Last season's top 3

[Ryllharu]

With a new season now started, it is time to revive this thread.

Again, I only list shows that have ended the past season, any other way would allow a series to be potentially listed twice.

In final episode, reverse-chronologically downloaded order:
Bakemonogatari - Who doesn't love a good shafty SHAFT series? Beautiful visuals (and unique visual style as usual), excellent characters, music, and plot with enough mysteries to let us guess. Not really much else to say besides I want more of it.

CANAAN - Great action, great villains, great heroines too, and a great mix of tension, humor, action, and conspiracies. Probably the best pacing out of any series that ended this season.

Shangri-La - A bit of a surprise, since Gonzo has a good reputation for screwing up series at the last minute, but this turned out to be a really well done cautionary tale and social commentary about burdening poor and developing nations with overzealous edicts. While it made an excellent horror scenario about Cap and Trade combined with a out of control, exploited Carbon market, it also managed to hit on dreams that go too far and are achieved by any means necessary, hubris, and what being a leader is all about. It also had a good mix of humor, and Range Murata character designs are always an absolute treat. For a long time in the beginning, it flailed around, not really sure where it really wanted to go, but at the end it all came together quite well.