Lol, they love using the blood on the shirt to turn him into Santa. Also, someone needs to keep an eye on Shiori at all times, because she is making those bombs way too fast. Maybe she’ll turn out to be an elf! Anyway, this show continues to be buck wild and I love it. The animation is a fantastic adaption of Paru Itagaki’s fantastic style. Can’t wait till next week!

I had forgotten about that twist! Ugh, they really are killing it with this show. It is so satisfying to see all the scumbags be annihilated. Can’t wait for Godwin’s turn next week!

Well now I’m fully bought in. This show seems to be so well put together. Hopefully the payoff by the end continues the trend, but for now I’m all in. The character interactions are excellent and tense. It feels like everything is slowly building. If they are able to tie in all the threads, this will truly be an amazing mystery show.

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite short form animes. It’s just so human and chill. Although it might not be winning awards for the animation, it’s so much better than expected. Looking forward to this one next week!

I know that he has a lot of shockingly violent films. Almost snuff-esq from what I’ve heard. Though I’ve never seen any, I know that Ichi the Killer is well known for a disturbing amount of violence.

Now I feel silly for having high hopes for this show. I’m all for them highlighting the different relationships that they have in the future with the whole ehlsea stuff, but it turns out it is really just an excuse to have a harem. I feel like a harem (or should we say ehlsea) ending could work within the culture of the world, but if that’s all there is to this story, it will be truly disappointing. Hopefully they will wrap up this whole incest mafia boss polycule storyline and show more of the admittedly interesting world they made.

Another Thursday, another good episode. I think this week’s episode was a little bit slower than the previous two, but we finally got the concrete backstory for Hinako. We basically already knew everything, at least broadly, but at least Shiori knows now. Very excited to have Miko pulled more into the story. I think the relationship between the three of them is the strongest part of this story, so I’m looking forward to next week. Still wishing this one was adopted more in a way that The Summer Hikaru Died was rather than a standard adaptation, but I’m just so glad we’re getting this adaptation at all.

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Been like half a week since I watched this episode and I can’t remember much about it… Probably means that this show will be a drop soon from me. I just remember being disappointed by the way this premise was used. The escalated way too hard in the first episode, and showed that everyone in the show is just an idiot. Now, that can be fun, but it makes the conceit of the show suddenly lose all stakes. The gags aren’t funny enough, there is no chemistry between the leads, which makes the “romance” creepy at best, and the one conceit that pulled me in has no stakes at all since the guy could probably watch her lose an arm, bleed out, and then cry to the butler that she’s out of oil.

Sigh, I had forgotten how annoying this story was. The guild members are kind of fun at first, so that’s something. But unfortunately, everyone and everything have to point back to how Sam is the most important person ever. I had to laugh when they literally pulled an “and then everybody clapped” moment when they were talking. I think I’m going to drop this one now. Guess I’ll leave it at Sam airing her grievances and just assume that no more drama occurs, and it all works out.

Another good episode. This episode has assuaged my worries about the main character being one note. I like that we are getting to see more of other characters as well. Also, very cool to get into the headspace of an assistant. I think it’s easy to think of assistants as playing second fiddle to the mangaka, but this shows how important they can be! Though I don’t think giving massages is always required for assistants!

I enjoyed this episode a bit more than the previous one. So far, everything surrounding the sister is a bit confusing, but in a good mystery sort of way. We all knew that Schwar-chan was not going to be staying with them, but I kind of find myself wishing that his story wasn’t wrapped up in just a single episode. I feel like a more gradual unfolding over a couple episode could have been powerful, especially as a way for Youko to find out more about the pre-apocalypse and maybe even having Airi relating to him on some level. That said, I like the way they handled it for a single episode story; how not every single thing was spelled out for us and the melancholic ending.

Wow, they really want this movie to be a success, huh? I mean, I do hope it succeeds, but dang.

This one is surprisingly good. I think the animation is shockingly solid. The scene with the stall owner putting together the food was really nice. I like how everyone accepts that the henchmen are just part of the world. It really makes me want a full length series of this kind of thing. Kind of reminds me a bit of Acro Trip from last year, but focusing on the more adult side of things. I’m sad that this show isn’t going to get credit for what it does do well.

This show is really just building up baddies to make it satisfying to watch Scarlett beat the shit out of them. But dang if it isn’t good at doing that. I think this adaptation does a pretty good job with the source material, from what I remember of it, so I’ll definitely keep watching Scarlett beat down the bastards.

Ok, that one kid is crazy. What was up with him requesting that the kiss? But now that we’re seeing what kind of world this is, I’m not surprised that the kids are all a bit crazy. The information we’re getting into the current state of the world are actually fascinating and make sense with the themes that this anime seems to be trying to explore.

Also, I was already excited to see the magical Santa, but now you tell me that there is an anti-Santa squad called the St. Nick Pursuit Unit? I’m all in.

Huh. Another episode where not too much happened. That said, I don’t know why, but the chill vibe is starting to work for me. I still might drop it, and I don’t think I would recommend it, but it’s a nice show to watch when I need something chill for now.

Still can’t quite decide how I feel about this one. I feel like the tone is all over the place. We have a fascist regime that use slavery, information control, and civilian murder but all their leaders are just wacky comic relief? I guess it is trying to keep the tone a bit lighter, but I feel like it undermines the serious shit that is happening. At least the other androids seem like interesting and credible threats. I hope we see more of that side of OWEL instead going forward.

Another great episode. Thankfully, it seems like they decided to keep the pacing of the manga. It might be a slow burn, but I think that’s the reason all the payoffs feel earned.

This episode was a good introduction to the way Miko and Shiori interact. Their animosity towards each other helps to drive the show in more ways than one. Looking forward to more of their interactions!

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I can’t help but be worried that this is happening with the aid of AI. Of course it could work that way, but only if there are people proofreading and ensuring quality. I’m optimistic, but nervous that we might see a drop in the quality of translations. Fingers crossed for the best case scenario, of course.

"I can’t talk about the details, as that includes some very private matters,” he said. “But if you ask whether it’s a creative or business issue, the reasons stem from the creative side. Since it was an original animation, the people involved—including the creators and the animation studio, MAPPA—among the creators, on the creative side, a situation arose where it just became impossible to proceed with production.”

Dang, I guess that does happen. It would be nice to hear what the plot was going to be at least, though I doubt it will ever happen since that’s the reason it was it cancelled. At least we still have the show.