You know this is not in any way how cults form or function, right? Quasi-Impressions: This had the 'better' third episode between it and Wind Breaker, largely because that was two two iterations of "We're about to fight… but maybe later," both stretched out for five minutes, with another 10 minute info dump in the middle. This had me a bit curious when it went into clan stuff, especially given, you know, the Abe assassination over clan stuff. There are lots of ways you could've taken it for a comedy. The girl's too thick or clueless to be recruited, or is a pain in the ass. Or maybe it ..read more

  Why did we infiltrate the school just to hide until after school again? Impressions: I wasn't hugely impressed with the script in the first episode, but eesh. This episode. Dress up in this school uniform. Now, let me explain why you should dress up in this uniform. You must never use this power. It is a curse that kills you. Okay, with that talk out of the way, let's use that power, for fanservice. We need to infiltrate the school by doing a 21 Jump Street. Now that you're in, hide until after school. There's nothing unusual about our school at all. Oh, except for the inexplicable ..read more

  Ew, fungus. Impressions: This is the first episode that was more like what I expected of this show, though it did have me worried at the start as it spent the first five or so minutes doing local regional schtick again. Thankfully, the rest of it moved into a pretty standard zombie/cultist/Children of the Corn kind of schtick, except with head mushrooms. I don't think it actually executed on it all that well though. Too much of the early stuff relied on the characters being excessively…well.. dumb, which, sure, is a horror movie trope, but not to this level. Especially with how muc ..read more

  Like that's rare in anime. Impressions: I was really hoping at least one of the shounen shows would be tolerable, but optimism is running thin. Both share a lot of problems. Wildly inconsistent and inappropriate tone. Nonsensical settings. Violence that it can't seem to decide whether or not is serious or on the level of Looney Tunes. They both introduce literal clowns and tried to hype them up as serious antagonists to be taken seriously, not helped by the terrible, completely inept protagonists who are barely capable of attempting the absolute minimum but have nonetheless spent the la ..read more

  It'll be a reaction face mine, if nothing else. Impressions: It's almost quaint seeing a show that's trying to exist entirely on reaction faces, and yet, preferable to the ones that are doing the same, but for RPG status screens. But after multiple shows of being yelled at, I'm pretty over-reactioned out for the day, if not the entire season. I think it's the superficiality here that doesn't work for me. On both their parts. The first girl who sees a highschool band for 30 seconds and is so overcome with puberty that it's now the only thing in her life that she cares about, and the one ..read more

  God, I love looking at gauges and navigating menus. Impressions: Second to last show of the season, but last of the goddamned reincarnation in RPG world things. Dude beats the last boss, wakes up in fantasy world with all his cheat powers intact, proceeds to spend next 16 minutes standing at counters and sitting at tables. Now that's exciting fantasy. But don't worry, he also immediately finds a cursed elf who decided to wear nothing but nipple covers above the waist, and three ribbons below. She's cursed and only he can free her. So it's off to the city to visit another waitress w ..read more

  I can say that at least I definitely didn't need another twenty minutes of hyperactive yelling. Impressions: Though the characters aren't really endearing themselves to me all that much either. Nor was the whole bit where the random idol gave her a life lesson and healed her soul in a quick 90 second conversation. …So she decided to eat her and steal her identity. Okay, maybe not part of that, but it certainly would've spiced up the episode. She just colored her hair to be more like her perfect idol, while the manic pixie girl also became superimposed with the ghost of her idol, be ..read more

  And yelling. A whole lot of yelling. Impressions: There's something deeply weird about a giant monster overrunning the city, killing at least dozens, more likely thousands, leveling all of downtown, and crowds turning out to cheer on the government because there's an attractive girl. "Hot damn! A terrorist attack. That means I'll get to see that dreamy Brian Williams on screen! Squeee!" But there's also the main dude, who it keeps assuring us is totally 30 years old while acting like a particularly excitable 6 year old. Or perhaps a terrier. There is no reaction but overreaction. There ..read more

  How do you make those so boring? Impressions: This too is a show that exists. Next Episode: Hoops are life ..read more

  Why has no other director discovered this genius approach to drama? Impressions: I would say that it doesn't understand streaming at all, but then it also has people using ramen noodles as flails, a dude kicking in the door to a not-McDonalds to scream at a cashier and everybody's like "well, he's a streamer, and they're allowed to do that," and viral videos pay out in cash, instantly. Also, hospitals love it when you pay in cash. They're also the only place in the entire city that adults are allowed to exist. So there's… a lot… here above and beyond the nonsensical premise that th ..read more