My Dress Up Darling, episode 2 - trying to have it both ways. You can't tell me a character is obsessed with an eroge game and also claim she's innocently clueless about how a teenage boy might get hot under the collar over measuring her up for clothes.
Slow Loop, episode 2. This is an odd anime. On the one hand you've got that puni plush art style, making high schoolers look a bit like squidgy plushies, plus the kind of cutesy voice acting you'd find in Is The Order a Rabbit? ... but then it's also oddly sincere about grief. Coming from a...
Let's Make a Mug Too! episode ... something. I was going to watch The Aquatope on White Sand, but frankly I'm fed up of the repetitive misery every week with the story going nowhere
aquatope on white sand, episode 13. Echoes of Hanasaku Iroha in this - guy gives his new hire a foot-high tower of paperwork, tells her it's operating manuals and procedures, neglects to mention the urgent task to be done by the next afternoon, fails to train or even appraise her on the...
the aquatope on white sand, episode 5. It occurs to me that two archetypes of mother dominate the medium - the overbearing matriarchal ice sculpture and the sugar-sweet housewife. Does the mother have to be cast as this domineering countess for being a sensible, responsible, parent?
Remake our Life! episode 3 - rapidly losing interest. The tone is still melodramatic high-school anime, except with the veneer of university slapped over the top. That might be ok, if it weren't also so vapid (SHOUTING CLICHÉS MEANS PASSION!!!)
Remake our Life! episode 2 - I may just take it back. My god, this anime is a throwback. Fanservice dumb as a bag of rocks, apparently aimed at teenage boys (Also dumb as a bag of rocks). Script is inelegant and a bit stupid. I think what gets on my nerves most is this attempt to convince me...
Remake our Life! episode 1. Mixed feelings. On the one hand, it's very watchable in a season overstuffed with isekai. It's relatable insofar as I've been there, done that, in regretting choices made whilst being hardly more than a teenager. And likewise, I don't mind the optimistic attitude of...
Uramichi-oniisan - some genuine laughs in this. The jokes on performance weariness reminded me rather strongly of my days selling cosmetics, which required much the same level of inane cheerfulness. Whether it'll remain at all funny three episodes in is another matter
Higehiro, episode 13. In the end it turns out the story ends in stock anime melodrama. I was hoping for something more emotionally mature, frankly. The anime only has one thing to say and it keeps saying it as if it's something astonishing. Over the course of 13 episodes it starts to become a...
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