And here’s the second sleeper pick debuting today, an original from Studio Nut. NegaPosi Angler is yet another show about adults, though the protagonist is barely one (college age) and doesn’t seem to be working. Nut has actually done some pretty good work on the production side, though not much of it has been to …
First Impressions – Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan – Kyoto Douran
OP: “Iranai mono (いらないもの)” by Tatsuya Kitani, Natori This is complicated, in so many ways. The psychological side, for starters. We’re revisiting what’s probably (along with Evangelion) the single-most formative story in animanga for me as a fan. The original adaptation aired the better part of 30 years ago, for me it’s been about twenty …
First Impressions – Kekkon suru tte, Hontou desu ka (365 Days to the Wedding)
Fall 2024 is a big season, I certainly knew that going in. But six premieres off my preview list on one day, including three big horses and probably my two main sleepers, is brutal. And a workday? I’m cooked. So forgive me if some of these posts are more truncated than is my norm – …
Trillion Game #01 — Faking It
Never interacted with people before, have you, writers? This is another double episode premiere, and while I glanced through the second, there’s no way I’m dealing with covering it. Impressions: Honestly, I spent most of this episode trying to figure out when it was supposed to be taking place. It starts out by declaring …
Goodbye Dragon Life #01 — “My Boring Life”
Please stop making this show, Japan. Impressions: Right back to the bland we go. We’ve all seen this show a hundred million times in the last few years, usually with a title like “I Have Cheat Powers But Instead of Going Adventuring, I Decided to Farm.” To its scant credit, there’s very little recitation …
Mechanical Arms #01 — Handsy People
Hand puns will be very low hanging. Impressions: Certainly taking a lot of inspiration from Trigger/Gainax, painfully so as this is a very cut and paste premise from a zillion mecha/mecha adjacent shows, but man, am I getting really sick of sniveling protagonists. Give me a Sword or at least a Shinpei. This one doesn’t …