But seriously, why are we in a desert fighting this thing? Impressions: A whole episode milking tragically dying, which, again, is undercut by the already multiple stabbings and self-destructs that take place every third or so episode. Yeah, sure, she got a big sword in her gut, but this wasn't the first time, and ..read more

  Do they just enforce curfew or something? Impressions: The luster's really coming off this as it piles more and more nonsense up, and there wasn't a ton to start with. Her teacher who was presumed dead is actually meeting with some sword witch, but then he shows up to the local demigod to be ..read more

  Definitely the sound dogs make. Impressions: Maybe I'm out of touch with the dating culture of Japanese teenager, but if somebody brought me to their house and introduced me to their collection of shirts that have chimeric multi-heads dogs all over them, I'm not sure that I'd be blushing and getting horny. That should ..read more

  Oh, so Clayface isn't vulnerable to physical objects after all. Impressions: At least it's still trying with the animation, but at this point, the script is quite unsalvagable on both the moment to moment level as well as the macro level. Their big plan was to capture a random elf and then hit it ..read more

  The two tentpoles of current anime comedy. Impressions: At least there's some contrast… sort of. We get the student council, though mainly focused on two of the three. One barely reacts to anything, and the other overreacts to everything. Again though, there's not really any structure or purpose to it past "let's have some other comical girls," and the bigger problem is that these are wells that it's already not so much been dipping their toes in as already attempted to do entire episodes around. Are we gaining much by replacing the deer from last week staring blankly while Ko ..read more

  Shouldn't you guys be… I dunno, trying to save people? Impressions: It really exemplifies all the issues with this show at the moment that halfway through the episodes, the baddies finally do SOMETHING, but it's not clear what exactly that they did, and the reaction from the heroes is instead of rushing to try to help, to run away to the moon to have a long meeting where they decide that somebody probably needs to do something, but first, tea, pep talks, and reminiscing about the last time that something happened and they needed to do something. Really heroic here, team. Way to jum ..read more

  Not things that generally go together. Impressions: Remember this show from its pre-air three weeks ago? Well, it hasn't improved much, and is already attempting to reuse jokes. The core of the issue I have with it remains largely the same, and it's the same as a bunch of these meta-media shows. As "man who grew up with and uses the internet", I feel like I have a general understanding of the internet, even if I myself am not part of the Tik-Tok generation, or really all that into streamers. But I am very aware that "do wacky original things to stand out" is absolutely not what mak ..read more

  Shut up about this girl, already. I'm out of town for a few days. I'm not going far, and there's not a lot of shows Monday-Wednesday anyway (Shy/Vampire Vtubers on Monday, Deer on Wednesday), but things may be a bit delayed. Impressions: I couldn't help but think through this episode that playing up the harem angle would be a rare case of helping things. Not so much for the eyecandy as it would give at least some scenes and situations that aren't Will pathetically mewling for his nonsensical girlfriend and some awareness of characters and possibly even a life beyond prostrating himself ..read more

  Ah yes. The peaceful countryside with giant man eating monsters roaming free. Impressions: Weakest of the three episodes, and a bit of a change in format. This one was split into two distinct halves, which, mind you, is still more structure, format, and purpose than the vast majority of other shows this season have shown, but the first half especially was really insubstantial. Tokiyuki is a bit down and needs a pep talk. That's… kind of just it. Not even a particularly good pep talk. Just look at all these people who believe in you. Oh wait, it's a gag, but whatever, resolved anyway, an ..read more

  What luck it only cuts rocks and monsters. Impressions: The Saturday culling continues, and this was the better episode between it and Sakuna, but it's very much on borrowed time. Sakuna spat out an entire episode farming rice, which, okay, accurate to the game, but those were the absolute worst, most frustrating, and most tedious parts, and definitely not helped by gatekeeping the fun parts behind them. I appreciate that it's not just another cheat power show. The dude is just baseline competent with the magic sword and magical angel girlfriend not really doing much more than cutt ..read more