Gymnastics Samurai is an absolutely delightful original anime from MAPPA (who you may recall from another dope ass show this season) about a washed up professional gymnast trying to juggle his faltering career with being a single dad. Also a ninja follows him home. This show is fun. All the dudes are dorky airheads and … Continue reading First Impressions: Gymnastics Samurai
Hm. Talentless Nana is a show about- Okay, so its got the generic conceit about the secret school for teenagers with superpowers, right? Training them to fight monsters? And the protagonist is special cos he apparently doesn't have powers. And then he does have powers. And its all very, you know, you've seen all this … Continue reading First Impressions: Talentless Nana
Y'know, normally I'd refuse to call this a magical girl anime because they don't have transformation sequences, but it turns out they do! For their weapons. Wild. This is an anime adapted from uh. From toys. Its based on a toy line. I... guess I don't need to worry about any of the characters dying? … Continue reading First Impressions: Assault Lily BOUQUET
It's an otome anime. There's, like. There's nothing else I can say about this series that isn't already contained in that one statement. It's an otome anime. You got your big handsome dudes with archetypal personalities and a spunky girl with brown hair collecting them like Pokémon. The cold opening is pretty neat I guess, … Continue reading Mr. Love: Queen’s Choice
No! You can't make me do this again! You cannot make me do this again! Every season! Every season I sit here and I watch the worst anime on the release schedule! I will not do this again! Fuck you! Monster Girl Doctor is about an extremely generic young man getting hit on by monster … Continue reading First Impressions: Monster Girl Doctor
This is a short series about a zashiki-warashi (look it up) who moves to Takyo for strategic... gag anime reasons. Its fine. The animation is... not, but it works for the series. The jokes are all the standard yokai gags you've seen a million times mixed in with the city folk vs country folk humor … Continue reading First Impressions: The House Spirit Tatami-chan
Okay so lemme- lemme see if I've got my notes on this right. White Cat (untranslated) Project ZERO (all caps) Chronicle is an anime adaptation of a free to play mobile rpg's third anniversary event, which was a prologue exploring The Lore of the game's world. Delightful. What a bad show. What a bad, bad, … Continue reading First Impressions: Shironeko Project ZERO Chronicle
This is an anime about a gyaru who wakes up one morning to discover that she got drunk the night before and came home with a dinosaur that looks like a muppet. I ain't gonna lie, I was kinda just expecting this to be a cute but unimpressive little gag series that I'd watch once … Continue reading First Impressions: Gal and Dino
This is an anime about an aspiring artist named Arte who runs away from her life in the lesser nobility of 16th century Florence to take an apprenticeship under a grumpy anime man named Leo. It's fine. The anime characters draw in the style of Renaissance realism, and the clashing art styles is never not … Continue reading First Impressions: Arte
This show's neat. Apparently this is an adaptation of a Korean webtoon that's like, super popular? I saw a lot of hype for this anime when it first got announced and apparently both the other writers for this blog have already read the source material, and yet I've never heard of this series even once … Continue reading First Impressions: Tower of God
