Finales: Peach Boy, Hamefura 2, Maid Dragon, Tantei

On to the finales! Peach Boy Riverside, having no other arcs to jump to and with only the last episode left, says "What the hell" and gives us the conclusion to the current one, where Sally announces that humans, ogres, elves and lizardmen will all make peace. Things get annoying here as the tree ogre …

100-man 8-9, Peach Boy and Hamefura 10-11

If this is a village, where is everyone? 100-Man 8's big question (to me) is why chief Cox want to grind his village into the ground like he's doing? There are hardly any people left that we can see. It can't be simply greed or desire to keep power; he should easily see that the …

Riverside, Hamefura, Tantei, and Kobayashi-san 8-9

When it looked like we'd go off to meet a mysterious witch in Peach Boy Riverside 6, instead we hop, er, forward, to Sally's big decision, Mikoto or Sumeragi, from episode god-knows-what. I was hoping she'd go "fuck both of you, I'll go my own way," but instead she chooses Mikoto, the obsessive ogre-killer over …

4s, 5s, 6s, and a couple 7s–Maid-dragon, 100-man, Idaten, Peachboy, Hamefura

I find I have nothing whatsoever to say about Koboyashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon 4 and 5. Episode 5 might be the more productive in that Ilulu finds something she wants to do and so stops lazing around the house, that is, work in a candy shop so she can hang out with kids, which …

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 …

2-3 Peachboy, Hamefura, Genjitsu, Tantei

Both choices suck for different reasons. Peachboy Riverside 2 and 3 takes the setup and hops around a little, so that it's confusing. In ep2 we meet Mikoto, who beats Meki and takes her horn and evil eye, making her basically human. Mikoto's motives are easy to understand: she hates all ogres for some reason …

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. …

Finales, Tower, Kakushigoto, Nami, Hamefura

Tower of God 12 turns out to be a typical penultimate episode, with the good side rallying, the bad side dying or retreating, and a seeming betrayal at the end, though with all the intrigue and minor politicking going on it's hard to tell what is happening exactly. While Bam and Rachel continue to float …

Tens: Kakushigoto, Tower, Nami, Hamefura

They want the truth. Kakushigoto 10 doesn't have much theme-play this week. The closes thing we get is Hime being a bad girl for eating the cookies and her dad being a bad man for being unmotivated at work … until Hime wins a three-day holiday at an onsen (bring the dog!) and he now …

Nines: Nami, Tower of God, Kakushigoto, Hamefura

When it became clear that Minare would meet Mitsuo again in Nami yo Kiitekure 9, well the episode pretty much played out like I expected, though I was worried that Minare would get sucked in by deadbeat Mitsuo's charms. That did happen, after the expected prequel where she plans various ways to kill or injure …