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In the Summer 2026 anime recording rankings published by Anime Hack on September 16, “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4” claimed the top spot for the sixth consecutive week. “Yomi no Tsugai” came in second, while “The Elusive Samurai Season 2” — which hadn’t even placed the week before — surged to third, and “Futsutsuka na Akujo de wa Gozaimasu ga,” up from fifth last week, climbed to fourth. On 5ch, alongside posts naming favorite shows, users traded opinions on individual series (“Slime is more fun when it’s meetings than battles,” “Why isn’t Saga of Tanya the Evil on here?”), and some questioned the limits of recording counts as a metric in the first place.
Anime Hack, September 16, 2026 (Wed) 20:00
In the third week of September’s Summer 2026 anime recording rankings, “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Season 4)” took first place for the sixth consecutive week.
Second place went to “Yomi no Tsugai.” “The Elusive Samurai (Season 2),” outside the rankings last week, jumped to third, while “Futsutsuka na Akujo de wa Gozaimasu ga ~Hinamiya Chouso Torikaeden~,” fifth last week, rose to fourth.
Source: anime.eiga.com / Original article here
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Futsutsuka na Akujo
Katainaka no Kensei
Mushoku Tensei
Jadoogar
those are probably the top picks this season
Clevatess
Even Reincarnated, I Still Want to Fight
The Exiled Heavy Knight
were fun too though
Bet not many of these get a 2nd or 3rd season
More and more anime these days only adapt part of the story
That one's great, yeah.
Slime's way too saccharine, can't stand watching it
This is a recording-count ranking, so anything not aired on NHK or the major networks isn't going to show up.
Even with streaming, platforms stagger release timing, so whether a show streams first or with a delay makes rankings unreliable to begin with — goes double for TV recording numbers.
I don't watch broadcast TV so correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Re:Zero only on independent stations like MX and BS11?
so it's legit
everyone's so absurdly overpowered it makes you wonder what you'd even been watching all this time
Everything except Tsugai is a major-network show
MX is basically in the loser bracket at this point
FMA only got good near the end too — the early-to-mid stretch was pretty average, and I remember a lot of people dropping it before that
Honestly I was sick of it during the last stretch that was all meetings.
It's an easygoing isekai with an OP cheat protagonist to begin with, so there's never any weighty topic, and it gets resolved instantly anyway.
This season the protagonist's kind of on the sidelines — unclear how it'll tie back to him, but the 'so that's what was going on' reveals still make it worth watching.
Not even close
It's still at the point before Dregene and Fatima even show up on the historical stage
Still better than some no-name Narou (web-novel isekai) series
Kaoru-kyun was cuter than any other female character in the summer anime lineup
Let's dance the chorus part together
it's got the same kind of pull as Frieren
There's quite a bit of full nudity in it though
Doesn't that run into overseas content restrictions?
Until overseas streaming view counts stop climbing
That's the anime that taught me just how boring things get when the protagonist's whole side is full of idiots
It's modeled on WWII Germany's European front, so it really hits home for military otaku. No other anime has depicted the psychology of war this deeply lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVyvkwvsqW0
I actually think the way the organization loses its ability to self-correct and spirals toward self-destruction is pretty well done
For the older guys, that kind of crude gag manga isn't anything new or special
If it's only the younger crowd watching it as a novelty, the recording numbers won't climb
Haven't watched it, but
the other 'smoking' show in the same genre got way too much attention
from an outsider's perspective, only the sketchy 'smoking' show ever comes up in conversation
Same thing happened with Saga of Tanya the Evil
the reality is people avoid saying the actual title
especially with the 'smoking' ones
Just bad luck it overlapped with the other 'smoking' show on the same day
everyone's over there laughing it up watching Yani Neko instead
Background and Points of Debate
It’s worth noting that this ranking is based on “recording reservation counts” as published by Anime Hack — a different metric entirely from viewer ratings or streaming playback numbers. As pointed out in the thread, the count tends to center on shows aired on terrestrial broadcast (mainly the major networks), while shows airing only on independent stations like MX or BS11, or that are streaming-only, are less likely to be reflected. That’s why some posts pointed to differences in broadcast stations as the reason “Re:Zero” doesn’t appear near the top. Shifts in ranking depend not just on a show’s buzz, but on which stations carry it and how many episodes in, as well as how deeply the habit of reserving recordings has taken root among its viewers. Readers should keep in mind that treating this as a simple popularity poll or satisfaction survey risks giving a skewed picture of reality.
*This article was compiled by excerpting and summarizing the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[This Season’s TV Anime Rankings] “Slime” Holds Top Spot for Consecutive Weeks — “Yomi no Tsugai” and “The Elusive Samurai” Rank High.”
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