2021 Summer Anime Season Roundup

Yeesh. I really kind of feel I like crapped the bed this anime season. In that I just fell off so many of the shows that I seemed to feel like I was pretty interested in based on my Three Episode Rule series. I guess I shouldn’t feel married to the verdicts I arrive at after the first three episodes, but I feel kind of bad when I end up falling off a series immediately after posting the 3ER of it on here.

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Star Wars Visions Reviews – Episode 3: The Twins

Now this is the kind of utter nonsense I was expecting when I heard there was going to be an anime/Star Wars collaboration project. And leave it to Studio Trigger to dive head first into turning Star Wars into just about the most anime thing I think I might have ever seen. Then again, there has always been something a little “extra” about Trigger and the shows they produce.

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Star Wars Visions Reviews – Episode 2: Tattooine Rhapsody

After the first episode, which very much felt like an alternate take on the Star Wars legend, this second episode veers off in a totally different direction and just feels like some good old fashioned anime that happens to take place in the Star Wars universe. The result being that this episode ends up feeling nothing like Star Wars whatsoever.

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