This week’s Demi-chan wa Kataritai (Interviews with Monster Girls) is a welcome return to the more contemplative form that the show displayed before its recent slog.
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Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Ep.9 Review: Consistently Human Execution
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon) takes top score in an episode about a sports festival, which is not something you’d expect from the track record of the episode trope.
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department Ep.9 Review: Assassins’ Flop
In a departure from the mortar-sealed narrative construction we’re used to getting, this week’s ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department (ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka) slows its plot to a sluggish pace. Catching revelations still squeeze out of the text, but the animation doesn’t look particularly good while it happens.
Demi-chan wa Kataritai Ep.9 Review: Love Revelation and Comedic Resignation
Demi-chan wa Kataritai (Interviews with Monster Girls) firmly establishes itself as lighter fare this episode, something that some viewers might have pegged it for weeks ago.
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Ep.8 Review: Anglerfish Elma Bento
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon) introduces a new dragon furthers the main couple’s relationship this week. It’s warm. It’s what we’ve come to expect, and it’s funny too.
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department Ep.8 Review: Disappearance
Like previous episode of ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department (ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka), this one picks up right where the last left off, but it does so in much more depth than you might have expected.
Demi-chan wa Kataritai Ep.8 Review: Mediocre and Rote Slice of Life Fare
Demi-chan wa Kataritai (Interviews with Monster Girls) eschews the small amount of momentum it regained last week, and grinds almost entirely to an uninspired halt.
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Ep.7 Review: Bikinis and The Meaning of Life
In the self-proclaimed fan-service episode of Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon), we get a helluva lot more than Lucoa and co. in skimpy swimsuits. Ideological considerations mesh with warm animation in another stellar step forward for the anime.
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ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department Ep.7 Review: Royal Rumble
The rising actions kicks off in ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Department (ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka) this week as plain as can be. Revelations abound, built up within the episode by stellar pacing and call backs that substantiate the vagueness of episodes past.
Demi-chan wa Kataritai Ep.7 Review: Haphazard Intros and A Hint at Conflict
In an episode titled “Succubus-san Is Inquisitive,” you’d think Demi-chan wa Kataritai (Interviews with Monster Girls) would develop Sakie’s character in a meaningful way. Instead, we learn about the broader instabilities that afflicted demi-humans in the past while getting an abrupt introduction to a couple new cast members.
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