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Winter 2026 Impressions: The Darwin Incident, Osananajimi to wa Love Comedy ni Naranai, High School Kimengumi

The Darwin Incident Short Synopsis: A human-chimpanzee student goes about his daily life while eco-terrorists plot in the background. Mario: I suppose the reason for Darwin Jihen’s appeal is that we still don’t know where it wants to go with this premise. On the one hand, I do like Charlie as the main character and …

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In the Clear Moonlit Dusk #01 — Rose Petal Karate

  Give the flowers a break, lady. Impressions: And ironically, here we have the opposite from the previous show, both in being more dramatic and in reversing the genders. And yet, still winds up being almost exactly the same. People still appearing in explosions of pastels, the entire thing being internally narrated by the girl, and …

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Polar Opposites #01 — Girl Makes Faces

  Certainly will be obnoxiously screen-cap spammed. Impressions: At least it’s expressive, but the issue with its premise is that this is already the cliche standard going back probably forty years. The fashionable girl and the gloomy boy, covering everything from Dandadan to a hojillion light novel high school harems to Yamada’s Aborted Sex Adventures. …

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Another Tiresome Villainess Affair #01 — Girl Stares

  Time for a day of basically all shoujo premieres. Impressions: She’s beloved by literally everybody except the evil prince and his evil girflriend. We do the whole ball rejection scene and the swarthy foreigner shows up in a literal tornado of rose petals to save the day, and then have the evil girl dragged …