This doesn’t appear to be doing anything new (at least so far) but Cloverworks’ gorgeous animation and direction really sell it regardless. Everyone’s very cute and I’m eager to see them grow. I give the premiere a 4/5.

P.S. netflix please let this out of jail, what is wrong with you

Sometimes it feels like you can just tell when an author’s heart isn’t really in it, like they don’t have a story they want to tell, they just need to be writing because it’s their job, and this definitely seems like one of those. The characters are pretty weak (their only traits are annoying ones) and the camping portions don’t feel like they’re really meant to sell the audience on the hobby the way a lot of hobby anime try to. Overall, I give the premiere a 2/5.

LLMs should be good for translation, but the thing is that they aren’t, for two main reasons:

First, the avoidable problem: CR is running them on the audio, not the script. The AI is mishearing stuff all the time, leading to inconsistent character naming and nonsensical sentences. There are a few CR anime this season that are extremely hard to follow at times because the AI subtitles can’t even begin to understand what’s happening.

Second, a more permanent problem: translation of fiction is much more of an art than a science. Translators don’t just translate words, they translate connotation and tone, as well. A translator interprets the meaning of the lines - what information is being conveyed, spoken or unspoken - and tries to put that same meaning into a different sentence. This is a task that LLMs are going to struggle with a lot. For example, how is the AI going to convey that there’s been a pun, or a reference to a well-known turn of phrase, or an innuendo using words with multiple meanings?

ETA: if you truly think this is fine (worker issues aside) I recommend giving necronomico a watch

Only watched the first episode because I felt like I’d seen what I’d needed to, lol. It’s got a bunch of the standard harem anime stuff with sort of a mean cast of girls, plus an interesting theme about the importance of family time which gets completely undercut by the fact that it’s a harem romance. I give this premiere a 3/5.

Did you finish the first episode? lol

Not really sure to think about this one, since I feel like I have no idea what to expect going forward, lol. The drama and characters are good so far, as is the animation quality. I give the premiere a 4/5 because it hooked me, but who knows where it’s headed (and that’s sort of the beauty of anime originals).

The animation looks great and I’m glad all the nichijou fans seem to be pleased, but (just like with nichijou) I’m just sort of left wondering what on earth I’m missing. I just didn’t find this funny at all? Sometimes I could identify jokes, but most of the time it was just things occurring in what seemed like an unhumorous way. I don’t resent other people their humor - I’m genuinely glad different people with different tastes get their shows. I’m mostly confused because I know nichijou is held in pretty high regard and both that and this just make me wonder what it is that I’m just unable to see in it.

For me, this premiere is a 2/5 (but the extremely similar vibe to nichijou and high production values means it’s probably going to be a huge win to a lot of other people)

Amazing start. I love the care that was taken with the aesthetic and tone - the vibes here are immaculate. It’s really hard to predict where this is going, but I’m excited to see. I give the premiere a 5/5.

This is a really fun premise, but I feel like the janky cgi cats really killed the vibe. I give the premiere a 3/5 and I might try reading the manga instead.

Sometimes this feels like watching someone play a strategy game, sometimes it feels like reading someone’s middle school fanfiction, but all of the time it is very much not for me. It picked up a lot of steam in the second half, but not enough for me to care too much about where it’s going. I give the premiere a 2/5.

The animation is stunning, but I find the characters a little weak and boy howdy is there a lot of unnecessary fanservice for a show about rocks. The main character’s VA also is doing an excellent job at sounding like an annoying spoiled child, which is unfortunate. I give the premiere a 3/5, but I could imagine it being great for people interested in both rocks and t&a.

This is some pure iyashikei right here, a real “dog caretaking to study/sleep to” type anime. I’m not sure if it can retain momentum for a whole season (it really felt a lot like a one-shot), but I’m willing to follow it at least for a while. I give the premiere a 4/5 and wish i could touch the dog’s little beans.

Livechart says that english subs will be available on a week delay in at least some regions (“Asia-Pacific”, allegedly), so with a VPN it should be accessible much sooner. Either way, though, Netflix is doing what they do again…

Edit: I can confirm that the English subtitles are available from Japanese netflix

IDK what it was, but this episode just fully didn’t hit for me at all. I found it hard to get invested in any of the characters and the jokes just didn’t really land. I hope other people have fun with it, but for me the premiere is a 1/5.

I’ve heard very good things about the manga, but this didn’t really hook me. I’ll give it some more time, but it feels like it’s not really delivering on the horror or the drama yet. I give the premiere a 3/5 but hopefully it’ll find its footing and finish strong.

This was perfectly fine, all around. It’s cute and it works and if you need your shoujo fix this will do it. It’s a little unfortunate that this is coming on the heels of Too-Perfect Saint, which executes a very similar idea in a much better way, but that’s not really this anime’s fault. I give the premiere a 3/5.

I won’t be watching more, but before I go, a prediction: the sister faked her death and will turn back up disguised as a man.

I really like this so far. Monica is a little bit of a weak main character at the moment, but the dynamic of autistic wallflower being forcibly adopted by theater kids works really well (and was my own high school experience, lol). The action even looks good, too. I give the premiere a 4/5.

Also, it’s nice to see that Jinshi and Maomao are having a nice married life in this fantasy world, lol

It’s cute, but the story so far is just so boring and there were a lot of strange choices in the writing like skipping the entire conversation with the dragon. It felt like we got to know very little about the main character or the world he’s in, and we didn’t even dig that deep into the nature of magic and what makes someone good at it. I give the premiere a 2/5.

ETA: I forgot to mention, the boy doesn’t know how ice works, molecularly. I’m glad his visualization worked for him, but I’m curious if his ice is truly denser than water like he tried to make it.

Pretty bland, but serviceable, and it gets some goodwill for (I’ve heard) being more wholesome than harem. If this is your genre then I’m sure you’ll have a good time. For the rest of us, I feel like it’s unlikely to provide anything we haven’t seen before. 2/5.

Also, I’m really tired of slavery in anime being treated as morally neutral (or only bad if the master is bad). At least this time MC freed the slave he bought, but I hate that he put quite a lot of money into the pocket of a slave trader. Especially since I don’t think the story would be very different if she was a homeless kid instead. Like, she could be sitting dead-eyed in an alleyway and he could see her and be like “i can’t help everyone” but then feel guilty as he’s sitting down to eat dinner and show up back in the alleyway with a plate of food for her and she just follows him home from there.