I'm really liking AoT season 2 so far. It might not be an intellectual juggernaut with deep, complex themes, but it's still every bit as exciting and occasionally terrifying as the first season. The music is still awesome, production values are high and the characters are still likable enough. It's also one of the rare cases where I prefer the anime adaptation over the manga. To me, the manga just feels too much like a draft for the animated series rather than an actual graphic novel that was meant to be enjoyed. In the Anime everything is so much more expressive.
I've also started watching Burst Angel, an 2004 series I've never heard of. It look great even 12 years later, and I'm always a sucker for high-octane action eye candy with a fish-out-of-water protagonist. So far I'm liking it quite a bit.
Lastly, there's Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash. Usually I'm not a big fan of the who virtual reality\we're in an RPG kind of settings (with Hunter x Hunter's Greed Island arc and Konosuba being the only 2 examples I've liked so far), but damn! The first scene with the protagonists fighting against a single goblin was something else. I love how the show focuses on the poor critter being just another being trying to survive to the point where the protagonist feel bad for it as much as they are horrified by it, as well as on how taking a life is actually more unsettling than fun. In something like SAO the goblin would've been just another evil, emotionless mob rushing at Kirito amids a huge horde of baddies, only to be annihilated in an instance without a second thought. I'm definately watching this one till the end.
On a final note, there's something I really like about Japanese artists tackling superhero themes, such as Tiger and Bunny, One Punch Man or even My Hero Academia. Can you guys recommend some similarly good superhero manga\anime?
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