The really good anime for this season are just starting to roll out, so it’s nice that I’m able to get through the chaff early. Plus, as an added bonus, a few of last season’s that I finally gave up on.
Train to the End of the World
Kemono Friends meets Zom 100
Reincarnated as the 7th Prince
I am severely uninterested in high-powered protags in short pants
Studio Apartment…Angel Included
As others have said, Oh, My Goddess did it better, and wasn’t so squeaky.
And finally, a trio of programs I followed almost to the end, but finally gave up to watch re-runs of Log Horizon. I preface this with a comment from Mark Twain, that captures my feelings about them all.
Mark Twain wrote a comedy classic titled “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses.” In it, he lists some requirements for good writing. Adapting one of those rules gives us an idea of why I finally became so bored with the following anime that I dropped them a couple episodes short of the finalel:
“…the anime Director shall make the viewer feel a deep interest in the personages of his tale and in their fate; and that he shall make the viewer love the good people in the tale and hate the bad ones. But the viewer of these programs dislikes the good people in them, is indifferent to the others, and wishes they would all get drowned together.”
7th Time Loop
Villainess protagonna forced to repeat her life until she gets it right. Maybe the eighth time around they will make it.
Shangri-La Frontier
Excruciatingly detailed playthrough of an MMORPG by a totally devoted and overwhelmingly enthusiastic gamer.
Solo Leveling
Game within a game within real life. Bonus overpowered protag with a little sister. Double bonus for their mother’s Anime Wasting Disease.
Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
Oscar nomination for the best portrayal of the shouty life of a combat medic in a non-isekai sekai.
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