#Manga

A few years back, I took a sort of scattershot approach to reviewing and recommending anime and manga series I'd liked over the past couple of years, as well as some of my all-time favorites. I had intended to keep it up after that, but honestly, I thought my approach was too wordy and not directed enough. Maybe someone got something out of reading those reviews, though I don't think many people read them.

I have since seen individual requests for recommendations, and I think making this more dedicated to that could improve on what I was originally aiming for and narrow the focus.

So, instead, I'm going to just set this here to create a space for recommendations and requests for recommendations. I'll expand on this in future posts on this thread with some entries of my own with a focus on genres, and I'll also try to include some sections for style and more unique, hard to characterize storytelling. People can feel free to add to this in an ongoing fashion. Hopefully, with the help of anyone who wants to participate, we can get a running list of recommendations (I'll try to keep up compiling them) and answer any requests that come up.

I feel like we haven’t really had a retrospective on recent anime on the site, really just an assorted set of picks that each of us likes.
 
So, I'm starting something new and ongoing - a series about each season of anime and manga as they're coming out. Rather than starting with the current season though, as I'd like to pace this out a bit, I'll be taking a step back a couple of years and focusing on the best of each season starting in 2016 and going through 2021, hopefully getting through a year of anime and manga each week. I’m up for doing earlier years and 2022 onward, but for now, my focus will be on the more recent past and present.
 
I’m not going to try to be exhaustive about what came out each season, but I will try to cover both what I saw and the basics of the series that I missed and either wish to return to at some point or just think warrant attention for one reason or another. I will provide a rating for each of the ones that I’ve seen/read (on a scale of 10, with a 5 being a weak but average series, a 10 being a basically perfect series, and a 0 having no redeeming qualities) and will include a best-of-year among the ones I watched at the bottom of each post.
 
If I didn’t cover something you liked from any of these seasons, you'd like to provide your own views on what I've covered, or if you just want to interject with something related to anime and manga, feel free to post. My hope is that we continue posting here as new anime come out to give thoughts, or, barring that, just have some further discussions of some recent favorites.