the spring 2021 anime season is home to perhaps the most
highly anticipated release of my entire weeb life and somehow nobody's talking
about it so i am so excited to share my thoughts about that with you
but first a few honorable mentions
yahallo and welcome back to kinda neet today i watched the first episode
of a ton of seasonal shows which i think makes me more than qualified to
review them and let you guys know which anime are a bop
and which ones are a drop the first anime i watched has one of the greatest
title translations ever it's right up there with the greats
like fireworks should we see them from the side or from
the bottom, world end what do you do at the end of the world
are you busy will you save us or the classic my girlfriend is a
faithful virgin [_____] what makes this title so great is that
without even glancing at the summary you know everything that's going to
happen after being rejected i shaved and took in a high school
runaway and you'll never guess what happens
compared to most anime protags i found yoshida to be
really relatable at times i had to hold myself back from phoning chris hansen
but overall i think he passed the test though the
genre tags make me a little hesitant if you're a tight little bag of maple
syrup although if you're a fresh little cup of
miso soup maybe avoid being alone in a room with him
the voice acting is great starring okitsu of reiji andou
fame and satan from darling in the franxx i was pretty
meh on this one at first but by the end yoshida's self-awareness
paved the way for an interesting relationship dynamic that i haven't seen
much of in anime
so i'm really curious to see where this is going abrisatiahra gets a tentative
bop from me next up we've got koikimo or as i like
to call it generic creep hits on generic highschooler this show doesn't really
seem to know what it wants to be it feels like someone
wrote a grounded romance script and then left it on the table in a
starbucks and a toddler came along and scribbled all over in crayon and then
sent it to the publisher who was so impressed that baby knew how to use the
postal service that he sent it right to print and by that i mean
other than the constant played out cutaways there's
not really any life to the characters or world you've got this blonde womanizing
businessman who's fallen head over heels for a random high school girl with no
personality besides occasionally talking back
and what clever way are these two star-crossed lovers brought together you
might ask by randomly bumping into each other of
course which in the first episode alone happens like 12 times koikimo is a drop
but hey nani the [____] do i know it's only been one episode this could turn out to be
show of the year and then i'd really have egg on my face
speaking of eggs 86: Eighty Six had a ton of preseason buzz so
even though military anime aren't usually my cup of tea i was willing to
give it a shot right off the bat i was really impressed
with the rare use of cgi that didn't make me want to claw my eyes
out the camera movement is so dynamic and
effort was clearly put in to cover things up with smoke
debris and camera shake yet somehow they couldn't manage to draw an appetizing
egg basically we've got a future japan that
no longer uses real humans to fight its wars
and instead uses drones which really just means other humans
the show has a really unique color scheme that easily could have gone
attack on titan beige but instead works beautifully to contrast to the drone
world my biggest gripe so far is that the
86ers are clearly just normal people
so i'm not sure how much i buy the world's attitude of haha
dumb robots i don't know why it was mickey mouse i mean
people treat siri with more respect hey siri why don't i have a girlfriend
if you're looking for someone to show a little love right now might i humbly
suggest yourself you deserve it oh siri you just
get me now march to your death i don't want to
die 86 86 86
gets a bop for now but we'll see if they improve their eggs by next week
next up nagatoro-san which is basically like a high school version of takagi-san
but with bullying instead of teasing
yep exactly like takagi-san we're only 15 minutes in and he's already cried
twice so i'm curious to see how they're gonna
escalate from here and he's dead take notes koikimo
this is how you make a comedy everything from the colors to the background
characters are intentionally designed to set the tone
and prep you for the wacky antics to come nagatoro is unlike any character
i've seen before and senpai is well sort of a freak
it's basically just sketches of her finding new ways to
ruthlessly bully this beta nishkata i'm giving bullying master nagatoro-san
a bop next up we've got super club which i'm hoping can fill the fuji sized
hole in my heart after the masterpiece that was yuru camp season 2.
i'm looking for some laid-back biking beautiful seiichi
and maybe a mukbang or two is that too much to ask for
butter on toast i guess that's a start i love this show's art style the
backgrounds are super realistic but the characters have a very sketched
feel that is just such a joy to look at
i think i'm gonna be sick i get the need for cg in shots like this but
does it really need to be so stiff how much money could it possibly cost just
to add a few key frames of movement so that the characters aren't just
t posing on top of the bike
okay i think i'm gonna like this show the pace is a perfect three kilometers
an hour never shying away from holding on a
moment and the music alone is enough to bring a tear to my eye we
follow a girl who's drifting through life entirely on her own
who finds joy in an old run-down honda scooter
i definitely don't think this will be for everyone but for me
it's more than a bop it's a banger from the director of takagi-san comes those
snow white notes not much to say here i don't like the
art i don't like the characters shamisen master setsu-san is dropped
but what do i know i just watched it to make that takagi-san joke next up is uh
um vivi vivi
vivy fluorite eye's song song which i was very hesitant about
because for me sci-fi is a very hard genre to get right
but the opening scene of this alone had me hooked it's got everything you
need pop music talking bears weird floaty food and
drones that just sort of yeet themselves into people
what more could you ask for the story follows an ai named diva
on her quest to make everyone in the world happy by using her singing
future tokyo is pretty cool and i really like the bot designs so hard to
pronounce ai idol show gets a drop from me but
not because it's not a bop it's just not a bop that i want to cop
next up frank i'm gonna need you to look away on this one
i can't believe i'm gonna say this but i'm gonna watch a dog show
from the studio that brought you hiki's terrible posture and weird hair
comes the anime adaptation of that one cgi dog movie an immortal being
is sent down to earth that takes on the form of anything it grows close to
like this rock or this egg and then eventually a dog
so far this anime feels like it could be something really special
the music is beautiful the story touching and most importantly
the dog isn't cg i'm giving this anime six rocks out of a potential seven eggs
that's a drop a bop bop that's a pop and finally the moment
we've been waiting years for a new shaft x nisioisin pretty boy
detective club is the anime i've been waiting my entire weeb life for
four middle school boys and one set of legs all from different walks of life
are brought together to solve mysteries but what does the student council
president have in common with a delinquent chef
and why would a world-class artist be caught dead with the legs of a track
star i am so glad you asked it's really quite
simple
my love for nisioisin aside the art in the show is absolutely stunning the dialogue is hilarious yet
meaningful and i could not be more excited to find
out where the story is going and did i mention it's written by
nisio isin and directed by akiyuki shinbou who is responsible for
yeah everything good ever this anime is just overflowing with style
from the uniforms to the flashbacks and even the way simple dialogue is framed
also my god look at these magnificent legs
i am dying to know what anime you guys are watching this season so please let
me know in the comments and if you enjoyed this video
i've got another one just like it you can watch here thanks for watching