4-5s, Peachboy, Hamefura, Tantei, and Jahy 1

Back to Peach Boy Riverside, a show that apparently likes to hop around. As I recall there was a fighting contest going on, but episode 4 gives us a flashback of young Princess Saltherine, bored with her stuffy life, meeting Mikoto and marveling that he could wipe out a whole squad of ogres (not too …

Summer 2021 3

Kobayashi 2 begins with a view of Kobayashi's happy apartment building. This time we start with Kyoto Animation's return to TV, Kobayashi-san chi no Maidragon S. The show eases us in with a simple story of Tohru going to attack a new, nearby maid cafe and winds up working there as head chef. Her magic …

Summer 2021 2

Your average quiet university before the fun starts. We start with Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki, where a college boy named Kazuya is shunted off from his school library to a land where demons are taking over the north, and the remaining kingdoms are trying to muster up a defense. Kazuya is meant to …

Summer 2021 1

Here we go again with the new shows I may or may not watch. (For the record, I took last season off from writing, and it's probably a good thing since the only shows I watched were Odd Taxi, Super Cub, and Kumo desu ga, and the last one I haven't watched the finale yet. …

Winter 2021 3

Since some shows are already into week 3 I better finish up the week 1's ... Ex-arm is being coy about itself in the first scene. We start this installment with Ex-arm, where a guy named Akira, who is afraid of technology, gets hit by a truck while running to rescue a girl. Jump to …

Winter 2021 2

One of those openings where you fly over and swoop down to the town. Let's start with Ore Dake Haireru Kakushi Dungeon, where Noir Stadia, merely the third son of a Bayonet, the lowest tier of a heavily stratified European fantasy world, gets pushed aside for his job as a librarian. His best friend and …

Winter 2021 1

My stay-at-home order was lifted this month so it's back to the office for me. I won't have as much time to watch, but I'll at least try to do the first episode posts and maybe follow a few things. As usual for the previews I'll add a screenshot of the first comprehensible moment of …

Fall 2020 3

Akudama begins with it's own title, very bold with loud sounds. In Akudama Drive we have a futuristic Kansai complete with dirigibles and gaudy lights in the cyberpunk style. A girl named, er, I don't know, sees a guy on a motorbike drop a 500 yen coin who refuses to take it back. Then SHE'S …

Fall 2020 2

That's a wall. Now we have Iwa Kakeru! Sport Climbing Girls, one of those shows where the hero, Konomi in this case, enters high school and wonders what club to join, until she happens to be instantly enthralled by something and joins immediately (another variation is when a character is forced to join a club …

Fall 2020 – and I’m already behind

Well, I've moved, unpacked, and most importantly, I have internet. And it looks like I'm already late for the new season. Here we go. Assault Lily starts with a fast scan. Higurashi might be well-received, but I don't like horror, so I'm starting with Assault Lily Bouquet, probably a lesser show. We got ditzy Riri …