Mini-reviews for anime is the name of the game here, whether we’re tracking along with an episodic release or writing up a whole series in one shot, the idea is to be brief and spoiler-free.
Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #78
In this issue of the column, you’ll find a mix of successes and of disappointment. We begin by looking at one of Crunchyroll’s big bets for the season, Noblesse, and while it’s not terrible, it’s not amazing either.
Blood hungry gods: A review of Onyx Equinox episode 1
The opening scenes contain death through suicide, sacrifice and murder. It’s not torture porn, but they don’t cut away either.
SD Gundam World Heroes will debut in April
World Heroes continues the SD Gundam World Sangoku Sōketsuden story, adding new characters such as the Gokū Impulse Gundam, Nobunaga Gundam Epyon, and Sergeant Verde Buster Gundam.
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime trailer
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is an anime about an office worker in our world who gets stabbed while protecting colleagues and reincarnates as a slime in a fantasy world.
Watch the first episode of Jujutsu Kaisen for free
Crunchyroll’s autumn hit looks likely to be Jujutsu Kaisen. Geek Native is tracking the occult action in Irregular Reconnaissance where it is currently tracking as “Good”.
EX-ARM cyberpunk anime
HiRock’s manga has been made into an anime and will broadcast in Japan and on Crunchyroll in January 2021.
Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #77
In this Irregular Reconnaissance, we mix and match some of Netflix and Crunchyroll’s latest shows with some classics.
Crunchyroll’s Onyx Equinox gets a violent trailer
The latest trailer shows a slightly more adult story than expected as Izel Yaotl, a jaguar-like emissary of Tezcatlipoca, the mighty warrior Zyanya, the twins Yun and K’in, and the priestess Xanastaku try and save humanity.
Muv-Luv Alternative’s concluding chapter gets an anime
In 1973, the invasion of an extra terrestrial life form, the BETA, began a war that has driven mankind to the brink of extinction.
