The first big domino of Fall 2025 has fallen, and they don’t get much bigger than Boku no Hero Academia. One of animanga’s biggest franchises ever, a true kaijuu massively popular around the world. Seven seasons and seven appearances on the LiA year-end top 10 list – it’s certainly been a big player in my …
At least it’s interacting. Impressions: Basically the same as the previous show, but with genders reversed and more comedic. Just having a larger cast, including multiple who tell the lead that they’re an imbecile for their obsession instead of glorifying it, does do a lot of heavy lifting to make it more tolerable. Hell, …
Ow, my eyes. Impressions: You can probably guess exactly what kind of show it is just from how many screenshots are absolutely faceblasted with sparklies and the pastel filter. It is not subtle in the least. The entire episode is just her mooning over this dude for no real reason, most of it in …
I don’t know whether I liked that, but it was certainly interesting. Sanda hits the ground running with a premiere which was certainly impactful. It was a lot of things and I’m not sure what they all are yet, which is both its promise and its potential downfall. But if boring is the worst sin …
The deluge proper begins with the first weekend of the fall season. We’re still in the “Modestly Interested” portion of the preview with Shabake, but perhaps a bit less modestly than the first two premieres of the season. It’s a novel adaptation, and as such was sort of an outside sleeper despite lacking notable names …
This may be the least Santa Santa I’ve seen. Impressions: It’s probably cultural, but there’s something really weird to me about the show. It’s very much like bad improv, or the ‘good’ seasons of Aquarion, that it starts talking and clearly doesn’t actually know where it’s going or what it’s talking about, but it’s …
