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3. Super Cub Lovely chill show about a depressed girl slowly expanding her horizons that can find earnest joy in her making it as far out as the local grocery store. The beautiful background art & character style elevate a limited production into something really nice to look at. 2. Uma Musume Season 2 As someone who strongly disliked what I saw of the first season, I was struck by how effectively S2 took a shaky foundation and built on it an amazing story about an athlete struggling with circumstances completely beyond her control. The Teioh/McQueen dynamic is wonderful, Twin Turbo's squad are a really fun comedy C-Team, but the best episode was the Rice Shower one which caught me completely off guard. 1. Blue Reflection Ray I can make no excuses here, this show is pretty ugly. It clearly wasn't given the resources it needed to succeed, so I think it says a lot that it managed to shoot up to my AOTY largely on the strength of its character writing. A cast full of sad gay messes each exploring their own unique self-loathing while everything gets continuously worse around them, even the increasingly off-the-rails plot enabling some really interesting and nuanced explorations of interpersonal dynamics. And when it does go for humor its jokes really land. The evil onee-sama gets symbolically married to her angry henchgirl causing a psychic shockwave powerful enough to almost knock out one of the heroes. Ash falls from the sky as the world slowly dies but we still have time for a chill dorm cleaning episode. One ep inexplicably goes full social satire? It's a show doomed to be adored by like 5 people but what can I say, I'm one of them. As a Blue Reflection thing to recommend I'd more easily go for the game BR Second Light which combines that solid grasp of social nuance with a consistently strong presentation, though it does go for a much softer and nicer sort of tone, which in turn makes the show an interesting contrast piece. You should play BR2, it's good!
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