The Roundup: Spring 2017 Volume 2

The slow but potentially good Atom: The Beginning joins the Roundup along with season 2 of The Eccentric Family, which has already proven its quality. Most everything else passes the three episode test save for Re:Creators, which Iro and I are still watching for some reason.

#HATEWATCH 2017: Eromanga-Sensei Episode 2

Sometimes a show comes along that just deserves to be eviscerated. Perhaps it showcases the worst of anime’s stereotypes. Perhaps it takes an interesting premise and ruins it with befuddling plots or infuriating character arcs. Perhaps you think a show should literally be labelled a war crime by the Geneva Convention. This is where the HATEWATCH comes in.

The Roundup: Spring 2017 Volume 1

Despite what you may have read in our first looks at the spring season, we do still like anime! We’re kicking off the next Roundup with Sakura Quest, Tsukigakirei, Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul, Re:Creators, and the return of Little Witch Academia. Who knows, maybe we’ll even add a few extra after we catch more second episodes. Stay tuned.

First Look: The Eccentric Family 2

Time has passed. Benten has gone on a mysterious journey while life returns to normal for the Shimogamo family. Everything seems to be going smoothly until one day the Nidaime, Professor Akadama’ estranged son, returns to Kyoto. With a fight between two powerful Tengu looming, things are about to change in the sleepy city. Have no idea what I’m talking about? Watch the first season.

First Look: Anonymous Noise

The crank is turned on the office gacha machine, and out plops a small ball. Opening it up, we see two small slips of paper, each with a single printed word. The first of these slips says ‘music’. The second says ‘pretentious’. Challenge accepted, shouts Brain’s Base.

First Look: Eromanga Sensei

Masamune Izumi is a hard working, modestly successful light novel author and all around nice guy high school student. He has never met his illustrator, the popular “Eromanga Sensei” who, you guessed it, is known for making erotic drawings. Through a series of coincidences he discovers Eromanga Sensei’s true identity – his cute step sister who never leaves her room!

First Look: Re:Creators

Characters from various (fictional) light novels begin appearing in the real world to do battle, and also there’s a boring everyman protagonist. So, reverse isekai?

First Look: Love Tyrant

Guri is an angel or cupid or something that wields the “Kiss Note” – it’s a Death Note but write people’s names in it and they will kiss within 24 hours. Well, it actually is a death note since if you DON’T kiss that person you die. Naturally, she is bad at her job and accidentally writes in a wrong name and her ensuing attempts to fix the situation only make things worse.

First Look: Sakura Quest

Soon to be fresh out of junior college, fashionista Yoshino Koharu struggles to make it in the boring world of the grown-ups – until one day, she gets an offer to become the spokeswoman for a sleepy countryside village. Golly gee willikers, could this perchance be a P.A. Works anime?

First Look: The Royal Tutor

​Heine Wittgenstein is a tiny little man who has been summoned by the king to tutor his sons. This is no easy task as the princes are all spoiled brats who have chased away their previous tutors. It’s up to Heine to get to know the princes and adapt his teaching methods to get through to them.