Undead Murder Farce – Episode 1
Undead Murder Farce is the highlight of the season: a bleakly humorous, action packed period romp with a lot to say about westernization in Meiji Japan featuring two unholy messes in witty repartee.
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The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses – Episode 1
The animation choices really sucked out whatever charm the original source material might’ve had.
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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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Sweet Reincarnation – Episode 1
For a show about sweets, the whole thing is awfully flavorless.
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Level 1 Demon Lord & One Room Hero – Episode 1
A potentially interesting thread is buried in a premiere that’s otherwise crass, silly, and dumb as bricks.
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Am I Actually the Strongest? – Episode 1
Am I the Strongest might be the weakest isekai premiere in a long, long time, and that’s saying something.
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My Tiny Senpai – Episode 1
My Tiny Senpai continues the small girl tall guy trend by…doing exactly what you expect of a series like this.
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AYAKA – Episode 1
What? You’re telling me this generic orphan who was always a bit of an outcast secretly has a supernatural family legacy and gets to go live on a cool island? Neat! I wonder if he has a grand destiny he’ll reluctantly have to fulfil, too!
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Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout The Animation – Episode 1
There were about five times in this extended premiere that I said, out loud, “I can’t believe it’s still going!” It doesn’t help that the characters move and act like cardboard cutouts. What went wrong?
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2023 Spring Three-Episode Check-In
It’s a lovely season for surprises, mess, and surprisingly compelling mess.
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Anime Feminist Recommendations of Winter 2023
This season had plenty of shows we liked, but only a handful that stood head and shoulders above the rest.
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Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts – Episode 1
Rushes through a checklist of upsetting tropes early on in maybe the tamest and most toothless way possible.
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2023 Spring Premiere Digest
This is a season of meteoric highs and nightmare lows.
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Oshi No Ko – Episode 1
My feelings veered wildly between “Love this!” and “oh NO!”, settling on loving it. Oshi no Ko powerfully explores women’s emotional labour in the idol industry and more broadly.
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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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Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion – Episode 1
Raeliana is a great protagonist, but it’s a shame that the animation production isn’t as good as it wants to be.
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Insomniacs After School – Episode 1
How it fares will depend on a couple of key things: how it handles its love interest, Isaki, and how it handles the theme of mental health and isolation that underpins the whole premise.
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Stella of the Theater: World Dai Star – Episode 1
World Dai Star is interested in the actual process of acting, of how actors inhabit the minds of their characters and use all the tools of physicality and stagecraft to create the artifice of inner life. And it is a joy to watch in this way.
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A Galaxy Next Door – Episode 1
On paper, A Galaxy Next Door sounds like a cliché rom-com where a magic wife fixes a sad boy’s problems. And it very well could turn into that, but this premiere is a lot more charming—and way more relaxed—than its synopsis would have you believe.
