We spoke with Watari about his wonderful trash girl heroine Chitose, adapting The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, and his future plans.
To properly summarize this show, I need to be bouncing up and down on a sugar high at daycare.
Really gotta give this one buttfor.
There are two things that piqued my interest about The Gene of AI: its framing of technological progression and the relative restraint of its writing.
Mark “ruining the opportunity for a perfectly serviceable cat-based iyashikei” down as yet another reason this season is shaping up cursed.
Having committed the ceremonial lowering of the bar that’s required before watching the average seasonal isekai, I would like to report that this premiere is….fine.
A better production might have elevated it to the heights of “lower tier acceptable shounen rom-com.”
Just a bag of police brutality-flavored yikes.
Dead Mount Death Play has managed to put so many conceptual hats on top of one another that it’s come round to being kind of entertaining.
There are glimmers of interesting thought here, but not enough to keep the show from collapsing under the burden of its own premise.
Do you like watching cute animal videos?
Magical Destroyers is simultaneously A Lot and very little at all.
Nothing bums me out quite like shows with unrealized ambition.
I would rather chew off my own fingernails than watch another episode of The Legendary Hero is Dead. Or someone’s fingernails, anyway.
Some wonders cannot be described, only seen.
It’s cool to see a sympathetic fat protagonist, but the show trades that for a generic Potato-kun almost immediately.
A uniquely nauseating opening gives way to an overall sweet rom-com about two weirdos.
There’s a few sour notes here that mostly come down to having to get the premise out of the way, but I think this might shape up to be a nice balm for all the people who were crushed when the director of Recovery of an MMO Junkie turned out to be violently anti-Semitic.
We sat down with Ise at Otakon 2022 for a wide-ranging conversation. In the process, she touched on the increased pressure for voice actresses to be idols—an issue that also affects women in other public-facing professions—and how the slow change post-#MeToo (as well as #KuToo, a Japan-specific movement) has given more people space to come forward with their stories.
If you weren’t already inclined to check this one out, it’s probably worth sitting back and waiting to see how the much anticipated Uzumaki anime finally comes out.
