Gakuen Basara
Short Synopsis: The Sengoku Jidai, the Warring States era of Feudal Japan, but set in high school.
Lenlo’s Review:
So, can anyone tell me what this is actually about? I have no idea what kind of series this is. I get that it’s just a kind of comedy retelling of the Sengoku Jidai, but in high school, but that’s simply isn’t interesting. We have seen the characters before in better stories, and at this point most anime fans have at least a passing knowledge of the era. Moving it to highschool with all the same characters, from Nobunaga to Ieyasu just doesn’t make any sense. There are too many characters doing nothing relevant, with no actual plot but a pre-set on the rails played out Warring States narrative. Pass.
Potential: 0%
Mario’s review:
My goodness, this show makes no damn sense. It’s just a playfield for over the top boys acting over the top antics. Imagine a middle school kids come up with an idea to cram up all his favorite toys and you would get something close to this. I know this show aims for ridiculous but it needs to have a point. Here I don’t see any point at all. It just keeps introducing one badass character after another, and when all is crazy from design to personality, no one comes up as amazing at all. At the end of the day I don’t give a damn for any face, let alone their proxy war or real war or whatever the hell it is. This, my friends, is the worst premiere I watched so far this season.
Potential: 0%
Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru!
Short Synopsis: A woman decides to work in the house of a cute loli girl.
Lenlo’s Review:
I don’t know what to make of Uchi no Maid. On one hand it’s trying to be this sweet family/young daughter growing up/single father parenting story. On the other it’s a sort of comedy piece. It does a decent job at both of those. I especially love the Russian(?) themed music that comes on throughout, and it sometimes gives me Mrs. Doubtfire mixed with Home Alone vibes. When it’s on, Uchi no Maid does a great job amusing me. The contrast of young spitfire child and a ripped JSDF maid has potential, even if it’s pretty creepy at times. But if you’re in this for some sweet family time, I would recommend Amaama to Inazuma instead. However you want something that won’t rot your teeth how with how sweet it is, because Amaama to Inazuma is concentrated sugar, then Uchi no Maid is right up your alley. I don’t care what Mario says, just ignore him. Skip right over the next paragraph. Also, the workout ED is god damn fantastic and I love everything about it.
Potential: 50%
Mario’s review:
It’s the second consecutive show I watched about a girl who has weird fascination with a loli girl. This show underlines the level of creepiness by having the crazy one an actual adult with six-pack abs.The main joke is that doesn’t matter how mean the loli girl behaves, she can’t match the insanity of her maid. It provides some amusing slapstick gags, and I especially enjoy the Russian music, but after it passes halfway point the premise already wears thin. We does see the fact that the girl tries to cope with the loss of her mother, producing some mild touching moments, but they are quickly put aside for harmless and questionable hijinks, and a father who can’t be taken seriously. Sorry Lenlo, this show is trash.
Potential: 0%
Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san
Short Synopsis: A girl decides to move in to the house of cute loli g— Deja vu?
Aidan’s review:
You know it might be just my imagination but I think this anime was trying to be funny. But that can’t be, my mouth didn’t even twitch as they told unfunny joke after unfunny joke. I didn’t even smirk at the Jojo’s reference. Animation is so barebones and I don’t care how hard you are pushing the yuri angle when the designs are so basic. Not that this show could even go the yuri route to begin with as that would require taking actual risks and we must keep this as safe and inoffensive as possible. So yeah lets just joke that the human girl wants to rape the vampire girl for the fourth time, much better. Sigh…honestly this show doesn’t really get a response from me be it positive or negative. I just watched an episode of anime and I felt nothing but mild boredom. Even if I somehow had any interest, is there anywhere this story could go. I mean vampire is lonely, girl moves in with vampire, vampire not lonely anymore, story finished. I no longer see to see what the remaining 11 episodes have in store.
Potential: 0%
Mario’s review:
I’m suffocating with too much cuteness, and a sip of creepiness. It doesn’t have much in terms of plot or even production quality, it only has two main premises: that one of the girl is a cute, high-class vampire who drinks blood in a teacup and the other one is a more intimidating one. It offers some twists over the common myth of vampire, but everything here is mild, very mild that it easily slips out of the memory. From the look of the OP there are two more girls who serve as third wheels so you can be sure that these yuri hijinks won’t go away anytime soon. The girls’ design are cute but their personality sure isn’t, and the animation remains quite bareboned. Honestly there’s nothing much to look forward to except for the cuteness overdose.
Potential: 0%
