WataNare Short Synopsis: Two high school girls test out a potential romantic relationship by alternating between friend and girlfriend days. Wooper: A few posts back, I said that attraction overcoming the language barrier was one of the romance genre’s best tropes. Well, for every good fictional trope out there, there’s an equally terrible one, and …
My Dress-Up Darling S2 Short Synopsis: Season 2 of Dress Up Darling, where a cosplay babe and an introverted tailor work together to make cute outfits and flirt with each other. Lenlo: I have such a complicated relationship with Dress Up Darling. Normally I hate such overtly ecchi, pandering, fanservice focused shows. And don’t get …
Dandadan S2 Short Synopsis: Season 2 of Dandadan, where a young man cursed by a demon and his classmate with psychic powers go on a quest to recover his balls. Lenlo: What is it with this author and trying to rape his female leads? Seriously, this obsession with lewd humor and sexual situations is dragging …
Wooper: We interrupt your regularly scheduled first impressions to bring you one man’s overdue post on the recently concluded anime season. My thoughts on one show in particular proved particularly hard to wrangle, but eventually I managed to get something on the page, so here’s the last of spring’s biweekly check-ins. As for whether the …
Tsuyokute New Saga Short Synopsis: A swordsman is given a second chance to save his homeland from demons after being sent back in time by a magic gemstone. Wooper: They should have called this adaptation Tsuyokute New Shortcut in honor of its cheap production. The identical fire.gifs slapped on top of its world map during …
Takopi’s Original Sin Short Synopsis: An octopus-like alien searches for a way to save the life of the miserable human child he has befriended. Wooper: I typically omit major spoilers when writing these impressions, but since this episode was prefaced with a content warning concerning its most traumatic scene, I’ll address it here. This series …
