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Jun 9, 2024
Gangsta. (Anime) add
I don't really know why, but I had high hopes coming into this one. Didn't read anything about it, see any trailers etc. So I'm not really sure where these hopes came from. Ultimately, it's rather average.

Animation is great to be honest, reminds me of a Madhouse style animation but not quite a finessed. The fights are still well animated despite my previous comment. The violence is nicely done and weirdly doesn't feel to over the top. I would probably give the animation a 7/10.

Music wise, it's equally as strong as the animation. At times, it's a little simple and repetitive but still ...
May 30, 2024
MF Ghost (Anime) add
Full disclaimer, I am a MASSIVE Initial D fan. I genuinely love the show, so when I noticed this, MF Ghost, I immediately became very excited. However, to ensure I was not disappointed, I lowered my expectations, and watched this objectively rather than with the bias of my love for Initial D. I have to be honestly, I'm glad I did.

Starting with the sorry, as this is the shows least redeeming feature. Second disclaimer, I watch anime Dubbed, and before the cry baby elitists start moaning, I watch while I work. As I can't understand Japanese, I have to watch dub else I won't have ...
May 30, 2024
I promise you, you will not believe the levels of badass Sung Jinwoo achieves.

Firstly the animation is excellent. Ill say right now for me this was a very very strong 8, almost 9. I say almost as for the most part, it stays in the realm of well done, remains engaging, great pallet etc etc. The main thing that pushing this to almost a 9 for me is certain moments in fight have gorgeous animation. I am a sucker, a massive sucker for hard drawn looks in fights and this has plenty to show you. I can't however put this ...
Jan 3, 2024
Well this was an interesting experience for me. Mainly because for 90% of this arc I felt like I was struggling to give this anything less than a high 7. This ended up becoming a 9 following completion and I'll explain below.

I'll still with animation which I think is Demon Slayer's weakest so far. Its still an 8/10 but only just. Everything is all a little bit uninspired. Yes we get to see the Infinity Castle at the beginning, which is always a treat, something that blew my tiny mind when I first saw it at the end of season 1 and here it ...
Jan 3, 2024
Its been quite some time since I last watched any Demon Slayer. I believe it was Oct 2020 with the Mugen Train film in fact so it's been quite some time. The time away from this series had made me realise how much I missed it, mainly because it's nice to be back with Inosuke.... anyway here's my review of Entertainment District.

Starting with the story and I was a little surprised at the approach from an episode total perspective. The first season was built on multiple mini arcs and demon encounters: Becoming a demon slayer, Ball Demon, Drum Demon etc. Here, we have an ...
Dec 21, 2023
Tenki no Ko (Anime) add
This film was an interesting one for me. As despite it having all of the tropes of Makoto Shinkai, including yet another cat in the forefront of the story, it seems to be missing something in very aspect (animation, sound and story) I watched this after watching Children Who Chase Lost Voices and ill be completely honest, I don't think this is anywhere close to it. Seemingly however, based on the aggregated score for this is Children Who.....I am in the minority.

Ill start with the animation. Although this is still the quality on the surface that befits a Shinkai film, it ...
Dec 21, 2023
There are seemingly a number of conflicting views on the quality of this film. Some people think its awful, one even giving it a 2/10 (no offence to this person but if this is a 2/10, I'm sure sure how realistic their 10/10s are). Some people have mixed feelings seemingly not connecting with the story, characters or general vibe of the film and then there is me, i thought this was so so close to a masterpiece and i will try to explain why.

First off, the animation. Its a Makoto Shinkai film, of course it has incredible animation, but the world depicted here ...
Dec 21, 2023
I had a bit of a Makoto Shinkai fest over the past few days. 5 Centimetres Per Second was the first of three. I had already watch Zuzume and Your Name and easily love his style from those two alone. I thought delving into more was about time. Though 5 Centimetres per Second is a film, it is essentially split in 3 different episodes at different times of Takaki's life. The premise of the movie is rather simple for Makoto Shinkai compared to the two i had seen by this point. 5 centimetres per second represents the speed in ...
Dec 18, 2023
FLCL (Anime) add
I'm not entirely sure what I've just watched to be perfectly honest. I didn't 100% follow the story, I didn't really understand what was going on, at least I dont think I did and yet despite this, I've come away feeling like past versions of myself can relate to some of these subtly well written character and feeling rather fulfilled.

I just want to say this now, I genuinely didn't know this was written by the same chap as Evangelion. I say this as I thought there were very lose similarities to the how the Angels appear in Eve with the things that appear from ...
Dec 18, 2023
I am quite frankly baffled that this show has any negative feedback. Seemingly, there are a lot of original Trigun elitists that either 1, can't accept a reinterpretation and it's MEANT to be different to the original anime or 2, the refuse to like this interpretation because it makes them a 'cool anime fan' to only like the 90s anime version. Setting this to one side, I don't see how watching this show objectively can yield anything other than positivity.

Now I am certainly a fan of the original anime. It is a perfect example of really great 90s show. It looks great, it felt cool ...


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