The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You – Episode 1
Can Rentaro, the ultimate wife guy, handle 100 girlfriends? Can the anime industry even see this through? Will there be a season 2?
Can Rentaro, the ultimate wife guy, handle 100 girlfriends? Can the anime industry even see this through? Will there be a season 2?
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.
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.
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.
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.”
A fairly unmemorable checklist of reincarnation fantasy tropes with a side of fanservice.
I was yearning for schlock, but the show utterly fails to live up to the camp it seems to promise.
Strangely beautiful, compellingly weird, often funny, and a deserving tribute after its author’s tragically early passing.
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.
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.
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.
There’s definitely an opportunity here for this show to examine the nuances of living under capitalism and how it’s not sustainable. It’s too early to say how the series will handle its themes, but even so the production is fantastic and dynamic.
BanG Dream’s newest entry kicks off its premiere by bringing the band in proximity, though not together, setting the foundation for a music-focused series that seems to be taking its time on the rise to being pretty great.
Mark “ruining the opportunity for a perfectly serviceable cat-based iyashikei” down as yet another reason this season is shaping up cursed.
If the male-targeted market is saturated with extremely similar reincarnation isekai, maybe it’s fair enough that the female-targeted market is getting its own version of the trend. It’s equity, ya know?
Having committed the ceremonial lowering of the bar that’s required before watching the average seasonal isekai, I would like to report that this premiere is….fine.