Scytalle's Anime
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| (The) 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You (TV) | Awful | I mean, there's no other way to say it. I really didn't like this.
There characters just didn't work for me. These are cardboard cutouts that exist for two purposes. Our female characters have a single defining trait that will be their entire personality, and they are disturbingly head over heels in love with our protagonist they just met yesterday. Our main character on the other hand has one purpose. To constantly narrate how awesome he is for having girlfriends. I literally can't. The comedy didn't land for me, and the character designs aren't even that appealing. So what are we left with? Nothing at all. This airing in the same season as Kanojo mo Kanojo season 2 feels like a joke. Kanojo mo Kanojo treats its characters with respect and actually shows how difficult they have to work to make an open relationship work, both between the willing parties and when considered in light of a society that by and large does not accept that lifestyle. There is none of that deeper thought here. |
| Action Heroine Cheer Fruits (TV) | So-so | This was part of my backlog. If it had been a seasonal show, I might have stuck it out. But as it is, there just isn't a lot of reason to watch this. It's basically a stripped down version of Love Live that just trades pop idols for tokusatsu live action hero shows. That doesn't make it bad necessarily, but it also doesn't give me any reason to continue watching it. At 5/12 episodes, I get it. It just didn't grab me. |
| Aharen-san wa Hakarenai (TV) | Decent | Aharen is a cute show, but it suffers from the same fate as Shikimori does this season. Basically, there's one joke here, and after a few episodes, it just kinda drags as we see the same thing repeated over and over again just with different set dressing. I normally am all about cute slice of life shows, but this is just a little too bland for me. |
| Blade & Soul (TV) | Weak | Pros: Beautiful fighting animations Cons: Everything else Sorry, just not my cup of tea. At some point this had potential, but I'm certainly done waiting for that to happen. |
| Buddy Daddies (TV) | Good | I recognize that Buddy Daddies is not actually a bad show. PA Works has put a lot of love into this. The Animation looks great, the characters are fun, and the world feels lively. So, why the drop then? Well, as cute as our lovably little gremlin Miri is, she's well... kinda too realistic. This is not Anya from Spy x Family. Miri is a toddler and PA Works has decided to show not only the cute moments, but the bratty, messy, omg will you please shut up and leave me alone for just 2 minutes moments that anyone with kids would be intimately familiar with. The thing is, I watch anime for escapism and to relax. This thing just stresses me out. I could finish it out, but it's just not worth it. |
| Cells at Work! (TV) | Decent | Cells at Work is actually a fine show. It's just... clearly educational fare with no overarching plot. We just learn about diseases and other stuff around the body each episode. Wasn't totally feeling it. |
| Champignon Witch (TV) | Decent | Feels like this show was made for kids. We get very little genuine character interaction. It's mostly just the narrator explaining the subtext to us as things happen so you don't have to think critically about anything. God forbid you give the characters in a romance any space to actually just be themselves and have things happen organically. Anyway. The style is pretty unique and the visuals and animations are nice. If you like this sort of vibe, I'm sure this is a good one. Just definitely not for me. |
| Chobits (TV) | So-so | 7 episodes in and I'm still not hooked. This show moves entirely too slow and Chi isn't doing much for me. |
| Cultural Exchange With a Game Centre Girl (TV) | Not really good | I have to admit that this just isn't working. The comedy wasn't great, the visuals aren't particularly good, and the "plot" is doing nothing for me. However, it really all comes down to the series' entire premise is that a middle school girl from England has moved to Tokyo and is struggling to integrate into a new society. Interesting premise. Except, then she immediately falls in love with a worker at the game center, and the series' entire purpose from then on is her trying to date him. Except he's like definitely way too old for her. So sorry, gonna leave this one here. It was nice that they got a voice actress who is clearly fluent in English though. |
| DAN DA DAN (TV) | Good | If I look objectively at this situation, there are two things that are true here. 1, this is objectively probably a pretty great anime. 2, this anime doesn't work for me. I have long known that anime that leans too far into absurdity is a turn off for me. I can be okay with shows that are ridiculous but at least have consistent characters I can get behind, even if their world is ridiculous. But when the characters we have are just as weird as the world, that's where it loses me. I know they each have their own struggles, and they are probably handled well enough. But I just couldn't buy into them. As a result, I have no choice but to admit this just isn't my thing. Too bad too, I was saving it for a rainy day. |
| Date A Live V (TV) | Not really good | It feels weird to drop this going into season 5. But I finally have to be honest with myself. This show has never been very good. It's mostly just a spectacle to see our 10 harem members move about as a single unit like they've been stuck together by Link in TotK. If you're going to have so many love interests, maybe give them individual things to do? Or anything to at all to do? |
| (The) Day I Became a God (TV) | So-so | This is a Jun Maeda show, so I went into it with high expectations. I loved Angel Beats a ton, and Charlotte, while somewhat flawed, was still a positive experience. This show though... It just didn't have it. Maeda's works rely on deep character drama. To make that happen, you have to properly set the stage for the audience. But I think this show spent too long messing around, then suddenly decided oh no wait, this is going to be sad! Except, it's a been a comedy this whole time with kind of flat characters. Izanami's backstory with her parents was about the only thing that got me. It's a shame, but this show just couldn't make me buy in. |
| (The) Detective Is Already Dead (TV) | Decent | I wish this was a mystery show, but it didn't end up that way. It's kind of a generic harem/fanservice-y comedy thing, with light amounts of drama (thus far). There's nothing all that compelling so far about the characters, the mysteries, or the overarching story though, so I'm dropping this as of episode 4. |
| Dr. Stone: New World (TV 3) | Good | There's nothing in Dr. Stone that's really pulling me along and demanding I keep watching. I enjoy it somewhat, but I'm really missing the focus on DIY science from seasons 1 and 2. Somewhere along the way this turned into a standard shonen show with them building tanks and battleships offscreen. More magic than actual science. I think I need to let this one sit for a while. I'll come back if I'm feeling it. |
| Encouragement of Climb Second Season (TV) | Decent | I had a hard time deciding whether to drop this or not. In the end though, I just wasn't enjoying it, which means it's time to go. I think there's actually a lot to like here. It's wonderful to see a group of girls going mountain climbing and just enjoying the outdoors. However, the characters just did not mesh with me for some reason. I found myself simply not really caring about them, and this is the sort of show where that kind of thing can really ruin the experience.
Other than the characters, there's really no other plot to speak of, so that's kinda it. There's also this vague undercurrent of melancholy to the whole affair that I was not digging at all (ala Super Cub). Like, I know in real life that, yeah, it's hard to get in shape and climb mountains and you might not succeed, but I don't need the anime to kinda like luxuriate in that. Multiple episodes are primarily about one of the girls simply breaking down. I don't need that. I was hoping this was going to be an iyashikei show kind of in the vein of yuru camp, but aside from both of them being about outdoors activities, they have very different souls. In the end, I don't think this show is bad, but it's not for me. |
| Engage Kiss (TV) | So-so | I thought this was going to be a fanservice-y action show that looked like a throwback to anime I saw when I was first getting into things in the mid 00's-early '10s. And, we did get that a little bit. But there were some deeper issues that made this drag a bit. The animation looked halfway decent, but gosh was the story even tired of itself from early on. It's like there's no weight to anything here. I just finally came to terms with the fact that I don't care what happened to the main character's family or what Kisara will end up doing. |
| GATE (TV 2) | Not really good | Just not good. The plot didn't land for me and the politics didn't seem very realistic. |
| Guilty Crown (TV) | Not really good | The action was gorgeous, and I was actually liking the story. Until the second half of the show when the heroes find themselves creating their own society in the ruins of their old high school. And then suddenly, no action, just stupid romance in a stupid school. The show wasn't good enough to survive the lack of action, and I stopped watching during the simulcast. Doubt I'll ever go back to it. |
| Gungrave (TV) | Decent | This has been on my plan to watch list forever. I enjoy revisiting classic shows, but this wasn't really what I expected. I didn't really realize this was a mafia thing, and that just has never been a genre that has interested me all that much. I started it, and just kinda petered out interest over a month or so, so it's time to chalk it up as not for me, and move on to the next plan to watch show. |
| Handyman Saitō in Another World (TV) | Decent | This is another one of those isekai that isn't actually terrible. That said, it's not very good either. It is mostly vignettes of our hero and his party as they go about their lives (you get like 4 or 5 scenes per episode). A couple of them were actually clever and interesting. Most of them were generic stuff we see from all isekai. Bottom line, I don't think this is bad. But it doesn't do anything that I haven't seen before. |
| (The) Helpful Fox Senko-san (TV) | So-so | This SHOULD have been the absolute show for me. It's a feel good slice of life show about a fox spirit diety (complete with my major weaknesses, ears and tail) who comes to earth to pamper our protagonist as he struggles through a soul sucking job. It should have been funny and cute and silly... but it isn't. It's certainly no comedy. It just kinda tries to make you feel good I guess? I don't often feel like a slice of life type show is too much for me. I've enjoyed countless pointless episodes, but this is where I draw the line. Spending half an episode to watch Senko clean out the protagonists ears, or for the protagonist to hug her tail is just too little to latch onto, it becomes boring with no personalities to really bounce off of. Of course... there's also the latent uncomfortableness that is underneath the entire thing to blame as well. The show isn't shy about the fact that our fox diety looks like she's 8. That is distinctly NOT something I am into or appreciate in any way, and seeing her in the bath or moaning while her tail is touched does nothing but make me unsure if I should really have been watching this to begin with. At the end of it all, the only takeaways I have from this are negative, and for a show like this, where my sole purpose in watching it is to be comforted before falling asleep, this left a sour taste in my mouth and wasn't doing it for me. Onto the next one. |
| (The) Heroic Legend of Arslan (TV) | Not really good | I dunno, sometimes shows just don't resonate with me. The first few episodes of arslan were a struggle, but once the plot was established and we slowly started gaining characters and arslan and his pals got stronger and stronger as they worked to retake their kingdom I really started to get into it. It was a bit like fire emblem. Unfortunately, the momentum kind of fizzled out as the story bogged down with side characters and conflicts that didn't really mean anything and I'm just not excited about it. |
| Higehiro (TV) | So-so | I was hoping this was going to be a silly comedy, but it ended up just not working for me. It has good production value, but I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. |
| Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU (TV) | Good | Higurashi isn't bad by any means, but... I feel like I get it at this point and it's becoming a bit of a slog. It's also such a downer and winter 2021 just started and I've got tons of other shows to watch. Just wrong place and time for this show. No real excitement left for it. |
| I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class (TV) | So-so | This could have been somewhat interesting. Yeah, the premise is cliched as hell, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it. As it is, it really had nothing interesting to say. It's clear from episode 1 as well that the main girl has quite the crush on the protagonist too, so the "animosity" they feel to each other isn't even interesting. Just another tsundere. Maybe I've just seen too many shows like this, I dunno. Oh well, onto the next one. |
| Kaiju No. 8 (TV 2) | Decent | Welcome to Kaiju No. 8 Season 2 where we're all shonen battle all the time. There's not a lot of room for real character moments. The best episode and arc was probably Reno and Iharu's moment in the sun, where Iharu has to grapple with Reno getting to use a numbered weapon, and he feels like he's being left behind. Otherwise, it's more of the same, Hibino Kafka worries everyone hates him and that he's a failure, we see more fights, lots of grim discussions by the higher ups, rinse and repeat. I'm sure we have more fun stuff to see, but this isn't really my sort of thing normally, and I'm fine with letting it go here. It was interesting to check out at least. |
| Kaze no Stigma (TV) | Decent | Kaze no Stigma isn't a bad show, but seven episodes in and it still hasn't grabbed me too much. It's an older battle shonen and it shows, there's not much here to set it apart from the crowd. Just having an angsty, overpowered teen lead might have been enough when the show came out in 2007, but these days it just feels cookie cutter, predictable, and boring.
My other complaint is how the show handles Ayano. She seemed like a fun female lead. She's brash and has that "take no crap from anyone" attitude. But, the show basically undercuts her at every turn. She's laughably weak next to Kazuma, and never is able to deal with anything on her own. It just angers me how the show insists on taking away her agency. She's clearly only defined by her budding relationship with Kazuma and it feels icky. Lastly, I made it to episode seven, but when they started setting up a mass murderer for redemption, that was when they fully lost me. I don't know if they do end up redeeming her or not, but going into battle with a girl who has killed hundreds of innocent bystanders and only worrying about whether our lead might like her more was enough to make me go for the drop. |
| KenIchi the Mightiest Disciple (TV) | So-so | Watched some of this with a friend. Kinda generic yet funny shonen action show, but nothing to really set it apart from the pack. Doubt I ever get back to it. |
| Kokkoku (TV) | Decent | I want to like this show a lot. The opening is top tier and the first few episodes are pretty good. But it just kinda flounders, and not much ends up really happening. It's a bunch of characters running around hitting the same story beats over and over again, and it's not like the animation is particularly striking or the characters particularly well written. It just sort of is I guess. |
| Last Period: the journey to the end of the despair (TV) | So-so | This just ended up being more of a cartoon feel than a real anime. It had no real overarching narrative, and the week to week hijinks weren't that interesting. |
| Love Live! Superstar!! (TV 3) | So-so | There's no real way to sugarcoat this. I really am not enjoying Superstar. I don't have any characters I particularly like and the Disney magic style of storytelling where practice and training are optional and high schoolers somehow have better visual effects budgets than some Hollywood blockbusters is just not something I can look past anymore. It culminated in episode six of this season where the group ropes three people in to their performance literally seconds before they step on stage who have never heard the song before, let alone practiced the choreography, and proceed to perform an intricately choreographed dance number together nonetheless.
It's just... This isn't love live anymore. The idol stuff may as well be dropped altogether. Just make this a musical about school drama. Because that's all this is now. It's just... Not for me. Decidedly not for me. It feels just a bit too convenient. A bit too simple. So yeah, I'm fully checked out. Instead of half paying attention to the rest of the season while on my phone or something, I think I'm just going to leave it here. Hopefully some new love live series breathes some much needed life back into this franchise. I know this reads very negative, but I'm still giving it a 5 out of 10 on purely technical merits. The CG performances are incredible and overall this thing is really well done. I just hope Nijigasaki isn't the last gasp for old school Love Live that originally hooked me. |
| Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (TV) | So-so | Kinda boring, a bit repetitive, I just sorta stopped watching it. It was ok I guess... if you really are wanting some shonen. You can certainly find better though. |
| Mechanical Marie (TV) | Decent | Mechanical Marie is mostly just inoffensive. I thought the dynamic was cute in episode 1, but episode 2 was basically the same joke recycled again. Given, I'm watching 2 other shows this season that are shoujo with a blond prince-like love interest, this one is the odd one out it seems. |
| Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (TV 1) | Weak | I tried. I really did. I thought okay, it's only the first couple episodes. But yeesh. |
| My Dress-Up Darling (TV) | So-so | This was just... a major let down after episode 1. Episode 1 had real horimiya vibes to it. It looked like it was going to be a super cute romance with cosplay as the thing that brings our characters together. But after watching episodes 2 and 3, I found I couldn't buy into the characters or scenario. Maybe it's too much fanservice? Not sure. |
| New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT (TV) | Good | I was vibing hard with the first half of New Panty and Stocking. I enjoy these characters and their ridiculous antics. However, I'm not sure why the show ended up like this in the back half. What I mean is that we've moved on from Panty and Stocking related plots to simply little vignettes of parodies of various movies like Shawshank Redemption, the Longest Yard, Aliens, Conan the Barbarian, The Thing, etc... I'm sure there were more, but frankly, I'm surprised I even noticed this many. I'm really not into movies, I haven't even seen any of the above films all the way through actually. So when we get The Thing, but Panty is The Thing and she sucks the life out of everyone by... you know... I'm sure that's cool if you like the film, but it just does nothing for me.
That was the last 2-3 episodes I watched before I gave up. I actually looked up reviews of the next couple episodes, and found there were mostly just more movie parodies. So yeah, I'm good. I've never really seen a show that so definitely shouted at me that it was not for me, but this is it I guess. I have to wonder what anime fans born 10 or 15 years after me think about all of this. Those movies have to be positively ancient for them. This show might not be approachable at all for someone born after 2000, unless they're a real film buff. Bummer. |
| Nyaight of the Living Cat (TV) | So-so | I wanted to like this one. It had an absurd premise ripe for parody, laughs, and silly moments. However, that wasn't what we end up getting. Sure, the characters do lament how cute their attackers are, but otherwise this is played largely straight, with drama and tension as the primary drivers of the show. It just adds up to me not really getting anything out of this that I couldn't get from better zombie shows. |
| PERSONA 5 the Animation (TV) | So-so | I think watching a playthrough of the game would probably be more fun than this show. |
| Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ (TV) | Good | This show wasn't bad actually. It's an early effort by Gen Urobochi before he went on to do his more famous projects. It's got a solid mafia/gangster underground aesthetic as it follows two super assassins as they are used by various shady organizations to try to bring order to the word in the shadows. I got about half way through before I kinda lost interest. One big turnoff for me in shows is emotionless characters. I have a super hard time connecting with them and feeling like they are real. Both of the main characters in this show fit the bill. I have to admit, objectively, this is probably worth seeing. Just not for me. |
| Platinum End (TV) | So-so | This show is by the guys who did Death Note. It didn't have great reviews, but I figured I'd give it a shot just to see what they were up to. Turns out it's kinda a Fate style battle royale thing, except it's mostly just people hiding. Didn't really do it for me. |
| (The) Promised Neverland (TV 2) | So-so | Wow, this wasn't what I expected. The tone has shifted completely away from thriller/horror and into a sort of fantasy adventure style. I don't feel like there was enough setup for the larger world, and the huge cast of characters, of which we only really know four or five, doesn't help things. In the end, I feel like season 1 is a completely different show. This wasn't what season 1 promised us. |
| Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace (TV) | So-so | I'm down with the mystery, the blood, the gore, all of it. I want more shows that embrace that. But this show was kinda just creepy, and not in a good way, and was weirdly fetish focused. Not my cup of tea. |
| Recently, my sister is unusual. (TV) | Bad | The first episode was interesting, it crossed a line I didn't expect to see crossed in a normal anime. But anyway, after the first two episodes featured scenes where the main girl has to go to the bathroom but can't due to her being the least assertive person on the planet ("I have to go so badddd, but I can't tell anyone that, I'm just gonna sit here in misery!!"). I told myself the next time hat happened, I was dropping the show. I couldn't wait. Then it didn't happen, so I just had to drop it anyway, because it just wasn't good. |
| Restaurant to Another World (TV 2) | So-so | As I watched the first three or so episodes of season 2, I found myself constantly thinking "Didn't I already watch this episode last season"? Basically, that's what season two of this show has to offer. Exactly the same thing as season 1, again. Each episode is just someone new ordering food and being shocked at how good it is. That's fine as the setup, but it can't be all there is to offer. Season 1 showed us how our main characters came together to form this restaurant. How they ended up working there and why it was important for their character arcs to grow. It wasn't much, but it gave us a through line, as well as a bit of a mystery of how the restaurant actually worked. This is all gone in season 2. There is simply a rotating door of half episode vignettes of new characters trying new food. I'm really bummed out by this. I liked season 1 a lot. I wish this was more like that. |
| Rock is a Lady's Modesty (TV) | Good | Just didn't vibe with me for some reason. I can appreciate some people will probably love this. I just found myself not really caring too much about the characters, and there wasn't a compelling hook beyond seeing them jam together. Well done, just not for me I guess. |
| A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics (TV) | So-so | This show is just boring, I don't really know how else to put it. There's no drama with our main girl and guy. The only character who seems to be going through any growth is the homeless knight girl and pretty much all of the jokes and such at her expense fall flat to me. It just seems like this show had a couple of ideas and never grew beyond them. I made it most of the way, but I just don't have it in me to finish it. It wasn't egregiously bad or anything, but I was relieved to drop it. |
| Senran Kagura Shinovi Master (TV) | So-so | Let's be honest, we're here for fanservice, right? I get it, but I found myself kinda bored and ended up dropping it. |
| Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie (TV) | So-so | I made it three episodes and change into this one. If there was any more to this show than "look at Shikimori, isn't she just best girl", then it might be worth watching. But... no, there's really nothing more here at all. I kept hoping for some kind of character growth, some kind of anything to latch onto, but after consuming almost a third of the show, I think it's safe to admit that this is all it will be. Shikimori does something cool to protect Izumi, Izumi cowers behind her and thinks about how cool she is and how lame he is, move to the next setting, rinse, repeat, roll credits, the end. |
| Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation (TV) | Not really good | This should be a show I love. It's a slice of life that looks absolutely gorgeous with fun character designs and a whimsical setting. However, it feels completely devoid of life and anything resembling charm. It's just characters going through the motions. Below is my thoughts after episode 4 where I dropped the show.
This is a really strange show, and I'm about out of patience with it. I'm not demanding we need to go full Madoka here or anything, in fact, I think they could make this show entirely compelling even if they just focus on the school life of these girls. But, we're what, a third of the way through the show now? We should know at least a little about who these girls are, where they come from, why they are at the school, and what they are studying. For a slice of life like this, if there is no comedy, romance, or interpersonal drama to fall back on, there should at least be a bit of compelling world building with some mysteries that are slowly unraveled as the girls go about their lives. But there's none of that here. The show is taking great pains to ensure exactly zero plot relevant things happen. We spent half an episode simply walking to class in this one, and once we got there, they simply looked at some flowers and left. There was no point to it. So, yeah, it's a bit cute. But wow is it boring. |
| Stardust Telepath (TV) | So-so | I don't know what it was about this show that didn't resonate with me exactly. It's a cute girls doing cute things show, but the girls didn't really appeal to me, and their cute thing was supposed to be model rocketry, which could make for a fun show. However, it was kind of a drag throughout, which isn't at all what you want for this. I thought the characters took everything a bit too seriously, and there were just too many tears and stressful moments sprinkled in to ever be something that I could just turn my brain off an enjoy. So yeah, this wasn't it, for whatever reason. |
| That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (TV 3) | Not really good | It's strange to think how quickly I soured on a show that I've been decently happy with for the past few years. But 3 or 4 episodes into season 3 and we're all just sitting around a table still talking about politics. Slime's politics were never great, but it was fine, because they were on the back burner. Not so anymore, I guess. These episodes drag so much, I simply can't bring myself to load up the next one. I'm perfectly happy stopping here. It was a cute show, but I'm done now. |
| Tiger & Bunny (TV) | Decent | I did enjoy the half of this show that I watched during the simulcast. I sort of lost interest though and its been several years. I dont really feel like forcing myself to finish it, so it will sit here unless I get the itch to watch it again. |
| Tokyo Revengers (TV) | Decent | It was fine for what it was. But I don't care too much about delinquent/gang stuff in school. |
| Tonari no Yōkai-san (TV) | Decent | This can be a cute show. It's slice of life about various yokai living in a rural human town. Everyone seems to get along great and we get some cute scenes. However, there's an undercurrent of melancholy through the whole thing that just makes it... not very fun to watch. There's something compelling here for sure, this isn't a bad show. It just aggressively didn't vibe with me. I wonder if a person who grew up in Japan would identify a lot more with this than I did. |
| Tribe Nine (TV) | So-so | An anime about super powered futuristic cyberpunk version of baseball where teams can fight on the basepaths and unleash all kinds of insanity should not be boring. But, yeah, it just didn't grab me. |
| Trillion Game (TV) | Good | I'm liking Trillion Game okay, but it isn't demanding to be watched. I don't like how it keeps spoiling its own drama by cutting to future scenes where they've already made it. Takes the tension out. It's kinda over the top and hard to take seriously. |
| Twin Star Exorcists (TV) | Weak | I was relieved when I finished this show. I was just so ready for it to be done. To its credit, it introduced a kinda compelling villain and had a good action scene at the end. It left a lot of loose ends open, but I'm used to that in anime and oh well, it's not like the story was incredible to begin with, so I'm not torn up about having questions not answered. What's that? This is getting two cours?! Dear god, the number of shows that deserve 24 episodes and never got them while this show gets to continue for no good reason is a travesty. |
| Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun (TV) | Decent | There's nothing wrong with this show, it just feels more like a kids cartoon than a proper anime. Sometimes I'm in the mood for that, but it just didn't have a compelling narrative or characters that grabbed me. Cute at times, but mostly just entirely too inoffensive. |
| Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil (TV) | Weak | It just gets to a point with certain shows where I just dread loading up the new episode. This show was so completely unbelievable with a protagonist that I absolutely hated. I thought this was going to be law and order with magic, which sounds AWESOME. But no, there was no mystery or tension surrounding the cases. I'm surprised I made it to episode 8 looking back on it. |
| Yano-kun's Ordinary Days (TV) | So-so | I've been slowly struggling though this one. I wanted a cute little school romance thing, and there was pieces of that, but the vibes are just kinda odd. I guess if taking care of a meek guy who is always getting hurt and needing to be nursed is your fantasy, you may get more out of this. Otherwise, there's really not much here. Usually these sorts of themes are used as a framing device for the characters, then we move into some deeper character drama, but Yano-kun never really goes there. The nail in the coffin was that the new season started and I started watching You and I are Polar Opposites, which is what this show wanted to be, but Polar Opposites is just a lot better. |