I haven't seen Lycoris Recoil, but I'm not sure I'd call the other three power fantasies. Sure these main characters are OP, but they all have goals or wishes that remain out-of-reach for them despite that. Mob's goal isn't to smash other dudes with his power. He just wants to be able to run better than an old lady and confess to the girl he loves. Likewise, One-Punch Man avoids it because the main character's dream is to have an engaging fight and his overwhelming strength doesn't help him with that at all. Frieren can kill demons all day but it won't bring her dead friend back to life.

Oh, I love Eminence in Shadow! I really appreciate that the main character spends just as much time and energy (at least on-screen) being outwardly ordinary as he does being secretly strong. Having a certified weirdo as the main character always elevates a story.

Honestly kinda relieved that they got through this at a decent pace. I was worried that it would be drawn out; I remember it being a little slow in the manga.

I could probably fall asleep during most isekai; no pressure at all to pay attention since actually reading the subtitles will usually make the show worse.

edit: I just remembered this quote from a Mamoru Oshii interview:

Nishio: Angel’s Egg was only 70-minutes long, relatively short work for a feature length movie, so people who fall asleep when watching it really have low literacy, don’t they? Visually speaking, there are a lot of stimulus in it and the music is very dramatic, it’s totally watchable.

Oshii: I don’t mind people fell asleep at all. Since I wanted to emulate that Tarkovskian atmosphere in animation form. A pleasant and unbounded time. Films that make people fall asleep are good films.

So I guess his films are fair game lol

Honestly best episode yet. If it actually is filler that doesn't say great things about the original work.

AI would never

I think if we're talking about how difficult it was to make without any mention of whether the story or characters are enjoyable that tells me all I need to know.

Maybe like 50% true. There's a lot of stuff in Japan that has English "subtitles" IRL because they get so much tourism these days, especially if you go places tourists go. That said there were still a couple of times where I went to a restaurant and the menu was only in handwritten Japanese. That's how I ended up trying whitebait for the first time!

As for google translate, I don't use it much simply because I've been studying the language for long enough that I don't usually need to. That said, as long as you're pointing it at something that is printed cleanly (not handwritten lol) it's usually good enough for travel. If it makes a mistake you can usually use the context in your human brain to figure that out.

I mean, yeah. Look how many of them refused to impeach Trump!

I couldn't get past the part where they get together because she tells him she'll accuse him of sexual violence if he doesn't help her.

Death Note may have gotten incredibly silly at times, but at least it got us some top-tier memes.

I think it says something about this season that the only one that stuck out to me was when they used the song from the 90s Magic Knight Rayearth OP for the end credits of the first episode of the new show.