It may be my first of the season, but to say this premiere was a long time coming is an understatement. I’ve been predicting a Dungeon Meshi Anime for years, and I’m far from the only one. Not only was the manga – which started in 2014 – nominated for the Manga Taishou four straight …
That there’s an audience for this deeply depresses me. Impressions: The previous show segues nicely into this repugnant garbage, encompassing every abhorrent thing about current fantasy trends except no rape scenes. Gratuitous violence, a sociopathic protagonist, status screens, half the episode spent explaining the rules, and no animation whatsoever. Another horrific, gross revenge fantasy about being …
Meh. Hardly even any drool. Impressions: …And then there’s the exposition in this show. After watching a girl transform her arm into a minigun and another grow to fifty feet tall, the protagonist thinks to himself “Hold on. These people have super powers.” I find that far easier to chuckle at, if for no …
Nothing I love more than nonstop exposition. Impressions: Yeeeah. I know the manga is highly regarded, but this is exactly what I was afraid of. No concept is so trivial that they can’t sit down and explain it like the audience is a bunch of gibbering imbeciles. It’s three minutes into the episode, and …
Let’s kick off the new year with a commission (we love those). Dark Flame Master (he has another project coming up as well) asked me to do a senryuu (a more light-hearted haiku) about my favorite Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu moments. This is devilishly hard, because with 136 brilliant chapters in the books, …
I’m sorry. Did you build your city ON TOP of a doomsday monster and expect it to go well? Impressions: Ah, gratuitousness. Seems to be the theme for the day. In this case, purely of the violence nature, though it’s not like it really built up the girl being gruesomely ripped apart. Though that …
