While perhaps not as bad as we were originally expecting, the Summer 2018 anime season certainly has its ups and downs. Jel, Iro, Gee, and Zigg get off their up to the minute hot takes on all the new shows we’ve been watching.
Opening Song: “Emotional literacy” by BRADIO
Show Notes
Bad Shows:
3:55 Island
7:17 How Not to Summon a Demon Lord & The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar
12:16 Miss Caretaker of Sunohara
15:33 Seven Senses of the Re’Union
18:11 Dropkick on My Devil
(Iro’s Random Manga Theatre review of Dropkick on My Devil)
20:30 Happy Sugar Life
24:37 Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
Middle of the Road Pretty Boy Shows:
29:18 The Thousand Musketeers
33:41 Phantom in the Twilight & Holmes of Kyoto
Less Bad Shows:
38:34 Hanebado
47:16 Banana Fish
(the greatest tragedy of the Banana Fish adaptation)
53:17 Angels of Death
59:09 Chio’s School Road
1:04:37 Cells at Work
1:09:46 Harukana Receive
1:13:57 Asobi Asobase
1:18:07 Planet With
1:28:30 Angolmois
1:37:10 Grand Blue
1:44:11 Revue Starlight
1:54:06 Sirius the Jaeger
The Glorio Blog 
I really like Banana Fish so far. But I haven’t read the manga so I guess I’m coming to it pretty fresh.
Isekai shows feature someone entirely normal and average from our world going to another world where some aspect of average humanity is exceptional and makes them massively overpowered…
Basically what I’m getting from this is that isekai shows are reverse Superman.
Does anyone really want a reverse Superman?
The fact that these shows keep getting funded suggests that the answer to that is, disappointingly, yes.