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My Stepfamily Isn’t Wicked #01 — See Title For Humor

  EHHHHHHHHHHHH!? I did glance at Tanya’s first episode since I technically finished the first season… nine damn years ago. It was just as full of meetings and boring as I barely remembered. Impressions: At least it’s pretty expressive and fairly well animated, but good lord, does it run its singular joke into the ground. …

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Summer 2026 Impressions: Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, Black Torch, Iwamoto-senpai no Suisen

Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia Short Synopsis: A curious slave girl is sent to live with a scholarly family in 13th century Persia. Wooper: I’d be surprised if there were another summer anime with as strong a start as Jaadugar, especially since it released its first two episodes simultaneously. Though I’ve only seen the first …

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Banks of the Red River #01 — Even More Internal Screaming

  Girl, at some point, it’s past reasonable panic and on you. Whew. The marathon days are over. Only a handful of premieres left, and I can cull stuff down to a mere three or fewer shows a day. And yet, still multiple shows about reincarnating Mary Sue villainess to go. Aaanywho. Impressions:  This girl …

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Victoria Holds All the Cards #01 — Spies vs Nothing

  Ah, the burden of exceptionally low expectations. Red River should’ve just finished airing (it airs super late), but I need some detox time, and it’s another shoujo historical fiction thing anyway. I’ll get to it in probably a couple hours. Impressions: I consider myself generally a fan of shows of disaffected spies or con …