Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear:

This second episode put everything back on chronological track.  It started at the beginning of Yuna's adventures, not the middle like the first episode.  It admitted this was an isekai, not a VR game.  And it displayed the charitable heart that makes Yuna such a great character alongside the cute Fina, Yuna's first charity project.  Yuna will do many more awesome charity projects in the future which I'm looking forward to, but saving Fina from her own recklessness is a great start.

In fact, this series could have been titled "Charity, the Animation."  That's the heart and soul of the series.  When you're so strong that you can do anything and already rich at birth, the kind at heart naturally turn towards charity.  How to make the charity meaningful and who to share it with is important if you want to get results, and that's where Yuna's intellect shines.

Yuna's beautiful, generous, smart and no-nonsense.  She may not be the greatest janitor ever like Ryoma, but as a protagonist she'll do. :).

The budget is still low, but at least they take special care to make the characters look good, even if the backgrounds are practically non-existent.  This too will do.

With all hurdles cleared, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear enters my rankings at the provisional spot of #199.  Once the series ends I'll give it a fairer judgment.  To make room I kicked out Kemono Friends.  (Fitting that a girl in a bear suit replaces Kemono Friends, heh.)  It's not that I dislike Kemono Friends, but I do dislike the trend of making cg series and pretending they're anime.  They aren't anime, they're cg.  Anime is the art style I'm fond of and want to see more of, not cg.  As much as possible I'd like to keep cg out of my rankings and stick to appreciating anime.  Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear is a good opportunity to make that change.

Hopefully the fall season has more than the bare minimum 2 great new series I predicted in the fall preview.  Let's shoot for 4!