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2.5 Dimensional Seduction is a story of 2 degen otaku, they don't know what the hell they are doing, but they love the same (fictional) Jump character. One loves only a 2D woman, and the other wants to cosplay as that 2D woman.

Lilliel, Lilliel is eternal.
LILLIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL

Maybe loving Lilliel a little too much, I mean seriously, what an odd situation to end up stripping in front of people just cause of shared otakuism.

But it is that connection which snowballs into a great interpersonal journey, not just for themselves, but also for the people they meet, because certainly there is some joy newcomers bring ... to a field some may be jaded by from their own experience.

Did I mention this is a shonen? Yeah this is a weird rom com cosplay battle shonen.

This is not a story about "will he, will she".
This is a story about how Ririsa handles her time trying to share her formerly lonely love of her favorite character with others. And how Okumura can come out of his shell to aid his new friend in sharing that same love. Maybe they'll fall in love, but for the time being, they're both a bit too stupid for that. After all, the world of cosplay is just so expansive!!! Making photos is fun!

But also this series is surprisingly adult. Some real nuggets of wisdom for introspection from some of the adult characters. Hey, an otaku fantasy, people supportive of their hobbies haha. But seriously, after the first "major battle", what 2.5D Seduction had to say about the aftermath made me know this was something special.

The manga is an interesting thing because there's bonus chapters added in the physical release that are great character moments/interactions you won't find in the web version. And so it comes into question how much the anime actually would cover, and well, select bonus chapters were adapted so this is a pretty nice feeling of seeing some of the more fun interactions in animation for certain characters.

The show is so pretty. The show can't obviously measure up to the great faces Yu Hashimoto draws in the dramatic moments, but everything else is so good, and the anime original expressions are pretty great too. The production value is amazing. This show premiered late eps in its early screenings.
And original additions like original animation for the series Okumura and Ririsa love, Ashford Chronicle, just raises the enjoyment level so hard. They cooked at JC Staff.

The voice acting is so good, and of course, the big standout is Junya Enoki, who plays Okumura. The man can yell. Everyone is so good of course, like MAO as Mayura. The cast has grown a pretty good amount since then and well, it's all so good.

The OPs and EDs are STELLAR. 1st OP and 2nd ED focused on photos, and 2nd OP and 1st ed focused on fun character interactions. They cooked, they are feast for manga reader eyes and ears.

2.5 Dimensional Seduction is a great adaptation of one of the best ongoing manga out there. Which is why it's a real shame there's like most negative reviews talking about JC Staff "censors", people talking up the "whole point of the manga" when it's clear they haven't read much of anything. Not every series is Dress Up Darling just cause of a shared cosplay premise or even because there's some ecchi in it.

And that's like on top of details we've gotten from the mangaka himself on Twitter about details of this series creation. The 2-3 volume schlock project that turned into something else by a challenge from his editor to leave the clubroom. As the series itself is toned down anyways afterwards. It's all very fascinating stuff released each week, the mangaka musing about back when those moments were made.

The anime adaptation of 2.5 Dimensional Seduction comes off, as a product of love, but also how Yu Hashimoto would do it if he could do it again with the series as it is now. We are heading to the whole reason this show is 24 eps right now and well episode 16 is the encapsulation of everything one comes for this series for, pure otaku love.

Cause 2.5 Dimensional Seduction is about love, and to love things with full force.

Puniru is a Kawaii Slime is a lot of things. It's Corocoro Magazine's first romantic comedy. It's an original ip. It has a very classic gag and even classic magical girl feel. It's like if Urusei Yatsura mixed with Toy Story, much like how one makes slime in the show and on youtube, borax and starch, what a weird end creation!

Most of all it's just a fantastic adaptation of a very fun manga.

Most people know Corocoro for old school Pokemon leaks, for Pokémon Adventure, or maybe Beyblade manga, or even now Cardfight Vanguard. We RARELY see the original gems leave the pages internationally. ...

Yet here we are, an anime with great production value streaming with english subs!!!

A boy trying to phase out his toy, one part because yes indeed, she's a slime and he's trying to grow out of it. One part because shes taken the form of a cute girl, and oh is he getting at that age. And another because of society expectations of him, because he just can't get himself to call Puniru cute anymore, guys aren't supposed to like cute things!!!!

But Puniru is not having any of that, because Puniru loves Kotaro very much. In her own special slime way, but still loves him very much. But not as much as she loves melon soda floats! And transforming! She really loves turning herself into new forms in hopes Kotaro will call her cute, and maybe aid in helping him out. Will it work? Hopefully one day!

And unfortunately(fortunately?), they are not alone in their weirdness.

This anime adaptation really uplifts the already great gags of the manga. I will not spoil but like, episode 1, some weight was added to really sell some impact on a certain juvenile gag. And then episode 2, just went kinda sicko mode with one of the characters I'm not sure which expression I prefer, the manga or the animes.

Remember how I said how it has a old school feel? Well the anime decided to add on top of it by giving Puniru a magical girl transformation for her form changes. This season there are a few magical girl series, but nowhere will you find a magical girl quite like Puniru unless you turn the clock REALLY back.

Cannot be understated how crazy the anime has made it that Puniru herself has taken over the anime. She sings the opening. The ed is her singing an Ado song. Opening to Ending, you cannot escape her.

It's all just so so fun. It's slimy, and most importantly, it's cute.

Toys are just the best.

Sleeper anime of the season to be honest. #PuniruSweep

The Isekai genre runs on the idea of on ordinary person who is sent to an extraordinary world far beyond their imagination. Well screw that! What if someone went to another world whos weird even to the world itself!

The perversion of modern isekai with the pure sincerity of tokusatsu heroism, that is The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer In Another World. And nothign symbolizes this more than our two main leads.

Idora Arvlon, one of her many fan translation names, is a busty mega cleavage mage who has no money to hire a A list hero for her cause.

Togo Asagaki is a sentai red ... taken to the maximum and comedic degree. He his bonds personified. Kizu, both wounds and bonds, his transformation device is designed like a band-aid. He is the perfect pure hearted and burning with the ideals to inspire children on tv.
The two are a mismatch of worlds. But they are also someone the other needs.

There are two others who join the party, however. The core of the series really is represented by these two.

The narrative is a love letter to tokusatsu and hobbies. Something maybe this fantasy world needs a bit more of.
It's just so good how they mesh two word that are fantastical on their own into something even more fantastical.

It's funny, heartwarming, sometimes horny, but most importantly genuine. This isn't using sentai for some dark twist. This is a fun twist for both genres that allows the author to express their love for our TV heroes.

Bonds. Bonds are beautiful. They are important. They are power. Feel it. KIZUNA!!!!!

The first Shadowverse anime is pretty amazing to think about. A kids show coming out from this franchise that was just a mobile game and with some "lore" that comes with being a Cygames property. Mobile Shadowverse is not a card game story. And so a kids anime gets announced and it makes sense there'd be some pushback.

However, now the show is finished, and the people who malded about the show and those who spun their irony poisoned are no longer around. How is the Shadowverse anime actually?

I'd say, the first Shadowverse anime is a pretty fun show, especially among its card game brethren. And ... I'm saying this even though this shows plot feels like its script went through several hands. But yet, it is definitely a show worth watching.

Hiro is a very fun main character. Headstrong and stubborn. He is the genki energy this story needed amongst this mostly down the earth story with a rival like Luca who brings cold cynicism to the game. Shadowverse is fun, after all. That is, until the plot isnt grounded anymore, and the writers don't know how to handle Hiro anymore.

We technically have 7 main characters. However, only 3 are utilized the best. And thankfully they are the MC and Rivals, Hiro, Luca and Mauro. However, what Shadowverse tries to do until it can't anymore is very good. An ensemble cast with threads that continue throughout the show. Alice and Mimori who want each others lives. Kai is a basic "genius learns to leave things to chance" and honestly Kazuki is the biggest missed potential cast member because hes Hiros best friend. They dont do anything with him until the shows almost over, and its was a cool idea they brought up we could have gotten severla episodes about.

Shadowverse Flame is currently ending, and it's very funny to say the villain of the first series is still the best. The first Shadowverse anime may try and stumble with various plot threads that get resolved prematurely because of a save the world plot, however the story of Hiro and his rivals, and the eventual villain is like, VERY good.

How this anime handles its rivals, both born out of some ugliness of the world, is standout. You cannot find this in any other show, forget card game show, its legit insane how much they nail those points while the plot switches gears like 3 times in what the goal is. Especially when all 3 points themselves could have been their whole show.

Like, one of the plots was a card game Willy Wonka. The winner gets to own the company???? Is that not an interesting thing to think about, the battle of wishes for that type of power. But then they throw something at you and the trajectory goes somewhere else.

This show is so fascinating. Anyone hating it to hate is just wrong, sorry. This is one of the best card game anime out there, especially during the year this ended and Cardfight Vanguard Overdress came out. And oh boy, Overdress.... But, thats for another review

Battle Spirits Heroes is the first show where's its outright a sports anime. And that's really cool. Also the trope conventions you expect from Battle Spirits are broken here too, and it make Heroes a very interesting entry.

With Hajime wanting to become the champion, we are taken on a very fun, comedic, and technical journey. Ever had a card game anime actually go through sequencing with you? Neither have I till this show. With the introduction of Burst as a mechanic, it makes sense. Yet also kind of funny cause Heroes is silly and much more trying to appeal to kids.

There's a great cast, ... but ultimately besides Hajime, I want to talk about Tegamaru, the rival who is the first to play the same color as the MC. He is Vegeta done right, it's kind of insane.

I really enjoyed Heroes, it's a nice relaxing time after going through the Dan Saga. We should have more sports themed hobbyani shows in general

Now THIS is a series celebration. THIS is how you service fans. What was here was small and could have been longer, yet it was still so plentiful. Battle Spirits Saga Brave is everything a Dan Saga fan could ever want after the ending of Battle Spirits Brave. It's perfect.

Dan doing cool stuff, fanservice for both Gekiha Dan and Brave. Seeing how characters are doing after the series ended. Bashin Dan vs nazis, what a concept.

Gorgeous. Just gorgeous 3 episodes.

If this is all we ever get from this world and era, then I'm somewhat OK with that. It's kind of amusing how ... it ended but considering for a while now Dan is just a guy involved in the booster pack story now. It's alright.

Battle Spirits Brave, the second half of the Dan Saga and by all means an honorary mecha anime and one of the best card game anime of all time.
Card games, but with a real robot plot, and a super robot inspired card game mechanics and a damaged main character who wants a thrilling battle because yeah, maybe this bearer of cores light business wouldn't make one go easily back to being a normal person.

Dan is the man, and he's fighting in the future for peace once more, regardless of what either side thinks and it's great.

It seems to some degree the writers ... had to hold back on the setting, however they get it across very hard: Bashin Dan will end racism

You are ever free

Isekai is a great genre when it isn't simply escapism. And Battle Spirits Shounen Gekiha Dan is a great example of what good isekai is. And what's even crazier is that this is only one half of a story.

6 chosen bearers of the cores light are taken to Grand Lolo to save it. Wait sorry, I mean 1. The other 5 are too busy enjoying themselves. And that's just peachy, what Bashin Dan is faced with. 1 boy vs a colonized world. A battle to free it. Through card games of course. And a sick Jam Project op.

This is such a cool show.
And ... then we get Brave.....

Battle Spirits Shounen Toppa Bashin is a very cute show, I'd say it's card game Medabots. Like there's this very down to earth element among the sheer supernatural of it all. And also it's a very good looking show with the Miho Shimogasa designs. What a way to be a first entry to a kids anime franchise.

Watching Bashin and his friends grow in their school lives as they just try to become the top card battlers, it's such a great vibe on top of the supernatural element with the talking animals with pyroxenes and the weird people they have to battle to get X ... rares.

In some ways it does show its age though with the 3d models of the spirits specifically. I have no problem with the fact they don't explain the rules. It's very interesting to see how people read those elements as a negative when from the amount of shows that have done it, it certainly has its benefits, and by all means feels like they all try to grab what it was like to watch Yugioh.

Anyways great show, with a great cast. The twist and turns of this series echo into the franchises tropes for many entries to come.
Battle Spirits is cool. Go ahead!

Battle Spirits Burning Soul is weird. Sengoku card games? Yay! A sports theme again? Yay! Hot blooded battles? Yay!

Well, except they forgot how to write characters . And it's very bizarre. I cannot tell you anything about most of the characters cause Burning Soul is too busy doing battles instead of storytelling for most of its run. Also while more on model then the previous entry, it looks extremely stale most of the time,

It's kind of crazy the mechanic that Battle Spirits can't go without to this day, the Soul Core , comes from a show like this.

There's some great stuff certain side characters ... get, but also those side characters aren't the prominent side characters. Oh no, the side characters you see 80% of the time are dull and they do nothing with them. It's unreal. One of them is voiced by Sugita! Why is he boring!?!? Sunrise, you have him delivering amazing stuff with Gintama and yet ?????

Burning Soul is the show of all time

Except for the ep where they did the crossover with the first show, that was pretty cool, even was more animated fett like than most of the show cause Bashin is a more cartoony guy