tl;dw
- Vinland Saga
- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- Pluto
- Apothecary Diaries
- Heavenly Delusion
- Skip and Loafer
- Attack on Titan
- The Eminence in Shadow
- Oshi No Ko
- TRIGUN STAMPEDE
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You
- Zom 100
For fun, you can also check out the end of year discussion thread from this community.
Of the series I know, I am mostly suspicious of 100 girlfriends. I tried reading the mango when it showed up in the new releases feed and it didn’t seem very good. Eminence in shadow I quite like as a book but I would anticipate it being too fanservicey in anime or mango format for my liking and I’m just there for the dumbest of the humour. I’m assuming Vinland is a continuation but I barely remember what happened before if it is. Everything else is in my manga tracking but haven’t gotten around to them or just read a few chapters and kept them marked to continue later but just never did. Does the reviewer explain much about each show? I’ve never even heard of Pluto or heavenly delusion.
Eminence in Shadow is probably my favorite light novel series, and, like you, I am there for the stupid humor and misunderstandings that Cid brings. It is one of those series that has a very different feel depending which adaptation you consume. Since you say you are a fan of the humor, I recommend giving the manga a shot. It takes the jokes of the light novel, cranks it to 100, and then adds another layer of visual jokes that are also really funny. The manga also is drawn in a mostly silly way without very much fan service. The anime adaptation has, as you suspected, a lot more fan service with a whole episode each season pretty much devoted to it, and is more serious and edgy in tone usually.
In my opinion, Gigguk does a pretty good job giving a mostly spoiler free couple minutes to each series as to why he thought it was good. I watched Heavenly Delusion and it was probably the show that surprised me the most last year. It is a really interesting mix of mystery, post-apocalypse, sci-fi, and coming of age that I found really engaging. Also, the animation looks gorgeous. After the first season aired, I needed more and, with no announcement yet of any kind of season 2, I went and binged the manga instead. It is also quite good.
Finally, 100GF isn’t to everybody’s taste. The anime is even more unhinged in a lot of ways than the manga.