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Mar 5, 2023
I put off this review for half a year so this will be a further retrospective than usual.

tl;dr novel. in both good and bad

Yofukashi no Uta is something fresh. Like really fresh. Bleeding edge fresh. Or at least it was to me. Right off the bat, fresh colors and fresh angles, fresh animations. It might get tiring if everything was like this and it was certainly a shock at first but, hey once in a while it's pretty nice. One could even say, refreshing. Anyway, this is all to say that while the story may follow a typical coming-of-age comedy the bricks that build it ...
Mar 5, 2023
tl;dr 6/10 unexpectedly great show but has trouble concluding

There was a mildly popular game released in 2013 called Game Dev Tycoon where, as the name suggests, the player attempted to turn concepts into successful games. Naturally combos like adventure+fantasy were successful but once in a while the absolute oddest combos like rythm+vocab+action would become huge hits.

With its Yakuza x Maid pairing, Akiba Meido Sensou is one of those wack content combinations that manages to pull off a win, and like I said about Paripi Koumei, I don't think we'll see anything like it for a long time. Why then do I only give this a ...
Oct 22, 2022
tl;dr formless and aimless, I fell asleep multiple times while getting through it

I really wish I could've given this a better score than a 4. Cute character designs and an interesting premise are unfortunately not backed up by actual content. 24 episodes was perhaps a few too many for this amount of development and plot that honestly could've fit in a single 12 episode season or less.

Kakkou no Inazuke was enjoyable and funny at times yet astoundingly boring and frustrating elsewhere. Perhaps it's part of the decline of the harem romcom in general; one can only watch the same trope a finite amount of times ...
Oct 20, 2022
tl;dr it's idolmaster but it's not The Idolmaster

You might be familiar with Plato's theory of forms if you took philosophy or maybe an advanced English course. If you're not familiar with it basically Plato posits that beyond our perceived reality there is a more perfect existence where everything we can perceive exists in a more ideal "form" or on a more fundamental level. Everything in our world is but an imperfect imitation of these "forms." Anyway, all that to say that Idolmaster Cinderella Girls is like the tangible thing to The Idolmaster's ideal "form." This iteration is no doubt Idolmaster but if you lay them ...
Oct 9, 2022
Mixed Feelings
tl;dr the sequel curse hit strong. lacks the charm and easy humor of the first season

Maybe it's just nostalgia but I swear I remember the first season being much funnier or at the very least much more noteworthy. And I mean from a content perspective it makes sense since by this point Maou & co are more adjusted to Japanese society, but it still means you don't get the same great reverse isekai laughs.

But honestly that's pretty minor compared to the extreme pacing issues. If it weren't for that I'd honestly have given it a 6 or higher. With a nicely sized group of ...
Oct 7, 2022
tl;dr undoubtedly better than the first season but still very very frustrating

I'm not gonna lie I was pleasantly surprised by this season. I walked in expecting more trashy MC and while we did get that sometimes for the most part MC shows strong improvement from season one and actually displays human emotions and thought processes from time to time. So if you're like me and you had to skip most of the first season because MC was a pile of literal garbage rest assured that he is only garbage infrequently in this season. In fact there's so much change in his character between season one ...
Oct 7, 2022
tl;dr gets worse as the show goes on but still worth the watch.

Another isekai for isekai summer, at least Isekai Yakkyoku tries to be a different sort of isekai by isekai'ing its MC into a pre-Victorian-era isekai as an isekai doctor/pharmacist instead of some kind of isekai combatant. Too many isekai's for you in that sentence? Welcome to how I feel about this summer.

For all the people saying this is a unique idea: it's not. I'll give points for this being the first, considering it started serialization first, but it does come after the other two anime. Points for being the best one so far ...
Oct 7, 2022
tl;dr interesting isekai intro quickly becomes another harem collector

I'll keep this one short. As the second summoner isekai this season Kuro no Shoukanshi is also a steaming pile of doodoo but for the complete opposite reasons as Tensei Kenja.

Black Summoner starts out with a hot intro for sure, like Konosuba but where the goddess is actually useful. Hot off the blocks but then it trips up somewhere around the elf girl or if not there then definitely at the demon girl. After that it just becomes harem collection and the quality falls off a cliff.

To be honest I enjoyed the first part of the show ...
Oct 7, 2022
Mixed Feelings
tl;dr mediocre at best

There's something in the water this summer. Both Overlord and Danmachi come out with highly anticipated fourth seasons but both of them are meh.The difference being Danmachi also had a pretty average third season as well.

First half of the season is alright in my opinion. You're thrown back right in the thick of it with another dungeon expedition and with it of course another ridiculous bonkers enemy and another case of Bell getting dragged down into a deeper floor. You can already see the template that we're following here. In the interest of not spoiling too much I'll just say that since ...
Oct 1, 2022
Overlord IV (Anime) add
Mixed Feelings
tl;dr mediocre, especially by Overlord standards

Overlord 4 was alright, I guess. I'm a huge fan of the Overlord series; I consider it one way you can do an isekai right. However, unlike the previous installments Ainz doesn't really play much of a role, so we're missing the biggest draw of the series right off the bat. There are less sasuga moments as well as less OP Momonga/Ainz/Momon moments as well.

Frankly speaking most of the season was pretty boring and highly skippable. The plot jumps all over the place when it isn't being super predictable. You spend 80% of the season watching Ainz's followers having ...


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