Category Archives: First Impressions

22 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Shinmaru /

My Teenage RomCom SNAFU 1 – No Friends Makes for a Rotten Soul

Look at those eyes: Those are the eyes of a high schooler who knows his adult life will be shit and has decided to get a jump start on it. (P.S. I am going with Commie’s rendition of this show’s title, because holy fuck long anime title.) Perhaps it’s because I had zero expectations going [...]

14 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Inushinde /

Hataraku Maou-sama Episode 1: Holy Potter Blood of a sorcerer and a dragon

When writing this post, I was faced with a difficult choice: I could either go with an appropriate header image and a shitty reworking of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” for the title, or I could show the episode’s finest example of copyright-avoidant Engrish and repeat it in the title. I’d like to think [...]

29 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Scamp /

Majestic Prince episode 1 – Quick, send in the ineffectual children!

This is quite possibly the first time in anime history this has ever been said, but I think the CG animation is better than the 2D stuff. The CG is done by the studio Orange, who have been fighting a one-studio battle to make us believe that CG mecha can actually look good. They achieved [...]

13 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Scamp /

Severing Crime Edge episode 1 – Hair Salons: The destroyers of childhood dreams

Reading the first chapter of each manga prior to the season beginning does ruin the surprise. It meant that going into Crime Edge I already knew it was not going to be aware of how stupid it was. What I’m writing here is essentially just an extended version of what I wrote in the season [...]

9 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Scamp /

Red Data Girl episode 1 – Push him off a cliff again please

That new season is so near and yet so far. I have to sit back and impatiently wait for the first episodes to roll around so I finally have something to write abou-wait, what’s that? A first episode pre-air on Nico with shoddy web-rip quality of an anime that nobody seems to care about? Great! [...]

15 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Shinmaru /

Chihayafuru 2 – Chihaya Fuller

Don’t you fuckin’ forget that Chihaya is the Ace. So as the resident possessor of good taste Chihayafuru fan here, it is up to me to go over this episode with a fine-toothed comb and present to you, the fair, intelligent readers of The Cart Driver, with only the best, most intellectual and sophisticated analysis [...]

28 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Scamp /

Sasami-san@Ganbaranai episode 1 – Chocolate Apocalypse Nonsense

A quick recap of Akiyuki Shinbo’s career up until now by the totally unreliable Scamp. He started as an animator on Urusei Yatsura, because everybody from that era worked on something by Rumiko Takahashi. He then moved about a bit from JC Staff to Tatsunoko to wherever the hell he could get work as a director, including directing [...]

30 CommentsFirst Impressions / By Shinmaru /

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