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Dec 31, 2022
Bocchi the Rock! is an unserious CGDCT show that is mostly famous for having tricky animated segments that make good twitter memes, and a JUST LIKE ME protagonist! This is Bocchi za rokku! It totally rocks! I've been told many good things about this one: Firstly that its the only anime to get musicians right, and secondly that its the most unique looking anime ever. ALL TIME BABY.
i dont like it
While other CGDCT usually handle their characters more flippantly to focus on *other* details, Bocchi the Flop expects you to take a cast of cotton-candy-hair colored waifus wholeheartedly. They are really good characters though, with
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distinct personalities. I know this because its shoved down my throat. Also a really neat detail is all of them have different eye colors, it really makes them stand out.
This shows humor is really bad. Many of the jokes don't translate well or at all into English, but even the ones that do aren't funny at all.
"I am the tsuchinoko of Shima-Kitazawa" .. wtf does this even mean? You'd have to be lying to think this is funny. You aren't Japanese, and that's okay.
Speaking of that scene, it is just completely unintelligible and demonstrates the most annoying aspects of Bocchi's character. How would anyone perceive you as an attention whore? You have no friends anyways, nobody cares about you. The character writing is so bogus.
I just want to be real:
Bocchi is not just like you. Bocchi is a cute, high school girl with friends and is in a band. She may be a caricature of someone with social anxiety, but she has charisma. She has huge boobs that didn't make it apparently to the anime. She has a dog, a cute little sister and a nice mother and a father who we can't see his eyes because this show is deeply unserious.
Imagine that, imagine taking a show seriously when the only non-joke male character in the universe is being censored like he is in some porn to avoid some dissonance of my cute girl utopia. ITS HER FUCKING DAD. Look, I understand the desire to see through your own character flaws by projecting them onto cute anime girls, in that way they don't' seem like flaws anymore, more like cute quirks. But even though I get it, I find it saddening in a way.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jan 26, 2022
Shows become overrated when the people who are clearly not the target audience don't talk about why that is. Instead they opt to seek to see what they believe everyone else is seeing for the sake of conformity. While it makes sense that a show like this would have a solid base audience, I believe this one is not for many people, and I will try to illustrate my own disconnect.
This is a "rom-com" that is far more adjacent to a harem show for example. Some easy to see reasons why: The main character isn't nearly as enigmatic in personality or in design as the
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female ones (for the purpose of self-insertion), and there is an incredible amount of fanservice as early as episode 2! Normally well constructed rom-coms attempt to create two equally as commanding of personalities because the show is about both of them—not just whoring out one and making the other obsolete. This type of structure is more commonly found in harem shows.
I'm not using harem as a sort of buzz word criticism by the way. Harem shows are relatively unpopular and have a flat amount of dislike and contempt. So why isn't this show seeing that again?
Anyways, the main appeal of the show is about Marin. If you like the "show" it basically just means you like her. I don't have any issue if this girl is your waifu, but it's important to understand how to separate these things. My sort of problem with her though is having one of too many impossible collection of tropes. She's a gyaru. Check. An otaku? Check!. She likes EROGE? Check that one too! She's super personable and can even easily communicate with our loser social anxious MC! She stands up to bad people who insult more niche hobbies!! .... It's just too many, and it's too blatant of a fantasy—almost like the author is literally just creating their ideal girlfriend, or what they think their audience's ideal girlfriend is.
As I mentioned earlier, Episode 2 had an a ridiculous amount of fanservice for a show on literally episode 2. (this show isn't tagged ecchi) The problem mostly though, it was awkward as fuck. The show establishes the main character as having something similar to social anxiety, and the dude is just freaking out at the sight of Marin's half naked body. What really made it hard to watch though, was how Marin wasn't reciprocating his emotions at all. Even though he was blatantly uncomfortable (in a largely over-the-top comedic way, but still) she does nothing to acknowledge it, which actually just went to make everything more weird. This was the entire episode, and it was bad.
This entire thing just feels like a sham. A hollow advertisement to make me go buy the manga or read a doujin about the characters or something. Which btw, one dominated nhentai for days after the release of episode 2. (shocker) Where is the heart in something like this? Also— Why did everyone dunk on 3D Kanajo even though this one and that show are very similar! In an essence, that's all this show is. It's visually better looking, but a worse show than 3D Kanajo. Worse. Than. 3D Kanajo.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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May 19, 2021
Higehiro is a show that started and will end in an identity crisis. It's entire existence feels like spur of the moment, an idea from someone reading the countless doujin plots similar to it and thought "but what if someone focused on the characters more then the porn?"
A very large community of the hentai/doujin crowd will tell you they love the "wholesome" aspects of works. This maybe was a product of the sheer amount of depravity and disgusting nature of many otaku porn, but I'd argue its almost as equally pathetic. Nowadays, doujins and hentai will behind over BACKWARDS to make very sure you are
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aware the characters in these porn are actually "in love" More accurately, it will want you to make sure the FEMALE characters are in love, most of the time its just unrequited solely to...console the ego of someone who is consuming porn? It's sad that even the porn side of otaku culture needs to cater to the type of self-projecting and insertion many of the fandom is now accustomed towards. So why does any of this matter? Because now this popularizing trend in hentai basically has now spilled over and gotten its first anime. This show is made by and for the people who enjoy this pattern, it's written all over it.
When you really think about it, if this was really as well-intentioned as it might seem, why does it have to incorporate an impossibly attractive girl who looks and sounds like the countless of doujin characters just like her? She is literally a teen girl sitting in this guy's house all day like a dedicated housewife. How is she not bored out of her mind? But she is also actually really sweet and knows how to cook! If this was a story about someone receiving help for their traumatic past, why does it have to be a late-20's as described "average salaryman" and a runaway high school girl, an almost parody-like clash of worlds? It's because it isn't really interested in being genuine, its interested in running with the popularized doujin plot probably because the author is flat out bored of just fapping to this stuff, and wanted to create an entire world around it instead.
Look, I really hate speaking on why and what people consume art for. But it just feels impossible to justify this gimmick as anything but appealing to the bored "coomers" and to the subconscious of people who think they like it because its "wholesome" but are probably just more excited of the prospect of a potential relationship between the two main characters. I really tried to like this. And btw, I don't really care about the morality of this at all. It's fictional content, and it's not problematic. That's not my issue.
I realized after reading yet another doujin Higehiro is modeled after, Higehiro isn't really impressive in the slightest. If this other random doujin artist decided to just to scrap the porn bits and only focus on the characters, he/she could honestly probably just do as good a job as Higehiro is apparently doing to the anime community. It's that uninspired.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Nov 1, 2020
The best time to watch this show, is right now while it's airing.
Original shows typically have an unique innate advantage over adapted source material, firstly and less significantly we don't have those people, (you know who they are) that like to prod around saying things like "I've read/am reading the manga" and even worse "I'm reading the Light Novel" like literally anyone cares at all. But more importantly, we have no clue what's going to happen as of now, and that can be exciting. I've seen many theories floating around and being explored to the likes of Hina being the God that is controlling this
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world to live out her dream before she dies. Very Jun Maeda. But that is really only the surface. Speculation and discussion on how this innocent work will end up turning is ingrained in the show's culture, but only now.
See, even if in the future you consume this without really having knowledge on what happens, are you still going in spoiler-free? Whether we like it or not, spoilers exist in shows' reputation and legacy, even if we do our best to conceal them. I mean, just acknowledging the existence of a "spoiler" in a show automatically shapes our expectations.
So watch this now. Involve yourself as an entertainer of some of the fan theories floating around on how this thing is going to end. As of now, we know 1 thing. This is a Jun Maeda show being done by P.A. Works. Either this thing is gonna be "a life-changing experience" or "melodramatic trash" either way, the build up/speculation may be more worth more then the the actual show, and maybe that isn't such a bad thing.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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