OP: “Kaijuu (怪獣)” by Sakanaction (サカナクション Before we begin, a partial list of the awards Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite has racked up in manga form: Tezuka Award 2023 (won) Seiun Award 2023 (won) Manga Taisho 2021 (2nd) Manga Taisho 2022 (5th) Kono Manga ga Sugoi 2022 (2nd) In short, the manga is one …
Nope, still no idea why he’s doing it. Rarely has one person so exclusively been the reason a show is on my radar – and mid-table to boot – as with Kimi wa Meido-sama. But it really wouldn’t be there if it weren’t for Watanabe Ayumu. Everything about this series looks, frankly, as generic as …
And they’ll be brief ones, I can tell you that. I have nothing to say about the episode itself, which was a recap episode. Now the idea of starting a season with a recap episode is pretty silly to me – especially when you’ve only been off for three months. It makes no sense. It …
The next time someone describes a guild, I may have an aneurysm. Impressions: I would say that this is just like every other show with the exact same premise, but it’s really trying to hide its premise for some reason. This is despite the title of the show and the OP giving away the …
…Why. Impressions: I didn’t go back and watch the original’s first episode, but… yeah. I still don’t understand why this exists. Characters, writing, humor were all perfected in August of 1987, but the problems that needed updating? A slightly different color scheme, a few more frames of animation, and the nipples sanded off. Better …
No anime is ever going to live that down apparently. Impressions: I guess we’ll start with the throwbacks. The positive is that its animation isn’t bad, pointlessly CGI knives notwithstanding, though that could also be how many shows this season are atrociously animated recalibrating my expectations. A gag here and there wasn’t awful either, mostly …
