I know AC has a reputation for being unpredictable, but I hadn't heard anything about The Kingdoms of Ruin. Surprised to see it jump out to the top of the chart like this over some big hitters (JJK, TEIS, Frieren). Time will tell how it shakes out as the season goes on.

There are already some good recommendation in this thread and I will second some of them in my list:

• Baccano!
• Kino's Journey: Yes, the main character is not an adult, but it handles very mature themes and is similar in feel to Mushishi
• Ghost in the Shell
• Samurai Champloo

This has been on my list to check out for a while. I played the tuba and trombone in band, so I was always euphonium-adjacent. I am glad to hear that the music holds up. There's nothing more frustrating than a music focused anime that doesn't deliver good music (or never let's you actually listen to it because the characters monologue over it). I will definitely be checking it out when I get a chance.

It went by really quick, but it sure looks like they keep their fresh vegetables that Shino cooked up just loose in a kitchen drawer rather than their refrigerator. One of my favorite gags in this series is how Shino is constantly finding herself in compromising situations with Naoya.

Also, I moved a ton when I was a kid and went to a different school almost every year. So I sympathize with young Shino not trying to get too invested in making friends that are likely to be out of your life later on.

The crazy, over-the-top characters in this show is what makes it entertaining. At the end of the day, all that happened in this episode is Shino moved in and they had dinner. Without such extreme personalities in the mix, it would be exceptionally dull.

It's been a while since I read this portion of the manga and had completely forgotten about Fern's recounting of her first experience fighting a monster. This explains the comments Frieren made last episode to Fern about it that I had misinterpreted.

I love that they are keeping a slow pace and incorporating montages like when Stark and Fern are looking for a way through the checkpoint. It helps show the passage of time and how Stark/Fern deal with that differently than Frieren does.

As always, the ED is great, probably my favorite of any of the series I am watching this season.

I will be keeping an eye on this thread to see what other people do, but what I have done in the past is to have a couple different health checking strategies.

• For web-accessible services I am running, I usually run something like Uptime Kuma or Gatus on a different box checking to make sure those web endpoints are available and performant. I lately have been really digging how Gatus can check more than just the response header, but also latency and certificate validity.
• For the host machine, you can set up custom alerts within netdata for stuff like cpu utilization and memory with custom thresholds. The only other solution I have used for this in the past is setting up alerts through my VPS provider (if it is a VPS that is).
  • On really low-spec machines I have had trouble with netdata though, so I don't have a good solution in those cases. Interested to see if there are less demanding options. Instead, I have resorted to just using dashdot as a PWA so that I can check it easily on my phone if I am on the go.
• For some custom services in the past that run on set schedules, I have used healthchecks.io (which you can selfhost) to send alerts in the case that they don't run for some reason.
• As for the containers being restarted, I actually don't have experience with that, so I am interested to see what others have done.

Looking through the shows I have enjoyed the most in the past couple years here are some that I don't see on your list:

• Bocchi the Rock
• Eminence in Shadow
• Lycoris Recoil
• Heavenly Delusion
• Oshi no Ko

Also, it might be (quite) a bit older, but if you really feel like you need something dripping with melancholy, I would recommend Mushi-shi.

I just started watching that recently going in completely blind. It is a wild ride. Would recommend.

Same, I have kept up with this series for the same reason I keep up with Rent a GF; out of morbid curiosity. For me, the turn really happened when the author decided that we suddenly needed a whole batch of underclassmen girls that also needed to fall in love with Saotome. Like we didn't have enough girls already. The other part that is annoying is that it is clear who the "winner" will be, because her name is literally the title of the manga. So, why build up so much drama around it?

Anyway, I'll be there next week :)

I have lost track of how many chapters our MC has convinced himself he misheard Takae's confession now. Though, really it is pretty fitting that it is Takae that might eventually get the plot moving again. It was her scheme all the way back in the beginning of the series that caused the titular Kuzuhana to get involved with Saotome.

These two will somehow go on a date and still not think they are a couple. Hopefully the date chapter is up next.

I am in deep already.

She, along with Kai and Omega are characters I am most interested in learning more about. The recent Shadow Chronicles chapters provide a ton of good info on Kai. Looking forward to getting more.