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Twenty minutes of a group of college students molesting a 12-year-old.
Night Head 2041 was intersting, but the fact that I kept thinking of other sereis I’d rather be watching bodes ill for this cyberpunk-meets-psychics SFF premiere.
Shiroyanagi Akira plays video games to avoid reality until one day he meets a mysterious cat-girl named Mion who forces him in battle royale games.
The CG is surprisingly stylish, and the story for this one at least has potential.
The Dungeon of Black Compnay is a tedious premiere that makes me wish I could punt protagonist Ninomiya Kinji into the sun.
The Aquatope on White Sand was my most-anticipated premiere this season, and it did not disappoint.
For a show with “slow life” in the title, I was expecting a premiere with much more chill.
Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- plays around with tropes of the isekai genre well enough to wrangle a few laughs out of this low-stakes premiere about a boy who gets unexpectedly yeeted into another world.
I definitely said “I’m bored” two minutes into the premiere of this show.
Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan is one part ennui, one part millennial crisis, and has the potential to be utterly funny… though it’s important to remember that comedy is subjective, and this misanthrope with too many hard cuts to his very real internal depression might not be the one for you.
The Detective Is Already Dead had a double-length premiere to sell itself, but the show couldn’t decide if it wanted to be a mystery-based action series or a romantic comedy.
No use crying over cracked eggs. Vrai, Mercedez, and Alex perform a postmortem on the most potentialful disasterpiece of 2021, Wonder Egg Priority!
The Honor Student at Magic High School comes with the stipulation that you’re invest in the main franchise, Miyuki’s desire for her literal brother, and the world itself.
There’s a world where this is a very good anime. But there’s a pervasive “not quite”ness that the episode can’t claw free from, and all of its elements fall just short of being satisfying.
While this first episode doesn’t make the most dazzling debut, it does have a few glints of what make this story special
This was both a bittersweet and delightful episode. It doesn’t showcase any gameplay yet, but it does introduce us to some of the main characters while holding viewers hands as the show gradually teaches us the basic rules of water polo.
Personally, I like isekai stories when the protagonists are struggling to survive and gradually learn more about the world they are living in. It’s far more interesting watching them develop into compelling characters worth following rather than a ready-made genius like Kazuya.
The simple premise of “a man gets a second chance by traveling back in time” isn’t enough to carry a fifty-minute episode, even if you can sympathize and empathize with Kyoya’s desire to change one single decision that might have led him to success.
The fact that Girlfriend, Girlfriend’s premise hinges on open communication rather than noncommittal waffling or outright cheating definitely caught my eye, but did it pull it off? Well…
