weird random premise that go nowhere
Title : Nakanohito Genome [Jikkyouchuu]
The Ones Within
8 people trapped in survival games scenario. All people have their own backstory and quirk, which required them to work together to survive on a game to reach 1 billion views (all 8 people are various different game genre streamer). And weird part of the games? they are hosted by alpaca-man that seem like the main purpose is to make games interesting, in order to get more views. So here is the interesting twist, some of the games are dangerous that they have chance to die.
But sadly, all in vains because this anime is way too random. You can have more intriguing premise of survival games and a team of people who need to work together. And yet, the story focused too much their random interaction rather than the games itself. While it is good because it increase the understanding of viewers about each of participant background, but i feel it wasnt enough. Not to mention that the series kinda ended in cliffhanger, to a point made me wonder if they remember about plot of the anime in the first place.
This anime no way bad, but it is nothing than seeing good premise / plot anime just got wasted for. There is some conspiracy stories about the games and alpaca-man host, but at the end it is still not answered.
Alternative : This is kinda hard because it feel like Danganronpa (but i dont recommend anime that i havent watched). But if you want to see better alternative probably series like Baka Test, Phi Brain : Kami no Puzzle, No game no life & Future Diary
pick up random loli as my child
Title : Uchi no Ko no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai.
If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord
First of all, this is not isekai (thank gods) but it still highly revolved around high fantasy setting with magic and demon tribe. Despite having potential for big expanding world, i dont think it it fully utilize the setting but rather focus on relationship between of MC and his daughter. He found her abandoned and living alone in the forest, so he bring her back to the human town and taking care of her. While there are several action / magic casting scenes, this anime are solely slice of life.
So question is, as slice of life, does it have anything interesting about their daily life? Only some i would guess. Most of the episodes are about her daughter trying to adapt to human society. This is is pretty premise where you can create interesting and fun daily life activities, but sadly I feel like there isnt much emotion in every episode.
Conclusion is, i think it just an average anime about a father taking care of his daughter. Nothing grand, nothing memorable.
Alternative : Usagi no Drop is no brainer suggestion, as well as Amaama to Inazuma. For more quality, i think Barakamon have better dynamic (although different topic) and Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san for health soothing feeling.
No guns no life
Title : No guns life
Studio Madhouse + Seinen tag + Weird character design. Another typical dystopian future city where human and use machine as their body replacement part (hence why our MC pick a big gun as his head). However not everyone are free allowed to modify their body thus some bureaucracy and our MC are going from a mission to another mission to solve any potential crime? At this point, Im kinda put expectation heavily on crime, drama, or something dark tones about human enhancement.
Turn out there isnt much depth in this series either. Our MC have big encounter in the beginning where he met naive boy who think that can use his (boy) harmonie power to control all augmented / robot character in order to save them. So this is kinda initial clash of ideal between "saving" or "destroying" any rogue bad guy. Middle of the season we are introduced with villains.... that feel leading to nowhere. Even with finishing 1st season, i dont feel i learnt anything much about our MC or the society / world they live in.
Decent anime, but i feel like this shouldve released as 24 episodes and the story isnt wrapped up properly. At this point i dunno if it worth to recommend this season as standalone or not.
Alternative : Easy win for me to recommend any similar tags, Psycho-Pass series, Gangsta series (although a bit too short), Ghost in the Shell series / movies as well.
would you like to become my friend?
Title : Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu
Ever wonder how introvert struggle in their daily school life when they started a new year? This is the premise of the anime of the nutshell. Our MC have a promise with her childhood friend that she will make friends with whole of the class (they are school separated). So our MC is on her own trying to "survive" and become friendly. As usual, this is the ripe for genre like CGDCT (cute girl doing cute thing), however i would say that this is mild by comparison, at least it is more realistic take.
Our MC soon will try open herself to her new classmates one by one. Some are normal, some are weird, while some are funny. Mainly because our MC is not exactly "correct" in the head herself. As for anime whole production, i think it is pretty good. Moment to moment are very enjoyable and it have the comedy type ("tsukomi") with minor slapstick here and there. Some people would say this is pretty much recycled topic for many other similar anime, but to me, as long as it make me enjoy the moment, that is more than enjoy.
That said, you wouldnt enjoy this type of series if you hate the genre in the first place. As standard level, this is among the decent one, although i dont say i can recall anime scene to be memorable though.
Alternative : A better quality probably Hinamatsuri with a lot more polish and drama. Alternatively i think LoveLab is very similar and more funny. Watamote is more extreme of the introvert issue and Gabriel Drop out is another one (although i do remember more slapstick in this one)