[00:00] One day, you die. Old age, illness, truck-kun, it doesn't matter. You don't remember your previous life anyways, but you wake up in an egg. And what do you do now? Today is the final day of me giving my impressions of the new anime from Winter 2026 and ranking the first episode accordingly.
[00:20] This is reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling, which means largely the title is now making the show self-explanatory. Have you watched any other series that has a title which starts as reincarnated as a blank?
[00:33] Because if you have, you already know like 80% of the plot. Human wakes up in an egg. Can't do much except fall over and roll around. They have a voice in their head that guides them, sort of. And eventually they digivolve into a slightly larger dragon with legs.
[00:47] They fire punch some stuff and then run into some humans who slice their chest open. Whoops. But the girl was nice and then healed them. Aw. Shame that there's now also a giant dragon who wants to kill the humans.
[01:00] So what's our hatchling to do? There really isn't much interesting here, I'm going to be honest. If it follows the normal course, then our protagonist is going to be overpowered inside a few episodes, ruling over the area by the end of the season,
[01:13] and then two seasons from now we're going to have people making posts on Reddit about how the show is nothing but a bunch of fantasy races having meetings around a table for every single episode. All of that to say, I'm passing on it and placing it in C tier.
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