#classroom for heroes

[waifubuki]

[a-titty-ninja]

[my-anime-goods]

Eiyuu Kyoushitsu (Classroom for Heroes) - Arnest, Sophie, and Cú Dakimakura Covers by Bandai Namco Filmworks. Release: 27 March 2024

[tetrix-anime]

Eiyuu Kyoushitsu (Classroom for Heroes) - Blu-ray Volume 3 Outer Case Illustration. Release: 27 March 2024

[nijigasakilove]

Fanservice was on point today in Hero Classroom lol. Mommy Dommy Demon Waifu go BRRR

[booty-uprooter]

do i spy a new generic light novel protag-kun haircut on the horizon

[enjoylifes-world]

Harry Potter potion classeroom 🪄

[regarding-stories]

Round them up, I say!

I've watched more stuff. Let's quickly run over it...

Stardust Telepath

A really socially awkward and shy girl fantasizes about space to find friends among the aliens. Only to meet a really strange girl (and classmate) that claims to be one! In her efforts to get her back to her home planet she befriends two more girls and they all get into launching model rockets.

This is a show that teases with yuri vibes, but it is really a wholesome story about friendship and... gun powder model rockets?? I wonder if there will be a season 2. This stuff is heartwarming. Bonavuu!

Locodol

What does a small town that isn't particularly outstanding in anything do to promote itself? Besides inventing a mascot, it apparently creates a local idol group - Locodols!

In the end, two girls are chosen, and two more girls (of small build) are hired on to wear the mascot costume. Again, a story about friendship with yuri-teasing vibes between the two Locodols themselves.

It also opens a bit of a window into how the parts of Japan outside Tokyo try to generate interest in themselves, especially to attract tourism, including inventing new local specialties or events. And the cute mascots battling it out on national TV were hilarious!

Bocchi the Rock!

Wow, I'm really backlogged. This one actually deserves its own article, but right now I don't have the time to do that...

A socially awkward girl obsessed with rock music and actually a secret shut-in guitar hero dreams about making friends. Her lucky star gets her roped into a band with (eventually) three other girls where.. she initially sucks. (Playing with others is a separate skill, believe me.)

We not only follow her journey towards self-actualization through rock music, we also get to watch her inner world. In a hilarious twist, all her friends can too! It's what makes it one of the funniest series out there.

Bocchi the Rock! is funny and fun to watch, and contains some genuine stuff about making music and being in a band. Apparently it was an instant hit and people can't wait for season 2. Me neither! You go, Whatever-san!!

Burn the Witch / Burn the Witch 0.8

A quick warning before you watch this. The first season of this is only 3 episodes long. This series from the creator of the extremely popular series Bleach has simply not amassed enough content for more, that's why it initially was released as movie. (And then it was split into episodes.)

Given how much worldbuilding and character intro is done in this short season, one would expect a lot to follow. A season two will eventually drop. Until then we are left with a lot of concepts that have been name dropped but answers will have to wait.

Burn the Witch tells the story of two young witches that work as Pipers, their job is to be first responders on dragon sightings (and lots of menial work) to secure the scene until the heavy guns (the Sabres) arrive. There are also a dude who attracts dragons (a Dragonclad) and his adorable feisty doggy. And some deranged girl named Macy that is apparently here to stay, her actual role still unclear.

Currently airing is Burn the Witch 0.8, a prequel season that explains how the witches ended up with Balgo, how Balgo ended up being a Dragonclad, and what everyone's darling doggy really is underneath. (This changes things?)

Gorgeous art, funny dialogue and scenes, great action, and some really ingenious (and horrible) dragon designs. Especially magnificient: All the fantasy elements we see in the countryside outside of Reverse London.

INVADERS of the ROKUJYOMA!?

An older one - guy moves into suspiciously cheap apartment for high school, only to find it to be the battleground between a ghost, a witch from an underground civilization, a space princess, and a magical girl, all of which need the apartment for various reasons.

They of course all end up liking him or become his friends, and their rivalry gradually turns into friendship as they master individual adventures. Slight harem vibes, but mostly just good fun. How the ghost girl acts like his live-in girlfriend and actually sleeps sideways piercing through him is... unique. Good enough to deserve a season 2, but released in a time where that was rare.

(Apparently no GIFS for this one.)

Love Flops

I finished this one before HiDive actually closed shop in my country.

I'm going to spoiler on this one.

Starts out as a weird harem show where inexplicably five girls fall in love with same dude and confess to him in no time. In an even weirder move, they all end up living with him. Makes no sense, right?

Turns out, they are all AIs and he's in a virtual reality. Each one of them is the best effort of a team from a different nation to present an AI that can feel emotion. Hence their original weirdness before they start to grow into more real personalities.

The story takes a more emotional turn when we learn that the base of all "personality AIs" is the protagonist's childhood love, Ai. Her father scanned her personality and brain into a computer before she died of a brain tumor.

The story resolves in a dramatic turn where the main character gets to say goodbye to his first love and they get to share the feelings with each other that they could never express while she was alive as they were too afraid and immature to handle the situation.

In a weird hurricane of a self-contained season this original anime series (not adapted from a manga) moves from explicit harem comedy with lots of fan service to action show to actually really sad and emotional drama. The ending is somewhat predictable, and that after all they put us through before.

It's watchable, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and a whole lot stupid, too. It touches on spy action, magical girl, and even a gender-ambiguous arc. Parts of it are indeed touching. Could have done with being less things at once.

I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness

... and that's not even the full title. And it's not shorter in Japanese, either. (The poor naming of most Japanese light novels is its own genre of comedy.)

The basic premise is that a Cinderella-like beauty gets framed for a crime, and somehow ends up in a powerful magician's care during her escape. He totally not has the hots for her, and wants to teach this innocent beauty how to be "naughty." The sublimation is powerful in this one! (Even if the search for a title wasn't.)

(No GIFs on this one, but thankfully also none for "disgraced," either. GIFs have become kind of naughty, lately.)

Crash Course presents a rich fantasy world and an evolving love story with a growing cast of characters. Breaks genre for a whole episode in the middle..? I liked it well enough. And it's about as naughty as Dark Helmet from Spaceballs is scary.

Classroom for Heroes

The great legendary hero that saved the realm gets reborn as a high school student, attending an academy where none of the students (and aspiring heroes) know his identity. He's totally overpowered, though, and quickly befriends not only the local prodigies (which he beats), but also a dragon (which he adopts), the robot guardian of an underground library (which becomes his maid), etc...

A lot happens in a season and I lost track. It's generally fun to watch and has characters you end up liking. Nothing too surprising, all in all.

And that's it for now.

[prettytanuki]

*notices you*

[a-titty-ninja]

[foxchainships]

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[tetrix-anime]

Eiyuu Kyoushitsu (Classroom for Heroes) - Blu-ray Volume 1 Inner Case Illustration. Release: 26 January 2024

[nijigasakilove]

Aw yes the obligatory beach/pool episode. The opening for the episode through me off, thought we were going to get a darker episode with how it opened up. Fortunately that was just VR training lol.

I like how we got focus on the side characters and their relationships today. Losing to girls that you like is not the worst thing in the world. But I guess the boys didn’t want to seem weak. Masculine pride and all that. Either way, it was a good growth opportunity for Yessica, Claire and the fellas after a Blade dominated last few eps.

Arnest throwing out subtle hints at the end there 😂. Fun episode

[faline-cat444]

I pray the person/people who became obsessed enough to learn who the first character that performed this type of "Information gathering" sees this and enlightens us on the kooky history

[mojo72400]

Does it count if she's a split personality of a teen girl?