The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague – Episode 1
Cool Girl meets Actual Cool Guy who Can Make Snow in a premiere that feels like a Wotakoi-esque successor with yokai and a cozy, relatable plot centered around falling in love.
Cool Girl meets Actual Cool Guy who Can Make Snow in a premiere that feels like a Wotakoi-esque successor with yokai and a cozy, relatable plot centered around falling in love.
Girl likes Guy and Guy like Girl…as a best bud because he can’t perceive her femininity. And yes, that’s the joke, which really undercuts a show that has potential to be very cute.
A dazzling yuri fantasy series with a lot of potential to grow.
Generally competent with one big shadow hanging over it.
While not the most gripping premiere in the world, it’s honestly not bad.
We’re plagued with the best kind of problem: too much good anime to watch!
Cue incoherent screaming at the rotting corpse of Shinzo Abe clawing his way out of the grave as a zombie.
Come in out of that brutal summer heat and enjoy the anime crop we harvested.
A bustling season with some good josei food and great heroines!
Philosphy and questions about the human soul abound in a bland premiere that has a lot of promise, but just doesn’t hit the mark despite having a fascinating foundation.
Elephant in the room aside, this is a pretty funny premiere.
Your Mileage May Vary when it comes to this new version of Urusei Yatsura, a series that brings the 70s into the 2020s, flaws included.
As well as being a bad, dumb comedy, however, it’s a bad, dumb comedy with a disgusting concept at the heart of its “humor”.
Hey kids, do you like Devilman?
More Than a Married couple seems intent on being as dumb as its premise, refusing to use its school-mandated-fake-dating scenario for any interesting commentary or even any interesting character scenes.
Its flavor isn’t gross, it just tastes like nothing.
There’s some interesting stuff going on with masculinity in BLUELOCK.
Your mileage may vary with this one, and whether Hitori feels overly twee or relatable will depend. But I say give it a shot: I found her unexpectedly funny and relatable.
A nostalgia-fueled adaptation of a 1999 JRPG that still has room to invite newcomers in on an adventure.
Thrills, chills, and cafe meals: Akiba’s Maid War brings sugar-sweet plots to a whole ‘nother level by mashing up murder and maids into one of Fall 2022’s strongest premieres.