Overtake! – Episode 1
Even if cars going zoom isn’t your thing, the intriguing characters and highlight of financial barriers to competing make a good hook.
Even if cars going zoom isn’t your thing, the intriguing characters and highlight of financial barriers to competing make a good hook.
I was yearning for schlock, but the show utterly fails to live up to the camp it seems to promise.
A lot of your taste for this one will depend on how you feel about the tsundere and her attached tropes, but there’s a lot to hope for too.
Strangely beautiful, compellingly weird, often funny, and a deserving tribute after its author’s tragically early passing.
Some beautiful background visuals are shackled to a VR setting and a fairly uninteresting protagonist.
Berserk of Gluttony brings a big appetite to the Fall season, but fails to offer up anything satisfying to devour.
A refreshing break from stories equating heroism with violence, and a good time too, though hopefully the lone female character gains more prominence.
A perfectly solid shounen that’s also basically a Fate/Unlimited Blade Works AU.
MF GHOST asks viwers to pump the brakes to setup a story about a young man searching for his long-lost father.
The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch promises a fun family romp but instead, falls completely flat due to underage sexualization of it’s Black-coded lead.
Leading up to its premiere, most of the chatter around this ~problematic shoujo~ adaptation was about its central relationship between a 15-year-old girl and her 26-year-old guardian. Now that the first episode is out, however, I can’t really see that happening. Not because it depicted the material in a nuanced or sensitive way, but because it was so dreadfully, agonizingly boring that I don’t imagine much of anyone is going to bother watching anything more.
Find quiet, impactful humanity with Frieren , a renowned elven hero who, despite her aged intellect and general wisdom, still must puzzle out what it means to relate to others.
Fall 2023 is starting capably and comfortably enough: gifting us some over-competent girls with swords and some Nice Anime Dads with gardening skills.
Deeper themes are a little thin on the ground this season, but there’s still some very fun adventures to be had.
Hurting for summer shows? Your backlog’s about to be spoiled for choice.
While it can’t match spring’s bounty, summer has a few gems to offer.
I don’t think this has enough staying power for me, but if readers are okay with the religious set dressing then this slice-of-life romantic comedy might be for you.
Helck starts strong with a premiere that holds the potential for more if the series leans into its most interesting aspects and really runs with the source material.
To properly summarize this show, I need to be bouncing up and down on a sugar high at daycare.
Good news: it has great animation and mecha designs, and intriguing worldbuilding.
Bad news: All of this is in service of a plot that can only be described as Toxic Masculinity: The Anime.