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Aug 18, 2023
Much like with most recap movies, there is no reason to watch this. This movie condenses roughly 13 episodes of material (around 4 hours) into just over 2 hours. The way they accomplish this is by speeding up the pace of both the story and dialogue to absurd degrees. This creates no time to process what is going on in the story for new viewers. There's also not enough time to properly establish many of the dynamics between characters that are important for the story.
Newcomers to the series will be confused and overwhelmed by how fast things move. Previous fans will (or at least should)
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be disappointed in the lack of new content. It's an unpleasant viewing experience even if you're just looking for a recap of the original story. Do yourself a favor and just watch the TV series.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jan 28, 2023
What this series is: A good horror anthology anime
What it's not: A replacement for the original manga
And that's okay! Especially compared to Studio Deen's previous Junji Itou Collection, Junji Itou: Maniac is a big step in the right direction. While it's pretty obvious that this series still has a low budget, it's clear the creators kept that in mind this time when choosing which stories to adapt, focusing on more conceptual and dialogue-based stories rather than ones with detailed monsters.
While the overall direction is much better, one major issue is how saturated the colors are in most episodes. I really recommend lowering color
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setting on your monitor/TV for a better viewing experience.
Junji Itou: Maniac is a good series for viewers looking for an enjoyable horror anthology, but it still pales in comparison to the original works it's based on. If anything though, it's a pretty good entry into Itou's work for people who don't read manga particularly often.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 16, 2023
Record of Ragnarok is conceptually very exciting, pitting Gods and legendary figures from various cultures and mythologies against each other in a battle for the fate of humanity. The fighter selection is quite varied, and it takes a more Fate-style direction with the characters, keeping the basics the same but changing some of the details of their backstories.
However, this series doesn't have the budget to properly pull any of this off. Many scenes are basically just narrated slideshows, characters talk incredibly slowly, and each shot holds on for a second or so more than it should. It feels like they blew most of the budget
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on getting Maximum the Hormone to do the (admittedly cool) opening.
Because it's on Netflix, one way to salvage this series is by watching it at 1.25x speed. When doing that, the horrible pacing becomes almost normal. If the show was at this speed by default, I probably would've given it a 7/10 rather than a 5/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Sep 27, 2022
Overlord's main issues are that it's unpleasant and boring.
There are no stakes because we know Ainz and his minions are insanely OP and are going to win every fight. Everything almost always goes according to plan, and if it doesn't it goes even better than expected for our villain protagonist.
Speaking of our villain protagonist, let's talk about the characters. Most of the Nazarick crew are entirely flat and static when it comes to character development, especially when it comes the past 2 seasons. Ainz somehow does whatever the opposite of character development is, having less and less of a personality over time.
After how decent
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the first 2 seasons were, I really wanted to believe that this story was going somewhere interesting, but, at least so far, Overlord has been yet another generic power fantasy.
If you find the idea of an infinitely powerful skeleton slaughtering thousands of innocent people for dozens of episodes to be appealing, then you'd probably enjoy this. If you're looking for any kind of depth or substance, I'd recommend watching pretty much anything else.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jan 5, 2022
Saihate no Paladin does right what most other isekai stories do wrong. Instead of wasting time lampshading tropes, it decides to just tell a good story.
Isekai stories almost always have impossibly strong protagonists who are strong for no real reason other than to be a power fantasy for viewers/readers. Will, the protagonist of this show, is strong, but not invincible, and the audience can see the progress he makes in his training as he grows up. The arc where Will is raised by his undead adopted family is one of the most genuine and heartwarming things I've seen in a show like this.
Many detractors
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compare this show negatively to Mushoku Tensei because the shows have the same basic concept (a person being reborn and having a second chance to grow up in a fantasy world), but that's a pretty broad type of story. The key is in the execution. The most refreshing part of this show is that Will is actually a believable character. Many other stories try to pretend their protagonists have depth by giving them flaws like being cowards or perverts. Will's flaws are much more thought-out and suited to the story; those being that he can sometimes be reckless and put too much or not enough faith in those around him.
The biggest flaw of this show is that it didn't really need to be an isekai in the first place. With some minor reworking, it could have been a normal fantasy story. Regardless, Saihate no Paladin is some of the best the isekai genre has to offer.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 3, 2021
Higurashi Gou doesn't understand what made the original Higurashi series good. It spends way too much time rehashing old arcs and explaining how things work for new viewers that old viewers will be bored out of their minds. However, these constant exposition dumps aren't enough for new viewers to have a good understanding of the story either, so it fails for both audiences.
The first 13 episodes are essentially, "what if we took an arc from the originals and made the ending different?" This is an interesting concept, but Gou doesn't do anything interesting with it. Instead, it does the most obvious endings imaginable for each
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scenario. The only real twist is the reveal of the culprit behind all of these events.
Unfortunately again, this reveal come with the baggage of not understanding the characters from the original, or how human beings work at all. The villain of this show is one of the most unrepentantly evil characters I have ever seen, and they never really address the horrible things this person does for pretty much no reason.
It's surprising that this show was made by the same guy who made the original story because the writers of this show do not understand Higurashi's characters at all. Gou also doesn't understand concepts like pacing, dramatic lighting, dynamic dialogue scenes, and not wasting everyone's time.
The best arc this season by far is Nekodamashi, the 4th arc. It's the only one that even approaches the horror genre or any kind of atmosphere.
If you're looking to get into Higurashi, this show is a horrible place to start. Please, go watch/read the originals instead.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Oct 1, 2021
Higurashi Sotsu is a miserable experience. It's a huge troll of an anime in the worst of ways. It respects neither the intelligence nor the time of its viewers. The first 13 episodes of this 15 episode series are glorified recaps. Recaps which add little to no new relevant plot information that couldn't be assumed by having watched the end of Higurashi Gou.
To those unfortunate enough to want to know then end of the story after watching Gou, it's best to just skip to episode 14 of Sotsu.
This show is has the genre labels horror and mystery, but the only horror to be found is
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in the viewer's slow realization that the massive amounts of time spent watching Gou and Sotsu were entirely pointless, and the biggest mystery is how anyone could ever enjoy this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Aug 9, 2021
Tokyo Ghoul is yet another example of a botched adaptation resulting from not enough time being given to properly tell the story. This series attempts to shove around 7 volumes worth of material into just 12 episodes and fails pretty miserably at it.
I should note that the issue I have with this adaptation isn't that it doesn't follow the manga closely enough, it's that the characters are horribly underdeveloped because the show thinks it's more important to rush through plot points instead.
Let's take Kaneki, the main character, for example. His main struggle in the manga is that he's too weak to protect the people
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he cares about because he's unwilling to make sacrifices in order to do so. Because the show rushes through so many events, the audience never gets to see Kaneki struggle, make decisions, or have any real bond with other characters. This version of Kaneki is a random weak loser who whines while he's powerless to stop the bad things that happen to him.
There are occasional worthwhile moments. It's fun to see certain fight scenes in animated form. The visuals for the kagune and quinque are especially appealing. Despite all of my issues with this series, I did still enjoy some parts.
If this show was around 8 episodes longer, it could have been good, but as it stands, Tokyo Ghoul is a a pretty barebones experience. If you're still interested, I'd recommend watching the first 2 or 3 episodes and then switching to the manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Apr 18, 2021
After having been told that this was the best gambling anime of all time, and now having watched it, I'm sad to say that I was really disappointed at how underwhelming it was. I'll summarize my main complaints in a few spoiler-free points and then elaborate on each point in a second section with spoilers.
Here are my main complaints:
1. The games played in this show aren't particularly interesting, and most of them aren't even gambling.
2. Many plot points and game outcomes are really predictable.
3. It's hard to get invested in the outcomes of the gambles because none of the characters are particularly likeable or interesting.
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The pacing is so painfully slow at times that it ruins any tension the show may have been built.
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1. The games played in this show are as follows, limited card-based rock paper scissors, walking across a high-up metal beam, unbalanced card-based rock paper scissors, and picking tissue pieces out of a box. That's right, one of those isn't even a gambling game and two of them are practically the same. This lack of interesting gambles takes away from the intrigue and excitement of each match because there's only a limited number of variables in play. This brings me to my 2nd point.
2. With so few variables in play, most of the games get really boring and predictable. I would have a hard time believing you if you told me that anyone was surprised when Kaiji's "friends" from the first arc betrayed him when redeeming the prize money. The show treats it like this big reveal even though anyone with half a brain could've seen it coming, especially after having something similar happen at the beginning of the arc. The following arcs, while not being quite as predictable, still suffer from similar issues.
3. Kaiji is a boring and unlikeable character. He's overconfident, hypocritically moralistic, and dangerously stupid. His plan for the tissue box game in the last arc is one of the dumbest plans I've seen in any anime. The fact that he doesn't think for a second how obvious him rigging the box would be to an experienced gambler like the mob boss was one of the most irritating moments in the whole show.
Since Kaiji is dumb and not particularly likeable, it's not fun to watch him win, and due to my 4th complaint, it's not fun to watch him lose either.
4. This show is paced so agonizingly slow. You could probably cut out almost an episode's worth of material from each arc without losing much of worth. Every arc becomes so tedious with padding and explaining the same things over and over again. Any excitement from the beginning of an arc is slowly and painfully depleted before anything actually happens, and when those moments actually hit, it becomes hard to really care anymore.
This anime started out being just kinda average and then continues on a slow, agonizing decline. The art and music were fine, but sadly, the story and characters were really underwhelming, especially for how hyped this show is by its fans.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Apr 7, 2021
Hunter x Hunter is a very interesting mixed bag of a series. As the series goes on, the arcs start to become less and less connected to each other and feature the main characters less and less. I overall enjoyed my experience with this show, but if I were to describe HxH in two words, those words would be inconsistent and overrated.
I'll start with the positives. Most of HxH's arcs are actually pretty good. Hunter Exam, Greed Island, and the Election arc were all really fun. While the Yorknew auction arc was a little messy, it also had a lot of good moments. The ED's
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for most arcs are also great.
There are a lot of interesting powers, locations, and character dynamics that are explored in this show. Of all the characters in the show, Killua's arc is one of the most interesting and well-developed. HxH also has pretty good trans representation in Killua's sister, Alluka. Her arc is especially impactful due to it having a lot of metaphors for how trans people struggle with being accepted by their families.
Now for the negatives:
The OP uses the same song for all 148 episodes. It switches between the first and second verse every now and again, but that doesn't really keep it from getting tiring. I very rarely skip anime OP's, but I found myself skipping this one a large portion of the time, especially since it really doesn't fit with some of the darker parts of the show.
My biggest issue with HxH is the boring mess that is the Chimera Ant arc. It takes up 61 episodes, which is over 41% of the entire show. I cannot fathom how anyone could think this arc is the best arc in the show.
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The pacing of Chimera Ant is abysmal. Large portions of episodes are spent establishing boring ant characters who are easily killed off later and have no real impact on the story. There is simultaneously too much time spent trying to humanize the minor ant characters and too much time spent showing how awful and cruel they are. There are multiple fights and characters that could be cut without really impacting the story.
Gon's arc during Chimera Ant also isn't handled well. The audience doesn't get enough time to get attached to Kite, so his death isn't nearly as impactful as it would need to be to pull off the story they were trying to tell. Kite just kinda shows up, fights a couple of times and then dies. This is worsened by how much of this time is spent with boring development of ant characters who will have no impact on the story thrown in between.
This arc also randomly has a narrator when the other arcs don't. Chimera Ant breaks the rule of show don't tell so often that it's comical at points. Instead of getting inner monologues of what the characters might be thinking, viewers (or should I say listeners at this point) get lengthy speeches describing what can be clearly seen happening on screen. A lot of the emotional moments don't have proper impact because the narrator can't shut up for long enough for the audience to breathe and take things in.
The ending of Chimera ant is the best part because the narrator finally shuts up and lets the moment have the proper space and weight.
If Chimera Ant was about 10-20 episodes shorter and didn't have as much narration, it would actually be pretty alright.
Overall, even though HxH was very enjoyable at times, it was also a huge disappointment for such a highly-rated show. Too much time was spent on a dismal arc that drags the rest of the series down. If all the extraneous material was trimmed out, I'd probably rate HxH a 7 or even an 8, but as it stands I can't give it any higher than a 6.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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