== Looking back at the Summer 2019 anime season

This turns out to be so extensively delayed that I only just noticed
that I'd never written it. So, it's very past time for [[my traditional
look back Spring2019Retrospective]] at what I watched in the Summer 2019
anime season, to follow up on [[my earlier impressions Summer2019Brief]].
Since it's almost a year since I saw these, my impressions are a bit
faded.

* *Symphogear XV*: This was basically everything I could have reasonably
  asked for in a *Symphogear* show, especially one that basically
  wraps up the entire project (it may not stay wrapped up, in the way
  of these things, but it's definitely over for now). *Symphogear*
  unfortunately faced [[some structural story-telling issues in this
  season https://twitter.com/cks_anime/status/1177071107414941696]],
  but it still did good work, was quite enjoyable, and [[did
  some things to make the Symphogears not the sole saviors
  https://twitter.com/cks_anime/status/1178158888778162181]].

* *Granbelm*: This was generally well made and well put together, it
  had a bunch of characters that I liked, and for much of its run it
  was quite good. Unfortunately, [[it took its story in a direction
  I'm no longer a fan of
  https://twitter.com/cks_anime/status/1177430880379428864]], and so
  I can't really judge the show fairly as a result of that. I think
  the show took its story where it wanted to go and probably succeeded
  on its own terms (or mostly succeeded, there were some awkward bits),
  and it was a good spectacle. But the end result left me a bit let
  down.

I eventually dropped everything else that I was watching in Summer
2019. *Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files* and *Isekai Cheat Magician* both
failed to sustain my interest, *Fire Force* was too typically shonen
(and there was the horrifying Kyoto Animation tragedy), *Astra Lost in
Space* lost me for various reasons, and I stopped being able to put up
with the flaws in *Cop Craft*, especially in its writing surrounding
Tilarna.