AoT - #30-31
It was nice to see this animated and it did look and flow much better than in the manga, but that's it.
Granblue #1-3
This is pretty boring so far, but I don't think I can say no to a show where a character voiced by Sawashiro's in charge.
Tsugumomo #5
Show's a bit too anime, seriously. The character archetypes, situations and blantant fanservice scenes are generic as hell. It probably does sound hypocricital coming from a Monogatari fan, but it looks like whoever wrote this read Nise and decided to make a show that's all about a prude uke kid engaging in constant skinship scenes with notShinobu, coupled with stand of the week encounters...
Alice & Zoroku - #5
Pretty weird episode with how the evil organization basically got wiped out offscreen for some reason. The magical battles aren't really interesting and are basically full of random abilities and constant asspulls because the cards' abilities are always so vague... I think it'd have been much more fun and interesting if the story banked more on the SoL aspects rather than shoving all this senseless and pretty much irrelevant action scenes down our throats.
I mean, maybe it could've gone the way of wacky battles like some of the ones in JoJo and still been okay, but going for a really serious and LN-ish tone (with regards to how abilities remain unexplained so the writers can basically pull off whatever nonsense they want) feels like quite the mismatch with the SoL elements of a little girl finding a place for her in the world thanks to a kind grandpa. Even Tachibana was somewhat interesting in that her powers awoke due to how she longed for her late husband's embrace, but in the end Sana's confrontation with her was generic as hell, and the resolution was equally dumb (I hate it when fights boil down to both parties revealing their ace-in-the-hole abilities to turn the tables around for the win, and whoever reveals theirs last wins).
Also, what the heck was up with the agent girl getting the ability to use Gate of Babylon because she happened to fall asleep while watching a magical witch anime?! I think even keeping her origin story a secret would've been better than randomly throwing that in during her fight against Tachibana when doing so didn't amount to anything, narrative-wise.
Seriously, I still can't believe someone would write a mysterious organization that'd get defeated within five freaking episodes, and even worse was that Sana's battle appeared to be absolutely unrelated to the bad guys being all taken into custody, making it even more puzzling that they didn't do that earlier to begin with since it didn't seem like they were actually waiting for the scientific group to make some illegal move before getting the required authorization to hunt them down, but more like it happened to be a happy coincidence that such a thing happened at the exact same time Sana was rescued. It might've made more sense if Tachibana was the leader or something, but it certainly didn't seem that way, so there's a huge disconnect there IMO.
I really wanted him to perform, maybe next time.
