I’ll be honest: Though I Am an Inept Villainess was one of those anime I expected to enjoy casually and then somehow ended up thinking about between episodes. The first cour had a surprisingly good balance of palace intrigue, comedy, romance, and the kind of ridiculous body-swapping situation that should not work nearly as well…
There are plenty of anime announced for Fall 2026 that already feel like they are fighting for the same audience: louder battles, bigger powers, another overpowered protagonist, another world that looks suspiciously like a video game. Then there is The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom, which is taking a very different route. This one…
If there’s one fantasy romance that completely caught me off guard this Summer 2026 season, it has to be The Oblivious Saint Can’t Contain Her Power. I started watching it expecting another noblewoman redemption story, but after only a few episodes it became obvious this series had something different. Instead of relying on endless revenge…
When The Oblivious Saint Can’t Contain Her Power premiered in Summer 2026, I honestly didn’t expect it to become one of the fantasy romance anime I looked forward to every week. At first glance, it seemed like another “misunderstood noble girl discovers hidden powers” story, but after a few episodes it became clear that the…
When a new fantasy romance anime arrives every season, it’s easy to assume most of them will blend together. That’s exactly what I expected when I started watching The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King. Instead, it quickly became one of the biggest surprises of 2026 for me. What looked like another “captured knight falls…
For the first few weeks of Spring 2026, The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King looked like another surprisingly wholesome fantasy romance hiding behind a rough title. Sure, it had war, political tension, and a giant barbarian king carrying around an impossibly muscular knight princess, but the series mostly thrived on awkward chemistry, culture clashes,…