So anybody with like 15 minutes can turn a stove into a flamethrower in this world? Another day of six shows, one with a double length premiere, and I’m operating off minimal sleep in a disgusting heat wave (these two things are very related, because it’s 6am and I’m already sticky), so if I …
First Impressions – Ramen Akaneko
I always like it when anime teaches me a new word. But as one of them, I’m kind of ashamed that I didn’t know the Japanese word for cat lover for “nekozuki”. I mean, it makes perfect sense but it just never occurred to me. As a nekozuki and a ramenzuki (that one I made …
This World is Too Buggy #01 — Creative Interpretations of Dragons
…You know a debugger doesn’t mean someone who finds bugs, right? Right? Impressions: What a bizarre episode, and for so many reasons. The most egregious of which was the hard turn into existential terror that it took in the last couple minutes when it finally revealed its true premise of being a game tester …
Dungeon People #01 — Just Like My RPGs!
It definitely isn’t Dungeon Keeper. Impressions: Deadpan is better than the alternative of screamed overreactions, but the humor here is excedingly lacking. It spends so goddamned much of its time reciting inane RPG cliches for no real reason. Even actual dungeon management sims don’t spend this much time listing out all the weird tropes. They just …
Grendizer U #01 — Giant Horny Robots
Unfortunately, not the Bravern kind of horny. Impressions: Ah, the 70s. Well before even I existed. I never watched the original Grendizer, so I can’t say if this is any kind of faithful reboot, but it certainly seems poorly written enough to possibly be one, and I generally got the impression that it was …
NieR Automata #13 — Stabby Time Once Again
She’s just not into you, dude. Impressions: While I did finish the first season, I wasn’t the biggest fan, and the massive production issues, including a five month gap before a very rushed final set of episodes has made my memory of it largely just a haze. This episode did very little to help on …