elDLIVE – Episode 1
It’s worth another episode, if you like the premise and can make it past Fanservice-sensei.
It’s worth another episode, if you like the premise and can make it past Fanservice-sensei.
There was a way to approach this concept as pure satire, making fun of both the current state of politics and the idol industry. Instead this show is a straight idol anime with a tone-deaf take on politics in the current climate.
Not only did I thoroughly enjoy watching this one, it also has feminist merit! (Enjoy the feeling while it lasts, this may be it for a few months.)
Urara Meirocho is a great example of a show that could work really well for children… if it weren’t packed full of the sexualisation of children.
There is a very niche audience for Spiritpact, and it probably includes at least some people who loved Gravitation for Shuichi’s character.
There is a lot of overlap with Fuuka, another high school romance with a directionless protagonist and presenting women from a man’s point of view.
Some girls who go to a private school are secretly selected by their teacher to battle monsters in another dimension. Not mentioned: why they need to do this while wearing some combination of thigh-high stockings, swimwear, and straps.
It took me two hours to make it through this one episode. This has to be as bad as it gets.
I mostly found Fuuka frustrating.
There are typically three problems with military anime premiere episodes: too many politics, too many cast members and too much identifying personal information. This one’s no different.
This season so far is bad for the feminist liver.
This is a show that made me remember I had an open bottle of wine in my fridge. Silver linings.
What is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and her Pussy tells the story of vagina artist, Rokudenashiko, who was arrested in 2014 for “distributing obscene materials.” What were the obscene materials? Art made from the artist’s own vagina.
Coping with loss through new responsibilities outside the protagonist’s comfort zone looks likely to be the path of this anime.
March Comes in Like a Lion has a real mish-mash of tonal shifts, but it’s handled so skillfully that it doesn’t feel jarring.
This could turn into a pleasant slice of life show, especially if they keep avoiding the fanservice as they have.
The horror parts of this anime could work, but it’s so badly outweighed by the horrendous representations of women and gay men that it’s impossible to stomach.
Silliness is hit and miss for me, but ClassicaLoid sensibly keeps grounded Kanae front-and-centre and insists the goofier characters at least try to fit into her world rather than the other way around.
This is either the flimsiest premise of the season or we’re about to be hit with an onslaught of backstory justifying the world’s rules.
The serious pacing and humour problems revealed in this episode could be just a good anime having a bad premiere or the sign of fundamental problems to come.