
If you don’t feel like reading the wiki article, an otome game is basically a female- targeted dating sim where you play as a blank slate main character and date a bunch of pretty boys (and sometimes girls, but usually only if you go outside the mainstream ones), unlocking their backstories and collecting all the romantic endings. My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! follows Katerina Claes, a spoiled young noble girl deviously scheming to win the heart of a prince- oh wait, never mind, she hit her head and remembered her past life! Turns out she’s an eighteen year old Japanese otaku chick who died and got reincarnated as the villainess in her favorite otome game.

The one new show I did pick up was My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Continue reading “Summer and Fall 2020 Anime Overview” →įor the Spring 2020 anime season, I mostly watched continuations of shows I was already into. Kosame desperately wants to get home to reassure his family but lacks the funds, meanwhile Appare just wants to build a cool car, so both of them end up joining the Trans America Wild Race, the first car race across all of America, and get mixed up with a variety of characters. Thanks to a mishap, the pair get blown from their home in Japan all the way to America, circa…well, SOMEWHERE in the late 1800s/early 1900s, but don’t expect much attention to historical accuracy here.

The anime follows Appare, an eccentric inventor and his long suffering samurai companion, Kosame. Thanks to pandemic delays, the Summer 2020 season was slim pickins (and the fall season was A Lot in comparison) but there were a couple titles I enjoyed!Īppare-Ranman! technically launched in the spring, but thanks to COVID delays, most of it ended up airing last season, and that’s when I picked it up. Since I forgot to repost what I thought of the summer anime last year, I’ll just wrap it into this post!
