This was one of the anime of the season I was most anticipating due to having read part of the manga before. It ended up being even better than I was expecting.

It captures the fucked up sense you get from reading the manga but even more so. The soundtrack in this episode was excellent. The episode is just about a kid reading books and going to school, but with the music and animation you get a strong sense that shit is really fucked up. And as you’ll discover in the next episode (spoilers) it is. Continue reading Aku no Hana — First Impressions →

Our main character joins a photography club dedicated to taking pictures looking up girls’ skirts and down their shirts. But it’s not like he’s a pervert or anything! Tee-hee-hee~~~

I thought this was going to be a boring show about photography like Tamayura. Instead it’s a boring harem.

This season’s BL fodder. Continue reading Karneval — First Impressions →

The demon king and his underling get sucked into the human world. He gets a part time job in fast food. Continue reading Hataraku Maou-Sama — First Impressions →

I wasn’t expecting much from this, but we’re actually off to a pretty good start here. As someone who’s played the game, which will inevitably lead to spoilers, I’m probably not going to blog this. But I think the story of Devil Survivor lends itself better to anime than Persona 4, as there’s a single, continuous narrative rather than all the social link stuff.  Continue reading Devil Survivor 2 The Animation — First Impressions →