The Dreaming Boy is a Realist – Episode 1
A better production might have elevated it to the heights of “lower tier acceptable shounen rom-com.”
Posts by Vrai Kaiser
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The Marginal Service – Episode 1
Just a bag of police brutality-flavored yikes.
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Dead Mount Death Play – Episode 1
Dead Mount Death Play has managed to put so many conceptual hats on top of one another that it’s come round to being kind of entertaining.
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Rokudo’s Bad Girls – Episode 1
There are glimmers of interesting thought here, but not enough to keep the show from collapsing under the burden of its own premise.
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Too Cute Crisis – Episode 1
Do you like watching cute animal videos?
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Magical Destroyers – Episode 1
Magical Destroyers is simultaneously A Lot and very little at all.
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Opus.COLORs – Episode 1
Nothing bums me out quite like shows with unrealized ambition.
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The Legendary Hero is Dead! – Episode 1
I would rather chew off my own fingernails than watch another episode of The Legendary Hero is Dead. Or someone’s fingernails, anyway.
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KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World – Episode 1
Some wonders cannot be described, only seen.
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I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too – Episode 1
It’s cool to see a sympathetic fat protagonist, but the show trades that for a generic Potato-kun almost immediately.
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The Dangers in My Heart – Episode 1
A uniquely nauseating opening gives way to an overall sweet rom-com about two weirdos.
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My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 – Episode 1
There’s a few sour notes here that mostly come down to having to get the premise out of the way, but I think this might shape up to be a nice balm for all the people who were crushed when the director of Recovery of an MMO Junkie turned out to be violently anti-Semitic.
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Voice Actress Ise Mariya on her iconic roles, voice actors pressured to be idols, and #MeToo in Japan
We sat down with Ise at Otakon 2022 for a wide-ranging conversation. In the process, she touched on the increased pressure for voice actresses to be idols—an issue that also affects women in other public-facing professions—and how the slow change post-#MeToo (as well as #KuToo, a Japan-specific movement) has given more people space to come forward with their stories.
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Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre – Episode 1
If you weren’t already inclined to check this one out, it’s probably worth sitting back and waiting to see how the much anticipated Uzumaki anime finally comes out.
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The Fire Hunter – Episode 1
A beautiful late entry to the winter season.
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Kaina of the Great Snow Sea – Episodes 1-2
The people look a little stiff, but fortunately the environment is squarely the point.
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HIGH CARD – Episode 1
HIGH CARD is desperate for you to think it’s cool.
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The tale of outcasts – Episode 1
The exemplifying term for The tale of outcasts is “adolescent.”
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“Ippon” Again! – Episode 1
COME GET YOUR FOOD, SPORTS FANS.
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NieR: Automata Ver 1.1A – Episode 1
Nier: Automata is not a work that should be adapted into a passive medium. But here it is, and so we must proceed.
