honestly I'd read the manga
I like the original anime more but it's kind of drawn out

kill ao
kill blue

Fun, competent first episode. I definitely roll my eyes at being stuck in school and have no idea how we're going to get a long running action plot out of this set up but I'll give it a shot.

... anime name so short i have a lot of characters leftover for once. huh.

yowa yowa sensei
yowa yowa teacher

this woman should never have been hired. Let's not fantasize about student teacher stuff, it perpetuates all kinds of bad, bad things. ecchi caused entirely by someone being impossibly clumsy that neither participant wants or enjoys is beyond trite at this point.

ichijouma mankitsu gurashii!

I do not get cute cozy CGDCT vibes from an anime shoving high school girls' panties in my face constantly. pass.

dandelion

totally fine premise, well done. the sad scene didn't make me sad, and the cmedy didn't hit for me but that's really subjective. By the gintama mangaka, I think?

ashiteru game wo owarasetai
I want to end this love game

we have kaguya-sama at home
and it has better animation

kuroneko to majo no kyoushitsu
the classroom of a black cat and a witch

I hate this so much. The production values are good but I hate it so much that it just makes me sad that that production is going to THIS instead of the many anime I've enjoyed that are powerpoints. what the fuck it's so gross.

stardew valley and civilization 2, the latter of which in particular as gotten me through a lot of chronic pain

They should make an Otherside Picnic anime again but do it good

awajima hyakkei
a hundred scenes of awajima

gorgeous down to earth drama, on the woman-centered world of all-girls drama reviews. I struggled to connect with it emotionally but god I loved looking at it.

kamiina botan, yoeru sugata wa yuri no hana
botan kamiina fully blossoms when drunk

Always open to GL/Yuri-ish CGDCT anime, especially when they're about adults rather than HS girls, but I don't drink - never have - so a major crux of the anime being alcohol flavours misses me completely.

That's it, I made it. First episode quick reviews of all* the new anime of the Spring 2026 season.

You can check out my youtube for post season full reviews

See you next season~

dandelion

totally fine premise, well done. the sad scene didn't make me sad, and the cmedy didn't hit for me but that's really subjective. By the gintama mangaka, I think?

ashiteru game wo owarasetai
I want to end this love game

we have kaguya-sama at home
and it has better animation

kuroneko to majo no kyoushitsu
the classroom of a black cat and a witch

I hate this so much. The production values are good but I hate it so much that it just makes me sad that that production is going to THIS instead of the many anime I've enjoyed that are powerpoints. what the fuck it's so gross.

ichijouma mankitsu gurashii!

I do not get cute cozy CGDCT vibes from an anime shoving high school girls' panties in my face constantly. pass.

kill ao
kill blue

Fun, competent first episode. I definitely roll my eyes at being stuck in school and have no idea how we're going to get a long running action plot out of this set up but I'll give it a shot.

... anime name so short i have a lot of characters leftover for once. huh.

yowa yowa sensei
yowa yowa teacher

this woman should never have been hired. Let's not fantasize about student teacher stuff, it perpetuates all kinds of bad, bad things. ecchi caused entirely by someone being impossibly clumsy that neither participant wants or enjoys is beyond trite at this point.

The alcohol stuff fades into the background pretty quickly, I will say. It's mostly just about the various relationships between the girls and they happen to like drinking

I'm sure but it did make it hard for me to sit through the first episode *shrugs*

things can be good and also not for me. I'm at peace.

kami no shizuku
The drops of god.

dramatic and serious to the point of me finding it funny, but like, not enought to keep going. it's also focussed on wine and wine tasting which I fundamentally don't care about.

LMAO and up next another anime about alcohol wow

kamiina botan, yoeru sugata wa yuri no hana
botan kamiina fully blossoms when drunk

Always open to GL/Yuri-ish CGDCT anime, especially when they're about adults rather than HS girls, but I don't drink - never have - so a major crux of the anime being alcohol flavours misses me completely.

"Friendflation": Japanese Youth Are Saving Money By Limiting Their Social Networks Japan grows a worldwide trend of limiting your social network as the cost of having friends becomes prohibitive.

Japanese youth have a new word for dropping friends they can't afford: "songiri" (loss-cutting), borrowed from stock trading. With a night out hitting 6,000 yen and wages stagnant, fewer wanna pay the cost of keeping up.

kujima utaeba ie hororo
kujima why sing when you can warble?

I don't get it. I don't get it SO HARD that I don't even know what it's SUPPOSED to be giving and the main... bird .... hits some kind of uncanny valley of character design for me.

hime kishi wa barbaroi no yome
the warrior princess and the barbaric king

I found this incredibly uncomfortable to watch. not a good way to get me interested. I'm also not into big grizzled men personally, or the stockholme fantasy.

hokuto no ken: fist of the north star

Call me a CG hater, i don't care - this is ugly.

Why would I watch this when I could just go watch the original. lovingly animated 2D gore is always gunna be better, and at least *it* has an excuse for feeling so antiquated