Note to future returning armies – please watch this episode for a demonstration of how not to break the news to a mother. OP: “Guren no Yumiya” (紅蓮の弓矢) by Linked Horizon I think it was a pretty much a given that this was the most anticipated premiere of the season […] Read more
Muromi-san was just about what I expected, only half as much… Turns out Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san is a half-length anime – checking in at about 13 minutes with no ED sequence – which is a mild disappointment as I’d hoped it would be one of the few comedies worth pursuing […] Read more
Wow – where in the world to begin… In a way, it seems only fitting that Zexcs chose to bring a manga that revels in the ugliness of human nature with an incredibly ugly visual style. On the other, there’s no denying that Aku no Hana is a really, really […] Read more
My hope was that Yahari couldn’t possibly be as bad as it looked on paper, or else Brains Base would never have touched it. Thankfully, that turns out to be the case. Amnesia may have snapped their creative winning streak, but Brains Base is still one of very few studios […] Read more
Photo Kano is pretty much pure formula so far. The inbox is packed with premieres today, so this one is going to be pretty short because there really isn’t a whole lot to say. Photo Kano comes off as more generic than anything else in the first episode. There are […] Read more
Every season, like clockwork, there’s a show that’s not on my radar screen that crashes the party in a big way. Well… Simply put, the first episode of Hataraku Maou-sama was excellent in every way. I hadn’t initially paid much attention to this series, thinking it looked like a rather […] Read more
For a series that packed as much into a first episode as Karneval did, it’s surprising how little of an impression it left on me. I really want to like Manglobe series. They tend to take on idiosyncratic projects that don’t appear to have obvious commercial appeal, and they can […] Read more
My initial reaction when I saw the synposes and trailer for this series was that it might be a spoof. After seeing the premiere, my reaction is “it better be”. It doesn’t get any more old-school than the premise behind Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince: a bunch of teens at a […] Read more
And so it begins in earnest. A trickle today becomes a flood as the premieres come fast and furious, and this is the first of a veritable busload of sci-fi and mecha debuts (not including the pustulent Date A Live). My First Impressions posts are likewise going to be fast […] Read more
Based on what I’ve been reading today, this may be another series where my take and the mass opinion are two ships passing in the night. Let’s get two things established straight away: I really, really liked this premiere a lot. I can easily see where the show could go […] Read more