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A bit less exciting of a season this time, I think.
Eager to continue:
impatiently for the Eminence in Shadow movie, this is the best replacement I have. Not 100% sold on it just yet, but it’s got a very similar vibe.I’m also watching (for now): Negative Positive Angler, Mecha-Ude, Magilumiere, and Ranma 1/2
And now for the garbage bin (things that weren’t good enough for me to make threads about)
The Most Notorious Talker Runs the World's Greatest Clan
Edgy “everybody underestimates me but I’m actually super strong” type story. Its strengths are all undercut by the fact that the main character is basically just a bard, but the story takes itself too seriously to let him just sing. He even uses a skill called “Wolf’s Bellow: Stun Howl” and doesn’t even have to howl like a wolf to activate it. 3/5
P.S. it’s very easy to read the main character as trans, as he’s very femme-presenting in his childhood flashbacks, and I think that’s neat.
Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister
This pulls the same trick as Quintessential Quintuplets where it says the main character will marry one of the sisters but doesn’t say which. The problem is that it also has a vintage harem setup where there’s one older onee-san type, one spunky (too) younger girl, and one tsundere his own age, which carries some pretty clear implications for who the winner is going to be, an opinion it did not bother to try and dispel. It also has the shinto version of some God’s Not Dead strawman atheism that was baffling to see. 2/5
Kinokoinu Mushroom Pup
This one confused me to no end. The somber tone of the main character grieving his childhood dog contrasted against the cartoony mushroom pup and its antics were so jarring that I have no idea what this show is trying to do. I’ll probably watch another episode out of morbid curiosity, but I don’t understand. 3/5
Good Bye, Dragon Life
There’s really nothing going on in this one, at least so far. Main character has minimal personality (which you might be able to tell from his extremely generic character design), even though he’s a dragon and he should have some interesting perspective on the human world. I did not enjoy watching him play stardew valley, but I did enjoy watching him fail to comprehend the romantic advances of the snake lady he rescued. 2/5
The Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians
I really liked the art style of this one, but ultimately the story just didn’t work for me. Everything that happened seemed so out of nowhere and I was left with a lot of questions about how their world works that didn’t make sense for them to not include. I went to see if people recommended the novels, since it seemed like there was a good story in there somewhere, and apparently a lot of this was anime-original?? 3/5
The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest
Yet another “everyone underestimates me” anime, woo. This one seems to include an age gap romance and a guy who everyone hates because he never tells his party members where his actual strengths lie (dps, not support) for reasons that are not even hinted at. The action was alright, though. 2/5
I remember watching a trailer for this one and falling in love with the art style. However, I suspected that the story was not really going to be for me.
You aren’t the first person I have seen to compare this to TEIS. As a huge TEIS fan, I might have to check this one out.