This show wasted it's first 3 episodes.
It's about an isekai toddler that loves petting animals, and in case you didn't catch that, she will do almost exclusively that for those precious, precious 3 episodes of screentime. Just some kid playing with animals can be fun to watch, don't get me wrong. But it needs either a gilfted narrator that can convey they joy and impressions on each animal, or interesting animals and exceptional art style for this approach to be viable. We get neither of those here.
Well, it seems they did catch onto this fact after 3 episodes, so a proper story and a grand
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Mar 8, 2024
Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road
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It's a yuri journey of duty-bound executioner, and a time-travelling yandere executee.
Hence it's super different from normal isekai because All Summonees Must Die. I don't get why are people so smitten with this show. It's twelve episodes of messed up relationship, from both sides. I care fuck all about "world-building" and "plot" if 70% if not more of the story is 2 people faking smiles and lying to each other in some twisted bout of duty. If I wanted this kind of slop I'd give Citrus a swing instead of watching the isekai version. Then again, all poor weaboos with isekai bleeding out of all the orifices in ... 
Mar 4, 2024
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch!
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Kuma kuma kuma bear suffers from the Isekai second season syndrome.
Our teddybear pajama MC punched all the bad guys, gained all the powers, brought happiness to all lolis, saved all the kingdom, made all the powerful friends she needed, enterpreneured all the money and explored all the new world in the first season. So the majority of the second season is spent showcasing each of those spots under the paper-thin guise of "problems" occuring to her friends. Some meager attempts were made to pretend the new world keeps expanding in scope (mainy by the MC saying "Gee-whiz, this new world sure has still many unseen places ... 
Feb 22, 2024
It's an anime with a good source material.
Now for the bad parts: Ray is turned into an annoying retard, and the 20 years behind the times art style of "Tehe-pero~~" makes her even more infuriating. All male cast look like sloppiest otome game parodies. Source material goes slightly into politics, and while nothing truly in-depth is touched upon there, it is way beyond what 12 episode anime can convey. So they just cut it down into "greedy church is inciting commoners" and "foreign nation bad". And since all but Claire of the story characters stand at the center of the political upheaval, this bid for screentime ... 
Feb 11, 2024
Under Ninja
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The story pacing is messed up. Several first episodes have numerous time jumps, that differ in occurence by HOURS, and the exact timeline isn't presented clearly. It would be much easier to watch if a clear time stamps were provided. You can shove those 1:34PM 24 September 20XX, I can't even finish reading it before the action resumes.
The overarching story, or should I say world situation is similiarly very complex. It is quite compelling actually. And this story is THE Protagonist. In this anime singular characters don't matter, what matters is painting the ongoing, and escalating conflict between ninja factions. The main cast, secondary cast, none ... 
Jan 7, 2024
Dekoboko Majo no Oyako Jijou
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The show is very flat emotionally. There is no drama, no disastrous misunderstanding, no heart-squeezing shows of affection.
The relations betweeen each character remain what they were at their introduction throughout the whole story. The world in general is very static, so slice of life fits this show to a T. Comedy is very rudimentary as well, with obvious set-ups and punchlines. All this doesn't make the show lacking though, it just aims to fit the niche of easily watched and forgettable shows. It doesn't feel wrong to drop it at whatever episode, or pick it up. It's fine for watching when you've had enough of everything. I'm reluctant ... 
Jan 4, 2024
With the world exposition done in previous season, more stress is being put on the overarching plot of the story.
The crisp feeling of discovering a new world fades bit by bit, and storytelling is in my subjective opinion markedly worse than the preceding season. With the plot armor of being fundamentally and inextricably linked to the THE mystery of being isekai-ed, our protagonist uncovers new facets of the plot wherever he goes, despite having no real agency to understand it. Other characters linked to the mystery tend to push the protagonist where he needs to be in order for plot to progress. It is not a good thing ... 
Jan 4, 2024
Ququ Bucai, Zaixia Yeguai
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Although the still widely unfamiliar language is certainly a barrier, this little chineese show does a great job with pacing.
Despite episodes being shorter by good 5 minutes from the standard format, the storytelling feels neither rushed, omitted or overly lenghty and boring. The story is compacted well enough to feel like I saw 2 episodes worth of story in 15 minutes. This season focuses on assembling the main cast, and sketching the overall panorama of the world presented, not heavily touching upon the main plot just yet. As for flaws, the use of 3dcg shows a bit too obviously, and the characters, while quirky and free ... 
Jan 3, 2024
Hikikomari Kyuuketsuki no Monmon
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///BREAKING NEWS///
MAL-assigned anime genres are horseshit accurate, and synopsis is misleading. Anyway, his anime is... for acquired tastes only. I think it wants to be WataMote with MC being a girl being bullied into a hikikomori who's bending backwards to seem as appealing, cute and quirky to viewers as possible. Plot tries to be a comedy of coincidences where our incomptetent, weakling heroine maintains her status of a strong military officer with bullshit and plot armor. That would be ok-ish watch. It seems that ok-ish wasn't satisfying enough though, so every 2-3 episodes the show switches from "quirky heroine doing silly things" moe(?) comedy genre to "bullied heroine ... 
Nov 17, 2023
First season was a lukewarm anime with a mannequin protagonist, bereft of any goals or desires, being swept up with the flow left and right. It had "ehe~"s, "ah~"s and "touya-san~"s that each woman had to moan separately, low quality battle scenes, shallow characters, low-effort service scenes, nauseating glorification of the protagonist and a storyline that makes the protagonist so powerful the only thing that stops him from resolving problems instantly is his wishy-washy attitude and imagined problems.
But it still had that isekai charm where new, exotic environments were introduced, and worldbuilding was progressing somewhat. Second season has none of the good things the first one ... |
