Betcha the wings’ll taste good if basted with the right sauce.

I have an enduring soft spot for Antique Bakery, although more the manga than the anime. (Isekai Office Worker is probably better, though.)

And they just randomly dropped Caster’s name in the middle of all that . . .

Then the latest (and apparently last) episode of Gnosia,

We’re not actually sure about that. The nature of the show is such that it might easily be another fakeout. Currently, livechart is claiming there will be another episode, but has no airdate for it. It’s hard to tell exactly what’s going on.

Ergo Proxy is dark? Darker than, oh, Mahou Shoujo Site, Deadman Wonderland, Ajin, Promised Neverland, or any of a couple of dozen others? Someone needs to watch more anime.

Now and Then, Here and There, on the other hand, deserves to be at the top of the list. That thing is brutal.

Technically those are donghua, not anime, though. Similar in style, different origin.

Hmmm. Livechart indicates that there will be an episode 19, but doesn’t have an air date. Maybe we’re in for a week’s hiatus?

I mean, it’s possible that the identity of the engineer isn’t restricted if there are no gnosia aboard, but the instant test result seems a lot more sketchy. Unless Levi is infected or otherwise problematic in the loops where gnosia are present, and this is how things are supposed to work. (Or maybe it’s a genuine writer-screw-up plothole.)

So it’s now been confirmed that there is something really wrong with Kaya-chan herself, not just with the unborn baby.

My question now is, how thoroughly does one of the Yuris have to be destroyed in order to prevent the universe from collapsing? Is erasure-by-gnosia the only acceptable method, or would it be sufficient, say, for bug-Yuri to throw themself into a sun before real-Yuri wakes from the healing pod?

It almost became my Christmas rewatch this year, but in the end I decided I needed something with a stronger adventure/action vibe to distract me from the world we’re now living in. 🫤

Yeah. It’s pretty much a half-assed attempt to grab onto the coattails of the much better Madoka Magica.

I think it’s just a one-shot special, set to air a couple of months from now.

Trigun Stargaze - still more or less following the original story, so now we’re moving into Legato and the Gung-ho Guns (though I don’t think that name has been used for them, and I assume at least the cheesier ones from the original aren’t going to appear in this more serious reboot).

Most of the Gung-Ho Guns in the first anime were taken from the Trigun and Trigun Maximum manga (the exceptions were Caine the Longshot, who was a pure anime-original, and Chapel the Evergreen, who had been mentioned but not depicted in the manga at the time, so the anime team created their own character design). So the rest of them—Midvalley, Zazie, and so on—may well show up in the rebooted anime.

Well, we know now why one of the “heroes” has a Japanese name. I’m currently trying to decide whether Tatsuya ended up with the worst isekai experience I’ve ever encountered, or not. (The biggest competition, currently, is the guy who got offed in the first episode of Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road without ever understanding what was going on.)

Nevertheless Racqio could not keep his mouth shut and screwed up by revealing too much to Yuri.

Racqio is both very smart and very impressed by their own intelligence. As such, the writers picked a very in-character way for them to screw up. 😉

Yup, I nailed Saber’s ID. We now have names for 6 of a presumed 13 Heroic Servants,

Looks about the same facially to me. He might be taller, but it’s hard to tell when they’re only showing him from the hips up.

Thing is, if Yuri says outright that one of the humans aboard is (in effect) a pathological liar, Yuri will probably be accused of being a gnosia making an inept attempt to sow dissent. It might not even be the ACF making that accusation, because it’s such an outlandish thing to say. If Yuri is voted out, then they’ve failed Yuriko’s test.

As for Kukrushka, if she really is the Guardian Angel (there’s nothing that says she isn’t the ACF and lying about the other, technically), she might have chosen to protect Jonas on the first round, due to emotional attachment or something—we still don’t know what’s going on with those two.

Maybe it’s just confirmation bias on my part, but it just seems like these kinds of shows are more likely to actively receive bad reviews than be ignored, which is what happens to most of the stuff that I would judge as truly bad. Compare, for instance, Hell Mode, an utterly cliched isekai that’s also currently running and which I would say was more deserving of bad reviews, because its creator wouldn’t recognize an original idea if it bit them—not one word’s been said about it. Even Beheneko, which was an unapologetic brainless boobfest held together by a thin surface skin of plot, didn’t draw as many bad reviews here as Sentenced to be a Hero.

Upon reflection, the answer might simply be that the people who are giving this one bad reviews watch a lot less trash than I do and therefore have a differently calibrated evaluation scale.