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  • Everything's finally out now and it seems like this season managed to right itself after a very lackluster first week. There weren't any that blew me away, but there are a handful I'm looking forward to seeing more from:

    • I Fell In Love with an Okinawan Girl - cute romantic drama put together with comedic edutainment about Okinawan language and culture (I can't tell how accurate this part is)
    • Sakamoto Days - goofy action comedy vibe reminiscent of both Spy x Family and Way of the Househusband, which puts it in very good company
    • Welcome to Japan, Ms Elf - very cute reverse isekai with good chemistry between the leads
    • Zenshu - amazing animation, but I'm still a little dubious about MAPPA making an anime about making anime without acknowledging the hellscape they create for their workers and also centering a creative lead as the one important character.

    I also want to give special mention to the last garbage review I have, which is quite possibly the most disgusting anime I've seen in a hot minute:

    The plot is that a 450yo vampire has a taste for the blood of 18yo male virgins. He happens across a kindhearted 5yo boy and decides to dedicate the next 13 years to making sure he grows into the most delicious meal possible by integrating himself into the child's family and preventing him from going down the wrong path in life. Now that the boy is 15 and in high school, the vampire needs to defend his virginity at all costs. That all sounds like an ok premise for a comedy, but the thing is, blood drinking is very directly sexual and it's not subtle. We get multiple shots of the vampire's boner in his pants while he thinks about the kid's blood, and he gets a flashback of him killing Nobunaga, who he loved, saying that he climaxed while drinking his blood. On top of this, our lead uses actual, real-life child grooming tactics on this kid. There's a chilling scene where he invites the kid into his room with the door closed while he is fully nude and stays nude the entire conversation. To me this read as a tactic predators use where they introduce sexuality slowly to their relationship with a child in order to lessen the impact when they do actually cross a line, which makes the child less likely to tell anyone about it. The anime treats this all as a joke. Get it, because it seems like he's grooming a child for sex when he's actually grooming him for blood drinking, which is treated as inherently sexual! All of this put together with the fact that the vampire lead is very obviously designed to look like a gay stereotype makes the whole show feel like a deeply homophobic joke. It's really frustrating that this is the gayest show this season, because it's revolting. 0/5

  • I'm a little worried that Miyo will end up impressing and winning over the MIL when her plot arc has been about how she needs to live her life the way she wants and not be beholden to what abusers expect of her. Hopefully she'll end up being a villain, though, lol.

  • "This man looks familiar" she says about a guy who is basically identical to her fiance, lol.

    Also, my friends and I are convinced that Kudou's sister and Miyo's cousin are going to get together this season based purely on vague vibes.

  • How does this show look so gorgeous all the time??

  • The turn-to-the-camera style narration felt extremely weird in anime form, and the prince seems a little bit too scheming to be an endearing romantic lead. It feels like we're meant to laugh at the main character for being trapped in this situation, which I think would work a lot better if she were a worse person - like if she clearly wanted to keep all the power and luxuries of nobility while escaping the social demands and political responsibilities. I'll give this one more episode, but I'm not terribly hopeful, since it's currently fumbling both the romantic and the comedy parts of being a romantic comedy.

  • It's an edgy revengefest, but it at least has some of its own ideas and worldbuilding. I've heard the gore and nudity has been toned way down from the manga, so I'm not sure it'll live up to the expectations of people who like that kind of gritty revenge story, but it feels like there's not that much there beyond that. Overall, it was watchable but very much not for me. I give the premiere a 3/5.

  • This was fun, but I feel like a lot of the humor didn't land for me because I've never really watched sentai shows, so I think like people who grew up on those shows would have a pretty good time with this. I give the premiere a 3/5.

  • I liked this one a lot. It's got a bit of spy x family and a bit of househusband, and the action is well-done. It had a couple fat jokes that I didn't really like, but ultimately the anime seems to be saying that Sakamoto is living his best life, even if he isn't a bishounen anymore. I was also relieved that he did eventually speak, because he was silent long enough that I was worried that was his thing, lol. Overall it was a lot of fun and I look forward to more. I give the premiere a 4/5.

  • I struggle to find much to say about this one, good or bad. It was more watchable than I expected, despite doing nothing to set itself apart from the million other shows exactly like it. It seems like a decent pick if this is your comfort genre. I give the premiere a 3/5.

  • @wjs018@ani.social Not really sure what's going on with the schedule for this one. It looks like 2 episodes are streaming in Japan, but the TV broadcast and international streaming only got 1. Not sure if Japan streaming will stay a week ahead or if it will skip next week or what.

    Also, the ep 2 thread isn't showing up for me when I browse the community (by new), though I can get to it by clicking the crossposted to link. Not sure what the issue is.

  • Farming pokemon seems like a neat idea and there's some interesting worldbuilding here, but a lot of the execution just feels like they did every shounen trope they could think of. I give this premiere a 3/5.

    Also, it was pretty distracting when the cgi monsters are doing their idle animations behind 2d characters who are completely still except for their mouths, lol

  • The action was pretty good, especially for a comedy anime, but the entire time I couldn't help but think that if she has to do that much overtime the dragon is not the correct boss to be fighting. I give the premiere a 3/5.

  • That was cute! It's rare to see childhood friends in an isekai like this and it really worked. The relationship between our leads feels like it's the core of the story and they really sold it - you can tell how well they already know and care for each other even without a bunch of flashbacks. I'm hoping they end up hopping back and forth between the two worlds, since that's an interesting plot element that would be a shame to drop in favor of pure reverse isekai. Regardless, the cuteness of our main couple carries this by itself. I give the premiere a 4/5.

  • Absolutely, I love to see original anime and wish there were a lot more! I actually will be watching a couple more episodes of it, since I like to give a little more leeway to new IP, but I don't anticipate it actually sticking on my list past that since it's such a genre anime that is not my genre (but anything can happen, since it's anime original, lol)

  • The comedy bits of this were typically pretty good (not sure how much staying power they have), but I just can't really get over how much of the episode was devoted to the lives and backstories of the otome game characters. Either make the characters interesting and unique or let them be just tropes and let us already be familiar with them because they are tropes; don't waste time explaining the backstory of the copypasted commoner protagonist with rare magic powers going to a school for nobility as if we've never heard of that before.

    I also may have made the mistake again of imagining a better anime and then being disappointed with the one I actually got (though I'm not wholly convinced I'm wrong - I'll explain in the spoiler below). If it does turn out to have an interesting twist, it might end up being pretty good, but just from what we got this episode, I give the premiere a 2/5.

    So, the impression that I got from the OP (specifically the shot of the daughter and wife sitting down on the couch to play the game together) was that the protagonist girl is being played/controlled by the daughter, and that once the two of them figure out about each other, they can use the game in order to talk to each other, say their goodbyes and whatnot. I thought this would be very touching and meaningful and was sort of disappointed when it turned out not to have happened.

    However, I saw someone mention that there was a major twist spoiled(ish) by the OP, if you know what you're looking for, and my guess is that I was right after all and that it's just going to happen a bit later. Even if that's true, I'm not sure I'd have the patience to get through the necessary buildup to get there.

  • This girl is childhood friends with an entire boyband, lol.

    This mostly seems like a fine shoujo. I'm not a fan of the non-consensual kiss, but I'm willing to overlook it as long as it's not a pattern. I like the character designs, but I feel like we didn't really get much personality from a lot of them yet (which is somewhat the risk you take when you have five main characters). It didn't really do anything outstanding, but it did deliver on its emotional moments, mostly. I give this episode a 3/5 and will stick around for at least a couple more episodes.

  • Strong agree. I watch one of everything, and this time it feels like a struggle to find anything worth continuing at all.

    Maybe it's time to make progress on my backlog....

  • I had a lot of trouble understanding that opening scene and ended up rewatching it to see if I could figure out what it was trying to express. It seemed to me like our main character had quit his job and moved out to the countryside to live a slow life and then got isekai'd? Why? It's always so frustrating to me when isekai story elements seem completely unmotivated. Like, usually, a character getting isekai'd is a reason for them to reassess their life - how did they live in the past, what regrets did they have, and how could they live a better life in this other world? Here, he seemed to have things figured out in his old life, but now he's just doing whatever thought comes into his head next - he even fell asleep halfway through telling us what his goal was!

    I've heard people say this is mostly about the fanservice, but it feels like they forgot to put that in. I can tell this is a harem, and he even managed to get laid in episode one, but tbh this is downright sexless compared to basically every other isekai this season.

    I'm just not sure what the point of this is. My only hope for the plot is that it turns out that his online shopping actually is sinister like he suggested, but I don't think this story is bold enough to go there. I give this premiere a 2/5.

  • Needlessly edgy, underestimated outcast mc, large (partially underage) harem.... yep, we've sure got An Anime.

    I don't understand why a guy with a tradeskill like appraising can't just find a shop to hire him, or even forage for herbs in the woods or something. But no, instead he has to join an adventuring party who hate him and treat him like shit because apparently his class is worthless(??) and he doesn't deserve better.

    It feels like yet another self-insert fantasy where the main character can't be given personality traits or else it'll be harder for the audience to imagine it's themselves on the screen. I give the premiere a 1/5.