i don't know if my standards are getting lower or anime is getting better but i am progressively
adding more and more anime to my watch list every season so for fall 2021 we are going
to have to be absolutely ruthless with our drops like here i don't even remember adding
this raised by the heroic skeleton warrior the ladylike mummy priestess and gus who's
gus yahello and welcome back to the show where i tell you which seasonal anime are a bop
and which are a drop based on nothing but my in-depth knowledge of having seen the first
episode first up is the anime adaptation of that time you forgot to bring your headphones
to the gym and for some reason got a ton of dirty looks tact op destiny is a glimpse into
our future in the year 2047 when pop music became so terrible that a group of monsters
had to step in and put an end to it even pressing a single key of the piano can
which is why this town just left a piano laying around that literally says play me on it but
luckily the highly trained specialists known as the musicart are here to save the-
we're doomed all of the characters are a little bit dumb in a really charming way and while
their designs are fantastic the monsters are pretty uninteresting and although the background
art is actually pretty mediocre the animation of the fight scenes more than makes up for
it my one real gripe is that for a show so centered around music i wish they would have
integrated it into the action a bit better after the initial wave of the maestro's stick
baton stick i don't know the music just gets overshadowed by the
i'd say it's worth checking out next up space vampires which normally isn't something i
would watch but it just had such a fantastic poster that it got weirdly hyped up it's basically
twilight if twilight was about the soviet us space race and what could possibly be more
whimsical than sending a vampire to the moon you might ask literally anything this anime
takes itself so seriously and i get the sense that she's not even gonna make it up a flight
of stairs let alone into space until at least to the 11th episode and let's be honest that's
all we're here for
drop the whole mushoku tensei gang are back we've got trash taste the lolizard satan and
of course the horse murderer himself Rudeus Greyrat but this time they're joined by the
infamous demon lord not really too much to say here if you loved the first one you're
gonna love this one and if you can't remember the first one make sure to check out my abridged
recap where i cover everything from rudy getting stuck in the freezer to the summoning of sonic
the hedgehog now if you're a day one neet then you know all about my failed quest to
find a genuinely spooktastic anime but tis the season so when i first heard about maruko-chan
i was given a new hope get it cause like
the show's concept is actually pretty funny in order to fight off the demons haunting
her miko-chan just gives them the silent treatment and pretends they don't exist just like frank's
been doing to me for years now but unfortunately the somewhat tense moments are constantly
being interrupted by classic anime camera angles if you know what i mean so much so
that it really starts to detract from any of the show's redeeming qualities drop i challenge
you to name one anime that has the word monogatari in the title that isn't an absolute banger
katanagatari bop ore monogatari bop kaguya-hime no monogatari bop
and last but not least zoku awari monogatari what is this video about oh yeah heike monogatari
is the story of an unlikely duo brought together by their tragic prophetic visions the art
style is just a joy to look at and the show has a really unique juxtaposition of traditional
japanese imagery with modern music that just makes the heian period look like so much fun
all while telling an incredibly dark story the op alone makes this show a certified bop
can i make your ears happy in 180 seconds but it's also the title of the next anime
i watched this season or at least was going to watch but i couldn't find it available
anywhere that's okay though i did manage to find a sneak peek that i think will give me
a pretty good idea of what the anime is going to be like
next up we have the vampire dies in no time which is this season's comedy for the sake
of comedy which normally i'm not a huge fan of but this one's absurd slapstick actually
managed to win me over it's basically twilight if twilight was about a love triangle between
a vampire a human and an armadillo which is actually not that far off but in this case
we've got a legendary vampire hunter going up against dollar store dracula who has a
bit of a sand problem rough and irritating and it gets everywhere no not like that anytime
anything remotely stressful happens he- i need to think of a new word for anime that
are bopping but not worth topping our list oh i know drop i've been putting this one
off because i know it's gonna piss off a lot of people but let's talk about blue period
for a second which i know i've only watched the first episode of but my god was it a rushed
mess yatora yaguchi is not so gucci in order to help his family and get into a good school
he spends all of his free time studying that is except when he's out drinking at sports
bars at 17 but one day while in a nic induced stupor he realizes that the sky is blue
and thus drops everything he's ever worked for on a total whim to go to art school and
learn how to draw and yay everyone supports it when he lives happily ever holy [ __ ] why
is that high schooler 47 years old the animation is decent enough if you like a more detailed
art style which i don't and i like the idea of representing his inspiration through physical
sequences but they're just so lifeless and unimaginative and also his painting is kinda
lame what just saying drop drop drop next up is the story of a girl sick and tired of
being tormented for being altitudely challenged is that a word vertically challenged either
way tall dude short girl let the antics begin but it's not all just body-based blunders
futuba's also got some child-like tendencies but her otchokochoi-ness doesn't make up for
the fact that the pace is overly slow for my taste and the jokes and plot are entirely
predictable i'd add it to the watch shelf but futuba can't reach drop at first i was
a little disappointed when i found out that demon slayer season 2 was going to start out
just retelling the film because i know both me and you have seen it yes you but the first
episode actually provided some really important backstory and context that wasn't in the movie
like where rengoku got those delicious bento boxes so if they keep this up it'll definitely
be worth the recap and honestly it's such a visual feast that i just never get tired
of staring unblinkingly at it i'm giving it a bento bop there are some people who say
that netflix just can't do anything right and i'm one of those people because Komi can't
communicate won't be available until next week life is so hard so it wouldn't really
be fair for me to review it just yet that being said let's get started with the review
oh my god is this ever a bop weebs have been begging for a komi-san anime since before
you were born yes you and from the trailer alone it looks like olm studio knocked it
out of the park with the style and visuals and should we really expect anything less
from the creators of pikachu's vacation pikachu's vacation 2 and that one kanye music video
oh nook they also did the animal crossing movie i know this didn't come out this season
but it's a bop for sure next up we've got platinum end the age-old story of a boy so
obsessed with the sweet melony taste of melonpan that he's literally willing to die for it
but just before he can commit melpuku he's saved by a melangel at least i assume i may
have ran to the store for a few minutes
melony from the description i was expecting this to be a pretty generic shonen-esque battle
royale but early on it dives into some pretty dark territory and the vibes from the melon
girl are super off-putting so far i don't love any of the characters but there's enough
in there that i'm curious to see where it's going platinum end gets a tentative is that
cg iron man
drop and that's a wrap on one of the best years of anime of all time my god is it a
good time to be a neet speaking of which next up is the annual neet awards where i cover
all the best and worst anime of the year so make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out
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neets next time