Blue Exorcist follows Rin Okumura, Satan’s son, training at True Cross Academy to kill his father. Kazue Kato’s Jump Square manga has run since 2009. A-1 Pictures’ 2011 anime hits until it writes its own ending. Kyoto Saga returned to the manga, and Studio VOLN carried later arcs through 2025. This review tracks the blue flames, the brother bond, and why the page outruns season one.
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Zhuge Liang, the legendary Three Kingdoms strategist, dies at Wuzhang Plains and awakens in modern Shibuya during a Halloween party. Renaming himself Kongming, he pledges his tactical genius to Eiko, a struggling singer chasing stardom. Blending military stratagems with music-industry schemes, this P.A. Works comedy pairs laugh-out-loud humor, an unstoppable soundtrack, and surprising heart into one of 2022’s most charming and bingeable anime of its season.
Episode two opens the revenge tour as a storefront. Elizabeth takes asylum in the Yutear Empire, borrows one hundred gold coins against her body, and founds Traitre Commercial Firm as Ellie Leis. Soap samples, church donations, and a formula split between a safe and a necklace bait Gazaru’s Jackman into stealing poison. The guild arrives. Father Luis arrives. Jackman liquidates everything. She was never the mark.
Episodes 3 and 4 form a continuous arc: a cemetery raid quest that collapses when the Ghoul Head devours the undead and evolves into a level 40 Mad Headder through Existence Evolution. With D-rank overseer Gowtan poisoned, Elymas commands the panicked examinees, solos the Wights, and unlocks Vital Slice. Promoted to E-class with 930,000 gold and the Daemonsrage Shield, this isekai clearly passes the four-episode rule.
Takuya Seo hides his love for the niche anime Glittermon after years of bullying, until gyaru classmates Kei Amane and Kotoko Ijichi turn out to be closet otaku themselves. Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? follows this unlikely trio through karaoke, festivals, and beach-episode antics. The chemistry charms, the early visuals shine, but a thin plot and weak romance keep this 2026 TMS Entertainment comedy decent.
Eren the Southpaw follows ad designer Koichi Asakura, starved of recognition, and left-handed graffiti genius Eren Yamagishi. Production I.G and Signal.MD adapt Kappy and Nifuni’s 2026 homage to people who work harder than geniuses yet still fall short. Nonlinear jumps, overwrought office fights, and a stagnant heroine muddy the message, but mature visuals, ALI’s jazz opening, and passionate voice acting make this messy workplace drama linger.
Yukio’s anti-kaiju pilot Tetsuo wakes after eight years of cold sleep to a planet locked in ice. Studio KAI’s Snowball Earth has a strong frozen-Earth hook, grief, and CGI mecha-versus-kaiju fights, yet the series barely moves in 13 episodes. Tetsuo stays awkward and unwilling, losses play as gags, and the finale shrugs off its villain. Season 2 has already been announced, but this first cour is slow and unfinished, maybe.
Episode 2 opens with a DBZ-style recap, then Elymas refuses Arus’s party to hog EXP. He dumps points into Oath of the Heavy Armor, disarms a level 16 spider, and fires Rampart Reflection. Poison proves no man is an island. The F-rank guild mocks Heavy Knight until solo-farmed stones hit the counter. GoHands shoots the forest like Predator. Recap annoyed me. Episode 3 has me hooked.
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System opens with ceremony, betrayal, and exile. Elymas Edvaughn lands the “trash” Heavy Knight class, gets disowned, and walks into Rondalm knowing Magic World’s real meta. GoHands packs flashbacks, busy fights, and restless camera work into a brisk premiere. Between Malice’s cold smile and OP skill trees, Episode 1 sets a clear revenge engine—and makes the two-cour run feel worth the ride.