ROBIHACHI – Episode 1
What if someone put Tiger & Bunny and Space Dandy into a blender and then added a bunch of bright food coloring?
Posts by Vrai Kaiser
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Midnight occult civil servants – Episode 1
I think I might’ve gotten hit by a DeLorean and woken up in 2006, because that’s the best explanation for what I just watched.
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Fairy gone – Episode 1
This is a high-concept action-fantasy anime with a lot of balls in the air, but thankfully it has some engaging characters to help juggle them.
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Hitoribocchi no Marumaruseikatsu – Episode 1
Wow, it is refreshing to start the season off with something nice.
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Yamamoto Soubi: This BL Auteur Makes Her Own OVAs
Soubi Yamamoto is a wunderkind who could fit right in as an anime protagonist. Premiering as a director at just 20 years old, Yamamoto hit the ground running and hasn’t let up, becoming well-loved among fans of indie BL for her This Boy… series of OVAs.
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The Magnificent KOTOBUKI – Episode 1
This looks to be a dazzling adventure series with major promise in its cast.
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Bermuda Triangle ~ Colorful Pastrale – Episode 1
This is the first premiere of the season where I left with absolutely no idea of what this show was going to be about.
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Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka – Episode 1
There’s something that sets me on edge about modern dark magical girl series.
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Girly Air Force – Episode 1
I don’t think I’ve watched something with this much of a boner for the military since the last time I sat through a Michael Bay movie.
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kemurikusa. – Episode 1
I am not the target audience for this series, but I was still pleasantly surprised by how creative this premiere turned out to be.
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The Promised Neverland – Episode 1
The Promised Neverland might be the most excited I’ve been about a Shonen JUMP manga adaptation in years.
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WATATEN!: an Angel Flew Down to Me – Episode 1
“Lesbian pedophiles” has only barely become an established subgenre, and I’m already running out of energy for this shit.
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Dororo – Episode 1
The incredibly bleak undertones of this first episode don’t feel a bit out of place in 2019, and I’m excited to see what new ideas the crew will bring to such a well-known property. This might end up being a sleeper hit of the season.
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Pastel Memories – Episode 1
No source material is impossible to make into a good anime, but mobile games come with a distinctive set of challenges. This one seems to suffer from a good chunk of the same issues.
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The Price of Smiles – Episode 1
I think I’m picking up what this series is putting down, but it’s a little bit hard to tell when this first episode is essentially a lengthy prologue.
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Saint Seiya Saintia Sho – Episode 1
This show seems designed to appeal to a roughly middle-grade audience, painting its battle of good and evil in broad strokes along familiar emotional beats and centering on a strong familial bond.
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Back Street Girls -GOKUDOLS- – Episode 1
Picturing the face of the Netflix acquisitions team as they realized they’d paid their usual exorbitant sum of money not for another Devilman Crybaby or Aggretsuko or even Kakegurui, but a poorly paced, fugly wreck that would embarrass itself on JibJab circa 2004… well, that mental image really got me through this, the longest 23 minutes of my life.
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Flowers for Zoisite: How Sailor Moon’s iconic queer villains raised the bar
While the romance between Sailors Uranus and Neptune has rightfully earned praise,Sailor Moon’s other explicitly queer relationship gets little notice. And that’s a shame, because Zoisite and Kunzite were remarkably progressive compared to both their contemporaries and what had come before.
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As Miss Beelzebub likes. – Episode 1
Didn’t Hell used to be edgy? Like, at least a little bit?
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My Sister, My Writer – Episode 1
Shows like GOBLIN SLAYER and UzaMaid! clearly had talent and budget wasted on them, but My Sister, My Writer doesn’t even try.
