I would agree otherwise as it's excellent, but Re:Zero is definitely a harem. There's a designated pairing from the get-go but it doesn't stop the MC from collecting an army of girls that are all more or less infatuated with him.

It’s damn funny and self aware

That's almost all isekai today, though. Even the most hackneyed isekai authors are starting to realize the genre has been beaten to death so thoroughly that they must throws some new spin on their trite and the standard these days is "isekai but it's self-aware!" Even that has been done countless times already.

There's something really wack with the scale of things in the potion scene. Like, the potion bottles fit comfortably in GS's hand, meanwhile they appear bigger than the rhea girl's head who is basically supposed to be hobbit sized but not really smaller than that? Weird.

Overall the art isn't quite as crisp but it gets the job done, and at the very least there wasn't any scenes with CGI Slayer (at least not yet, we'll have to see once we get more action on screen) which is a huge win.

Shield Hero

the content/story is much more mature than Frieren.

Goddamn Robbie Rotten has deeper motivations than any Shield Hero villain.

I'm surprised they didn't make the list given the general popularity, but let's be real here, Goblin Slayer is honestly mediocre and Shield Hero has been spiraling down the drain ever since it started.

While I do often feel that way too, it needs to be pointed out that Anime Corner is a bit of a niche site and this reflects only the opinions of 5408 people. Their polls are known to have a bit wack results at times. If you look at other sites, MAL for example has had 25k people rate the list's top entry, Sousou no Frieren. If you want to truly gauge something's popularity, it's worth looking at more than just one site.

No offense to any potential fans but I do have to say how depressing I find it that any even remotely original anime are never getting a second season yet a million cookie cutter faux medieval European fantasy harems are greenlit every day. I get that they produce whatever sells but surely people will have to grow bored of the same thing being done over and over again? Surely...?

The First two movies, Beginnings and Eternal are simply a slimmed down version of the original series. The third movie, Rebellion, is entirely new content, as is the upcoming movie. Thus, either:

• Original series > Rebellion > Walpurgisnacht: Rising
• Beginnings > Eternal > Rebellion > Walpurgisnacht: Rising

Will both work fine, though generally the series is recommended over the movies due to them having to cut out some scenes to save runtime. Or if you want and don't mind the repetition, you can always watch the series first and then all of the movies.

Magia Record series is a spinoff featuring a different main cast and can be watched any time after the original series/first two movies. It will most likely not be in any way mandatory watching before the upcoming movie.

Japanese man realizes money is necessary for living in a modern society, more at eleven.

Not to mention, "X's comeback" and "X's final work" are a PR team's wet dream. Why not both and why not multiple times?

The translators did their best with the ending pun, in Japanese the point of the joke was that five is go (五), as in Godard. At least for once translation woes work for instead of against the translators as the joke is intentionally awful even in Japanese.

Castlevania > Demon Slayer (Kimetsu No Yaiba)

The only mildly warm part of this take is that Castlevania isn't really anime but western animation.

Demon Slayer has amazing visuals thanks to Ufotable, but outside of that the story and characters are as bland as, if not even worse than in any other painfully mediocre battle shonen to ever come out. If you look at shows as a whole instead of hyper-focusing on animation quality, pretty much anything with even mediocre writing will beat it.

Perhaps because people aren't going around calling others "males" to demean them?

These are not difficult concepts if you turn on your brain.