This felt like a return to form for Horimiya – decisive in the bigger picture with what it wants to accomplish and competent in executing its moment to moment to ideas, while most importantly, not coming across as glaringly ill-paced like certain previous showings.
Offering yet another great showing, Wonder Egg Priority pushes out a fourth episode that’s in fantastic shape; Crafting a strong personality through thematic subtext that boiled elegantly into actual text as it brushes across pointed ideas of sexual menace and identity.
Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu is back and with a fourth outing that is challenging for a lot of viewers – concerning itself deeply with sexually touchy material from cheating to rape as it closes out another week.
Presented with the opportunity of success or failure, Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? enthusiastically chooses the latter – offering a third episode that’s visually embarrassing and narratively unimpressive from start to finish.
Layered, poignant, and elegantly articulated – Wonder Egg Priority had a fantastic debut made even more impressive considering this is Wakabayashi’s first time directing a full-length series
New year, new season of anime, same coverage. Let’s rundown a heap of new shows and see how they stack up.