Demi-chan wa Kataritai’s (Interviews with Monster Girls) second episode brings to the fore one of the few lingering doubts I had about the premiere last week. While the warm character interactions are still there and hints for future character episodes are sown, a sketchy scenario raises some small alarms.
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Winter 2017 Anime Preview: Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
The juxtaposition Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid presents is a laugh out loud hilarious one that balances on sturdy character-building pillars in its premiere.
Winter 2017 Anime Preview: ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department
Don’t let the long name of ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department (ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka) dissuade you. The political drama has great writing, directing and art design all going for it.
Winter 2017 Anime Preview: Hand Shakers
For an animation with so many CG elements regularly moving around the screen, Hand Shakers has a distinct lack of flow to marvel at. When coupled with its offensive treatment of a woman in a discordant attempt at titilation, I wanted to shut off the premiere within the first two minutes.
Winter 2017 Anime Preview: ēlDLIVE
ēlDLIVE is fairly standard, supernatural action meets middle school fare, but with a compelling enough conceit to to be worth a watch.
Winter 2017 Anime Preview: Spiritpact
Spiritpact, like many Haoliners Animation League anime productions before it, has some of the foundations of a show that could be interesting, but skips the important parts that would make its viewers care.
Winter 2017 Anime Preview: Demi-chan wa Kataritai
Demi-chan wa Kataritai (Interviews With Monster Girls) strikes an excellent balance between portraying normalcy with its snappy dialogue and letting the unique aspects of its world shine.
Winter 2017 Anime Preview: Seiren
Seiren strikes a debut so bland that it’s almost offensive. Unassuming characters in overdone situations bog the slice of life episode down, and everything else on screen does little to redeem it.
Winter 2017 Anime Preview: Masamune-kun’s Revenge
With an adversarial approach to its leads, Masamune-kun’s Revenge looks to cook enough original meat on sturdy production bones to entertain romcom anime fans this Winter, and with a strong premiere, it seems likely to succeed.
Summer 2014 anime preview: Tokyo ESP
Tokyo ESP drops rights into the late stages of a tense plot with terrorist espers rebelling against the Japanese government, and its unorthodox introduction works in its favour to set up what should be an interesting cour of anime.
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