Winter 2025 Impressions: Honey Lemon Soda, Red Ranger Isekai, Baban Baban Ban Vampire

Honey Lemon Soda Short Synopsis: A high school wallflower becomes enamored with a blond-haired boy who later stands up to a trio of bullies on her behalf. Wooper: My days of calling myself a shoujo fan may be coming to an end, since I rarely jive with the genre’s modern offerings. Case in point: I …

Winter 2025 Impressions: Tasokare Hotel, The Apothecary Diaries S2, Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!

Tasokare Hotel Short Synopsis: When someone dies, they are placed in-between worlds at a strange hotel where they must find clues about themselves and decide whether to go to heaven or return to Earth. Mario: Have you ever been to an escape room? Well, this episode offers something akin to being in an escape room …

Winter 2025 Impressions: Zenshuu, Dr. Stone: Science Future, Promise of Wizard

Zenshuu Short Synopsis: An anime director dies eating bad clam and is teleported to the world of their favorite movie, finally having the chance to change the outcome. Lenlo: As much as it tries to appear as something more, playing up the 90’s fantasy anime style and tropes as well as a “darker” story, Zenshuu …

Winter 2025 Impressions: Medalist, Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku, From Bureaucrat to Villainess

Medalist Short Synopsis: A young girl learns to figure skate against her mother’s wishes while her coach lives his dreams through teaching her. Lenlo: Been a while since our last figure skating anime, only one I can remember was Yuri on Ice. Where that was all about the highest levels of competition though, big flash …

Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction – 10-13

“This isn’t forever. We haven’t seen our last peaceful day.”   The above prediction, delivered by the invader Yuriko shortly before her death, seems unlikely to come true. In these four episodes alone, we see a military operation on a college campus, the continued activities of a young adult vigilante group, AI-powered bipedal robots equipped …