Karen's Anime Blog

Watching television can be fun, but it sure does take time– time that you likely no longer have in the fast-paced world of today. Instead of laboriously tracking the output of the frighteningly prolific island nation known as Japan, we now provide this exquisitely-curated service to give you the main idea of everything remotely important that happened in the programs called “anime” this week. Now you can spend all that extra time eating Doritos, praying to Madokami, or going on a food tour of Greenland.

1. Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show had a shockingly decent episode.

2. Teenaged karaoke tutor to a yakuza freaks out at an unexpected Dragonball Z reference; oh and the yakuza dude gets his car crashed and might be in a coma, should probably mention that.

3. Shifty-looking butler dude turns out to be no good; a diner cook nearly incinerates the highest court in the land in defense of his surrogate daughter. It turns out ok though, since the girl inherits a library full of cool books.

4. Two blondes have a fairly involved conversation about one’s true nature while supporting themselves precariously on the side of a cliff wall; they eventually do fall, yet survive because a bush saved them. Go berry bush!

5. A Beast Lord drinks the strange human invention “coffee” for the first time; decides humanity as a species is definitely worth keeping around for a while longer. Ok not really, but he should have.

6. Yamamoto and Wada manage to make up and save their friendship after a fight, only to imperil said friendship by buying each other the world’s ugliest bathing suits.

7. Renako can’t figure out why all the hottest girls in school are drawn to her. Maybe she should consider that it could be because of her shiny, vibrant, bubblegum-pink hair?

8. Kaoruko admits that she loves Rintarou…in episode six of Fragrant Flower. What? Wasn’t she made aware of the rules that she had to wait at least 60 more episodes for that?

9. In other romantic news, a butterfly grew out of Moi’s head and proved that he may someday overpower the Curse of Perpetual Friendzone.

10. THE GIRLS HAVE FOUND THE SAPPHIRE DEPOSIT! THE GIRLS HAVE FOUND THE SAPPHIRES!

11. Renji’s genius disguise is blown when the new girl takes his sunglasses off. Now his little sister knows that he’s been kind-of-sort-of dating her best friend! Audience shocked that this flimsy disguise didn’t last until the penultimate episode of the season.

12. Gaku’s potato-and-meat stew didn’t wow the kitchen staff at his restaurant, so he tried making a staff meal of meat and potatoes again, but this time made it more “cosmopolitan.” In lieu of nothing, his boss is a giant douchebag.

13. Dan Da Dan went totally metal in two different languages, and people who have read the manga died and went to heaven.