Triangle Anime and Manga Review: Summer 2021, Great Art and Sequels

This week Ozzy and Logan begin their reviews of the Summer 2021 season. This season is chaotic as it has many spaced out release dates, meaning some shows are 6 episodes in at the time of release, and some are 2 episodes in. We try our best to highlight the new series which have released at least 3 episodes.

 

We start with Aquatope on White Sands (12:00) an anime about two girls and an aquarium. After her dream of becoming an idol does not play out as she expected, Fuuka Miyazawa takes a spontaneous trip to Okinawa where she meets Kukuru Misakino. Kukuru is struggling to keep the Gama Gama aquarium open. After experiencing the magic of the aquarium, Fuuka decides to help Kukuru fulfill her dream of saving the aquarium. An anime about the crossroads of aspirations which is assisted by beautiful art.

 

Then Logan and Ozzy cover Sonny Boy (25:25) a Lord of the Flies-esque anime about kids who are transferred to another world alone and gain super powers. It gets weird. Another series with great art that seems to be more of a character study of different life philosophies than an actual story.

 

We then look back at our pasts with Remake our Life (38:00) a story about a person who is sent back in time. He decides to use this opportunity to pursue video game design, which was something he had previously given up on. Can he change his future and make his dreams come true? Logan doesn't think so, since the guy seems more interested in forming a harem, but Ozzy likes this story alot.

 

Finally, we evaluate our life decisions by discussing Girlfriend Girlfriend (53:00) an anime about a guy who has a girlfriend. he is then confessed to by another girl and decides to convince his current girlfriend that he should date both of them. hilarity and poor life decisions ensue. Surprisingly we both thought it was funny and enjoyed this anime way more than we should have.

 

Other animes (1:04:10) we discuss all the sequels out and some of the other interesting series that are currently out. This includes Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Villainess: All Paths Lead to Doom, Itaden, Re:Main, Higurashi Sotsu, Vanitas, Duke of Death and his Maid who has massive eyes, and some others.

 

Our manga for this review was Kaguya-Sama: Love is War (1:18:40) which Ozzy thoroughly enjoyed. The recommendation for the next review is "The Ride On King", a manga about Vladimir Putin (no not really, but close enough) being transferred to another world. In this new world Putin attempts to ride all the unique animals present there. Its about as ridiculous as it sounds.