Dee, Caitlin, and Peter look back on the Fall 2018 season! The team touches on the licensed shows they watched this Fall, including sequels, shorts, and a few Netflix latecomers of note. A busy season calls for a busy podcast.
The Fall went and dropped a variety of colorful anime into our laps, with plenty of surprises along the way! Leave it to the last season of 2018 to keep us on our toes.
Dee, Caitlin, and Peter share their thoughts on how the Fall 2018 anime season is shaping up. Detectives stumble, zombies take center stage, and a few otherwise excellent shows could really stand to cool it with the distracting T&A.
Hey, KyoAni fans! Are you ready for more pretty people with shiny hair looking downcast while working through their past traumas? Because Tsurune is here and it is just about joyless.
The fall shows have had some time to show their colors, so let’s see how they look a few weeks in!
Another batch of premieres watched and reviewed! There are still a couple lagging behind the rest, but now that we’ve gone through the main rush, it’s time to take a look at our latest bounty.
Merc StoriA has monsters that look like Eevees. Highly recommended. Review concluded.
Didn’t Hell used to be edgy? Like, at least a little bit?
Congratulations, Karakuri Circus. I don’t know how you did it, but you managed to make Murder Circuses and Puppet Fights boring.
The first episode of Conception is a bit like bad sex: a whole lot of build-up you don’t really enjoy that doesn’t even pay off with a decent climax.
Shows like GOBLIN SLAYER and UzaMaid! clearly had talent and budget wasted on them, but My Sister, My Writer doesn’t even try.
You couldn’t even let me be angry, Ulysses, could you? Your first episode had to be inoffensive pap not even worth getting upset about.
I don’t know what I was expecting from SSSS.Gridman, but it certainly wasn’t this.
Sometimes, a show comes along that’s very “girl power” in a shallow way. You really can’t think of anything concrete to defend it. All you can say is: “Yeah, but it’s fun.”
I think I can pretty confidently say that if the “cute girls do stuff” genre is your thing, this has a few obvious points in its favor.
IRODUKU isn’t offensively terrible. It’s just boring and bland and thoughtlessly retreads the same insidious tropes as everyone else.
GOBLIN SLAYER, putting aside its repugnant content, is a brainless copycat loudly braying about its cleverness despite being incapable of a single original thought.
If you’re as much a sucker for air balloons, floating islands, and grizzled lady sorcerers as I am, then give this one a try. You may be as pleasantly surprised as I was.
We’ve struck gold, people: this is a soothing, goofy comedy with an absolutely precious little romance at its center.
Lost Song isn’t very well-animated and the script leaves a lot to be desired, but damn if it doesn’t have some potential to go into interesting thematic territory.
