I'm following this list:
Hisone to Masotan (Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan)
Piano no Mori (The Forest Piano: The Perfect World of Kai)
Boku no Hero Academia (My Hero Academia)
Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii (WotaKoi: Love is Hard for Otaku)
Darling in the FranXX
Juushinki Pandora (Unit Pandora)
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These (The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: The New Thesis)
Uchuu Senkan Tiramisù (Space Battleship Tiramisu)
Hisone to Masotan is shaping up quietly to be the sleeper hit of the season for me. It's a robustly written coming-of-age story with just enough absurdist elements (in the form of transforming dragon aircraft), a likable cast and a surprisingly realistic, if sleepy military setting that scratches an itch I've been struggling with for a while.
Piano no Mori has off-putting CGI sequences with a slight uncanny valley effect whenever someone touches the piano, but the score is soul-crushingly beautiful. I hear a lot of complaints from fans of the manga that they're rushing it, but given the heroic attempt to transpose 241 chapters into 24 episodes, I can't blame them. It's a story focusing on two friends, Kai Ichinose - a rough and tumble kid from a red light district who happens to be a piano prodigy, and Shuuhei Amamiya - a technically excellent pianist saddled with the burden of carrying on the family music tradition, and the one sided rivalry that slowly develops as one finds himself threatened by the other's meteoric rise.
Juushinki Pandora has the ingredients to be an excellent mecha show and has an interesting setting underpinning, but it's been content to wallow at the kids end of the pool and shows no interest in kicking off. As a two cour show carrying into next season, I'm not sure if I have the patience to stick with it much longer.
Uchuu Senkan Tiramisù is a 7 minute episodic shitpost about a socially maladjusted hikkomori openly masquerading as a mecha show. It surprisingly has a deeper underlying plot, which it actively derails to focus on the protagonist's hijinks, playing genre tropes fast and furious to comedic effect. The 7 minute episode run time keeps the jokes punchy and even if it occasionally wanders into cringe territory, the format keeps it from overstaying its welcome. It's highly recommended. Also, without further context, this is probably the first (and only time) a drifting zero-g pubic hair is best supporting character.