Butareba -The Story of a Man Turned Into a Pig- – Episode 1
An especially exhausting example of a wish fulfillment reincarnation isekai.
An especially exhausting example of a wish fulfillment reincarnation isekai.
hope you have lots of hangers and storage space, because Our Dating Story: The Inexperienced Me and the Experienced You has a whole cargo hold’s worth of baggage to unpack about sexual relationships.
If you only watch one fantasy yuri series this season about a rich blonde tsundere and the unabashedly forward maid who keeps declaring her passionate love…this one probably wouldn’t be my first pick.
Can Rentaro, the ultimate wife guy, handle 100 girlfriends? Can the anime industry even see this through? Will there be a season 2?
If you want shows where characters openly confess their feelings for each other in explicitly romantic ways, you will almost certainly leave frustrated. If you are looking for fodder for your next fic, this might be the show for you.
Undead Unluck is one part action, one part engaging story, and all parts fraught with its treatment of female lead Fuko and her unlucky body.
Returner’s Magic wants to be very serious about slaying a great evil dragon with swords and magic. Our heroes would look great in the most generic knockoff copy of Dragon Quest.
I’m happy to report that as long as you’re familiar with the tropes of magical girl team shows, the broad strokes of this excellent episode still land, even without easy access to the show it originates from.
Off the bat, your interest in this show may depend on how you feel about the glamorization of royal figures like Marie Antoinette.
A revenge story that wastes its potential by immediately killing the interesting female protagonist so that a guy can feel sad about it.
UNDER NINJA, by proxy of its title, should be full of ninja doing ninja things but instead, it’s just…not. Oh yeah, and it’s definitely got an agenda.
16bit Sensation offers a time-travel story for viewers, new and old, who love bishoujo games and long to see the heyday of cute girls in passionate, creative narratives return.
A sweet show about family and grief marred by unforgivably bad subtitling issues.
The weak music segments don’t quite stand up to the bombastic Hypnosis Mic, but the characters and (slightly) more grounded writing have appeal.
Unless you are also someone with terminal Yoko Taro brainworms, this is not an anime for you.
A strong entry in the “fantastical infrastructure” subgenre, though the creative team raises a few eyebrows.
The hilariously misleading title gives the impression that this’ll be a run of the mill ecchi anime, but it’s really about an outcast helping the heroine deal with her traumatic past and raise her self-esteem.
A better title for this unimaginative take on VRMMO anime might have been, “A Really Boring Dude Plays an MMO Boringly.”
Teru/Shy makes for an endearing protagonist and I hope we get to see her grow and develop beyond her constant embarrassment and awkwardness, and get to show some of that heroic pizzazz in her everyday life.
A fairly unmemorable checklist of reincarnation fantasy tropes with a side of fanservice.