Gimai Seikatsu: With excellent art and a reasonable premise to the story with relevant and relatable characteristics, this is the best new summer series so far. A stepsister and stepbrother of the same age are suddenly thrust together by their parents' marriage, and now they have to find a way to get along. Simple and elegant. Pass.
Failure Frame: A guy is banished from the heroes' party of his fellow summoned classmates for being too weak, but if he clears this powerful dungeon he's banished to he'll be given a second chance. The guy is angry at the unreasonableness of the goddess who gave him such a plight and determined to get revenge. I feel like I've seen this plot before, but the art is good enough I don't mind. Pass.
I Parry Everything: A guy who really wanted to become an adventurer turns out to only have one skill, parry. He keeps practicing parry until it's reached god-mode power, but still thinks he's weak because like the world around him he's prejudiced against single skill users. The good thing about this show is that everyone is nice to the main character and pities him for his plight rather than bullies him. That part is refreshing. Pass.
Grendizer U: The art was too bad and the plot too simple so I quit. Fail.
Giji Harem: The boy did absolutely nothing to deserve this pretty talented girl to fawn over him, so the story comes off as absurd and stupid. Fail.
2.5d Seduction: The exact same problem as Giji Harem. Fail.
Dungeon no naka no Hito: A boring series about behind-the-scenes maintenance of a dungeon with a low budget to boot. Fail.
Alya Sometimes Speaks in Russian: This story was already world famous before the first episode came out, and of course the anime was also good. It has the budget it deserves and looks amazing. As far as romantic comedies go, this is as good as it can get. I also love how subversive it is to have a Russian heroine in this day and age. Pass.
There are many more series yet to debut which I will cover in a part 2 or part 3, but all that really matters is Fairy Tail and Bakemonogatari, the heart of the summer season, all these new debuts are a sideshow.
Meanwhile, I'm up to book 13 of Sokushi Cheat. It's been hilarious and slightly exciting so far. But I do think the series was better before the great reset of book 12, it's getting old now. No matter, the series ends in book 14 so I can easily make it to the ending.
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