Willem tries to get along with the girls while discovering the truth about the weapons he’s been sent to keep an eye on. Ctholly reveals why she’s been reluctant to get close to Willem.
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.
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.
Years before the tale of Astro Boy, Doctors Tenma and Ochanomizu were simple robotics students working on their newest project: A106, a robot with self-awareness.
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.
500 years ago, humans were wiped out in a war against the beasts, who know control the world. A man thought to be last surviving human takes a job as caretaker of a group girls with powerful abilities. That’s about all I can figure out from the first episode.
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.
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!
Hinako, a girl much better at talking to animals than to humans, moves to the big city, where she meets a wide array of (supposedly) quirky characters.
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?
Ten years after the world’s destruction at the hands of Bahamut was narrowly averted, the humans seem to be getting a bit big for their britches, hunting down gods and demons alike.
A giant cube descends on Japan, which unfortunately contains boring exposition rather than another season of Zyuohger.
Kurogo Kurusu decides to start a school club to share the FUN and EXCITING world of Kabuki with everyone!
A kid who is sexually attracted to clocks becomes very excited when a robot falls out of the sky and starts sucking on his fingers.
A bookish misanthrope and an anxious athlete go to school together and, um… awkwardly fumble around each other, I guess?
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.
A boy can’t deal with the idea of feminine authority figures, and vows to defeat them.
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?
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.
Set years after Naruto saved the ninja world and became the Seventh Hokage, it’s now time for the next generation(s) to take up the long-running ninja-themed shonen show mantle.
