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As a true ecchi fan I didn't really bat an eyelash when this came up on my random spins for the week of anime I was watching.

While it does earn it's rating as the girls do expose their breasts in the earlier episodes it quickly moves away from that into a show about combat.

The premise of this show is sort of what if the cast of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure were all women and were a harem that fawned over a male protagonist. Said male protagonist doesn't have much dialogue, instead electing to scream at the top of his lungs most of the time. When he ... does speak, the words usually involve a variant of "I'm a man." This truly groundbreaking commentary is usually followed by some Tom & Jerry antics.

I had to turn my brain off during the first episode as the male protagonist, Inukai spends the great majority of it screaming while a super repetitive piece of music plays, which I believe to be his theme. There's not many tracks at all for this show either. Maybe two or three. And the sound design is awful. I was about to drop it after the first episode, but what really sold me on watching this show was that the guy transformed into a mech and shot laser beams out of his nipples while screaming MANLY ATTACK. I knew at that moment that this show was going to be so bad it would be good, and it did not disappoint.

I would encourage anyone that watches this show to pay top dollar for it. Send a pile of cash and a thank you note to A.C.G.T for blessing the human race with this masterpiece.

Recap episodes for 12 episode series are the devil.

I always think maybe they'll reveal some new content at the end of the episode or something, but am always let down. This show is no exception.

This is unfortunate because Studio NUT (cuz you really have to put emphasis on that) was actually providing an enjoyable show for their first outing.

Episodes like these really add nothing to the discussion because it's just scenes from previous episodes stapled together into an unholy abomination. Maybe it's just an allusion towards Frankenstein's monster that these episodes are paying tribute to. I'm just kidding, they're not that deep, they're just a ... time saving move for when a studio runs into production troubles so that they can get back on track on a release schedule.

The show, however, is a pretty good watch, but this special is nonsense.

I'll never be a fan of recap episodes. When I was first exposed to them back in the 1990's while cutting my teeth on anime I didn't even like them.

These episodes are ground zero for insulting the intelligence of the audience and the studio being flat out lazy.

So when I saw that Shaft was releasing this in lieu of putting an actual episode out my heart sank. March Comes in like a Lion is a show I consider to be really good, and this recap garbage is coming off the heels of episode 11, which was legendary. I guess after a high the show had ... to hit a low.

There's really nothing to see here if a viewer has trekked through the first 11 episodes. And that's the problem with these episodes. They're stock footage just placed in the interim of a season to waste everyone's time. Literally, it's just scenes from previous episodes stitched together into some chimera, an unholy abomination that makes me think that Frankenstein's monster was not the worst transgression against the human race.

They're just Lovecraftian horrors that creep into normal shows to drive the average viewer insane.

I am worse off as a person for having viewed this, and my mental health will not soon recover.

I didn't really want to watch Keijo at the beginning of the Fall 2016 season. It looked dumb.

And that's really what Keijo has going for it. It is dumb. It is the stupidest idea I have ever heard. Girls have to compete only using their breasts and butts to attack other competitors. Nobody can tell me that that isn't the dumbest thing.

Keijo is everything that is wrong with anime. And it is parody gold at its finest. I'm not going to claim that this was the author's intent or that he's a genius for making this show. I couldn't care less what he thinks. The ... show is played so painfully straight that it parodies itself.

And that is why Keijo is such comedy gold. The competitors take this sport seriously. The audience takes it seriously. There are sports announcers covering it play-by-play and there is an instance where an instant replay is used to judge the outcome of the match.

Girls shout out shounen based attacks that are based off video games and anime. Since they use nothing but their breasts and butts in the attacks, it just crescendos into the most lulzworthy moments where characters utilize attacks like the *shoryucans*.

I really would have hated Keijo in any other context. I don't think the studio that picked it up really put that much thought into it either. The artwork suffers from what appears to be some anti-aliasing effect, which for a hand drawn show is just a "da fuq" moment. I'm sure with their vast catalog of ecchi shows they simply saw something with tits and ass and figured, "looks legit and right up our alley."

What they produced, however, was one of the best anime comedies of 2016.

I didn't know what to expect diving into this show, which is probably the best way to dive into any show. I'm eagerly waiting for Final Fantasy XV to drop so I'm watching a few older shows to tide me over before I start binge playing that.

The honest truth is that if you have not hit puberty yet, this show will cause your balls to drop, put hair on your chest. Or if you're a woman your tits will bounce out to C or D cups immediately and it'll make you wet.

Black Lagoon is not a show for children, by the way, so if you ... decided to accelerate your growth by watching it, don't blame me. Also, you will learn a buttload of racist slurs from this show. It probably sets the record for the amount of times "fuck" is said in a series as well.

This show follows Lagoon company, a bunch of mercenaries that follow jobs to earn money. Black Lagoon succeeds in being a hilarious slice of life, and romantic comedy the likes never before seen. It sort of makes wading through a pile of moe trash to witness this (as in biblically witnessing) masterpiece worth it.

Most of the characters in this show are psychotic murderers, which makes them very charming, except the protagonist "Rock" who can talk no jutsu these psychopaths down and live to tell the tell. What a badass.

The only real weakness I found in this show is that there's a certain sequence between two girls that should have been better animated. Come on, it was supposed to be a fistfight, a good opportunity to go into some grade A sakuga and the show failed on that, especially when it's used in other sequences. I was pretty disappoint in that segment of the show, but the rest of it makes up for this wild ride that Black Lagoon takes the audience on.

I wasn't a fan of the reboot of Sailor Moon. Crystal felt like a chore to go through and given that it was broadcast once every other week I dropped it halfway through, then picked it up later and finished it off long after it originally aired. Just about everything was wrong with it.

Season 3 pretty much reverses everything I thought about the reboot. It was actually a treat to watch the show. The first improvement was replacing the opening with something better. I didn't like the opening of Season 1, Moon Pride, because it had silly lyrics like, "we don't need no men to ... solve our problems." I don't think those are completely accurate but I think it's close and dumb. While the openings will never be as good as the original series Moonlight Legend, or Makenai, I don't think there's any way those songs could be topped in the first place, so why even bother trying to compete. The music is also really good. The music is actually really good.

The first thing I noticed is that the animation quality is quite a bit better. While not everything has to be fluid, especially scenes where someone is talking a lot. It does help with action scenes, and that was something that was sorely lacking in season 1.

This show feels like watching a legend being written, and that's because the direction is much better and more coherent. The stakes become really high as Sailor Moon and her coterie try to prevent Master Pharaoh 90 and his devious plots from succeeding. They also have to prevent the awakening of Sailor Saturn, the guardian of destruction, from showing up and bodybagging everybody on both sides.

The only real problem I found with this show is the subcast of the Witches 5. I found their dialogue of talking about levels, like it was an RPG, and the general fact that they were just fodder for Sailor Moon to brutally murder with her love and affection, to be annoying. They were the least developed of any of the villains and I feel just wasted a lot of time.

I wasn't the biggest fan of One Punch Man, so I expected more of the same since the source material comes from the same author.

I was wrong, however. I thoroughly enjoyed this show. It manages to be humorous, well directed, and well animated and just a gorgeous festival of eye candy.

First, the elephant in the room. Mob Psycho 100 has an extremely ugly aesthetic for its artwork. I'm not the biggest fan of it, but after watching several episodes it grew on me.

The true heart of the show lies in the animation and its story. It follows the young Mob and his attempts to become ... more popular while working for his con artist boss Reigen. While he's busy liberating money from suckers, Reigen is still a pretty nice guy and has a good life philosophy of being a pacifist and an "adult". But then the show goes off into hilarious trolling moments of Reigen's "special abilities." I also had quite a bit of respect for the way the show ended in the last episode.

Whereas the artwork isn't the greatest, the animation will go into wonderful sequences utilizing different angles for the camera and fluid movement. It's a real treat to watch.

The opening episode of a show needs to set down the premise and make promises of what is to come further down the line.

What happens in the first episode of Ange Vierge is nothing more than complete and utter fanservice. The show does hold true to this, but I could barely meet it with more than a shrug. There's no actual substance in this show. There was a little glimpse of perhaps some character development in the second episode, but by the third episode that is thrown out the window. Most of the characters have flashbacks about a certain character that never really does anything ... in the show.

By the end the heroes are victorious and we've been shown a lot of shower scenes with naked girls.

But there's no actual substance. It's like eating one of those Little Debbie fruit pies sold in the store. Sure it may look and taste good, but later down the line you're going to get diabetes and have all sorts of health problems from poor choice in nutrition. Maybe one cake won't do it, but repeated eating of them will.

I can't meet anything in this show with anything other than a "meh". This could have been a fairly solid battle show, but it's not got the greatest animation, the music isn't at all inspiring, and there's no real enjoyment to be had here.

91 Days is pretty unorthodox for being an anime series. It bucks some traditional tropes for playing it straight.

We'll get right down to business. The story is pretty traditional fare for a Mafia based story. It's set during Prohibition in the fictional town of Lawless in the United States. It's a traditional revenge based narrative that plays out for the protagonist to kill them all so that there's some "justice" in the world. It's not fancy, but it works.

The art is spot on for 1920s America before blue jeans came into style, everyone was well dressed even when they were going on murderous rampages or ... rioting. You had to be dressed to the 9s for this kinda stuff.

Most of the music I didn't really care for other than the theme song. It was hands down the best opening theme to all of the shows I watched for the Summer 2016 season. The effects are spot on though.

Most of the characters are complete dirtbags but still relatable and likeable. You can understand why they do what they do within the context of the narrative.

There's such a difference in adaptation of material of author Reki Kawahara in Accel World versus Sword Art Online.

I watched Accel World after watching Sword Art Online, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that Sword Art Online gave me cancer. In fact, the World Health Organization should list that show as a carcinogen.

I would have rendered a score of 10 if this show's most glaring flaw wouldn't have happened, which is that there is no proper ending. There's a lot of plot threads that aren't tied up and that's because it abruptly ends after 2 arcs.

This show excels in character development. The characters aren't ... ubermensch that solve all problems. It's quite the opposite. A lot of them are horrible people that have problems of their own that they need to deal with.

The direction is also much better than the other series I mentioned. Instead of incomprehensible battles there are well animated sequences, good transitions, and logical extensions from scene to scene. The humor is also really good.

Hopefully, someday, the rest of this series gets adapted and it's as good as the rest.