My thoughts on the shows I’ve started this season:

Mushoku Tensei: absolutely amazing and just further reinforces why this show is multitudes beyond Frieren. Take away Rudeus’ s***tiness and it’s just clear the storytelling, world building, animation, art is on a whole new level. These first 2 episodes are especially fantastic now that we focused on Eris and her arc is starting off amazingly. This is such an easy highlight of the season and I can only maybe see GITS complete with it (9/10)

Goodbye Lara: loving the 90s inspired art here. Really pretty aesthetic. The first episode was pretty much just set up but it’s intriguing so far and I will definitely tune into the next episode though I’ll admit it was kinda too kiddish / fairy tale-y for my tastes. (7/10)

Jaadugar: Only saw ep 1 so far. I maintain Yamada is at her best when she does movies but I quite enjoyed the first episode here. The characters have distinct personalities to them and I like the trademark intimacy Yamada lends to framing her characters being interwoven into a pretty razer sharp narrative (7.5/10)

Smoking behind a supermarket: I found this pretty charming and cute. Also quite funny. Everything You and I are Polar Opposites is not. (7.5/10)