My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Short Synopsis: A college student and konbini employee with a subpar superpower finds himself wrangling a much more powerful vigilante. Lenlo: I’m going to be real with you, if you don’t already enjoy My Hero Academia on some level, then you won’t enjoy Vigilantes either. While the focus has changed from …
Lazarus Short Synopsis: A criminal parkourist is recruited by an elite task force in search of a doctor who’s unleashed a deadly drug upon the world. Lenlo: So I watched the English Dub for this, just to try it out and see how it was knowing Wooper would be watching the Japanese, and it was… …
Shin Samurai-den Yaiba Short Synopsis: A young swordsman raised in the jungle is shipped off to live at the dojo of his father’s rival. Lenlo: You know, there’s something almost nostalgic about an almost 40 year old Shounen. It just feels… fun, like it lacks a lot of the self-serious trappings so many modern series …
The Beginning After the End Short Synopsis: Super powered king from one world dies and is reborn as a super powered baby in another world. Lenlo: At first I thought Saikyou might have been onto something, having your MC be from the same world they are reviving into gives them a connection to the world, …
Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite Short Synopsis: A former rock guitarist discovers that the most popular student at her elite girls’ academy is secretly a top class drummer. Mario: Just like the disorientation of its first scene, Rock wa Lady is a clash of two extremes – a splash into a perfect lady society …
Kijin Gentoushou Short Synopsis: A 19th century swordsman trains to defeat demons in an effort to protect his village’s priestess. Lenlo: Honestly, Kijin had me in the first half. I was invested in this cast, the setting, the leads conflict between personal love/desire and his duty to the village, all of it. Sure, the hour-long …
