Category Archives: Episode Reviews

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 18

Rating: B+ In some respects, writing reviews when familiar with the source material is actually trickier, since you have to avoid spoilers and carefully gauge if an anime-only viewer could reasonably discern key points only from what’s been animated so far. In this case, though, I think it’s safe to say that the direction theContinue reading “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 18”

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Episode 17

Rating: A- There’s a great line from the recent series 86 which immediately came to mind a couple of times while watching this episode: “It’s a child’s right to dream. I do respect that. And until that child wakes up from her dream, and finds herself crushed against the merciless rocks of an unyielding reality,Continue reading “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Episode 17”

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 16

Rating: B+ The split between three fronts continues in this episode, but this time the third front isn’t the rescue party, but rather Hestia talking to Hephaestus about where Tsubaki went. That short scene mostly just exists to reinforce scenes on the two main fronts, and so really isn’t of much importance. What is transpiringContinue reading “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 16”

Is It Wrong to Try To Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 12

The first half left off on one hell of a double-cliffhanger: Bell and Ryu are stranded in the Deep Levels, while the rest of Bell’s expedition must face off against the floor boss of the Great Falls, the double-headed dragon Amphisbaena, without him. There’s plenty of despair to go around! Though both sides get addressedContinue reading “Is It Wrong to Try To Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 12”

KanColle: See You Again on Another Blue Sea (aka KanColle 1944) debut

Streams: Crunchyroll on Thursdays First Episode Rating: B Though easily the most successful of the “ship girl” franchises to come out of the 2010s (it had an enormous presence in doujinshi markets through much of that decade), the mobile game Kantai Collection has only had two previous anime adaptations: a 12-episode 2015 TV series andContinue reading “KanColle: See You Again on Another Blue Sea (aka KanColle 1944) debut”

Reincarnated as a Sword episodes 2-3

Rating: B for episode 2, B+ for episode 3 This is one series that I did not expect to be commenting on week-to-week, and I’m still not sure if I will write it up every week. However, episodes 2 and 3 added enough to the basic premise laid out in episode 1 that I feltContinue reading “Reincarnated as a Sword episodes 2-3”

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 6

Rating: 4 In the original novels, the downtime between the Moss Huge part of this arc and Ryu part of the arc is an epilogue that amounts to only five pages. That doesn’t allow anywhere near enough content to make a full episode, so that the revelation about what Ryu is seemingly up to canContinue reading “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 6”

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 2

Rating: B+ The first episode was well-spent preparing for Hestia Familia’s first on-the-books Guild-assigned expedition, so with episode 2 the whole gang actually gets down to business. The result is a well-balanced episode which showcases much of what has made DanMachi so entertaining so far. Although the quintet of Bell, Lily, Welf, Mikoto, and HaruhimeContinue reading “Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV episode 2”