Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway – Episode 1
Higehiro has the potential to be a story about an adult helping a teenage girl , but still has too much rom-com veneer for me to trust it.
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Dragon Goes House Hunting – Episode 1
In a market so saturated with Generic European Fantasy Adventures that it’s practically dripping, it’s nice to see new series that really try to go niche and plumb the depths of more mundane, less-explored aspects of these settings. In this case, I’m very much looking forward to seeing the ins and outs of the fantasy real estate market.
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Farewell, My Dear Cramer – Episode 1
One episode isn’t nearly enough time to call this shot, but I’m calling it anyway: Farewell, My Dear Cramer is going to be the lady-led sports anime I’ve dreamed about for years.
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Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song- – Episode 1
If you were expecting this to be “A.I.dol,” you might be a bit disappointed by this premiere. Vivy barely sings at all. She’s way too busy saving politicians from assassination attempts and trying to change the future. It’s a busy first episode.
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Those Snow White Notes – Episode 1
Those Snow White Notes definitely captures those small sad quiet moments and I think that alone will make the series worth watching…but damn is this show overdramatic.
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BURNING KABADDI – Episode 1
Burning Kabaddi seems crafted entirely to combat the sport’s status as a punchline in Japanese media, going so far as to have Yoigoshi call out the trend before he’s inevitably sucked in. This, my friends, is an imaging campaign.
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SSSS.DYNAZENON – Episode 1
While fans of SSSS.GRIDMAN will immediately recognize the director/writer duo’s signature style, this premiere is perfectly friendly (and perfectly gorgeous-looking) for newcomers to the Gridverse.
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MARS RED – Episode 1
A quiet, not-quite pretentious historical horror drama that is extremely My Brand.
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JORAN THE PRINCESS OF SNOW AND BLOOD – Episode 1
What are your thoughts on alternate histories? Historical fantasies? How about umbrella crossbows, organ-playing snakemen, and mahou murder girls?
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Koikimo – Episode 1
I hated Koikimo, and I’m going to hold fast to that because there’s no world in our infinite galaxy—not any culture on this planet, including Japan—where an adult pursuing a child is okay.
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Tropical Rouge! Precure – Episode 1
Tropical Rouge is the latest in a long line of Precure series, and in this first episode it’s plain to see the tried-and-trusted formula clicking into place and why that formula works so well.
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High-Rise Invasion – Episode 1
If schlocky action and gritty murder games are your deal, you might find yourself at home with High-Rise Invasion. However, I’m sure there are many fight-for-survival sci-fis that play with similar ideas with better execution and fewer peeks at the teenaged protagonist’s undies.
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Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House – Episode 1
Despite the strange mid-season start for the show, Kiyo in Kyoto seems to be lovingly crafted and easygoing show meant to get people hungry for Japan.
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2021 Winter Three-Episode Check-In
This season truly encapsulates the duality of anime: everything made us either really excited or really tired.
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2021 Winter Premiere Digest
The new year has started out strong with some incredible premieres that nobody was expecting.
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Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2020
In an exceptionally hellish year, good anime managed to provide some brief moments of reprieve. Here are the staff’s 2020 favorites!
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WONDER EGG PRIORITY – Episode 1
Wonder Egg is fabulism meets horror/suspense meets character drama. It is fantastical and grounded in equal turns, with a raw emotionality that pulls no punches but also doesn’t revel in suffering. It is surprising, tense, and stunning to look at, and I am beyond psyched to watch more of it.
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Redo of Healer – Episode 1
The source material has a reputation for being (to put it bluntly) rape revenge fetish porn, but this premiere is mostly a standard dark fantasy with some glimmers of potential that it will almost certainly never fulfill.
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Idoly Pride – Episode 1
IDOLY PRIDE’s premiere is good… until it tries to get twisty and drops the ball. Still, it’s worth watching… right?
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WAVE!! Let’s go surfing!! Episode – 1
There hasn’t been a major successful aquatic sports anime since FREE! and I wondered if Wave!! Let’s go surfing!! would fill that void. My short answer is “No,” and overall this premiere was a strong OK.
