As the season nears its mid-point, users of anime merchandise giant Animate have seen to ranking the most well received shows of summer 2015 – with moe and slice-of-life reigning supreme as Working!!! effortlessly nabs the top spot.
The ranking, which was conducted from July 9th to July 29th:
1. Working!!!
5. Charlotte
6. Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace
8. Gangsta.
9. GATE
10. Shimoneta: A Boring World where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Don’t Exist
11. Seiyu’s Life/ Sore Ga Seiyuu
12. Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers
13. Junjou Romantica season 3
14. School Live!
15. Himouto Umaru-chan
16. Castle Town Dandelion
17. Non Non Biyori Repeat
18. Ushio and Tora
19. God Eater
20. Hetalia the World Twinkle
21. Classroom ☆ Crisis
22. Makura no Danshi
23. Wooser’s Hand-to-Mouth Life Anime Season 3
24. Actually, I am (Jitsu wa, Watashi wa)
25. Monster Musume
26. The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls season 2
27. Overlord
28. Chaos Dragon
29. Sky Wizards Academy
30. Gatchaman CROWDS Insight
31. Symphogear GX
32. To Love-Ru Darkness 2nd
33. Wakaba Girl
34. Aquarion Logos
35. My Wife is the Student Council President!
36. Wakako-zake
37. Miss Monochrome S2
38. Suzakinishi THE ANIMATION
39. Dragon Ball Super
40. Fate / kaleid liner Prisma ☆ Ilya Zwei Hertz!
41. Danchigai
42. Teekyuu! season 5
43. Bikini Warriors
44. Million Doll
45. VENUS Project
Other than the new Haruhi/Yuki nothing interested me this summer.
Animate always feels more aimed at the ladies these days. I wouldn’t take the list entirely to heart.
Prison School in top 5. Good.
Wow Junjou romantica got number 13. Much higher than Dragon Ball Super.
I’m amazed. Sancom….
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45 Series…
Perhaps the problem with anime lately is that there is too much emphasis on the sheer number.
I would prefer less series and more High-Quality shows over Mediocre shows but large quantities.
This season leaves me kind of dry of really interesting series. Some of them started off interesting, but died after episode 2. Others are same-old same-old. While others are turning out plain out boring. I haven’t been this bored of an anime season in quite some time.
Or am I the only one thinking this?
I agree too, the number of animes per season keeps rising, yet we get more and more terrible series not worth a watch. and you arrive to the point where you think you are wasting your time when trying new anime.
and i have come to the point where I watch some shows in fast forward.
What the f♥♥k is the point of watching a show in fast forward. Why even bother watching something at that point?
no you’re not. it becomes more and more and even more crap. many years ago there were half in number but much more quality in content. it’s going down for years and my interest is going down too. i’m just watching two or three shows per season.
Think maybe anime just isn’t your thing anymore? People like you will never be satisfied unless every anime airing is Ghost in the Shell. Hell, even if something objectively praised comes out your standards are so absurd that it’s impossible for you to enjoy anything.
People always expect anime to be a high art form when a lot of it is and always has been good dumb fun.
Nah, it’s not just him. Anime has become more marketing-driven recently (even if it has been that way basically since its inception). It has settled into that creative rut common to mediums like Hollywood films in the mid-to-late 90s. With luck, it will recover soon, but until then we’ll all just have to be placated with a few so-so anime that we zealously pretend are better than they really are (especially if we’re not Japanese, since they’re catering less and less to non-Japanese viewers as their profits become their primary motive).