1. IF CSM WAS GIVEN PRIORITY OVER JJK AT MAPPA, IT WOULD'VE BEEN MORE POPULAR THAN JJK RN. The first season of JJK was pretty boring, and things only got good in the second season. JJK's ending is also widely viewed as bad, and its manga slowly grew more lacklustre over time. Meanwhile, CSM's first season was phenomenal with its only flaw being how peaceful it was compared to the manga. The manga of CSM continues to get better and deeper as the story progresses.

2. SOLO LEVELING IS LIKE A BLAND ISEKAI TEMPLATE WITH TOO MUCH BUDGET. Exactly what I just said, in both seasons it provides little to no story and character development, and all potential emotional scenes were unacknowledged to carve a path for more aura farming. Even when Jinwoo cried in S2 (won't spoil why), it felt boring and out-of-place because the majority of S2 was painting Jinwoo as a powerful, strong and unstoppable man with unlimited and ever-growing power. There could've been room to make assumptions that Jinwoo presents himself as strong but struggles inside, but throughout the second season, Jinwoo had no real challenges.

3. FRIEREN DESERVED ANIME OF THE YEAR. I often forget this is a hot take, since I've never viewed it as something to debate. I won't provide a lot of information here since I think most people have seen this take before, so I'll just say Frieren has the best emotional scenes of 2024, most character development of 2024, best animation of 2024, one of the best intros of 2024, best characters of 2024 and best main character of 2024 IN MY OPINION. Not even glazing, this is just how I feel.

THESE TAKES ARE COMPLETELY SUBJECTIVE AND OPEN TO DEBATE. FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR OWN TAKES IN THE COMMENTS