Anime

In this sub-category, you’ll find TV series that are generally Japanese anime, but also animation from across the world.

ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka: Season 1/ Episode 1 "Jean the Cigarette-Peddler" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)

Overview/ Review (with Spoilers) With a drab art style, a lead who seems disinterested in anything besides smoking, paired with subordinates who are annoying jokey and someone who is envious of our lead and wants to take him down a peg… I feel so tricked by the preview.

Demi-chan wa Kataritai (Interviews with Monster Girls): Season 1/ Episode 1 "Takahashi Tetsuo Wants an Interview" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jy6_Fp_fco Overview/ Review (with Spoilers) Demi-chan wa Kataritai reminds me of Zootopia. For despite the cuteish nature of the previews, it deals with prejudice, being uncomfortable in knowing you are a minority and having to dispel and avoid stereotypes.

Fuuka: Season 1/ Episode 1 "Fuuka!" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oh11GzrFn8 Overview/ Review (with Spoilers) As opposed to Seiren, Fuuka delivers what a person would want and desire from a first episode. The boy may still be generic, but the girl more than compensates for that. Making it so when they get close and he notes they aren’t a couple, but she responds with “We…

Seiren: Season 1/ Episode 1 "Decision" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_hKXW7zKMw Overview/ Review (with Spoilers) Trying to figure out what you are going to do with your life, when it has been guided by teachers and parents more than yourself, is daunting. Luckily there are always friends to guide you, and many a potential love interest to distract you.

Youjo Senki (Saga of Tanya the Evil): Season 1/ Episode 1 "The Devil of the Rhine" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybpmPUMK_WY Overview/ Review (with Spoilers) I want you to imagine Izetta: The Last Witch and up the violence while toning down how memorable some of the supporting characters are. In episode one “The Devil of the Rhine” that’s what you get. But believe me when I say this show will likely far surpass the best…

Masamune-kun no Revenge: Season 1/ Episode 1 "The Boy Who Was Called Pig’s Foot" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zulhtadjYwI Overview/ Review (with Spoilers) You remember one of your first real crushes? I’m talking about in elementary school where holding hands was the most intimate thing ever. Well, imagine, or remember, feeling rejected. Makabe remembers. He has for likely almost for a decade, and this leads us to follow his tale of revenge. Assuming…

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Kizumonogatari: Part 2 (Nekketsu-hen) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)

Overview/ Review (with Spoilers) In a sort of weird way, Kizumonogatari, thanks to us witnessing the birth of Hanekawa’s crush on Koyomi, sort of becomes a romance. Just one which features more violence than gore than your usual monster/ girl romantic movie. Trigger Warning(s): Blood (Excessive) | Gore (Body Mutilation, intestines being exposed)

Kekkai Sensen (Blood Blockade Battlefront): Season 1/ Episode 1 "Secret Society of the Magic-Sealed City" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)

Overview After New York is invaded by aliens and other fantasy creatures, you’d think it would be one side trying to dominate the other. Wrong! In Kekkai Sensen, many aliens and humans live in peace, but those who see an opportunity for exploitation, and domination, take any opportunity they can find. Leading to the type…