In my Sunday era
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I'm a nerd and I like complicated things. People should be free to enjoy and create what they like. Chill until someone attacks a friend or someone in need, at which point I turn into a dragon and everything burns. Any pronouns.
…haven't seen much of the love interest's personality yet but hopefully we'll get more about the supporting characters next episode. I like how fastidious the lead is (actual nerd representation!) and how everyone converses normally instead of exposition-dumping and patronising one another. 8/10.
January 7, 2026 at 1:58 PM
…haven't seen much of the love interest's personality yet but hopefully we'll get more about the supporting characters next episode. I like how fastidious the lead is (actual nerd representation!) and how everyone converses normally instead of exposition-dumping and patronising one another. 8/10.
… going on in the politics and interpersonal relationships at all times. It's got a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour about the nerdy lead's stickler personality to keep the accountancy humour from getting too stodgy and a nice range of character designs. Not too sure about the BL elements yet as we…
January 7, 2026 at 1:58 PM
… going on in the politics and interpersonal relationships at all times. It's got a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour about the nerdy lead's stickler personality to keep the accountancy humour from getting too stodgy and a nice range of character designs. Not too sure about the BL elements yet as we…
Also watched the first episode of The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter (Isekai No Sata Ha Shachiku Shidai). It's nice to have an isekai show which takes everything so seriously; the lead's old life matters, the people of both worlds all act believably and there's genuine worldbuilding…
January 7, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Also watched the first episode of The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter (Isekai No Sata Ha Shachiku Shidai). It's nice to have an isekai show which takes everything so seriously; the lead's old life matters, the people of both worlds all act believably and there's genuine worldbuilding…
The first episode of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes s2 was pretty good, like season 1. They included a few more cameos to keep fans of the original interested (and maintain a sense that it's all set in the same world) but the main Vigilantes cast is fun even without them. I'll keep watching. 7/10.
January 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
The first episode of My Hero Academia: Vigilantes s2 was pretty good, like season 1. They included a few more cameos to keep fans of the original interested (and maintain a sense that it's all set in the same world) but the main Vigilantes cast is fun even without them. I'll keep watching. 7/10.
Please don't follow the bad ones!
January 6, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Please don't follow the bad ones!
(In our D&D games we seem to compare most things to the size of different people's fists, isn't that normal?)
January 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
(In our D&D games we seem to compare most things to the size of different people's fists, isn't that normal?)
I need to know why the dizzy maid compares literally everything to the way that different eyes look, though, especially when speaking to a boy who has been blind since birth. You'd think she'd have learned a bit of empathy by now. 6/10.
January 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I need to know why the dizzy maid compares literally everything to the way that different eyes look, though, especially when speaking to a boy who has been blind since birth. You'd think she'd have learned a bit of empathy by now. 6/10.
The lead also doesn't patronisingly 'splain to everything he meets which is a nice break from genre conventions, and the setting seems somewhat thought-out. I'm not convinced that there's any long term entertainment value here but at least watching the first episode wasn't a miserable experience.
January 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
The lead also doesn't patronisingly 'splain to everything he meets which is a nice break from genre conventions, and the setting seems somewhat thought-out. I'm not convinced that there's any long term entertainment value here but at least watching the first episode wasn't a miserable experience.
The blind kid who is this show's privileged rich student mage is surrounded by attentive maids/tutors, just like the other series, yet his get enough screen time to express some actual personality traits other than 'helplessness'.
January 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
The blind kid who is this show's privileged rich student mage is surrounded by attentive maids/tutors, just like the other series, yet his get enough screen time to express some actual personality traits other than 'helplessness'.
Another first episode: Kunon the Sorcerer Can See. Not the most fluent-sounding title in English but I'll give it at least some credit for thrashing Noble Reincarnation in every possible way (art style, pacing, worldbuilding, having an actual idea for a plot, casting Hayami Saori as the lead etc.)
January 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Another first episode: Kunon the Sorcerer Can See. Not the most fluent-sounding title in English but I'll give it at least some credit for thrashing Noble Reincarnation in every possible way (art style, pacing, worldbuilding, having an actual idea for a plot, casting Hayami Saori as the lead etc.)
...coming across as weirdly sociopathic when she's stalking her idol in a fully animated world (rather than with me slowly reading it on a page), I'd probably keep watching if I was new to it. 6/10. There are quite a few shoujo-style anime titles this season which is lovely to see.
January 5, 2026 at 11:35 PM
...coming across as weirdly sociopathic when she's stalking her idol in a fully animated world (rather than with me slowly reading it on a page), I'd probably keep watching if I was new to it. 6/10. There are quite a few shoujo-style anime titles this season which is lovely to see.
Another winter 2026 anime: Hana-Kimi. I read the manga 20 years ago so I remember most of the important bits, which rather devalues this anime since the production values aren't high enough to make me want a redo. It's a fun and silly shoujo series though and despite Mizuki...
January 5, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Another winter 2026 anime: Hana-Kimi. I read the manga 20 years ago so I remember most of the important bits, which rather devalues this anime since the production values aren't high enough to make me want a redo. It's a fun and silly shoujo series though and despite Mizuki...
My review of Noble Reincarnation: Born Blessed, So I'll Obtain Ultimate Power episode 1 will be brief; if you have any assumptions about this show from the title, they're all correct and it's a waste of time to watch it. Not a single unique thought went into this lifeless, derivative rubbish. 2/10.
January 5, 2026 at 6:46 PM
My review of Noble Reincarnation: Born Blessed, So I'll Obtain Ultimate Power episode 1 will be brief; if you have any assumptions about this show from the title, they're all correct and it's a waste of time to watch it. Not a single unique thought went into this lifeless, derivative rubbish. 2/10.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
...better with shorter episodes so that the gimmick of working for a brutal torture company being like any other part-time job felt less repetitive. And the pacing could have been quicker in general to make it funnier. Not going to spend any more time with this one, 6/10.
January 4, 2026 at 6:46 PM
...better with shorter episodes so that the gimmick of working for a brutal torture company being like any other part-time job felt less repetitive. And the pacing could have been quicker in general to make it funnier. Not going to spend any more time with this one, 6/10.
Another first episode from the current anime season: The Daily Life of a Part-Time Torturer. I picked it in the hope that it would be a tasteless dark comedy full of ikemen but while it's definitely a tasteless comedy, the full-length runtime made it a bit of a slog. I think it would have been...
January 4, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Another first episode from the current anime season: The Daily Life of a Part-Time Torturer. I picked it in the hope that it would be a tasteless dark comedy full of ikemen but while it's definitely a tasteless comedy, the full-length runtime made it a bit of a slog. I think it would have been...
We also watched the Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Stairway to Adulthood- OAV and that was pretty good! Some nice developments and Fujiwara stole every scene that she was in, as always.
January 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
We also watched the Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Stairway to Adulthood- OAV and that was pretty good! Some nice developments and Fujiwara stole every scene that she was in, as always.
Well-animated large scale fantasy battles follow, along with endless emotionally-stunted confrontations with haughty holy knights, none of whom seem to be capable of even rudimentary deduction. They're also useless at combat compared to the glorious hero. A solid 5/10, not going to keep watching it.
January 4, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Well-animated large scale fantasy battles follow, along with endless emotionally-stunted confrontations with haughty holy knights, none of whom seem to be capable of even rudimentary deduction. They're also useless at combat compared to the glorious hero. A solid 5/10, not going to keep watching it.
…of stilted exposition as flat characters explain the setting to one another nonsensically for the first half hour, then he teams up with a little girl who holds world-changing power and has latched onto him for basically no reason. Obviously she's cute, naïve and craves head pats.
January 4, 2026 at 2:38 PM
…of stilted exposition as flat characters explain the setting to one another nonsensically for the first half hour, then he teams up with a little girl who holds world-changing power and has latched onto him for basically no reason. Obviously she's cute, naïve and craves head pats.
Another anime premiere and it was an extra-long first episode (yay...). Sentenced To Be A Hero is the story of an edgelord who fell from grace and was condemned to serve as a hero on the frontlines of the endless, one-sided war between magical beasts and idiotic holy knights. It suffers from a lot…
January 4, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Another anime premiere and it was an extra-long first episode (yay...). Sentenced To Be A Hero is the story of an edgelord who fell from grace and was condemned to serve as a hero on the frontlines of the endless, one-sided war between magical beasts and idiotic holy knights. It suffers from a lot…
I probably won't watch the whole thing but (CG aside) it looks nice enough and has a liveliness to it that's missing in all of the derivative isekai dreck. A solid 6/10 (which would have been a 7/10 if the concert scene had looked better).
January 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I probably won't watch the whole thing but (CG aside) it looks nice enough and has a liveliness to it that's missing in all of the derivative isekai dreck. A solid 6/10 (which would have been a 7/10 if the concert scene had looked better).
Another first episode from the new anime season: Tamon's B-Side (Tamon-kun Ima Docchi!?)
It's decent. The CG concert at the end was a slog but the comedic story of an idol superfan dealing with the reality of meeting her favourite in a mundane setting is pretty funny. And Hayami Saori gets to star.
It's decent. The CG concert at the end was a slog but the comedic story of an idol superfan dealing with the reality of meeting her favourite in a mundane setting is pretty funny. And Hayami Saori gets to star.
January 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Another first episode from the new anime season: Tamon's B-Side (Tamon-kun Ima Docchi!?)
It's decent. The CG concert at the end was a slog but the comedic story of an idol superfan dealing with the reality of meeting her favourite in a mundane setting is pretty funny. And Hayami Saori gets to star.
It's decent. The CG concert at the end was a slog but the comedic story of an idol superfan dealing with the reality of meeting her favourite in a mundane setting is pretty funny. And Hayami Saori gets to star.
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idk about you, but we're already counting down the days ‘til MCM London 👀
January 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
idk about you, but we're already counting down the days ‘til MCM London 👀
...reason his old party kicked him out was because he kept over-describing all of their moves during combat scenes and bored them all to tears? If that had actually been part of the script I'd have kept the (entirely mediocre in every way) show on my watchlist! Ultra boring first episode, 3/10.
January 1, 2026 at 1:52 PM
...reason his old party kicked him out was because he kept over-describing all of their moves during combat scenes and bored them all to tears? If that had actually been part of the script I'd have kept the (entirely mediocre in every way) show on my watchlist! Ultra boring first episode, 3/10.
He then immediately meets a pair of cute, influential girls and ends up with a brighter future. It was drivel, but there was a moment near the start (after Kirito-clone boringly narrated a repetitive tutorial to basic RPG mechanics) where I saw the potential for a great comedic twist. What if the...
January 1, 2026 at 1:52 PM
He then immediately meets a pair of cute, influential girls and ends up with a brighter future. It was drivel, but there was a moment near the start (after Kirito-clone boringly narrated a repetitive tutorial to basic RPG mechanics) where I saw the potential for a great comedic twist. What if the...