It's not anime - but it's Japanese and it's weird and it's catchy.

Here's a compilation of short ads from Baitoru, a part-time job listing site - they're pretty wild.



And here's a gallery page listing other ad campaigns from that company:

https://campaign.baitoru.com/46/

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Is that the one where a girl is a huge fan of magical girls, gets offered the chance to be a magical girl, then it turns out she was offered a position as an evil magical girl?

Haha, that premise sounds like it has potential.  How was it?

I haven't finished the first episode, but so far it is a combination of badly-done artwork, ecchi (but not quite hentai) panty and boob shots, somewhat juvenile parody of the magical girls genre, annoying pokemon-derivative small flying omniscient devil's companion character, etc.

It's not going on my "do not miss this" list, undecided on whether or not it will stay in my watchlist.

The manga is just extremely deranged ecchi. Nipple clamps and car battery torture played for laughs ecchi. It's not a particularly serious series.

I've only seen a preview, but it sounds like it is worth watching at least an episode.

So it’s a brand new anime.

I could have sworn there was a past anime with a very similar premise.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica?

My boss has a hard time pronouncing 'anime'.

He usually ends up calling it 'enema'.

Maybe he's onto something, though...

Holy cow I was totally not giving this show a second thought.

Then I see these images and realize immediately this is the same dude who made "I am a Hero"

Dudes a legend

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I was just thinking about reading it yesterday. I didn't know the anime reboot was coming this year.

I started reading Happy Sugar Life instead, which is definitely not like spice and wolf at all.

Well it probably goes without saying but I couldn't recommend the story in general enough the books are the main way but I went with the Manga do to my limited brain size ..... and the art work is so damn good with a more traditional anime style then the covers of the books


Damn I remember that one I watched when it first came out I should rewatch it at some point especially if more has come out

Hmm... I think I might have to start another row if someone makes Frieren carrying some heat a sticker.

There’s Fern…

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I think small arms would be a serious downgrade for either of them.

I rarely put stickers on things. I would make an exception for this.
True, but it still looks cool


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I don't remember the name, but there was one where a girl got recruited (somewhat reluctantly, if my memory isn't off) to be a magical girl, then she really, really hated it and kept trying to quit, because her magical girl costume was not much more than a bikini.

Thinking about it a bit more, I think there was a past series where a girl somehow ended up being an arch nemesis of magic girls, even though she had no interest in being evil.  Something along the lines of suddenly getting powers and a costume transformation, then the magical girls seeing her and assuming that she was a superpowered villain that they had to hunt down and destroy.

I think Gushing over Magical Girls is going to be a fucked up ride. It definitely registered on my wtf meter.

eta: forgot to quote yall.

The MC of My Instant Death Ability is Overpowered is kind of a dick.

But so is pretty much everyone else in this isekai parody of an isekai.

So, it's kind of OK when he kills people, dragons, and whatever else with his ability.

They deserved it, after all.

He's not the only one who can kill at a whim - but at least his victims had it coming.

Not so much for some of the other killing that we've seen so far in ep. 1.

The comedy comes at the viewer at a breakneck pace - so much so that a lot of it isn't really funny - but at least some of it is.

The MC's bored/sleepy act is mostly unfunny, and I have a feeling that I will get so tired of it soon that I'll just stop watching it.

But I'll at least stick around for ep. 2 in a week.

I haven't watched it yet, and it's been a while since I read the manga, so I can't remember if the first episode would likely explain the root cause of that.

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He's got something going on with his hair.

There are a couple of blue curls, one on the left of his head and one on the right, that look almost like horns.

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I loved it so far. Finally an MC who wasn't all wishy washy about killing people who needed killing.

And the girl wasn't all squeamish about it either. I take it it's sort of an isekai one punch man, and I fucking love OPM.

Just finished “Sasaki to Pii-chan”, quite an interesting show.
Rather interesting twist on the Iseakai routine with a guy that gets a bird as a pet only to find it’s an isekaie’d magician from another world that grants him part of his powers, and an ability to teleport to the other dimension.
Starts out similar to “saving 80,000 gold in the different world”, but soon takes an unusual turn.

Hey, we’ve already had an isekai vending machine and pig, might as well get a bird in there.

Once you've seen a show where the main character is a teenage zombie who can use a magic chainsaw to turn into a magical girl, you either get a bit jaded and it's difficult for new twists to impress you, or you start looking for some new show that might somehow top it.

I prefer the Japanese name of the show to the English bastardization: "Sasaki and Peeps".

It was a good first episode - plenty of room for things to get interesting.

Sasaki-san seems to be remarkably accepting of, well, everything that has come his way.

Maybe that's just the way it is for someone with a salaryman's outlook on life - but he does seem to be enjoying his newly-acquired abilities and the perks of his new position. He does seem to be remarkably incurious about the next-door neighbor girl - not that he should be a perv or something, but not introducing himself, not getting her name, not even wondering about why she's interested in him, etc.

Something tells me that she's not what she seems to be at first glance...

I like it so far, and actually like his laid-back attitude.

Playing video games until the girl calmed down enough to talk rationally was totally a boss move.

I also like some of the foreshadowing and plot twists you guys are discussing.

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Looks like fun to me!

The phrase "That's not a kick!!! WHARRGARBL..." will never stop being funny to me.

So how about that opening episode of Ishura?

Heck of a start, didn’t expect to see her friend ripped to pieces.

My top 4 dub voice actresses haven’t changed for the better half of a decade.

1. Brittney Karbowski

2. Alexis Tipton

3A. Sarah Wiedenheft

3B. Jad Saxton

After that though, it got pretty jumbled.  However, I think Felecia Angelle has solidified her claim to the #5 spot.

My list is similar, though the rankings are slightly modified.

1A. Brittney Karbowski

1B. Jad Saxton

1C. Sarah Wiedenheft

1D. Alexis Tipton



I also have to throw a really special shout-out to Brianna Knickerbocker for her absolutely hilarious performance as Kumoko in So I'm a Spider, So What?. Still one of my favorites!

It's such a shame what they did to the second half of that season.

Too often a girl I like ends up getting dubbed by Monica Rial. ETA: I just realized a couple of those are actually her sister Natalie.

Even if they don't, Monica Rial often gets cast as a character with just as much or more lines.

No love for AmaLee/Amanda Lee in there yall? To be fair though I don't think her resume is quite as deep as a lot of the others on VA stuff.

The weird part is that when she doesn't use that stupid squeaky high voice, Monica Rial isn't that bad of a voice actor.

Her performance as Shin/Tomoe in Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy actually fit the character quite well, in my opinion.

I think solo leveling will come out today.

Korean based series tend to do badly (mostly because they pour a lot of money into a flashy adaptation but the source material is straight garbage that doesn't cross cultural lines well like Japanese stuff does). The first part of the series isn't too bad so it might be alright, but it's a far cry from ever being anything other than a spectacle with flashy art.

Following up to God of High School (which is and was just incomprehensible schlock) and Tower of God (which at least is sort of interesting in how arcane it is, but as a series is a meandering mess) this should be the strongest of recent Korean imports. But it's still such a wish fulfillment self insert fantasy that it makes seasonal isekai main characters look well developed by comparison.

There's also a point in the series where the author made the Japanese characters all traitorous backstabbers who got their just desserts (followed by the mysterious and brooding main character showing up and manhandling the big bad guy) but I doubt this will get that far. That caused a lot of fuss apparently.

The series itself is a fairly quick read due to the format and the art was nice. It mostly avoids that Korean pitfall of introducing twelve billion side characters and trying to give them too much importance to the plot, but does it to the detriment of lack of character development for practically everyone. There are a few characters who seem like they'll be utilized, get built up or have decent screentime, then just are never used. It is almost sort of funny and novel for a while, too, and it is better than most Korean comics (whether we want to call it manwha, web toons, or whatever). But near the end it really does lose the plot, although the American national hero is actually a total bro, although he never really takes the stage until nearer to the end.

It is hard to enjoy the typical Korean mentality that infests this sort of media where the mantra is you have what you are born with and never can get past that. That's practically a hard and fast rule in the series, and actually is the case, other than for the MC. It makes any sort of overarching message totally whiff, although I'm not sure this series ever intended or needed a meaning, it's just an excuse to draw cool flashy digital art of the MC looking brooding and menacing in the shadows (even though he's a perfectly nice guy of course)

I have never in my life seen an anime drop off so significantly around the 2/3 mark of a S1.

It felt like a long project someone was doing a great job on and then, when it was about 2/3 done, the boss randomly told him to have it finished and on his desk first thing tomorrow morning.

Monica “Nails on a Chalkboard” Rial being cast as a major character is ALWAYS an auto-pass on the dub for me.

EASILY the most egregious casting was for Vermeil in Gold.  I mean seriously, who heard that screeching voice and thought “wow, that is exactly what we’re looking for to voice the titular voluptuous MILFy succubus”?

Thankfully, I had already watched the sub before I even learned about it.

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I've been listening to her singing for a while. I'm a fan.

She's not exactly a noob at being a VA but she didn't have a really big role in a big series until 2022. She did have small parts in big series or significant parts in smaller series, but most of the characters might as well be "background literally whomst #11".

I did check out the dub of Dress up Darling since she voiced Marin. That was her first big lead. She was very good. I don't know why she didn't get bigger roles sooner.

Just based on that frame alone I would pick Sora Amamiya.

Honestly, in TSUKIMICHI, she wasn't bad as Tomoe. She did a huskier voice, which is all she should stick to

The boss wants this tomorrow so I'm going to completely drop the MC, and to save rendering time let's just go with the PS1-level graphics.

I’m happy for those of you that can tolerate her.  For me though, hearing her voice makes my skin crawl and as such I will never, under any circumstances, watch a dub where she voices a major character.

I still have PTSD from when I clicked on a Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out clip on YouTube that was NOT labeled “dub” and my ears were immediately assaulted by that screeching voice.

Even that is being too generous, IMO.  Some of that CGI in the last third of the season was so horrendous that it made Cocomelon look like a fight scene from Arcane.

That was the only exception I could think of.

Pretty sure it's the only time she wasn't screeching

Yeah music is where I first ran across her as well. She did Zero in Grimoire of Zero, also a good performance.  I think this last year she really leaned into the vtuber thing, so not a whole lot of new stuff.