Rating: B- With all of the isekai groups trapped in a modern school setting, the series was bound to get around to one of the great and most crippling distractions of the modern world sooner or later: addictive online and/or mobile games. While this episode features an MMORPG, this is an issue doubtless familiar toContinue reading “Isekai Quartet 3, episode 8”
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Isekai Quarter 3 episode 7
Rating: B+ The field trip announced at the end of the episode turns out to be a skiing/snowboarding excursion. This is actually a much less random turn of events than it might appear to be, since three of the core component series have significant events which take place in the snow. All of them are,Continue reading “Isekai Quarter 3 episode 7”
Isekai Quartet 3, episode 6
Rating: B One thing that this franchise is not known for is being plot-intensive; while it does have writing continuity from episode to episode, it rarely has much of anything for an ongoing plot outside of the movie – and even then the plot is pretty thin. That’s why it’s a bit surprising to seeContinue reading “Isekai Quartet 3, episode 6”
The Apocalypse Files #1
As I mentioned in my Fall 2025 Mid-Season Report, I deeply regret not doing episode reviews for Touring After the Apocalypse. Rather than do those fully, I’ve decided to take an alternate approach and explore all the little visual details which provide clues in each episode about how the apocalypse happened. This installment focuses onContinue reading “The Apocalypse Files #1”
Fall 2025 Mid-Season Report
With most of the season’s series now having aired at least their sixth episode, it’s time to take a look at what series have and haven’t been working so far this season. For the past eight seasons, I’ve followed enough titles to warrant splitting this activity into two or more parts. This season, though, isContinue reading “Fall 2025 Mid-Season Report”
Isekai Quartet 3 episode 5
Rating: A- This episode features the debut of a supporting character who, in retrospect, has been conspicuously absent from this eccentric mix: Motoyasu Kitamura, the Spear Hero from The Rising of the Shield Hero setting. And more so than most other characters in this setting, his behavior here requires some explanation. Based on both behavioralContinue reading “Isekai Quartet 3 episode 5”
Isekai Quartet 3 episode4
Rating: B In some senses this episode is a disappointment, since the crew from The Eminence in Shadow doesn’t appear at all. That, however, is more than made up for by the utter disaster that a Home Economics class on cooking turns into, and I have to give particular credit to the series for theContinue reading “Isekai Quartet 3 episode4”
Isekai Quartet 3 episode 3
Rating: B If there was any doubt after last episode that Shadow and his underlings would perfectly blend in with the established oddball crew, this episode should allay those concerns, at least in the case of Cid/Shadow. (The Seven Shadows don’t appear at all, nor does anyone else from Class 1.) And like last episode,Continue reading “Isekai Quartet 3 episode 3”
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the 2022 Chainsaw Man series is that protagonist Denji is never portrayed as having a normal human experience. He never went to school and never had friends or any of the the other things most kids take for granted. At heart he’s a creature of instinct, much closer toContinue reading “Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc”
Isekai Quartet 3 episode 2
Rating: B If episode 1 was the tease of the arrival of the Eminence in Shadow crew then episode 2 is that series’ formal introduction to the Isekai Quartet sphere. Specifically, Cid and the Seven Shadows all join class 1, which prior to this point had consisted of the Shield Hero trio and the secondaryContinue reading “Isekai Quartet 3 episode 2”
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