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(Welcome to
, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)
Just like how there’s too much TV to watch it all, trying to catch up on seasonal anime is a daunting and impossible task. With so many shows, you can’t know which ones will be good, especially if they aren’t based on any previously released material that gives off a hint as to what the story is like. This column has covered new shows before, but usually, it’s reserved for shows that are ending their first season, or a handful that are so special, you really should get in before they explode in popularity. Make no mistake,
For better or worse, Wonder Egg Priority continues its perfect streak of uniquely challenging episodes that playfully dangle their thematic legs over a river of bubbling lava.
I ve been in the anime game long enough to know that a slam dunk premiere doesn t necessarily portend a winning series. However, sometimes that dunk is so slammin that it breaks the backboard, burns the eyebrows off the spectators, and buries the ball so deep in the earth s mantle that it shows up on a seismograph.
Wonder Egg Priority commands attention within its first seconds, and it only tightens that grip as the debut spirals ever wider and weirder into a haunted Faustian Wonderland. I m biased towards even the most miniscule amounts of thoughtful surrealism, so this egg, from its pointier end to its rounder end, is extremely My Shit.