OP: “Iranai mono (いらないもの)” by Tatsuya Kitani, Natori This is complicated, in so many ways. The psychological side, for starters. We’re revisiting what’s probably (along with Evangelion) the single-most formative story in animanga for me as a fan. The original adaptation aired the better part of 30 years ago, for me it’s been about twenty …
Fall 2024 is a big season, I certainly knew that going in. But six premieres off my preview list on one day, including three big horses and probably my two main sleepers, is brutal. And a workday? I’m cooked. So forgive me if some of these posts are more truncated than is my norm – …
Never interacted with people before, have you, writers? This is another double episode premiere, and while I glanced through the second, there’s no way I’m dealing with covering it. Impressions: Honestly, I spent most of this episode trying to figure out when it was supposed to be taking place. It starts out by declaring …
Please stop making this show, Japan. Impressions: Right back to the bland we go. We’ve all seen this show a hundred million times in the last few years, usually with a title like “I Have Cheat Powers But Instead of Going Adventuring, I Decided to Farm.” To its scant credit, there’s very little recitation …
Hand puns will be very low hanging. Impressions: Certainly taking a lot of inspiration from Trigger/Gainax, painfully so as this is a very cut and paste premise from a zillion mecha/mecha adjacent shows, but man, am I getting really sick of sniveling protagonists. Give me a Sword or at least a Shinpei. This one doesn’t …
Why? Impressions: God only knows why I would have assumed this, but I expected the torture rape stuff to be toned down at least a little, but no. Of course not. Full crotch shots in rape angles with straight up drill penises. …Great. And both characters are incapable of communicating with anybody in any …
