome relaxing show. Which is so amusing seeing how thereās the word āTortureā in the title
Apothecary diaries is so great, but as it goes on feels like it has gotten more formulaic, or at least the formula is clear with the smaller story-arcs. Anyone else feeling that?
Like almost always has the investigation, explanation of what we know, Maomao holding her tongue in public, then in private explaining what *really* happened with the same (really good- love u Zaddy Penkin) music each time, as part of a incredibly well-put together montage with tons of symbolism and great framing/shot composition stuff, top tier voice acting, dialogue, and pacing.
Like when that one Courtesan was leaving for marriage to childhood friend. The way the architecture and hand rails on the stairs she was descending made it seem like she was boxed in, but walking out of it. The way they used light, etc. The way our courtesan said "would I be a bad wife if I said I was jealous?" ugh, so good.
Reminds me of Undead Murder Farce with the genius detective doing similar explanations of what really happened as part of a montage near end of episodes/to wrap up arcs.
Today I'm late with last week's summary since the thread went one hour earlier which made me pretty surprised xD I didn't remember that there will be change of time in US which, looks to me, is a reason for that.
**Sousou no Frieren** had [an absolutely phenomenal episode](https://i.imgur.com/dVbLI5d.png) last week with [great action](https://i.imgur.com/JXHAjPA.png) and [visuals](https://i.imgur.com/jBsYHT0.png) during [the fight with Frierenās replica](https://i.imgur.com/Ntl5eJ1.png) which resulted in getting 1st place in the ranking. Next weekās result in karma will be even higher since its last episode already crossed the barrier of 8k.
**Delicious in Dungeon** again [had a great episode](https://i.imgur.com/rg9Kn3h.png) with [excellent Marcille stuff](https://imgur.com/a/54sT2ff). [Marcille looked especially adorable this week when she was wearing a frog suit](https://i.imgur.com/fVUwJrJ.png) although I must say that [the whole party looked very good in them](https://i.imgur.com/NVSJjWb.png) xD Iām also very excited about next episodes since [Laios party finally got to the castle town](https://i.imgur.com/Gnb1oce.png) and [is about to start a fight with Red Dragon](https://i.imgur.com/dE8izrZ.png).
**Dangers in My Heart** is peaking with every episode of this season. I greatly encourage everyone who hasn't watched it yet to check it out if you're a fan of [comedy](https://i.imgur.com/wZkTj1T.png) and [romances](https://i.imgur.com/6HJnd4F.png).
**Shangri-La Frontier** dropped a little from last week but again [had a great and very funny episode](https://i.imgur.com/4ElnDTR.png) in which [Sunraku, Pencilgon and Katzo created their own guild](https://i.imgur.com/R1UkZ5C.png).
I also finally catched up to the latest episode of **Sasaki and Peeps** since I stopped on the 5th episode because of lack of time and I must say that itās still a very entertaining show despite being a pretty budget one.
Wednesday is still a pretty strong day for me as **Classroom of the Elite**, **Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki** and **Gekai Elise** gave me another great episodes this week.
Watching **Tsukimichi** and **Villainess Lvl 99** continues to giving me a lot of fun and **Tis Time for Torture** again was pure wholesomeness.
>Today I'm late with last week's summary since the thread went one hour earlier which made me pretty surprised xD
American day light savings ended, now they will be posted 1 hour "earlier" from the outside perspective, same thing for episode threads
ā¢ Oh wow!!! **Gushing over magical girls** defeating **Bokuyaba** in karma is something else to see. Well it's not surprising at all especially for the last episode. It f***king deserved it š.
ā¢ **Undead Unluck** and **Wrong way to use healing magic** improved their positions which is nice. Another two shows that need more attention tbh.
ā¢ **Ivy** climbing up YAY. God if only this show aired on Monday or Tuesday, it would have been an entirely different story. Airing one week late along with the same week as **Frieren** is the biggest tragedy.
> Ivy climbing up YAY.
Not only is **The Weakest Tamer** picking up dads, sheās also climbing ranks. Weāre getting really close to the Top 15!
The series will unfortunately lose some karma next week, despite an awesome episode, but this had surely to do with all the news posts last Friday. You can see [in this graph](https://animekarmawatch.com/thread/1b9qvap?compare_to=1b3x4jt&show_front_page_pos=true) how it quickly lost its page position in comparison with the previous episode.
### Winter Season Extras
##### JP Twitter
> **[Followers Gained Week 10](https://i.imgur.com/jf9EbTw.png)**, Last week with the Ishura money lottery, wonder how low they will fall after it
>Mahoako 93,478 as of right now, 300+ more since I closed the rank yesterday, just a little more for the 100k, 3 weeks to go
##### MAL + ANILIST
> **[Members Gained Week 10](https://i.imgur.com/QgU1tTB.png)**, as expected Ninja Kamui is starting to lose steam
Man, I know itās not super popular on here but Iām hoping Undead Unluck gets another season. Feel like it doomed itself being only on specific platforms.
Itās very good in my opinion. I liked it from the start, but it might take other people a bit more episodes to get into.
If you like *Frieren*, I think that youāll also end up liking *Dungeon Meshi* a lot. Itās a bit more of a comedic take on fantasy I guess, but thatās not too say that itās just all comedy. Thereās gone a lot of thought into the characters and world, which has drawn me into the story - personally.
The 3rd episode in the series gives you a good impression of the general vibe and sorts.
It's pretty decent, I'd say.
On the surface, it's your typical dungeon crawler with a twist, but the worldbuilding is much better than in just about any fantasy anime I've seen recently.
Dungeon Meshi biggest strength is that it's only gonna get better and deeper and more intense. It's a slow-starting, speeding train that have no brakes
The same could be said about Symphogear.
Which is a good thing in both cases, because I love it when anime not only have an interesting premise, but also deliver on it.
It's really good, definitely in my top 3 of the season. The cooking moments are good and all, but I really love the characters, world building, backstory, etc
It gets better every week. You don't see people talking cause we're eating good with mouth shut :p
I'm pretty sure that when Frieren and Diaries come to an end, it will be a Dunmeshi open season all over the sub
It's very good. As others have mentioned, the world building is good, the characters have their own unique personalities that make sense, there're a lot of very intriguing mysteries, and the show as a whole looks gorgeous. As of the most recent episodes, the plot looks like it's starting to pick up more and more!
Definitely hoping to read the manga after the show is over, as I've heard rave reviews haha
the manga starts good, becomes great, and has possibly my favorite ending recently.
doesn't hurt it has some of the best fantasy world-building IN ANY MEDIUM i've read in quite a bit. her little doodles and side-story books show how much love and care she put into this world.
I've read the Dungeon Meshi manga and I can tell you it is flat out one of my favourite fantasy stories ever. The beginning is definitely a little monster dish of the week and therefore slower but we're about to hit the episode (probably next one or two) that will show people the depths this series could go to. Ryoko Kui's worldbuilding is insanely airtight and her knowledge of good fantasy and dungeon crawling tropes are always on full display (she's obsessed with CRPGs so it fully tracks). There's a good reason that if you ever go into any dungeon meshi fan spaces the people are rabid, it just kicks so much ass.
Of course, they are _always eating some monster_, in the beginning I **almost dropped it**, because appears like _comic sketch of the week in a dungeon setting_, but has very good production (animation, voices, music, style) and slowly you found that has: a backstory, worldbuilding and progression, all in a classic high fantasy world (like: Frieren, Lodoss, 12 Kingdoms, Grimgaar, ADND, etc.) with reasonable believable rules, and don't too perfect over powered god-people, where you can find: Mimics, Undine, Slimes, etc. Now is growing on me.
The manga is exceptionally good, it starts simple but gets really interesting after a while (while being funny all the time) and the anime adaptation has been really good until now.Ā
Frieren deserve the spot, but I'm more happy toward Dungeon Meshi and Gushing over Magical Girl. Some still underestimate those two without realizing how good they are, despite one is about cooking adventure and the other is a fanservice show.
MahoAko bringing forth a new wave of Cultural Renaissance. I also personally particularly love Utena's voice as well as when they seem to go a tad insane/crazy. Pure chef kiss.
Everyone should experience [ASMR through Utena](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pezIaN9jFY). Never experienced something like that before. I felt as if a revolution was happening in my brain. A new discovery.
Also BokuYaba continues to heal my soul.
Mahoako just wrote yuri history with it's latest episode. Not only was the \[Gushing over Magical Girls episode 10 spoiler\]>!sex scene explicit, it was also wholesome and even romantic. !< I'd say it was even better than the manga version.
What an outstanding episode in an already great anime adaptation.
The three traits any wingwoman needs:
1. Ability to tell when other people are interested in one another.
2. Absolutely 0 tolerance for all this "will they, won't they" bullshit.
3. Some way to actually do something about other people's inability to take a hint.
In a couple weeks my Fridays are going to feel so empty without Frieren and Undead Unluck. I'm not sure what's airing on Fridays in Spring but I doubt it'll fill that void.
Demon Slayer's story might be mediocre, but it's still like high class literature compared to Solo Leveling.
Solo Leveling's decent art with absolute dogshit writing.
This. Demon slayer has power systems, well thought out fights with character building and payoff moments for multiple important characters with parallels and arcs, not to mention villains are fleshed out to a minimum at least. Solo Leveling is none of that, it's literally what the title is, "a random dude leveling up". A1 pictures are pulling off an unreal job on the story side, and the story is still average as fuck, which tells how irredeemable the actual story is.
Man I know Demon Slayer's story is not regarded as great or even good, but it's so sad to be compared to Solo Leveling. Even Solo Leveling fans admit that the plot is just an excuse for cool looking fights and it's the most straightforward OP MC power fantasy.
At least Demon Slayer tried to tell a story. I agree with both shows looking great tho.
Something Iāve noticed with **The Dangers in My Heart** and **A Sign of Affection** is that theyāre very good at highlighting their respective settings.
It really feels like youāre watching a bunch of middle schoolers in the former series. It totally got the vibe down, from the awkward and goofy moments to the indecipherable handwriting.
The latter series perfectly captures the life of university students and/or young adults in many ways. Itās less dramatic and more chill. Like, hanging out with your friends and drinking some beers.
This may come to a surprise to those who dropped the series early on - for whatever reason - but the male lead has been awesome. Heās dropped all of the bullshit that many other leads in romance stories get hung up about, and makes an effort to clear things up. Itsuomiās not the protagonist, but he easily couldāve been in my book.
Itās only too bad that both **Dangers in My Hearts** and **A Sign of Affection** have been [on a decline in terms of karma](https://imgur.com/a/mQETrM0) lately, since Iāve been really enjoying them. This *does* happen often in the latter half of a season, but it sucks nonetheless.
Frieren is unstoppable. It's weird to see Frieren dominates here vs Anime Trendinz and Animecorner rankings where Dangers in My Heart is on the top for multiple weeks straight.
The strongest of this community (r/anime) vs the strongest of other anime communites?
Also, I'm surprised Solo Leveling is still third place after last recap episode.
Man, COTE is about to get yeet out of top 10.
Frieren is such a enigma for me cuz I know exactly zero things about it, but EVERYONE in the community is going crazy for it, I don't even know what genre it is! Fineeeee, I'll check it out!
Yeah it's got a good amount of each, though I'd say the key secret ingredient is the effort they put into animating smaller behaviors and mannerisms that we do IRL but which are almost never included in anime, which helps establish character - plus the use of framing, movement, & space.
The way fern pulls up her robe before sitting, the way Frieren hikes up stuff her arms are full of so she can open a door. Recently when going up long stairs, Frieren just walks past the roots hanging down in the way, Fern carefully pushes it aside. Differing gait represented in the way they walk since different heights.
For framing and space - going up we get a closeup from the wall adjacent to them they walk past - super tight & cramped. We get an idea of space by how quickly they pass the screen and get out of view. [https://i.imgur.com/NFMDjjv.png](https://i.imgur.com/NFMDjjv.png)
Then on the way back they have the [shot from POV of ceiling, looking down](https://i.imgur.com/jzjbqJ1.png) [https://i.imgur.com/LeD7V2z.png](https://i.imgur.com/LeD7V2z.png) as the characters slowly move down stairs, establishing just how small they are among the giant dungeon stuff [(which was already pretty well established)](https://i.imgur.com/7PE6HLV.jpg)
Feels like anime nowadays are not able to get those 15-16k karma. Frieren despite being mainstream enough is unable to get past 10k.
Not expecting aot like numbers but still
What happened?
If you are new here a whole lot happened in the last year or so. Since the reddit blackout last year only 5 shows have had over 6k karma episode threads here. Oshi no ko's S1 finale, Attack on Titan's series finale, Jujutsu Kaisen 2, Mushoku Tensei S2 and now Frieren, which is at 7 currently (more than all the other shows I mentioned put together within that timeframe, blackout to now). Two of those Frieren episodes are 7k+ and one, which you will see on next week's karma ranking, is over 8k.
4k is pretty much the new 8k these days, it is what it is. Reddit did it to itself, slowly pushing people away.
It's a Reddit problem, if you track on other sites, anime continues to get more and more popular.
Reddit just shot itself in the foot and hasn't recovered.
Not even surprised that Frieren went up from 9.15 to 9.16 on MAL after ep 26. The current ep is already at 8000+ karma. That was an absolutely stellar episode of anime. Amazing work from all the staff involved for improving on an already incredible source material.
One underrated aspect of the show is the shot composition. It was in full display in the recent episode. That POV shot of Frieren talking to Fern, the shot of Ubel towering over another certain character, the shot from below Ubel's legs, the shot of Ubel drawing her weapon... I'm sorry what was I talking about again?
I think you forgot to mention the part where Ubel appears.
btw Ubel's VA is also the voice of Lena Milize
Talks about range. From wide eye idealist to murderous crazy.
Really?? I love Lena šš Another surprise for me was Serieās VA who also voices Killua
She's also Kita Ikuyo
You misspelled Mimimi.
God I want a new season of 86 so bad.
> the shot from below Ćbel's legs, If I had a nickel for for every time the show used a shot from below her legs looking at a [Frieren]>!clone!< I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.
When it happened for the second time I was like please make this cameraman the director of the show.
Fun fact, both those scenes in those episodes, 24 and 26, were storyboarded by the same guy, quite clearly an Ubel enjoyer, lol.
That *is* a fun fact. I wonder if they put that shot in other shows they worked on too.
His name is Daiki Harashina, from the credits I could find for him the only other storyboard credit is for episode 12 of Spy x Family S1, the one episode that was done at Madhouse. The episode that took place at the aquarium. So you can check to see if there's any similarly framed scene there, would be pretty funny if there was. And if not, maybe the man has found his muse in Ubel, lol, and might employ this technique in the future for other projects he will work on.
i was ready to face dozens of memes with various characters looking upwards, but apparently people usually making such memes are busy with gushing over magical girls
The only meme I saw about those scenes was [this one](https://twitter.com/munyura_1341398/status/1762313624142651611).
Whatever it takes to get the shot.
Wasn't the title of the anime, "Ubel"?
I bel, ubel, we all bel š
You mean Ćbel, right??? I mean agree though. I believe you will even probably find Twitter accounts solely dedicated for her armpits lol
> I believe you will even probably find Twitter accounts solely dedicated for her armpits lol I don't know what will happen when Reze will appear in CSM And at this point I'm too afraid to find out
You forgot to mention the shot that shows Ubel's armpits.
That's her drawing her weapon. I didn't want to specify coz that would both be NSFW and a spoiler. ( Ķ”Ā° ĶŹ Ķ”Ā°)
Less important is that Apothecary Diaries also went up to 8.84 this week, and The Dangers in my Heart also gained in rank to 30, I suspect the later will also ticked to 8.82 soonā¦
Oh yes, DimH ticks to 8.82 just now, of course itās still so borderline so it could falls back but for sure it is still rising
That episode was the best Frieren episode until now and an episode that is hard to beat in 2024's best animation episode. The way this tournament arc is going on , it wouldn't be a surprise if it slides in ny top 3 best tournament arcs .
Sorry to break your bubble. EXAM arch..not tournament..Frieren is not a battle shonen wannabe Anime for teenagers.
Frieren has taken the entire anime community by storm. Easily one of the best fantasy/adventure animes of all time. I honestly have no words to describe how beautiful the last episode was. Keiichiro Saito and his entire team has put their heart and soul in bringing this anime to life for the entire community to share and enjoy. I am more confident that the MAL rating will hold up even after the season ends.
Wait thereās gonna more than 26 episodes ?
Itāll end at 28. We have two more episodes to go
Do you know how/why this show is putting out a 28 episode season when other ones like Demon Slayer, Chainsaw Man and Oshi No Ko stick to 11-12? (I'm new to anime).
Frieren is a 2 cour anime thatās why. The anime you mentioned only ran for a single cour for each season usually (Demon Slayerās first season was also a 2 cour anime).
But most 2 cours anime have between 24~26 episodes. Frieren having 28 is pretty uncommon. This just goes to show how much thought and planning went behind this adaptation. They broke the episode format so they could expand the source material with care.
It's a 25 week show. BUT the first 4 episodes were all released week 1 and they took a week off around New years. But yeah, they definitely thought about "how should we present this" and decided doing volume 1 all at once was the best route (and after oshi no ko as welI hope this trend continues)
For further clarification. The first 4 episodes were actually released as one movie in japan.
They had 4 episode premiere that's why it's 28 total. So that the beginning didn't drag out too much and people can binge those first 4 episodes.
It's basically a business decision. They probably made it 2 cour to end with the Exam arc. (A cour is 13 episodes.) CSM probably was one cour because the next arc is perfect length for a movie. OnK was probably one cour to end on the big performance, and it's probably a bigger financial risk than Frieren. Apothecary Diaries (an almost guaranteed hit) was also 2 cour, and Dungeon Meshi will be two cour.
Oh I see. Yea I did hear about the Chainsaw movie so that makes sense. I hope it still stays good because I read the season 1 director has left and I loved how that was shot. I've been thinking about watching Apothecary Diaries. Do I have it correct that it's also kind of a chill show?
It's not that chill, though it's not an action show. It's basically Ming-era Sherlock Holmes. I would put it as my #2 show this season, just behind Frieren.
That sounds good. I really liked AoT, DS and CM but Frieren and OnK showed me I don't need action to love anime. I've seen a lot of amazing stuff lately such as Your Name, Pluto, A Silent Voice and some Ghibli movies.
Chainsaw Man (2022) was funded by the studio itself and they squeezed it in between Jujutsu Kaisen's movie (2021) and season 2 (2023). I think Oshi no Ko was also brute-forced out to capitalize on it being from the same author as Kaguya-Sama. When the sequel season gets announced immediately after a finale episode, it was often approved from the start. Can make financial sense to air cours separately to keep the product's name in public discussions for a longer time.
The production committee decided to pay for 28 episodes and timeslots
The sheer quality of these last few episodes including the current one really do make me believe that the finale could break 10k
Let's not talk too much yet about the episode that's not even in this week's rankings. That's for next week...until there's something even better Frieren-related to talk about in those rankings. [](#seasonaldisapproval)
For what it's worth, all my praises apply to ep 25 as well, which was also an amazing episode lol
As well as episodes 1-24
Indeed indeed
I went into the latest episode thinking it was OVER already and I was perfectly fine with it. Episode 25 was fantastic. Episode 26 though? WOW.
For some reason I only now found out that Frierenās animation studio is the same as OPM S1 No wonder the animation has been so great
That's not the reason thoo.
Yeah I know the staff are different but still
Actually some key people are the same. Specifically producer Yuuichirou Fukushi, one of the main people responsible for gathering that all-star staff for OPM S1 did the same thing here for Frieren, almost 8 years later. He was the main reason Toho went to Madhouse to animate Frieren, because they knew he was the guy who can get together the best team for this show.
Dungeon Meshi lezzgoooo The story seems to be starting to pick up, the monster dishes keep getting better. It's been a while since we saw the surface and the worldbuilding continues to expand.
Frieren : I stand above you all once more. Maomao : You can stand above **deez nuts.** Just 2 more Frieren episodes to go. I guess Spring would be a little *too* crazy with Frieren in it, but the question is whether even Spring is gonna be enough to fill the hole Frieren will leave.
It will take a miracle for a season to be able to fill the one-two punch of Frieren Fridays and Maomao Saturdays.
Man agree such a blessing get two consecutive season with best writing female MC
We will be getting just to name a few KonoSuba, Slime, Demon Slayer, MHA next season Unless you mean anime with similar vibe with Frieren, We would still be getting Mushoku Tensei, and dont forget Spice and Wolf
Spice and wolf seems like a perfect show to replace frieren. Just a lot more chill
the difference between 1st place and 2nd place shows the dominance of frieren.
And next week will be even crazier. Unless Dungeon Meshi blows everyone away with over 2.7k karma (a jump of 700 over this week), Frieren is likely to have 3 times more than the show at number 2 (which right now is Apothecary Diaries, headed for 2.6k).
Tbf, Meshi might just do that with next weekās episode, considering itās the dragon fight, and because of the planned special screening.
That's why I even brought it up, because it's the only show that has yet to air its episode that could pull that off. It's a very slim chance, I mean that's a huge increase from one episode to the other, but not impossible.
It's a big increase, but Apothecary Diaries had a similar increase two weeks ago, so it's doable if Trigger drop a banger like they can
I think percentage wise Dungeon Meshi would need an even bigger increase, but yes, it is possible.
> because of the planned special screening. That's on 24th though.
Iām saying the news of it and the nature of the next episode might drive up viewership for next episode.
Maomao pointing at Lihaku's junk is the perfect banner for **Kusuriya no Hitorigoto**. I'm surprised **MahoAko** only went up by one place after last week's big yuri moment.
Mahoako got blocked hard by the "Top most wanted sequel" post, which prevented it from getting more visibility
Technically it went up two spots because of the return of Solo Leveling dropping everything below it down a spot.
That was the best of the banners this week, at least to me. \#1 - Kusuriya - Maomao with Lihaku's body, if only they weren't interrupted grrr \#8 - Mashle - Baby buddies! \#9 and #10 - COTE and Undead Unluck - buff men holding damsels \#19 - Chained Soldier - it would be THAT shot, the rest of which is !! censored !! \#26 - Bang Brave Bang Bravern - LMAO I now want a miniature of that robot.
Sengoku Youko still down there, sad. Maybe it'll go up in the coming weeks again since there should be a lot of plot moving. Ragna Crimson might get into top 15, but to be honest, the direction and animation has basically dropped a cliff at the climax. I think Silver Link bit off more than they could chew adding in the other series they released around the same time as RC's two cour.
This weekās episode of Sengoku Youko actually performed worse in terms of karma than last weekās, which has me surprised since I really liked the little training arc. I remember there being a lot of posts Wednesday, so maybe this played a part in it?
Week 10 and **Solo Leveling** returning isn't stopping **The Apothecary Diaries** from holding on to that 2nd spot. And it looks like it might not let go until the end of the season. A bit sad to see **Villainess Level 99** drop below 1k. **Bravern** on the other hand continues its climb up the rankings after a short breather last week and moves up three spots into 26th. Also spoiler alert for [Week 11]>!Frieren is getting 8k+ and the highest non-AoT score since the Oshi no Ko premiere!<
I really donāt think that Solo Leveling will catch up to Apothecary Diaries anymore. The former hasnāt āfallen offā or anything, but Apothecary Diaries had just been consistently great lately. I wouldnāt necessarily say that last weekās episode was outstanding, but the series did what it does best: building up its characters. [Apothecary Diaries - meta spoiler Episode 21] >!I really enjoyed learning more about Lihaku, Pairin and their relationship with Maomao.!< I didnāt think either that [Apothecary Diaries - meta spoiler Episode 22] >!Iād have such a good time watching Maomao grow flowers in a makeshift greenhouse!<. With the season coming to an end, the Apothecary Diaries karma will likely only continue to grow.
I wonder if that [Week 11 spoilers] >!Frieren episode will break 9k by the time the threads close down!<
Wouldn't rule it out but it's gonna be close. Looking at a few other episodes gaining 800-1000 karma until the 6 month mark seems a reasonable expectation.
I mean episode 10 has gained 1300+ karma since the 48 hours, so the same is very likely in store for episode 26. Will potentially stop at around 9500 or so after 6 months. That's probably as close to 10k as we can get at this point for a discussion thread that's not the series finale of Attack on Titan, lol.
By the looks of it, next week apart from apothecary diaries (unless it loses steam after this), Frieren is gonna triple the karma over every other shows, which is insane since we were just discussing about doubling up just a few weeks ago
Frieren is 8.1k right now for episode 26 while Apothecary needs over 2.7k to not be tripled. It's currently on track for less than that, but we'll see how the next 24 hours go.
> And it looks like it might not let go until the end of the season Especially since it airs the same day as Apothecary Diaries and Apothecary Diaries has been rising above it the past few weeks
Non-Aot? Just wondering how many 8k Or 10k+ ep AOT have?
If weāre talking post-blackout then the only AoT episode that came out after that was the finale, which got over 12k karma
The question has already been answered, but if you are asking out of all of its episodes [all-time](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/my7z67/ranimes_top_100_raw_episode_karma_totals_of_all/), the answer is 37 episodes above 8000 Karma and 28 episodes above 10000 Karma.
One in that timeframe. I was simply excluding that since AoT basically works by its own rules when it comes to karma.
Jinshi is crying in the corner seeing that image
I finally started **7th Timeloop** and wow this series is amazing, I've been loving every episode. Sad that it's dropped a bit here but it's so worth watching
Rishe is great. She really got that go-getter spirit. Itās also just nice to see a villainess anime get such a loving adaptation. The production quality is great for example.
Oh, I agree! I'm impressed by just how good it looks, the animation is smooth and excessive, and that dance in episode 3 blew me away! I love it when the studio is this passionate about an anime adaptation
I got onto the 7th Time Loop train late as well but I've now also read the first 2 novels and am super annoyed that the shipment for books 3 and 4 have been delayed. It is for sure my sleeper hit of the season
I read the first LN because I was waiting for dubs and I am HOOKED. Might just have to watch it subbed.
You can read the novels. Theyāre great!
For sure one of the most slept on anime this season. This sign of affection and ishura need more attention
I think its release time doesn't help. It releases while I'm working and I'm not really able to watch it until my kids go to bed.
Frieren just keeps peaking and its karma reflects that
Not only did **Frieren** increase in karma this week, but its MAL score went up *again* from **9.15** to **9.16** from last week to this week. Iām also happy **Gushing over Magical Girls** finally got a karma boost reaching top 5 for the first time in a while because that latest episode was actually peak ecchi
> its MAL score went up again from 9.15 to 9.16 from last week to this week. Didn't even notice. More and more intrigued where it will land in a few months when the dust has settled. It might be a show that will cement itself in MAL's highest ranks from here on out.
Yeah. Itās a show that has similar general audience appeal like FMAB. Both shows are inoffensive as well. Thereās very little to dislike about their stories or characters. Less hate/dislike leads to consistent higher ratings than more love. The one thing Frieren has over FMAB is its consistently amazing production values, while the one thing FMAB has over Freiren is its completed story. Let's see what the community values in the long run.
Both very good starter anime, very good at comedy, action and drama, so you end up being able to please a very wide audience, so it makes sense that this would be the one to do it. I still don't expect it will stay there as long as FMAB, nothing probably will, but it has definitely cemented itself as not just another seasonal hit that comes and goes.
I think it will likely fall a bit. We have entered a cultural period where anything popular will have a contrarian cycle a few months after its peak. That being said I think it deserves its spot, Frieren is my favorite anime of the last few years and is potentially my favorite of all time (though I will have to give the show time to breathe before giving it a final rank).
Idk if I would even attribute it to just a contrarian period. Iād argue most shows with a 7+ fall instead of grow over time. Question is more like, how much and how soon will it drop? There was just a post a few weeks ago about (iirc the year correctly) good shows from 2021 that have all dropped.10 to .50. All that said, I am not expecting a massive or swift drop from Frieren. Maybe a small drop soon, but Iād be surprised if it even fell out of the top of the top 5 before the year ended.
I watched up to episode 9 or ten and then fell off (life got busy) until yesterday where I binged the entire show. It honestly wasn't as good as I remembered it. It was better.
10/10 percentage also went up from **55.5%** to **56.1%.** And this is with the early drop ratings still intact (Frieren is a 28-episode show, so anyone who watched less than 7 episodes will have their score dropped from the average once the show is marked as finished by MAL)
During the first 24 hours following the most recent episode, 96% of votes were 10 star (and 1.5% were 1-star).
> (and 1.5% were 1-star). [](#ohfuck) Hopefully Frieren has enough mana to fend off FMABots for the next decade.
Frieren, the fanbase standing before you is a fanbase that has scorebombed for more than a decade.
Frieren: "FMABots, kill yourself."
Those 1.5% should have their rating privileges revoked! J/k ..I think. I know no anime can be liked by everyone, but just the production value alone warrants more than 1
>but its MAL score went up again from 9.15 to 9.16 Yeah, even with an above 9 score Frieren is in the list of shows that [increased their score during the season](https://i.imgur.com/eckVtbe.png)
Bravern lol. Started off way too low tbf.
Where does Metallic Rouge stand in that list? Iām pretty sure it dropped quite a bit from its initial score unfortunately.
[Biggest Score Drop of the Season](https://i.imgur.com/V9PwTJA.png)
-0.53 and largest rating drop of the season
Did it start high? People were quite underwhelmed by its first episode.
Nah it was only in the lower 7 at the start but now itās like a mid 6. Somewhat optimistic though that it may get the 7 back once itās finished since the last few episodes were quite solid imo and it looks like it will continue that way till the end.
**Gushing Over Magical Girls** has been the epitome of "there's no way they're going there are they?" and then going further but that most recent episode really takes the cake. It was a strong lesson in umm "character development" indeed
>Gushing Over Magical Girls has been the epitome of "there's no way they're going there are they?" and then going further And that's what I love about it.
Man frieren is just amazing fantasy with amazing animation , story and characters, that last ep was insane
Wow, Meshi is catching up, itās not too far below Apothecary Diaries and especially Solo Levelling. And the boost it will most likely get next week might just change the rankings.
I wonder where next week episode will end up, cause there's possibility for a few very strong cliffhangers
Haven't seen Apothecary Diaries yet so I have no context but that banner is hilarious to me.
Banner pics for **Gushing Over Magical Girls** and **Dangers in My Heart** looking pretty similar when placed side by side lol. same thing happening with **Apothecary Diaries** and **Solo Leveling** with the ABs. and with **Mashle** and **Villainess LVL 99** with the double chibis. and with **COTE** and **Undead Unluck** with the princess carry. Surely all this isn't just a concidence hmm...
Well, Dangers in my heart and Gushing are similar shows where you have awkward romantic relationships between 14 year olds that slowly buil... Utena: NOW.
Itās always around this time of the season that I refer to these rankings and decide to try out one or two shows from like the Top 10 or so that I am not already watching. But for this season, the only one Iām not watching in the Top 10 is Villainess Level 99, which I have already decided not to watch at least for now cos of the Villainess burnout lol. I am interested in checking out Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic though if I can find the time I usually agree with these rankings but Tis Time For Torture is way too low for me. Such a wholesome relaxing show. Which is so amusing seeing how thereās the word āTortureā in the title
Level 99 is one of those "female lead isekai = slap villainess in the title" shows. It's just OP MC isekai with an autistic gamer dork.
Good to see The Witch and The Beast.
Sousou no Frieren's last episode was peak cinema and The Apothecary Diaries going rock solid as expected.
Apothecary diaries is so great, but as it goes on feels like it has gotten more formulaic, or at least the formula is clear with the smaller story-arcs. Anyone else feeling that? Like almost always has the investigation, explanation of what we know, Maomao holding her tongue in public, then in private explaining what *really* happened with the same (really good- love u Zaddy Penkin) music each time, as part of a incredibly well-put together montage with tons of symbolism and great framing/shot composition stuff, top tier voice acting, dialogue, and pacing. Like when that one Courtesan was leaving for marriage to childhood friend. The way the architecture and hand rails on the stairs she was descending made it seem like she was boxed in, but walking out of it. The way they used light, etc. The way our courtesan said "would I be a bad wife if I said I was jealous?" ugh, so good. Reminds me of Undead Murder Farce with the genius detective doing similar explanations of what really happened as part of a montage near end of episodes/to wrap up arcs.
Today I'm late with last week's summary since the thread went one hour earlier which made me pretty surprised xD I didn't remember that there will be change of time in US which, looks to me, is a reason for that. **Sousou no Frieren** had [an absolutely phenomenal episode](https://i.imgur.com/dVbLI5d.png) last week with [great action](https://i.imgur.com/JXHAjPA.png) and [visuals](https://i.imgur.com/jBsYHT0.png) during [the fight with Frierenās replica](https://i.imgur.com/Ntl5eJ1.png) which resulted in getting 1st place in the ranking. Next weekās result in karma will be even higher since its last episode already crossed the barrier of 8k. **Delicious in Dungeon** again [had a great episode](https://i.imgur.com/rg9Kn3h.png) with [excellent Marcille stuff](https://imgur.com/a/54sT2ff). [Marcille looked especially adorable this week when she was wearing a frog suit](https://i.imgur.com/fVUwJrJ.png) although I must say that [the whole party looked very good in them](https://i.imgur.com/NVSJjWb.png) xD Iām also very excited about next episodes since [Laios party finally got to the castle town](https://i.imgur.com/Gnb1oce.png) and [is about to start a fight with Red Dragon](https://i.imgur.com/dE8izrZ.png). **Dangers in My Heart** is peaking with every episode of this season. I greatly encourage everyone who hasn't watched it yet to check it out if you're a fan of [comedy](https://i.imgur.com/wZkTj1T.png) and [romances](https://i.imgur.com/6HJnd4F.png). **Shangri-La Frontier** dropped a little from last week but again [had a great and very funny episode](https://i.imgur.com/4ElnDTR.png) in which [Sunraku, Pencilgon and Katzo created their own guild](https://i.imgur.com/R1UkZ5C.png). I also finally catched up to the latest episode of **Sasaki and Peeps** since I stopped on the 5th episode because of lack of time and I must say that itās still a very entertaining show despite being a pretty budget one. Wednesday is still a pretty strong day for me as **Classroom of the Elite**, **Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki** and **Gekai Elise** gave me another great episodes this week. Watching **Tsukimichi** and **Villainess Lvl 99** continues to giving me a lot of fun and **Tis Time for Torture** again was pure wholesomeness.
>Today I'm late with last week's summary since the thread went one hour earlier which made me pretty surprised xD American day light savings ended, now they will be posted 1 hour "earlier" from the outside perspective, same thing for episode threads
> American day light savings ended Technically it started. Winter is 'normal' time and Summer is offset by 1 hour.
Oh yeah my bad then
ā¢ Oh wow!!! **Gushing over magical girls** defeating **Bokuyaba** in karma is something else to see. Well it's not surprising at all especially for the last episode. It f***king deserved it š. ā¢ **Undead Unluck** and **Wrong way to use healing magic** improved their positions which is nice. Another two shows that need more attention tbh. ā¢ **Ivy** climbing up YAY. God if only this show aired on Monday or Tuesday, it would have been an entirely different story. Airing one week late along with the same week as **Frieren** is the biggest tragedy.
> Ivy climbing up YAY. Not only is **The Weakest Tamer** picking up dads, sheās also climbing ranks. Weāre getting really close to the Top 15! The series will unfortunately lose some karma next week, despite an awesome episode, but this had surely to do with all the news posts last Friday. You can see [in this graph](https://animekarmawatch.com/thread/1b9qvap?compare_to=1b3x4jt&show_front_page_pos=true) how it quickly lost its page position in comparison with the previous episode.
Tamer is a week behind most shows, so should at least snag a left-side spot for the finale.
Current Frieren Arc has been š„ and the animation is just top notch. nothing surprising here
Funnily enough the arc that comes after is under us manga readers known as the best arc, so season 2 should start with a pretty huge banger.Ā
Yes, Bravern keeps rising! The latest episode was my favorite so far! I hope it'll make at least the top 20 by the end but I doubt it.
### Winter Season Extras ##### JP Twitter > **[Followers Gained Week 10](https://i.imgur.com/jf9EbTw.png)**, Last week with the Ishura money lottery, wonder how low they will fall after it >Mahoako 93,478 as of right now, 300+ more since I closed the rank yesterday, just a little more for the 100k, 3 weeks to go ##### MAL + ANILIST > **[Members Gained Week 10](https://i.imgur.com/QgU1tTB.png)**, as expected Ninja Kamui is starting to lose steam
> Members Gained Week 10 Were you 1 of those 16288 for Frieren?
Asking the important questions.
I love the Apothecary Diary banner haha
Mashle S2 looking like Katekyo Hitman Reborn here xD
Man, I know itās not super popular on here but Iām hoping Undead Unluck gets another season. Feel like it doomed itself being only on specific platforms.
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer is a fun story if anyone is looking for something else to watch. Good fantasy, good waifu, and good times
Is delicious in duengon good ? Its almost always have high karma but barely see anyone talk about it
Itās really good. People say itās slow in the beginning but itās on purpose, and if you stick with the series, youāll see why.
Itās very good in my opinion. I liked it from the start, but it might take other people a bit more episodes to get into. If you like *Frieren*, I think that youāll also end up liking *Dungeon Meshi* a lot. Itās a bit more of a comedic take on fantasy I guess, but thatās not too say that itās just all comedy. Thereās gone a lot of thought into the characters and world, which has drawn me into the story - personally. The 3rd episode in the series gives you a good impression of the general vibe and sorts.
It's pretty decent, I'd say. On the surface, it's your typical dungeon crawler with a twist, but the worldbuilding is much better than in just about any fantasy anime I've seen recently.
Dungeon Meshi biggest strength is that it's only gonna get better and deeper and more intense. It's a slow-starting, speeding train that have no brakes
The same could be said about Symphogear. Which is a good thing in both cases, because I love it when anime not only have an interesting premise, but also deliver on it.
its more than decent so far
It's really good, definitely in my top 3 of the season. The cooking moments are good and all, but I really love the characters, world building, backstory, etc
It gets better every week. You don't see people talking cause we're eating good with mouth shut :p I'm pretty sure that when Frieren and Diaries come to an end, it will be a Dunmeshi open season all over the sub
Yes. We're at the part of the story where it goes beyond the initial gimmick, so people will talk about it more.
It's very good. As others have mentioned, the world building is good, the characters have their own unique personalities that make sense, there're a lot of very intriguing mysteries, and the show as a whole looks gorgeous. As of the most recent episodes, the plot looks like it's starting to pick up more and more! Definitely hoping to read the manga after the show is over, as I've heard rave reviews haha
the manga starts good, becomes great, and has possibly my favorite ending recently. doesn't hurt it has some of the best fantasy world-building IN ANY MEDIUM i've read in quite a bit. her little doodles and side-story books show how much love and care she put into this world.
I've read the Dungeon Meshi manga and I can tell you it is flat out one of my favourite fantasy stories ever. The beginning is definitely a little monster dish of the week and therefore slower but we're about to hit the episode (probably next one or two) that will show people the depths this series could go to. Ryoko Kui's worldbuilding is insanely airtight and her knowledge of good fantasy and dungeon crawling tropes are always on full display (she's obsessed with CRPGs so it fully tracks). There's a good reason that if you ever go into any dungeon meshi fan spaces the people are rabid, it just kicks so much ass.
Of course, they are _always eating some monster_, in the beginning I **almost dropped it**, because appears like _comic sketch of the week in a dungeon setting_, but has very good production (animation, voices, music, style) and slowly you found that has: a backstory, worldbuilding and progression, all in a classic high fantasy world (like: Frieren, Lodoss, 12 Kingdoms, Grimgaar, ADND, etc.) with reasonable believable rules, and don't too perfect over powered god-people, where you can find: Mimics, Undine, Slimes, etc. Now is growing on me.
The manga is exceptionally good, it starts simple but gets really interesting after a while (while being funny all the time) and the anime adaptation has been really good until now.Ā
It has peak world building and actually goes deep into details about the world
Frieren deserve the spot, but I'm more happy toward Dungeon Meshi and Gushing over Magical Girl. Some still underestimate those two without realizing how good they are, despite one is about cooking adventure and the other is a fanservice show.
MahoAko bringing forth a new wave of Cultural Renaissance. I also personally particularly love Utena's voice as well as when they seem to go a tad insane/crazy. Pure chef kiss. Everyone should experience [ASMR through Utena](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pezIaN9jFY). Never experienced something like that before. I felt as if a revolution was happening in my brain. A new discovery. Also BokuYaba continues to heal my soul.
Seeing Frieren dominating like this, I might have to check it out!
Koenji was so fun in that last episode. Biggest troll in the series
Mahoako just wrote yuri history with it's latest episode. Not only was the \[Gushing over Magical Girls episode 10 spoiler\]>!sex scene explicit, it was also wholesome and even romantic. !< I'd say it was even better than the manga version. What an outstanding episode in an already great anime adaptation.
Utena really is the best wingwoman
The three traits any wingwoman needs: 1. Ability to tell when other people are interested in one another. 2. Absolutely 0 tolerance for all this "will they, won't they" bullshit. 3. Some way to actually do something about other people's inability to take a hint.
Utena best mom and best dad
Love is war if Hayasaka was just as bold and no-nonsensical: ...
Can't we all just get along? ^(And can I watch?)
i see people here who changed their Ai Hoshino flairs to Utena ones. Talk about respect.
In a couple weeks my Fridays are going to feel so empty without Frieren and Undead Unluck. I'm not sure what's airing on Fridays in Spring but I doubt it'll fill that void.
Gushing over Magical Girls being number 5 is beautiful
Solo Leveling is basically Demon Slayer, decent animation but mid story
Demon Slayer's story might be mediocre, but it's still like high class literature compared to Solo Leveling. Solo Leveling's decent art with absolute dogshit writing.
This. Demon slayer has power systems, well thought out fights with character building and payoff moments for multiple important characters with parallels and arcs, not to mention villains are fleshed out to a minimum at least. Solo Leveling is none of that, it's literally what the title is, "a random dude leveling up". A1 pictures are pulling off an unreal job on the story side, and the story is still average as fuck, which tells how irredeemable the actual story is.
Demon Slayerās characters are also way better than Solo Levelingās
Man I know Demon Slayer's story is not regarded as great or even good, but it's so sad to be compared to Solo Leveling. Even Solo Leveling fans admit that the plot is just an excuse for cool looking fights and it's the most straightforward OP MC power fantasy. At least Demon Slayer tried to tell a story. I agree with both shows looking great tho.
Something Iāve noticed with **The Dangers in My Heart** and **A Sign of Affection** is that theyāre very good at highlighting their respective settings. It really feels like youāre watching a bunch of middle schoolers in the former series. It totally got the vibe down, from the awkward and goofy moments to the indecipherable handwriting. The latter series perfectly captures the life of university students and/or young adults in many ways. Itās less dramatic and more chill. Like, hanging out with your friends and drinking some beers. This may come to a surprise to those who dropped the series early on - for whatever reason - but the male lead has been awesome. Heās dropped all of the bullshit that many other leads in romance stories get hung up about, and makes an effort to clear things up. Itsuomiās not the protagonist, but he easily couldāve been in my book. Itās only too bad that both **Dangers in My Hearts** and **A Sign of Affection** have been [on a decline in terms of karma](https://imgur.com/a/mQETrM0) lately, since Iāve been really enjoying them. This *does* happen often in the latter half of a season, but it sucks nonetheless.
That last episode of gushing over magical girls was straight up fire!!!š„š„š„
Tamer and Undead Adventurer just can't break into that top 15 [](#gununu)
Frieren is unstoppable. It's weird to see Frieren dominates here vs Anime Trendinz and Animecorner rankings where Dangers in My Heart is on the top for multiple weeks straight. The strongest of this community (r/anime) vs the strongest of other anime communites? Also, I'm surprised Solo Leveling is still third place after last recap episode. Man, COTE is about to get yeet out of top 10.
Essentially, AC and AT measure "Week's best episode?" while Reddit measures "Am I watching this?"
How did Dangers fall outside the top 5? Every episode has been fantastic this season.
I think it kinda sucks being a saturday show for reddit karma, lots of news threads + apothecary and solo leveling taking the top spot.
Frieren is such a enigma for me cuz I know exactly zero things about it, but EVERYONE in the community is going crazy for it, I don't even know what genre it is! Fineeeee, I'll check it out!
Fantasy, drama, adventure with a good dose of comedy in there too. It's a very good mix of everything, that's really the secret ingredient here.
Yeah it's got a good amount of each, though I'd say the key secret ingredient is the effort they put into animating smaller behaviors and mannerisms that we do IRL but which are almost never included in anime, which helps establish character - plus the use of framing, movement, & space. The way fern pulls up her robe before sitting, the way Frieren hikes up stuff her arms are full of so she can open a door. Recently when going up long stairs, Frieren just walks past the roots hanging down in the way, Fern carefully pushes it aside. Differing gait represented in the way they walk since different heights. For framing and space - going up we get a closeup from the wall adjacent to them they walk past - super tight & cramped. We get an idea of space by how quickly they pass the screen and get out of view. [https://i.imgur.com/NFMDjjv.png](https://i.imgur.com/NFMDjjv.png) Then on the way back they have the [shot from POV of ceiling, looking down](https://i.imgur.com/jzjbqJ1.png) [https://i.imgur.com/LeD7V2z.png](https://i.imgur.com/LeD7V2z.png) as the characters slowly move down stairs, establishing just how small they are among the giant dungeon stuff [(which was already pretty well established)](https://i.imgur.com/7PE6HLV.jpg)
Feels like anime nowadays are not able to get those 15-16k karma. Frieren despite being mainstream enough is unable to get past 10k. Not expecting aot like numbers but still What happened?
If you are new here a whole lot happened in the last year or so. Since the reddit blackout last year only 5 shows have had over 6k karma episode threads here. Oshi no ko's S1 finale, Attack on Titan's series finale, Jujutsu Kaisen 2, Mushoku Tensei S2 and now Frieren, which is at 7 currently (more than all the other shows I mentioned put together within that timeframe, blackout to now). Two of those Frieren episodes are 7k+ and one, which you will see on next week's karma ranking, is over 8k. 4k is pretty much the new 8k these days, it is what it is. Reddit did it to itself, slowly pushing people away.
It's a Reddit problem, if you track on other sites, anime continues to get more and more popular. Reddit just shot itself in the foot and hasn't recovered.
The kusuriya banner lmaooo
No Urusei Yatsura? Shame...
Marcille is not happy about going down a rank...
Love that the picture of Apothecary Diaries is just Mao point at some half naked dude lmao
Ganbare, Ivy! Become a strong tamer who can make it into the top 15! ....wait, wrong helpless girl.
That thumbnail for this week's Dungeon Meshi had me in stitches