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5. Love Love Nijigasaki A show that mostly just focused on character intros, and a lot of thsoe characters didn't have depth or vanished after their intros, but it executed the intros very well. Really inventive music videos, great character animation, and a sweet conclusion. I'll admit though, the show's only here because of Kasumi - whenever she's on screen, the animators suddenly give 120%, and it's a delight every single time. 4. Bang Dream Season 3  With the same writer as FlipFlappers, Bang Dream continues its quiet three season run of some of the snappiest, funniest character dialogue in the industry. Season 3 also really narrows its focus down to just a few of the bands, and especially focuses on Raise a Suilen, which helps give the characters some actual depth and development. It still lacks a bit in stakes, and they still shoehorn the other characters in a little just because its a gacha game ad, but it does a great job fleshing out funny characters and having them build each other up. Tae especially is one of the most uniquely written characters I've ever seen in an anime, a 'spacecase' type character who is actually genuinely out there and weird and has almost impossible to follow logic, and it's funny and charming every time. Some of the music is actually decent too. 3. Magia Record  A followup to Madoka that manages to forge its own identity while still feeling like the original. The animation can get inconsistent in spots and it never quite has the same confidence to its strut that the original did - not helped by a similar problem as Bang Dream, one or two too many characters to juggle - it manages a ton of evocative imagery and some really interesting character relationships, complete with a few touching moments. Madoka's an incredibly hard act to follow, but Magia Record largely succeeds, and even manages to recontextualize a few elements from the original in an interesting way. 2. Akudama Drive  Unlike Akudama Drive, which is all confidence, all the time. It's got a bold aesthetic, a fairly ludicrous, high-concept premise, lots of bizarre visual humor and quick dialogue exchanges, and it just does them. No pussyfooting around what it clearly wants to do, no three episodes of build-up, it just goes and expects you to play along. It's refreshing to see an origina anime that just goes for what it wants to without worrying about people not catching it all, or not getting it. More than that, despite its general zany pace and tone, it's pretty clever where it matters - the little details, like not telling you Swindler's name, or the general double play of her pretending to be a Swindler, thereby making her a Swindler. It's simple stuff, but it'd be easy for a less confident production to screw up. Fantastic ending, too. 1. Star Twinkle Precure  Star Twinkle Precure is a pretty good season of PreCure whose movie, Hoshi no Uta, is among the top 10 anime films ever made. Technically the movie came out 2019, but nothing with a movie that good can be called any less than anime of the year 2020. The film's ending sequences are some of the most beautiful shots in any anime, and I urge everyone to check it out just for its own sake. Yeah the movie probably could have done without fighting all together, and it drags a bit when they introduce the midboss squad, but that ending.
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im pretty sure the proof that places outside this forum like wandering witch is that it got 183 votes for anime of the year on the japanese forum 5chan
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Nanigans posted:I really don’t understand the love for Akudama Drive. I binged it on this thread’s constant recommendation and it was...fun? Looked pretty cool? But so hilariously edgy and generic with absolutely nothing new to say. plus like, it knows it's over the top. you aren't meant to take all of it 100% seriously, its part of the visual and narrative style. you arent meant to go 'woah... thats hosed up!!' when cutthroat goes off on one about murders, its meant to be funny and charming
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idgi