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%
These previews are rather disheartening. Are there no good animes this season?
I think there are a lot of good ones, it’s just my specific tastes don’t lend themselves well towards these sorts of cutesy things. For instance, I think Migh&Dali and Frieren are simply fantastic. Meanwhile SpyXFamily and Shangri-la Frontier are fun, solid picks in their own right. And thats not mentioning my underdogs like Under Ninja and Overtake. There are plenty of good things this season, and I highly recommend that if you like shows in the vein of Tearmoon Empire, that you give it a shot regardless of what I say. Because it’s not my genre. So even if it’s good, odds are I won’t be huge on it.