I tried watching:
servamp - awful, actually awful
usagi cooking - not for me, kid's voice is irritating
ufotable show - nothing happened for 10 minutes
91 Days
this has all of the trappings of a traditionally good work. but something about it just doesn't quite gel with me. I mean yeah, it looks great. it has a relatively unique setting+premise combo for the japs. but it just doesn't feel like it can end all too well? it just has that feeling that it'll either do something super stupid that'll push this from pretty-good to bad, or it'll just sorta fall over and skid to a rather underwhelming end. this is mainly based on the central idea being a fairly basic revenge against a bad dude plot. at this stage it hasn't really built up any characters whatsoever and this screams out warning sirens in my head. the main dude has no real personality and the only other dude whose name I can even remember is jango fett but he's just a meme character. I think it might have difficulty creating any kind of genuine emotional core or satisfying conclusion to any sort of character arc. I'm calling it: if it continues at the current trajectory it'll be good, but nothing special outside of production quality.
Battery
edge but good. really hope that this stays fairly grounded. should (should) end up being a fairly nice sports show. the second ep left me worried for the future.
Berserk
it's not the manga and it's not the 97 show but it's also not that bad. the first ep was kinda rough, it sped through A LOT of material very fast and the cg was even worse than the golden age movies. but it's grown on me. the very limited cast of characters (most of the time) means that you don't get a lot of the low quality models that people lampooned in the first episode, and the heavy focus on static shots with the hatch shading makes things not look too bad. but the main thing is that it keeps a lot of the core of berserk. I've long been of the opinion that it would be near impossible to do even a semi-decent screen translation of berserk in terms of the tone and overall feeling, and this is a lot better than expected. it sounds cool, it looks cool, Guts is my hero, and they actually did the rape horse. if this looked good it would be amazing. if this keeps looking bad it'll still be worth watching. I wouldn't tell anyone to start berserk here though; go read the manga and watch 97.
Kono Bijutsu-bu ni wa Mondai ga Aru!
super pleasant to watch. cute anime girls. cute anime boys. light, pointless fluff. that scene of blondie trying to pick up her shoe with her feet while lying down was out of this world good.
Mob Psycho 100
stopped watching this about 5 minutes into the third episode because I don't like it. it's such horsecrap. shitty, kooky, jap humour with super funny facial expressions and crazy dudes doing overreacting things and acting wacky. bungy dogs with animation that goes off model. from my view it is uncomfortably unfunny (all of the 'jokes' continue for way longer than needed; you get the idea of what the joke is instantly but still have to sit there and watch the oh-so-amazing animation of a character moving their arms in a funny way while shouting something overly dramatic) and seems to lack even surface level depth. manga readers may tell you that it is a coming of age tale but, it's just a shithouse shounen crapheap that tries way too hard to be different as its only appeal. anime watchers will eat this up. seriously, just look at the older dude. them: 'haha he's pretending to be psychic lol! omg he did it again haha!', me: 'no thanks'.
Momokuri
damn this is way more enjoyable than I expected. it's super pleasant and just generally inoffensive. it's not the sort of show that I'd go out of my way to watch if it wasn't airing, but I'm glad that I decided to watch it while it is.
Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin
this is one of the goodies of the season so far. the way that it so blatantly fellates the main character in a truly genuine, non-ironic way is lovely. it has no real pretensions and isn't trying to be anything that it's not, and that's all I really ask for. my main gripe is the set up seeming to be unnecessarily complicated and not fleshed out at the same time. I see no need for those spirit things. what purpose can they serve? although. it's just a straight up showdown of BADEMPIRE v REPUBLIC where GOODGUY comes from BADREPUBLIC and still fights for them?? that's cool. characters aren't the greatest but they'll do. really hoping this show doesn't just fuck itself up and becoming an aping mess.
NEW GAME!
cute anime girls kinda doing things yeehaw. yun > hifume = aoba = cat > rest > most girls from other shows.
Orange
I really like the ideas behind this show, but I don't think that it's my kind of show. really really really hoping that they don't go into depth about how the whole letter to the past thing works and just leave it as a broad 'it just werks' system. the thing with people not changing even given the chance to is interesting and, off the top of my head, I can't think of any other japtoons that have done this. but it's kinda ugly. just something about the faces and the mouths in the first episode grossed me out a bit, especially the only-ever-see-the-top-teeth deal that they're going with. might get over this though if it keeps up the generally solid production.
Taboo Tattoo
like a weak high school darker than black with some SERIOUSLY bouncy anime boobs. I was worried early on this season about a lack of anime boobs but this show hits that quota. the quantity of the boobs isn't overly high, but when they come onto your screen they scream at you. it's all you can see. when she moves they bounce. when she talks they bounce. when she BREATHES they bounce. the rest of the show is secondary to those mamms. which is fortunate because I'd call it serviceable at best. yeah, the way they do crazy camera movement during fight scenes is cool. but it's suuuper basic. worth a watch if it's airing. worth downloading and thinking about watching for like two years before you finally end up watching maybe three episodes before you get distracted by something else for a few days and can't remember which ep you were at when you try to continue it after it's aired.
Time Travel Shoujou
it's not very good..... but hey I'll watch it.
Ace Attorney
damn this has exceeded my low expectations. still don't think it would be anything near good if you haven't played the games (go play the games) and I don't like some of the changes they've made due to time. the investigations are trivial, watching nicky boy walk around kurain village just finding every little bit of evidence with no effort made me livid with rage. it's not fair. he didn't even have to do the investigation phases of 1-5 (pls pls pls pls pls do an OVA of 1-5 pls pls). the only change I am a fan of is the removal of psyche-locks because fuck psyche-locks. but yeah. still looks absolutely awful at times. still looks amazing at times. the new OP is slightly better. buckle up for moe the clown boys.
Kuromokuro
PLEASE watch this show. it's the least bad show I've watched in a long time. and it'll be good I SWEAR.
ReZero
the only reason I am continuing to watch this show is so I can complain about it. I dislike it an immense amount and people who like it make me irrationally angry. anything I write about it ends up fairly incoherent, so I'll give it props for inspiring some sort of feeling in me. it is so bad. it has no focus. subaru is a little fucking shit and the narrative of the show can't handle him. everything he does lately makes us want to dislike him because he's actually fucking retarded. this show is lucky that frodo is a certified dead meme. but everything that the show does and shows us seems to make us want to pity him. the extended scenes of him snivelling across the ground like human filth wailing about people dying over and over make me dislike him less and less. betelgeuse is a bad character and that scene in the cave felt like it took an hour when it could have been like two fucking sentences. I don't even want to know how terribly written the prose is for his character in the novels. subaru does not deserve any sort of pity and hearing people actually praise this gross disconnect like it's some kind of postmodern avant-garde masterpiece of storytelling and genre deconstruction is disgusting. nah g. the writer just fucked up. too many ideas haphazardly thrown into a mess of a stupid wannabe self-conscious heap of trash that then goes out of its way to appeal to people. like wtf. rem is a blue hair boobied twin demon maid that is stupidly dedicated to the MC. subaru is your typical dude who likes playin' video games and knows all your favourite tropes. felix???? he's a catboyflirtytrap for crying out loud (good shit btw). and people still have the gall to say that this show isn't just typical ln isekai (I am super glad that this season is the first time I've heard this term because shows that use it are awful and should kill themselves) drivel. I need this to finish and be forgotten about so that people can get back to watching real anime, like Anno-sama's Shin Seiki Evangelion. I can only hope that one day reinhard will whisk me away from my degenerative life and dress me up in pretty ballgowns.
