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Sep 15, 2026
Mixed Feelings
Oblivious Saint has a problem, and that is that it is kind of bad.
The issue is that it is content to be mediocre, it wants to just be an average romance. It adds in bits of the Saintess Genre to add some flavour, but it plays everything safe and it doesn't do anything to elevate itself into standing out and actually being good. That means because it didn't build a strong foundation it has no where to go but down when things fall apart, and things do fall apart.

I don't want you to just trust me when I say it has a half-hearted approach ...
Sep 10, 2026
This might just be the worst anime of the season
I wish I was being hyperbolic, I wish I could find something redeemable about this, I don't normally score many anime this low, it's so rare that only 1% of all anime I've watched has got a score this low. So yes this is bad

First is the concept, the plot point of a world that locks people into some sort of system and the MC rejecting said system has been done before, funny enough I can't think of a series that has done it well
Next is our OP MC, but it can't seem to get a ...
Sep 10, 2026
Mixed Feelings
I want to do a retrospective review on this, not because it is good, but for the catharsis of reviewing a fun trash isekai

This as a series is so average and so generic that it is not worth writing home about, it has all the tropes, it has our OP MC who is a Kirito clone right down to the casting of Yoshitsugu, you can imagine the conversations around it.
Things tend to play out like you would expect, Celia is best girl, there really is very little that can be said about it, which is probably why I never tried to review it before.
The story ...
Sep 10, 2026
Well-writtenWell-written
This is bad, it's not the worst anime of the season although it is close because at least this is somewhat watchable
I'd like to prefice this by saying that I'm someone who loves trash isekai and trash fantasy, I'm not someone who hates the entire genre and then rants about how all isekai is bad, it actually takes a lot for me to think a series is outright bad.

Firstly the EN title for this doesn't work, Overshadowed to Overpowered, considering he was one of the Four Magic Emperors, sitting at the very top of all magic abilities The Great Lightning Emperor Ephtal who so ...
Sep 9, 2026
All Works Maid is a gem, it takes the increasingly common genres of Saintess and Otome Game, smashes them together and then takes things in directions that you would not expect.
We've already seen landmarks in the Otome Game subgenre that have looked to redefine it, and All Works Maid will likely leave its mark as well. It is easy for a series to simply follow the herd, it's why we get so many trash isekai, yet to stand out and do something different, that is more difficult and we don't see it often because it can go badly wrong, after all tropes exist because they ...
Sep 8, 2026
Ghost In The Shell is easily one of my favourite franchises, the '95 Movie and Stand Alone Complex cast long shadows over the entertainment industry, not just influencing anime but film too.
The Manga that inspired and started it all however has often surprised audiences with how different it is, the character personalities, the art style and the inclusion of comedic moments, but with every anime version of GITS chasing after the legacy of those two heavy weights, it seemed more and more likely we would never get a true adaptation of Ghost In The Shell, and then Science SARU entered the frame.

This is not 'Inspired ...
Sep 1, 2026
Mixed Feelings
This series started strong and ended weakly

When I saw the PV for this I remember thinking it was aiming to be the 'new' SpyxFamily, needless to say it wasn't, there are some things about this that remind me of Violet Evergarden, except it fall short in comparison because Victoria plays it safe

There have been several spy type series, this should not be considered one of them, it is simply part of the fabric, a coat that is worn but can be taken off, and therein lies a problem, it can be easily shed and discarded.
Her past as an agent heavily informs the first two thirds ...
Jul 17, 2026
Mixed Feelings
I liked season 1, it wasn't perfect as it had issues, I hoped season 2 would be better as I thought those issues would go away with time
I was wrong

Season 2 is a bit of a let down, it kind of drifts through the storylines and becomes a bit dull.
It focuses too much on politics and it's not good at it, everyone dances around each other not saying anything about what is really going on, while Pride narrates the truth through what she knows from the Otome Game, and then eventually Pride will stop the dance to reveal all to declare the intentions of the ...
Jul 14, 2026
Mixed Feelings
I'm going to start this by saying I liked Season 1, I thought it was pretty solid, it had good worldbuilding, good pacing and it balanced the action with the story, it also brought in a few unresolved threads to keep you watching. It wasn't perfect but it had a quality of its own.

Season 2 looks great, it has great action scenes and... that's it
It doesn't really progress the story, it doesn't really add to the worldbuilding, it doesn't tie up any of the unresolved threads, if anything it just adds an increasing amount of them. It doesn't do much of anything except chase the ...
Jul 6, 2026
Mixed Feelings
There is no getting past this, Season 1 is better
I felt like I was in the minority for liking season 1, the hate on the animation was overblown, and while I did have issues with it, I felt it was an average isekai/reincarnation series as it had potential and there were quite a few things I liked about it.
Maybe I have an advantage in that I've not really bothered with the source material, I gave the webcomic a read and I didn't really care for it, it just seemed average and shared many of the same issues that I had with the anime. But I ...


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