#season overview
The hit list:
1. Skeleton Knight in Another World
Ep 3, dropped. Its crimes are countless. Starts with sexual assault, rendered in loving detail and lingered on. Continues with a rather convoluted and contrived excuse for why the MC is OP. MC is also bland. Continues on with the female lead being stupidly confrontational, and adds on to its sins by going “look how strong she is, she doesn’t need help just like she said!” except you can just smell she’ll need help in a minute because how else will the MC wiggle into her good graces. And she does… with more sexual violence. Good times.
Aside from that, it tries (rather limply) to do a kind of old school vibe with the opening song and the spell title cards. Think like… old super robot anime. That kind of thing. But they can’t really carry it through, and it’s not nearly enough to excuse everything else.
Overall mediocre and run of the mill, but I have better things to spend my time on, even as background noise.
2. The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody
Ep 3, dropped. This one is mostly just too stupid. I’ve seen a few shows with this premise of “the MC was super OP, but he decided to ‘reincarnate’ into the future because reasons and now everyone is amazed by this magic super child who is the hottest shit.” This one is like… whatever, but it is the most mediocre harem focus.
The concepts seem interesting, but I can tell they’ll never get past the stupid way they’re being presented. All this did was remind me of this one Monster High School show where the main girl was a pink-haired vampire with a cool alterego and the MC started to become a vampire too and the second girl was a succubus… it was a much better show. The character designs were also much better than this pathetic mess.
Bonus mention to how much this show cannot handle its own premise. “Typical nobody” but his dad is a super mage and everyone actively refers to him as the son of a great mage, by ep3 he’s announcing himself boldly so everyone will know his name and casually showing overpowered magic… And not even getting into how people from his old era are still around but somehow the magic from back then is treated as a secret lost art.
3. The Dawn of the Witch
Ep 3, ongoing… for now. Though not precisely on its own merits.
This shows is like… it has a fairly good concept, being not an OP protag power fantasy and not being set in a school, with a main cast that has specific backstories and personalities and a setting I at least understand and don’t mind.
But the pacing. The pacing is such a mess. I don’t know if this is an adaptation issue, but you cannot just drop two tragic backstories and a big betrayal in episode 2 and think it’s going to work, on an emotional level.
However, since beginnings are hard, I’m tentatively willing to see how it goes further in.
4. RPG Real Estate
Ep 3, dropped. This one isn’t bad, actually. But it’s just “cute girls doing cute things,” and I am not interested in that. The fantasy setting is nice in theory, but it’s just too off from my tastes.
5. Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs
Ep 1, dropped. Lasted about 10 minutes and then I’m out. I don’t need this moron with an inferiority complex (and the author with presumably the same) wasting my time shitting on a genre made for girls to begin with.
But I will say this: you should have just put the game on auto for the dialogue and looked up a guide for everything else. If you had so much trouble clearing it when it looks turn-based, that’s on you.
6. Love After World Domination
Ep 3, ongoing. I’ve actually read the manga for this. The anime adaptation is pretty good so far. Special mention to the transformation voice announcement and also the way they draw the thighs and asses on the guys.
That aside, it’s just a fluffy rom-com. It’s kind of nice to see such an uncomplicated romance sometimes.
7. SPY x FAMILY
Ep 3, ongoing. Good as expected. God, Anya is so dumb, I love her.
Going forward the two biggest questions will be whether they can keep the pacing from being too slow or too fast, and how they’ll end the season, since the manga is still ongoing. But so far at least I’m pleasantly surprised by how solid the adaptation is.
8. Ascendance of a Bookworm, S3
Ep 3 (ep29), ongoing. Bookworm is still Bookworm in the new season, without too much difference, though they are entering a new arc with more scheme-y political stuff. I enjoy it as a medium engagement show - I pay some attention to what’s going on, but I’m not super into it emotionally. It’s nice and rather different from the isekais we usually get animated.
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….And that’s about everything new this season that I’m planning to try.
Not much survived, and something else will probably bite the dust in a few more weeks, but for now I’ll go and find something else to marathon while waiting for new eps, haha.
“So not feeling Kostornaia’s short program. The Billie Eilish songs are dreadful. Or maybe, I just don’t like Billie Eilish’s voice.”
“This ‘season’ is a grotesque, dangerous joke. The ISU needs to cancel everything and give huge fines to Federations that practise bad citizenship by running domestic events now that half the world is back in lockdown. There’s no sports competition important enough to warrant traveling, even to another city right now.”
“We stan Tarasova/Morozov for wearing masks on the podium at the Cup of Russia. I hope they kill it at the rest of their comps!”
“I understand why it has to be this way, but I’m still very sad that most of my non-Russian favourites (and of course all the others too) won’t get a chance to compete this season. I miss them.”
“Natalie and Bruce’s new FD looks so good. I hope we get to see it soon.”
“LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Trusova’s SP! People say she’s robotic and not lyrical, but Alexandra does what she wants, as she should. The costume, the music, the choreography, the elements: PERFECTION. Waiting for her to skate it cleanly! <3”
“Sasha Trusova is hurtling her way to being an olympic champion, and I’m here for it!”
“I must say the World Standings drama is absolutely hilarious. It never mattered in the last few seasons anyway, and even if the fans are gloating about it now, it is still irritating, remember they’re being arrogant over the skater who’s number one lost by a wide margin to their rival in the GPF this season and can only win titles when their head rivals aren’t competing.”
“I know Yulia had timing issues in 2015 when she got a lot taller, and so has Sasha in the latter half of the season when she grew a little, but Alina has had ur issues, rotational issues, technique issues and edge issues, but never timing issues. Maybe that swingy lutz entry really works for her.”
“All of my love goes to Stephen Gogolev. Poor thing had such a rough season and nothing turned out his way, but hopefully the next will be better!”
“What Chock/Bates have achieved since Pyeongchang is amazing. They came back from a difficult position (FD disaster, serious injuries, stagnating results, etc.), when so many people were rooting against them, and they’ve made it back to the top, defying the rules of ice dance. They proved the whole world wrong, and I hope they keep it going and get some type of medal in 2022, to show the ones that are still doubting them, even after the season they just had.”
