== My (Twitter) reactions to the first episodes of the Summer 2021 anime season

Yes, that really does say 'summer' up there. [[As before
Spring2021FirstEpisodes]] I've collected my reactions to the first
episode of the only show I actually started watching in the summer
season.

* The Case Study of Vanitas episode #1: That was stylish and reasonably
  interesting, although as usual it doesn't really tell me very much
  about what the rest of the show will be like. It hasn't left me solidly
  hooked, but I'll be watching the next episode.
  [[♯ https://twitter.com/cks_anime/status/1420227817757872136]]

I watched three episodes of *Vanitas* before growing bored,
and I never watched anything else. Both *Magia Record* and
*That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime* had continuations in
the summer season, and at some point I hope to watch both ([[eg
https://twitter.com/cks_anime/status/1449419774992297993]]), but I
didn't feel enthused enough to watch *Slime* live and *Magia Record*
aired late and I forgot about it by the time it started.

(My experiences with the [[Winter 2021 Winter2021FirstEpisodes]] season of
*Slime* didn't leave me feeling thrilled about watching it week by week.)

Instead I spent summer 2021 [[reading random manga
https://twitter.com/cks_anime/status/1449419475564986377]], and may
mostly do that again for Fall 2021. I have feelings about the differences
between reading manga and watching anime and why one has been working
out better than the other right now, but I don't want to try to put them
in this entry.