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Oct 28, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (4/12 eps)
Otona Precure is an interesting show in that it takes a formula normally geared at kids and performs minimal modifications to direct it at adults. Specifically, if you look at a decent amount of child-oriented daytime TV (original Precure included) many of a show's episodes are set up around addressing casual life experiences during the downtime, and personal struggles during the focus, using the action/fantasy element as a catalyst to get the discussion about the personal struggle moving. For kids and teens this means that you see them at school or in clubs, or going out and getting a snack or something with friends, before ...
May 27, 2023
Mixed Feelings
As a fantasy anime, Chaos Dragon is mediocre at best, and if you're watching it for the sake of watching a fantasy action show, you are wasting your time. MC is whiny, the world is confusing, and the CGI is laughable.
If you're watching it because you have watched enough Urobuchi, Nasu, Narita, and Shoujo anime, then you're in for a treat.

Chaos Dragon is what happens when you take four really strong writers in the Japanese Anime/Manga/LN industry and let them go complete ham on their favorite tropes. Kogyoku writes a shoujo protag that's endlessly bittersweet, demure, and loyal towards the MC to almost a fault. ...
Jan 30, 2022
If you saw Interstellar or 2001 A Space Odyssey and liked them, you'll probably find this amusing. Not great, but amusing.

If you saw Interstellar or 2001 A Space Odyssey and either disliked it, got bored, or hated the ending, you will not like this anime.

The Orbital Children is a Hard Sci-fi in the same tradition as a lot of space stories from the 60s/70s (see also, 2001, Rama, Ringworld, etc.), and is all about navigating a Big Dumb Object (it's a trope, look it up!) until they encounter and enter discourse with some kind of higher intelligence in the third act.

Most of the fun is ...
Nov 22, 2020
Preliminary (8/24 eps)
If I was asked to compare this to the original Higurashi, I'd smack the person asking across the face. The show to compare this to is not Higurashi, but Higurashi Kai.

Higurashi Gou at first looks like a remake, but it becomes apparent by the end of the first episode that something's off, and by the second that it's a sequel to the events of Kai. As a result, this affects not just the content of the story, but the tone. For those of you who have forgotten or have not seen the original, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is largely a Horror/Suspense show with a ...
May 8, 2020
Preliminary (17/? chp)
Question: How do you stop a charging tsundere?

Answer: You shout, "You're super cute and I like you just the way you are!" And then you kiss them.

Two Japanese students, Endo and Kobayashi, have decided that the villainess of an otome game is just a big, misunderstood tsundere, and are going to have fun doing 'sports-like play-by-play commentary' to a Let's Play of said game. To their surprise and confusion, the prince of the game can hear them.

Armed with foreknowledge of the game's mechanics, Endo and Kobayashi teach the prince the art of managing a Tsundere, and together they plot to see if there's a way ...
Apr 7, 2020
Preliminary (11/59 chp)
Have you ever sat down for a moment and thought about what 'grinding' in a game actually entails? Your character goes into a dangerous place, fights until they're beaten to a pulp, comes back out for a refresh, then does it all again. If you're an average gamer, you're probably shrugging and saying, "So what?" but take a moment and consider this from a very different perspective:

What must the NPCs be thinking of all of this? If you're laughing or have a grin on your face, you'll probably find this manga funny.

Save & Load is about a novice female adventurer named Loretta who needs to ...
Mar 26, 2020
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (5/? chp)
This is a manga about a cute girl doing not-so-cute things cutely. Specifically, it follows Olivia, an orphan adopted by Death (yes, the one with the scythe), taught to be a powerful fighter, and then let lose on the world. Olivia doesn't fully understand human social interactions, but she makes up for it with her childlike wonder and glee at mundane things... and by carrying out her soldier duties with the same childlike wonder and glee, which, while effective, is off-putting to many of her peers.

And... that's about it, for now. The story hints at larger plots in the form of an international war and ...
Mar 22, 2020
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (76/128 chp)
Imagine the following sequence of events:

We have four girls. We'll call them A-chan, B-chan, C-chan, and Bear Grylls. All four are stranded on an island.

1) A, B, or C wants something that isn't on the island.
2) BG claims that it can be obtained.
3) A/B/C rejoice
4) BG points out a caveat - something that makes the task off-putting
5) A/B/C make >.< faces
6) They do it anyway.
...
Sep 26, 2019
Granbelm (Anime) add
Preliminary (13/13 eps)
Granbelm is a visually spectacular "serious magical girl" show that falls on its face due to flat characters and clunky story progression.

When characters are done well in anime, you can usually describe what they're like even without much dialogue. You can picture Haruhi Suzumiya or Okabe Rinarou or Shinji Ikari in your head and imagine how they react to an event because there's a layer of quirks and an aspect of multidimensionality to the way they act. The perception of these parts are the product of a bunch of little scenes, often where the characters aren't saying much at all, where a combination of scene ...
Jul 9, 2019
Preliminary (18/? chp)
Most Isekai protagonists max out in Strength, Inteligence, or Wisdom, and overpower their enemies with powerful fighting abilities and magic. Destruction Flag Otome's protagonist did none of these, instead placing all of her skill points into Charisma, and the result is Katarina Claes.

Katarina, a noble, hits her head one day and remembers her past life as a Japanese high school girl in which she played a dating sim which was identical to the world where she now resides. Unfortunately, she seems to be the villainess, and any route that involves her character results in her death or exile. Deciding that this is unacceptable, Katarina decides ...


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