I love the memes from the translation team.

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai is a good choice

best romance animes with an assertive male protagonist

Since the question used “animes” (though I’ve heard plural of anime is “anime”), looks like it’s fine to list multiple shows😈 In no particular order:

• Cherry Magic! - Adachi can be assertive sometimes; Kurosawa is pretty assertive.
• Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai - Azusagawa is simply great throughout.
• Skip and Loafer - Not very romantic just yet and can’t remember it well at the moment but I believe Shima is assertive.
• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You - Rentarou is pretty assertive.

In fact, my top favourite romance anime tend to have an assertive male protagonist. I can’t stand wimpy, indecisive, weak-willed male protagonists.

The chapter title is rather apt.

The tsundere, tomboy, childhood-friend-turned-girlfriend is pretty damn cute.

I can understand the manager’s self-loathing, but I still dislike needless drama.

Glad to see our idol deuteragonist pull through and save the day.

This really is a good time to add to this counter, Subaru.

By now, he should have a good idea of how his restarting ability works.

Makes me wonder why he doesn’t keep a weapon for ease of suicide with him like the MCs of Edge of Tomorrow and Webtoon Character Na Kang Lim.

The simplest guess I have is that he is too dumb to realize it.

Vinland Saga

Moral of the story: revenge (and war) is no good.

Just binged season 1 of Attack on Titan.

IMO it is overrated.

1. Besides the scenes where they are swinging around with their mobility devices, the animation is completely a slideshow.
2. There’s way too much narration and exposition.
3. The scriptwriter / original writer tried to make the characters sound cool, but they just ended up with stupid dialogue.
4. The recaps are as long as the ones in Undead Unluck, taking up close to 10% of each episode’s runtime.

Thankfully, the story and world-building is good, which is not surprising considering it is Gundam but with meat robots.

So I’m going to give it a 8 / 10

Also, now that I watched AoT, Kaiju No. 8 feels like a dumbed-down knock-off.

your favorite OPs and EDs for the season

Only Otonoke from Dan Da Dan is catchy enough for me.

Watched Handa-kun, but it was just so-so. Its sequel, Barakamon has a higher rating, so hopefully it is better.

Probably the cutest alien in manga. Picking up everyone’s speech ticks makes it even cuter.

Based on the preview text for the next chapter and the fact that it would be released on 31st October, I’m guessing the next girl is an insomniac who can only fall asleep in a coffin, mummy / vampire-style.

6 chapters in, and we get to see the deuteragonist’s backstory

his friend

I bet his friend is among the assassins

Watched GUNDAM: Requiem for Vengeance and enjoyed it. The messaging behind the show is very typical Gundam (i.e. war is bad).

The animation style (?) isn’t like the usual anime style which is a nice change of pace. It makes it look like a live action show.

Yep, typical gundam. I like it.

This animation style (?) isn’t the typical anime style, but I liked it too. Looks kind of like a live action show.

Picked up and completed Webtoon Character Na Kang Lim. This is basically Edge of Tomorrow / Re:Zero starring

in a harem romcom. There are cliche moments which made me thought it was overrated initially, but a decent execution of such a premise made for an entertaining (and one of my fastest) binge.

The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You

For me, the more a manga makes me go “WTF”, the better.

190+ chapters in, it still has moments that I did not expect.

This criterion makes me biased towards slapstick comedies, but it’s my favourite genre anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Another bias that favours 100 girlfriends is that it is the longest running manga that I’ve followed from the beginning.

It’s still ongoing though, so there’s always a chance that it drops off.

So if I have to nominate one of my completed 10/10s, it’s A Complicated Sibling Relationship 4-Koma for being a roller-coaster of WTFs

Never do gacha kids

Hits hard as usual, even after a year’s hiatus.

Is the series good though?