A few things I've picked up:
How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift?
A educational type anime, it teaches about workout options and benefits and guides you through bodyweight exercises you can do at home. It seems like a lot of people like it, but I found it weaker on entertainment value; the storylines and characters don't stand out. Some people may also find it distasteful on fanservice grounds, the main male character is basically eye candy and he's always out of his clothes multiple times per episode. As for female characters, you see about as much as you'd expect at a typical gym, aside from the anatomical interludes which illustrate which muscle groups the episode is focusing on.
Machikado Mazoku is a Kirara adaptation. If you've seen any of those before, you pretty much know what to expect. It's actually quite serious and story heavy by those standards – but only by those standards. It's still basically character-driven cute comedy, it's just that it also has a story. I enjoy it, but I always enjoy Kirara stuff.
Granbelm is a much more serious show that also is kind of a magical girl show but not really. It has good combat and pretty good drama, if you're into that. The story is basically "Grail war but with mecha", but still, the devil is in the details and these details are handled reasonably well. The mecha designs are aesthetically not cool at all though (way wider than they are tall was a poor choice), which is a shame because their concepts are top tier.
Maou-sama Retry, like Machikado, is what you'd expect. It's a generic isekai about a powerful guy who has some adventures and meets cute girls along the way. It's a particularly fun one though, each episode feels half as long as it is. In every individual aspect (characters, story, worldbuilding, VA, animation) I'd say it's noticeably above average for the genre. It still fails to stand out, but it's a nice comfort food type anime. I'd recommend it over Arifureta certainly – I'm not watching that, but I read the first arc and a bit of the source material.
Lastly (so far) HenSuki is actually quite different from what I expected. Based on the premise, it sounds like a shitty high school harem comedy designed mostly to titillate, and indeed there's a harem and there's comedic moments and titillating moments, but as lot of it is drama too. More than I expected anyway, and the humor isn't zany at all; it's all stuff that's pretty believable to a high school experience. I do feel like the pace could be a bit faster though, and it's not much of a mystery show; if you're reasonably intelligent you'll likely realize every twist before the MC does. Still, it's fun watching each of the characters and wondering what's gonna be wrong with this one.
Astra lost in space seems like one of those "teens in an extra dramatic situation" shows that mostly appeal to teens, but also it's a pretty classic type of sci-fi and played pretty straight. I've only just started this one, though.
More coming as I watch more, probably.
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