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Kendra Kirai
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"Shows of the past season"
 
   Most/all of the shows I've been watching this past season have just finished up, so I'm gonna go through some reviews, as spoiler free as I can. For the most part, I suggest checking out all of these though.

Shangri-La Frontier
In the near future time of Full-dive VRMMOs, there is a huge number of games, and a large portion of those are terrible. Enter a 'Kusoge' (Shitty Game) hunter who goes by the name of Sunraku. He's looking for something new to play, and gets suggested to play, for a change of place, the game known as a 'Kamige' (God Game) - Shangri-La Frontier, or ShanFro for short. It turns out that in a game world that's actually properly made, his reflexes and abilities trained for frame perfect glitches and unresponsive controls give him extreme abilities in the skill-focused ShanFro.
-- I REALLY like this show, and the next season is on its way!

Mashle: Magic and Muscles
The world is basically the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, except everyone is a wizard. By force, because they kill anyone who can't use magic. Enter Mash Burndead, who has no magic, but has near Saitama levels of sheer physical power. Shenanigans happen, and he must enter the most prestigious magic academy in the world and reach the epitome of magicians in order to simply survive with his adoptive grandfather.
-- This show is wonderfully stupid and seeing Mash turn everybody's worlds upside down is wonderful.

Brave Bang Bravern!
The world falls under attack from a group of sentient robots known as Deathdrives, which decimate the militaries of the world with ease; luckily, BRAVERRRRN is here to help fight them off, along with poor, dumb, bastard Ao Isami.
-- I still don't actually know what to think of this show. Damn if it ain't stylish as hell, though.

The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
Bronze rank adventurer Rentt has been a fixture in town as an adventurer for years. One day he's in the local dungeon, and stumbles upon a newly revealed path he's never seen before, and immediately gets the shit murdered out of him by a dragon. However, he comes back as a skeleton, and soon 'evolves' to a ghoul, which allows him to sneak back into town and resume lift as an adventurer as he tries to figure out what a dragon was doing in a low level dungeon, why he 'survived' as an undead, and just generally be helpful as he always had been.
-- This one was remarkably low key, not a lot of big things happen, though it's quickly proven that the 'Unwanted' part of the title is somewhat incorrect, as everyone who's ever met Rentt rather likes the dummy, despite his somewhat low opinion of himself.

The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
This is technically an Isekai, and the only one I watched of the past season, but it's restricted to an unheard (by the audience) voice in Ivy's head that occasionally chimes in. Ivy is a young girl who is a 'Starless'. A world where everyone has a skill with one to three(?) stars, demoting the power of their skills. Starless are seen as 'forsaken by God' and Ivy narrowly avoids death by running away from her village. The show has a good chunk of bleakness to it, and the setting is kind of like a non-comedic variant of Mashle. Ivy's reaction to her traumas are..a little distressing.
-- Good show, karma catches up to the kid soon enough, but she's got a ton of PTSD to work through.

Apothecary Diaries
(I'm just going to copy/paste my writeup from this topic)
A poison-obsessed apothecary/pharmacist girl gets kidnapped and sold into the palace of the emperors harem in a pseudo-Chinese world, and proceeds, with the deadpan calm of someone whom is confident in their common sense and knowledge of (lack of) status, solve various medical mysteries. It is so very good, I love Mao Mao. :3


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Peter Eng
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1. "RE: Shows of the past season"
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   'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess

This is exactly what it says on the title. The Princess has been captured, along with her enchanted sword, and the Hellhorde wants secrets from her. And their idea of torture is...toast, fluffy animals, and video games.

Peter Eng
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Kendra Kirai
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2. "RE: Shows of the past season"
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   I read a chunk of the manga for this show way back~ It was a fun premise, if somewhat repetitive over time~


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Peter Eng
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4. "RE: Shows of the past season"
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   No argument here. It's definitely best as a one-and-done show.

Peter Eng
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3. "RE: Shows of the past season"
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   >This is exactly what it says on the title. The Princess has been
>captured, along with her enchanted sword, and the Hellhorde wants
>secrets from her. And their idea of torture is...toast, fluffy
>animals, and video games.

"Hm! She is made of stronger stuff. Cardinal Fang! Fetch... the comfy chair!"

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