The new anime season is off to quite a start, with old friends returning (One Punch Man, Bungou Stray Dogs, Fruits Basket), great directors leading new series (Sarazanmai, Carole & Tuesday), mashups, surprises, and everything else you can imagine. Peter, David, and Holly of Team FtK lead us through the new offerings for spring and… Read More TangleCast 55: Spring 2019 Anime First Impressions
Spring means Easter, flowers, cherry blossoms, allergies, and anime. LOTS of anime. It’s an exciting time for otaku with so many new series flooding our airwaves, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that there are a lot of good series. So far this season, the reception has been mixed, but @stardf29, @mdmrn, and myself have found… Read More Staff First Impressions for Spring 2019 Anime
MDRMN’s first impression of Sarazanmai just went up and saved me the difficulty of trying to explain episode one of the series, but in a sentence, three boys lose their Amazon boxes, which are full of desires, before being transformed into kappa by losing said desire which had been stored in the butts and then,… Read More First Impression: Sarazanmai (TWWK)
Two boys that are wildly different end up connected as…kappas? Sarazanmai opens with Kazuki telling about the important parts of his day – texting a girl, carrying a box, and watching the daily fortunes. We then see Toi, who is robbing a “Kappazon” car. The two get into a scuffle and destroy the statue of… Read More First Impression: Sarazanmai
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