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Nov 16, 2017
I think everyone's been in a position similar to Kaiji. Dirt poor and full of envy, and so desperate to succeed that you're willing to give everything. I saw both seasons in two sittings, and the second one finished at 4am leaving me with my eyes almost burnt out and my head throbbing in pain from watching so much all at the same time. It's a captivating tragedy, I literally couldn't bring myself to stop because I got so sucked in. Most great shows have lots of small lessons in them with many things happening at once. Kaiji is focused entirely on Kaiji himself and
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his addiction to gambling. So few events within each episode, and yet the emotional pull is incredibly strong. The show has this real grounded, down to Earth feeling, everyone felt the feelings expressed in this show. The villians could be just like your boss at work. The friends Kaiji gained are like your friends you go to after punching out at work. The shit that piles on Kaiji is not dissimilar to how I feel when I get bills in the mail. Kaiji reflects adult life, it's cruel, cold nature, but also it's pockets of happiness between.
I would not watch this if you're feeling depressed, but if you're looking for a good drama or just something mature I highly, highly recommend.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Nov 16, 2017
Watch the dub. This is one of the few examples where the dub is actually better than the sub.
I'd say this would be *the* anime for any adult male from the ages 18-25 or so. The protagonist Kintaro is an inspirational role model, someone who I personally wish I could be. It gives you this feeling that his adventures with discovering new places and finding sexy women will never end. This show's hilarious, it's sexy, it's wild. Romance these days refers to love stories almost exclusively, but Golden Boy is a romance in it's older definition: An epic story full of emotion, adventure and discovery.
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When you're done watching all 6 episodes, you'll want to stand up with a fist clenched, and either start ferociously fapping or you'll have a drive to do something constructive and meaningful with your life.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Nov 16, 2017
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I am the Major. I am a brain and a spinal chord that was part of a dead baby, so I'm like a ghost. But I'm in a robot body so it's like my ghost body is in a shell.
Pretty good movie. It's like a buddy cop movie where the lead characters have no emotions and it's not funny. But hey, there's robo tiddies in the first 5 minutes.
The plot is dense af. I watched it twice and still don't know everything that's going on, at least in the world but I get what the protagonists are trying to do. They only
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got 90 minutes to do that though and at the same time they actually have to have a plot, so I'll give them credit for squeezing what they could. That's why a good quarter of the movie is playing traditional Japanese music while showing incredibly detailed pieces of art depicting the city the film takes place on that has nothing to do with what Major and the other guy are doing.
I like how they live in this fictional universe where robots get their own everything. Robot food. Robot clothes. Robot jobs. Even robots have their own kinds of sex. They make it sound like they're oppressed but in actuality they gave the Major some nice robo tiddies, so some respect was given in regards to their fleshy counterparts.
No memes here, it's a great movie to watch for the art of it. The plot is incredibly dense so it might be a bit too heavy for some people. I happen to adore sci-fi and fiction that addresses the concept of humanity so I thought it was a really good experience.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Nov 16, 2017
I'd consider it the Star Wars of idol anime. There's nothing unique or interesting about it, I've seen shows that have done everything I seen in Love Live and the plot is kinda contrived and generic. I've heard that in Japan there are designated spots where you can literally kneel and worship the members of U's like actual religious figures, and I'm like "are people really that obsessed with these characters?".
However, it does a really great job at what it does. Now, I want to put this out of the way and say that while I like the content of idol shows, I
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don't like the actual music in them about 70% of the time. I loved the emotional aspect of the show, I wanted to see Honoka and her friends succeed and the show does a great job at showing how much hard work it is to throw together a bunch of random girls in a school and turn them into national celebrities. There's only a couple things I don't agree with as far as the plot goes, and that's that the reuniting of Honoka and Kotori didn't end with a kiss, and the entire existence of Nico. At least I can go to doujins for that.
Love Live, at least in every other anime community I've ever been in, is incredibly popular and I feel my review of it is barely justified unless there's about 5 people who are still on the fence about it. I hated it for years without even giving it a shot, but when I did, I thought it was better than average. Not something I'd personally look back on, but there's a lot of fans of the series who swear by it to death. Give it a shot if you got nothing else to do, it'll either eat up an afternoon or change your life.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Nov 16, 2017
This show is incredibly fun. In a sea full of melodramatic, complex, gritty, mature shows, every now and then you just have to sit down and go for some stupid mindless entertainment. Smile Precure is just that, a better than average entry in the popular unironic magical girl series Pretty Cure that has the themes of comedy and fairy tales.
Even among its own series it's really lighthearted, and after dragging its feet for the first half dozen episodes it immediately goes into all kinds of wacky, fun, isolated plots for nearly every episode except for the mid-season climax and the final cour. Some would
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argue that it's its weakest point, as some people get pretty invested in the plots of these shows, but I'd argue back that it's not the point. It's a comedy season, made in response to the big tsunami that happened around that time.
As far as the content of the show itself, it feels like everything clicked into place, which is pretty miraculous after the snorefest that is Suite Precure and the aforementioned tsunami. I didn't pay much attention to the first time of what happened until it suddenly clicked with me when the episodes were in the 20s, but rewatching it ended up opening my eyes to how genuinely good the writing was. The character development for the lead character Miyuki, for example, is shown through a lot of small jumps in the way she speaks to other members of the team, starting out incredibly awkward and scared but by midseason she's already commanding like a seasoned war strategist. I absolutely adore all the characters in this series, both the heroes and villains alike, except for the big bad himself who's just kinda there so the show has a reason to exist.
The actual comedy in the show is done well and in good taste, though comedy is always subjective. It's got jokes kids and adults would like together without being the 90s and hiding sex jokes where kids wouldn't understand. Anybody could laugh at anything in this show. I'd call it one of the more Japanese seasons with the amount of cultural references it crams in, but you wouldn't need to know anything about the country itself to get the point of what they're saying (it sure makes the show even better on re watch though). One of my favorite things to do in these shows is crop out badly drawn frames or faces in people in the distance and laugh at them, and sadly there isn't much here. Instead, I end up sharing funny frames with actual good art to them that were intended to be funny.
The soundtrack is pretty alright, generally not the kind of music I'd listen to while jogging but it's an accumulation of all the best songs they used from the last 3 seasons together with its own good stuff too. I smile when I hear some specific tracks play because I know what's going to happen afterword through the atmosphere it provides, or it's about to show one of my favorite characters on the screen. The only other show I can think of that made me feel this way was Spongebob, the greatest anime of all time. If I had to describe the OST in one word it'd be 'genki', it gets you pumped.
And that's pretty much all I got to say that I can think of. When I seen Smile I was looking for a magical girl series to watch after Sailor Moon and Madoka, and given the timeframe when it was released I'd say Smile Precure is the Anti-Madoka. Watch it if you're depressed. Watch it with your kids. Watch it when you're stressed out. These girls are adorable and likable, the villians are likable, the show itself just wants to be cute and put a great big smile on your face. To this day Smile remains one of the most liked entries in the Precure franchise.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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