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The Fall 2017 Anime Preview Guide

Okay. Why are people trying to taking the fun out of Magus Bride?

Anyone who is judging Magus Bride based only on the first episode should watch the three-episode OVA which takes place some time after Chise arrives at Elias's home. Their relationship is pretty familial with Elias portrayed largely as a caring person. It's also one of the loveliest pieces of animation I've seen in some time.

BBB&B ep. 1 was the premiere I enjoyed the most. So good to see all the characters and their crazy antics again.

There was a lot to like about Children of the Whales and its first episode. Pleasant character designs, eye-catching art style, mysterious-yet-intriguing setting, some nice ideas in the story, and a kind of Ghibli-esque feel (which I think is a plus).

@ Alexis.Anagram - I am not familiar with the Ancient Magus' Bride's source material, but given your display of aggrieved irritation - oops, I mean "boredom" - at what you've seen so far, I highly recomend you give your sensibility a break and drop the show. I really don't see the element you find so annoying - oops, I mean "boring" - going away as it's pretty much baked into the premise.

I've gotten through things deemed far worse than this and they didn't bother me, but if the concept is already uncomfortable here... I've seen a lot of people claiming it goes away, but it sounds like your reaction was similar to mine, so it might be hard to put aside going forward, as I felt the more I read, the more I felt uneasy at their relationship.

she's hardly in a healthy headspace to begin with. Chise is very much a broken individual who's gradually putting her life together (rather than one of the instant-fixes we too often see in anime and manga) and she learns a lot about how to do that by working with other broken individuals

and more worryingly the jerk teenager near him

...no one else came to help the man they were tormenting despite the fact that it was obvious something bad was going on in the park.

since this was written by the creator of GANTZ

I'm not too impressed with how they are adapting Inuyashiki. The whole episode just screamed to me as, "let's cut out as much scenes as possible so we can squeeze robot action into the first episode!". I very much doubt that the team has as much confidence in the story as they should if they have to resort to that. The episode feels very disjointed compared to the first few chapters they've adapted, and by that I mean 7 chapters, including the massive chapter 1. That's a lot of cut contents and building up just to get to the action scene. Needless to say, compared to what it could have been, it's rather flat.

From the look of it they are probably trying to adapt the whole manga into a single season (if not then it's even worse, because that'd pretty much prove my point). I'm quite worried the story will suffer from that. While the later chapters which are more action oriented could easily be speed through, they seem to not mind cutting out and butchering the non-action parts. It will holds out because of the strong source material. However, if that's the direction it is heading in, as an adaptation it is quite disappointing. It is especially disappointing when illustrations in the manga during the action scene are able to convey movements better than its animated counter part.