Yes Joseph, is that time of the year were we get naked and run screaming "oh daddy oh" through the local streets.
Jojo Stardust Crusaders : If you aren't intensely imprinting every second of every episode in your retina, then you are missing out from life. This is going to be 24 episodes, which completely makes no sense since they haven't been skipping anything so far.... Unless they split it on two seasons, but I'm too negative to think like that.
Baby Steps : This one is so freaking awesome. It's about an honor student that takes up tennis, and he ends up taking it up seriously even though he has no intrinsics skills for it; he just uses his studious nature and love for hard work. What makes this one amazing is that it's 100% focused on reality (the author is an ex sports analyst); no special moves, no new type flashes, no zone / the world and no rainbow shot from people's asses. The best thing about this is how the author "disguises" the matches, and one can't tell if the lead is going to win or lose till the end (the further you are in the series, the harder it's to tell. Oh, and every character is pretty charismatic, it's like old age Hajime no Ippo). The bad news? This one has no sponsors outside the NHK. Less sponsors means less budget with means low quality drawing, animation, music and voice acting. It can still be enjoyable, though.
Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei : I don't remember the translation of the title, the irregular at the magic high school or something? This is the new flagship of chuunibyou anime.
What is chunnibyou anime? It's not anime where the topic is chunnibyou (like the Kyoani LN / series), but rather is anime where
the author seems to suffer from chuunibyou (This is also known as Ore TUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE / I'm STROOOOOOOONG type of series)--- The MC being just an extension of the authors childlish wish of being a perfect super extra intelligent overpowered killing machine god among men that has the whole world spinning around him and girls throwing themselves at him left and right (if you need an image, think Guilty Gear
, though most guys aren't chuuni enough to voice their leads
) For the show itself, it's by Madhouse which means topnotch animation and background music. Some of the fight scenes are cool and I'm actually interested on what's going on with some of the side characters (to me the lead is as boring as working on holidays). Can work nicely as a "turn off your brain" entertainment. The first arc was rather boring to me (2 books worth of cringe worthy narration).
Haikyuu : Voleyball anime. I'm not even sure how to write voleyball
. It's much better that what it seems at first glance, but it turns too shounenish the more it goes on (meaning power ups, stupid training to get stronger and enemies with ridiculous special traits).
Abarenbou Kishi!! Matsutarou : Sumou combat by Ashita no Joe's author. That should be enough for you to watch
every episode.
No Game No Life : It's about two Hikkikomori-s that get warped to a world where everything is decided via gaming. When I read the first light novel I told me "
what type of shitty high school fantasy is this?", but by the second book I was really digging this. The writting style is kinda good, there is some creativity and cultured use of some "common knowledge" level stuff and the plot is kinda good for an author that probably dreams about getting paid for playing badly single player games in his room. It gets more exciting as it goes on.
Mekakucity Actors : I haven't checked it yet; but this is an anime that was born from vocaloid lyrics. Yes, you read that right. A guy created vocaloid songs with a more or less coherent plot (he couldn't even draw, the character designs where a consensus taken from niconico), and this gained popularity until the he had to write a light novel version. The fact that this was a "less than amateur work that skyrocketed to popular media and fame" really drags me in (perhaps is the true future of fine taste animation after the horrible betrayal of the once promishing Light Novel genre).... For me the original was so very interesting before they jumped all out on the super natural genre (I have an alternative dimensional time shifting clone, and it's not as exciting as it sounds), but oh well.
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushi : I have only seen the first episode, but this had this old classic shoujo manga vibes and that seemed promising (like, the age where shoujo manga was cool enough that everyone wanted to read it, rather than the saturated fujoshi bait market that we have now). The plot is about a princess being "sold off" to another country to ensure a political truce via arranged marriage. She keeps her positive attitude regarless of everything and decides to make the best of her situation, but she then later learns that there is an important reason of why that big "sun country" would request such a tempting and convenient deal from the small and irrelevant "rain country".
Break Blade : This was sooooo clooose to a "hard" real robot series (meaning, no fantasy elements like "hidden power ups" or "miracle energies" or "battle of sizes", nothing weird but having a 10 meter tincans with guns walking around); but it felt a little bit short. This is a remake of the movies and it actually has some added cheap fanservice scenes and whatnot. Lots of plot twists, murders and betrayals like any real robot anime should have.
I have been advised a bunch of other stuff, but I haven't made the time for it.
Speaking of, Oregairu had a second season green lighted recently. If you haven't seen the first season you should like, consume 50 sleeping pills in a row so that you stop wasting humanity hard earned natural resources in a meaningless cause.