7th Time Loop: A feminist story about how women don't need men and should forsake marriage for lots of exciting different jobs. After seven lifetimes she's never once had a romance but just piled up job after job. Now a prince has proposed to her but obviously even a prince isn't good enough for her, as she'd prefer yet another job in this 7th lifetime of hers, so I expect next episode she'll turn him down too. After all, jobs are so very, very fun. Fail.
Oroka Tenshi: I gave up within the first three minutes. Fail.
It's Time for Torture, Princess: The only people being tortured are the audience. Fail.
Akuyaku Reijou 99: A generic villainess story we've heard a million times before. Also a feminist story that insists there's no appeal in romance and girls should develop their job skills and education instead. Fail.
Gekai Elise: A ripoff of Tearmoon Empire except this time the girl had a life on Earth as a surgeon before returning to her childhood empress self. Supposedly she was this godlike surgeon who could save thousands of lives but she still prioritized a random stranger over herself when they both had fatal injuries and thus died when she could have saved herself and let the stranger die, and then saved thousands of additional lives later with her godlike surgeon skills. She clearly doesn't have a good grasp of math or utilitarianism. Most of all I hate doctors because they created Covid-19, the lockdowns, the mask mandates, and the fatal vaccines which are now estimated to have killed 17 million people (and counting). After all these incompetent mistakes or malicious acts of pure evil (I can't see into their hearts so I don't know which), they then refused to apologize and admit they were wrong about any of the things they did, and continue to insist that all power and money in the country should be handed over to them and they should be able to micromanage everyone's lives and even the DNA of everyone's bodies. I don't want to watch any anime that glorifies doctors. Fail.
Metallic Rouge: In the far future people will be living on Mars alongside fully sentient robots, but everything will still be poor, crime-ridden and awful. Working conditions will suck, everyone will be drinking, smoking and on drugs, crime rings run everything from the shadows, etc. If this is the future I don't want it. Fail.
Sengoku Youko: This appears to be a mix between a comedy and action series, where a Youko goes around Sengoku period Japan and makes jokes while fighting malign spirits and bandits. The problem is the jokes aren't funny and the action is 'monster of the week' type meaningless. There is no prospect that after winning a fight the world will actually improve or change direction. It's just fighting and joking forever. Fail.
Majo to Yajuu: A hard-boiled slightly faggoty smoker carrying around a coffin accompanies a girl who's actually a boy inside the coffin and they go around killing witches who do atrocities for fun. I don't like any of the characters, actually I detest them all, so. . . Fail.
Saijaku Tamer: Another slime tamer, another isekai reincarnation, how could this show be any good? Well, by taking the entire episode to monologue the young girl's stream of consciousness, which characterized her pitiful situation and strength of will and steadiness of mind to navigate it better than any first ep anywhere. The monologue was accompanied by beautiful art and animation that looked more like a movie than a tv series. The music was also swell. Far from another lame disposable copycat story, this might actually be a great anime. Pass.
Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern: A traditional mecha anime with the slight difference that the enemy is alien invaders and there's only one cool mech in the world to fight the invasion off with. Actually reminiscent of Kuromukuro. The art and animation are high quality enough to make the action pop. I'm not sure how long pure action sequences can keep the story alive, but it's fine for a first episode. Pass.
Buchhigiri: An unbelievably delinquent school in Japan starts bullying this normal looking guy. However, he fuses with an annoying genie and becomes a master martial artist and beats the bullies up. That's as good an ending point as any for this show. Fail.
Meiji Gekken: Another story about the upheaval surrounding the rise of the Meiji Restoration. It has a lot of similarities to Kenshin but also a lot of differences, making it a worthwhile watch. I like all history-based stories. There should be more of them. Pass.
Here's the good anime that's currently airing this season and is worth at least a try, in the order of how exciting each episode is week to week (not in the order of how good the series is overall, which would favor older/longer series too much):
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