The demon lord revives in the future and becomes a streamer. This was way better than I expected given the concept. Has the ridiculousness, imagination and absurdity which are what make me like anime in the first place. My main complaints are that the shift to the second arc did not work as well as …
Isekai where the main character’s overpowered ability is evaluating other people’s talents. I do enjoy the central concept of this, where it turns the idea of isekai with overpowered abilities on its head a bit by pointing out it’s actually much more effective to lead a team of multiple people with various talents than to …
Girl dates a nutjob. The thing I like the most about this show is how crazy it is. It’s basically shoujo romance meets its logical conclusion: normal girl dates someone she definitely shouldn’t and the audience has the expectation that he’ll grow and mature and they’ll be happy together. But then what makes this show …
Since at least 2001 I’ve deliberately tried to sample as many of the new anime TV and web titles released in Japan each year as I could access. I like knowing about anime. And I find that first-hand experience is useful because occasionally new series surprise me by being vastly different from my expectations. A …
When you hear hoofbeats, think unicorns. Impressions: …Like I said, we suddenly jump instead of an especially nice Dennys. Why is there an entire tree in this restaurant? Anyway, the ‘large animal wound’ she declares to be a dinosaur fossil. Obviously. Like, we understand that bite marks and shearing blunt force are very different things, …
House, this is not. Impressions: This is what I was worried about. I say this with virtually every detective show, but it’s incredible that Conan is about the only one that actually gets them right. The journey is the thing. The investigation. The mystery. The twists and turns. Having the ‘genius’ character show up, take one …
