The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy – Episode 1
A fairly unmemorable checklist of reincarnation fantasy tropes with a side of fanservice.
A fairly unmemorable checklist of reincarnation fantasy tropes with a side of fanservice.
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.
All the summer premiere reviews in one easy-to-find place. We’ll update the chart as more series become available, so be sure to check back in the coming days for more!
Fall 2023 is starting capably and comfortably enough: gifting us some over-competent girls with swords and some Nice Anime Dads with gardening skills.