Yes, it’s that time again. I haven’t slept in days. Everything is colors. But there are at least two shows this season that fill my soul with music.
DOUBLE DECKER! Doug & Kirill
Shares a universe with Tiger & Bunny but stands on its own; contains basically everything I ask for in an anime.
The Girl in Twilight
I think this cyber-isekai parallel universe story might’ve escaped from 2007, but I liked it enough to try another episode.
Between the Sky and Sea
A 90s Grrl Power show became an anime somehow, with all the low-key cringe and uncommented on microaggressions that genre entails.
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Has some interesting female characters and ideas but is poisoned by a smug, sneering script and insufferable dude protagonist.
ZOMBIE LAND SAGA
Zombie idols. I have no idea if it’s going to be unique or a generic show with a gimmick slapped on top, but I definitely couldn’t look away from it.
Bloom Into You
I didn’t like the manga much personally but it’s a perfectly fine romantic melodrama and important as a both overtly romantic and non-fetishized yuri series. I hope people enjoy it. I’ll be over here.
DAKAICHI -I’m being harassed by the sexiest man of the year-
Actually had a halfway decent romcom setup, which it then promptly ruins by throwing in an attempted rape scene that’s not just normal-bad but also totally out of left field for the character.
UzaMaid!
Literal pedophile gets a job that allows her to prey on a child 24/7. The child’s failed attempts to get her absent dad to recognize this issue are the joke. Anime was a mistake.
Ms. Vampire who lives in my neighborhood
It is gay and wholesome and healing, starring Nice Kids having mild shenanigans. I am extremely about it.
GOBLIN SLAYER
Edgy Grimdark fantasy that wants to be Berserk so hard it hurts, but doesn’t have a single original idea to its name–don’t worry, it replaced originality with lots of rape. Can’t even muster good monster designs like Overfiend.
Categories: Analysis
Regarding Dakaichi: at least it was an attempted rape as opposed to plain old pointless yaoi rape present in manga.
So I will be over there hoping that anime will somehow salvage what it can from that unpalatable trainwreck of source material.
That’s not a hair I’m personally invested in splitting when there’s better stuff out there, but you do you.