Category: Some Quick First Impressions

Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!

Short Synopsis: Big town Tokyo boy moves to small Hokkaido town, immediately gets picked up by Hokkaido gyaru.

Look, I need to get something off of my chest. I’m not proud of this, but it’s the way things are alright… The lead girl Minami is kind of cute. I don’t understand it, I’m normally not a fan of the blatantly over sexualized blond gyaru girls. And make no mistake, that’s exactly what she/Hokkaido Gals is. Giant breasts, suggestive phrases/poses/situations, it’s complete and total ecchi wish fulfillment. Yet something about this one…I don’t know, it has this odd mix of wholesome interactions and absolute horniness. I think a lot of it is just the novelty of Hokkaido as a setting, because I adore snow and Hokkaido Gals has a lot of it. I doubt I’ll stick with it for the entire season, but if nothing else for now I’m calling dibs on the white hair one we see in the OP. It’s too late, you can’t beat me, I already did it.

Oh and I guess it looks fine. Has that “Knee/Boob blush” thing going on.

Potential: 30%

Hime-sama, “Goumon” no Jikan desu

Short Synopsis: A princess get’s captured by the Demon King and is subjected to all manner of terrible torture! Who knows what delicious food or experience they will tempt her with next in this wholesome and terrible dungeon!

Who could have guessed we would have two food focused series? Or well, maybe it isn’t food focused for its entire run, but this episode sure is. Anyways, Hime-sama is cute, really expressively animated, and I want Tortura to step on me- I mean, looks like a fun time. There’s this fun balance between “This is a serious torture session” and “Lets dance while eating toast”, all without getting weirdly sexual about the eating or the torture like many anime this season would. Tack on that it looks good, and I mean really good, like one of the best animated premier I’ve seen so far, and I think there’s a lot of fun to be had here if you enjoyed series like Sleepy Princess. Sadly I don’t think I’ll stick with it myself, it’s very slow and I have enough waifus- I mean series to keep up with this season as it is. I’m also not a big enough fan of this sort of thing for it to keep my interest for more than an episode or two, even if the one-off is nice. Still, I recommend it to others if a cute, low-stakes, fun series is what you’re after.

Potential: 50%

The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil

Short Synopsis (Anilist): Masatora Akutsu, a demon on a recruitment mission in a human high school, is drafting allies for Hell against the heavenly angels. But when seated beside the captivating Lily Amane, he’s in for a devilishly hilarious celestial surprise!

The biggest mark against Foolish Angel has to be the horniness. Everything else, the girl, the lead, the idea, that all seems fine. Lily is cute and has some nice reactions, Akutsu isn’t a bland faceless self insert and actually has some personality, even if some of it is bad jokes, and the idea of an Angel and a Demon competing to influence a local highschool is kind of clever. It lends itself to a lot of silly situations without going full-blown fantasy ridiculousness. There’s even a decent fight, though I wouldn’t expect there to be very many of those in the future. Everything I’m seeing says this is more of a romance than it is an action series. The only issue is that right at the end, right as it was about to cross the finish line, it chose to go full blown fetish collar horny.

That really turned me off. I was having some fun with it, and maybe this is a one time thing and it chills out a bit as the series continues, but I sort of feel like Foolish Angel has shown its true colors here. This isn’t going to be a cute and wholesome romance, it’s going to be more of a raunchy one, and that’s just not what I’m looking for right now. If you are, give it a try, I think the rest of the show is solid and you’ll probably have a good time. For me it’s a pass though.

Potential: 15%

Solo Leveling

Short Synopsis: 10 years ago portals, and those with the abilities to combat that which came out of them called hunters, appeared in the world. This is the story of the weakest hunter.

So I’m cheating a bit, in that I’ve already read Solo Leveling front to back. I know where it goes, what it does and if it’s any good. And trust me, it doesn’t go anywhere great. For now though, this early on? It looks like a solid adaptation. I really like how Solo Leveling still looks like a Manwa, it hasn’t been super anime-ified or anything. Overall it looks nice. On top of that, it’s changing things up just enough, introducing characters and plot points early, so that it actually feels like it’s building up towards something. That’s something the original Manwa didn’t have for a long time. Makes it feel like some effort is being put in to tighten up the story, which is appreciated. It’s still held back by just how uninspiring the setting is, what with ranks, power levels, goblins and such. But so long as it can nail the action I don’t see why it can’t be a fun weekly popcorn show.

Potential: 45%

Tales of Wedding Rings

Short Synopsis: Isekai protagonist gets powers from marrying and collecting girls. Proceeds to create a harem.

It’s an isekai ecchi harem series with blown out lighting and that weird “blushing boob” thing so many series like to do. What I’m saying is, there’s absolutely nothing here beyond a harem of different girls with unique hair/body type/personality combinations for our lead to marry and then sleep with to gain power. There’s nothing unique or interesting about it in the slightest. Need I say more? I don’t think so. Easy skip.

Potential: 0%

A Sign of Affection

Short Synopsis: Deaf girl falls for local world-traveled tall boy, it’s very wholesome.

This was pretty cute. Affection is straight forward, not really doing much new that I can see, using a lot of classic tricks like “Mysterious world-traveled boy”, “Save them from the random foreigner” and “Pull them out of the way of something”, but it does them all rather well and never goes to far. I appreciated that the foreigner was just a normal dude asking for directions and not some creeper, or that the guy actually seems pretty normal without any excessively dark issues, that sort of stuff. Add on how the Female Lead is a cute, very expressive deaf girl and how she’s able to express herself with her full body while still selling her shyness? It’s pretty good. I’ve been told that the Male Lead gets kind of toxic later, but having not read the manga myself I can’t really comment on that. For now at least, I’m going to keep watching and hope Affection stays a solid, wholesome romance. Hopefully it goes better than Koe no Katachi did for me.

Oh also it looks kinda nice. Yeah.

Potential: 65%

Saikyou Tank no Meikyuu Kouryaku: Tairyoku 9999 no Rare Skill-mochi Tank, Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou Sareru

Short Synopsis: Tank gets kicked out of an adventuring party because they don’t understand how important tanks are, proceeds to create his own adventuring party with Black Jack and Hookers. Ok not really, but that would have been better.

So it’s an MMO style fantasy series in every way, including stats and party compositions and such, except for actually just calling itself an MMO? And we have a stereotypical asshole coming in and kicking out the lead and taking his stuff because… why not? This is literally just a Walmart brand Shield Hero, in that the guy got kicked down by terrible people, or BOFURI, watching a tank use their abilities offensively. Even its production is pretty weak, unable to look good at… well any point in the episode at all. I just don’t see why you would watch this when you have so much stronger fantasy, isekai or MMO fare in this very season.

Potential: 0%

Sasaki and Peeps

Short Synopsis: A Japanese salaryman discovers a magic bird and starts making inter-dimensional trade deals with an isekai world before getting caught up in a secret psychic organization.

I figured out why this premier felt so long. Turns out, it’s actually a double feature! That explains a lot. Getting into the actual show, is it weird that I liked the first half that was just a down in the dumps salaryman picking up a pet and rediscovering joy in his life more than all of the psychic espionage crap? Or him finally gaining confidence and striking out on his own a bit? This larger psychic plot just feels unnecessary, like Sasaki and Peeps is trying to do too much. Do we need a magical talking bird, an isekai world, magic powers, and an organization of psychics with an agenda? Why can’t we just have a chill show about a salaryman doing progressively sillier trade deals with an isekai kingdom? Or said salaryman just doing the psychic stuff? Why are we stacking them all on top of each other? As for how the show was visually, it was pretty weak. Sasaki has neither the expressive designs of Dungeon Meshi nor the flashy animation of something like a battle shounen. As such the only real draw is the story, and I think the show mucks that up by shoving too much into the series. Maybe it will figure that out before the end and drop the psychic stuff, who knows. I won’t be there to find out though.

Potential: 20%

The Demon Prince of Momochi House

Short Synopsis: A 16 year old girl moves into a house with a bunch of pretty boy spirits with distinct hair colors in a reverse harem rom-com.

Let’s see what we have here… Pretty boys with distinct hair colors each assigned to a different stereotypical personality? They are all sexy fox spirit yokai? And a 16 year old girl ends up, through complete happenstance, living with them alone in the woods? Oh, it’s also all presented in the blandest way possible with plenty of soft gradients and this weird diffused lighting. Yeah this sounds like a pass for me. It’s a pretty standard reverse harem setup with a yokai flavoring. The end makes it seem like there will be a tad more spiritual conflict than the usual reverse harem pretty boy show, but it wasn’t very good and really just came out of nowhere to have an excuse to make the leads kiss and kick off their “romance”. If a pretty boy show is what you’re looking for this might sate your needs this season. It doesn’t look like a particularly good take on the idea though.

Potential: 5%

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

Short Synopsis: Three kids are isekai’d after school, one of them manifesting the extremely rare ability to… heal! Time to abuse it to its fullest!

When I first started watching Wrong Way, my expectations were rock bottom. It looked like if you took the cast of Kaguya-Sama, isekai’ed them to another world, and made Ishigami the MC. Pretty uninteresting stuff if I’m being honest. But as I watched… I kinda started to enjoy it? A little? The cast sort of had personality, making jokes and having interests outside of school and showing genuine concern for each other? Plus I liked the joke that everyone else in this kingdom is scared shitless by a healer. Like… Maybe it’s because my expectations were so low, but I was genuinely pleasantly surprised by Wrong Way. It will eventually become an OP MC power fantasy, they always do. But for now, this early on, while it’s establishing things and having fun with its premise before it goes standard “Slay the demon king”? I think I’ll stick with it. Just in case.

Potential: 35%

Pon no Michi

Short Synopsis: Local girl kicked out of her house takes over her grandfather’s mahjong parlor and turns it into a clubhouse for her and her friends. Oh and also they play Mahjong.

The best thing I can say about Pon no Michi is that the lead, Nashiko, is cute. And pretty damn expressive, all things considered. She has a lot of good faces. In fact most of the cast does, this is a pretty good set of cute girls, I’m calling dibs on the goth one. Anyways, at it’s core Pon no Michi is really just “Cute Girls Doing Cute Things” Mahjong edition. You’ll learn the rules while hanging out with cute girls. It’s actually pretty lively in it’s presentation, with the girls making jokes, visual gags, references to series like Kaiji and Akagi, all sorts of stuff to liven it up. Outside the CGI hands and mahjong table, it looks pretty good. If you like Mahjong, or enjoy the CGDCT genre, I think this is actually a really solid choice. I probably won’t be keeping up with it personally, it’s not my thing, but I was honestly impressed by it.

Potential: 60%

Delicious in Dungeon

Short Synopsis: An adventuring party runs out of food and has to eat the local monsters to survive. And wouldn’t you know it? They come to enjoy it!

Let’s get something out of the way, Dungeon Meshi is not an adventuring show. It is a cooking show that happens to use fantasy adventure monsters. So much so that, if I’m being honest, it kind of bored me at times. Like it went all in on the cooking, in detail bordering on the obsessive. I’m talking cooking techniques, flavor profiles, specific parts of each creature and how they contribute to the overall dish, not to mention the actual ecology of the world itself. While cool, it makes for a detailed world, there were times I feel like I was reading a Wiki entry rather than watching a show. Still, it looks fine enough, the designs are quite nice, in particular I think Marcille looks great and is incredibly expressive. There’s not a lot in the way of animation yet, it’s more focused on detailed backgrounds and food, but that’s fine. Good art direction can make up for that. I’m down to give it a few more episodes to show off and be what it wants to be. So for now I’m going to stick with it and see where it goes. My hope is it dials up the adventuring and party interactions a tad and dials down the cooking just a little. Because while the cooking is great, I think it’s skewed a tad too much in that direction for me. Seriously, at what point does fantasy Gordon Ramsay show up and call Marcille an idiot sandwich?

Potential: 50%

My Instant Death Ability is Overpowered

Short Synopsis: OP MC gets Isekai’d to another world with all the usual tropes and trappings. It’s terrible.

I don’t know how to explain everything wrong with this show other than to point at the title and tell you to read it again. Instant Death is the epitome of lazy, garden variety, every stereotype in the book Isekai garbage. Big boobed classmate shoving her breasts into the MC? OP MC that can annihilate anything just by looking at them? A poorly made magic system that looks like code and frames the entire thing as a video game despite ostensibly being a fantasy world? Scumbags who try to sexually assault the female MC the moment they appear on screen? There is absolutely nothing about this show that you couldn’t get from other, better series, and plenty of things you don’t actually want at all. I’ve read some people saying that it’s bad because the author wants it to be bad because he hates isekai and the anime industry? Well he succeeded, because this is terrible. Akogarete was creepy, but at least it was good at what it was trying to do. This is just bad. In every way. With no redeeming qualities.

Potential: Say no to OP MC Isekai Garbage kids.

Chained Soldier

Short Synopsis: In a world where only girls can get powers from magical peaches, a young man is granted the ability to enhance their powers.

Where Instant Death was bad to an almost comical degree, Chained Soldier is just a regular sort of bad. The CGI monsters are mediocre, the female MC is a bunch of fetishes bootstrapped together into something resembling a character, and the power system is designed specifically so the MC can have sloppy makeouts with the female MC. But you know what? Chained Soldier seems to know exactly what it is and revels in it. I can respect that, or I can after having watched Instant Death at least. Is it good? Is there any reason to watch it? Will anyone care about it after the season ends, or even halfway through the season? The answer to all of those is a resounding no. But it’s better than Instant Death. Which means I can at least see some people having a fun “It’s so bad it’s good” popcorn watch out of it.

Potential: 1%

Fluffy Paradise

Short Synopsis: Grown woman gets isekai’ed with the power to make non-human creatures love her. Also she’s like… 6. Disney Princess the anime.

The new season is here! And the first show we start off with is… An isekai. And a dull one at that. As far as isekai go this one is rather harmless. It’s a fluffy, cute, non-serious show about a girl petting magical creatures. Does it look good? No. Is it narratively compelling? No. Is there any reason to watch it beyond de-stressing while a little girl looks after some animals? Not really. Yes there’s an implied dragon fight at the end, but I bet 50$ that the next episode will start with that dragon falling in love with the little girl and turning into a goddamn house cat. If I’m being honest though, the older I get the more I come to see the appeal of this sort of show. Personally it’s not my thing. I think Fluffy Paradise is boring as sin. It’s just not how I like to relax. If you want to relax to an anime Disney Princess chilling with animals though, I won’t judge you.

Potential: 5%

Gushing Over Magical Girls

Short Synopsis: Middle schooler gets transformed into a Mahou Shoujo villain, proceeds to sexually assault all available magical girls.

Ignoring the blatant and disturbing fetishization of middle schoolers, with full nipple at that, Akogarete is nothing special. The production is average at best and mostly forgettable. The comedy is mediocre, though whether that’s due to the jokes being bad or this just not being my brand of humor is up for debate. Whatever the case, I can’t say I laughed at anything. That leaves the elephant in the room, the fetishization of middle schoolers. Akogarete is, in a word, disgusting. That makes it pretty standard an ecchi series, where the only reason to watch the show is to get a weekly dose of children being groped and sexually assaulted in a variety of ways while another kid watches and gets off to it. Unlike shows like Onimai however, which can at least attempt to claim some greater purpose like the trans experience, Akogarete is softcore porn and nothing. I cannot understate how much I hate this show. Do not watch it. I will judge you for this one.

Potential: We’re all going to jail for watching this.

Ishura

Short Synopsis: Local jackass Isekai MC with a sword fights giant monsters without caring about property damage. Local girl takes issue with this, decides to try and lead him to his death.

The good thing for Ishura is that after watching Akogarete the floor is so low, I could not possibly be disappointed or upset by it. From the looks of things though, Ishura doesn’t need it. Production wise it isn’t anything too special, at least not for the most part. The CGI robots look fine enough, nothing great, and the giant fuck-off lazer was pretty cool, especially with the choice of coloring. I’d say the two words that most embody Ishura right now are “Ambition” and “Gore”. It tries for things that the production team doesn’t seem sure it can do, like the whole “Climbing the robot” sequence. I can respect that, I think ambition goes a long way, even if it doesn’t always work. For Gore, well… Ishura is pretty brutal so far. I’m talking ripping off arms and legs, blood splatters, it’s a pretty gorey show! If that’s not your thing you’ll probably hate it as much as I do Akogarete, because it’s very much a “murder porn” first episode. If you can get past that though, it might be fun. I’d say the biggest thing holding it back right now is the OP MC who is less of a character and more of a wild animal only looking to fight strong things. If not for the Female MC, who plans on leading him from fight to fight hoping to find one that can kill him, there probably wouldn’t be much here. For now though? I’m curious to see where it goes, I’m down for generally villainous MCs, and while the production isn’t the best I want to see how far Ishura’s ambition will go. Will this be the highlight of its season, the most it can give us? Or will it push itself until the production falls apart? Or maybe it will even be that 1-in-a-million show that shoots its shot and somehow lands. I don’t know! But I’m intrigued enough to follow along. For now.

Potential: 50%

Hoshikuzu Telepath

Short Synopsis (Anilist): Konohoshi Umika is a high-schooler who is very bad at communicating with others. Feeling almost like an alien trapped on Earth with nowhere to belong, one day she meets a girl who claims to be an actual alien!

Had this just stuck to the girl really really liking aliens then it could have been cute. Instead though Telepath decided to go full social ignoramus, missing even the most basic of social ques with an equally ridiculous secondary girl. This is like Bocchi the Rock all over again, except while both handle their subject of socially challenged kids poorly, one was at least spectacularly animated and produced. Don’t get me wrong, Telepath looks fine, better than a lot of things airing this season actually. But it’s also not the best. It also doesn’t help that while watching it I had to check multiple times to see how close we were to the end, making a 20 minute episode feel like an hour. Maybe I’m just not built for these social outcast shows where the outcasts are always depicted as cute girls with no actual issues and yuri-bait non-romance. Still, I’ve seen enough friends rave about it that I’m willing to accept this is a me thing more than anything else. After all, I praise Bocchi in this very post and I didn’t like that either. Probably just not my thing, if your looking for socially inept children interacting than you will probably have a good time here.
Potential: 5%

Kawagoe Boys Sing

Short Synopsis (Anilist): The story is about the Kawagoe School Boys Choir Club and their instructor, a former orchestra conductor named Haruo Hibiki. The club members’ personalities clash, but Haruo helps them grow together through singing, as they aim for the nationals of the Boys Choir contest.

Ok this might come across as rude, but no matter how good the singing is, the Engrish just completely ruins it for me. Were they singing in Japanese, or had actual English singers like the My Hero Academia Culture Festival, everything would be fine. But as a native English speaker, it makes all of the music sound discordant and amateurish. Pair that with a generally rather annoying teaching and a generic plot and I’m not really feeling any of it.
Potential: 0%

What”s Left

With that we come to the awkward point in the season where there are only 3 shows left to cover and none of them come out anytime soon. So what do we do? Dr. STONE I’m obviously going to be covering, I love it and I want to continue to give it love. But what about Dog Signal and Kusuriya? Well this is my plan. I’m going to wait until both are released, give them their own preview post, and then once all are out I’ll drop the seasonal awards. Between now and then though I’m going to continue the season as normal, posting about the shows I’m watching when I have the time to write them up. I’m also going to try and bring back the Weekly Update, just so y’all can see a bit of what I’m watching outside of my main coverage. Hope everyone enjoys that, I want to spread the content around a bit and this is the best way I can see to do that. Thanks for reading and see y’all throughout the season!

I Shall Survive Using Potions!

Short Synopsis (Anilist): Nagase Kaoru, a 22-year-old office lady, suddenly finds herself reincarnated in another world. To help her survive in this new world, a being that amounts to its god gives Kaoru a younger body and… the ability to make insanely overpowered potions?! The reincarnated Kaoru must use her knowledge and cheatery to survive!

Why is this entire cast just legal lolis? Why is it an isekai when it has no reason to be? Why are we drugging said lolis already? Why does this show exist at all? Seriously skip this, just watch The Apothecary Diaries instead. I know it hasn’t aired yet but I can already tell that it’s going to be the better potion/medicine show. It’s kind of funny to be honest, how this season backloaded all the terrible shit. For a while there I was feeling pretty good about this season.
Potential: To Many Loli’s

Tearmoon Empire

Short Synopsis (Anilist): Twenty-year-old Princess Mia of the Tearmoon Empire, often scorned as the “selfish princess,” was executed by guillotine in a rebellion. Next thing she knew, she awoke in her own twelve-year-old body, with her own blood-stained diary that she kept before she was beheaded sitting next to her pillow. Given a second chance at life, Mia decides to rebuild the empire. For the sake of Tearmoon’s future? To save the people from starvation? For all the soldiers who lost their lives in the civil war? No! Everything she does in this life is for the sake of avoiding the guillotine! “F-For me, this should be a piece of cake!” Thus the useless, cowardly, self-serving princess brings about miracle after miracle in her great struggle to save herself in this altered-history fantasy.

Here we have another weird time travel show sending our lead back into their own past. It’s kind of cute how the MC has absolutely 0 intention of saving her kingdom/people, focused entirely on avoiding her own death. And it is decently well produced. But… I just can’t get into it. We’re at the point in the season where I’ve seen what else is on offer and this just doesn’t do it for me. Maybe if you’re looking for a show about a bratty girl learning to be a better person through osmosis you’ll get some enjoyment out of it. But for me there are better girls, better time travel stories, and better plots to be found in this season.
Potential: 5%

Protocol: Rain

Short Synopsis (Anilist): The story centers on Shun Tokinoya, a second-year high school living with his mother and younger sister. After his father’s death in an accident and his sister’s injury, he quit the game he was passionate about, and now works at an esports café called “FOX ONE.” He spends all his time studying and working part-time while hanging out with his childhood gaming friends. Suddenly, he learns that “FOX ONE” has a huge amount of debts. In order to repay the debts, Shun and his friends aim to win the “Xaxerion Championship” and win the prize money. With a sense of guilt, Shun jumps back into the world of online games, and is confronted by Bakuretsu-kun, who used to play the game with him.

I’ll say this for Protocol, as shit as the game looks, PS2 graphics and everything, this is one of the first “Video-game” anime I’ve seen that actually bothered to create a game people might actually play. Like they got the movement down, the poses, the first person perspective. It’s budget CS 1.6. And its depiction of fixing/caring for machines? Not bad. Is that enough to sell/watch an entire show off of? Of course not. But it’s something I can respect and praise. Maybe, if we’re lucky, that will translate into a passion for E-Sports across Protocol’s entire run. Sadly that isn’t enough to get me past a pretty basic “Hobby trauma” story and one-note characters, plus the weak production outside of the game itself. If you have a thing for E-Sports maybe give it a try and see if it clicks with you? I wouldn’t expect much out of it though.
Potential: 1%

Butareba -The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig-

Short Synopsis (Anilist): An unappealing otaku awakens in the body of a pig after he passes out while eating raw pig liver. Pig finds himself in the company of Jess, an innocent girl who can read people’s minds, and she accepts him despite his boorish thoughts… although she does plan to eat him. When Jess is in danger of succumbing to a dark destiny, can Pig save her using only his quick wits, wisdom, and refined sense of smell?

This is about pig-fucking. No I’m not joking, it’s literally just a hot girl lusting after an Isekai protagonist reincarnated as a goddamn pig. She has a collar and everything too. There’s not really much to say beyond that. This show is garbage. It’s literally pig-fucking garbage. Do not watch it. I wish I hadn’t.
Potential: Don’t Fuck a Pig.

A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special

Short Synopsis (Anilist): Another dimension that continues to taint our world, the Shadow World. Humanity is faced with the worst calamity, known as the Shadow Labyrinth. In spite of their desperate attacks, Desir Herrman and his friends lose their battle to the Destruction Dragon, Boromir Napolitan, and the world comes to an end. When Desir is convinced of his end, he opens his eyes… to find himself 13 years in the past. Desir has gone back in time to the enrollment ceremony of Hebrion Academy, the top school for mages in the Empire.

This is the point in seasonal previews where I start to get tired of watching the same shlock over and over again and just get really blunt about things. So here goes: The CGI dragon sucks, nothing about it is particularly visually appealing and I’m just sort of done with school settings. Returner is basically Ragna Crimson, what with its time travel, memories and OP MC, except far less edgier. Maybe to some that’s a bonus. But to me it takes the only bit of teeth, the only thing that made Ragna possibly worth watching, and… scrubs to clean. There’s no meat to this. We have better revenge shows, better time travel shows and better fantasy shows all in this very season. I don’t see why you’d watch this.
Potential: 0%

My New Boss is Goofy

Short Synopsis (Anilist): After his power-tripping boss broke his spirit and his health, Momose leaves his job for a new job in sales at an advertising agency. However, on the very first day of his new job, Momose is unable to move due to a stomach ache caused by his past traumas. “What should I do if my new boss also abuses his power?”

Goofy Boss is cute. There’s no better way to put it other than that. From the looks of things this doesn’t appear to be a romance of any kind, no BL, just a workplace fluffy comedy with some hot guys. I can appreciate that. Adult problems, adult situations, adult characters. No high or middle school bullshit. The main issue as I see it is that this isn’t my kind of humor. It’s a more inept kind, where the humor comes out of situations going slightly wrong, in a harmless way of course. Some might also be disappointed that there isn’t any romance, as a lot of the jokes seem to imply it in some way. I know at least one person that feels like Goofy Boss is a little yaoi-baity. Still if what you want is whole fluff anime, I think Goofy Boss is a middle of the road pick for you this season. Just not something I’m personally going to watch.
Potential: 20%

The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess

Short Synopsis (Anilist): Three years into her life as a shut-in, vampire Terakomari Gandesblood (Komari for short), awakens to find she’s been appointed as a Commander in the Mulnite Imperial Army! The thing is, her new unit consists solely of belligerent ruffians who revolt against their superiors at the slightest hint of weakness. Although Komari hails from a line of vampires as powerful as they are prestigious, her refusal to drink blood has made her the picture of mediocrity—scrawny, un-coordinated, and inept at magic. With the odds stacked against her, will the help of her trusty (and slightly infatuated) maid Vill be enough for this recluse to blunder her way to success? Or will Komari rue the day she ever left the safety of her room?

What are these hairstyles? Why are there a bunch of random beast-people. Are these even vampires if they don’t have fangs, live normal life spans and can stand in the sunlight? Everything about this screams soulless cash grab. Yet even though they set this up to be a “legal-loli” scenario they can’t even do that right because our lead is 15 goddamn years old. I mean fuck, they even gave her a damn womb-tattoo. Out of every premier I’ve watched this season this is perhaps the most unappealing, dull, weeb-bait show I’ve seen yet.
Potential: 0 beat-boxing Vampires/10

SPY x FAMILY Season 2

Short Synopsis: The second season of SPY×FAMILY.

You know what this is. It’s SpyXFamily’s 2nd season, one of the biggest shows of the last year. Either you checked out Season 1, loved it, and have been looking forward to this for a while or you didn’t and you won’t be jumping into this late regardless. Personally? I’m going to watch it for its production if nothing else. SpyXFamily was consistently one of the most well produced shows of its season and I see no indication of that changing now. Readers have also assured me that Yor actually gets to become a character this season, which from the looks of things is true since this next arc is all hers. This is a big plus in my book. While Anya’s antics are still fun, as are Loid’s reactions to them, Yor was one of the more disappointing parts of previous seasons. If SpyXFamily delivers on that, as well as maintaining its overall quality from the previous season, it should be a good time.
Potential: 75%