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First impression: Fuuka

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A blue haired violent girl runs into a boy idly checking Twitter on his mobile, accuses him of taking a pantyshot and breaks his phone.

Fuuka: crash into hallo

A romance story then, with Yuu, our self absorbed Twitterer chasing after the titular blue haired girl, Fuuka. This is one of three manga based thrashy romance series this season, the others being Masamune-kun no Revenge and Kuzu no Honkai. Fuuka is the most conventional of the lot, with its useless male protagonist being shaken out of his funk by an energetic , cheerful if somewhat violent girl.

Fuuka: high impact

You do have to wonder what Yuu exactly sees in Fuuka at first, seeing as she breaks his phone not once, but twice in the first two times they meet. Not to mention that he seems barely interested in anything but updating his Twitter. Nevertheless, by the end of the first episode they’re on a date together and even h-h-holding hands.

Fuuka: the rival

What she sees in him isn’t quite clear either, but she isn’t the only one. His childhood friend turned idol still loves him too. in fact, she wrote most of her songs about him. Ironically, Fuuka herself is a big fan of her. Now while this looks to become your baisc love triangle story, i have actually read the original manga and know there’s a twist coming, which will put the other theme of the series in the foreground: music. Fuuka is a huge music fan but no drive to do anything until Yuu triggers her, while he also encouraged his childhood friend way back on her way to being an idol. The first couple of episodes therefore are somewhat atypical and blander than the rest of the series will hopefully be.

First impr^wrant: Little Witch Academia TV

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It’s pointless to talk about Little Witch Academia too much because it’s awesome as expected and everybody reading this will watch it anyway, so let me rant about the horrible way the academy treats its non-witch new students. Leaving aside the fact that Akko has clearly not been prepared for what the school is like, making the school reachable only by broom seems a bit hard on new students not coming from a witching background. You’d expect a slightly more accommodating attitude at Luna Nova if it’s really serious about attracting new students from non-traditional backgrounds, especially if it really is hard up for cash. Of course it may just be an impopular policy that the people actually running the school are actively sabotaging, that’s not uncommon in real life either. in any case, it makes Hogwards seem positively progressive.

First impression: Akiba’s Trip

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A NEET goes to Akihabara with his little sister for a little shopping, gets involved with a strange girl and learns he has to strip people to free them from demonic possession.

Akiba Strip: quick on the uptake

It’s about as idiotic a premise as last season’s Kejio!!!!!!!! with its butt and breast based wrestling and this is very likely to end up as just a fanservice show, but the first two episodes had a touch of humour to it that promised a little bit more than just that. Your milage may vary, but I don’t mind this sort of fanservice too much if it stays on the level of what’s been shown so far, especially if it’s equal opportunity stripping as seen in episode two.

Akiba Strip: a weak excuse

This girl here turns out to be the latest in a long line of people protecting Akihabara from the Bugged Ones, people possessed by low level demons in service of the real enemy, the Hazoku, of which she is one, there apparantly having been a split in th Hazoku about whether to invade or protect Akiba. Our NEET was turned into one as well as a consequence of getting involved and now cannot leave the town. Not too bad a fate for somebody like him.

Akiba Strip: stripped

If there is a problem with fanservice in this show, it’s less things like the above, but more one particular character: the blonde, Finnish weeaboo who’s just a little bit too quick to strip herself. She was interesting in the first episode, with unexplained superhero strength that got her suspected as a Bugged One, but in the second seemed to be reduced to fanservice girl.

Akiba Strip: defeated

Nevertheless, this looks interesting enough to continue with. Light entertainment, perhaps not as zany as Keijo!!!!!!!!, but decent enough to keep following for now in a so far not very good season.

First impression: KonoSuba 2

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Four idiots continue to adventure together.

KonoSuba: everything is alright

They’re back: Aqua, Kazuma, Megamin and Darkness and just as horrible. Everything is alright in the world. At the end of the last series they had finally hit the big time: saved the town from its greatest menace, scored themselves a nice mansion, finally gotten money and recognition. More importantly, over the course of the series the challenges and dangers they had to struggle through had brought the four together, the occasional succubus incident notwithstanding, deepening their friendship.

KonoSuba: everything is alright -- not

And of course it all goes to shit. Kazuma is accused of subverting state power and it takes his friends no more than seconds to denounce them. He’s imprisoned, the other three try to rescue him, he almost is set free but ultimately has to undergo a big, Ace Attorney show trial and the outcome is that they have to set out on a new quest to prove his innocence, as well as pay off the lord whose mansion he destroyed in the climax of the last series.

KonoSuba: everything is alright -- in the end

KonoSuba hasn’t quite reached the comedic heights of the first series in this opening episode, seeing as this is mostly a setup for the rest of the series, but it’s looking good. Not so much for the animation however. It was always deliberately crude and ugly and it seems this season is bumping that ugliness up a notch. All in all slightly disappointing, but still worth following. I missed those idiots.

KonoSuba: what does Aqua wear underneath that skirt

And hey, at least one of the burning mysteries of the first season has been resolved.