== Looking back at the Summer 2015 anime season

[[Once again Spring2015Retrospective]] it's time for my usual look back
at the shows I watched this past season to see how [[my early impressions
Summer2015Brief]] and [[my midway views Summer2015Midway]] wound up in
the end.

Excellent:

* *Gatchaman Crowds Insight*: In the end the show didn't give us any
  really easy answers, which is not unexpected; the issues *Insight*
  was dealing with aren't problems you can solve easily. Sadly the show
  felt it had to explain itself to people who might not have gotten it
  in the last episode, which I wish we could have done mostly without,
  but on the whole I really liked it.

* *Akagami no Shirayuki-hime*: This was a late season pickup for me
  and it wound up totally surprising me with how much I liked it.
  I wound up writing an entire entry on [[my views on *Shirayuki-hime*
  ShirayukihimeViews]].

* *Senki Zesshou Symphogear GX*: It didn't finish as strongly as it
  started and Hibiki's father is still a putz, but it definitely
  delivered the *Symphogear* experience (complete with a surprise
  or two). The finish wasn't as epic as the first season's, but it
  would be hard to top that and I enjoyed what we got.

Okay:

* *GOD EATER*: This was nicely made and I enjoyed what I saw of it,
  but it never had anything particularly deep or compelling about it.
  Its production problems were unfortunate, but the delayed remaining
  episodes have made me realize that I probably don't care enough about
  this to watch them whenever they wind up coming out.

* *Rokka no Yuusha*: I don't want to go so far as to say that this was
  an epic troll, but it kind of was. I liked some of the things the
  show did and it did play pretty fair with us with the mystery (there
  was not so much clues as foreshadowing periodically), but I think it
  misstepped with one story choice and the whole thing just moved slowly.

  (And the second half of the last episode sure had a quality collapse.)

  I don't regret watching *Rokka* but I have no interest in a second
  season.

* *Ushio to Tora*: This remained burning 90s shonen and I enjoyed that
  part of it. Unfortunately that comes with side orders of periodic
  bad writing, not enough budget to do the fights really well, and the
  usual slow moving plot. As a result I've opted not to continue with
  this after this season; although I generally enjoyed watching it,
  I didn't enjoy it enough to carry forward into a busy new season.

I finished it:

* *GATE*: It didn't end so much as stop mid-show, because it's being
  continued in a season or two. If I'm smart I won't continue it then.

* *Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei Herz!*: As mentioned in [[my
  midway report Summer2015Midway]] I picked this up once the fights
  started. Well, they finished and so did the show. My verdict is
  that the fights were okay but certainly not up to the standards of
  [[episode six of the first series Summer2013Retrospective]].

The top three shows this season were good (once I picked up
*Shirayuki-hime*) and I think that I'm going to be satisfied
with that. I only really watched one thing out of boredom and
I more or less knew what I was getting into with it anyways.

(In fact, looking back at [[my spring views Spring2015Retrospective]] I
think that this season was better overall than last season. Last season
only had *Sound! Euphonium* to be consistently great, while this season
had three shows I always really enjoyed watching.)