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Jan 27, 2024
Now, Qualidae Code is an anime I liked a lot and many people have mixed or negative feelings about. It is probably due to expectations.
The anime series has a simple enough plot: youngsters that were kept in cryo-sleep had woken up with powers referred as “world” in them, and, are fighting against invading aliens from an alternate dimension. The question is, is this a rightful fight. We have seen many SF anime, manga, and TV series based on the concept and at times Qualidae Code resembled the film Island a lot in the first few episodes – at least for me. The quality of animation
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is not great, music is not bothersome but is not a real supporter of the storyline, either.
So, why do I recommend it with such a high score, then? Because it ticks important check points for me: does it contain easy-to-follow and good male and female characters? Yes. Does it have witty exchanges and enjoyable banter between characters, especially between the two male leads? Yes, plenty. Does it involve redemption? Yes. Is it fun to watch? Yes. Are there good fight scenes and innovative gadgets or fight plans? Yes. Does it show how friendship and solidarity are important? Yes, indeed. I therefore liked Qualidae Code a lot. Others might not due to freezeframe dialogues in which only the mouth of the talking person is moving or the lack of great, involving music, or for plot related reasons.
Still, Qualidae Code and its main characters Ichiya and Kasumi are pretty dear to me and I recommend it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 21, 2024
Kaicho wa Maid-Sama (the President is Maid-Sama!) is a wonderful, wonderful anime. It is heartwarming, with every character doing their best to survive in the high school world -from the three idiots to the eponymous Maid-Sama aka Misaki- and there is a constant air of feelgood in the series. It is a bland of romcom, slice of life, and -sometimes farcical- comedy and it creates the balance so well. It is hard to believe it was made 14 years ago, to be honest, because it catches the dynamics of everyday life and everyday feelings so very well.
The story is sort of ordinary – there
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is the poor girl who has to work after school at a maid café to support her family and the rich, athletic, good-looking guy who falls for her and her constant refusal to believe that he can fall for her. However, what makes Maid-Sama so different and so successful is the attention to detail in every single character, from the main characters Misaki Ayuzawa and Tokumi Usui to the cross-dressing Aoi, the girls and boys of the high school they attend. They are all very well written and the dialogues are fun and possible to have in real life.
Another thing that makes this anime series so great is that it can be watched without feeling cringy at any point, with a smile in your face, and with great ease of mind – and therefore it is very suitable for extreme binge-watching. I recommend Kaicho wa Maid-Sama to anyone interested in laughing and feeling good while watching anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 28, 2023
This is one gem of a slice-of-life family anime. It focuses on the daily lives and interpersonal relations of 23 years old Hayato, 12 years old Mikoto and Minato, and six years old Gakuto Yuzuki who had lost their parents two years ago.
Now, the show has very good writing. The stories are clear to understand and follow. The characters are very easy to differentiate from one other, the side characters are very appropriately placed. The four boys are their own people but also form a coherent family structure and that is hard to arrange. Gakuto is an amazing character, and, the others are very
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well portrayed as well. The narrative does not make one cringe with either clichés or disbelief, and creates very relatable family relationships on screen. It was the best family anime I have seen since the incredibly superlative Gakuen Babysitters.
The animation is good enough - nothing too complicated but nothing half-baked either. The anime has a very nice opening theme, a nice enough closing theme, and music in the episodes do not make you fall in love with it and yet it doesn't disturb you either. However, it is the stories, the warmth and solidarity of family members (and, of neighbours) that holds this anime together.
I can strongly recommend the Yuzuki-san Chi no Yonkyoudai to anyone who has a heart :).
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 22, 2023
Yumemiru Danshi wa Genjitsushugisha / The Dreaming Boy Is A Realist is one of my favourite new Light Novel adaptations, however, looking at here, there are many people who think differently and probably they are Americans who think in such a logic that “Eww, that guy harassed the girl for 2 years and now the narrative is like trying to get them together? That’s so politically incorrect.” If you are not American and Scottish, Japanese or from whatever origin, though, it’s a nice romantic comedy and it actually focuses more on the main character Wataru Sojō’s development as a person and how his relationships actually
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encourage many people, mostly insecure high school girls than how the girl in question, a certain Aika Natsukawa becomes another victim of the Stockholm Syndrome.
The Dreaming Boy Is A Realist is a rom-com anime, has great coming of age side stories in it, and it is a quite remarkably good adaptation of the Light Novel series of the same name. The characters are fun, it shows interesting and nice aspects of family life and of friendship, of how part-time working is in a high school student’s life, and, has great side-characters. The character drawings / animation is above average, and my only complaint might be that at some scenes you cannot say whether it is Sojō or Yamazaki that we are looking at till you hear the voice actor’s dubbing and other than that I am very pleased with this fun high-school rom-com and recommend it to everyone interested. I mean, it is as good a rom-com as any that doesn’t star Hugh Grant.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 17, 2023
There are very mild spoilers about the anime's storyline.
Synduality: Noir started wonderfully well and would get a 10 out of 10 from me. In time it had one or two not too great episodes, and then its first season ended with a great three episode run worthy of 10/10 again.
Actually, Synduality: Noir has many great points. It has a great main character in Kanata who is a wonderful shonen anime hero, maybe one of the best, and you just watch the series for him. Moreover, the world-building is good (to be honest, far better made than many Star Wars animated series), there are mysterious supporting
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characters, a fun and unpredictable mentor, and a good collection of great side-characters. Also, it has great mecha battles.
However, the anime has four main storylines and the fourth makes things less good. The first storyline is about the fight of humanity against Enders, some sort of life form that tries to eradicate all humans. The second is the battlefield development of the main character Kanata. The third storyline is the mystery surrounding the Magus (robot) Noir and the legendary city of Histoire. However, the fourth is just your boring old harem storyline, and that makes things bad for such a well-designed anime series. As it also wants/needs to serve as a harem anime, then we have the must-have for harem but unnecessary for any other purpose swimming pool adventure episode; and, after that, we go back to more serious adventures. I wish they could just give up on having a harem side to the series as it would be so far better. At the moment I give it a 9 out of 10 because even though it has a harem element, it is still a great story and it is very well designed and very well executed.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Sep 20, 2023
I am flabbergasted to see how many people chose "not recommended" option for this great anime. As I understand it, there is a manga version, and people who read it think it did injustice to the chapters which showed where Yuji came from. However, I didn't read the manga and I believe everyone is capable of understanding where the main character came from with the very few scenes in which we understand Yuji was working at a modern office, is well acquainted with computers before he became a tamer in isekai.
Now, coming to the main issue, Tensei Kenja no Isekai Life is a
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fun anime. It does not have any political, ideological, philosophical messages. The story just tells it is good to be nice and it is good to have a team you can depend on. It aims at providing good entertainment to viewers and is very successful in doing that. Yuji is a very relatable main character; his extra-cute slimes are very charming and make the viewer melt with affection. You can just watch the anime to admire the slimes.
So, don't expect any philosophical debate, any darkness, and watch it to entertain yourself. Watch it and thank me later.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jul 30, 2023
This was the best anime I have seen all year. Everything in it made me feel happy. From the drawing of characters to the Tiktok dancing at the ending animation, I loved every bit of it - except for the cliffhanger ending because, unlike most anime, Hoshiai no Sora is not based on a manga - it is an anime original series.
Now, basically, it is a sports anime and it focuses on the developments of a boys' soft-tennis team and how their lives change when a new member called Maki Katsuragi joins them. If you only look at it as a sports anime, I believe
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it is up there with my previous personal best sports anime, Tsurune. However, as some other commentator here also says, it goes beyond being sports anime.
I have watched countless slice of life anime and Hoshiai no Sora/The Stars Align was the first one to include so many society-level and family-level everyday problems in it. Through the 12 episodes of the show, we see divorced couples, a father who extorts money from his ex-wife and kid, an overbearing mother, helicopter parents, a father who hurts his child and doesn't even consider what he has done, a mother who actually hates one of her children, an adopted child, a young man confused about his gender preferences - and all these in a very believable, very real-life-like storytelling. It shows how following a sport may make kids feel better, more confident, and how it canalizes them to establish good, solid friendships.
I recommend this anime series with all my heart.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jul 29, 2023
Summer Ghost is a film that hit me like an unexpected slap to the face. It is graceful, beautifully told, beautifully edited, with a great score.
The story begins with three young people with their own problems meeting to go and check out if the so-called Summer Ghost is real and if they can see her. From then onwards, the 37 1/2 minutes long film (45 if you include the credits) grabs you and never lets you go. The main character Tomoya, and the others Ryu and Aoi are explored as unfortunate characters and how their relationship with the ghost and each other develops becomes
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the main topic.
What is so exceptional about this film is that it is doing a great job in terms of time management: you check if the film is nearing the end and you see that all the things that shocked, mesmerized you and that made you cry just took 3 minutes.
This is a gem of a film and even though it is not everyone's cup of tea (depressing, makes you cry, makes you think about life, asks difficult questions without in fact making it obvious it asks these questions), it is surely a masterpiece.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jul 27, 2023
Good Lord; what is wrong with the writers, directors, and producers of this very anime, really?
I mean, let’s say you are a group of anime writers. You come up with a terse, very able, mysterious and very well written main character (Luke Ainsworth) who is an incredible blacksmith who also uses katanas he conjures with magic, then comic relief secondary lead character (Cecily Campbell) who is in fact too clumsy and too humanist to be a knight, and a mysterious and yet very nice sidekick who also has some elf powers and surely elf ears (Lisa). You also come up with something called a
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demon contract that turns humans to some sort of ogre and a city-state that should be protected from this evil demons, and a bad guy like Voldemort named Valbanill who caused much death and destruction in the past. Then you introduce a demon sword that can turn into a real girl named Aria. So, what do you do with that? You write a great anime show and sit down and develop all these great points together, right? You focus on the relationship between Luke and Lisa, Cecily and the sword Aria, and how they develop as individual characters and as a group to defend their city against evil demons. Right? Wrong.
Instead, they introduce a stupid, odious, pathetic figure of a so-called princess at episode 5, spend 1/3 of the series without any reference to Luke, the city being threatened by demons, or the relationship between the three main characters. Instead, you focus on that bratty so-called princess who is denied that rank or any relationship by her alleged father the emperor, then send her and her bodyguards away at the end of episode 8 without having achieved anything important for or relevant to the main storyline or character development. Oh, and the loser knight Cecily turns into a beast of a warrior within these 3 episodes but we cannot realise why, either, and then, again for reasons we cannot see, she becomes really clumsy once again beginning with episode 9, becomes extremely enlightened at episode 11, a perfect sword fighter at episode 12, and the storyline this time focuses on demon swords, Luke and Lisa’s past (I was to write Leia for an instant!), and political games and a meaningless demon attack on their home town. No coherence, not a single thought about how to develop characters and relations, not a single explanation who the lord of evil Valbanill was and if he is alive, why the “man in black” is his agent even if he never met him, and so on.
So, in short, The Sacred Blacksmith is an effort that could have been a legendary anime, but instead it loses its focus completely for reasons that defy me. Then, it returns to be first story but now it has not enough time nor depth to deal with the main issue as there are only 3 episodes left. I am so disappointed. Still, it can be watched to pass time and Luke and Lisa and the sword Aria are all interesting characters. To sum it up, you can watch it to pass time, but you don’t have to worry about why the story goes like it does or characters act the way they do.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 23, 2023
This is a worthy follow-up to the incredibly good Noragami. Noragami Aragoto (Stray God - Rough Play) is the second season of Noragami and it shows what it means with its title: It is rougher, has greater political plays around, everyone seems to be hiding behind different character masks, and so it is darker and somewhat more theatrical than Noragami.
However, Noragami Aragoto is where the whole storyline of Noragami, redemption, re-inventing oneself, becoming part of the society, and atoning for one's former mistakes finds closure. It made me tense at times watching Yato-God making stupid things for he is such a loveable main
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character, and yet the story is told extremely well.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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