The Demon Prince of Momochi House is largely playing the beats of a fairly familiar genre of shoujo: an orphan teenage girl stumbles into a supernatural world of bishonen hotties and becomes enmeshed in their drama. I just wish that these hotties had a bit more going on.
You’ll find that death is immediate with this very lackluster isekai premiere.
Delicious in Dungeon may be first and foremost about eating monsters, but in a way, it’s also a story about the importance of self-care even in dire situations.
Is Chained Soldier going to be a story that digs into themes of gender and consent in an interesting and complex way? Look, never say never, but… this premiere is so silly that my expectations are pretty low.
I may be on a watchlist now.
It’s a premiere that’s nakedly yearning for the heat of Attack on Titan’s apocalyptic opener, and I will admit that it hits its familiar beats pretty well. But its future appeal is going to live or die based on how much it decides to center Yuno as the protagonist.
Fluffy Paradise is… fluffy. This isn’t even remotely uncommon in isekai, but generally that subtype doesn’t start with God giving the protagonist the mission to determine whether humanity is unsalvageably racist.
Tackling your backlog can be intimidating, so we’ve sorted through ours to bring out some older favorites you might have missed!
We’ve got almost too many great shows to pick from, whether it’s medical detectives or superheroines.
Our latest recs are a grab bag of Summer shows, carryovers, and endearing oddballs you might have missed.
The series doesn’t provide easy answers, but rather is interested in exploring the nuanced ways women try to survive under the patriarchy and, within their capacity, try to help others along the way.
Let’s dive into the many offerings of what might be the biggest season ever!
Kawagoe Boys Sing! strikes a somewhat sour note with a tepid premiere that’s unremarkable.
A sweet end to the premiere rush that combines aliens, anxiety, and being very gay.
It isn’t the worst show this season by a long shot, but dull as it is, I doubt it will survive on many watchlists.
A mid-tier but enjoyably (e)sports anime with a few rough edges.
An especially exhausting example of a wish fulfillment reincarnation isekai.
hope you have lots of hangers and storage space, because Our Dating Story: The Inexperienced Me and the Experienced You has a whole cargo hold’s worth of baggage to unpack about sexual relationships.
If you only watch one fantasy yuri series this season about a rich blonde tsundere and the unabashedly forward maid who keeps declaring her passionate love…this one probably wouldn’t be my first pick.
Can Rentaro, the ultimate wife guy, handle 100 girlfriends? Can the anime industry even see this through? Will there be a season 2?
