== Brief impressions of the Fall 2018 anime season so far

[[As before Summer2018Brief]] it's time (and well past time) for my no
longer early views of how this season has shaken out so far, following
up on [[my first episode reactions Fall2018FirstEpisodes]]. This is
another slow season for me, but I'm happy with what I'm actively watching.

Excellent:

* *SSSS.Gridman*: This is the standout show of the season for me, but not
  because of the kaiju fights; it's everything else that I really like,
  especially the character drama. There are all sorts of quiet exceptional
  things about *Gridman* that I'm not going to try to summarize here, and
  anyway many of them are small contributors to its compelling whole.

Good:

* *Thunderbolt Fantasy S2*: This has been slower than the first season and
  so not as compelling, but it's still a solid show that is finally
  starting to develop its tangled complexity, without about three or four
  things going on at once.

Good popcorn entertainment:

* *That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime*: I like and fully enjoy this
  when I get around to watching an episode, but I haven't found watching
  episodes to be fully compelling and as a result I'm several episodes
  behind. I have reasons for this, but the fact is that I'm not behind on
  my other two shows.

  (One reason I don't find this as compelling is that I burned through the
  manga, so I know what's coming.)

Dropped:

* *Release the Spyce* (#2): As I put it [[on Twitter
  https://twitter.com/cks_anime/status/1056754941182836736]] when I got
  around to watching the second episode, this is a perfectly serviceable
  show. But at the moment I'm not really interested in a show that I find
  merely serviceable.

  (I've also heard that *Spyce* got kind of messy later on.)

* *The Girl in Twilight* (#1): In the end I opted not to watch more than
  the first episode, partly because I heard various things about further
  episodes that didn't really sound like it was something that I wanted
  to follow.

I feel satisfied with my top two shows, and when I want some popcorn
entertainment I have *Slime* (as I'm calling it). This is way down on my
past watching level, but I don't care about that any more; I'm watching
what I want to, and not watching things just because I feel that I should.

PS: Given that we're basically in the middle of the season by now,
I don't expect to do a midway views entry this time around, although I
might change my mind if I decide to drop *Slime*.