Trains in Anime (and other random opinions)

Oh that's difficult. This list is going to have some recency bias:

Riginarazione. The show deliberately goes for some deeper topics this season, and the impending death of a grandparent is one of the biggest. And this episode deals with it beautifully.

El Toro de Piedra because I like the song a lot.

Mr. Agreste has some fun visuals and I love how it centres Adrien's perspective on Gabriel's legacy.

Other contenders:

Werepapas with its backstory and family focus is really cool, I just don't particularly love the akuma.

Vampigami is cute and I love the Rocky Horror references but it really should have been a musical.

The Ruler was really good.

The Chained Titans was really good for similar reasons as Riginarazione, I just wanted some more variety on the list.

Heartfixer suffers from the presence of the evil trio, who I don't love, but has some really beautiful scenes.

Daddycop was really fun with lots of competing storylines that worked well together.

The Dark Castle was a lot of time-travel fun but suffers from a completely unrelated and pointless akuma fight.

There is no one episode for the big lie plot, but I genuinely enjoy watching how Marinette makes herself suffer.

Dirtifiers:

And the price for akuma least connected to the episode's actual plot goes to… actually still Darkcastle but this sure is a strong showing.

I love cloud Kagami

Kagami/Marinette hug!

Kagami choosing a movie about a woman who loves her daughter above everything else

Kagami's home does not have a very good password

Queen of the Dreadzone:

I always love to see Chloé and to have her be cartoonishly evil! I know this episode judges me for that, harshly, but I don't care because in real life Chloé Bourgeois is not a real life person.

I'm glad I have blocked or soft-blocked a lot of people because this episode seems basically designed to annoy a large number of Chloé fans. And as a bit of a Chloé fan myself I am a bit annoyed.

That said I do think the things the episode says about fear of bullies, how real it is, that it can be overcome; all that stuff is not actually terrible (even if it could have benefited from more depth)

But I still maintain that while this kind of arc for Chloé is internally consistent, it hardly feels like the most interesting you could do with her.