Summoned to Another World for a Second Time – Episode 1
The possibilities are endless but sadly it’s obvious this show isn’t heading in that direction.
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The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses – Episode 1
This show is bad in an interesting way, in that it reveals the interfaces between sexism and capitalism. Just go with it.
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Magical Destroyers – Episode 1
Magical Destroyers is simultaneously A Lot and very little at all.
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MASHLE: Magic and Muscle – Episode 1
Fantasy allows us to ask exciting, imaginative “what if?” questions, like “what if this guy punched a wizard in the face? Would that be funny or what?”
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Otaku Elf – Episode 1
It’s a supernatural comedy first and foremost, but that silliness is grounded in characters that feel like characters rather than one-off jokes.
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Opus.COLORs – Episode 1
Nothing bums me out quite like shows with unrealized ambition.
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My One-Hit Kill Sister – Episode 1
I’m watching a generic isekai! I’m watching an incest show! I’m watching the combination generic isekai incest show!
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Yuri Is My Job! – Episode 1
Oh, there’s some fun to be had with this premise.
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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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Skip and Loafer – Episode 1
Mitsumi is immediately an endearing female lead: a nervous overachiever who’s not defined by her anxiety, and who balances “competent and smart” with “hot mess” in a believable and funny way.
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Kizuna no Allele – Episode 1
There’s nothing problematic about this show so far. And that’s great. If there’s one thing corporate-backed vtubers are good at, it’s being good at toeing the line to be as uncontroversial as they can in the face of controversy, so you probably won’t see anything too hard hitting here either way.
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Alice Gear Aegis Expansion – Episodes 0 – 1
Alice Gear is very silly, and because its tone and lore are so at odds it’s silly in a way that’s baffling rather than fun.
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My Home Hero – Episode 1
Whoever is responsible for this, I salute you. I deplore you.
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Tengoku Daimakyou (Heavenly Delusion) – Episode 1
It’s hard to write about Heavenly Delusion right now, because what we got doesn’t feel like a full episode. It ends on an enormous cliffhanger, where we are just starting to peek into the menace of the world. It’s even more challenging because what we did get was largely a beautifully atmospheric mood piece, punctuated by only minor intrusions of gender nonsense.
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Chatty AF 182: Ace/Aro Representation in Anime and Manga – Part 2 (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Dee, Alex, and Cy return to their discussion of asexual and aromantic coding, and dive deep into the works of Uta Isaki!
