#genius otome studio

[simplymortal56]

I live for Ifrit’s innocence concerning dating. Expert in bed, rookie in romance. It’s cute!

[kannra21]

Casual reminder that your werewolf bf fantasy can become true and it's this game. ♥️

[grizouille]

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Okay, so I downloaded this game yesterday. Is it just me or one of the character has got Benedict Cumberbatch's vibes? 😏

And yes, that is one of the reasons why I chose Joey as my fictional boyfriend in this Otome game 😂

Seriously though, that studio makes nice Otome games. And they make A LOT of them. Whatever your tastes are you can find a game corresponding to your criteria.

On these games you can spend time with different persons, the stories are cool and the characters are all good looking. The only thing that bothers me is that you have to use diamonds for special moments. 😢

[syun0acute]

Introducing Desires of a Dragon Prince by Genius Otome Studio!

You’ve been taught about dragons since birth without knowing your true bloodline until one day you’re whisked away to a different world—a world full of dragons that have their own set of rules and clans. You’re accompanied by three handsome princes who tell you that you’re the Lost Dragon Princess and must take your place on the throne if the Dragon World is ever going to see peace amongst themselves and humans again!

The path is treacherous as you and your princely companions struggle to unite the clans. It seems there’s another dark force at work that’s just waiting to see you fail. You wonder how you can unite the Four Clans when your princes can’t even seem to agree amongst themselves half of the time. Will you let the bickering over you keep you from your mission?

Character description added on ALT of each characters!

The game is downloadable here

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[kunoichi-sasori]

I can’t get over how beautiful, pretty and well written this game is! Each suitor is amazing and adorable in their own right. I don’t want to choose! 😩 Click original post open for high resolution images!

[kingkatsuki]

Jo, this is for your 💕 anon! The otome game is a genius idea and I want to add to that a bit! I had this idea while I was taking a shower so bare with me, my hands are still wet while I'm typing this! These games also have some VAs do a couple lines so you can hear your faves say some nice romantic things (I wouldn't know, a friend told me about it 😂).

Since this game is for pro heroes they could have asked them to record some lines to make the game better for their fans and most of them did but bakugou being bakugou refused because he thought it was a waste of his time! So when he sees you play the game and making a comment about how everyone's voice sounds so much like the real hero but they didn't choose the right VA for him, he changes his mind! He makes his PR contact the creators of the game and goes in the studio to record some lines but he doesn't say exactly what the writers told him, instead he uses the pet names he had for you (princess for example). He does it so you can hear him call you that again because he can no longer do it in person! So you download the latest update of the game and immediately comment on how they finally got his voice right without knowing that it's actually him! And he sees the way you pause when you hear the word princess for the first time and your mind goes back to when you were still together and he called you that and how you struggle to hold back the tears and end the stream much earlier than usual (throwing a little but of angst here)

Just putting this here in case your anon wants to use it! 💕

-Vexie

OH MY GOD! Vexie I love this so fucking much wtf. The way he’d tell his PR agent that he’ll do it after refusing (making their job harder and making them look silly after they told them no) and just imagine him going off script because even tho it’s a mass produced game he’s talking directly to you🥺

[loneworldgazer]

Can you do seijoh and nekoma with a manger that is a voice actor for a lot of popular games and anime’s

teams: seijoh x gen!reader, nekoma x gen!reader 

hell yea, i actually had this in my list, thanks for actually making me do it

(i’ve made up the games and anime in here, please cope with me) 

Seijoh

“willow’s hot” matsukawa blurted out and hanamaki burst out laughing but later agreed 

these two pals would have a lot of merch of ‘Willow’, a character that had an alluring aura with a voice to fit their cryptic attitude built with an hourglass figure

you gulped, feeling shy that hanamaki and matsukawa were talking about the character you voiced in ‘Genius!’, a mystery game with a lot of action 

every guy on the block would talk about ‘River’, the mythical creature that stumble on her words with her little hat slipping off her head or ‘Ray’, the gal who would scold the protagonist for being an idiot (for the masochistic men)

you sweat when you remember, the new chapter you voiced in the game had Willow helping or in other words seducing the protagonist that was supposed to be doing their task 

both of them found out that you also knew Genius! when your profile was Willow that was because it was more easier for your boss to decipher which voice actor is which when voice acting on call since you really can’t go to the studio all the time 

you could hear the boys talking about Willow whenever on break but you adored your older co worker who voice acted ‘Elois’ who was a technician that was most likely going to get killed off but you adored his voice, the way he could pitch his voice to a shrilly female to a obnoxious kid 

you can’t tell me otherwise kindaichi and yahaba adores River because of her 'character design' and 'powers' (no, she just reminds them of you)

watari didn’t really have that much knowledge of the game but kunimi tried showing him more of the game, kunimi wouldn’t have a favourite yet he would just wait

he’s waiting for a perfect someone to be his favourite 

all the third years are simping for Willow, they’re just so mysterious, oikawa loved making theories about each one of them and which would be killed off next 

oikawa: my theory is that Willow’s gonna be the next to die-”

makki and mattsun: hah no

kyoutani would also love Willow because he can be a horndog- because they’re really cool to him and leaves a lot of prizes

you felt so giggly one day when everyone was freaking about the last chapter because Willow got injured and they were groaning of how much pain they were in and the chapter left on a cliffhanger 

so you decided to not prevent chaos but be the source of chaos 

y/n: y’know i’m the voice actor of Willow 

oikawa: hehe y/n, you’re really funny~ 

y/n: really now babe? be a good boy and believe me~

the third years froze and here’s how it went down 

oikawa: s c re  ��ee  e  a  aa a   m mm

iwaizumi: *turns really pink and is in shock from how you could get in character so quick* 

hanamaki: *faints* 

matsukawa: *in shock*

you sounded so much like Willow, how would they not believe you????

your pure gremlin giggles did not match the sultry voice you did seconds ago 

Nekoma

starting right off, kenma would love the creatures in ‘Date Me’ especially the yellow blob named Octagon  that would follow the protagonist around 

Date Me is basically a game like DDLC but it’s a romance otome game turned dark, it was a mix of action as well and mystery, kenma really liked making theories about it 

but kuroo preferred the anime adaption where it really fcked up with its adaption and it’s nothing serious like the game

he loved this one character named ‘Ace’ that never took things seriously and strangely was a fan of boars, they had a boar hat as well (kinda like inosuke) 

kuroo preferred to keep things light and not see his favourite character die

you voiced Ace in the anime and voiced Octagon in the game 

yaku loves the game but is kinda terrified on how quick it goes really dark 

kai won’t be that interested but he loved the character designs

yamamoto loved every girl in the game, from narcissistic, smug to quivering, shy ones, he loved both game and anime

fukunaga relates to blue blob named ‘Cirlce’ since there was a specific line on where it complains about not getting enough attention 

inuoka also loves Octagon and shares his opinions with kenma 

shibayama would be confused that there was a game before the anime 

lev would just be interested in either and love the cute designs of the characters 

tamahiko is clueless

kenma would randomly hear you ‘imitating’ Octagon’s lines, you looked weird.. but not in a mean way he means it, it looked so funny seeing you recite lines while accidently hurting yourself or dropping something

Octagon’s voice was high pitched and when you said a line in the same pitch, he let out a small giggle

y/n: what’s wrong??

kenma: you sound like Octagon~ 

y/n: cause i am octagon, howdy kenma!!

kenma: *in shock*

yamamoto: holy sht y/n! you’re Octagon??!” 

y/n: yeah and i’m also Ace, you got a problem with that??!?”

you pointed at kuroo who stared at you in awe and he nearly choked on his water when you rolled on the ground laughing like a madman

yall bond with them with your voice acting skills and inuoka and lev joined in as well 

bye, i’m tired but i kinda enjoyed this as well :DD

[ilyom]

hi ! who is the character from your post about animated sprites? and from which genius otome game is he? thank you :)

Hi Anon!

The character is Ishikawa Goemon from My Ninja Destiny game!

I posted about it in my other blog about Asian warriors here:

https://kunoichi-sasori.tumblr.com/post/664166120349122560/i-just-discovered-genius-otome-studio-and-their

Can't keep up with all the games though so it's been inactive! But I enjoyed My Ninja Destiny very much and all three LIs are all pretty lovable, although I wished we could choose our MC's gender!

The art is amazing 😭

[simplymortal56]

Something that has been on my mind for a hot minute is how Malthus is the only one who wasn’t conceived through blood manipulation, but it’s a well hidden secret as shown here. Lucifer and Malthus kept this information from Alastor and everyone else who knows about blood manipulation. There’s an untold story here, and where there’s an untold story there’s room for fanfiction/headcanon

[recentanimenews]

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs English Dub Reveals Cast & Crew, Release Date

  Whether you're booting up the anime for the first time or going for another playthrough, join us on April 17 at 2:30pm PT as Crunchyroll officially launches the English dub route of Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs!

  If your excitement meter isn't high enough already, here's who we'll be encountering along the way:

  Jordan Dash Cruz (Shaun in SHADOWS HOUSE) as Leon

Jad Saxton (Shinju in My Dress-Up Darling) as Olivia

Kristen McGuire (Alice in The Duke of Death and His Maid) as Angelica

  Jim Foronda (Isanari in The Quintessential Quintuplets) as Luxion

Sarah Wiedenheft (Tohru in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid) as Marie

Ricco Fajardo (Roland in The Case Study of Vanitas) as Julius

Aaron Dismuke (Senku in Dr. STONE) as Chris

Clifford Chapin (Bakugo in My Hero Academia) as Greg

Ian Sinclair (Ronaldo in The Vampire Dies in No Time) as Jilk

Justin Briner (Daida in Ranking of Kings) as Brad

Ray Hurd (Arnolt in MAGATSU WAHRHEIT) as Balcus

Alex Mai (Akane in Toilet-bound Hanako-kun) as Nicks

Michelle Rojas (Ninym in The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt) as Luce

Linda Young (Genkai in Yu Yu Hakusho) as Zola

    And behind the scenes are these outstanding production crew members:

  ADR Director: Jonathon Rigg

Lead ADR Engineer: Victor Acosta

ADR Script Writer: Jared Smith

ADR Script Supervisor: Bonny Clinkenbeard

ADR Prep: Jennifer Alyx

    RELATED: Crunchyroll Reveals SimulDub Lineup for Spring 2022, First SPY x FAMILY Cast Details

    Based on the light novels by Yomu Mishima and Monda, Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs is directed by Kazuya Miura and Shinichi Fukumoto at studio ENGI (Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!), with series composition by Kenta Ihara (Saga of Tanya the Evil) and character designs by Masahiko Suzuki (Tower of God creature design).

  Seven Seas Entertainment, who publishes the light novels' official English version, describes the series as:

  Office worker Leon is reincarnated into a dating sim video game, where women reign supreme and only beautiful men have a seat at the table. But Leon has a secret weapon: he remembers everything from his past life, which includes a complete playthrough of the very game in which he is now trapped. Can Leon spark a revolution to change this new world order?

  If you're a fan of isekai anime, don't miss Episode 1 of Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs' English dub when it drops on April 17 at 2:30pm PT, right here on Crunchyroll!

    Der shy man behind @Shymander, Liam is a timezone-fluid Aussie with a distinct fondness for anime, Eurovision and creating odd stats projects despite hating math.

By: Liam Dempsey

[otome-mochi]

The Genius Inc explanation

For anyone who noted my last review, I decided to give a small explanation on the different titles under the names for users.  

Android:

Genius Studios Japan Inc.

From what I see the play store has all of the Girlfriend/bishōjo titles under this name

Genius Inc.

Under this name in the search is all of the Otome titles with a few Bishōjo titles

Apple:

Genius Studios Japan Inc.

This name only has 3 titles under it

Prestigious passions

The spellbinding kiss

and Deceitful devotions

Genius llc.

They have 3 stand alone titles under this name

The swords of first light 

My Mystic dragons 

and Destined memories 

along with the My Drama app

EDIT*

The newer collection app Otomania is also under this name

EDIT2* 

MyDrama app has been discontinued!

[syun0acute]

📷 Announcing Feral Hearts! 📷 The lifestyles of the rich and famous aren't always glitter and gold, but you’re determined to shine. As an inexperienced PR assistant-turned-agent, can you manage four of Tokyo’s hottest heartthrobs while your boss is out sick, or will everyone be howling from your mistakes? No matter what wildness ensues, they’re trusting you with their lives… and hearts!

Info from Genius FB

[ikemenfangirl]

[Genius otome games for iOS & Android]

The Spellbinding Kiss

by Genius Studio Japan Inc.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1483911380

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.genius.wizard

Deceitful Devotions

by Genius Studio Japan Inc.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1477446362

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.genius.fiance

[deltaengineering]

Bummer Anime 2018 Part 2: shoujo to the rescue

It got better, mostly because it could hardly get worse. That doesn’t mean it was a smooth ride, of course. I would like to state, for the record, that I’m not trying to be the funny guy who hates everything here; the season’s just that unusually bad. As before, the source for the ad copy at the end of each block is this.

Asobi Asobase

What: A bunch of assholes play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

✅ It’s another exuberant comedy, and unlike Chio-chan, I can’t catch this one on the execution: It has the technical chops and honestly good comedic timing.

❌❌ Initially wants to make you believe it’s a pleasant cute girls doing cute things show, but what it actually is is a brutally annoying and ugly explosion in the reactionface factory. Since the production values are there, it’s rather too good at that.

❌❌ I was trying to compare it to something, and the best I could come up with was rage comics. Yeah, it’s anime rage comics. It’s that bad.

❌❌ I would feel more benevolent towards it if it were shorter, but at full length its high energy screaming based assault is mostly just tiresome.

♎ This is one of those rare shows where even I will say your mileage may vary. It’s really good at what it does, but I hate everything it does. Hooray for the subversion, but at the end of the day you’re still annoying and ugly.

ANN sez: “It's this exact mix of stupid crassness and innocent naiveté that I think truly defines high-school life, and Asobi Asobase nails it perfectly. “

Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria

What: A smartphone with a light novel protagonist attached time travels to the bronze age, establishes a incest-fascist harem regime with the power of Wikipedia.

❌❌ read the synopsis again please

❌❌ there’s more idiocy than that, believe it or not (ex.: smartphone hotline to his actual imouto, for the feels), but I haven’t got all day.

❌❌ Basing your isekai shit on “history” (i.e., a LN author’s idiotic idea of history) instead of an MMO or whatever only serves to piss me off even more.

❌❌ Actually not better than Isekai Smartphone, which makes it one of the worst anime episodes I have ever seen. Congratulations. The only thing it has over Death March is that it doesn’t spend 80% of the time in menus, but it makes menus look pretty good so it’s a wash.

ANN brainfarts: “Yuuto also seems to be limiting his phone searches to historically accurate things as well, which shows that he's really thinking about the fact that he's in the past – no one's inventing the rocket here, they're just learning to grind grain and use the phalanx formation for battles.”

Phantom in the Twilight

What: Chinese girl travels to London, inadvertently inherits her great-grandma’s vampire harem. 

✅ Step 1 of every otome harem appraisal is determining how much of a wet blanket the protagonist is; Ton here is pretty spunky and even gets to kick some ass, so well done on that.

✅ Some of the right kind of nonsense for my taste, stuff like chav goblins and Jiangshi with miniguns is always appreciated.

✅ Random shows ending up with bizarre minimal techno soundtracks is still something that I approve of.

❌ Still not the glorious kind of nonsense that Dance With Devils had, nor the disregard of actual romance in favor of comedy that Dame x Prince exhibited. It’s an otome-ass otome harem and that’s not inspiring confidence for the long term.

❌ Looks cheap, and that won’t be getting any better.

ANN sez: “The fantasy worldbuilding here also felt far more sturdy than in many similar shows; this isn't a world where the Good Fantasy Guys fight the Bad Fantasy Guys, this is a world where creatures like goblins and spriggans and werewolves all exist, all possess their own cultures and priorities, and uneasily rub shoulders with each other.”

Jashin-chan Dropkick

What: Demon snake girl wants to murder the chuuni gothloli that summoned her, gets owned right back.

❌❌ It’s the second coming of Dokuro-chan, with every punchline being torture. Quite literally for the characters, and consequently for the audience as well.

❌❌ Needless to say, the entire cast (there’s some additional supernatural babes, none of which make much of an impression) are jerks and the show being wantonly mean-spirited towards them does not cancel that out. 

❌ Somehow the second anime about eating reptile ass in recent memory. But Maidragon, as lame as it was, wasn’t as terrible as this. Jashin-chan won’t get into insipid family feels any time soon, but the alternative is worse.

ANN sez: “If this is your taste in humor, it may be worth giving a second episode to see if it starts pulling that off.”

Kyoto Teramachi Sanjou no Holmes

What: Handsome genius antique dealer appraises old pottery and his assistant’s soul.

✅ I have to admit that if you somehow decided to make a otome version of Sherlock without anything so crass as murder, this is how you’d do it. It works.

✅ The leading pair has simple but effective chemistry.

✅ The studio behind it has mostly done porn OVAs before, which is the kind of meta-humor I can get behind.

❌ Based on a series of novels, so naturally the talkytalk gets out of hand.

❌ Doesn’t have the highest budget, tries to make up for it with rainbow-colored garishness. Not a dealbreaker but it could get tiresome.

ANN sez: “While Yagashira cuts a handsome figure as the bishonen, Aoi has more of an ordinary appearance – perhaps deliberately so, since I suspect that the source novels were originally aimed at female audiences.”

Shinya! Tensai Bakabon

What: Showa-era gag manga gets on air again after decades, repeatedly points out how hilarious that is.

❌ Beat-for-beat the same first episode concept as Osomatsu-san.

❌ The main difference is that Bakabon is more willing to look old as fuck, but when they arrive at the non-ruse look at the end of the episode, it’s the same as the non-ruse look that Osomatsu-san ended up at the end of its own first episode.

❌  So guess what, constantly takes potshots at Osomatsu-san, despite being a blatant ripoff of it.

❌❌ When it doesn’t reference Things You Know (if you’re a middle-aged Japanese salaryman), it references its own sorry showa-era gag manga self.

❌❌ I didn’t even like Osomatsu-san but this is an embarrassment.

♎ On the bright side, not as likely to provide fujos with incest shipping material. I fully expect to be proven painfully wrong on this.

ANN sez: Nothing. Way too Japanese for them, I suppose. 

Angolmois - Genkou Kassenki

What: Historical action show wherein a bunch of misfits in medieval Japan fight the Mongols.

✅ Fairly decent action and animation thereof.

✅ Characters seem alright for this sort of thing. Maybe a bit too tryhard violent for my tastes, but that’s still within acceptable parameters.

❌❌ The looks are ruined in postproduction. I could live with the heavyhanded color correction, but what really kills it is the same omnipresent static paper texture over every single shot. It’s bad when it doesn’t change between shots but it’s devastating when it doesn’t move along with zooms and pans, which this show has a lot of.

❌❌ Seriously, I haven’t seen anything as senselessly destroyed by a single AfterEffects layer since Garo: Vanishing Line’s Parkinsonscam, but at least that only affected impact frames. Here it’s literally every frame. Delete that PNG you damn fools.

❌ So yeah, it’s okay-ish but that’s not enough to survive one boneheaded executive decision that’s impossible to ignore. It just comes out as a net negative.

ANN sez: “From its beautifully animated, choreographed, and directed fight scenes to its generally dynamic compositions and keen understanding of visual economy, Angolmois is a visually stunning production.”

Lord of Vermilion - Guren no Ou

What: Tokyo gets enveloped in red mist which raptures most of the population and turns the rest into JRPG characters. They start fighting, we promise.

❌ Has the shape of an obvious Persona clone, but isn’t one; it’s actually based on an arcade CCG. So the source material isn’t very classy to begin with.

❌❌ Haphazardly thrown together so it’s hard to care about anything, especially not the characters.

❌❌ Opens with a flashforward to the climax, so we know this will just end up as overdesigned dudes and dudettes having allegedly epic battles that the show can’t afford to make look good, but can afford to make very red. Thanks for the heads up, I guess.

❌ So it’s quite bad, and not even funny-bad like Caligula was.

ANN sez: “There are always a few action shows like this every season, and they're always entirely overshadowed by that season's versions of shows like My Hero Academia and Banana Fish”

Grand Blue

What: City slicker moves to a beach town expecting to end up in Amanchu; ends up in Animal House instead.

❌❌ Say it with me: Every punchline is the protagonist making a shocked face at dumb meatheads doing something stupid.

♎ For something that I feel like I should hate every second of, I actually didn’t hate it all that much. I even thought it was mostly sort of enjoyable. I don’t really know what exactly does it but I can offer some ideas:

✅ While the punchlines (well, punchline) may be bad, the jokes themselves aren’t. This is a real sitcom with larger-scale comedic setups than you usually see in anime, jokes build upon each other and keep escalating.

✅ Sleazy fratboy humor about partying hard and drinking like an idiot isn’t very profound, but rare at least in anime. And it’s amusing that the overall conceit is that it’s preventing iyashikei from taking place. Novelty counts for something. 

✅ Manages to build awkward comedic situations about buff dudes with their dicks out without resorting to the same old gay panic jokes. Just regular panic, no homo.

✅ Makes a good Friday beach bum combo with Harukana Receive, which incidentally also got better by embracing its more prurient side.

ANN sez: “If Grand Blue Dreaming has a major Achilles heel, its that it isn't self-aware enough to recognize when a joke has run its course. ”

Happy Sugar Life

What: Yandere sociopath adopts a preteen girl (from a parking lot). It’s cute, only not.

✅ Is fully aware that everyone in this show is an asshole and is honestly trying for subversive. At least on the surface.

✅ Goes all on on the imagery, which works. At least on the surface.

❌❌ Simply exploiting the contrast between cuteness and insanity got old about a decade ago; this cranks up the presentation on both sides but doesn’t really add anything new.

❌❌ About as mean-spirited and unpleasant as Mahou Shoujo Site, while having even less to say. 

❌ Doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere; it’s just going to be the main character pwning other people that are just as flamboyantly fucked up as she is, but not as good at it. Starting with a flashforward to the (very edgy, of course) ending like Lord of Vermilion doesn’t help either. And even if they end up rusemanning what is implied there it won’t be much better.

ANN sez: “Happy Sugar Life was on my list of most-anticipated anime this season because its combination of disparate elements seemed so utterly perverse that I was curious to see how they could possibly fit together.“

Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight

What: Girls slowwalk in an academy for stage arts by day, get into metaphorical superbattles by night.

✅✅ What can I say, it’s Love Live x Marimite with a glossy coating of Ikuhara-style operatics. A total deltabait concept if I’ve ever seen one.

✅ Clones the storytelling approach of Ikuhara but not many of his specific directing mannerisms; Since I’m tired of the latter but a sucker for the former, this is a good thing.

✅ In a similar vein, this trades Ikuhara’s functional ciphers for actual characters and his enigmatic arthouse plots for something that obviously makes sense. 

✅ How gay? So gay.

❌ Has the opposite problem of Grand Blue: This is a show that should blow me away, but doesn’t. In fact, if it didn’t bring the big damn musical theater complete with one of the best and most appropriate henshins I’ve ever seen near the end, I’d say it was fairly lame.

❌ Probably has something to do with that in the course of casualizing Ikuhara, the “real” world ended up too bland and the characters too generic. I get that it’s for contrast, but it can be done far better (see Yorimoi for an example).

✅ In any case, it still seems easily worth watching even if it’s not as good as it could be. Maybe it’ll even get better.

ANN sez: “All I can say for certain is that it comes completely out of nowhere, and that it raises all kinds of questions about what kind of series this is going to be.“

Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san

What: Impoverished ghost hunter checks into a haunted hot spring and interacts with the harem that happens to live there.

❌ As generic a 90s ecchi harem comedy as they come; my correspondents tell me that this is extremely reminiscent of Love Hina. Shockingly it’s actually based on a 2016 manga, but you wouldn’t be able to tell.

❌ As such, an abundance of accidental boobplants and other saucy accidents makes up the bulk of what’s going on this show.

✅ The main ghost girl is fairly cute; The main dude is also relatively bearable and has at least one good joke in his backstory (which I won’t spoil), so the core dynamic is surprisingly fine. If the rest of the harem weren’t there, this wouldn’t be such a bad setup. 

❌ Features those dastardly breast-hiding light rays, reportedly even in the AT-X version. This doesn’t affect a large part of the show (the majority is more like the cap above), but boobies are probably still the only reason anyone cares about any of this.

♎ Certainly not good, but the lame shit of yore is not what I’m going to spend energy getting mad at in 2018. The 24 minutes I’m ever going to spend with it felt more nostalgic than anything.

ANN sez: “Ninja girl Sagiri comes off the worst from the situation, with nearly all of her dialogue spent promising to beat the crap out of anyone who doesn't measure up to her moral code. I imagine there must be more to her and the rest of the supporting cast than what we've seen so far, but at the moment they seem an awful lot like stock characters.”

Sirius the Jaeger

What: A broody werewolf and his team of assorted bad dudes hunt vampires in 30s Tokyo.

✅✅ Looks ace, this is an action show with deluxe everything. It better, because being directed by Masahiro Ando is pretty much the start and end of this show’s unique selling points.

✅ Interwar Tokyo with a bit of a gothick twist is a cool setting, and this show can afford to portray it properly.

❌ Seriously though... edgy vampires and edgier werewolves. Come on, son.

❌ Just like Banana Fish, this is a highly polished implementation of something that fundamentally isn’t very interesting to me.

✅ I’d still take it over Fanana Bish because this doesn’t seem to take itself so bloody seriously and is far more comfortable with just being moody action schlock. It’s also less showoffy, believe it or not. What else are you going to watch? Sirius the Jaeger is what you’re going to watch. Sorry.

ANN sez: They only have a preview from Anime Expo, and that boils down to “The second episode is where things start to get interesting.“ I sure hope so.

Well, we got a few acceptable shows in if nothing else, I’ll leave it up to you to figure out which ones those are. I’m cutting my losses here, see you in three months for a hopefully more bountiful season.

[kunoichi-sasori]

I just discovered Genius: Otome Studio and their illustrations and characters are unbearably pretty!

From left to right: Hattori Hanzo | Fuma Kotaro | Ishikawa Goemon