Instead of making multiple posts with a few reviews here and there, I’ve decided to collect all my first-episode reviews in a single entry, to make it easier for you to skip if you’re not interested. But it’s also easier to find my review for that one series!

( Reviews of 39 first episodes )

So this is the last of the new anime (that we watched the first episode of) for the Winter 2018 season!

Miira no Kaikata: Sora runs the household in the absence of his adventurer father. One day, his father sends him a coffin in the post, and in it is… a mummy. A really small, cute mummy. Of course, Sora is weirded out, but he warms up to the ( Read more... )

This is the second-to-last post with reviews of the new anime this season!

Ryuuou no Oshigoto!: Yaichi became the top shogi player while he still is in highschool. So now he is a professional, and he lives on his own, making his living by playing shogi and training in between. And then one day, a young girl turns up on his doorstep. She reminds him ( Read more... )

Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion: Hayato is a total railway nerd - not that strange given that his father works at the Railway Museum. But when he finally gets to ride on a shinkansen bullet-train, his father is called in for an emergency! And Hayato ends up at the steering wheel of a shinkansen that transforms into the mecha Shinkalion, to battle ( Read more... )

Let’s continue with the new anime.

Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san: Misa is very interested in her classmate Koizumi, an elegant beauty who just isn’t interested in socializing. But she really, really loves ramen. Misa tries to be a part of that, and Koizumi will lecture her about the different types of ramen and the ingredients used. But immediately ( Read more... )

The new season has started in Japan on January 2nd, and you know what that means: we’ll be watching the first episode of (almost) everything that we can put our grubby mitts on, and I’ll be typing up reviews! I’ll all tag them with ‘first episode review’ (like this entry), so if you have no interest in anime and don’t want to read about it, then ( Read more... )

Wow, like usual it’s quite the slog! But we’ve seen it all now!

Yuuki Yuna wa Yuusha de Aru 2: Second season of teenage girls fighting to protect their tiny sliver of reality against incursions from the chaos beyond the barrier that is maintained by their tree kami. The second series seems to set up a new team of girls, but by this time we’ve ( Read more... )

Sjokugeki no Soma: San no Sara: It’s the third season of Shokugeki no Soma, and by this time we were expecting to be bored of it. But Yukihira has decided to get in over his head again, and he is brooding on an unconventional trick to defeat someone who is a lot higher in the school hierarchy… And we just want to see what happens next. The fact ( Read more... )

Sengoku Night Blood: A modern girl gets transported to another world which looks like the Sengoku period, with the same warlords - except some are human, others are catboys and the Toyotomi clan, which picks her up, are vampires… But all of them are, of course, super-hunky boys, and of course the girl is super special…
Reverse harem with both ( Read more... )

I’m running behind with my reviews - weekends are always a viewing-heavy period for us, and with some home projects taking some time (of which later more), I haven’t had time to write proper reviews.

Ousama Game: The Animation: Nobuaki transfers into a class of 32. At first he is decidedly anti-social, but he opens up to his classmates. But then ( Read more... )