WisperG

Shows are listed here.

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Definitely Watching:

– Akiba’s Trip (The games are fun, but I was expecting a low-budget, generic-looking adaptation. Instead we seem to be getting zany fights and colorful character designs that feel like imitation-Trigger)

– Fate/Grand Order (How can I say no to Fate?)

– The Dragon Dentist (Ryuu no Haisha) (2-part special based on the very first Animator Expo short. Super stocked for this one)

– Little Witch Academia (Do I really need to say anything here? No? I didn’t think so)

Interested:

– ACCA (Not sure what it is about this one. But I like the look and it sounds interesting, so I’ll give it a shot)

– Granblue Fantasy (I like the art and designs, though the animation quality itself seems pretty meh. Oddly, this show was delayed at the last minute to Spring and will instead just have a special airing later in January)

– Masamune-kun’s Revenge (Sounds interesting, and I’ve heard some good things about it)

– Onihei (Historical anime are often hit-or-miss for me, but this one looks pretty good)

On the Fence:

– Chaos;Child (My interest in the semicolon series varies wildly from entry-to-entry. This one doesn’t exactly hook me, but we’ll see)

– eIDLIVE (Liking the manga art is a pretty poor reason for considering such a generic-sounding show, isn’t it?)

– Interview With Monster Girls (Demi-chan wa Kitaritai) (Sounds kind of amusing)

– Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid (Also sounds kind of amusing)

– One Room (Yeah, I got nothing for this one. The poster just had such nice lighting and shadows.)

– Youjo Senki (The character designs and pretty good animation in the trailer caught my attention, though I’ve heard less than pleasant things about the manga since)

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Late on the review once again. I’ll keep it short.

A fair warning though. I talk about some cut content in the spoiler under the Raven section that likely confirms a future twist which has only just been teased in the show proper. Some may find this too spoilery.

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Holy heck, lots of stuff happened in this episode. Qrow’s here, Oobleck and Port are back, Yang is finally making progress on her emotional state, and HOLYOMGBBQ RAVEN. IS. HERE.

But I’ll get to her in a minute. I think the biggest reveal from this episode is that Ozpin is still… around? I do think he’s probably still “dead”, physically at least, but he’s clearly not gone. Voice in his head aside, Oscar (yes, the credits confirmed that was his name) behaved as though he was seeing someone else in his reflection. I think the reasonable assumption was that he was seeing Ozpin. That opens up another whole can of worms about our mug-wielding headmaster though…

Ah, Raven. They teased her SO HARD in V3, and gave us practically nothing. I think this easily makes up for it though. Some interesting things came out of her and Qrow’s conversation. Namely, the fact that her bandit “family” was responsible for the destruction of Shion, the village from Episode 2. The fact that Ren and Nora recognized that symbol on the ground that seemed to be the bandit’s calling card brings up some interesting implications…
…especially considering that a Raven vs JNPR fight was originally planned by Monty really early on in production for V3 as a “tease” for some kind of future plot point, but ultimately scrapped. It’s not hard to guess what they were getting at though…