Hot takes in comparing anime from the same genre.
Mine are:
Castlevania > Demon Slayer (Kimetsu No Yaiba)
Link Click > Monster
Some of mine: Gintama doesn’t deserve to top the rankings the way it does.
Bocchi the Rock is great, but not top 30 on MAL and AL great (and since people keep comparing them, not better than K-On either, although I do think it’s unfair to compare the two as they’re not the same type of anime).
Weathering With You is better than Your Name.
Not quite ranking, but I don’t get the hype about Mushoku Tensei. It’s an above average Isekai, but that’s about it.
About Mushoku Tensei, the differentiating factor is that there is some visibly higher degree of effort involved in making it. The difference in art and animation quality is immediately noticeable (they take no “shortcuts” unlike all others), not to mention its deep world-building and how it treats none of its characters as black-or-white. At its core it is still just an above average isekai, but more importantly it’s a high-effort endeavor throughout.
… it still could do without constantly bringing up sexual degeneracy though
Castlevania > Demon Slayer (Kimetsu No Yaiba)
The only mildly warm part of this take is that Castlevania isn’t really anime but western animation.
Demon Slayer has amazing visuals thanks to Ufotable, but outside of that the story and characters are as bland as, if not even worse than in any other painfully mediocre battle shonen to ever come out. If you look at shows as a whole instead of hyper-focusing on animation quality, pretty much anything with even mediocre writing will beat it.
Yes, the first season felt good to watch but it quickly gets old. Just like Jujutsu Kaisen, there isn’t a solid story or character growth to hold you to it.
These are two series I feel like I watch just for the sake of completion.
