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 …
The second cour I never expected kicks off with another wonderful episode. And with a new OP and ED, which broadly follow the same template: kind of a rocker to open and a golden oldie chart-topper (“Subarashi Hibi” by Okuda Tamio and Unicorn) remixed by Kuricorder Quartet to close. To be honest I was kind …
Meh. I’ll save the world tomorrow. Impressions: The final show of the day, and another timeloop thing, but of the RPG hero demon lord flavor. And you can already see the production woes on display. An entire minute of stills and exposition to set up the most banal story imaginable. Some of these things …
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Don’t they all? Impressions: Despite the messy stabbing, this was way more childish than Nube was. Or maybe just that much worse written. Dude facetanks a laser beam, has super healing powers, tells everybody he’s from another world, is the only one in the world able to wander around in demon-dimension, and everyone’s just …
They’re after our children’s skulls. Two more premieres today, but I need to do some work stuff for a bit. They’re both reincarnation things anyway. Impressions: This episode too, felt largely fine, for anybody into shounen things, but I really doubt it’ll win anybody over who wants something with a little more meat to it. Nube …
