DEMON LORD 2099 – Episode 1
A refreshingly inventive take on a “demon lord” story, with a side of cyberpunk.
A refreshingly inventive take on a “demon lord” story, with a side of cyberpunk.
Packed to the gills with drama! betrayal! And a seriously questionable age-gap in the central romance!
There’s nothing more Halloween-grade horrifying than a fun supernatural slice-of-life premise cursed by an obnoxious protagonist.
A show that’s managed to escape from 2008 and appear, fully formed, in 2024.
Dive into the story of a girl’s unexpected rise from rags to brutal riches as she tries to keep her head while pretending to be one of the kingdom’s most valuable nobles!
This show deeply, desperately wants me to believe it’s not going to get weird with the premise. The jury is still out.
Expect the unexpected in a premiere that combines sensuality, sexuality, and the darker side of the yakuza underworld in a girl meets boy crime thriller that never slams on the brakes.
The show wants to do fan service capers but it also wants this character to read like a cutesy child and, arguably, represent the protagonist’s childhood. This is, as I’m sure you can imagine, a deeply uncomfortable combination.
It’s fantastic to see adult magical girls, though the execution is somewhat middle-of-the-road.
Step back in time to witness a young man suss out the secrets of the Sun and Earth, all while having to evade the grim reality of life in the Inquisition.
The Stories of Girls Who Couldn’t Be Magicians has all the makings of a solid magic school story for older kids,
Tepid on the surface and bland as can be, this premiere invites questions about the overall “I’m secretly the strongest” subset of fantasy narratives and its implications.
It’s hard not to root for a crowdfunded-project-turned-big from a female director to succeed.
Love is never easy, especially when your dad decides to force you into a marriage with his best bud. Thank goodness your spouse is a girl…wait, now he’s a guy?! Hijinks ensure in this new adaptation of one of Takahashi Rumiko’s funniest and most earnest series.
She’s his mum, and his housekeeper, and will protect him with her life, but she’s also sooo clumsy and sooo hot and she just needs him to take care of her.
Dives in deep on illness and suicide without feeling too bleak, and might just thread the needle if you’re down for some fishing.
You can absolutely joke around about gender, drag, and attraction without stepping into awkward transphobic (or transphobic-adjacent) tropes, and if it can do that, honestly, All-Guys Mixer could be cute. At this early stage, I have no idea how it’s going to navigate all the ideas it’s playing with.
Dragons are awesome! This show, starring a reincarnated dragon, makes paste look exciting.
I’ll give this to Trillion Game: it holds fast to the cosmic truth that no one ethically gets that much money. But I think it’s expecting me to side with the protagonists.
Kinokoinu is an unexpectedly raw and hard-hitting depiction of grieving a pet.