Category Archives: First Impressions

11 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Inushinde /

Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko. Episode 1: Sad Male Leads Doing Squats in the Snow

Molding a milquetoast generic lead into somebody remotely relatable is possibly the most thankless task ever, right behind being a hygiene technician. With an intentionally weak personality and indistinct appearance to supposedly aid in audience projection, anybody charged with making them seem like actual likable humans is in for one of the bumpiest creative roads [...]

57 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Scamp /

Valvrave the Liberator episode 1 – Cars is back

After blasting Cars into Space, he floated aimlessly across the galaxy for several thousands years, meeting no living creatures and eventually losing consciousness. When humanity started to spread across the galaxy themselves, one survey team pick up some space debris and discover it has some strange power they can’t really comprehend. What they do know is [...]

11 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Inushinde /

Muromi-san and Yuyushiki Episode(s) 1: Not as Bad as Kill Me Baby

I don’t know if anybody else feels this, but most anime comedy is kind of stressful to watch. Pacing isn’t exactly what people watch comedy adaptations for, but the mitigation of horribly-timed jokes is something that shitty comedy adaptations still sorely neglect. While I wouldn’t say that these two particular shows start off particularly well, [...]

65 CommentsFirst Impressions, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet / By Scamp /

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet episode 1 – Space snails

When the robot’s AI said how much combat hours our main character had clocked in, I paused the video, pulled up the calculator and did some quick maths. That kid has been fighting for 16.5 straight years. Now I’m not sure as of yet how much of that includes his time sleeping in the mech, [...]

61 CommentsFirst Impressions, Shingeki no Kyojin / By Inushinde /

Shingeki no Kyojin Episode 1: He’s Watching You

Just getting screenshots of that titan for this post made my skin crawl. It’s not because of its unsettling grin, though that’s certainly creepy as all fuck. It’s the fact that its glowing red skin is evocative of the worst kind of sunburn, and I can’t help but wonder if it was duped into thinking [...]

45 CommentsFirst Impressions, Flowers of Evil / By Shinmaru /

Flowers of Evil 1 – A Twisted Tale of Drudgery

Always loved this particular piece of imagery from the moment I saw it. How delightfully creepy! So I suppose I shouldn’t avoid the elephant in the room for too long, but I at least would like to say I’m not at all interested in the mass reaction to the visuals, positive or negative. The entire [...]

24 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Scamp /

Karneval episode 1 – Of course they’re called Circus

This man is part of an organisation whose dress code requires him to dress in a tuxedo and top hat and and use a conductors baton as a magic wand. Also he has a cute girl sidekick in a colourful skimpy dress with a leotard underneath that so you don’t see her underwear. Then at the end [...]

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