A girl is kidnapped as a slave and brought to the royal harem. She has a great time drinking poison. Such a great show. So well executed. Not a dull moment. The characterization is top notch. Maomao in particular is great. Always weird and true to herself, loving poison, completely oblivious to the hot eunuch …
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The Apothecary Diaries) – 48 (Season Finale)
Housecleaning first. Another season of Kusuriya no Hitorigoto was announced along with this finale. Date indeterminate, but there’s already like 16 novel volumes worth of material and only four have been covered so the only issue will be the production schedule. Of course announcement or no, that we’d get more anime was never remotely in …
Summer 2025 Impressions: Tsuyokute New Saga, Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth, The Water Magician
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 …
The Abused Noble Lady #01 — Kicked From the Party
And only eight premieres tomorrow. Yay. Impressions: I’m worn down to the bone on these insecure teenager things and almost to the mindset where a cheat reincarnation thing would be nice just for a change of pace. Whether it’s thrown out of the home for being too perfect a saint, or reading books, or having the …
Silent Witch #01 — And Yet, So Much Exposition
Dude monologues at table. Impressions: The fourth awkward teenagers have feelings premiere for the day and what do you mean there’s still another one to go!? Good god, Fridays. At least this one began and ended with dragons. As a flashback where she just stood there and the things had happened already. Also yelling. And the narrator repeating the exact …
Watari’s *** is About to Collapse #01 — My Cute Abuser
Uhhhh, huh. Impressions: I’m not sure what exactly this is going for, and I’m not sure that the people making it do either. It’s largely the same setup as every other regular dude LN harem things where we spend the entire episode inside his head listening to him simper and narrate everything in front …






