I must confess, I enjoyed that quite a bit. If you’d pressed me, I’d have said that between the two reboots of old chestnuts this season, Bartender was the more likely to hold my interest. If for no other reason, it’s even older than Spice and Wolf and I remember less about it. There’s also …
Kai to Otome to Kamikakushi was a series that had an asterisk next to it on the schedule for sure. Initially it was on the periphery of my attention, but once I saw that Mochizuki Tomomi was writing and directing (it’s an adaptation of a web manga by Nujima) it became a subject of interest …
Why has no other director discovered this genius approach to drama? Impressions: I would say that it doesn’t understand streaming at all, but then it also has people using ramen noodles as flails, a dude kicking in the door to a not-McDonalds to scream at a cashier and everybody’s like “well, he’s a streamer, and …
Slap some blood on it. That’ll be horror-ish. Impressions: We start out with some kid undressing, then right to the OP that jumps straight to multiple pans over the main girl being topless. Not so much horror or mystery here as blatant fanservice. Which would be toned down a bit in the actual episode, …
Please stop. Impressions: I had to pause at around 9 minutes in when we finally reached our first ‘joke,’ the statement of its premise. Which first, a character had to shout out. And then one of the girls had to repeat. And then the other girl had to also repeat. It pained me. Severely. …
Boukyaku Battery is a bit of an odd duck for me. As a seemingly straightforward (no bogus flimflammery) baseball manga adaptation it should have been right in my strike zone. But sometimes I get anti-sleeper vibes, and this was a series where I did. Just something about the premise and the look and the tenor …
