Africa Salaryman – Episode 1
The rule of thumb in comedy is to never punch down. Unfortunately, Africa Salaryman tries to punch sideways but often ends up misfiring and punching down instead.
The rule of thumb in comedy is to never punch down. Unfortunately, Africa Salaryman tries to punch sideways but often ends up misfiring and punching down instead.
While the writing could stand to take itself a little less seriously, this is a surprisingly good throwback to 2000s-era mashups of noir and cyberpunk.
If I were coming into Babylonia completely fresh, I don’t know if I’d want to continue after this. But I do, because I want to see a different side to Gilgamesh.
You ever watch something and then thirty minutes later realize you’ve forgotten almost everything about it? That’s where I am with Z/X Code reunion right now.
Pack it in, folks. Nothing this season is gonna be hornier than this one.
Don’t worry, Mile. Your series achieved what you could not: it averages out its charming elements with some of anime’s laziest fallback jokes to reach a grand total of “basically okay.”
This might be the best premiere of the season: a tense, slow-burn legal drama that viciously punctuates its own simmering tension in the final moments.
You know when you spend an entire first episode smiling and laughing out loud, you have a winner.
Do you like supernatural cop shows? Then congratulations! You’ll enjoy this entertaining and competently made premiere!
If you’re into male idol series, this is not offensively bad.
A shounen series seemingly aimed toward the same middle-grade sort of audience as Little Witch Academia, Iruma-kun feels perfect as a bit of fall sweetness.
Like cute girls? Like tabletop games? This is the anime for you!
It’s been a while since a premiere has so systematically robbed me of every gesture of optimism I tried to offer it.
The bait Azur Lane was putting out to attract a certain kind of viewer tuned me out of any meager charms it might’ve had to offer, long before it doubled down with carefully rendered shots of an eight-year-old’s wet shirt clinging to her skin.
You know, maybe it’s just me, but I think the protagonist of this series kinda likes books.
This premiere knows where the show’s most entertaining qualities lie and just how to bring them out.
When two of “Nice Guy” Joro’s closest friends suddenly ask to go on what is only describable as a date, you can’t help but know there’s going to be a train wreck at the end of it. And boy, is there.
Ahiru no Sora takes its cannon full of bright energy, points it downwards, and blasts itself straight in the foot by making 95% of its cast a bunch of unpleasant dirtbags.
This episode has one joke.