There are plenty of romance anime every season, but every once in a while, something comes along that feels genuinely cozy. Hello, I Am a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion! is exactly that kind of series. The Fall 2026 anime season is packed with major releases, yet this fantasy…
There are plenty of romance anime where two characters spend an entire season refusing to admit they like each other. Hello, I Am a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion! takes that familiar setup and gives it a wonderfully ridiculous fantasy twist: the girl is already hopelessly in love with…
There are always a few anime each season that look interesting before they even air, and Hello, I Am a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion! is one of those titles for me. It has the kind of premise that sounds ridiculous when you explain it in one sentence, yet…
There is something wonderfully refreshing about Even Though I’m a Super Timid Noble Girl, I Accepted the Bet From My Cunning Fiancé. On paper, it sounds like another otome isekai where a doomed noble girl wakes up, remembers her tragic future, and immediately decides to outsmart everyone around her. But Pia Rockwell is not that…
There are a lot of villainess manga out there. At this point, you can practically build an entire library around noble ladies discovering that their engagement is doomed, their future is terrible, and some suspiciously handsome man is standing nearby with a plan of his own. Even Though I’m a Super Timid Noble Girl, I…
There is something wonderfully strange about Even Though I’m a Super Timid Noble Girl, I Accepted the Bet from My Cunning Fiancé. At first glance, it looks like another reincarnated noblewoman anime heading straight toward the familiar villainess formula. A girl remembers her previous life, discovers that she is trapped inside an otome game, realizes…
Magical Explorer: Reborn as a Side Character in a Fantasy Dating Sim is one of those anime premises that sounds ridiculous for about five seconds — and then becomes surprisingly difficult to ignore. A gamer is reincarnated into the world of his favorite adult visual novel, except he doesn’t become the legendary hero everyone is…
There is something strangely satisfying about watching a light novel adaptation finally make the jump to television. You spend years hearing about a series, seeing fan translations, arguing over favorite characters, and then suddenly the opening episode is sitting there waiting to be watched. That is exactly where Magical Explorer: Reborn as a Side Character…
There are anime announcements that make me nod and move on, and then there are announcements that make me immediately want to know everything about the source material. Fungus and Iron, the upcoming television adaptation of Ayaka Katayama’s dystopian sci-fi manga, definitely falls into the second category for me. The newly released complete teaser visual…