Chatty AF 220: 2024 Fall Season Wrap-Up (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Alex, Cy, and Peter return to close out 2024 by wrapping up the Fall season, from okay adaptations of great shoujo to (mostly) great adaptations of good shounen.
Alex, Cy, and Peter return to close out 2024 by wrapping up the Fall season, from okay adaptations of great shoujo to (mostly) great adaptations of good shounen.
Ambitious anime originals created by two successful women aren’t things we get every day, and I intend to savor this one.
While I loved what the last five minutes of what this episode had to offer, I worry our heroine might not end up escaping princess lessons or production woes.
A largely enjoyable romp through Okinawa and its native language that gets messy when real-world history meets what’s supposed to be a fun, linguistic experience backset by island life.
Compelling and warmhearted, Medalist will capture the gold in your heart as a story with a lot of potential to be one of Winter’s best.
This hobby anime has it all: lively visuals, engaging characters, and a light sprinkling of homoeroticism.
The majority of this premiere is a pretty aggressively forgettable, medium-horny rom-com. And then the Psycho Lesbian enters the chat.
It desperately wants to evoke the likes of Death Parade and The Apothecary Diaries, but has none of their spark.
A boring, charmless love story between two teenagers whom are forced into an arranged marriage by their grandparents.
There’s a slightly surreal, fever-dreamy quality to this episode that means basically anything could happen and I’d say “sure.”
It’s been a minute since we had a well-executed procedural anime, so this one gets points for competence alone.
It’s mostly rote and unoffensive isekai stuff, with a couple of potential concerns for the future.
I hope you asked for extra hours this week because this well-executed premiere will have you working overtime with how much you’ll relate to being an office worker in another world.
Fruits aren’t the only thing that you might find bogus here in a premiere that’s okay but definitely isn’t the best Winter 2025 will have to offer.
All the winter premiere reviews in one easy-to-find place. We’ll update the chart as new series become available, so be sure to check back in the coming days for more!
It’s not well made, which leaves only the pivotal question: do you want to watch a girl who’s horny for her cat?
We might have only one life but the chances we have are limitless. Thankfully, Recovery of an MMO Junkie demonstrates that there’s infinite ways to meander the path of adulthood, no matter what life throws at you.
After God is a wonderful example of how female characters in shounen can go beyond simplistic portrayals of strength and beauty, exploring the darker and more complex aspects of human emotions and identity–without disappearing from the narrative or being made an object.