Mr. Love: Queen’s Choice

It's an otome anime. There's, like. There's nothing else I can say about this series that isn't already contained in that one statement. It's an otome anime. You got your big handsome dudes with archetypal personalities and a spunky girl with brown hair collecting them like Pokémon. The cold opening is pretty neat I guess, …

First Impressions: GIBIATE

Go watch it. GIBIATE is good. The characters are good. The story so far is a good mix of ridiculous and relatable. The music fucking slaps. I’m going to gush a bit more, but you need to stop and go watch it, right now, immediately. my recommendation: thirty seconds before this, a screengrab i took …

First Impressions: Ninja Collection

co-written with Charlie. you can check out their archive here if you haven't already. We spent ten minutes before watching this episode speculating about what it could be. That was the most fun we had. Anime News Network claims this is a spin-off of Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories. We could have used this as an …

First Impressions: Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out

It is an established scientific fact that the more obvious one makes it that they want to be left the hell alone, the more people will absolutely refuse to do that.

First Impressions: Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time

Druidquest was very wrong, I get the worst gotdam anime going. Fight me about it. Did you even try? It's a harem anime. It's a harem anime about a Boring Guy Who Happens to be Strong and already has a girlfriend being constantly propositioned by a bunch of monster and human women. He then makes …

First Impressions: Rent-a-Girlfriend

This boy does not need a girlfriend. He needs a vibrator, so he can go screw himself. Don't really have much to say about this one, to be honest. There's some romcom fake-dating hijinks. Kazuya's one of those people who yells at service workers for doing their jobs. Chizuru is great. There is some weird …

First Impressions: DECA-DENCE

Yeah, it's good.

First Impressions: The God of High School

Is this a Dragon Ball thing? This feels like a Dragon Ball thing. God of High School is an adaptation of a webcomic by the same name, about a bunch of teenagers who end up in a fighting tournament. It starts with a couple of corrupt politicians and a bunch of innocent bystanders getting murdered …

First Impressions: Monster Girl Doctor

No! You can't make me do this again! You cannot make me do this again! Every season! Every season I sit here and I watch the worst anime on the release schedule! I will not do this again! Fuck you! Monster Girl Doctor is about an extremely generic young man getting hit on by monster …

First Impressions: Lapis Re:LiGHTs

Harold, I think they're lesbians. Please. Please let them be lesbians. The first magical girl academy is off to a promising, if slow start, with Main Character Girl's arrival to a prestigious magical school with an unfortunate class problem (pun intended). She's immediately sorted into the worst class group, but, in true anime fashion, it …