Kaiseki Anime Ep. 110 — Fall 2022 Anime Impressions

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This season is looking good! Enjoy our thoughts.

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:15 Housing Complex C
  • 02:17 Human Crazy University
  • 02:37 Legend of Mana -The Teardrop Crystal-
  • 03:02 More than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers.
  • 04:55 My Master Has No Tail
  • 05:58 The Little Lies We All Tell
  • 06:50 VAZZROCK THE ANIMATION
  • 07:15 Beast Tamer
  • 09:15 Bibliophile Princess
  • 10:56 BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War
  • 12:15 BOCCHI THE ROCK!
  • 13:57 The Eminence in Shadow 18:23 Encouragement of Climb: Next Summit
  • 20:10 Futoku no Guild
  • 21:33 I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss
  • 23:37 I’ve Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills
  • 24:41 Management of a Novice Alchemist
  • 25:19 LOVE FLOPS
  • 26:21 Muv Luv Alternative
  • S2 27:47 Raven of the Inner Palace
  • 28:56 Reincarnated as a Sword
  • 30:33 Shinobi no Ittoki
  • 31:52 To Your Eternity Season 2
  • 32:06 Urusei Yatsura (2022)
  • 33:22 Akiba Maid War
  • 35:36 BLUELOCK
  • 36:46 Boruto: Naruto Next Generation
  • 36:51 Chainsaw Man
  • 37:56 Do It Yourself!!
  • 39:21 Golden Kamuy Season 4
  • 40:17 Mob Psycho 100 III
  • 40:34 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
  • 43:56 SPY x FAMILY Cour 2
  • 46:36 Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun S3
  • 47:04 Outro

Music Credits:

  • “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain
  • BLUELOCK OP: “Chaos ga Kiwamaru” by Unison Square Garden
  • “Seasons” by roljui

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Fall 2022 — Seasonal Impressions

Seasonal Impressions,

Sequels: Berserk, Bleach, Encouragement of Climb: Next Summit, Golden Kamuy,  Idolish 7, Kankolle, My Hero Academia, Mob Psycho 100 S3, Muv Luv Alternative, Pop Team Epic, To Your Eternity, Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out, Welcome to the Demon School! Iruma-kun, Yowamushi Pedal

Not Yet Aired But Will Probably Suck: Arknights Prelude to Dawn

25. Human Crazy University
Ugly, dumb and mean. Continue reading Fall 2022 — Seasonal Impressions →

Kaiseki Anime Ep. 109 — Summer 2022 Anime Review

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What did you all think of this past season? Anything good we missed?

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The Eminence in Shadow Anime Sucks Balls

Impressions,

I’m not going to write an individual post for every show but I had to get this off my chest.

This is one of my favorite ongoing manga so I am extremely disappointed.

The manga is a comedy. The main character is a chuuni dumbass and the entire concept of the manga is a single joke— he says some chuuni shit and then it comes true by complete coincidence and all his followers think he is a genius. He became strong because he trained to “become the nuke”. The whole thing is hilarious. The audience is laughing at the main character and his ridiculous followers the entire time. I highly recommend it.

Anyway… somehow this very obvious and not at all subtle joke, which is repeated over and over for every chapter… seems to have completely flown over the heads of everyone creating the anime. They are playing it completely straight?

I mean, you can’t help laughing when the main character wears his cape, and plays the moonlight sonata after school in the dark… But I don’t have the sense it’s intended to be funny. They seem to think he’s supposed to be cool. They even had the whole “become the nuke” monologue but then they left out the punchline and he never said he would “become the nuke”, it was left more as a dilemma bemoaning the fact he couldn’t become stronger without magic.

Going to chunk this into the bin with poor Proud Wolf who got short changed…