Silly awards time!

• Best dragon award: From Bureaucrat to Villainess. There was actually a decent amount of competition for this one this time, but cute little dual-elemental dragon won.
• Originality in hairstyling award: Zenshu, of course. With The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer as runner-up, because that elf with the afro (elfro?) was . . . memorable.
• Bad CGI horse award: Aparida. Unless I’m confusing it with the very similar Fugukan. The horses in that one episode were memorably bad, but the show itself is not very memorable at all. (And I seem to be using the word “memorable” way too much.)
• Rub-a-dub-dub award: Beheneko. I am in awe of how they managed to shoehorn a bath scene into every single episode, even if it was taking place entirely in a dungeon. Evidence that this is a show that knows it shouldn’t take itself seriously, I guess.
• General hygiene award: Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time. I dropped this a couple of episodes in, but was impressed that they directly tackled one of my top-ten reasons for not wanting to be isekai’d into a fantasy world: the flush toilet, or the lack thereof.
• Cognitive dissonance in costuming award: Ubel Blatt. Sorry, guys, but grimdark + scanty women’s combat outfits that protect nothing has been a combination that won’t fly for at least the past thirty years. Go watch Berserk about a dozen times for some pointers on how to do it right.