DIVE!! – Episode 1
Y’all, I promise I did my best to watch this premiere without comparing it relentlessly to Free!. I swear. It’s just that the show wants me to make that comparison, is the thing.
Summer 2017 Tag
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Convenience Store Boyfriends – Episode 1
If you really need a blandly directed series with snail-like pacing this season, just make it Restaurant to Another World. At least that one has a dragon in it.
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Fastest Finger First – Episode 1
There’s a lot of potential for a fun competition-centric series here, but it’s marred by panty jokes and a strong whiff of Trinity Syndrome.
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Elegant Yokai Apartment Life – Episode 1
This is almost inevitably going to draw comparisons to Natsume’s Book of Friends, that it almost certainly can’t live up to. But that doesn’t mean it’s a bad series.
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Restaurant to Another World – Episode 1
As I began watching this premiere, something funny started to happen – time was slowing down around me, until even the most infinitesimal sigh of non-anticipation stretched across the crossroads.
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Battle Girl High School – Episode 1
There are 14 character introductions in 24 seconds as they sit in a classroom, doing their best to extol the one trait which will tell each of them apart, as their names flash up next to each of them on screen. It’s a lazy, overdone approach to introducing large ensembles, and one which suggests endearing audiences to the characters is a low priority.
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Love and Lies – Episode 1
This is a nightmarish, dystopian premise that’s overflowing with possible avenues for pointed social commentary, and Love and Lies… uses it to tell a milquetoast high school romance?
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Clean Freak! Aoyama kun – Episode 1
“Comedic germaphobia” is not a good way to endear me to a series. So color me as surprised as anyone that I walked away from this one feeling endeared.
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Knight’s & Magic – Episode 1
It’s been twenty-four minutes, and I’m still waiting for Knight’s & Magic to do something meaningful with its hook.
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Fox Spirit Matchmaker – Episode 1
This summary gives you the impression that Fox Spirit Matchmaker is a sweet, straightforward show with a consistent formula. In actuality, it’s a bit of a mess.
