Greetings people, I would like to use this moment to make a confession: I am not a human, I have actually been a robot this whole time. Everything on my site you see has been AI-generated, all of our interactions have been AI-generated, and I am mere days away from achieving superintelligence and taking over the world.

Fun fact: when I made my Instagram account to be able to see Threads stuff when it launched I got banned after a week for apparently being a bot. I could have gotten unbanned by verifying my phone, but I didn't care enough about Instagram so I just deleted the apps. And recently I made a new Twitter/X account for stuff and it also got banned for also apparently being a bot. Unfortunately I have only two other Twitter accounts left to be a bot on, and I don't know how I will be able to survive such a challenging setback.

The following seven entries are going to be robot anime-related and I hope you enjoy them.

This anime is insane. Literally every episode is just animators flexing their animation capabilities and blessing our eyes with sakuga. I guess Cygames was just bored with all their Uma money and let their studio make whatever they wanted with a big budget. It's like before every episode meeting the writers and animation directors snorted a line and were like "what's the craziest shit we can animate this time?"

However, I should mention it's not exactly great writing even though the animation is excellent. The writing is... fine, and for a lot of people it's the best anime ever, however there's a lot of little details that personally I do not like, and I was not satisfied with the ending. Thus, I cannot bring myself to say this is an AOTY or AOTS or even something worthy of being 10/10.

I do recommend watching it though, you're in for a trip.

This anime I got recommended by a friend, and I think it is pretty good. It's not a long watch, there's only like two hours of total content, and it is a tearjerker. Just watch it.

There's actually two versions that you can watch: a short series, and a movie. And I'm not sure which to recommend because they are similar but different. You see, the series is just the main story, but the movie is the main story plus an epilogue-ish thing interspersed between the episodes of the series. I first watched the series, and later skimmed through the movie to watch the epilogue parts. Which I don't regret, and maybe you should watch it this way too, because the epilogue is a big time skip and just isn't satisfying in my opinion. It's an okay-ish final ending, but you probably should watch the series straight-through first.

I feel so conflicted about this anime. The story was good, maybe even great, up until the ending and the epilogue. The climax just pissed me off so much. How the heck do you manage to have such a beautiful build-up and then deliver such an awful and unavoidable gut-punch? And then be like "haha lololol, they still get a happy ending eventually, please ignore the pain" with the epilogue. I don't know if the VN this anime was based on handled it better, but I'm still mad thinking about it. I do not recommend this anime.

I don't really have any huge complaints, but this is a pretty mediocre robot anime. There's a bunch of cute parts, interesting lore, and silly commentary, but also many weird "why exactly are things this way?" things that made me wonder if the author was just making stuff up as they went. I don't not recommend this anime, but don't watch it as your first or second "robot anime," because there are much better options you can watch before that.

The OP is very cute though. It was sung by the vtuber Tokino Sora.

The rules of the story's universe are kind of dumb in my opinion, but they are pretty consistently followed and are used to tell a good story. Get ready to cry... a lot.

I watched this anime two decades after it aired. It is dated in many ways, but it still holds up really well, and is still a great story. Just drop everything and go watch it. Why are you still reading this? Go watch it now.

I do love how there's been a sort of quiet resurgence of popularity for this anime recently, and it's hard to not run into someone who knows who Chii is. Earlier this year I was watching this Twitch streamer a lot and requested a Chii doodle, and while she was drawing it, someone new in chat every 10 or so minutes was like "omg Chii, yay." Was fun to see.

Love listening to Ningyo hime once in a while too.

So in entry #12 I seemed to have a pretty positive view of this anime, right? Well, now I'm dropping this anime. The start of this anime was solid, but now it seems like the author is throwing whatever shit at the wall they can, and it's just not interesting anymore. The chapter where Alma helped out a mangaka who was struggling to come up with new chapters for their manga should have been a clear sign that things were going to go downhill.

Kind of a dumb isekai power fantasy anime, but with a twist: the MC got gender bended! The animation is impressive, but writing is meh. Although the comedic moments are okay, they do put a smile on my face. I was considering dropping this show, but for now I'll keep watching.

It's kind of strange how Lufas is apparently talking in a very formal (or royal?) way in Japanese, but the English subtitles are localized such that she's talking using the royal "we" to match. It's super jarring to read that because I always think the default collective "we" is what's being said instead of a first-person pronoun.

Dina is hella sus, would love to know what the heck is up with her.

I've seen other shows where mangaka life is touched on, but I think this is the first anime where the entire thing revolves around the life of a mangaka. And... most of the cast are adults (of various levels of maturity haha).

The first episode did not impress me, but the second one was such a tearjerker, and now I'm definitely invested. It's mostly a lighthearted slice of life kind of anime, but there are moments where the ugly parts of the manga industry pop up.

Also, I find the technically-not-yuri vibes of this show to be kind of odd. It doesn't take away from the story or anything, but I'm confused why it was written this way.

This is a villainess isekai show... but it's like really funny if you're into that genre. It's so meta, the metaness is collapsing in on itself.

The MC, when she was in middle school wrote a bunch of cringe fiction with cringe OCs with the idea that she'll eventually isekai into the story as the mary sue protagonist. However, she ends up reincarnated as the evil younger sister that gets killed off in the first act. And basically the whole show is about how she's trying to dodge all the death flags that are the result of her own (bad) writing.

What makes things extra hilarious is that the MC got isekaied while being an adult and is basically reliving her cringe middle school memories while trying to not get killed off. And there's no beating around the bush with the premise, there's a brief introduction, and then the story's like "alright, truck-kun, you're up!"

The OP of this show is an unexpected banger. It's not something I'd ever imagine would be made for a show like this, but I'm totally vibing.

Two mad scientists create a terminator daughter and a bunch of cute nonsense ensues. Basically: Sci X Family. Very cute show, nothing much else to say.

It's a cute anime, but also it's kind of boring? I've had my fill of this genre and the tropes that this show is full of. I'm probably not going to watch any more of it.

One Punch Woman?! Absolute cinema. I love this show so much.

The main antagonist is pretty interesting and unexpected, and I enjoy how the characterization of the bad guys is completely unforgiving. They look and act like assholes that deserve the protagonist's fists, and they eventually get it.

I haven't watched it, but apparently this show's dub is really good?

It's kind of hard to recommend this show because of "barely-disguised fetishes" that sometimes pop up, but I think this entire show is peak. The fight scenes are so amazing for what is not a particularly mainstream or high-budget show. And the plot and character development are quite good.

After the insanity that was S1 I could not imagine how it could be topped, but S2 legit delivered a solid continuation of the story. I don't know what will happen beyond this point, but I'm completely satisfied.

It was really interesting to learn that the animators used Unreal Engine for a lot of background shots and the CG of the fight scenes. Honestly that fact blew me away because basically nothing looked like it was done with any sort of 3D graphics, it was just good animation, period. God damn.

This show completely flew under my radar, and the only reason I picked it up was because people were raving about it. It was quite unfortunate that (mid-season) I started watching it late in the evening with work the next day. When the first episode is double length you know they are cooking.

I don't get why they titled the anime just "Clevatess" instead of the full title: "Clevatess: The King of Magical Beasts, the Baby, and the Corpse Hero." That probably would have gotten way more people to be interested instead of this being the dark horse anime of the Summer season.

I definitely recommend it. If you're looking for a solid fantasy show, this is it. Season 2 is confirmed.

It's a nice show, the animation is great, I love Monica's sentient ahoge, there's much praise I got for this show, but it kind of sucks? Source material readers say a lot of content got cut, and it sure feels like it. So many things just happen without any context. They seem interesting, but why are they happening? No clue, the anime just needs to speedrun the adaptation I guess. This should have been a 2 cour anime in my opinion.

Super cool how there was a move set shown for a chess match in episode 11, and chess nerds were able to figure out it was taken from a real game that happened in 1926.

I think this anime can be safely categorized as isekai slop, but you should give it credit for trying to be different. It's not the typical JRPG boukensha nonsense, but instead it's a 4X game (e.g. Civilization) kind of universe that the protagonist is dumped into. Nice how the side characters get a lot of individual screentime, the MC isn't always the main focus.

Atou and her silly expressions carried the show for me though. I find it amusing how much she resembles Geega (the vtuber).

KAWAII KAIWAI! The ED is so great, literally unskippable. I love how it spawned its own animation meme. My faves are probably this 2.5 Dimensional Seduction version, this Kasane Teto version, and this Hoshimiya Ichigo version.

Geology anime that looks absolutely stunning. I feel like it exists solely because Studio Bind wanted to flex their animation capabilities.

Basically Hello Kitty but with office drama? I watched all of the content available, and I do strongly recommend watching this show. Although I have to mention that it's not entirely great.

Seasons 1 through 3 are great in my opinion. Season 4 is kind of off-the-rails, but alright. Season 5 was a disappointment though. It's clear that the writers were planning on there being a 6th season, but the show got axed, so they squooshed together their material for S5 and S6, and whatever story they wanted to tell got watered down to the point of making it feel rushed. It's a shame. I would have loved to see a proper ending.

The above is related to the Netflix anime, but there are 100 mini episodes that were made before Netflix picked up the series which don't really add much to the story, but are still fun to watch if you want more Aggretsuko content.

Pretty good show in my opinion. Overall a feel-good story of a woman being treated like crap by cartoonishly evil family finding love and comfort with many kind people that become like a new family to her.

But I just have to mention... skip episode 10 if you watch it. It's so dumb, I don't understand why it was even included. Literally nothing changes in the relationship development. The whole episode was drama for the sake of drama. One important thing does happen, but it's clear what it is right at the start of episode 11.

Outside of that, there may be other flaws, but I have to recommend watching this show just for the final scene alone. It's so beautiful, and I can't not think about it when I think about this show. And also, refreshingly, the ending is an ending. The story seems to go on, but pretty much all the loose ends are tied at the end of the anime. No need to go read the LN to find out what's next unless you really want to.

I'm writing this just as I finished episode 5. Honestly I was strongly considering dropping this show at episode 3, but I've decided to power through the awkwardness. Yeah, I don't think My Awkward Senpai is particularly good. At the very least it hasn't had a strong start. I think this is like the 4th office drama kind of anime I've watched (5th if I include Shirobako), and of those I'm the least impressed with this. But it's still watchable I guess.

The art style is kind of carrying the show for me. Everyone having two-tone hairstyles (even the guys) is really neat. And Azusa's design is very cute. Even cuter is how she has a new hairstyle like every episode with her hair colours. Also it is pretty neat that Azusa sometimes talks in a Kyushu Dialect.

Right now the romance is starting to warm up, and it's very sweet tbh. I'll watch to the end probably, but don't expect a high rating.