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New shows Fall 2024 3
Lovely sky to begin the Ranma reboot. Does Ranma 1/2 even need a synopsis? Well, a quick one. The Tendo family is visited by old friends Genma and…
How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer, Natsume's Book of Friends, Natsume's Book of Friends 4, Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7
New shows Fall 2024 2
An ad for a travel agency. To begin this second installment it’s Kekkon suru tte, Hontou desu ka, where we meet Ohara, a guy working at a busy…
New shows Fall 2024
Let’s start the new season. I’m not going to watch a lot this time because very few of the shows look that interesting. Also, some types of shows,…
Finales, and Monogatari Off 10
A pretty look for Komari. I didn’t get to Make Heroine last post, so here are the final three episodes starting with 10, another lingering goodbye episode, this…
Pseudo Harem, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, Nisemonogatari, Bakemonogatari, Dungeon People
Tens and an eleven (how did Tokidoki Bosotto get ahead, anyway?)
Yuki and Kuze show off their scary looks. Tokidoki Bosotto 11 gets back to the story, well, after some cute “Kuze-kun’s sick so I have to go and…
Bakemonogatari, Dungeon People, Pseudo Harem, Nisemonogatari, SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary
Nines and a Ten
Say “Aahh …” Tokidoki Bosotto 10 thankfully doesn’t digress as much into silly territory like it did last week, but there’s no straightforward story either. There̵…
Dungeon People, Pseudo Harem, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary
Eights and a nine (late, sorry)
I’ll do that for this episode. Tokidoki Bosotto 9 wastes an episode with only one meaningful thing in it. Alya, though she won the debate, feels sorry for…
Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, Nisemonogatari, SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary, Bakemonogatari, Dungeon People
Sevens and an eight
Dramatic camera framing. “Should teachers recommend or appoint student council officers” or something like that, is the story in Tokidoki Bosotto this week, or rather, the big debate.…
SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary, Bakemonogatari, Dungeon People, Pseudo Harem, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
Sevens and sixes
Yeshi-yeshi. Onto the sevens, mostly. Tokidoki Bossoto etc’s episode spends most of its time examining the relationships between most of the main characters. First we get the odd…
Bakemonogatari, Dungeon People, Pseudo Harem, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, Nisemonogatari
Various fours through sixes
All’s well that ends well … wait, the season’s not half over. Lots of drama in Make Heroine ga Oosugiro 4–it can’t be helped when the opening bit…
A two and a three but mostly fours
Lemon just learned Mitsuki has a girlfriend, and it ain’t her. One more ep2-3 to go, and that’s Make Heroine go Oosugiru!, which seems to have sort of…
Twos and threes where they’ve all reached four
Suou-chan is a handful. Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru 2 is a bit of a surprise. It feels like a mid-season episode and more of a character study…
Pseudo Harem, Nisemonogatari, SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary, Bakemonogatari, Dungeon People
New shows Summer 2024 4
Sort of a vignette to start Kimi to Boko no Saigo 2 This last installment begins with Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou Aruiwa Sekai ga Hajimaru…
New shows Summer 2024 3
Yay, I’m officially a week behind! Shoushimin Series starts with the opening credits, kinda yellow. So LAST Saturday saw the premiere of Shoushimin Series, where two kids, Jogoro…
MAYONAKA PUNCH, My Deer Friend Nokotan, SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary
New shows Summer 2024 2
It’s a lovely sunny day to start 2.5-Jigen. 2.5-Jigen no Ririsa stars a high school otaku named, er, what’s his name again? Anyway, he’s the lone surviving member…
Nisemonogatari, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, Bakemonogatari, Dungeon People, Quality Assurance in Another World
New shows Summer 2024
Let’s look at the some new shows, starting with a screenshot of the first moment. Boku wa Tsuma starts with a fridge slowly opening. I’m going to skip…
Struggling to keep up: Shuumatsu and SpiceWolf 2-3, Yuru and Yoru 2
I decided not to watch a lot of the shows from opening week, but I still have too many. So I kind of hope that some of the…
Train to the End of the World, Spice and Wolf, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night
New Shows Spring 2024 4
I’m not as behind as I usually am, but episode twos are out … Seiyuu Radio no Uraomote is on the air! This time we start with Seiyuu…
Mysterious Disappearances, Kaiju No.8, Whisper Me a Love Song, The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio
New shows Spring 2024 3
Looks like the beginning of an exciting kids adventure story … or not. Now Sentai Daishikkaku. 13 years ago monsters came to invade earth, but they were driven…
Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again, GO! GO! Loser Ranger!, Unnamed Memory, Vampire Dormitory
New shows Spring 2024 2
Salad Bowl starts with a scary otherworldly moon, or sun. Now it’s Henjin no Salad Bowl, where Princess Sara and her guard, Livia, are running away from baddies…
Astro Note, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, OneRoom, Tonari no Yokai-san, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night
New shows Spring 2024 1
Welcome to the new season! I will watch as many first episodes as I can stand … well, I’ll watch shows I might be interested in following. Generally,…
A Condition Called Love, Spice and Wolf, Train to the End of the World
Saijaku Tamer and Shangri-la finales
Happy ending. Let’s wrap up the two finales I didn’t cover yet. First: Saijaku Tamer. And nothing much happens. The bad guys were caught last episode, and this…
Frieren and Renren finales, Shangri-la 24, Tamer 11
I was surprised when I heard Sousou no Frieren 28 was the last episode, but then they dropped three episodes in the first week, so it balances out.…
Shangri-la 22-23, Renren 10-11, Tamer 10, Frieren 27
Episode 22’s monster. In Shangri-la Frontier 22, Sunraku’s quest to level up Bilac so she can fix the, er, thing, so they can use the super-armor in the…
Shangri-la 21, Renren and Tamer 9, Frieren 26
I think forming a clan in this game is like forming a band in our world. Not that the second cours main story is complete, Shangri-la Frontier is…
Tamer 7-8, Shangri-la 20, Renren 8, Frieren 25
Ivy makes herself useful again. With Saijaku Tamer we’re still waiting for the pieces to come together. We mostly see it through Ivy’s eyes, and she can’t see…
Frieren 23, Shangri-la 18, Pii-chan and Renren 7, and Frieren 24!
Put Frieren in a dungeon and … The test in Sousou no Frieren 23 seems more traditional. Basically, everyone has to get to the bottom of the King’s…
Sasaki and Peeps, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, A Sign of Affection
Frieren 22, and 6 for the rest
A well-deserved feast after the first exam. Sousou no Frieren 22 is not particularly eventful even for a series where small acts and words can stand in for…
Sasaki and Peeps, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, A Sign of Affection
Tamer 4-5, Shangri-la, Pii-chan and Renren 5
Do RPG-players have this sort of trouble? Saijaku Tamer 4 has little in the way of moving the story forward, apart from Ivy getting closer to the town…
Catching up: Frieren, Shangri-la, pii-chan, Renren, and back to Frieren.
Those birds have a good sense of humor. Still catching up, I look at Sousou no Frieren 19 and 20, and it ends on a cliffhanger. They’re still…
More 2-3s: Dosanko Gal, Kyuujitsu, Saijaku Tamer
In front of his grouchy grandma. Dosanko Gal wa Namara Menkoi is on my “possibly drop” list, but episode 2 brought fourth something I had hoped for, that…
Catching up with Frieren, Shangri-la, Pii-chan and Renren
Back to the continuing shows. Glad to say Sousou no Frieren, apart from a new OP and ED, hasn’t changed. We start where we left off, with Sein…
New Winter 2024 3
Naomi in a plane. Metallic Rouge takes place on Mars, though the places we see look like most cyberpunk settings. Things are set up without us knowing. There…
Delusional Monthly Magazine, The Witch and the Beast, Metallic Rouge, Snack Basue
New winter 2024 2
Ore dake level up starts with a pretty island where giant ants are on a rampage. Let’s start with Ore dake Level Up na Ken, where gates to…
Mr. Villain's Day Off, Solo Leveling, The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil, Sengoku Youko
New winter 2024 1
Time to look at the new shows for Winter 2024! As usual I’ll only watch the shows I’m interested in, which means probably no horror or sports. Just…
Gushing Over Magical Girls, Chained Soldier, A Sign of Affection
The last of the 2023 shows
Though there will be more in a second season, S-rank Musume ends with no additional demon lords slain, no answers about Ange’s past or that little thing that…
Episode twelves, a week late!
Sorry about that. Busy at work, a little sick, and the holidays doncha know. Sousou no Frieren 15 is a two parter. In the first one the team…
A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
All elevens I’m still watching
She merely suggested visiting Ange’s dad without Ange. S-rank Musume 11 presents us with the idea that it’s not only Ange’s past that must be confronted (in fact,…
A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Tens: S-rank, Frieren (okay, 13), Shangri-la, Watashi no Oshi, Toaru Ossan, 16bit
S-rank Musume 10 concerns itself with Ange’s new, self-appointed responsibilities, namely, being a big sis to Charlotte and Byaku. It’s all fun and games walking around the village…
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life, Charlotte
Mostly 9s and a 12
Stark needs some confidence. Sousou no Frieren 12 has a couple of bits revolving around what a hero is, and while the points they make are predictable, they’re…
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life
8-9s: Shangri-la, Watashi no Oshi, Toaru Ossan, 16bit, Potion, S-rank,
Shangri-la Frontier 8 starts with a terrific action scene that has little but Sunraku running around and dodging attacks, which sounds dull, but the animators put so much…
7s, 8s, an 11: Watashi no Oshi, 16bit, Toaru Ossan, Potion, S-rank, Frieren
Seeing Claire in drag makes me understand why Rae is so obsessed. Last episode Watashi no Oshi etc, had that foreboding bit at the end about how the…
I Shall Survive Using Potions!, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life
6-7’s and a 10, Toaru Ossan, 16bit, Potion, S-rank, Frieren, Shangri-la
They’re actually more competent than they look. Toaru Ossan 6 just breezed by. Nothing much happened. Round 2 players can do a new dungeon challenge, get to the…
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life, I Shall Survive Using Potions!
5-6’s: 16bit, Potion, S-rank, Frieren (9), Shangri-la, Watashi no Oshi
Maybe changing the future isn’t such a good idea after all … Finishing up the fives: 16bit Sensation has Konoha figuring out how to transport back (open up…
Not quite done with the fives, except for Frieren …
A couple Sousou no Frieren episodes a week and I’ll be caught up! (No I won’t. Episode sixes are already out) Episode 7 is the more interesting one.…
SHY, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life
Watashi no Oshi, Toaru Ossan, 16bit, Potion, S-rank fours and a five
Claire and Thane are heroes for a scene. Watashi no Oshi … is rather eventful as far as this series goes, though it starts with an infodump about…
I Shall Survive Using Potions!, A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life
Various early 16bit, Potion, S-rank, Frieren, Shangri-la, and SHY
Farther and farther behind I fall … I often find Konoha’s voice grating, and the declarations of passion slow things down, but I’m still enjoying 16bit Sensation. Part…
SHY, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, I Shall Survive Using Potions!
2-3s: S-rank, Frieren, Shangri-la, Shy, Watashi no Oshi, Toaru Ossan
Well, I think it’s a pretty cool nickname. Back to shows I didn’t drop. S-rank Musume, in ep2 at least, still hasn’t reunited father and daughter. The problem…
SHY, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life
Fall 2023 shows 4
Kimizero opens with a sparkling pan-up. For this installment we begin with another ridiculously long title: Keikenzumi na Kimi to, Keiken Zero na Ore ga, Otsukiai suru Hanashi,…
The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess, Stardust Telepath, I Shall Survive Using Potions!
Fall 2023 shows 3
Bullbuster starts with poor lighting. We start this session with Bullbuster, where we see a guy in a mecha getting roughed up by a monster, though it’s so…
BULLBUSTER, UNDER NINJA, Berserk, Berserk, Berserk of Gluttony