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A note about the rest of the season. I won’t cover it.
I am burned out writing about shows that aren’t worth writing about. Even the beautiful-looking epics Ooyokiumi no Kami and Hikari no Ou, the only shows worth watching…
8s, 9s and a 10: Kaina, Hikari, Benriya, Ningen Fushin, Eiyuu Ou
Happily, the next day. The title of Ooyukiumi no Kaina 8 is “Lost at Sea,” so I was expecting, and rather dreading, a long episode where the three…
8s and some 9s, Ningen, Tensei Oujo, Benriya, Eiyuu Ou
That’s Agate, by the way. Ningen Fushin 8 is a standalone, basically to deal with the idol Agate, or Bell Haggins, who’s been wandering in and through several…
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
6-7s: Otonari, Benriya, Eiyuu, Ooyukiumi, Hikari no ou
Even when events happen in Otonari no Tenshi-sama it doesn’t seem to matter much. We get more of Itsuki and Chitose in both episodes 6 and 7, and…
More Eiyuu, Ooyukiumi, Hikari, Ningen, Tensei Oujo
Eiyuu Ou etc. 4 finishes the story arc with some twisted morality. Basically, the town of Nova is having all the aether sucked out of it, then it…
2s, 3s, 4s, 5s
Whew, I’m farther behind than ever! They made it, but “out of the frying pan,” you know … Some basic worldbuilding and minor thrills in Ooyukiumi no Kania…
The Fire Hunter, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
More 2-3s, Tsundere Akuyaku, Otonari, Rougo, Benriya, Eiyuu
Tsundere Akuyaku etc develops things decently in episodes 2 and 3. The two kids grant their power, somehow, to both Liese and Baldur, the latter because they feel…
Twos and threes: Ningen fushin, Tensei Oujo, Tomo-chan, Isekai Nonbiri
Some trust issues to be worked out. Now it’s time to catch up with shows I’ll keep watching for now. Some of them are up to episode 3…
Farming Life in Another World, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Tomo-chan Is a Girl!
New shows – Winter 2023 5
That’s a nice looking castle to start Eiyuu Ou. First off we have Eiyuu Ou, Bu o Kiwameru Tame Tenseisu: Soshite, Sekai Saikyou no Minarai, and we meet…
The Fire Hunter, Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill
New shows – Winter 2023 4
Rougo ni Sonaete starts with a lovely shot of the blue sea, which Mitsuha is about to fall into. Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka o…
New shows – Winter 2023 3
A rainy sky shot to begin Inu ni Nattara. In Inu ni Nattara Suki na Hito ni Hirowareta our hero wakes up in the rain, wondering where he…
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World, Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte
New shows – Winter 2023 2
Spy Kyoushitsu opens with a deadly battle scene from a distance with dramatic lighting. Let’s look at Spy Kyoushitsu, where we meet Lily, aka “Flower Garden,” who is…
Farming Life in Another World, Spy Classroom, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, GIANT BEASTS OF ARS
New shows – Winter 2023 1
Welcome to the first installment of my new series reviews for Winter 2023. Mind you, I’m not going to watch everything, or even half of them. I’m going…
The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Tomo-chan Is a Girl!
Renai Flops finale, and shadow 13
Let’s see, I predicted that Renai Flops would end with Asahi meeting Ai in the other-verse or whatever, and he and maybe she would make peace with the…
Kage 12, DIY and Bocchi finales
I thought Eminence in Shadow would end this week but apparently there’s more to go. Episode 12 is in two parts. In one, Shadow Garden pop up in…
Eminence, DIY, Bocchi, Renai 11
I’m not sure what Cid is getting at in Eminence in Shadow 11. His name is called to fight in the Princess Trials (a big combat event between…
Tens – the usual
Bocchi, the abstract We know pretty much how Bocchi the Rock! 10 is going to play out. Bocchi wants Kessouku Band to play at the school festival, but…
Eminance, DIY, Bocchi and Renai nines
Eminence in Shadow (Why I used the original, long name for so long in these posts?) 9 goes along with no complications, to the point where I got…
Eights: Kage, DIY, Bocchi, Renai Flops
Cid, acting in the third person again. Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! 8 is spared the usual “What is Cid up to now?” questions because we know exactly…
Kage, DIY, Bocchi, Renai 7s
I wish I knew what Cid was up to most of the time. In Kage no jitsuryokusha etc 7 we are still confused. Cid keeps doing things like…
Kage, DIY, Bocchi, Renai 5-6
Cid showing off. Let’s see, in Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakuke! 5 we have Kageno facing off against Zenon to rescue Alexia, and we get a side battle…
More fours and fives
Mad scientists always say that just before they die. Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! 4 continues its bewildering story with an unpleasant episode that has Cid beaten to…
BOCCHI THE ROCK!, The Eminence in Shadow, LOVE FLOPS, Management of a Novice Alchemist
Threes and fours
I was worried that Bocchi the Rock! wouldn’t be able to keep up the quirky energy that made episode one so delightful, but I needn’t have worried. Well,…
BOCCHI THE ROCK!, LOVE FLOPS, Management of a Novice Alchemist
Twos and threes
Time to look at episode 2s, starting with Noumin Kanren no skill etc.. We start with Fal in disguise taking Al to the adventurer’s guild, greeted by some…
Fall 2022 3
Our first dull concrete shot of this post. I try not to read reviews of shows until I’ve seen them myself, but even with that I got weird…
Akiba Maid War, BOCCHI THE ROCK!, Chainsaw Man, LOVE FLOPS, Urusei Yatsura
Fall 2022 2
SpyxFamily reminds us of the premise. This second installment is off to a good start with Spy x Family’s return. We got two things going on, first, a…
Immoral Guild, The Eminence in Shadow, Management of a Novice Alchemist
Fall 2022 1
And so, the new season has begun, right in a moment when I have almost no free time. Long story. But here’s the start of my Fall 2022…
Finales: Lycoris Recoil and Made in Abyss 2
Lycoris Recoil, my second-favorite show of the season, had set up everything it needed to do last episode, and now all they had to do was finish with…
Lycoris Recoil, Made in Abyss, Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun, Maji
Some finales and near-finales
In Kinsou no Vermeil 11, as expected, we and Alto get escorted to Vermeil’s dark past, and it’s done well, emotionally. She was brought up in a small…
Abyss and Lycoris 12, Tensei Kenja finale
The cavalry! Ta ta-da! For those of you waiting to watch Made In Abyss 11 and looking for more Faputa vs. Reg battling, or Faputa meeting Vueko, sorry…
Lycoris Recoil, Made in Abyss, Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun
Some of the lesser shows, nines and tens
I found Yofukashi ga uta 10 more entertaining than usual because again, more characters are introduced. Also, it’s a stand-alone, and I was happy to get away from…
The Devil is a Part-Timer!, The Devil is a Part-Timer! Season 2, Parallel World Pharmacy, Black Summoner
Mostly 9s and 10s
The plague! Isekai Yakkyoku 9 begins and ends with some evil asshole named Camus, first as a flashback by Bruno, who wonders where Camus went wrong, and then…
Made in Abyss, The Devil is a Part-Timer!, The Devil is a Part-Timer! Season 2, Parallel World Pharmacy, Black Summoner
Sevens, eights and nines
Isekai Yakkyoku 8 mainly follows a pharma guild member Pierre, whose daughter catches the flu. No one else can receive him except the Parallel Pharmacy, where Farma manages…
Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun, Call of the Night, The Devil is a Part-Timer!, The Devil is a Part-Timer! Season 2, Parallel World Pharmacy
7-8s: Abyss, Soredemo, Ojisan, Kuro no Shoukanshi
In Made in Abyss: Retsujitsu no Ougonkyou 8, the two stories, Riko and her friends and Vueko with her tribe, come together as we learn the origin of…
Uncle from Another World, Black Summoner, Made in Abyss, Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun, Call of the Night
Sevens, eights, and a six.
After the death and resurrection and shared heart and love declarations last week, Kinsou no Vermeil takes a little down-time in episode 7. We get a scene between…
Parallel World Pharmacy, Made in Abyss, Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun, The Devil is a Part-Timer!, The Devil is a Part-Timer! Season 2
More Kuro no Shoukanshi, Yakkyoku, Maou-sama, Lycoris, Ojisan, Tensai Kenja
I like her already. Kuro no Shoukanshi 6 looks like a more peaceful episode, and I suppose the characters deserve one after the hell they’ve been raising. They…
Uncle from Another World, Parallel World Pharmacy, Black Summoner, Lycoris Recoil
More sixes: Lycoris, Tensei Kenja, Vermeil, Abyss 2, Yofukashi, Soredemo Ayumu
In Lycoris Recoil 6 we learn that … Kurumi is pretty much responsible for the botched mission that led to the loss of those guns and killed some…
5s and a 4
I love Funimiya’s expression in this shot. Isekai Ojisan 4 still has only the three of them, and what we get is more of the same. Well, the…
Uncle from Another World, Parallel World Pharmacy, Black Summoner, Made in Abyss, When Will Ayumu Make His Move?
Threes, fours, and fives
Her majesty, before Farma’s treatment … Isekai Yakkyoku 3 and 4 gives Farma the same problem Kelvin had in that other show. His skills are too amazing to…
3-4s, Abyss, Yofukashi, Soredemo Ayumu, Kuro no Shoukanshi
Made in Abyss: Retsujitsu 3 has the trio escorted to a sort of village, where Majikaja explains the situation, basically everyone there is a hollow who decided to…
Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun, Maji, When Will Ayumu Make His Move?, Call of the Night, Black Summoner
Threes and fours: Lycoris, Tensei Kenja, Vermeil, Ojisan
C’mon Takina, lighten up! Lycoris Recoil moves away from caper of the week to have Chisato and Takina go off to a secret base, for Chisato to renew…
Episode 2s and one new show
The second couple could be as fun as the first. The first half of Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru 2 brings us to the sports festival, where Ayumu is…
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Parallel World Pharmacy, Black Summoner, The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious, When Will Ayumu Make His Move?
Some 2s, even though 3s are coming out.
LIttle do they know … On to episode 2s, starting with Lycoris Recoil, with about as good a second episode as the first. The girls get an assignment,…
Uncle from Another World, Lycoris Recoil, Made in Abyss, Call of the Night
Summer 2022 4
I think that’s the gateway to the next world. Kuro no Shoukanshi has Kelvin as the one reincarnated to a fantasy world. We learn that he gave up…
Summer 2022 3
That’s a compass point to, well, you can guess. Of all the shows I’ve watched so far this season, and the few that remain, there’s only one that…
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Made in Abyss, Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun, When Will Ayumu Make His Move?, Call of the Night
Summer 2022 2
A burned-out land where Yuji’s foot is about to appear. Next is Tensei Kenja no Isekai Life, where some adventurers are drinking and laughing at Gale, a guy…
Summer 2022 1
Hello and welcome to the new season, Summer 2022, when there’s nothing to do since it’s 36 degrees outside but sit at home and watch shows, well, there’s…
Finales, Shijou Saikou, Heroine taru mono, Spy x Family, Komi-san2
Shijou Saikou no Daimaou 11 presents us with a couple of surprises. First, the demon lord, or “Complete Failure – Disaster rogue,” er, I’ll call him the demon…
Finales: Healer Girl, RikeiKoi, Paripi Koumei
Aoi seems at a loss. Up to 11s now, starting with Healer girl. Basically the girls have hit a wall in their training, so that their beautiful singing…
Nines and tens–Heroine Taru Mono, SpyxFamily, Kawaii dake janai, Komi-san
Heroine Taru Mono 9 spends several minutes of nothing much happening except for steady progress. Hiyori competes at a track meet, LipxLip practice hard to get a slot…