Is This Show More Romance or Sports?

Also, I'm guessing the exception last season was makeine? 😄

I disagree btw, not as likely MakeIne as Giji Harem, by far the most complete romance last season.

Agreed, it’s a 50/50 slice of life school romance/ sports anime. The art is really soft and sparkly and ageing adult males like myself probably shouldn’t watch it. But it’s totally my bag so sue me…
Also, even the badminton, though well presented, is just a mechanism to allow for more closeness between the main couple.

@PixelGlide Spring was the season of sequels. We have Konosuba, Jobless, Demon Slayer, Slime, My Hero, Date A Live, Magic High School, and the Spice and Wolf Remake. But, yeah, for new IPs, I would say Kaiju and Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again were the only ones I really cared about.

Meanwhile for Summer we had Oshi No Ko, which was the carry. Tower of God S2 got boring towards the end, My Deer Friend Nokotan started strong but lost momentum, Days with My Stepsister is just a read the title and leave moment with crappy immature characters, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian had the same problem but with a premise that inevitably got old and cringy past episode 1 (and the *insert sister that wants to screw her brother character*), and Giji Harem was some cringy little girl delivering on some guys pervy fantasies because he's the main character so she has to want his PP.

Makeine was decent but it also fell off towards the ending episodes as it forgot it was supposed to be a parody that follows the background character and instead turned full harem. Summer 2024 was the worst season in years.

@Nox_Tenebris TBH i would say Giji Harem was the best at all. Because with only 2 main characters they still carried the whole 12 episodes which is really though. Moreover it was the most wholesome anime throughout the season no fanservice etc. I completely agree with Alya situation and i didn't even gave a single try to Days with my Step sister like i know its just a shit. Makeine was great at start but after 6 episodes it started to lose its pace. How to become ordinary was good tbh but not at the level of Hyouka. Love is invisible by twins is great tbh i loved it I really like rivalry type romantic anime but it has some fanservice which was not needed tbh.

Calling days with my stepsister trash without even giving it a try is pretty unfair. The title is bait. The show isn't about that at all. The same way bunnygirl senpai was bait, but the show was not about bunnygirls. Don't write it off just because of the title.

@PixelGlide I watched the first episode of Giji Harem before writing it off. But what you said about the other shows I agree with, so I might give it another go. Thanks. I took one look at Love Is Indivisible by Twins and said "hell no". I also can't stand fanservice, but if you say it is good despite that, it might be worth a shot.

No it's not? Boiling it down to incest when you haven't even watched a single episode is like me saying the Oppenheimer movie is just nukes without having ever seen it. It's pretty disingenuous. There's not even a kissing scene in the show. The most they did at the end was hug.

You should listen to your own advice and see whether or not it really is "incest" after three episodes like you so claim.