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Yugioh season 0 is a wonderful anime to watch even if you never cared about the modern card games. Season 0 is a fun pace show with various degrees of engagement that will quench that thirst of wanting something interesting to watch.

The main cast is very lovable, and the situations that unfold around them are just as interesting in this anime depicting the contrast of good and evil ethics.

By using an element of a game, this show is able to tackle the two together in a surprisingly good philosophical digest, food for thought.

Season 0, by itself, is a fun 20+ series where you often see ... various situational dramas, sometimes depicting real life scenarios, and the punchline of the ethically brave characters triumphing over counter evils, whether its in a societal topic, a personal topic, or a natural conundrum.

The flaws, is that it's still aimed towards young adults, so this anime won't stretch into absolute realism for the sake of its plot. Which isn't bad, but don't expect a serious blood story. Expect a situation where the hero's always win. It's a classic saturday morning cartoon, and I wish the later Yugioh series carried over much of this season, especially the missing friend in the main cast. They need to bring her back.

Yugioh Dark Side Dimensions is a movie that by all impossible odds should not exist, but it does. A movie that breaks the cliff ending tropes most franchises and anime shows end in. This is the Yugioh movie to satisfy all Yugioh fans of the original story.

If this movie came out in the 2000's, it would be a cult classic. But because it came out in 2016, it does both good and bad in it's modern upholding, though surprisingly, it's flaws don't have anything to do with the actual lore itself, but the direction that the new movie plot went.

This movie, if you asked a ... real Yugioh fan, would be easy to list the see the wrongdoings.
-absurd main villain with plot armor powers and convenience.
-a lack of actual dueling throughout most of its screentime.

Like most people say, if you skip through the main villain scenes that were red con placed in for plot armor sake, you would get a very enjoyable movie that looks like a good length film about the original Yugioh cast and their motives.

But instead, you get the main cast always being under shadowed by what the main villain and his absurd god powers are doing.

So, the pros are:
-awesome part in the story that helps finish the main anime of the original cast
-awesome modern designs and fan favorite monsters get their movie fan fare
-awesome animation and aesthetics overall
-awesome first fight between Kaiba and the main villain
-awesome tension about Yugi being asked to do the impossible
-awesome ending fights and plot reveal

Sins:
-absurd villain with plot armor
-every scene around the main villain is boring, including Joey and Bakura
-not enough dueling

Overall, the pros greatly overmatch the very horrible cons. Thus, when you watch this movie, just like in the 2000's you would love the overall movie. Big monsters, huge tensions, amazing art and sound.Compared to the older movies, this was a 2 hour love letter despite its huge mistakes. Someone out there really understood the main cast. Bravo.

Bakemonogatari is as a stretch to watch as saying the title. An anime that is visual and musical in its appeal, but with episodes that stretch the dialogue to simple back and forths so much, you will need patience to sit through these 15 episodes.

Is it a complex anime? No. It's pretty straight forward in its mission to separate each arc into its own mystery to solve. Bake plays around the detective wordplay as much as the artsy visuals to carry most of its production. Add in a few supernatural buzz themes and a banger OST and you get Bakemonogatari.

I'm no stranger to good rich ... word play, but this anime is just average dialogue, but extended for longer shots.It feels more like a college project than an actual anime show in the way its just too standard in its characters, its strict art guidelines, and its random flairs of attempting to be creative.

The story is where this anime suffers. Don't expect a 15 episode story. Expect a 15 episode series of events concerning the main cast. Although, unlike other shows that leave you wanting more, Bake is like an anime that doesn't care whether you watch the next episode or not. Each arc it covers can be enjoyed on their own, but putting them together, well that starts to weigh like a long and tedious essay. By far, a huge clickbait from its first episode.

The strengths about this anime is that it looks cool and sounds cool with some good dialogue moments between characters. The flaws is that the story has a lose direction, nothing really matters, and this anime becomes a muddy chore to truck through.

There are much better shows that do mystery reveals better as well as shows that do dialouge better. Bake is neither of them. The problem with Bake is that it doesn't take itself seriously. 15 episodes of a light mystery show is what I would call Bake.

As a critic, these are my flaws and strengths I saw in this show.
As a normal anime watcher, I just wouldn't recommend this.

Pros: Senjou is a hot waifu
Cons: shes trapped in a mid lackluster anime
7/10 this anime is more a nostalgia poster than good.

Whos says art is dead in the digital age?
Paprika is a movie to put all Ghibli doubts to shame. Not only is the whimsical fantasy of japanese animation alive in the digital age, but Paprika proves that it can be done just if not better.

Just like Ghibli films in their whimsical animation charms, Paprika is a movie that carries the same Masterpiece work as something found in Spirited Away. Top quality animation, whimsical fiction, and a good story that will keep you engage from start to end.

Paprika is proof that Ghibli films have not suffered in the digital age, but have only been seriously limited. ... Ponyo is another great example of Ghibli mastering the digital animation work. But when people say movies like The Wind Rises and The Secret World of Arrietty are bad, they're not saying the digital quality is bad, but the digital passion is bad.

Paprika is here to prove that a movie can be created in this digital age that has both digital animation quality, and passion behind its story.
Not only is the artwork in this movie eye candy, but the whimsical creativity will keep you engaged because the creativity in Paprika is there. That same creative passion that people were in awe about Spirited Away and Howls moving castle can be found in Paprika.

Thus its clear, that Ghibli is not the only one that can deliver a touch of originality, and NEITHER is our digital age the problem, but the only thing that holds back a good project is the passion behind its creativity.

Paprika can hold that candle where most studios give up on digital master crafting. The Art: 10/10 delightful. The Sound: 7/10 amusing and memorable. Characters: 9/10 actually memorable. Story: 8/10 engaging and touching at times. Creativity: 100/10. Art lovers rejoice.

Deadman Wonderland is a very amusing story from beginning to end. It's a story so good it makes people complain there aren't more seasons.
The Art: You honestly can't complain. Clean shaders, amazing animation, style and effects.
Sound: Amazing. Still memorable after all these years. Intro is iconic.
Characters: very enjoyable to watch and need more of. Only the side-side characters suck. But that's in almost all anime.

The difference with the manga and the anime is that as usual the anime sometimes does not give enough screentime to other characters in this show, like giving an indepth episode to each Deadman, etc.

The story:
Some complain about this and ... that overall forgetting that the manga continues passed these 12 episodes. This first season only had time for 1 arc and that was divided between the main character finding his power, the prison break, and establishing the main character's inner strength. So I won't judge too harshly on Deadman Wonderland for these reasons. I think they honestly delievered in showcasing the manga into anime, but the only problem is we need MORE. More prison games, prison fights, prison character backstories, more Warden, more lore, more world building.

However, just because Season 1 does not meet all these lengths, DOES NOT mean Deadman Wonderland doesn't have the capacity to fill its own gaps. There is enough content, but only 1 season.

Season 1 ends with the main character finally learning to want to fight back. A question he didn't even know why during the 1st encounter with Shiro. So even in just 1 season, this main character goes from being a Neon wimp like Shinji to an actual developed character with his own answer to show for.

Deadman Wonderland gets an automatic 8 for its enjoyment, and a 9 because it just touches the line between being a good show and a GREAT show with the amount of content it has to be built on. If this show was truly horrible, then there wouldn't be the desire for so many people to see more of Shiro, the main character, or any of the cool looking Deadman.

9/10 Shiro did nothing wrong.

ABSOLUTE WASTE OF TIME. If you watch this movie for its "deep plot" you will be disappointed. The Neon movie gets a 10 by a lot of people mostly because it just looks like a classic movie poster, but don't get it twisted. This movie does NOTHING amazing except for having a higher budget in its animation with smoother fights, darker tones, and more gore and nudity than a TV show.

Main problem:
It attempts to be complex, but ends up being inconsistent, riddled with plot holes, villains with god-like power, absurd characters....

Many people argue that "no bro you just didn't understand the symbology." No. I got ... it. It's pretty clear if you ever watched the TV series or this movie what the message goal was of spirituality, free will, and confronting reality is. It's so dang simple, I get it. The problem IS that this message gets stretched out harder than a college student racing to finish an essay 15 minutes before its due. The essay becomes one long filler just to explain why water is wet. That's why this movie's plot fails as well. It takes almost 40mins of flashy scenes just to repeat the message of having a choice, i.e. what is Shinji's choice that he makes.

Shinji is a problem in itself as addressed in my Neon TV review, but in terms of what "Shinji resolves" it doesn't matter because Shinji does not undergo any learning curve. What does he learn in the TV show? Nothing. What does he learn in the movie? To accept reality....then choking Asuka because JK Shinji is still the same angry wimp with self issues.

The only ACTUAL learning curve that Shinji ever showcased was in the TV series, and that was just a filler episode that by now doesn't even count in the main plot (the scene when everyone is congratulating Shinji).

No. Because Shinji DOES NOT have any character growth means that the plot for this movie was wasted. All that absurd fiction. All those absurd drawings and animation. All those absurd moments of flashy edgy attempts of attempting to depict a theme or message, were all wasted the moment Shinji chokes Asuka. WHY? Because how does that scene DIFFER from Shinji in Neon episode 1? Answer: it doesn't. That's it. No character growth. Plot wasted. Message wasted. Consistency wasted. ALL IS WASTED. Shinji is meant to be the character that the author chooses to be a figure for its plot, but SHINJI turns out to be the same wimp, the same inconsistent motives of whos side is he on, the same empty pervert, the same bland character. Shinji does not exist. The sooner people can accept that, the easier it would be to watch Neon.

Once you accept that Shinji doesn't matter, you start loving Neon because Neon's "deep plot" doesn't matter. Why? Because Neon's "deep plot" has so many plot holes, fails to be consistent, and fails to be a good story because the main plot just does whatever it wants, no ifs ands or buts. If the world turned yellow. Don't worry guys its "a deep plot." If everyone turned out to live,Don't worry guys its "a deep plot." If a giant monster appeared, and the universe caved around it, Don't worry guys its "a deep plot."

This is why I say that Neon's attempt of having a message becomes TOO edgy, too convoluted, too poison, too absurd, too complex falling into itself, to SIMPLY just gloss over and say "yeah, I liked what Neon's message was." Because there is no 1 message. There are SERIES of messages that all fall into each other. Like slapping a bunch of paint and calling it art. Like pasting a bunch of symbolism and calling it deep. Like drawing a lot of animation and calling the movie good.

I can't rate the manga, but I CAN say that both the anime and the movie were gorgeous to watch, but as a whole completely butchered it's own lore through inconsistencies, shadow secrets people never learn, pacing direction that is just all over the place, bland characters, and a horrible main character.

If you really cared about the Neon series, you would recognize these flaws. In a future recreation you would want the story to be clear, the characters to be alive, and the plot to be decisive. No reason why doing this you can't also be a little artsy. But it seems Neon TV and movie went the other direction with being too artsy first, and everything else second...... 6/10 for pity.

To summarize this review: Neon has good waifus, amazing art, and it sucks in everything else -especially it's main character Shinji.

A lot of people say Neon Is one of those animes you have to watch at least once, and they're right. But it's definetly not for its lovable main character, it's convoluted story, or it's absurd realism.

Story:
Some argue that "you just don't understand Evan" when defending this anime's poor attempt of storytelling. I'm sorry, but as an artist myself, flashes of symbolism and a lore centered around a real world serious topic like religion, does not automatically mean this anime's interperation is going ... to be ANY good. Neon attempts to spin a twist around the ideology of religion and divinity, but all it does is become an edgy, try-hard, way too complex for its own good, piss poor pace, idiotic means of being an anime with "religion" as its background.

Main problem?:
Consistency. If you believe for one second that Neon has ANY sort of "this has to make sense and this doesn't," then I'm sorry but you're just going to be like me and screwed over. Because its not about what IS factual in this anime. It's all about what the AUTHOR wants to make factual. Who lives. Who dies. Who develops. Who red cons and doesn't develop. The basics. The sheer fictional basics of giant mecha fighting big monsters itself becomes a victim to later episodes. Like there is no power level to monitor. No power scale. No sense of what is stronger than what. No explanation of how anything actually works. Which is why the Neon is just a piss poor anime to do absurd action scenes WHILE also attempting to gloss over them because of also wanting to have a complex plot.

Shinji, by far is the biggest reason why anyone ever needs to prove Neon is a bad anime. Let's just forget the fact that he's a giant baby wimp. People say "hes 14 what would you do??" or "he has to choose between being in a mecha and or dying if he doesn't"

No. No. No. NO. Absolutely horrible excuses to justify WHY Shinji as a character is 1: a major wimp to place as a hero character, 2: an indecisive wimp that never undergos any learning curve. 3: A shell of a character that his whole purpose is just for the AUTHOR than it is for Shinji's own actions. 4: A character that FAILS his OWN inner motives just to get some screen time of him covering his ears. The anime gave him a backstory, gave him his insecurities, but also gave him his friends, his mother's sympathy, his personality. YET, the bad bad author of this anime says, SCREW ALL THAT. HES GOING TO BE MY WIMPY MAIN CHARACTER UNTIL THE PLOT ARRIVES.

Post Neon:
So if you think, "but wait there's still a movie." Lol, be ready to be slapped with a JK we're starting from 0 with baby Shinji again.

Conclusion:
It's very sad for me to rate this anime SO low when I REALLY REALLY loved the first 14 episodes. Giant mechas, school kids, action scenes. It was the perfect blend. But sadly, this anime starts off with a bang and fizzles into the worst and most edgy anime ever made. The author gets no points from me for being this try hard for its "message."

Neon has amazing Sound, 90'S Art, animation, but that's ALL it will ever be good for.

Tasogare Otome is a very memorable anime. You might even say this anime is closer to an art love letter than a serious, dramatic, oh-my-gosh-i-am-crying-its-so-tragic type of anime. Which sucks because so many people just rate any as good if there's a huge climax or traggic suffering story like Ghibilis Fireflies.

But that's not the case with Tasogore and why I decided to honor this anime with a solid 10. Why? Because it finishes what it aims to achieve. It has an interesting story, a plot that stretches until the final conclusion, and its all tied in wonderfully with beautiful art styles and sound.

Does it ... need to be a super complex show about each person undergoing a tragic backstory? No. It just needs to have a fun cast with chemistry. Tasogare gets an 8 for its story, but a 9 for its art style, and a 10 total for having a solid conclusion. Why should I just recognize this anime as just another average 8? It's a cinematic work that was made to age perfectly, like a solid anime show to put on a timecapsle to see how anime can be done right. Honestly, this show feels like such a passion work that could only be made by a group of young inspiring artisans. Unique, interesting, cool looking characters and an artsy sound composition.

To rate this anime as an 8 or lower would just be glossing over the work as a whole because its "not serious enough" or "has comedy in its storytelling."

Tasogare earns the solid 10. Artists everywhere, take notes.

As someone whos been a huge Bleach fan since the Arcancars, the newest series is both amazing to behold continue and yet, sad to see Bleach at only a fraction of what it once was. If you watch this, never seeing Bleach series, then you're obviously not going to keep up with this new arc.

I seriously don't know why Bleach doesn't get enough love, but its an amazing series with some of the best fight animations ever. That's most in part to the insane creator and his team of launching crazy characters, abilities, and a surreal lore of supernatural magic.

This latest series, although ... looking more cinematic, suffers from not delivering an expected intro banger, ESPECIALLY FOR BEING A MAIN STORY. Like the intro is something better fit for something in a filler. But anyways.

The 1000 year blood arc is seriously an insane story if you've already read the Manga. Sadly, the animation REALLY missed out on their own gold mine. 1000 year blood arc is a story as good as the original Hollow arc, and yet, the show itself just feels like its made to be made. Just expose the story, puts some nice scenes, and move on.

Where as previous series had better character development and intensity to its plot events, this new series really missed its mark. Like the first episode could have been done so much better when the war began as mentioned in its anime description, but the ANIME decided to rush the story pace just like the manga! The manga can get away with bullet point events, but c'mon, the anime is where the manga can be improved, extended, and refined. I was seriously disappointed about the pace.

Overall, awesome 13 episodes reflecting the first introduction to the war. I know it wasn't easy to start off with such intense fight scenes, but they at least managed that. The art, 100/10 can't even complain. But the production as a whole feels lackluster. Bleach deserves more love than this.

Clannad. Is it a comedy, a romance, a slice of life, a supernatural show? The answer: it's a starfish.

Clannad by all fair means is another classic show that deserves its fanbase because most of the tropes within the show fall into a very lovable mix with a lively school life, fun comedic moments, beautiful art and smooth animation.

Clannad is a show that was made with love, and every episode reflects that in some way or another. But, the greatest question is, does Clannad live up to the 10/10 masterpiece it so socially receives? No. It might just be that way because a lot of people ... grew up watching Clannad, or because Clannad was one of the early shows that recieve a spear head popularity for its portrayal of fun school friends.

The point is uncertain. What is certain within Clannad is that there are huge inconsistencies in what it attempts to be. Is it a romance at first sight type of show? Is it a drama about the main character Okazaki? Is it a school comedy with absurd antics? Is it a supernatural show?

Who can say. Honestly, Clannad is loved for all these points to different people. Personally, I just didn't see what the fuss was about. It's a fun school show, so I will accept its place as an anime cult classic. It's also a very enjoyable production to rewatch with friends, on rainy days, or add to your dvd collection.

But in terms of best show, no. Not by a long shot. The above genres listed above showcase the cracks that this show resembles only part potential of what it aims to achieve. You can easily see this in the way some more dramatic scenes are tossed revealed.

Clannad is a fun show, but compared to School Rumble that did comedy better, or Kimikiss that did romance better, or Myself Yourself that did drama better, or Kaicho wa Maid Sama that did the school trope better, Clannad season 1 just doesn't match the 10 score on its own.

9/10 it was fun to watch. sad it finished but theres still season 2