a***@bell.net
2020-07-09 02:15:18 UTC
Well, the Summer 2020 Anime Season has limped in to underwhelm the entertainment-starved fans. “One Piece” and “Meitantei Conan” are finally continuing. “One Piece” has started out strong while “Conan” started out with an abysmally bad filler. In theory “Fugou Keiji” and “Houkago Teibou” will restart at some point but I haven’t found any sign yet.
One interesting second season has started – “Enen no Shouboutai”, aka, “Fire Force” is back. The initial episode was entertaining in an underwhelming manner. The first half was a filler that re-introduced the main protagonists, and then the second half was a compilation of two fairly weak comic chapters from the manga. The manga goes in some rather strange directions as it progresses so it will be interesting to see how the anime handles the oddities of the story.
There aren’t a lot of new anime series this season. I’ve already tried two that quickly turned into real write-offs. “Dokyou Hentai HxEros” is a gawdawful attempt at raunchy comedy. Alien monsters suck the libido out of humans and a teen fights back with sexually enhanced powers. The writing is horribly inept and the humour is non-existent. The writers and creative team should have watched “Ishuzoku Reviewers” in order to learn something about bawdy comedy. After one episode my final rating is F.
The second new show, and coincidentally the second dog, is “Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha”, a fantasy about the rebirth of a super devil king who is much more powerful than his descendants. The writing here is also abysmally bad, as is the voice acting. Here the writers and creative team should have spent some time studying “One Punch Man” for clues on how to structure a story about a character with god-like powers. After one episode my final rating is D.
Unless something comes up it looks like I will be watching more old anime again this season.
Dave Baranyi
One interesting second season has started – “Enen no Shouboutai”, aka, “Fire Force” is back. The initial episode was entertaining in an underwhelming manner. The first half was a filler that re-introduced the main protagonists, and then the second half was a compilation of two fairly weak comic chapters from the manga. The manga goes in some rather strange directions as it progresses so it will be interesting to see how the anime handles the oddities of the story.
There aren’t a lot of new anime series this season. I’ve already tried two that quickly turned into real write-offs. “Dokyou Hentai HxEros” is a gawdawful attempt at raunchy comedy. Alien monsters suck the libido out of humans and a teen fights back with sexually enhanced powers. The writing is horribly inept and the humour is non-existent. The writers and creative team should have watched “Ishuzoku Reviewers” in order to learn something about bawdy comedy. After one episode my final rating is F.
The second new show, and coincidentally the second dog, is “Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha”, a fantasy about the rebirth of a super devil king who is much more powerful than his descendants. The writing here is also abysmally bad, as is the voice acting. Here the writers and creative team should have spent some time studying “One Punch Man” for clues on how to structure a story about a character with god-like powers. After one episode my final rating is D.
Unless something comes up it looks like I will be watching more old anime again this season.
Dave Baranyi