I think alot of people don't get what it means to be impressed. It can be literally a couple minutes of smooth animation. A good line of dialogue that makes you think, same with just the concept or idea of the show. etc. etc. It really takes only a moment to be impressed with that particular content. I've watched quite a handful of things this year that impressed me for various reasons. From shows that weren't even that good. Like Typhoon Noruda. wasn't very good but had great animation technique.
Maria the Virgin Witch was a refreshing story set in the 14th century, it delved into religious corruption of the time, good combat animation, good art design, amazing soundtrack, and even the dub was really good with it's acting.
Hibike! Euphonium was beautifully animated and directed. It had a well paced and interesting story with likable characters (story=/=plot. inb4 cute girls doing cute things, it's not really). And the soundtrack was phenomenal. It took music from a lot of classical composers like Antonín Dvořák, Jacques Offenbach, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and had an original piece by Akito Matsuda called Crescent Moon Dance that was great.
The Case of Hana & Alice was a good show of what Rotoscoping is capable of with excellent fuildity of it's characters and being able to use real facial expressions to... well express the characters feeling/thoughts., The voice acting was pretty good and backdrops were very pleasant.
Akatsuki no Yona was another refreshing take on the classic set up it had. What made it stand out is Yona's character development, you thought she was naive, you began to feel sympathy for her, then she toughened up and the viewer grew respect and even admiration for her (i did anyway). Many shows fail at developing characters as good as they did her.
Aki no Kanade was well animated and for a 30 min it's story was inspiring.
Parasyte was well animated, a interesting story, well paced, love the soundtrack.
Death Parade had good art, did a good job of telling an overarching story even though it seemed episodic at first to a lot of people. They through in lots of subtle development that I think a lot of people missed. They did a good job of keeping suspense throughout the episodes with each individual story.
Houkago no Pleiades impressed me with how randomly complicated and plot twisty it became. It also was like magic school bus informative about planets. It was fun. Had a good bitter sweet romance that was the highlight of the show.
The Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade. The animation and sound was just as great as the original. The story was cute as well.
There's lots of things I can pick out that I didn't like about each. But for the most part, they were some really good shows.
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