"Can an anime with one male main character surrounded by monster-girls vying for his attention actually be good?" "Interviews with Monster Girls" proves that, shockingly, yes it can.
This show opts for a cute and wholesome mentor/student story (WITHOUT predatory and gross """romance"""), much to its benefit. Though the girls do pine for him as young teens sometimes tend to do, Mr. Takahashi (the central male character) acts as a mature and wholesome adult, dealing with these young girls in a professional, supportive, and at times fatherly manner. Seeing the genuine care and interest he has in his students is honestly heartwarming, and could absolutely not
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Jun 1, 2020
I came into Overlord with high but ambiguous expectations, with raving reviews both online and from friends. Though it opened as yet another generic, dull, isekai power-fantasy, it took an interesting turn: the protagonist took upon the role of a villain, not a hero. This excited me, prompting a slew of possibilities. Would he struggle to fight against the growing compulsion to commit evil inside of him, and search for the source of this strange compulsion (demonstrated by a green glow in the show, apparently visible only to him)? Would he struggle to balance a tyrannical desire to use his power self-indulgently against a more
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Jun 1, 2020
Overlord II
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Season 2 is a general improvement over season1, primary because Overlord works best when the focus is off Ains. The beginning of this season focuses entirely on new characters in a race against the clock to unite with their former enemies to ward off a coming apocalypse. Side characters from season 1 are given more time to be developed and fleshed out, must to the show's benefit. Seeing characters struggle with the looming danger they all have in common is engaging, portraying Anis as this larger-than-life vague entity in which there is little but still existent hope of triumphing against. Unfortunately, Ains manages to destroy
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