Series in one sentence:
Evil, heartless, murderous demons instantly turn into funny, hospitable people.
Series in more sentences:
During an intense battle, Satan and his right-hand man are teleported to Earth and forced to live like normal human beings. But their arch-enemy is there too, keeping a close eye on them.
This could've been so good, but it lost its charm quickly. I don't like it when demons or monsters get introduced as threatening villains, but then turn meek when they're put in a different setting. Satan was disappointingly docile for a power-hungry lord.
This would've been a more interesting show if he responded to set-backs and normal social interactions with anger and violence, whereafter we'd slowly see him develop a sense of humanity, thanks to the people around him and the petty jobs he's forced to do in order to sustain his weak human body.
But he and every other demon that shows up are just.. normal guys. Far from a threat. I don't understand why Satan allowed for this one traitor to live with him, either, and the hinted at romance between him and the hero could've been left out. It was hardly a subject and went absolutely nowhere.
Most of the episodes were bland, I got very little entertainment out of this, wouldn't recommend.
Series in one sentence:
A harem show starring characters who aren't in love with each other at all.
Series in more sentences:
A
talented, shy student enrolls in a pastry school, where she soon finds herself surrounded by the attractive and highly pursued teachers. They become great friends and hang out often, while the strict headmaster keeps an eye on their interactions.
A basic bitch in anime form. Not funny, there're no risks, no originality, typical drama, the cooking theme is an afterthought, there's hardly any romance to take seriously, and the one romance that is slightly appealing is a half-baked dead end.
Though the series rushes its relationships as if the director had a bus to catch that day, the redhead had potential. He was so determined on asking the main character to be his girlfriend, you're surprised to find him shoved aside in the end. Worse yet, he gives his love interest a lacklustre goodbye after graduation.
The anime didn't even care to explain why this particular boy was so drawn to her to begin with, which matters, since he remarked she looked like someone he knew. But this matter is shamelessly made undone a few episodes later with an "oh, I don't remember saying that". Alright, well, thanks.
..And then for that shitty contest plot at the end. Out of nowhere, the characters use super powers and "cook" a giant floating Earth globe. A literal Earth globe. What is this globe, exactly? A cake? A jawbreaker? Chocolate? Ice cream? Not explained. The characters are deemed the winners and then the story ends. What the fork did I watch.
Skip it, kids.
Series in one sentence:
A girl fakes interest in people so she won't die.
Series in more sentences:
A high school girl dies and reawakens in the young body of a video game villain from a dating simulator she's played in real life. When she remembers the future of this character can only be death or exile, she tries her best to show kindness to the characters around her and hopefully change her grim fate that way.
She ends up charming everyone she speaks to, who fawn over the oblivious girl years later.
The first three episodes are rushed in the relationship building department and that made me worry for the rest. If a studio only has a contract for a few episodes and a village of people to introduce, understandable, but I still think the series fell short as a whole.
The majority of the love interests hardly got the screen time necessary to turn them into a person we -or the main character- should consider. They tend to have their "own episode", but in every other episode you usually see them standing around and uttering maybe three lines of dialogue in total.
Every
time we focus on the development of a character, all other (still
underdeveloped) characters are shoved aside even more.. and
this featured character will still be bare bones, because they'll hardly be on
screen in the episodes that follow afterwards.
The main character isn't much better. Her blindness for the facts, including that the people she befriended are obviously not going to kill her anymore, started to annoy me a little the longer it went on. There's no reason for a character to be this dumb, shit me.
Would've loved to give this show a good rating, it has potential and managed to entertain me for the most part, but the storylines it focused on weren't always that great. The one with the magic book was absolutely pointless.
To give every love interest their own full episode is good, but it should've had the earlier introduced love interests butting in all the time; don't make them forgotten characters.
As the show is now, it doesn't feel like the main character has met up with them all that often, the show just asks us to believe they did.
The whole magic aspect in this was pointless as well. There are enough instances where it makes an appearance, I guess, but all plots that revolve around it could've been replaced with normal trickery or a human problem and have the same results.
Anyway, despite my criticism, I think most people will find this a nice watch.
Series in one sentence:
Furries are given their own city to rule that's arguably more violent than the human establishments they've fled from.
Series in more sentences:
A normal high schooler suddenly turns into a persecuted "beastman" and decides to take refuge in Japan's well-known beastman city. There she happens to meet a wolf private detective with a disdain for humans, and by tagging along, comes to discover more about him, the residents, and reason why she looks the way she does.
Cool character designs, cool moments, interesting concepts, just great, but a major complaint is how short it is. The characters and story interest me, but are minimally covered. I would've liked more scenes with these people together. What people? All of them.
The girl and the wolf are more or less a crime fighting duo, but at the same time, really aren't. They interact relatively little. Still, BNA manages to make their relationship feel genuine and that's an art.. I just don't know what to call their relationship. This is the case with pretty much every character in the show.
Some are really awkward or undeveloped. The girl's best friend is an example. She acts like a total stuck-up bitch all throughout the series, and I'm still not sure what made her change her ways. I didn't think her excuses for doing the things she did made any sense. You were vain and hostile because you had to keep certain things a secret? What?
And then there's this friend's "manager". I have no fucking clue what his deal was. Who was he? Why did he do the things he did? I thought he was going to be the main villain or something, but in the end, he was just some random pedofile with no important or relatable goals.
And then for the beastmen as a species that take refuge in this city claimed to be the most welcoming living space for them - a city where they excitedly fight and kill each other as to gain rank and respect.
So then, why are the humans the villains in the story? Why is it alright for beastmen to brutally murder other beastmen during a game of baseball, but are humans that kill or bully a beastman evil? To be scared and prejudiced is shit, but these are actual reasons to lash out. A game of baseball, something that's supposed to be fun and have rules, isn't.
The last fight scene was cheap as well. Here we have this godlike creature, super cool, and then out of nowhere, the previously defeated half-god defeats him without issue. And then the show ends, where the main character decides to stay a beastman a bit longer, as if the audience didn't already guess that would happen by her reluctance to turn back into a human pretty much right after she figured out how to.
I bet her school and parents are glad she's still out there for no reason.
But that's pretty much all I have to say. This is worth a watch and an expansion; though preferably to season 1. I don't know if I'd care for a second season with a whole new main conflict introduced.
