Mauser started it, so I’ll take a quick look at next season’s anime:

• Astro Note: Chef meets Landlady From Outer Space. No.

• Bartender: people in trouble get the drink they need. No.

• Blue Archive. I’ve enjoyed the fan-service fan-art, and the teaser has a catgirl with a rifle. Maybe.

• Kicked Out Of The Nobility, A Reincarnated Hero’s Slow Life Is Interrupted By His Ex. Um, why is he prettier than the girls? NO.

• A Salad Bowl Of Eccentrics: jaded detective, magical loli princess from another world, wacky hijinks; what is this, Cop Craft 2: The Wackaning? Highly unlikely.

• Grandpa & Grandma’s Rejuvenation: old couple gets young and hot. No.

• Mysterious Disappearances: horror? romance? giant boobs? Eh, no.

• Gonna Be The Kaiju: Damage Control worker has an Origin. Unlikely.

• Gods’ Game We Play: neither the auto-translated blurb nor the trailer makes a great deal of sense, so all I see is a harem comedy where the guy in the middle is supposed to be good at something instead of a useless potato. Maybe?

• Court Drama With Crow-People: or something like that. Not gonna replace Apothecary Diaries for me. NO.

• Punchy Youtuber. No, seriously. NOT A CHANCE.

• Konosuba 3. Season two dragged, and the Megumin prequel fell apart fast. Maybe.

• Isekai Slow Life With Level 2 Cheats: what it says on the tin. Our Hero gets rejected as useless, only to discover that he gains every power in the world the moment he levels up once; he’s the five-bladed razor of OP cheat heroes. Unlikely. The girls are cute, though, and it’s not a harem.

• How To Love Your Elf Bride: socially inept sorcerer instantly falls for a cute girl at a slave auction, buys her, and attempts to woo her. Fortunately she’s into him, too, and is just as terrible at expressing her feelings. Unlikely.

• Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included: high-school boy inexplicably living alone, strange cute girl suddenly moves in and changes his life. Pretty sure I’ve not only seen this before, but also rejected a dozen just like it. NO.

• Spice & Wolf Remake: same voice actors, even, so not sure what the point is. Maybe, just to see what they’re doing different.

• Re: Monster: isekai goblin power-leveling. Highly Unlikely.

• Underside Of Kitten’s Paw (er, Seiyuu Radio Uraomote): cute girls just don’t get along. No.

• Go! Go! Loser Ranger!. The previews are way too shouty. No.

• Shinkalion. I refuse to believe in a world where mechs are piloted by teams of teenage boys. No.

• Shuumatsu Train. Cute girls SCREEEEEEEAMING on the last train to plotsville. Not a chance.

• Tadaima, Okaeri: gay couple raising a child. No, no, no.

• Isekai Appraiser: Realist Hero as a shota who uses appraisal magic instead of quoting Machiavelli? Unlikely.

• Seventh Prince: Super Shota’s got a harem. No.

• Slime, season 3. Yeah, I suppose so.

• The New Gate: I beat the VR death game, and all I got was this lousy isekai. No.

• The Fable: hitman takes a holiday. Pretty sure I’ve avoided watching the Hollywood version of this at least a dozen times. No.

• Unnamed Memory: I Married A Witch. No.

• Vampire Dormitory: Fruits Basket with fangs? No.

• Wind Breaker. Can someone explain to the Japanese what these words mean together? NO.

• Jellyfish Can’t Swim In The Night: cute girls shouting after hours. No.

• Yozakura Family: I Married A Spy, In High School. No.

Gosh, thanks Twitter!

It used to be that every once in a while, “X” would insert an ad in your feed asking you to upgrade to Premium. Today it escalated to a pop-up every time I muted an ad (which is every time an ad appears…). Yeah, fuck that.

When 歳 is not a warning label…

Generally speaking, when the text in a glamour photospread includes the character 歳 preceded by a number, it means that the model is so young that you’ll feel dirty or guilty for enjoying the view. For Fumie Nakajima [site NSFW, disable Javascript], though, that number is 55, which is not only safe but surprising and delightful.

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