As before , I've decided to collect here all of my tweeted reactions to the first episodes I've seen (in the order I saw them).
- Myriad Colors Phantom World episode 1: Fanservice galore, which is a negative, and no KyoAni spark of life. But okay otherwise in an LN way. → .
- ERASED episode 1: I came in knowing something about the premise and with that, this was a great first episode. I want to see more. →
- Active Raid ep 1: A pretty good but also fairly stock start for this sort of thing. And wait, she's still a minor? That explains some bits. →
- Pandora ep 1: That was surprisingly fun and decent in a popcorn action way, although I could have lived without the big fanservice joke. →
- Dagashi Kashi episode 1: That was fairly good and I found it reasonably funny, but it's also clearly not my thing at all. So it goes. →
- BBK/BRNK episode 1: That was a pretty good version of an action shonen. Snappy, well done, good action sequences, doesn't waste time. Solid. →
- Luck & Logic episode 1: Perfectly competent and okay but bland, with nothing particular to distinguish it from the next action shonen show. ♯
- As I expected, Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu is not my kind of thing at all. I can see the appeal but in practice it leaves me totally cold. ♯
- Dimension W episode 1: That was plain good in a classical adult action show way. We have setup, characters, mysteries, everything done well. →
- Grimgar ep 1: Slow and I could have lived without the fanservice bit, but the setup et al is intriguing enough to earn it another episode. →
- Lupin III (2015): Well, that was an abject failure. The start of episode one irritates me too much to continue right now & probably at all. →
- KonoSuba ep 1: That was okay and periodically amusing, but the characters aren't really alive yet and it's kind of flat and limited so far. →
The one remaining new show is Ajin , but at this point I'm not at all sure if I'll be able to watch it any time soon. I've also become uncertain about its genre; if it's really a horror show about alienation from humanity and the horrible things that people do, I'm probably not interested in the first place.