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Mar 25, 2021
*This review was written after watching all eleven episodes of Dr Stone and may contain some spoilers *
I’ll admit that the second season was much better than the first, however the anime is still not that great and could be improved on. It has still it’s major flaws mentioned by Krunchyman on the first season of Dr.Stone regarding how the show loves to over exaggerate things and put it way over the top. Character development in this show is literally non-existent and does not stay consistent with one person. Not only this, but many of the episode scenes were rushed and did not felt meaningful
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to the viewer. An example of this is when Tsukasa and Hyoga were fighting against Senku and the group (Some of them joined from Tsukasa’s plan) but suddenly later on in the episode, we see Hyoga betraying Tsukasa to get the upper hand, so that he can take control and be the powerful leader he desires to be. We do not see any logical justification why he is unexpectedly backstabbing him now. Not in the least.
We know that Tsukasa purpose in the first place to destroying the statue was so that as stated by himself is “We can dismiss the established powers who do nothing but take from the young nots and a create a new world” Hyoga dismisses Tsukasa ideology and plan as anything but absurd as apparently “if we’re left with nothing but brain dead youths, we still be taken from in order to keep them fed” yet his logic is to allow only the elites to survive is such a naive plan and does not make any sense because how does he not know that these “Elites” could end up backstabbing him later on and want everything for themselves, just like how he is doing with Tsukasa. Moreover, I did not feel anything when it came to Tsukasa Death or when his sister Mirai came back alive because the show does not like to put any emphasis on this. Also, characters like Taiju and Yuziraha are barely ever talked about. Do we even care about them anymore at this point?
Another ridiculously ludicrous thing we see in the show is how the characters are so quickly swayed that they practically abandon Tsukasa's army like flies to join Senku to be a part of a "Science revolution." Nikki san's undying love for Lillian Weinberg Music and how it supported her throughout her former school life was the only one that I really enjoyed, made sense, and felt meaningful as to why she left to join Senku. But when it comes to Ukyo’s turn, you can tell that the anime studio rushed it and had to come up with something on the last spot. Because suddenly he’s a kind-hearted person and doesn’t want anyone to die? Lol, give me a break. The anime can do WAY better than this. It’s just so disappointing. Despite this, characters like Mentalist Gen contributed majorly to the show and is entertaining to watch. Overall, character developments and story are mediocre at best in this season.
The only good aspects of this anime is that viewers are interested how Senku is going to bring the stone age back to modern civilization using the different sort of inventions he is creating with his kingdom of science buddies. The way the anime studio (TMS Entertainment) executes how Senku does these inventions along with the comedy is quite ingenious and something I will give credit for. When it comes to Art and sound, Dr. Stone has its own distinct and vivid style, and it is a good one.
Just like the first season, this show is 5 billion percent average and if you agree with me on this, 10 billion points to you - *High fives*. Anyways, I just hope that they can take the character development a bit more seriously in the upcoming season 3 and that the story doesn’t get into conflict as much as when it comes to the philosophical views between the protagonist and the antagonist; like it did with this season.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 30, 2017
Yamada has been with the studio Kyoto Animation for 13 years, but A Silent Voice is her first feature not to have been spun off from a cartoon series, and also her first to gain a British cinema release. Intricate, romantic and bright as a jewel, it’s a high-school melodrama which follows the changing relationship between Nishimiya (voiced by Saori Hayami), a deaf teenage girl who arrives at a new school, and Ishida (Miyu Irono), the class clown who picks on her then comes to regret it. The screenplay was adapted by Reiko Yoshida from a manga, or comic-book series, created by Yoshitoki Oima –
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and the fact its creation was steered by three women in an overwhelmingly male business makes it something of a rarity.
It begins with a punchy, quick-cut collage of the young Ishida messing around with his school friends, set to the sound of The Who’s My Generation. But the film’s pace is very slow and dull, as Yamada fleshes out the complex teenage politics which drive the film’s unexpectedly expansive plot. Nishimiya’s new classmates show varying degrees of insensitivity about her deafness – the fact she has to communicate with them via a notepad, for instance, is mostly seen as a novelty.
But Ishida takes things much too far, snatching her hearing aids and bellowing behind her head. His bullying is bad enough for Nishimiya’s parents to eventually move her to another school, a development that turns Ishida into an outcast, and spurs him into a funny, often circuitous quest for redemption.
Yamada and her artists work in a style that’s not as bewilderingly detail-rich as that of some of her contemporaries, but its vividness and clarity really pop, particularly in the cinema. Ishida’s pariah status extends to the way he’s drawn – all long and loose, with the sketchy outline of one of Hosoda’s gawky teens from The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, or Summer Wars. In a low-key stylistic masterstroke, A Silent Voice’s own bashful gaze reflects its cast’s adolescent self-doubt. The film rarely seems able to look its characters directly in the eye, and its gaze often wanders to rest on telling incidental details, like anxiously clasped hands and nervously scuffing feet.
And in a flourish that’s probably only possible in anime, Ishida’s social standing is kept track of with symbolic blue crosses that cover the faces of his classmates, and which flap loose from anyone he feels able to talk to, then fall to the ground like a discarded crisp packet. As Ishida sets about turning over a new leaf, a mismatched friendship group keeps threatening to cohere around him, but it remains intriguingly in flux. Yamada makes a point of contrasting the agonising complexity of high-school life with the clean simplicity of the moments that really count: hushed conversations on a bridge in springtime, a shared roller-coaster ride under empty blue skies
However, that the bully, rather than his victim, remains the focus of the story throughout never really feels in the moment like the risky narrative strategy that you realise it must have been in retrospect. Compared to, say, the metaphysical leaps and bounds of Your Name, the premise of A Silent Voice may seem modest.
Overall, the enjoyment, story and character development was really dully and bad which could have been explained more in depth throughout some of the scenarios I've mentioned in my review.
It deserves a 1/10 overall as the only thing positive about this movie is the animation.
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Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Oct 29, 2017
I've heard a lot about Angel Beats! over the years, with many people recommending it and talking about how depressing the ending is especially. I finally got around to it and I felt it was a bit of a waste of time. The characters aren't super well developed (with only 13 episodes the creators really didn't give themselves enough time to fully develop everyone), the story is overall pretty weak, and the concepts aren't explained well.
Angel Beats! is definitely a character driven series, but I didn't feel like the characters were even that great to begin with. Some of the characters were actually pretty
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annoying, which I understand that's just something that comes to be expected with anime, but I found characters like Yui to be much better/more likable/more realistic than others like Naoi. Yui was defined by a certain trait, which was her energy. Naoi was so bent on the fact that he was god to the point where it didn't even make sense why. It was made clear that he'd abandoned that idea, and although it was funny the first time, it got annoying real quick and made him feel a lot less real that he could have been. Maybe it's just because I prefer the character type that Yui is, but nevertheless hearing Naoi throwing around the 'I am god' line in the last episode really made it difficult to care about him. Some relationships (specifically all the romantic ones) felt extremely forced, and all happened near the end. They felt rushed, when two characters might be hating each other and constantly fighting one moment, the next they fall in love out of absolutely nowhere. It just didn't make sense to me how it suddenly just appeared. I was happy that they didn't give into the anime cliché of every character spilling out their life story in the first few episodes for no apparent reason, which added to the character development more than it did take away. The characters didn't all feel the same in that they're all just a bunch of kids who can't control their emotions. Plus it gets awfully tedious to have to listen to a new life story every twenty-five or so minutes, especially if your only just introduced to these characters.
With a story as unique as this one, it would be kind of hard to get it right, but that doesn't excuse the fact that it wasn't well done. The creators took a risk and it didn't work out. The coolness of the idea gives it some extra points in my book, but it wasn't carried out well. It definitely could have been better if the creators had worked a bit harder.
Overall: 1/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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