Manga: N/A. Anime original.

Director: Hisatoshi Shimizu (He did that weird Hi-Evolution Eureka Seven remake movie 3 years ago.)

Animation Production: MAPPA (Inuyashiki, The God of High School, Days)

Every season needs to have its ~drama~, but why bother with this when we have an ef knock-off coming up?

By my own standards, this likely deserves higher than a “Meh”, but I’m never gonna watch the series, so I’ll never be proven wrong. <3

Manga/LN/VN: N/A. Anime original. Like Charlotte.

Director: Yoshiyuki Asai (Charlotte, Fate/Apocrypha, Star Driver the Movie)

Animation Production: P.A. Works

Leaning toward watching this as a marathon rather than weekly. If you can chain your tears from one episode to the next, I hear it makes you human for a bit.

Manga: https://mangadex.org/title/21338/moriarty-the-patriot (there are two group options; pick Cyan Steam, cuz although they’re idiots, at least their translator isn’t Google)

Director: Kazuya Nomura (Joker Gang, Robotics;Notes, Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru)

Animation Production: Production I.G

Watching the upper classes get their just deserts is like chicken soup for my dick. That being said, I’m kinda starting to realize why my doc told me to stop fucking the stew.

Moriarty doesn’t seem to have anything interesting going for it beyond the premise. It’s just “okay, this person is objectively evil, so we’re gonna kill ’em and stage it so we won’t get caught”. That’s fine and all, but I’m not sure it’s worth 5 hours of my time. I got chairs to sit in and ceilings to stare at, folks!

Manga: https://mangadex.org/title/35616/ochikobore-fruit-tart

Director: Keiichirou Kawaguchi (Hunter x Hunter Movie 2 and some other things I guess)

Animation Production: feel. (A bunch of things I never finished:)

The characters seem fine. It looks cute.

Still don’t care, though. Drop the idols and give me the manager, then we’ll talk.

Manga: https://mangadex.org/title/21879/a3

Director: Masayuki Sakoi (Kaibutsu Oujo, Kamen no Maid Guy, Needless)

Animation Production:  P.A. Works, Studio 3Hz (A3 S1, Gun Gale Online, Dimension W)

I was so ready to dismiss this reverse-harem idol-ish group nonsense off-hand, but then I found out there was a fucking prequel I had to watch first. Kinda happy I caught that, cuz this ain’t a garbage series at all.

I fucking hate theater, and recitals are miserably boring, but I can tolerate people, as long as they’re anime. And S1 had a really fucking good group of guys:

• Gamer, but in the actually addicted “mom, I want my tendies but once you hand them over get the FUCK out of my room” sense. Also, he’s a salaryman.

• An acrobat who’s obsessed with triangles (he pretty much only eats onigiri).

• Pretty boy whose sole purpose in life is to get the director pregnant (there is an illegal age gap here, but that’s okay).

I normally wouldn’t bother watching this new version, but I’m kinda curious what weirdos they’ll throw into the mix.

Director: Noboru Iguchi

Animation Production: Toho Interactive Animation (Ninja Collection)

…yeah, no thanks.

Director: Naoto Hosada (Mirai Nikki, Hataraku Maou-sama!, Juuni Taisen)

Animation Production: Yokohama Animation Lab (Miru Tights, Lapis Re:LiGHTs)

The trailer gives me hope, but that it’s a mobage adaptation gives me pause. I’m holding out hope for something decent, but I won’t sign my name to that.

Manga: Just watch the first season if you wanna know what’s up.

Director: Youichi Fujita (He’s directed all the new ones)

Animation Production: Studio Pierrot

Why do fujoshi like this more than playing Nintendo games competitively with the genetically compromised and hygiene-bereft? I will never understand.

Manga: https://mangadex.org/title/30590/dogeza-de-tanondemita (Fair warning, this is porn. 4-koma porn.)

Director: Shinpei Nagai (Danna ga Nani, Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san)

Animation Production: DMM pictures (Enen no Shouboutai, Inuyashiki, Domestic na Kanojo)

It’s basically Miru Tights, but with titties, so how can you go wrong?

(You can go wrong by adding a plot, DDM. Please don’t fucking do that.)

Director: Seiji Mizushima (Fullmetal Alchemist – the non-Brotherhood version, UN-GO, Beatless)

Animation Production: SANZIGEN (Black★Rock Shooter (TV), Terraformars, Arslan Senki (TV))

Some stuff (no trailer yet):

There’s no way this’ll be good, but I can’t tell if it’ll be bad. This is the last anime on the list, so I’m not about to research further. Let’s just label this as Schrödinger’s anime and move on with our lives.