Short, non-spoiler reviews and hot takes of anime for the newly initiated weeb.
Magia Record takes the world you know from Madoka and shows us how it would be like in a bigger city full of networking Magical Girls. There is a bit of a firehose effect with the number of characters and amount of story here, though.
What began as a passive time-sink grew into a beloved investment. Magia Record's characters, writing, and story have a charm to them unique in the realm of mobile games. Which makes the abrupt end of it that much more painful.
For having the same writer, composer, and animation studio that brings us Fate/Zero and the Heaven's Feel movies, Garden of Sinners has stellar animation and music for a boring, unconvincing story.
The unsettling lovechild of The Matrix and Donnie Darko (yet predecessor of both), Lain is an existential ride that is hauntingly more relevant today than when it aired 22 years ago.
Combine your average Isekai fun with the dread of Majora’s Mask and the psychological rattling of Doki Doki Literature Club.
A good wrap-up for some lingering characters while being a fitting inclusion to the series.
Kakegurui presents the eternally glorified “Anime High School Girl” and then shatters it into disturbing pieces.
Strategic Naval Warfare meets A.I. Becoming Too Human Psychological Exploration. Yes, the ships are waifus.
Solid Monogatari with added mystery and great character-digging dialogue.
Not bad for progress of overarching plot, but awkward ecchincest is back.
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