BULLBUSTER – Episode 1
A strong entry in the “fantastical infrastructure” subgenre, though the creative team raises a few eyebrows.
Posts by Vrai Kaiser
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Migi&Dali – Episode 1
Strangely beautiful, compellingly weird, often funny, and a deserving tribute after its author’s tragically early passing.
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Author and scriptwriter Watari Wataru on cynical heroines, getting a lesbian kiss onscreen, and keeping his day job
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.
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My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1 – Episode 1
To properly summarize this show, I need to be bouncing up and down on a sugar high at daycare.
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TenPuru – Episode 1
Really gotta give this one buttfor.
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The Gene of AI – Episode 1
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.
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The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today – Episode 1
Mark “ruining the opportunity for a perfectly serviceable cat-based iyashikei” down as yet another reason this season is shaping up cursed.
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The Great Cleric – Episode 1
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.
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The Dreaming Boy is a Realist – Episode 1
A better production might have elevated it to the heights of “lower tier acceptable shounen rom-com.”
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The Marginal Service – Episode 1
Just a bag of police brutality-flavored yikes.
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Dead Mount Death Play – Episode 1
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.
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Rokudo’s Bad Girls – Episode 1
There are glimmers of interesting thought here, but not enough to keep the show from collapsing under the burden of its own premise.
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Too Cute Crisis – Episode 1
Do you like watching cute animal videos?
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Magical Destroyers – Episode 1
Magical Destroyers is simultaneously A Lot and very little at all.
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Opus.COLORs – Episode 1
Nothing bums me out quite like shows with unrealized ambition.
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The Legendary Hero is Dead! – Episode 1
I would rather chew off my own fingernails than watch another episode of The Legendary Hero is Dead. Or someone’s fingernails, anyway.
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KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World – Episode 1
Some wonders cannot be described, only seen.
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I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too – Episode 1
It’s cool to see a sympathetic fat protagonist, but the show trades that for a generic Potato-kun almost immediately.
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The Dangers in My Heart – Episode 1
A uniquely nauseating opening gives way to an overall sweet rom-com about two weirdos.
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My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 – Episode 1
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.
