*** Ogre's Bride ***

This show takes place in some wacky world where demons choose human brides and all the human women are dying to marry a demon-dude because status or something. It's hilariously awful. Literally made for brainlets. Everything is just told to the viewer everything without allowing us to infer a single feeling. No matter what you see on screen, someone will proceed to explain it to the viewer and tell you how you should feel about it. That someone will likely be the main character.

If that weren't bad enough, she's not a reliable narrator. Because she's all "no one luuvvvvs me" repeatedly but, girl, you have two loving grandparents. This show does nothing with these two people but have them be consistently kind and supportive. A normal kid would run away from home and just stay with grandma and grandpa. The excuse of "she didn't want to trouble us so she never told us she was miserable" is lame. This girl also has at least one super-caring friend at school that was ready to wreak violence on the main character's shitty family. The main character also works a job and the boss seemed nice to her. This story needed this character to truly be alone for that dumb plotline to work.

But this show would never allow this girl to truly be alone because the main character is the specialist, specialist girl ever. The older ogre dude obsessed with her is of course super speshul, super handsome, super rich, and all the ladies want his demon-thang because he's bestest strongest demon to ever demon. Also, he's a violent, heartless, possessive stalker who wants to basically imprison this child and who quit her job for her behind her back. And the show's basically thinks all of this shit is the most romantic thing ever. WTF.

** Chainsmoker Cat **
I don't hate it but it's too gross that I can't love it. It's both good and also not something I want to continue watching.

I did find it weird that I came across comments on this show being "this is what depression looks like." Which, in some aspects, sure, I guess. Are all the gags included in that statement?

Also, why isn't she finishing these cigarettes? You don't smoke up to the filter but these seem a bit too long. Unless Japanese cigs have super-long filters or something. I dunno. Or maybe that's also part of the joke that she leaves them too long.

Haha! Right? It's fucking weird. They all get uploaded to the Warner Bros. TV channel, but not the Cartoon Network channel. And a lot of them seem to have debuted at some convention or festival in 2023, and are only now being made publicly available.

They're mostly pretty good, but I really liked that one with the pumpkin-headed guy in the thumbnail.