Spring Anime 2019 Preview: One Punch Ultra Titan!

Hello everyone! This is my preview for the upcoming Spring anime 2019 which begin this April! (Some of the series synopsis are taken from other sources)

Kenja no Mago: Shin was reincarnated into the grandson of the most powerful wizard in the land. With amazing talents in magic, Shin will begin his adventures as the strongest wizard!

Isekai Quartet: A fun and cute crossover series featuring the cast of Overlord, Konosuba, Youjou Senki and Re: Zero!

Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai: Watch Yuiga Nariyuki tutors 3 different girls who are genius in one subject field but failed in another or more field!

Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!?: A cute and ecchi comedy about 4 boys who has the worst luck with their hated teachers but always end up together in all sort of embarrassing situations!

Kimetsu no Yaiba: Tanjiro's family was murdered by a mysterious vampirc demon and his sister, Nezuko has been turned into one. However she was able to retain her humanity and a demon slayer instructed Tanjiro to become a demon slayer himself in order to slay the demon and undo his sister's curse.

Fruits Basket 2019: A remake of the popular 90s shoujo manga/anime series. Tohru Honda lost her mother recently and she pitched a tent next to the Sohma residence. Honda also discovered the Sohma has a family curse and got involved in it...

Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai: Ao has a terrible childhood since her Erotic author father name her Ao claiming A is for Apple and O is for Orgy. Years later, Ao who has little interactions with boys was confessed by her male classmate, Kijima and her mind started wander all sort of erotic thoughts...

Fairy Gone: A war between fairies and humans has ended but the government created Dorothea in order to investigate the remnants of the fairies who hide in the shadows...

Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san: Nakano, a salaryman working for an exploitative company, is suddenly intruded upon by Senko-san, a 800 year old Fox spirit who promise to take care of him physically and mentally!

Nobunaga-sensei no Osanazuma: Nobunaga is a middle school teacher when a young girl named Kichou who is supposedly the real life wife of Oda Nobunaga appeared through a time slip and want to mate the present Nobunga in this romantic comedy!

Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO: Based on the 90s adult PC game of the same name, it tells the story of Takuya who discovered a device that his missing father left behind which enable him to travel to alternative dimensions!

Gunjou no Magmel: A mysterious island appeared in the middle of the Pacific ocean and now every superpowers is competing to discover the secret of the Island!

Carole and Tuesday: Mankind has made Mars a living colony. Two complete strangers, Carole and Tuesday meet by fate and learn they want to play music together!

Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine: Girls and Baseball, nuff said!

Han-Gyaku-sei Million Arthur S2: 2nd Season of the wacky adventures of our 6 warriors who has to destroy the Million of fake Excalibur in order to get back home!

Laidbackers: Kumi moved into her grandmother's dagashi shop and met 3 people who claimed to be reincarnations of heroes who are after the demon king in present time and true enough, the demon king existed inside a little girl!

Cannon Busters: S.A.M, a friendly droid and his fellow allies goes on an adventure to save S.A.M's friend who is a heir of a fallen kingdom!

Strike Witches: 501-butai Hasshin Shimasu: Watch as the 501 squadron aka Strike Witches carry on their everyday lives while they are not battling Neuroi!

Chou Kadou Girl ⅙: Amazing Stranger: Haruto bought a 1/6 female action figure named Nona who suddenly came to life and begin the everyday life between Haruto and Nona!

Attack on Titans S3: The 2nd half of Season 3 continue!

One Punch Man S2: The continuing adventures of Saitama who is unknowingly is the strongest hero as new allies and enemies appear in the new season!

ULTRAMAN: Years ago, Ultraman came to Earth to defend from aliens invaders and monsters. After Ultraman separate from his human host Hayata and returned to the stars, Hayata started a family and has a son, Shinjiro. It was then both father and son inherited the Ultra genes which gave them superpowers and now new threats has appeared on Earth again!

From the title of this post, you know that I am anticipating these few titles but mostly Ultraman since he is one of my childhood hero and I did a review of the first volume of the manga on this blog before. Anyway, I hope that Ultraman will be good and seeing it is only getting 13 episode, I am guessing the story will probably end with the Ace Suit Arc. (The manga got better after that with the aliens went full invasion in New York and show all the main characters at their best)

One Punch Man was an absolute blast in the first season and hopefully it continue since we are getting the Gauro Arc in the second season which showed a pretty bad ass Gauro who started off as a hero killer but later become an anti hero of sort.

Kenja no Mago, Isekai Quartet, Nande Koko ni Sensei ga and Kimetsu no Yaiba are also shows that I am looking for to. Until then, see you in April for the new shows!

SSSS Gridman Ep 2: It's always the Nice Ones!

Hi everyone! Let's continue the second episode of Gridman!

Yuta, Utsumi and Rika asked their classmates about yesterday's battle. But no one seemed to remember anything. Worse still, the trio noticed some of their classmates are missing and the remaining classmates does not remember having such classmates!

Look like Akane is a big fan of monsters from the Ultra Series...

Later Akane overheard Yuta mentioned Gridman and seem interested. She bumped to her homeroom teacher who didn't apologise to her. It was later revealed that Akane is the monster maker and is in cahoots with the Big Bad-Alexis.

The trio went to Rika's cafe and the man in black appeared who introduced himself as Samurai Calibur. He optimize Junk and Gridman was now able to communicate with everyone from the monitor.

The trio decided to find out more about the missing classmates and went to their homes. They were shocked to find their classmates were dead since middle school which freaked Rika since she interacted with them yesterday.

Rika also seemed to have issues with Yuta which Samurai Calibur told her she need to make the first move to communicate. Akane then created a new monster and planned to murder her homeroom teacher with it.

Clearly, this is from Ultraman but then Gridman did the same thing whenever he transform in the original series and it was Awesome!

The monster appeared and tried to kill the teacher. Yuta asked Gridman to aid him and he was given his henshin device-The Primal Acceptor and Yuta called out "Access Flash" to become Gridman (In Full power and primary colors!)

Gridman tried to finish off the monster with Gridbeam but Akane has countered it with a reflector that damaged Gridman. Rika asked Samurai Calibur to help Gridman and he too entered the monitor and become a giant sword for Gridman.

Gridman finished off the monster with the finisher-Grid End and saved the city. Although everything went back to normal, Yuta has doubts if defeating the monster will make any difference...

We got a reveal pretty early that Akane is the monster maker and it now make sense why she is in cahoots with Alexis. Akane is really a total psycho. Remember in the first episode that her offering of bread to Yuta was ruined by the volleyball players playing in the room and they were apparently killed by the monster's blasts?

It make perfectly sense that Akane want revenge on the girls and in this episode, she went way overkill trying to murder her teacher after he failed to apologise to her.

It also pay homage to the original live action series and Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad where the human villains-Takeshi and Malcom (respectively) were bullied at school and created monsters to take revenge against society.

We also learn more that Gridman and Samurai Calibur are allies and they have yet to explain further to Yuta and his friends the real threat in the city. Furthermore, no one has yet to explain why everything was back to status quo after a big monster battle. It is also creepy that the volleyball players were already dead long before and the trio were interacting them a day before. (This is going into X-Files territory. But then, Ultraman Nexus also did something similar with the whole cover-up matter)

Of course, Gridman was in full strength which explained why he has running in purple stripes in the last episode. But this episode looked similar to the live action series where Gridman used a sword and shield to defeat a similar monster. Only this time, Samurai Calibur is the sword itself and it is pretty bad-ass for the finisher!

Looking at the intro, we can tell that the remaining men in black will become weapons for Gridman in future episodes and one of them look similar to Akane. The outro also showed Rika and Akane in middle school uniform which might have some deep meaning between the two of them.

Overall, a great second episode! What will happen next as Akane will try to probe more about Gridman and what secrets does this world and Gridman have in common? Until then, see you in the next post!

SSSS.Gridman Ep 1 Review: Old Computers are Scary!

Hi everyone! After watching the first episode of SSSS.Gridman, I am pretty interested what will happen next, so this is my review of the first episode!

It started off with Hibiki Yuta who woke up in his classmate, Rikka's home and he has no idea how he got here and worse still, has amnesia. Yuta heard a voice calling out in an old computer in Rikka's home and a robot like humanoid spoke to Yuta introducing himself as Hyper Agent Gridman and Yuta has a mission to fulfill.

Rikka thought that Yuta is imagining things and even took him to the hospital. Along the way, Yuta claimed a giant Kaiju is in the sky which again, only he is able to see it. Although Rikka was not hostile to him, we could tell that her and Yuta has some issues before his memory loss.

The next day, Yuta met his supposely friend, Utsumi and accompanied him to school. Although regular school hijinks occured like the popular girl in class, Akane offered him her hot dog bun which was squished by the sport girl, Tonkawa. Meanwhile, a mysterious person was creating a statue and a sinister figure was taunting in a monitor.

Yuta and Utsumi went to Rikka's home and after showing the old computer (known as Junk), Gridman appeared and told Yuta the "danger" has appeared. Indeed, a Kaiju appeared and started wrecking the city.

Yuta asked Gridman what can he do and he was pulled into the monitor. Suddenly Gridman appeared in the real world and started battling the Kaiju. Utsumi and Rikka could hear Yuta's voice from Junk and realised that Yuta has become Gridman.

Gridman was losing energy and they could see the school is on fire. Rikka tried to communicate with Yuta/Gridman by typing in the keyboard and Gridman regained his strength. Utsumi suggested that the Kaiju's neck might be his weakness and Gridman decapitate the head.

Gridman then finish off the Kaiju with his special attack-Grid Beam. Yuta returned back as Utsumi was fanboying while Rikka was overwhelmed what has happened. As Yuta and Utsumi returned home, a mysterious man in black was watching the burning school.

The next day, the three of them found out that the school was reverted back to normal...

What I think of the first episode? It started off a bit slow like a regular slice of life show but it kinda of set the tone of what is about to come. The first half is basically introducing the characters and how their lives are peaceful although Yuta noticed something was wrong after his memory loss.

Everyone around him thought that Yuta was crazy but didn't avoid him and tried to help him. But when the Kaiju appeared, the three teens realised their world got turned upside down! There is still some questions left in the first episode like who is the Kaiju maker and the supposedly big bad-Alexis Kerib who gave life to the Kaiju. (Although in the original is Kahn Digifer aka Kilokahn)

Why does Rikka has an old computer that looked similar to the original JUNK computer from the live action series? The mysterious man in black which only Yuta could see and was at the site of the burning school. (Why did Utsumi mentioned the Ultra Series which is a reference to the Ultraman Series? Is he secretly a fanboy of Toku?)

Although instead of battling Kaiju in the digital world like the original series, the battles now take place in the real world which is basically the worst case scenario from the original series and somehow, it does feel like Pacific Rim when the Kaiju appeared to wreck the city.

Even Gridman himself also move like a giant but he was pretty awesome in his debut battle. (Although we will have to wait for Gridman to get his primary colors skin since his current purple skin looked pretty lame)

Overall, the first half was slow paced but once Gridman appeared, it was pretty fun and I can't wait to see more of what happened. (Although did Tonkawa died by the Kaiju's attack when it's projectiles hit the school?) We have to wait another week to see what happen next! If you want me to carry reviewing Gridman, show your support in the blog! Until then, see you in the next post!